Patents by Inventor Thomas Baur
Thomas Baur has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11951568Abstract: A method for micro-fabricating a device on a substrate (20), comprising the steps of providing a cavity (31) having a temporary aperture (35) communicating with the outside; providing a sealing structure (45) adjacent to a perimeter of the temporary aperture (35); applying heat to the sealing structure (45), whereby the sealing structure melts and seals the temporary aperture (35).Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2017Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Femtoprint SAInventors: Charles Baur, Yves Bellouard, Daniele Braga, Thomas Fussinger, David Lambelet, Andrea Lovera, Sacha Pollonghini, Arno Rogg
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Patent number: 11955727Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for a digital beamformed phased array feed. The system may include a radome configured to allow electromagnetic waves to propagate; a multi-band software defined antenna array tile; a power and clock management subsystem configured to manage power and time of operation; a thermal management subsystem configured to dissipate heat generated by the multi-band software defined antenna array tile; and an enclosure assembly. The multi-band software defined antenna array tile may include a plurality of coupled dipole array antenna elements; a plurality of frequency converters; and a plurality of digital beamformers.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: BlueHalo, LLCInventors: Michael Thomas Pace, David Gregory Baur, Theodore Lyman Schuler-Sandy, William Kennedy, Jeffrey Gerard Micono, William Louis Walker, Garrett James Newell
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Publication number: 20220265375Abstract: An instrument for a robotic surgery system that includes a housing and an outer shaft joined to an effector at a distal end, and to the housing at a proximal end. The connection is rotatory so that the outer shaft can rotate about its longitudinal axis. The rotatory connection takes place by way of a first coupling element that is fixed to the outer shaft. The instrument also includes a first inner shaft arranged within the outer shaft and movably supported relative to it. The relative motion may be either a rotation or translation. The first inner shaft is joined with the effector at a distal end and fixed to a second coupling element at a proximal end. The first coupling element encloses the first inner shaft in a first transition region at the proximal end of the outer shaft, and a first sealing element encloses the first inner shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2022Publication date: August 25, 2022Inventors: Eric MARKWEG, Thomas BAUR, Manfred BURKHARD
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Publication number: 20220121175Abstract: The disclosure relates to a machine system, in particular a packaging and/or processing machine, which comprises at least one input/retrieval device for inputting a first group of parameters of a complete set of parameters comprising the first group and at least a second group of parameters as adjustment parameters for operating the machine. The second group of parameters can be transmitted to the input/retrieval device from the Internet, where the number of and/or changes to the parameters of the first group can be selected/or determined via the Internet. As a result, a respective machine system is improved in such a way that a user of the machine system can be given limitations when adjusting his machine system in order, for example, to enable a usage and/or function-based billing model.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2021Publication date: April 21, 2022Applicant: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER SE & CO. KGInventors: Guido SPIX, Marius GRATHWOHL, Claus BOTZENHARDT, Thomas BAUR
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Patent number: 10751074Abstract: A surgical instrument having a long shaft comprises, in the shaft, a sealing element produced by primary shaping at the installation location. The sealing element is produced such that any actuating mechanisms are installed and held in place in the shaft and then a curable plastic material is injected into the shaft such that the material encloses the actuating element along a length that is greater than the inside diameter and smaller than its length.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2017Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: ERBE ELEKTROMEDIZIN GMBHInventors: Thomas Baur, Juergen Hiller, Viktoria Rydzewski
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Publication number: 20170273701Abstract: A surgical instrument having a long shaft comprises, in the shaft, a sealing element produced by primary shaping at the installation location. The sealing element is produced such that any actuating mechanisms are installed and held in place in the shaft and then a curable plastic material is injected into the shaft such that the material encloses the actuating element along a length that is greater than the inside diameter and smaller than its length.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2017Publication date: September 28, 2017Applicant: ERBE ELEKTROMEDIZIN GMBHInventors: Thomas Baur, Juergen Hiller, Viktoria Rydzewski
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Patent number: 9216052Abstract: An instrument suitable for minimal invasive surgery. The instrument can be introduced into a body, for example, through a trocar, and has two arms and a centrally guided knife for clamping vessels. The central guidance of the knife in at least one of the arms avoids disadvantages that could otherwise develop as a result of the off-center severing of coagulated tissue. Moreover, the clean central guidance of the knife results in lower wear on the knife. Thus, a better cut quality and a longer service life of the knife can be achieved.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2012Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: ERBE ELEKTROMEDIZIN GMBHInventors: Juergen Hiller, Thomas Baur, Ralf Kuehner, Viktoria Rydzewski
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Patent number: 9180534Abstract: The invention relates to double trimming shears having a stationary bottom knife and a driven top knife which can be raised and lowered, wherein the top knife is arranged on a top knife carriage (12) guided by means of a carriage guide (10), wherein a first eccentric shaft (14) and a second eccentric shaft (16) on the carriage guide (10) is provided in order to guide the carriage guide (10) if an inclined position of the top knife carriage is to be prevented. This is achieved in that the first eccentric shaft (14) and the second eccentric shaft (16) are interconnected via a synchronization means (18).Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2010Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: SMS group GMBHInventors: Thomas Baur, Andreas Bohn, Ulrich Meinhardt
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Patent number: 9147988Abstract: A device for connection of a line element to a component is provided. The line element ends in a connection housing or is connected to such a connection housing. A releasable fixing arrangement is configured between the connection housing and the component. A line section extending in the connection housing is heated by an electric heating wire. The heating wire externally surrounds the line section. The heated line section projects in the direction of the component so far over the region for releasable fixing of the connection housing on the component that it ends in the inner space of the component.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2011Date of Patent: September 29, 2015Assignee: Daimler AGInventors: Thomas Baur, Boris Stein, Simon Steinhuebl
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Patent number: 9131953Abstract: A surgical instrument that comprises at least one microcontroller arranged in the handle of the instrument and that communicates with the surgical apparatus—without the interposition of a radio link via the cable that already exists between the surgical apparatus and the surgical instrument. Safe data transmission is ensured not only in the high-interference environment of an active RF surgical apparatus, but also in, for example, water jet, argon plasma and cryosurgical apparatuses, endoscopes. A differential transmission technique is selected, wherein one or more conductor pairs (insulated conductors) are utilized, one of the conductors of said conductor pairs transmitting the signal and the other transmitting the inverted signal. By subtracting the two signals, the actual data signal is yielded on the receiver side. If feedback interferences from the environment act on the data transmission link, the subtractions performed on the respective receivers cancels out the interferences.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2012Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignee: ERBE ELEKTROMEDIZIN GMBHInventors: Thomas Baur, Marc Kegreiss, Peter Selig
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Patent number: 8997613Abstract: With known trimming shears having a pair of scrap-cutting blades on the discharge side, the moving upper scrap-cutting blade must be moved as closely as possible past the trimmed plate edge in order to push the cutoff edge still hanging on the plate downward against the lower fixed scrap-cutting blade, which requires precise adjustment of the upper scrap-cutting blade. To that end, according to the invention, the distance between the upper scrap-cutting blade (2) or the lower scrap-cutting blade (3) and the trimming blade plane (5) is set prior to trimming in accordance with the thickness of each heavy plate (10) to be trimmed by displacement of the upper scrap-cutting blade (2) and/or the lower scrap-cutting blade (3) in a displacement direction with at least one component transverse to the trimming blade plane (5).Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2011Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: SMS Siemag AktiengesellschaftInventors: Andreas Bohn, Thomas Baur, Ulrich Meinhardt
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Publication number: 20140308595Abstract: A fuel cell system includes at least one fuel cell, line elements for supplying and discharging starting materials and/or products to/from the fuel cell, and at least one condensation unit. The condensation unit is situated in at least one of the line elements and, at least in individual operating phases of the fuel cell, the condensation unit is at a lower temperature level than the areas surrounding it and the fuel cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2012Publication date: October 16, 2014Applicant: Daimler AGInventors: Thomas Baur, Matthias Jesse, Cyrill Lohri, Cosimo Mazzotta, Holger Richter, Klaus Scherrbacher, Christian Schick
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Patent number: 8835062Abstract: An enclosed separator unit for incorporation into a gas supply device of a fuel cell system, to separate liquid from the gas supply device, includes a separator for separating the liquid. A housing encloses the separator unit which is arranged in a gas space 21 in the housing and/or is in thermal contact with the gas space. A line system is provided for discharging the liquid from the separator, and at least one fluid dynamically active functional component is arranged in the line system, in the gas space 21.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2008Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: Daimler AGInventors: Thomas Baur, Werner Englert, Dietmar Mirsch, Hans-Joerg Schabel
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Publication number: 20140205925Abstract: A fuel cell system includes at least one fuel cell, water-conducting parts and components in the region of the supply and discharge of starting materials and products to and from the fuel cell, and at least one cooling circuit containing liquid cooling medium for cooling the fuel cell. The water-conducting parts and components are in thermal contact with the cooling medium, at least during individual operating phases of the fuel cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2012Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: Daimler AGInventors: Thomas Baur, Cosimo Mazzotta, Hans-Joerg Schabel
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Patent number: 8748047Abstract: In a method for operating a fuel cell system having recirculation blower arranged in a fuel cell circuit, fuel discharged from the anode exhaust is fed back to the inlet side of the fuel cell system via the recirculation blower. The direction of flow in the fuel return line is reversed in at least a portion of the return line, in an alternating manner.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2009Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Daimler AGInventors: Thomas Baur, Cosimo Mazzotta, Andreas Knoop
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Patent number: 8535015Abstract: A method of operating a rinsing pump, for example, a peristaltic roller pump for use in endoscopy, which involves reducing a rinsing fluid flow rate to a safe flow rate when a detected electrical current exceeds a first predetermined current value, in which the first predetermined current value corresponds to a first predetermined limiting rinsing pressure. The method in part prevents an excessively high pressure in case of an unintended stenosis, e.g., kinking of the supply tube, or also intended stenoses, e.g., insertion of a narrow rinsing probe, by detecting an electrical current received by the pump by a current-measuring device.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2011Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Erbe Elektromedizin GmbHInventor: Thomas Baur
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Publication number: 20130220093Abstract: The invention relates to a guide device (1000) for a blade (322) having a slide (320) for receiving the blade (322) and a slide guide (330) and a glide element 300 between the slide guide (330) and the slide (320). A cooling device (205) is arranged for cooling the glide element (300). According to the invention, the cooling device (205) is designed as at least a closed cooling channel (210) or as an open cooling channel (209) having at least one inlet (215, 216) and one outlet (215, 216) for a cooling medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2011Publication date: August 29, 2013Applicant: SMS SIEMAG AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Andreas Bohn, Thomas Baur, Ulrich Meinhardt, Reiner Agsten
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Publication number: 20130133492Abstract: With known trimming shears having a pair of scrap-cutting blades on the discharge side, the moving upper scrap-cutting blade must be moved as closely as possible past the trimmed plate edge in order to push the cutoff edge still hanging on the plate downward against the lower fixed scrap-cutting blade, which requires precise adjustment of the upper scrap-cutting blade. To that end, according to the invention, the distance between the upper scrap-cutting blade (2) or the lower scrap-cutting blade (3) and the trimming blade plane (5) is set prior to trimming in accordance with the thickness of each heavy plate (10) to be trimmed by displacement of the upper scrap-cutting blade (2) and/or the lower scrap-cutting blade (3) in a displacement direction with at least one component transverse to the trimming blade plane (5).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2011Publication date: May 30, 2013Applicant: SMS Siemag AktiengesellschaftInventors: Andreas Bohn, Thomas Baur, Ulrich Meinhardt
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Publication number: 20130130143Abstract: A device for connection of a line element to a component is provided. The line element ends in a connection housing or is connected to such a connection housing. A releasable fixing arrangement is configured between the connection housing and the component. A line section extending in the connection housing is heated by an electric heating wire. The heating wire externally surrounds the line section. The heated line section projects in the direction of the component so far over the region for releasable fixing of the connection housing on the component that it ends in the inner space of the component.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2011Publication date: May 23, 2013Applicant: Daimler AGInventors: Thomas Baur, Boris Stein, Simon Steinhuebl
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Publication number: 20130042737Abstract: The invention relates to double trimming shears having a stationary bottom knife and a driven top knife which can be raised and lowered, wherein the top knife is arranged on a top knife carriage (12) guided by means of a carriage guide (10), wherein a first eccentric shaft (14) and a second eccentric shaft (16) on the carriage guide (10) is provided in order to guide the carriage guide (10) if an inclined position of the top knife carriage is to be prevented. This is achieved in that the first eccentric shaft (14) and the second eccentric shaft (16) are interconnected via a synchronization means (18).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2010Publication date: February 21, 2013Applicant: SMS SIEMAG AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Thomas Baur, Andreas Bohn, Ulrich Meinhardt