Patents by Inventor Thomas Froehlich
Thomas Froehlich 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: 7552652Abstract: A device for determining and/or monitoring the volume, and/or mass, flow of a medium flowing through a containment in a stream direction. The device includes: At least one ultrasonic transducer, which emits and/or receives ultrasonic measuring signals; and a control/evaluation unit, which determines the volume, and/or mass, flow of the medium in the containment on the basis of the ultrasonic measuring signals according to the travel time difference principle or the Doppler principle. A first clock-pulse generator having a first pulse rate and a second clock-pulse generator having a second pulse rate are provided, with the first pulse rate of the first clock-pulse generator being greater than the second pulse rate of the second clock-pulse generator. The control/evaluation unit operates the first clock-pulse generator intermittently. The control/evaluation unit sizes the duration of a switch-on, or measuring, phase and/or a resting phase as a function of the available energy.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2005Date of Patent: June 30, 2009Assignee: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AGInventors: Thomas Fröhlich, Klaus Bussinger, Jacobson Saul
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Patent number: 7503668Abstract: A flameless candle that releases a volatile active includes at least one LED positioned in a tip (106), a cartridge mount (128), and a support structure (102, 141). The at least one LED emits a flickering light that emulates a flame of a candle. The cartridge mount (128) receives and secures a replaceable cartridge (104a) containing a volatile active to be released into the atmosphere over time. The support structure (120, 141) supports the at least one LED and the cartridge mount (128). The support structure (120, 141) is configured to allow airflow across the replaceable cartridge (104a) when the replaceable cartridge (104a) is mounted in the cartridge mount (128).Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2005Date of Patent: March 17, 2009Assignee: S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc.Inventors: Jose Porchia, Jeffrey J. Wolf, David C. Belongia, Kara J. Mackey, Mark Niederberger, Thomas Froehlich
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Patent number: 7469599Abstract: Flowmeter comprising at least two ultrasonic transducers that are mounted on a container which is penetrated by a medium in a certain direction of flow. The ultrasonic transducers alternately transmit and receive ultrasonic test signals in the direction of flow and counter to the direction of flow. The flowmeter further comprises a control/evaluation unit which determines and/or monitors the volume flow of the medium inside the container based on the difference in the travel time of the ultrasonic test signals propagating in the direction of flow and counter to the direction of flow. The ultrasonic transducers are configured such that they transmit and receive ultrasonic test signals or sound fields having a large aperture angle or a great beam expansion.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2003Date of Patent: December 30, 2008Assignee: Endress + Hauser FLowtec AGInventors: Thomas Froehlich, Achim Wiest, Torsten Strunz
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Patent number: 7350720Abstract: An active material cartridge comprises a frame and an active material refill. The active material refill comprises at least one reservoir having an active material therein and a protrusion extending from a first end thereof. The active material refill is disposed on and attached to the frame.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2005Date of Patent: April 1, 2008Assignee: S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Jaworski, Steven B. Mineau, David J. Schram, Scott W. Demarest, Dean Holzberger, Jeffrey J. Wolf, Mark Niederberger, Thomas Froehlich
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Publication number: 20070176348Abstract: In a stacker, a mail item to be stacked is propelled against a stop wall at a stacking point by a stacking roll. A controlled driven underfloor belt and a stack support are displaced from the stack as the stack grows. The mail item to be stacked meets the preceding, already stacked item at an acute angle. Before it is stacked the mass of each item is determined. Stacking forces are measured with a measurement device in a preceding test phase the target values for the stacking pressures and the braking curve of the stacking roll up until the mail items have reached the stop are defined and stored based on statistical analyses in accordance with the mass of the mail items to be stacked. The speed of the respective mail item is reduced according to the braking curve assigned to the determined mass of the mail item.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2005Publication date: August 2, 2007Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Holger Schererz, Armin Zimmermann, Thomas Froehlich
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Patent number: 7240566Abstract: An apparatus for the positioning of a clamp-on flow measuring device on a containment, which has a medium flowing through it. The apparatus includes at least two ultrasonic transducers, which emit measuring signals into the containment and/or receive measuring signals from the containment, a positioning unit for the variable positioning of the ultrasonic transducers on the containment, a control/evaluation unit, which calculates from predetermined process and/or system variables a characteristic, desired variable of the measuring signals and which determines on the basis of a comparison of the calculated, desired variable with the corresponding, measured, actual variable, whether the ultrasonic transducers are optimally positioned or whether the position of the ultrasonic transducers need to be changed, and an indicating unit, which indicates to operating personnel a required change of position and/or the direction in which a change of position needs to be made.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2003Date of Patent: July 10, 2007Assignee: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AGInventors: Thomas Froehlich, Achim Wiest, Andreas Berger, Harald Stocker, Torsten Strunz, Auréle Fleury, Klaus Bussinger, Oliver Brumberg
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Patent number: 7236912Abstract: A method and a device for determining and/or monitoring the volume flow rate and/or mass flow rate of a medium flowing through a container. In the case of the device, such is an ultrasonic flow measuring device, which works on the basis of the travel-time-difference principle. Additionally, a technique is presented whereby, on the basis of the results of measurement, also information is provided concerning change in some other system and/or process variable. To this end, the currently measured, actual measuring signals, or the corresponding actual measuring data, is compared with corresponding, stored set measuring signals, or set measuring data; a report is output, when a deviation arises between the set measuring signals, or set measuring data, and the actual measuring signals, or actual measuring data.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2003Date of Patent: June 26, 2007Assignee: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AGInventors: Thomas Froehlich, Harald Stocker, Aurèle Fleury
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Patent number: 7226193Abstract: The present invention in various embodiments relates to an illuminating device for a vehicle, in particular a motor vehicle, for realizing an asymmetrical light distribution. The asymmetrical light distribution has a greater illumination depth on the vehicle's side of traffic than it does on the side of oncoming traffic.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2004Date of Patent: June 5, 2007Assignee: Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbHInventors: Gerd Bahnmüller, Thomas Fröhlich, Michael Hamm, Peter Jauernig, Ernst-Olaf Rosenhahn, Peter Schöttle, Mathias Kinzel, Kurt Neuffer
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Patent number: 7160680Abstract: The invention relates to a method of a mass-spectrometric analysis of known mutation sites in the genome, such as single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), using the method of restricted primer extension. The invention consists of the use of primers with a photocleavable linker. The linker creates a gap in a DNA strand which is almost the same size as a natural DNA building block (nucleoside). The linker forms a bridge over a base pair without inhibiting hybridization or enzymatic extension. However, the linker allows the primers to be cleaved after extension in order to obtain short DNA fragments which can be more easily detected on the mass spectrometer.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2002Date of Patent: January 9, 2007Assignee: Bruker Saxonia Analytik GmbHInventors: Markus Kostrzewa, Thomas Fröhlich, Thomas Wenzel, Andres Jäschke, Felix Hausch
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Publication number: 20060278016Abstract: An ultrasonic flow measuring device, which determines volume and/or mass flow of a medium in a pipeline, or in a measuring tube. The flow measuring device includes a plurality of ultrasonic sensors, which emit and/or receive ultrasonic measurement signals along defined sound paths. The control/evaluation electronics of the flow measuring device is divided into an on-site electronics, in which at least one switch is provided, via which the ultrasonic sensors, arranged in different sound paths, can be driven and/or queried, and at least one remote, control/evaluation unit, wherein the control/evaluation unit so switches the at least one switch, that the driven and/or queried, ultrasonic sensor, or the driven and/or queried pair of ultrasonic sensors, is activated and provides measured values.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2006Publication date: December 14, 2006Applicant: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AGInventors: Thomas Froehlich, Achim Wiest, Andreas Berger, Harald Stocker, Torsten Strunz, Aurele Fleury, Klaus Bussinger, Patrick Oudoire, Saul Jacobson, Oliver Berberig, Frank Wandeler, Oliver Brumberg
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Patent number: 7148588Abstract: A pulse generator including a control logic operating, by control pulses, a switch connected on the input side with a voltage supply unit and delivering a pulse voltage on the output side, there is connected, between control logic and the switch, a capacitor, which decreases the pulse voltage when the pulse frequencies are too low, and, additionally, arranged between voltage supply unit and switch, an RC-member, which decreases the pulse voltages when the repetition rates of the control pulses are too high, in order to enable use of the pulse generator in the explosion-protected area.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2002Date of Patent: December 12, 2006Assignee: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AGInventors: Thomas Fröhlich, Harald Stocker
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Publication number: 20060236744Abstract: A method for the dry calibration of an ultrasonic flow measuring device, wherein, on the basis of predetermined, geometric, production data of the flow measuring device, information concerning the theoretical flow of the medium through a measuring tube is won, actual geometric measurement data of the flow measuring device is three-dimensionally determined, on the basis of the actual geometric measurement data, information concerning the actual flow of the medium through the flow measuring device is won, and, on the basis of the information regarding the theoretical flow, and the actual flow, of the medium through the flow measuring device, a correction, or calibration, factor is determined for the flow measuring device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2004Publication date: October 26, 2006Applicants: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AGInventors: Achim Wiest, Thomas Froehlich, Andreas Berger, Torsten Strunz
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Publication number: 20060216736Abstract: The current invention restates substituted nitroindole nucleosides as both terminal as well as internal building blocks of labeled oligonucleotide probes for the detection, analysis and quantitation of nucleic acids. The substituent comprises a linker and a detectable group or a linker and a reactive group for post synthesis coupling. These modified nucleosides grant access to a wide application area. These new substituted nitroindole nucleosides can be used as labeling reagents for the facile preparation of, e.g., optimized hybridization probes, simple probes, TAQMAN-probes or molecular beacon probes.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2006Publication date: September 28, 2006Applicant: Roche Diagnostics Opertions, Inc.Inventors: Dieter Heindl, Thomas Froehlich, Heribert Maerz, Monika Seller
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Publication number: 20060123922Abstract: An apparatus for the positioning of a clamp-on flow measuring device on a containment, which has a medium flowing through it. The apparatus includes at least two ultrasonic transducers, which emit measuring signals into the containment and/or receive measuring signals from the containment, a positioning unit for the variable positioning of the ultrasonic transducers on the containment, a control/evaluation unit, which calculates from predetermined process and/or system variables a characteristic, desired variable of the measuring signals and which determines on the basis of a comparison of the calculated, desired variable with the corresponding, measured, actual variable, whether the ultrasonic transducers are optimally positioned or whether the position of the ultrasonic transducers need to be changed, and an indicating unit, which indicates to operating personnel a required change of position and/or the direction in which a change of position needs to be made.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2003Publication date: June 15, 2006Applicant: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AGInventors: Thomas Froehlich, Achim Wiest, Andreas Berger, Harald Stocker, Torsten Strunz, Aurele Fleury, Klaus Bussinger, Oliver Brumberg
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Publication number: 20060120080Abstract: A control for a multisensory apparatus comprises means for detecting a number of lights connected to the control. The control further includes means responsive to the detecting means for operating the light(s) connected to the control in either of first and second different modes of operation in dependence upon the detected number of lights connected thereto. Still further, the control includes means for actuating an active material dispenser.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2005Publication date: June 8, 2006Inventors: Gene Sipinski, Jeffrey Wolf, Thomas Kueng, Thomas Froehlich, Mark Niederberger
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Publication number: 20060117867Abstract: flowmeter comprising at least two ultrasonic transducers that are mounted on a container which is penetrated by a medium in a certain direction of flow. The ultrasonic transducers alternately transmit and receive ultrasonic test signals in the direction of flow and counter to the direction of flow. The flowmeter further comprises a control/evaluation unit which determines and/or monitors the volume flow of the medium inside the container based on the difference in the travel time of the ultrasonic test signals propagating in the direction of flow and counter to the direction of flow. The ultrasonic transducers are configured such that they transmit and receive ultrasonic test signals or sound fields having a large aperture angle or a great beam expansion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2003Publication date: June 8, 2006Applicant: Endress + Hauser Flowtec A GInventors: Thomas Froehlich, Achim Wiest, Torsten Strunz
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Patent number: 7044001Abstract: A sonic- or ultrasonic flowmeter, suitable for replacement of differential pressure flowmeters, comprising: a pipe segment, to be connected to a first and a second pipe, each having a diameter, which complies to an industry standard for pipe diameters used in differential pressure flow measurement, having a length (L), which is equal to a standard length for a flow restricting element of a differential pressure flowmeter, having a diameter (D), which is equal to a standard for pipe diameters used in differential pressure flow measurement, comprising a first standard connector located on a first end of the pipe segment, and a second standard connector located on a second end of the pipe segment, a primary flow sensor, comprising at least one sonic- or ultrasonic transducer for transmission and/or reception of sonic- or ultrasonic signals through the pipe segment, mounted on the pipe segment, and a sensor electronic for providing a measurement signal representing a flow of fluid through the pipe segment, basedType: GrantFiled: March 26, 2004Date of Patent: May 16, 2006Assignee: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AGInventors: Dean Sylvia, Joe Schaffer, Matthias Altendorf, Mike Touzin, Thomas Fröhlich
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Publication number: 20050285538Abstract: An active material cartridge comprises a frame and an active material refill. The active material refill comprises at least one reservoir having an active material therein and a protrusion extending from a first end thereof. The active material refill is disposed on and attached to the frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2005Publication date: December 29, 2005Inventors: Thomas Jaworski, Steven Mineau, David Schram, Scott Demarest, Dean Holzberger, Jeffrey Wolf, Mark Niederberger, Thomas Froehlich
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Publication number: 20050169666Abstract: A flameless candle that releases a volatile active includes at least one LED positioned in a tip (106), a cartridge mount (128), and a support structure (102, 141). The at least one LED emits a flickering light that emulates a flame of a candle. The cartridge mount (128) receives and secures a replaceable cartridge (104a) containing a volatile active to be released into the atmosphere over time. The support structure (120, 141) supports the at least one LED and the cartridge mount (128). The support structure (120, 141) is configured to allow airflow across the replaceable cartridge (104a) when the replaceable cartridge (104a) is mounted in the cartridge mount (128).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2005Publication date: August 4, 2005Inventors: Jose Porchia, Jeffrey Wolf, David Belongia, Kara Mackey, Mark Niederberger, Thomas Froehlich
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Patent number: 6640538Abstract: A combustion chamber structure (1) comprising a plurality of cooling ducts (31, 41) extending in the longitudinal direction of the combustion chamber structure (1), whereby the combustion chamber structure (1) is rotationally symmetrical in relation to an axis (4) and comprised of an outer structure (11) and a base body (16) of the combustion chamber. The base body comprises ribs (25) preferably extending in the direction of the axis (4). The ribs are arranged in the peripheral direction of the combustion chamber structure and at least one first cooling duct (31) extends in the interior of the ribs.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2001Date of Patent: November 4, 2003Assignee: Astrium GmbHInventors: Dieter Preclik, Fritz Neuner, Thomas Fröhlich