Patents by Inventor Thomas Gruber
Thomas Gruber 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: 8253791Abstract: A device for monitoring objects, in particular for monitoring industrial environments, such as paper mills and manufacturing and/or finishing processes of a paper, board or other fibrous web being carried out therein, includes a monitoring camera, the camera with its objective being arranged in a rotationally symmetrical protective housing rotating about an axis of rotation, and a protective housing to be mounted at its one end on a rigid hollow shaft and, at its coaxially opposite other end, to have a co-rotating blower pipe or merge into the latter, and for compressed air to be applied to the protective housing, including the blower pipe.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2008Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Voith Patent GmbHInventors: Thomas Gruber-Nadlinger, Armin Bauer
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Publication number: 20120040864Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of determining intracellular Cbl-b protein in cells of a sample, comprising introducing an antibody, which binds Cbl-b intracellularly, into a cell, allowing contracting of the antibody and Cbl-b protein potentially present in the cell, detecting binding events between the antibody and Cbl-b, quantifying the detected binding events, whereby the content of Cbl-b protein is determined.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2010Publication date: February 16, 2012Applicants: MEDIZINISCHE UNIVERSITAET INNSBRUCK, APEIRON BIOLOGICS AGInventors: Hans Loibner, Gottfried Baier, Gunther Lametschwandtner, Manfred Schuster, Thomas Gruber, Dominik Wolf
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Publication number: 20110098166Abstract: A roller for a web-processing machine, the roller having a support core, which is braced in the region of both its ends via a respective bearing arrangement, and an outer covering, which in its axially central region is mounted in a radially fixed manner in relation to the support core and in the region of its two ends is braced in a radially displaceable manner in relation to the support core by a respective additional bearing arrangement, whereby the outer covering is displaceable in the region of its two ends respectively by an actuator arranged within the outer covering, the actuator being adjustable and including two inter-mounted eccentrics to which is assigned respectively one pivoting device, whereby the two pivoting devices are controllable such that the size of the resulting eccentricity and the position of the resulting eccentricity are adjustable preferably separately from each other, the outer covering being non-rotatably connected to the support core.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2010Publication date: April 28, 2011Inventors: Josef Kerschbaumer, Georg Gobec, Norbert Gamsjaeger, Benno Bader, Thomas Gruber-Nadlinger
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Publication number: 20110062192Abstract: A spout, particularly for flexible fluid reservoirs having opposing film panels, which minimizes stresses and abrasion resulting from manufacture and/or use of such reservoirs as well as enhances the strength of the weld/bond between the films and the spout. Spouts according to the invention include a generally cylindrical neck portion and a pair of opposed, generally triangular portions extending laterally there from that form a spout-film interface. This interface may be smooth and/or define depressions or holes to increase bond integrity. Spout embodiments of the invention also may include at least one, and preferably four, stress delocalizing feature(s) (“SDF”) to disperse material stress from edges of the spout-film interface that might form during use of the spout. Exemplary SDFs include flexible appendages, preferably at the apex of the triangular portions or at neck portions that form a portion of the spout-weld interfaces, which depend beyond the spout weld interface and into the reservoir.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2010Publication date: March 17, 2011Applicant: Cascade Desigs, Inc.Inventor: Thomas Gruber
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Patent number: 7867155Abstract: A roller for a web-processing machine, the roller having a support core, which is braced in the region of both its ends via a respective bearing arrangement, and an outer covering, which in its axially central region is mounted in a radially fixed manner in relation to the support core and in the region of its two ends is braced in a radially displaceable manner in relation to the support core by a respective additional bearing arrangement, whereby the outer covering is displaceable in the region of its two ends respectively by an actuator arranged within the outer covering, the actuator being adjustable and including two inter-mounted eccentrics to which is assigned respectively one pivoting device, whereby the two pivoting devices are controllable such that the size of the resulting eccentricity and the position of the resulting eccentricity are adjustable preferably separately from each other.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2008Date of Patent: January 11, 2011Assignee: Voith Patent GmbHInventors: Josef Kerschbaumer, Georg Gobec, Norbert Gamsjaeger, Benno Bader, Thomas Gruber-Nadlinger
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Patent number: 7862492Abstract: A roller for a web-processing machine has a support core, which is braced in the region of both its ends via a respective bearing arrangement, and an outer covering, which in its axially central region is braced in a radially fixed manner in relation to the support core and in the region of its two ends is braced in a radially displaceable manner in relation to the support core by a respective additional bearing arrangement, whereby the radially extending center plane of both the support core bearing arrangement and the outer covering bearing arrangement lies axially within the outer covering, and the outer covering is displaceable in the region of its two ends respectively by an actuator arranged preferably within the outer covering.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2008Date of Patent: January 4, 2011Assignee: Voith Patent GmbHInventors: Josef Kerschbaumer, Georg Gobec, Norbert Gamsjaeger, Benno Bader, Thomas Gruber-Nadlinger
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Publication number: 20100299043Abstract: For regulating the speed of a motor vehicle, a control apparatus is equipped with an object detection system, and the reference speed is determined as a function of at least one preceding vehicle in the evaluation region of the object detection system, such that upon recognition of an imminent lane change by the regulated vehicle, vehicles in the adjacent destination lane are additionally taken into consideration for calculation of the reference speed by expanding the evaluation region in the direction of the destination lane, and consideration is given only to vehicles in the destination lane whose distance from the regulated vehicle is less than a predetermined distance value.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2007Publication date: November 25, 2010Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Stephan Dorenkamp, Thomas Gruber, Werner Urban, Juergen Boecker
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Patent number: 7824320Abstract: A roller, in particular an expander roller, for a web-processing machine, has a support core, which is braced in the region of both its ends via a respective bearing arrangement, and an outer covering, which in its axially central region is braced in a radially fixed manner in relation to the support core and in the region of its two ends is braced in a radially displaceable manner in relation to the support core by a respective additional bearing arrangement, whereby the radially extending center plane of both the support core bearing arrangement and the outer covering bearing arrangement lies axially within the outer covering. Preferably the outer covering is displaceable in this case in the region of its two ends respectively by an actuator arranged within the outer covering.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2008Date of Patent: November 2, 2010Assignee: Voith Patent GmbHInventors: Josef Kerschbaumer, Georg Gobec, Norbert Gamsjaeger, Benno Bader, Thomas Gruber-Nadlinger
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Patent number: 7802377Abstract: The invention relates to a drying cylinder which is used to dry a paper, cardboard, tissue or other web of fibrous material in a machine for the production and/or for the transformation thereof. The drying cylinder includes a support body and an external cover layer which is heated by a hot fluid. The thermal flow passing through the external cover layer is increased such that at least one cavity is provided between the support body and the external cover layer through which the fluid flows. The external cover layer is predominately so thin that the ratio formed by the thermal conductivity of the material and the thickness of the external cover layer is greater than a threshold value of 3.2 kW/m2K for steel, 30 kW/m2K for aluminum, 18 kW/m2K for bronze alloys, 3.4 kW/m2K for copper and 6.1 kW/m2K for magnesium.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2007Date of Patent: September 28, 2010Assignee: Voith Patent GmbHInventors: Rainer Kloibhofer, Christoph Haase, Thomas Gruber-Nadlinger, Herbert Boden, Erich Rollenitz, Manfred Gloser
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Patent number: 7789818Abstract: A rotary part, in particular a spreader roller for a web-processing machine has a supporting core with a longitudinal axis, said supporting core being mounted at its two longitudinal ends, and having an elastically flexible outer sleeve which surrounds the supporting core in its circumferential direction and extends, in at least some sections, between the two longitudinal ends of the supporting core. The outer sleeve on the supporting core is non-displaceably mounted on at least one bearing and that the outer sleeve is mounted on at least one displacing point at a distance from the bearing so as to be displaceable perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the supporting core in order for the curvature of the outer sleeve to be adjustable.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2006Date of Patent: September 7, 2010Assignee: Voith Patent GmbHInventors: Thomas Gruber-Nadlinger, Benno Bader, Norbert Gamsjaeger, Georg Gobec, Herbert Schrefl
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Publication number: 20090033743Abstract: A device for monitoring objects, in particular for monitoring industrial environments, such as paper mills and manufacturing and/or finishing processes of a paper, board or other fibrous web being carried out therein, includes a monitoring camera, the camera with its objective being arranged in a rotationally symmetrical protective housing rotating about an axis of rotation, and a protective housing to be mounted at its one end on a rigid hollow shaft and, at its coaxially opposite other end, to have a co-rotating blower pipe or merge into the latter, and for compressed air to be applied to the protective housing, including the blower pipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2008Publication date: February 5, 2009Inventors: Thomas Gruber-Nadlinger, Armin Bauer
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Patent number: 7479322Abstract: A radiation-curable composite layered sheet or film comprising at least one substrate layer and one outer layer, said outer layer being composed of a radiation-curable composition having a glass transition temperature of more than 40° C.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2007Date of Patent: January 20, 2009Assignees: BASF Aktiengesellschaft, DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Rainer Koeniger, Erich Beck, Achim Grefenstein, Reinhold Schwalm, Margit Veeh, Claudia Vogel, Walter Aichholzer, Thomas Gruber, Karl Holdik
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Publication number: 20080276483Abstract: The invention relates to a drying roll for drying a fibrous material web, in particular a paper, cardboard or tissue web in a machine for producing and/or finishing said fibrous material web. The roll can be heated on the interior by a gaseous heat transfer medium and the internal surface of its jacket is provided with elevated sections that extend at least radially inwards, the height of said elevations being greater than the average radial thickness of the condensate layer that forms on the internal surface of the cylinder jacket during operation. The roll is equipped with elements that drain condensate from the condensate chamber that incorporates the areas lying between the elevations. The condensate chamber or at least one condensate sub-section is in hydraulic contact with at least one front-end region of the cylinder.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2007Publication date: November 13, 2008Inventors: Herbert Boden, Rainer Kloibhofer, Thomas Gruber-Nadlinger, Gunter Seitlhuber, Robert Bunzl
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Publication number: 20080210733Abstract: A roller, in particular an expander roller, for a web-processing machine, has a support core, which is braced in the region of both its ends via a respective bearing arrangement, and an outer covering, which in its axially central region is braced in a radially fixed manner in relation to the support core and in the region of its two ends is braced in a radially displaceable manner in relation to the support core by a respective additional bearing arrangement, whereby the radially extending center plane of both the support core bearing arrangement and the outer covering bearing arrangement lies axially within the outer covering. Preferably the outer covering is displaceable in this case in the region of its two ends respectively by an actuator arranged within the outer covering.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2008Publication date: September 4, 2008Inventors: Josef Kerschbaumer, Georg Gobec, Norbert Gamsjaeger, Benno Bader, Thomas Gruber-Nadlinger
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Publication number: 20080207419Abstract: A roller for a web-processing machine has a support core, which is braced in the region of both its ends via a respective bearing arrangement, and an outer covering, which in its axially central region is braced in a radially fixed manner in relation to the support core and in the region of its two ends is braced in a radially displaceable manner in relation to the support core by a respective additional bearing arrangement, whereby the radially extending center plane of both the support core bearing arrangement and the outer covering bearing arrangement lies axially within the outer covering, and the outer covering is displaceable in the region of its two ends respectively by an actuator arranged preferably within the outer covering.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2008Publication date: August 28, 2008Inventors: Josef Kerschbaumer, Georg Gobec, Norbert Gamsjaeger, Benno Bader, Thomas Gruber-Nadlinger
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Publication number: 20080205867Abstract: The present invention relates to a rotary part, in particular a spreader roller for a web-processing machine. The rotary part has a supporting core with a longitudinal axis, said supporting core being mounted at its two longitudinal ends, and having an elastically flexible outer sleeve which surrounds the supporting core in its circumferential direction and extends, in at least some sections, between the two longitudinal ends of the supporting core. The outer sleeve on the supporting core is non-displaceably mounted on at least one bearing and that the outer sleeve is mounted on at least one displacing point at a distance from the bearing so as to be displaceable perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the supporting core in order for the curvature of the outer sleeve to be adjustable.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2006Publication date: August 28, 2008Inventors: Thomas Gruber-Nadlinger, Benno Bader, Norbert Gamsjaeger, Georg Gobec, Herbert Schrefl
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Publication number: 20080203130Abstract: A roller for a web-processing machine, the roller having a support core, which is braced in the region of both its ends via a respective bearing arrangement, and an outer covering, which in its axially central region is mounted in a radially fixed manner in relation to the support core and in the region of its two ends is braced in a radially displaceable manner in relation to the support core by a respective additional bearing arrangement, whereby the outer covering is displaceable in the region of its two ends respectively by an actuator arranged within the outer covering, the actuator being adjustable and including two inter-mounted eccentrics to which is assigned respectively one pivoting device, whereby the two pivoting devices are controllable such that the size of the resulting eccentricity and the position of the resulting eccentricity are adjustable preferably separately from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2008Publication date: August 28, 2008Inventors: Josef Kerschbaumer, Georg Gobec, Norbert Gamsjaeger, Benno Bader, Thomas Gruber-Nadlinger
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Publication number: 20080072691Abstract: In such a method and system, firstly, at least an electrically conducting first connection to a first body area (3a) of the whole body of a living being is established and at least an electrically conducting second connection to a second body area (3b) of the whole body of the living being at a distance from the first body area (3a) and, secondly, a change takes place in the physical relation between at least one body part (1, 2) of the whole body and the whole body, which change in the physical relation causes a change to occur in the impedance value of a bioelectrical impedance, which bioelectrical impedance is present between the first body area (3a) and the second body area (3b) and, thirdly, a detection takes place of the change in the impedance value of said bioelectrical impedance, as a result of which occurrence of the change result information (RI) is obtained and, fourthly, the control signal (CTRS) is generated in dependence on the result information (RI).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2005Publication date: March 27, 2008Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS, N.V.Inventor: Thomas Gruber
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Publication number: 20080005921Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for producing and/or transforming a web of fibrous material, in particular a paper or cardboard web. Said device includes a heatable and rotatable cylinder, in particular a drying cylinder of a drying section, and a cylinder sleeve which can be impinged from the inside by a heating fluid. In order to improve the heating power below the external surface of the cylinder sleeve, at least one channel is provided in order to guide the heating fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2007Publication date: January 10, 2008Inventors: Thomas Gruber-Nadlinger, Gunter Halmschlager, Christoph Haase, Herbert Boden, Norbert Karner, Peter Kastner, Gunter Seitlhuber, Gerhard Holtmann, Andreas Figerl, Rainer Kloibhofer, Erich Rollenitz
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Publication number: 20070294914Abstract: The invention relates to a drying cylinder which is used to dry a paper, cardboard, tissue or other web of fibrous material in a machine for the production and/or for the transformation thereof. The drying cylinder includes a support body and an external cover layer which is heated by a hot fluid. The thermal flow passing through the external cover layer is increased such that at least one cavity is provided between the support body and the external cover layer through which the fluid flows. The external cover layer is predominately so thin that the ratio formed by the thermal conductivity of the material and the thickness of the external cover layer is greater than a threshold value of 3.2 kW/m2K for steel, 30 kW/m2K for aluminum, 18 kW/m2K for bronze alloys, 3.4 kW/m2K for copper and 6.1 kW/m2K for magnesium.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2007Publication date: December 27, 2007Inventors: Rainer Kloibhofer, Christoph Haase, Thomas Gruber-Nadlinger, Herbert Boden, Erich Rollenitz, Manfred Gloser