Patents by Inventor Thomas Schulz

Thomas Schulz 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).

  • Patent number: 9310554
    Abstract: One embodiment provides an integrated circuit including a first non-planar structure and a waveguide configured to provide electromagnetic waves to the first non-planar structure. The first non-planar structure provides a first signal in response to at least some of the electromagnetic waves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventor: Thomas Schulz
  • Publication number: 20160037774
    Abstract: A fungicidal composition containing a fungicidally effective amount of a compound of Formula I, (3S,6S,7R,8R)-8-benzyl-3-(3-((isobutyryloxy)methoxy)-4-methoxypicolinamido)-6-methyl-4,9-dioxo-1,5-dioxonan-7-yl isobutyrate, and at least one fungicide selected from the group consisting of prothioconazole, epoxiconazole, cyproconazole, myclobutanil, prochloraz, metconazole, difenconazole, tebuconazole, tetraconazole, fenbuconazole, propiconazole, fluquinconazole, flusilazole, flutriafol, and fenpropimorph.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventor: Thomas Schulz
  • Patent number: 9242884
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the controlled operation of an industrial oven which is heated in a regenerative manner and which comprises an oven chamber, in particular a melting tank, in particular for glass, having the following steps: injecting fuel into the oven chamber via at least one fuel injector, which is designed to inject fuel, practically without combustion air in particular, conducting combustion air to the oven chamber in a first period duration and conducting exhaust gas (AG) out of the oven chamber in a second period duration separately from the fuel in a periodically alternating manner by means of a left regenerator and right regenerator which are associated with the at least one fuel injector and which are designed to regeneratively store heat from the exhaust gas and transmit heat to the combustion air. A supply of the combustion air is automatically controlled by means of a control loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: SOFTWARE & TECHNOLOGIE GLAS GMBH (STG)
    Inventors: Peter Hemmann, Andreas Birle, Thomas Schulz, Helmut Heelemann
  • Patent number: 9230906
    Abstract: Methods of patterning features, methods of manufacturing semiconductor devices, and semiconductor devices are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of patterning a feature includes forming a first portion of the feature in a first material layer. A second portion of the feature is formed in the first material layer, and a third portion of the feature is formed in a second material layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Thomas Schulz, Sergei Postnikov
  • Patent number: 9219063
    Abstract: Integrated circuit arrangement comprising a field effect transistor, especially a tunnel field effect transistor. An explanation is given of, inter alia, tunnel field effect transistors having a thicker gate dielectric in comparison with other transistors on the same integrated circuit arrangement. As an alternative or in addition, said tunnel field effect transistors have gate regions at mutually remote sides of a channel forming region or an interface between the connection regions of the tunnel field effect transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Juergen Holz, Ronald Kakoschke, Thomas Nirschl, Christian Pacha, Klaus Schruefer, Thomas Schulz, Doris Schmitt-Landsiedel
  • Publication number: 20150337408
    Abstract: A high-strength multiphase steel with minimum tensile strengths of 580 MPa, preferably having a dual-phase structure for a cold-rolled or hot-rolled steel strip with improved forming properties, particularly for lightweight vehicle construction contains the elements (contents in mass-%): C 0.075 to ?0.105; Si 0.600 to ?0.800; Mn 1.000 to ?2.250; Cr 0.280 to ?0.480; Al 0.010 to ?0.060; P?0.020; N?0.0100; S?0.0150, remainder iron, including typical steel-accompanying elements not mentioned above, which are impurities introduced by smelting, with the condition that the Mn content is preferably ?1.500% for strip thicknesses up to 1 mm, the Mn content is preferably ?1.750% for strip thicknesses of 1 to 2 mm, and the Mn content is preferably ?1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: THOMAS SCHULZ, Marion Bechthold, Norbert Kwiaton, Alexander Georgiew
  • Patent number: 9059302
    Abstract: One or more embodiments relate to a floating gate memory device, comprising: a substrate; a floating gate disposed over the substrate; and a control gate substantially laterally surrounding at least a portion of the floating gate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Koen Van Der Zanden, Thomas Schulz
  • Publication number: 20150114848
    Abstract: In a method for operating a heatable exhaust-gas sensor, which supplies at least one measuring signal and in which a sensor heater is operated using a pulse-width modulated operating voltage, the detection of the at least one measuring signal has priority over the supply of the pulse-width modulated operating voltage for sensor heater, and at least during a predefined time window in which the measuring signal is detected, the supply of the pulse-width modulated operating voltage for the sensor heater is suppressed using a blocking signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Engelke, Claudius Bevot, Thomas Schulz, Rolf Reischl, Rolf Kraemer, Andreas Gess
  • Publication number: 20150041024
    Abstract: In a process for producing a cold- or hot-rolled steel strip from an ultrahigh-strength multiphase steel having a particular composition the required multiphase microstructure is generated during continuous heat treatment. The cold- or hot-rolled steel strip is heated in the continuous heat treatment furnace to a temperature in the range from 700 to 950° C. and the heat-treated steel strip is subsequently cooled from the heat treatment temperature at a cooling rate of from 15 to 100° C./s to a first intermediate temperature of from 300 to 500° C. followed by cooling at a cooling rate of from 15 to 100° C./s to a second intermediate temperature of from 200 to 250° C.; the steel strip is subsequently cooled at a cooling rate of from 2 to 30° C./s in air to room temperature or the cooling at a cooling rate of from 15 to 100° C./s is maintained from the first intermediate temperature to room temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventors: Thomas Schulz, Andreas Wedemeier, Wilfried Sprock, Volker Flaxa, Friedrich Luther, Ingwer Denks, Sven Schulz
  • Publication number: 20150034215
    Abstract: A high-strength multi-phase steel having tensile strengths of no less than 580 MPa, preferably with a dual-phase structure for a cold-rolled or hot-rolled steel strip having improved forming properties, in particular for lightweight vehicle construction is disclosed, containing the following elements (contents in % by mass): C 0.075 to ?0.105; Si 0.200 to ?0.300; Mn 1.000 to ?2.000; Cr 0.280 to ?0.480; Al 0.10 to ?0.060; P ?0.020; Nb ?0.005 to ?0.025; N ?0.0100; S ?0.0050; the remainder iron, including conventional steel-accompanying elements not mentioned above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Thomas Schulz, Andreas Wedemeier, Michael Pohl, Hans-Joachim Kratz, Matthias Geler, Oliver Meyer
  • Patent number: 8912123
    Abstract: A safened herbicidal composition for use, for example, in wheat or barley, comprising a herbicidally effective amount of (a) a compound of formula (I): or an agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof and (b) a safener, for example, from the quinolinyloxyacetate family of chemicals, including, but not limited to, cloquintocet mexyl, provide weed control of undesirable vegetation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences, LLC.
    Inventors: Joerg Becker, Thomas Schulz
  • Publication number: 20140256550
    Abstract: Herbicidal compositions and methods of controlling undesirable vegetation using a combination of (a) isoxaben, (b) aminopyralid or an agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof, and optionally (c) flufenacet and (d) diflufenacet provide control of broad-leaved weeds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventor: Thomas SCHULZ
  • Publication number: 20140256551
    Abstract: Herbicidal compositions and methods of controlling undesirable vegetation using a combination of (a) isoxaben, (b) flufenacet, and optionally (c) diflufenican provide control of broad-leaved weeds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventor: Thomas SCHULZ
  • Publication number: 20140205233
    Abstract: One embodiment provides an integrated circuit including a first non-planar structure and a waveguide configured to provide electromagnetic waves to the first non-planar structure. The first non-planar structure provides a first signal in response to at least some of the electromagnetic waves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventor: Thomas Schulz
  • Publication number: 20140203455
    Abstract: Methods of patterning features, methods of manufacturing semiconductor devices, and semiconductor devices are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of patterning a feature includes forming a first portion of the feature in a first material layer. A second portion of the feature is formed in the first material layer, and a third portion of the feature is formed in a second material layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Thomas Schulz, Sergei Postnikov
  • Publication number: 20140203366
    Abstract: Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacture thereof are disclosed. A complimentary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) device includes a PMOS transistor having at least two first gate electrodes comprising a first parameter, and an NMOS transistor having at least two second gate electrodes comprising a second parameter, wherein the second parameter is different than the first parameter. The first parameter and the second parameter may comprise the thickness or the dopant profile of the gate electrode materials of the PMOS and NMOS transistors. The first and second parameter of the at least two first gate electrodes and the at least two second gate electrodes establish the work function of the PMOS and NMOS transistors, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG
    Inventors: Thomas Schulz, Hongfa Luan
  • Publication number: 20140172738
    Abstract: According to one general aspect, a method of transportation management may include receiving a request to transport a current freight unit from a current source location to a current destination location. The method may include selecting a prior shipment path based upon a similarity, as defined by a set of predefined criteria, between the current freight unit and a prior freight unit. The method may further include initializing a shipment path improver with the prior shipment path. The method may also include generating, via the shipment path improver, a current shipment path for the current freight unit from the current source location to the current destination location based upon the prior shipment path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Inventors: Thomas Schulz, Kathrin Dyckerhoff, Thomas Engelmann, Christoph Eckert
  • Patent number: 8722473
    Abstract: Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacture thereof are disclosed. A complimentary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) device includes a PMOS transistor having at least two first gate electrodes comprising a first parameter, and an NMOS transistor having at least two second gate electrodes comprising a second parameter, wherein the second parameter is different than the first parameter. The first parameter and the second parameter may comprise the thickness or the dopant profile of the gate electrode materials of the PMOS and NMOS transistors. The first and second parameter of the at least two first gate electrodes and the at least two second gate electrodes establish the work function of the PMOS and NMOS transistors, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Thomas Schulz, Hongfa Luan
  • Publication number: 20140124827
    Abstract: Integrated circuit arrangement comprising a field effect transistor, especially a tunnel field effect transistor. An explanation is given of, inter alia, tunnel field effect transistors having a thicker gate dielectric in comparison with other transistors on the same integrated circuit arrangement. As an alternative or in addition, said tunnel field effect transistors have gate regions at mutually remote sides of a channel forming region or an interface between the connection regions of the tunnel field effect transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Juergen Holz, Ronald Kakoschke, Thomas Nirschl, Christian Pacha, Klaus Schruefer, Thomas Schulz, Doris Schmitt-Landsiedel
  • Patent number: 8698206
    Abstract: Methods of patterning features, methods of manufacturing semiconductor devices, and semiconductor devices are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of patterning a feature includes forming a first portion of the feature in a first material layer. A second portion of the feature is formed in the first material layer, and a third portion of the feature is formed in a second material layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Thomas Schulz, Sergei Postnikov