Patents by Inventor Thomas Wilhelm

Thomas Wilhelm 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).

  • Publication number: 20200346006
    Abstract: A magnetic system for a medical implant system is described. A planar implant receiver coil is configured to lie underneath and parallel to overlying skin of an implanted patient for transcutaneous communication of an implant communications signal. A planar ring-shaped attachment magnet also is configured to lie underneath and parallel to the overlying skin and radially surrounds the receiver coil. The attachment magnet is characterized by a magnetic field configured to avoid creating torque on the attachment magnet in the presence of an external magnetic field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Inventors: Thomas Wilhelm Eigentler, Andreas Hofner, Ingeborg Hochmair
  • Publication number: 20200319009
    Abstract: The invention relates to a sensor arrangement on a process installation comprising at least two sensor tiles, wherein each sensor tile comprises a support which can be arranged on the process installation and a plurality of sensors arranged on the support for determining a physical or chemical variable of a measuring medium found in the process installation, a process characteristic of the measuring medium and/or a state of the process installation, wherein a first of the sensor tiles comprises a control and/or evaluation unit having at least one transmit and receive module for data exchange with a first control and/or evaluation unit of a second sensor tile, wherein the first control and/or evaluation unit of the first sensor tile and/or a second control and/or evaluation unit allocated to the sensor arrangement is designed to determine the physical or chemical variable of the measuring medium, the process characteristic of the measuring medium and/or a state of the process installation by weighting the valu
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Thomas Wilhelm, Wolfgang Drahm, Alfred Rieder, Peter Klöfer, Thomas Moore
  • Patent number: 10724982
    Abstract: According to at least one aspect of the present disclosure, a method for determining orthophosphate content of a liquid, comprising: registering a first measurement signal of an ion selective dihydrogen phosphate sensor; registering a second measurement signal of an ion selective hydrogen phosphate sensor; and determining the orthophosphate content of the liquid based on the first and second measurement signals. The dihydrogen phosphate sensor can comprise an ion selective dihydrogen phosphate electrode and the hydrogen phosphate sensor an ion selective hydrogen phosphate electrode. In the step of determining the orthophosphate content of the liquid, a cross-sensitivity of the dihydrogen phosphate electrode to hydrogen phosphate present in the liquid and a cross-sensitivity of the hydrogen phosphate electrode to dihydrogen phosphate present in the liquid can be taken into consideration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Conducta GmbH+Co. KG
    Inventors: Stefan Wilke, Thomas Wilhelm
  • Patent number: 10723086
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the automated production of a workpiece having at least one diaphragm, including a workpiece for an electrochemical sensor, including providing a workpiece that has a wall with at least one continuous opening through the wall, wherein a diaphragm body is affixed in the at least one opening, such that the diaphragm body completely fills a cross-section of the opening, and processing the diaphragm body by means of a laser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Conducta GmbH+Co. KG
    Inventors: Michael Hanko, Thomas Wilhelm, Bert Blankenburg, Carsten Enderwitz, Jens Voigtländer
  • Publication number: 20200197702
    Abstract: A magnet arrangement for an implantable medical device is described. An implant magnet has a modified disc shape and is capable of responding to an external magnetic field by rotating about a primary center rotation axis. The implant magnet shape has at least one cross-sectional view in which the cylindrical diameter corresponds to a horizontal coordinate axis, the center symmetry axis corresponds to a vertical coordinate axis, the height between the end surfaces is greatest at the center symmetry axis, and the height between the end surfaces progressively decreases from the center symmetry axis along the cylindrical diameter towards the outer circumference to define a secondary deflection angle with respect to the horizontal coordinate axis so that the implant magnet is capable of responding to the external magnetic field by deflecting within the secondary deflection angle about a secondary deflection axis defined by a cylinder diameter normal to the cross-sectional view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventor: Thomas Wilhelm Eigentler
  • Patent number: 10655722
    Abstract: Gear mechanism, in particular coaxial gear mechanism or linear gear mechanism, having a toothing system, a tooth carrier with radially oriented guides, teeth which are received in the guides for engagement with the toothing system, the teeth being mounted in the guides such that they can be displaced radially relative to the tooth carrier in the direction of their longitudinal axis, a cam disk for radially driving the teeth, the tooth carrier comprising a first tooth carrier part and a second tooth carrier part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Wittenstein SE
    Inventors: Wilhelm Dorner, Michael Lesch, Andreas Kümmeth, Frank Michel, Heiko Schreiber, Thomas Wilhelm
  • Patent number: 10501802
    Abstract: Methods for the diagnosis of leukemias, and more specifically AML, such as MLL-AF9 AML, in a subject, based on the assessment of the expression or activity of one or more of the genes listed in Tables 1 and 2 are disclosed. The use of antibodies or antigen-binding fragments thereof that bind to one or more of proteins showing preferential expression at the cell surface of AML leukemic cells for treating AML is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignees: UNIVERSITE DE MONTREAL, UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL
    Inventors: Brian Thomas Wilhelm, Frederic Barabe
  • Publication number: 20190310224
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a sensor element for a potentiometric sensor including a substrate, and a potentiometric sensor layer disposed on the substrate, wherein the substrate includes at least one region electrically conductively connected to the sensor layer, and wherein at least the region of the substrate electrically conductively connected to the sensor layer is a mixed-conducting ceramic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventor: Thomas Wilhelm
  • Publication number: 20190212292
    Abstract: According to at least one aspect of the present disclosure, a method for determining orthophosphate content of a liquid, comprising: registering a first measurement signal of an ion selective dihydrogen phosphate sensor; registering a second measurement signal of an ion selective hydrogen phosphate sensor; and determining the orthophosphate content of the liquid based on the first and second measurement signals. The dihydrogen phosphate sensor can comprise an ion selective dihydrogen phosphate electrode and the hydrogen phosphate sensor an ion selective hydrogen phosphate electrode. In the step of determining the orthophosphate content of the liquid, a cross-sensitivity of the dihydrogen phosphate electrode to hydrogen phosphate present in the liquid and a cross-sensitivity of the hydrogen phosphate electrode to dihydrogen phosphate present in the liquid can be taken into consideration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Stefan Wilke, Thomas Wilhelm
  • Publication number: 20190187091
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a glass electrode including an analyte-sensitive glass membrane, an electrically conductive lead, and an intermediate layer which conductively connects the lead and the glass membrane to one another. According to the present disclosure, the intermediate layer is made of an electron- and/or ion-conducting polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Matthaeus Speck, Thomas Wilhelm
  • Publication number: 20190178830
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a measuring probe for electrochemical measurements, including a probe housing having a first cavity to hold a first electrolyte, a first electrode disposed in the first cavity and contacting the first electrolyte, a first junction disposed in a wall of the probe housing, the junction at least temporarily connecting the first cavity with an environment of the measuring probe, a second cavity formed in the probe housing to hold a second electrolyte, a second electrode disposed in the second cavity and contacting the second electrolyte, and a second junction having reversible open and closed states, in which in the closed state the second junction separates the first cavity and the second cavity and in the open state connects the second cavity to the first cavity, thereby enabling a current flow between the first electrolyte and the second electrolyte, mediated via ions as charge carriers therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Thomas Wilhelm, Torsten Pechstein
  • Publication number: 20190137439
    Abstract: A half-cell for measuring a pH value of a measuring medium is disclosed including a tube-shaped carrier element and a pH-sensitive glass membrane connected to an end section of the carrier element. At least the end section of the carrier element includes a zirconia-containing and/or alumina-containing ceramic. A method for manufacturing a half-cell for pH value measurement and a potentiometric sensor are further disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventor: Thomas Wilhelm
  • Patent number: 10267760
    Abstract: A method for determining orthophosphate content of a liquid, comprising: registering a first measurement signal (ISE1) of an ion selective dihydrogen phosphate sensor; registering a second measurement signal (ISE2) of an ion selective hydrogen phosphate sensor; and determining the orthophosphate content of the liquid based on the first (ISE1) and second (ISE2) measurement signals. The dihydrogen phosphate sensor can comprise an ion selective dihydrogen phosphate electrode and the hydrogen phosphate sensor an ion selective hydrogen phosphate electrode. In the step of determining the orthophosphate content of the liquid, a cross-sensitivity of the dihydrogen phosphate electrode to hydrogen phosphate present in the liquid and a cross-sensitivity of the hydrogen phosphate electrode to dihydrogen phosphate present in the liquid can be taken into consideration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Conducta GmbH+Co. KG
    Inventors: Stefan Wilke, Thomas Wilhelm
  • Publication number: 20190091794
    Abstract: Welding tongs (1), especially X-welding tongs (1) for resistance spot welding, with a first tong arm (11), a second tong arm (12), and a drive unit (2) comprising a motor (4) and a gearing (6) for rotating the first tong arm (11) relative to the second tong arm (12) about an axis of rotation (14) of the welding tongs (1), wherein the motor (4) and the gearing (6) are arranged coaxially and the second tong arm (12) is fastened to the housing in an abutment plane (29), which is situated on the motor side of an outer driven bearing plane of the drive unit (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Tobias Burger, Thomas Wilhelm
  • Publication number: 20190086357
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes to a sensor element including a membrane having a first functionalized region and a second functionalized region and including a sensor element body on which the membrane rests. The sensor element body has at least one electrically conductive first conductor and an electrically conductive second conductor electrically insulated from the first conductor. The first conductor is electrically and/or electrolytically conductively connected to the first functionalized region of the membrane, and the second conductor is electrically and/or electrolytically conductively connected to the second functionalized region of the membrane. In another aspect of the present disclosure, a method for fabricating such a sensor element is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Thomas Wilhelm, Matthäus Speck
  • Publication number: 20180172488
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method for determining at least one measurement uncertainty for at least one measured value of a field device, in which a set of calculation parameters is created that contains at least all standard parameters of a set of standard parameters in the form of a respectively corresponding calculation parameter, and the at least one measurement uncertainty and/or a measurement uncertainty budget is calculated and/or specified based upon at least one calculation parameter value of at least one calculation parameter. Each standard parameter of the set of standard parameters comprising at least one standard parameter represents an independent variable causing the measurement uncertainty. To each calculation parameter is assigned at least one calculation parameter value in the form of at least one standard parameter value, one device parameter value, and/or one application parameter value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventor: Thomas Wilhelm
  • Publication number: 20180172619
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a device in particular, a sensor for determining a measurand correlated with a concentration of an analyte in a measuring medium, including a housing that has a region provided for contacting the measuring medium, a fluid line arranged in the housing, an interface that is arranged within the region provided for contacting the measuring medium and has a first side which is in contact with the fluid line and a second side which is in contact with an environment of the housing in particular, with the measuring medium in contact with the housing, a first reservoir that is arranged in the housing and fluidically connected to the fluid line and which contains a reagent intended for contacting and/or interacting with the analyte, and a transport mechanism that is designed to transport reagent from the first reservoir into the fluid line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Torsten Pechstein, Thomas Wilhelm, Michael Hanko
  • Publication number: 20170341311
    Abstract: An installation for producing bags from two-layer plastic film includes a film gripper for drawing the plastic film into a tool at a first station, and a rotary conveyor belt for conveying the film through a plurality of stations. The film gripper is designed to guide the plastic film through the first station to a second station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: KIEFEL GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas WILHELM
  • Publication number: 20170276631
    Abstract: A reference half-cell for application in an electrochemical sensor, comprising a housing, in which a chamber containing a reference electrolyte is formed, wherein the reference electrolyte is in contact with a medium surrounding the housing via a liquid junction arranged in a wall of the housing, wherein the liquid junction comprises a porous diaphragm, and wherein the diaphragm has, at least partially, a coating, which comprises at least one metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventors: Thomas Wilhelm, Thomas Schröter, Michael Hanko, Wolfram Nowak, Thilo Trapp
  • Patent number: 9696273
    Abstract: A reference half-cell for application in an electrochemical sensor, comprising a housing, in which a chamber containing a reference electrolyte is formed, wherein the reference electrolyte (5, 105) is in contact with a medium surrounding the housing via a liquid junction arranged in a wall of the housing, wherein the liquid junction comprises a porous diaphragm, especially a porous ceramic diaphragm, and wherein the diaphragm has, at least partially, a coating, which comprises at least one metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Conducta GmbH+Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Wilhelm, Thomas Schroter, Michael Hanko, Wolfram Nowak, Thilo Trapp