Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Schneider

Wolfgang Schneider 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: 20140320264
    Abstract: A carrier compensation reader compensates a carrier signal. The carrier compensation reader transmits, via an antenna, a first carrier signal and obtains a second carrier signal based on the first carrier signal. The carrier compensation reader configures a compensation circuit to receive a receiver output signal based on the second carrier signal and generate a compensation signal based on the receiver output signal to compensate the second carrier signal. The carrier compensation reader obtains a carrier compensation signal summing the second carrier signal and the compensation signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventors: Marco Schwarzmueller, Ulrich Grosskinsky, Wolfgang Schneider
  • Patent number: 8863507
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purification system (method and device) for the treatment of diesel exhaust gases containing nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons is disclosed, which comprises the addition of ammonia or of a compound decomposable to ammonia into the exhaust gas stream and the subsequent leading of the exhaust gas stream over two successively arranged SCR catalysts with different properties and compositions. Both SCR catalysts are free of vanadium compounds and only the downstream SCR catalyst contains zeolite compounds. The exhaust gas purification system according to the invention is characterized by good “kick-off” behavior at low temperatures and a simultaneously high conversion performance over a wide temperature range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Umicore AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Katja Adelmann, Nicola Soeger, Marcus Pfeifer, Wolfgang Schneider, Gerald Jeske, Thomas Kreuzer
  • Publication number: 20140070655
    Abstract: A permanently excited synchronous machine includes a stator; a winding system arranged in grooves of a laminated core of the stator and forming winding overhangs on end faces of the laminated core, and a rotor connected in fixed rotative engagement to the shaft and having ferrite magnets which extend axially beyond the end faces of the laminated core. The rotor electromagnetically interacts with the stator across an air gap there between during operation of the permanently excited synchronous machine to cause a rotation about an axis of rotation. A flux concentration element is provided radially across each of the ferrite magnets of a magnetic pole and bundles magnetic field lines of the ferrite magnet onto an axial length of the laminated core of the stator. The flux concentration elements and held by a fixing element on the ferrite magnets of a magnetic pole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Wolfgang Schneider, Rolf Vollmer
  • Publication number: 20140023782
    Abstract: The invention relates to a water-based can inner coating comprising a copolymer or a copolymer mixture of at least one aliphatic and acyclic alkene with at least one ?,?-unsaturated carboxylic acid in water-dispersed form, wherein the acid number of the copolymer or of the copolymer mixture is at least 20 mg KOH/g, but not more than 200 mg KOH/g, and at least one water-dispersed or water-soluble curing agent. Inventive can inner coatings are characterized in that due to the good crosslinking of the copolymer or of the copolymer mixture with the curing agent, the cured film on the inner surfaces of metal cans possesses excellent properties in regard to hardness, abrasion resistance and resistance towards hot liquids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventors: Andreas KUNZ, Patrick Podwoiski, Holger Endres, Wolfgang Schneider, Bernd Struck
  • Patent number: 8568678
    Abstract: The reductive removal of nitrogen oxides from the exhaust gas from internal combustion engines operated predominantly under lean conditionstakes place in a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) of the nitrogen oxides by means of ammonia or a compound which can be decomposed into ammonia as reducing agent. Conventional SCR catalysts typically have a relatively narrow working temperature window, usually 350° C. to 520° C., in which good nitrogen oxide conversions can be achieved with sufficient selectivity. SCR catalyst formulations whose working window is in the temperature range from 150° C. to 350° C. generally not be used at higher temperatures since they oxidize the ammonia required as reducing 18 agent to nitrogen oxides at above 350° C. To cover the entire exhaust gas temperature range typical of vehicles having been operating internal combustion enginesextending from 200° C. to 600° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Umicore AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Nicola Soeger, Lothar Mussmann, Ralf Sesselmann, Katja Adelmann, Wolfgang Schneider
  • Patent number: 8431186
    Abstract: To equip a diesel particle filter with a zeolite-containing coating uniformly over the entire length of the particle filter and with a further zeolite-free coating which is applied, from the entry side of the filter, solely up to a specific length of the filter, it is proposed, first, to apply the zeolite-free coating from the entry side of the filter and only thereafter to apply the zeolite-containing coating over the entire length of the filter from the exit side of the filter. As a result of this sequence of coatings, a better adhesive strength of the coatings than when both coatings are applied from the entry side is ensured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Umicore AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Gerald Jeske, Marcus Pfeifer, Wolfgang Schneider, Franz Dornhaus, Ralf Mueller, Michael Schiffer
  • Patent number: 8425170
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the bonded adhesion, or connection, of a plurality of wire-shaped individual elements into an arrangement, particularly into a wire band, wherein the adjacent individual elements have predetermined breaking points allowing for the mechanical removal of the individual elements. The bonded adhesion is brought about according to the invention utilizing a two-layer system on the basis of acrylate resins consisting of an inner coating (A) and of an outer coating (B), wherein the inner coating (A) has a lower hardness, than the outer coating. In a further aspect the invention also comprises arranging a plurality of wire-shaped individual elements through such a bonded connection, particularly a wire band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGAA
    Inventors: Andreas Kunz, Juergen Stodt, Holger Endres, Wolfgang Schneider, Stefan Bonekamp, Patrick Podwoiski
  • Patent number: 8389432
    Abstract: Structured automotive catalysts which comprise a plurality of different catalytically active coatings arranged above one another on a support body and whose coatings contain transition metals and porous support materials are well known. Structured automotive catalysts of this type which do not belong to the group of three-way catalysts, in particular, frequently display large selectivity losses after thermal aging processes which can be attributed to the thermally induced migration of transition metal atoms from one layer into the neighboring coating. The introduction of a diffusion barrier which slows or prevents the thermally induced migration of transition metal atoms from one catalytically active layer into the other increases the thermal aging stability of such catalysts significantly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Umicore AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Lothar Muβmann, Nicola Söger, Ralf Sesselmann, Katja Adelmann, Wolfgang Schneider
  • Patent number: 8226896
    Abstract: A catalytically active diesel particulate filter with ammonia trap action is presented, which, in addition to an oxidation-active coating (2), comprises a coating (1) which is catalytically active in the SCR reaction. By means of this inventive diesel particulate filter, it is possible to make exhaust gas aftertreatment systems for removing nitrogen oxides and particulates from the exhaust gas of lean engines considerably simpler and less expensive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Umicore AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Marcus Pfeifer, Markus Koegel, Wolfgang Schneider, Nicola Soeger, Katja Adelmann, Gerald Jeske, Thomas Kreuzer
  • Patent number: 8217198
    Abstract: A process for purifying removal of a chemical target compound from a suspension of crystals thereof in mother liquor in a wash column with forced transport of the crystal bed from the top downward, in which crystals are removed from the lower end of the crystal bed with a rotating removal device and melted, and a portion of the crystal melt is conducted back toward the crystal bed as wash melt, the removal device being secured with a drive shaft conducted into the wash column from the bottom through an inlet having a seal, said drive shaft being driven about its longitudinal axis by a drive unit for rotation and being mounted so as to be rotatable about its longitudinal axis in more than one bearing, such that the mounting in one of the bearings absorbs the downward force acting on the drive shaft, the mounting in two or more bearings absorbs forces acting radially outward from the drive shaft, and the mounting in one bearing is additionally capable of absorbing an upward force acting on the drive shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Joerg Heilek, Wolfgang Schneider, Wolfgang Gunkel, Volker Schliephake, Klaus Joachim Mueller-Engel
  • Patent number: 8057768
    Abstract: The invention relates to a special device for the purification of diesel exhaust gases, which device comprises, in the flow direction of the exhaust gas, an oxidation catalyst, a diesel particle filter with catalytically active coating, and, downstream of a device for introducing a reducing agent from an external reducing agent source, an SCR catalyst. The oxidation catalyst and the catalytically active coating of the diesel particle filter contain palladium and platinum. The ratio of the noble metals platinum and palladium in the overall system and on the individual components, oxidation catalyst and catalytically coated diesel particle filter, are coordinated with one another in such a way as to obtain firstly an optimum NO/NO2 ratio in the exhaust gas upstream of the downstream SCR catalyst, and secondly optimum heating and HC conversion behaviour during an active particle filter regeneration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Umicore AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Schneider, Lothar Mussmann, Gerald Jeske, Michael Schiffer, Marcus Pfeifer
  • Publication number: 20110194914
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the bonded adhesion, or connection, of a plurality of wire-shaped individual elements into an arrangement, particularly into a wire band, wherein the adjacent individual elements have predetermined breaking points allowing for the mechanical removal of the individual elements. The bonded adhesion is brought about according to the invention utilizing a two-layer system on the basis of acrylate resins consisting of an inner coating (A) and of an outer coating (B), wherein the inner coating (A) has a lower hardness, than the outer coating. In a further aspect the invention also comprises arranging a plurality of wire-shaped individual elements through such a bonded connection, particularly a wire band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Inventors: Andreas Kunz, Juergen Stodt, Holger Endres, Wolfgang Schneider, Stefan Bonekamp, Patrick Podwoiski
  • Patent number: 7986777
    Abstract: A stand allows a user to quickly and easily set the angular orientation of a telephone or other piece of equipment relative to a support surface (e.g. a desktop). The stand is fastened to, and removed from, the equipment without the use of tools by a magnetic attraction. The stand allows a user to tilt the equipment at one of two user-selected angles, to improve access to keys of the equipment and/or to reduce glare on the equipment's display. The display may also be tiltable. The stand provides for at least two course angle adjustments of the tilt of the equipment by the selected orientation of the stand and/or the selected attachment position of the stand relative to the equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: Avaya Inc.
    Inventors: Martin Daly, Brian Dinicola, James Farber, Antoinette Mazza, Wolfgang Schneider, Claus-Christian Eckhardt
  • Publication number: 20110146237
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purification system (method and device) for the treatment of diesel exhaust gases containing nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons is disclosed, which comprises the addition of ammonia or of a compound decomposable to ammonia into the exhaust gas stream and the subsequent leading of the exhaust gas stream over two successively arranged SCR catalysts with different properties and compositions. Both SCR catalysts are free of vanadium compounds and only the downstream SCR catalyst contains zeolite compounds. The exhaust gas purification system according to the invention is characterized by good “kick-off” behavior at low temperatures and a simultaneously high conversion performance over a wide temperature range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: Umicore AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Katja Adelmann, Nicola Soeger, Marcus Pfeifer, Wolfgang Schneider, Gerald Jeske, Thomas Kreuzer
  • Patent number: 7943184
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing an extract from ivy leaves which includes the active ingredient hederacoside C and ?-hederin, and to extracts prepared by this process. According to this there is initially provision of a first, ?-hederin-rich extract and subsequently provision of a second, hederacoside C-rich extract. In a last step, the two extracts are blended to give an extract which has an adjusted hederacoside C content and an adjusted ?-hederin content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Engelhard Arzneimittel GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Frank Runkel, Wolfgang Schneider, Oliver Schmidt, Georg Maximilian Engelhard
  • Publication number: 20100319332
    Abstract: To equip a diesel particle filter with a zeolite-containing coating uniformly over the entire length of the particle filter and with a further zeolite-free coating which is applied, from the entry side of the filter, solely up to a specific length of the filter, it is proposed, first, to apply the zeolite-free coating from the entry side of the filter and only thereafter to apply the zeolite-containing coating over the entire length of the filter from the exit side of the filter. As a result of this sequence of coatings, a better adhesive strength of the coatings than when both coatings are applied from the entry side is ensured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2009
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Inventors: Gerald Jeske, Marcus Pfeifer, Wolfgang Schneider, Franz Dornhaus, Ralf Mueller, Michael Schiffer
  • Patent number: 7842846
    Abstract: A process for heterogeneously catalyzed partial dehydrogenation of a hydrocarbon, in which a reaction gas mixture input stream comprising the hydrocarbon to be dehydrogenated is conducted through a fixed catalyst bed disposed in a shaft and the reaction gas mixture input stream is obtained in the shaft by metering an input gas II comprising molecular oxygen upstream of the fixed catalyst bed into an input gas stream I which comprises molecular hydrogen and the hydrocarbon to be dehydrogenated and is flowing within the shaft toward the fixed catalyst bed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Claus Hechler, Wilhelm Ruppel, Wolfgang Gerlinger, Wolfgang Schneider, Klaus Joachim Mueller-Engel
  • Patent number: 7816434
    Abstract: Process for the production on metal or plastic surfaces of thin, hydrolysis-resistant, scratch-resistant and stain-resistant coatings, wherein the coating material can be applied directly to the cleaned metal surface and subsequently cross-linked by high-energy radiation, in particular UV radiation. The substrates can be coated in the form of strip and only subsequently brought into the required external shape. Coated substrates such as these are no longer susceptible to staining by food, cleaning agents or fingerprints and can also be rendered antibacterial. Objects coated in this manner are thus suitable for use in architecture, for interior fittings of buildings, in furniture-making as well as for ornamental applications, and in particular in households, in sanitary applications, in hospitals and in the food-processing and pharmaceutical industries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft Auf Aktien
    Inventors: Karsten Hackbarth, Matthias Koch, Kerstin Motzkat, Joerg Sander, Holger Endres, Wolfgang Schneider
  • Publication number: 20100221161
    Abstract: The invention relates to a special device for the purification of diesel exhaust gases, which device comprises, in the flow direction of the exhaust gas, an oxidation catalyst, a diesel particle filter with catalytically active coating, and, downstream of a device for introducing a reducing agent from an external reducing agent source, an SCR catalyst. The oxidation catalyst and the catalytically active coating of the diesel particle filter contain palladium and platinum. The ratio of the noble metals platinum and palladium in the overall system and on the individual components, oxidation catalyst and catalytically coated diesel particle filter, are coordinated with one another in such a way as to obtain firstly an optimum NO/NO2 ratio in the exhaust gas upstream of the downstream SCR catalyst, and secondly optimum heating and HC conversion behaviour during an active particle filter regeneration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2008
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Inventors: Wolfgang Schneider, Lothar Mussmann, Gerald Jeske, Michael Schiffer, Marcus Pfeifer
  • Patent number: RE44822
    Abstract: A process for heterogeneously catalyzed partial dehydrogenation of a hydrocarbon, in which a reaction gas mixture input stream comprising the hydrocarbon to be dehydrogenated is conducted through a fixed catalyst bed disposed in a shaft and the reaction gas mixture input stream is obtained in the shaft by metering an input gas II comprising molecular oxygen upstream of the fixed catalyst bed into an input gas stream I which comprises molecular hydrogen and the hydrocarbon to be dehydrogenated and is flowing within the shaft toward the fixed catalyst bed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Claus Hechler, Wilhelm Ruppel, Wolfgang Gerlinger, Wolfgang Schneider, Klaus Joachim Mueller-Engel