Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Friedrich Kueffner
  • Patent number: 7732122
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing photonic crystals by first providing an inorganic photoresist which, on illumination with energy greater than the electronic band gap of the photoresist, exhibits a phase alteration. Illumination of the photoresist with a laser beam whose energy is lower than the electronic band gap of the photoresist but whose intensity at the focal point is so high that nonlinear effects occur there nevertheless results in a phase alteration in the photoresist. Thereafter, the illuminated photoresist is exposed to an etching solution which preferentially dissolves one phase of the photoresist, and the developed photoresist is finally removed therefrom as a photonic crystal. Inorganic photonic crystals produced by the process according to the invention are suitable for completely optical systems, circuits and components for optical telecommunication or computer systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignees: Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH, University of Toronto
    Inventors: Sean H. Wong, Georg Ludwig Eberhard von Freymann, Geoffrey A. Ozin, Markus Deubel, Martin Wegener
  • Patent number: 7728101
    Abstract: The invention relates to an overcoat lacquer containing a) at least one binding agent containing alkyd resins made from tris-(2-hydroxylethyl)-isocyanurate, 2,6-naphthaline dicarboxylic acid, drying fatty acids, and, optionally, other components known from alkyd resin chemistry, b) at least one solvent or at least one technical solvent or mixture thereof based on hydrocarbon and c) at least one siccative or at least one mixture of siccatives or several anti-skin agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Altana Electrical Insulation GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus-Wilhelm Lienert, Gerold Schmidt, Sascha Tödter-König
  • Patent number: 7726390
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hollow chamber profile made of metal, especially for heat exchangers. Said profile is made of an extruded base profile (10) having two broad parallel sides and two narrow sides or is made of a base profile which is a circular tube type or coaxial tube type. At least one channel (11) extends inside said base profile in the longitudinal direction thereof. The hollow profile has improved heat transfer properties on the sides and webs (13) which are deformed perpendicular to the longitudinal direction thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Erbslöh Aluminium GmbH
    Inventors: Norbert William Sucke, Ismail Boyraz, Reiner Breindl, Reinhold Schurf
  • Patent number: 7726168
    Abstract: An adjusting cylinder for long, rapid lifting movements in rolling stands, includes vertical edging stands, wherein each cylinder has at least one piston, which acts through the bearing chocks of at least one work roll or of an interposed roll to adjust a work roll on both sides, wherein each adjusting cylinder has a piston that is equipped with two oppositely directed piston rods, and each piston is inserted in a recess in the cylinder base or cylinder cover, such that the base and cover have coaxially arranged bores through which the piston rods pass. The surface formed by one piston and the piston rod is smaller than the surface formed by another piston and the piston rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: SMS Siemag Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Florian Lindner, Stefan Wendt
  • Patent number: 7726593
    Abstract: The device for the disposal of sanitary waste consists of a fixed drum-type container (20) with a horizontal central axis (MA) and with inlet pipes for dosed wash liquid (WF), for sanitary liquid (HF) and for dosed chemicals (CH), whereby a discharge duct (65) for the carrying-off of the comminuted sanitary waste interspersed with wash liquid from the bottom area of the container (20) is provided in the bottom area of the container (20), in the inner space (27) of which a knife disk (30) which can be rotatably driven is placed in the area of one of its both vertical front walls (21; 22) with shearing knives (31) turned to the inner space (27) of the container (20), whereby an ascendingly guided compressor screw (60) follows the conveyor screw (65), compressor screw which forms with a shear sieve sheet (70) a functional unit for separating the comminuted sanitary waste containing solid components from the wash liquid (WF) with the constituents of the sanitary waste which are dissolved therein and the wash liqu
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Teeuwen Prä{umlaut over ( )}zisions GmbH
    Inventor: Werner Heidel
  • Patent number: 7726950
    Abstract: A fluid supply unit includes a hydraulic supply unit and a pressure generator for the fluid and a pressure outlet. A pressure booster is installed between the pressure generator and the pressure outlet and is rigidly mechanically connected with the pressure generator, wherein the pressure booster (6) is driven by a portion of the fluid generated by the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: miniBooster Hydraulics A/S
    Inventors: Leif Hansen, Peter J. M. Clausen, Christen Espersen
  • Patent number: 7717479
    Abstract: A tightenable band clamp with a clamping band and a tightening head with two clamping jaws which are a certain circumferential distance apart and which can be moved toward each other by a tightening device. For this purpose, at least one clamping jaw, in the area of its radially inside surface, has at least one projection which extends in the circumferential direction toward the other clamping jaw and which projects into the gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: NORMA Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Goran Lebo, Detlef Henrich, Heinz Peter Wolf, Stephan Mann
  • Patent number: 7717052
    Abstract: A high performance full spade rudder for ships includes a rudder blade, a rudder trunk and a rudder post. The rudder blade widens from the leading edge to a central area which constitutes the widest point of the rudder profile. The rudder blade profile tapers from the central area to a narrow rear area and widens again from the rear area to the trailing edge. A bearing is placed in an inner longitudinal bore of the rudder trunk for bearing the rudder post, wherein the bearing penetrates with its free end into a recess, taper or the like in the rudder blade. No bearing is provided between the rudder blade and the rudder trunk. The bearing for the rudder post is placed in the rudder trunk in the area of the free end of the rudder trunk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: becker marine systems GmbH & Co., KG
    Inventors: Mathias Kluge, Thomas Falz
  • Patent number: 7713086
    Abstract: A component (30) is to be attached by means of a plug connector (10) in a hole (53) of a base plate (50). To this end, the plug connector (10) has a shaft (15) with a flat profile. When the plug is inserted in the socket, the shaft end (20) projects out of the hole (53) on the rear side of the circuit board (52). The shaft end (20) is followed by a shaft section (13), broadened relative to the hole width (54), which has an opening (14). By means of the opening (14), the shaft section (13) is split into two legs (11, 12), which are sprung against each another and which hold the shaft (15) in the hole (53) of the circuit board (50) when the plug is inserted in the socket. To improve the holding effect, the two legs (11, 12) are constructed differently one from the other, wherein one leg (11) has a greater longitudinal extension (21) than the other (12). This means that the broadened shaft section (13) splits into a long (11) and a short leg (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: William Prym GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Frank Schmitz
  • Patent number: 7713005
    Abstract: The invention relates to a milling head for milling chamfers, especially for a mobile chamfer miller, comprising successive seats for blanking dies, said seats having a position in which the blanking dies with a leading edge angle of between 40 and 75° operate respectively on average with a positive effective cutting angle of at least 6° and a clearance angle of at least 6°, and are provided for a border comprising blanking dies with a staggered arrangement of the cutting edges, such that respectively only one cutting edge length of 15 mm, preferably 12 mm, at the most, is active. Said measures increase the cutting performance of the milling head. The reduced cutting edge length can be formed on a long blanking die instead of using a shorter blanking die, in such a way that the cutting edge is interrupted by cavities or other e.g. flat triangular recesses on the surface of the blanking die. The staggered arrangement is then comparatively small.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Inventor: Stephan Rieth
  • Patent number: 7712639
    Abstract: A plastic outlet valve for containers for liquids has a valve housing having an inlet socket and a union nut for securing the inlet socket on an outlet socket of a container. An anti-twist device in the form of an outer annular cam arrangement with locking cams is arranged on the inlet socket of the valve housing. The locking cams interlock with locking cams of an inner annular cam arrangement of the outlet socket of the container. As an alternative, an adapter ring with inner and outer locking cams is provided. The adapter ring is slipped onto the insertion end of the inlet socket of the valve housing. The inner locking cams engage matching external longitudinal grooves of the inlet socket of the valve housing, and the outer locking cams engage matching inner longitudinal grooves provided on the outlet socket of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Protechna S.A.
    Inventor: Udo Schütz
  • Patent number: 7712688
    Abstract: A comminuting apparatus, particularly a document shredder, having an approximately funnel-shaped feeding area for the material that is to be comminuted. A flap is provided to constrict the feeding area to a narrow feeding path and extends across the width thereof. The flap is pivotally and/or movably mounted in the feeding area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Krug & Priester GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Wolfgang Priester
  • Patent number: 7703827
    Abstract: The invention relates to a motor vehicle (1) having a hatchback (h1) that is movable in at least one position of a rear window (H4), wherein the rear window (H4) can be separately moved from its closed position in the areas (H2, H3) surrounding the hatchback (H1) and opposite thereto into a release position, wherein the rear window (H4) can be stored in an area in the vehicle body (6) that is spaced from the hatchback (H1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Wilhelm Karmann GmbH
    Inventors: Winfried Bunsmann, Olaf Weissmüller, Udo Heselhaus
  • Patent number: 7705258
    Abstract: The aim of the invention is to provide a simple and economical embodiment of an electronic key comprising dimensionally stable push buttons (31). To this end, a membrane (21) and a frame (22) are used is a 2K element (20) of a dual-component technology. The soft component of the 2K element (20) consists of a membrane (21), while the hard component is a frame (22) containing a free membrane field between the frame sections thereof. The housing (11) of the key has an opening (13) which is large enough to fit the entire push button actuation surface (34). The push buttons (31) are freely inserted from the inner side (16) of the housing (11) into the housing opening (13). The 2K element (20) thus secures the push button position in the housing (11). The push buttons (31) are limited at the top and at the bottom. The frame of the 2K element (20) provides the inner abutment (28) for the push buttons (31).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Huf Hülsbeck & Fürst GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Alexander Geldmacher
  • Patent number: 7699933
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device which are used for the plasma treatment of work pieces. Said work piece is inserted into an at least partially evacuatable chamber of a treatment station (3) and the work piece is positioned inside the treatment station of retaining elements. At least one operating agent is at least partially impinged upon by a transporting device (44) which is displaced together with the treatment station on a closed and rotating transport path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: KHS Corpoplast GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Michael Lizenberg, Frank Lewis, Hartwig Müller, Klaus Vogel, Gregor Arnold, Stephan Behle, Andreas Lüttringhaus-Henkel, Matthias Bicker, Jürgen Klein
  • Patent number: 7691320
    Abstract: The aim of the invention is to damp or suppress oscillations (?back-attack? effect) in sidewall or base blowing converters, used in particular to produce carbon steel or stainless steel. To achieve this, the gas supply system (3) for the converter comprises an inflow restrictor device (7), which is positioned upstream of or associated with the jets (5) and which periodically reduces or interrupts the gas supply to the interior of the furnace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: SMS Demag AG
    Inventors: Peter Heinrich, Manfred Schubert, Rolf Best
  • Patent number: 7690232
    Abstract: A locking device having a locking cylinder and a key. The locking cylinder includes a cylinder core with tumblers in a cylinder core, which is rotatably mounted in a cylinder housing. Standard coding for the key is produced by a step with longitudinal profiling on at least one flat side of the edge profile of the key, said step being associated with a counter step on the tumbler. In addition to the standard coding produced by step and counter step, the key has at least one set of beveled edge coding in a corner section of the edge profile. The beveled edged coding consists of recesses in the form of beveled cuts in the corresponding corner sections of the edge profile, relative to which are provided counter touching points in the corresponding tumbler. In a section of the key shaft, either the standard coding or beveled edge coding can optionally be used, thereby considerably increasing the diversity of the locking device while retaining the space-saving design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Huf Hülsbeck & Fürst GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Helmut Klein, Matthias Habecke, Dirk Jacob
  • Patent number: 7690215
    Abstract: Disclosed is a device (1) for cooling metal sheets and strips during the production thereof, particularly following rolling thereof. Said device (1) comprises a feeding duct (2) for delivering a cooling medium, especially water. Said feeding duct (2) is connected to a housing (3) inside which two nozzle rails (4, 5) are disposed so as to be movable relative to one another. Said two nozzle rails (4, 5) can be arranged at a short distance (a) from each other, thereby forming a nozzle gap (6) for the cooling medium, said nozzle gap (6) having a rectangular cross section. At least one element (8) that forms a barrier for the cooling medium is placed in the housing (3) between the point of entrance (7) of the cooling medium into the housing (3) and the nozzle gap (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: SMS Siemag Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans-Jürgen Bender, Markus Cramer
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    Patent number: D613121
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Villeroy & Boch AG
    Inventor: Andrea Luft
  • Patent number: D613557
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Villeroy & Boch AG
    Inventor: Christian Haas