Patents Assigned to A/S
  • Publication number: 20150047739
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for determining the start pressure within a gas tank (4) to be refueled, said method comprising the steps of connecting the gas tank (4) to a dispenser volume (3) of a dispenser unit (3, 5-7, 10, 11), which volume (3) is significantly smaller than the volume of the gas tank (4) to be refueled, applying a pressure to the gas in the dispenser volume (3), which pressure is equal to or higher than the pressure within the gas tank (4), so that gas start to flow from the dispenser volume (3) into the gas tank (4) through a check valve (9), which is a part of the gas tank (4), and determining the start pressure by measuring the pressure at the interface (8) between the dispenser unit (3, 5-7, 10, 11) and the gas tank (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: H2 Logic A/S
    Inventors: Morten Wistoft-Ibsen, Leif Kappel Petersen, Peter Bodker
  • Publication number: 20150050258
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a composition comprising Bacillus subtilis (DSM 17231) and Bacillus licheniformis (DSM 17236) with nematicidal effect against phytonematodes on plants and/or its habitat, to its use and process for its preparation, use of Bacillus subtilis (DSM 17231) and Bacillus licheniformis (DSM 17236), processes for controlling, combating and conferring specific resistance to phytonematodes, and a kit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: CHR. HANSEN A/S
    Inventors: Abilio ALESSANDRI, Inge KNAP, Luciana SEKITO DE FREITAS ZAMBELLI
  • Publication number: 20150050144
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and apparatus for increasing turbulent mixing in the wake of at least one wind turbine. Doing so, increases efficiency of a wind turbine located in the wake by transferring energy to the wake that was lost when the wind passed through the upwind turbine. Turbulent mixing may be increased by changing the induction factor for a rotor by, for example, altering the pitch of the blades, the RPMs of the rotor, or the yaw of the nacelle. These techniques may be static or dynamically changing. Further, the different induction factors for a plurality of wind turbines may be synchronized according to a predetermined pattern to further increase turbulent mixing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2012
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S
    Inventor: Carsten Hein Westergaard
  • Patent number: 8958590
    Abstract: A listening device including an ITE part adapted for being located in an ear canal of a user and a BTE part adapted for being located behind an ear of the user, the ITE and BTE parts being at least mechanically connected by a connecting element, the listening device including a rechargeable energy source and electric charge terminals for allowing the charging of the rechargeable energy source when electrically connected to charging terminals of a charging station, wherein the electric charging terminals of the listening device are located: in or on the ITE part; in or on the connecting element; in an electrical connector of the connecting element connectable to the BTE part; or in an electrical connector of the BTE part connectable to the electrical connector of the connecting element, wherein the ITE part includes a receiver, wherein the BTE part includes a hermetically closed outer housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Oticon A/S
    Inventor: Simon Hastrup
  • Patent number: 8958338
    Abstract: A cell, preferably a stand-alone device, arranged for wireless communication with a plurality of other cells in a communication network, e.g. a TDMA network such as a DECT based network. The cell includes a processor performing a selection algorithm which selects a reference cell among other cells. The selection algorithm bases the selection on a wireless signal, e.g. an RF signal, received from at least two other cells. Further, the cell includes a wireless receiver for receiving a first wireless signal, e.g. an RF signal, from the reference cell with time synchronization information for the reference cell. The cell includes a wireless transmitter which transmits time synchronization information for the cell itself represented in a second wireless signal, e.g. and RF signal. The selection algorithm selects the reference cell based on transmission link quality measurements and cell path information received from a number of cell candidates. The cell preferably also itself transmits cell path information, e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: RTX A/S
    Inventors: Morten Laursen, Jens Toftgaard Petersen
  • Patent number: 8956676
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the manufacture of a composition comprising proteins and fats, said method providing a simple and non-expensive way of obtaining fat-containing proteinaceous products of high nutritional value that are easy to handle and at the same time possess high stability towards coalescence and oxidation. More particularly, a method is provided for the manufacture of a composition comprising protein and fat in disperse form, the method comprising the following steps: (i) providing a suspension having a pH value higher than 7.0, said suspension comprising water, proteinaceous material, fat, and optionally alkali; (ii) incubating the suspension from (i) at a temperature in the interval 50-150° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Hamlet Protein A/S
    Inventors: Ole Kaae Hansen, Tommas Neve
  • Patent number: 8956331
    Abstract: A disposable auto injector (10) having a housing for accommodation of a syringe (18) with a needle movably positioned in the housing between a first position in which the needle is inside the housing and a second position in which the needle protrudes outside the housing, a driver (22) positioned laterally in relation to the syringe and configured for applying a force to the syringe thereby moving the syringe from the first position to the second position, a first injection lock configured in a locked state for preventing syringe movement from the first position to the second position and an injection trigger member (16) configured for releasing the first injection lock to an unlocked state wherein the first injection lock comprises a rotatable release shaft (34) configured for rotation between a first angular position in which it prevents movement of the syringe from the first position to the second position and a second angular position in which position does not prevent movement of the syringe from the fir
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Bang & Olufsen Medicom A/S
    Inventors: Esben Weldingh Johansen, Jørn Winther Hald, Jørgen Rasmussen, Christian Maegaard
  • Patent number: 8957535
    Abstract: A wind turbine is arranged to operate in a fully-functional converter mode and a faulty-converter mode. A plurality of converters are arranged to share electric current in the fully-functional converter mode. The converters are dimensioned not only to operate at nominal active current but to provide an over-current margin to enable reactive current to be produced on top of the nominal active current in the fully-functional converter mode. In the fully-functional converter mode the converters are caused to produce reactive current on top of the nominal active current. In response to a fault of one or more of the converters, operation is changed from the fully-functional converter mode to the faulty-converter mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Vestas Wind Systems A/S
    Inventor: Thomas Hjort
  • Patent number: 8955468
    Abstract: Method of operating a compression ignition engine on ether containing fuel obtained by on board conversion of an alcohol containing primary fuel and a system for use in the method. The ether containing fuel is prepared by dehydration of liquid alcohol containing fuel in present of a dehydration catalyst arranged in a radial flow reactor within a fuel accumulation chamber in a common rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Haldor Topsoe A/S
    Inventors: Christophe Duwig, Jesper Norsk, Ton V.W. Janssens, Pär L. Gabrielsson
  • Patent number: 8957536
    Abstract: A wind turbine is provided. The wind turbine includes a generator, an output thereof being connectable to a power grid via a power transmission path, the power transmission path comprising a generator side converter coupled to the output of the generator, a grid side converter coupled to the power grid, and a DC link coupled between the generator side converter and the grid side converter. For diverting the generator power, a load dump arrangement is provided which includes at least one resistor, a plurality of switches, and a plurality of electrical connections which electrically connect the at least one resistor to the output of the generator and across the DC link via the plurality of switches. One common and configurable load dump is used for both converter system failures and grid failures. As compared to two separate load dumps for converter failures and grid failures, the single load dump will require a smaller space for a wind turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Vestas Wind Systems A/S
    Inventors: Amit Kumar Gupta, Anshuman Tripathi, Ramasamy Anbarasu, Ove Styhm, Gil Lampong Opina, Jr., Yugarajan Karuppanan, Bing Li, Shu Yu Cao
  • Patent number: 8958587
    Abstract: An audio processing system includes an audio processing device and an external device, the audio processing device having a signal processing unit adapted for running an algorithm for processing an input signal representing an acoustic signal from the environment of the user and providing a processed output signal. The external device includes in an information signal a measure, characteristic of the reverberation of the room or location where the audio processing device is located, and the audio processing device is adapted to extract the measure of the reverberation from the information signal and use the measure as an input to an algorithm that includes a directional algorithm for providing a directional characteristic of the input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Oticon A/S
    Inventor: Jesper Jensen
  • Publication number: 20150045348
    Abstract: This invention is directed to compounds, which are PDE9 enzyme inhibitors. The invention provides a pharmaceutical composition comprising a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of the invention and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. The present invention also provides processes for the preparation of the compounds of formula (I). The present invention further provides a method of treating a subject suffering from a neurodegenerative disorder comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of formula (I). The present invention further provides a method of treating a subject suffering from a psychiatric disorder comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of formula (I).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: H. Lundbeck A/S
    Inventors: Niels Svenstrup, Klaus Bæk Simonsen, Lars Kyhn Rasmussen, Karsten Juhl, Morten Langgärd, Kate Wen, Yazhou Wang
  • Publication number: 20150045460
    Abstract: Process for the catalytic production of alcohol products, wherein by-products comprising ketone, aldehyde and ester compounds contained in the alcohol product are subjected to hydrogenation with a hydrogen-containing purge gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: Haldor Topsøe A/S
    Inventor: Christian Wix
  • Patent number: 8950569
    Abstract: A direct engagement drive system [108] for a tripper conveyor system is disclosed. The drive system [108] comprises lead [140?] and follow [140?] cogwheels, each driven by a programmable logic controller [108q] and variable frequency drive-controlled electric motor [108a]. The torque applied to each of the lead [140?] and follow [140?] cogwheels varies as a function of loading experienced by the cogwheels [140] and as a function of the location of the cogwheels [140] relative to a gap [159] or other discontinuity in a cog rail [150] provided on a conveyor [110]. A process for moving a tripper [100] along a conveyor [110] is also disclosed. Other mobile conveying device such as mobile hoppers, maintenance vehicles, stacking machines, conveying devices, or cranes may employ the drive systems [108] shown and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: FLSmidth A/S
    Inventors: Jason Leslie Hanks, Andrew Thad Marvin, Bruce Eddward Wadsworth
  • Patent number: 8951770
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having xylanase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Lars Beier, Miguel Duarte Toscano, Esben Peter Friis, Merete Moeller Engelsen, Henrik Lundkvist, Sune Sauer Lobedanz
  • Patent number: 8951767
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having endoglucanase activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventor: Nikolaj Spodsberg
  • Patent number: 8951011
    Abstract: According to the inventive concept, there is provided a wind turbine with at least one blade. The wind turbine comprises a first accelerometer mounted at a first radial position of the blade and being adapted to determine a first acceleration value, and a second accelerometer mounted at a second radial position of the blade different from the first radial position, and the accelerometer being adapted to determine a second acceleration value. The wind turbine further comprises a controller adapted to generate a signal based on said first and second acceleration values. There is also provided a method for monitoring a blade of a wind turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Vestas Wind Systems A/S
    Inventors: Xiao Qian Li, Ingemann Hvas Sandvad, Srikanth Narasimalu
  • Patent number: 8953818
    Abstract: A listening device for processing an input sound to an output sound, includes an input transducer for converting an input sound to an electric input signal, an output transducer for converting a processed electric output signal to an output sound, a forward path being defined between the input transducer and the output transducer and including a signal processing unit for processing an input signal in a number of frequency bands and an SBS unit for performing spectral band substitution from one frequency band to another and providing an SBS-processed output signal, and an LG-estimator unit for estimating loop gain in each frequency band thereby identifying plus-bands having an estimated loop gain according to a plus-criterion and minus-bands having an estimated loop gain according to a minus-criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Thomas Bo Elmedyb, Jesper Jensen
  • Patent number: 8951482
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for separating a liquid reaction product from a gaseous stream in a catalytic reactor by means of a metallic sheet being indirectly cooled by a cooling surface and having a plurality of percolations in form of geometric-shaped protrusions on both sides of the sheet each with an open base, the open base is on the side of the sheet facing a catalyst bed are arranged upwards and on the side facing the cooling surface the open base faces downwards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Haldor Topsoe A/S
    Inventor: Max Thorhauge
  • Patent number: 8951237
    Abstract: A layered adhesive construction comprising a backing layer and a first and second layer of hydrocolloid adhesive, where the first and second layer of hydrocolloid adhesive have different composition, and the second layer of hydrocolloid adhesive is at least partly interposed between the first layer of hydrocolloid adhesive and the backing layer, the first and second adhesive layers consisting of a continuous phase and a discontinuous phase where the discontinuous phase of the first adhesive layer comprises a hydrocolloids providing a higher moisture absorption capacity and higher initial rate of absorption to the adhesive layer than the hydrocolloids in the discontinuous phase of the second adhesive layer, and the discontinuous phase of second layer of adhesive comprises hydrocolloids providing a higher cohesion following moisture absorption to the adhesive compared to the hydrocolloid in the discontinuous phase of the first adhesive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Coloplast A/S
    Inventors: Bolette Nordby, Danuta Ciok