Patents Assigned to Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek
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Patent number: 11709023Abstract: The present invention discloses a heat exchanger system for thermochemical storage and release. The system comprises a thermal exchange circuit with a heat exchanger fluid, the circuit further in thermal connection with a thermochemical module. The thermochemical module comprises a thermochemical material that stores and releases heat by a thermochemical exchange process under release or binding of a sorbate. The thermochemical module comprises a compartment structure that compartments the thermochemical material and further comprises a channel structure. This provides an exchange of the sorbate and the thermochemical material via the channel structure to the compartment structure. A method for the preparation of the compartment structure is also described. In this method, the thermochemical material is brought in a liquid phase and inserted in the compartment structure, while keeping the channel structure free from the liquid phase; and subsequently dried.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2018Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNOInventors: Ruud Cuypers, Cornelis Petrus Marcus Roelands, Adriaan Jan de Jong, Hendrik Pieter Oversloot, Laurens Daniel van Vliet
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Patent number: 11709181Abstract: The present disclosure concerns probe cassette 1 for holding a probe 60 in storage to provide automated transfer of the probe to a probe mount of a scanning probe microscope. The probe cassette comprising a first vacuum chamber C1 with a volume V1, and a second vacuum chamber C2 with a volume V2, and a first and second vacuum channel 10, respectively fluidly connecting the first and second vacuum chamber to an outlet 30 fluidly connectable to an external vacuum, such that upon application of the external vacuum a mounting position of the probe relative to the cassette and a mounting position of the cassette relative to the sample stage is maintained. The probe cassette arranged to allow breaking a vacuum condition in the second chamber maintaining the mounting position of the probe before breaking a vacuum condition in the first chamber maintaining a mounting position of the probe cassette.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2020Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNOInventors: Roelof Willem Herfst, Lukas Kramer, Anton Adriaan Bijnagte
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Patent number: 11698389Abstract: This document relates to a probe for use in a scanning probe microscopy device. The probe comprises a cantilever and a probe tip being located at a first end section of the cantilever. The cantilever is configured for bending in a Z-direction perpendicular to a surface of a substrate in use. The cantilever comprises a neck section and a paddle section, and the probe tip is located on the paddle section. The neck section has a width and height in cross section thereof, comprises a base part having a rectangular cross section. The cantilever at least across a length of the neck section comprises a ridge extending in a direction away from the base part. The base part and the ridge together define the width and height of the neck section, and have dimensions such that a vertical bending stiffness of the cantilever for bending in the Z-direction matches a lateral stiffness of the cantilever with respect to forces acting on the probe tip in a direction transverse to the Z-direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2018Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNOInventors: Roelof Willem Herfst, Albert Dekker, Anton Adriaan Bijnagte, Jan Jacobus Benjamin Biemond
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Publication number: 20230217808Abstract: The invention is in the field of semiconductors. The invention is directed to a composition, a method for producing a layer, a layer, a photoconducting device and a photovoltaic device. The composition of the invention comprises a matrix comprising a polymer, and dispersed in said matrix one or more perovskite materials.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2021Publication date: July 6, 2023Applicant: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNOInventors: Albert Jos Jan Marie VAN BREEMEN, Gerwin Hermanus GELINCK
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Patent number: 11691199Abstract: The invention aims to provide a contactless method to create small conductive tracks on a substrate. To this end a method is provided for selective material deposition, comprising depositing a first material on a substrate; followed by solidifying the first material selectively in a first solidified pattern by one or more energy beams; and followed by propelling non-solidified material away from the substrate by a large area photonic exposure, controlled in timing, energy and intensity to leave the solidified first pattern of the first material.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2019Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNOInventors: Gari Arutinov, Edsger Constant Pieter Smits, Jeroen Van Den Brand
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Patent number: 11695818Abstract: An interface may be provided between i) a selective forwarding unit (SFU) configured to, in real-time, receive a data stream from a sender via a first network link of a communication network and selectively forward the data stream to one or more receivers via respective second network links, and ii) one or more core network functions (PCF, PCRF, NSMF, CSMF) for establishing service guarantees for data flows in the communication network. In a specific example, the interface may be established as a network function (SMGF) which translates streaming requirements for one-to-many flows coming from WebRTC SFUs into appropriate QoS/network slice configurations, such that the quality of RTC flows may be increased. Accordingly, negative side-effects of conservative congestion control algorithms in WebRTC clients and static/overprovisioned QoS at network operators may be overcome.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2020Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignees: KONINKLIJKE KPN N.V., NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST-NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNOInventors: Jan Willem Martin Kleinrouweler, Pieter Nooren, Lucia D'Acunto
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Patent number: 11665260Abstract: A first system (11) is configured to transmit an interest message, e.g. to a router (21). The interest message specifies criteria identifying data units from an area of interest, e.g. an intersection, which are to be aggregated and comprises at least one parameter specifying how the data units are requested to be aggregated. A second system (1) is configured to receive the interest message from a sender, e.g. a router (21), determine whether the system will return an aggregation of data units matching the criteria, and return a data message comprising an aggregation of data units matching the criteria to the sender (21) if the processing means have determined that the system will return an aggregation of data units matching the criteria. The data units are aggregated in the data message in dependence on how the data units were requested to be aggregated.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2018Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignees: Koninklijke KPN N.V., Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNOInventors: Konstantinos Trichias, Lucia D'Acunto, Bastiaan Wissingh, Ray Van Brandenburg, Thomas Attema
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Patent number: 11655188Abstract: The invention relates to a cement powder blend comprising, based on total weight 45-90 wt. % non-Portland cement; 5-30 wt. % polyvinylalcohol; the blend having a content of 0-25 wt. % siliceous fly ash; and 0-25 wt. % limestone, preferably polyvinylalcohol having a size distribution with D10=170-270 ?m, D50=370-450 ?m, D90=690-850 ?m and D100=1000-1300 ?m. Further the invention relates to concrete composed of a blend according to the invention and aggregate.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2019Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNOInventor: Panagiota Pipilikaki
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Patent number: 11650224Abstract: The invention is directed at a method of positioning a carrier on a flat surface using an positioning member, wherein the carrier comprises an upper part and a base which are connected to each other such as to be arranged remote from each other, wherein the positioning member is arranged between the base and the upper part such that the base is located at an opposite side of the positioning member with respect to the upper part of the carrier, the upper part resting on the positioning member prior to placing of the carrier onto the flat surface, wherein the upper part comprises three engagement elements, and wherein the positioning member comprises a support surface for receiving the three engagement elements of the upper part, said support surface including a plurality of sockets forming a kinematic mount for said three engagement elements, wherein the base comprises three landing elements, each landing element being associated with a respective one of the three engagement elements, and the method comprisingType: GrantFiled: November 14, 2019Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast- natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNOInventors: Hamed Sadeghian Marnani, Jasper Winters, William Edward Crowcombe, Teunis Cornelis van den Dool, Geerten Frans Ijsbrand Kramer, Albert Dekker
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Publication number: 20230143403Abstract: The invention relates to a nucleic acid detection system, a diagnostic device, use of the nucleic acid detection system as a diagnostic agent, a kit-of-parts for detecting nucleic acids, a method for detecting nucleic acids, and a method for diagnosing a disease state of a subject. The nucleic acid detection system comprises a CRISPR-Cas system which comprises an effector protein and one or more guide RNAs having a guide sequence, the guide sequence being capable of targeting the effector protein to a target sequence of a target, and the effector protein exhibiting target-activated nucleic acid cleavage activity capable of cleaving nucleic acid reporter molecules to generate nucleic acid fragments; and a polymerase exhibiting catalytic activity capable of transferring nucleotides to the fragments to form polynucleotide tails, wherein preferably the detection system is a nucleic acid fluorescence detection system.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2021Publication date: May 11, 2023Applicant: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNOInventor: Hans Christiaan VAN LEEUWEN
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Patent number: 11646833Abstract: A method comprises listening (151) for transmission of a preamble by a transmitting device to a recipient and receiving (153) data in a second time interval upon receiving the preamble in a first time interval. The second time interval succeeds the first time interval. The method further comprises listening (155) for transmission by the recipient of a message, e.g. a NACK, indicating that data transmitted in the second time interval was not successfully received by the recipient and retransmitting (157) the data in a fourth time interval upon receiving the message in a third time interval.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2019Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignees: Koninklijke KPN N.V., Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNOInventors: Kallol Das, Ljupco Jorguseski
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Publication number: 20230133558Abstract: A thermoacoustic device includes a process volume which is filled with a working fluid through which the acoustic wave propagates. The thermoacoustic device further includes an acoustic network comprising a tubular loop configured with a passage providing an opening in the loop and configured as acoustic circuit provided with a compliance volume, a thermo-acoustic core and an inertance volume. Within the loop, the thermoacoustic core is at a first side thereof adjacent to the passage at a first path length through the loop, and at its second side, opposite to the first side, the thermoacoustic core is at a second path length from the passage. The thermoacoustic device includes within the loop a spring-type partitioning element that is configured to close off the cross-section of the tube and to be impermeable for the working fluid while allowing transmission of pressure waves in the working fluid through the spring-type partitioning element.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2020Publication date: May 4, 2023Applicant: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNOInventors: Moulay EL Hassan Tijani, Jan Aiso Lijcklama à Nijeholt
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Patent number: 11635448Abstract: The present document relates to a heterodyne scanning probe microscopy (SPM) method for subsurface imaging, and includes: applying an acoustic input signal to a sample and sensing an acoustic output signal using a probe. The acoustic input signal comprises a plurality of signal components at unique frequencies, including a carrier frequency and at least two excitation frequencies. The carrier frequency and the excitation frequencies form a group of frequencies, which are distributed with an equal difference frequency between each two subsequent frequencies of the group. The difference frequency is below a sensitivity threshold frequency of the cantilever for enabling sensing of the acoustic output signal. The document also describes an SPM system.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2020Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNOInventors: Sri Ram Shankar Rajadurai, Daniele Piras, Kodai Hatakeyama, Paul Louis Maria Joseph Van Neer, Maarten Hubertus Van Es, Hamed Sadeghian Marnani, Marcus Johannes Van Der Lans
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Patent number: 11611010Abstract: A method for producing in a roll-to-roll process modules of thin film photovoltaic cells in a substrate film, the modules including the substrate with a photovoltaic layer inbetween a lower and upper electrode layer, by using an apparatus including a belt conveyor, and scribe and print stations arranged at respective positions along a transport direction of the belt conveyor to create an interconnection structure between the photovoltaic cells including an arrangement of structural elements having one or more conductive and isolating scribe lines and a conductive body connecting adjacent thin film photovoltaic cells.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2018Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNOInventor: Johan Bosman
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Patent number: 11609173Abstract: The invention relates to a particle detection device and a method for detecting particles in a fluid by means of separation. A channel structure is arranged for separating an incoming flow into a major flow comprising a minor portion of particles above the first predetermined size and a minor flow comprising a major portion of particles above the predetermined size. One or more detectors are arranged for detecting particles in the major flow and minor flow. The channel structure further comprises a choked flow restriction arranged for enabling a constant flow independent of pressure conditions.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2018Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNOInventor: Arjen Boersma
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Patent number: 11610764Abstract: A plasma source (100), comprises an outer face (10) with an aperture (14) for delivering a plasma from the aperture. A transport mechanism is configured to transport a substrate (11) and the plasma source relative to each other parallel to the outer face, with a substrate surface to be processed in parallel with at least a part of the outer face that contains the aperture. First (4-1) and second tile (4-2) are arranged within a first plane of a working electrode (22) with neighbouring edges (12) bordering a first plasma collection space (6-1) and a third tile (4-3) is arranged in a second plane of the working electrode parallel to the first plane such that the third tile overlaps neighbouring edges in the first plane. At least one of the working and counter electrodes comprises a local modification (13,15) near said neighbouring edges to increase a plasma delivery to the aperture compensating for loss of plasma collection due to the neighbouring edges.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2019Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNOInventors: Yves Lodewijk Maria Creyghton, Andries Rijfers
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Patent number: 11592460Abstract: The present invention relates to a scan head for a scanning probe microscope arranged for moving a probe including a conductive cantilever relatively to a substrate surface, the head comprising: a first electrode positioned such that a capacitor is formed across a gap between the first electrode and a second electrode, wherein the second electrode is formed by the conductive cantilever; a voltage source for actuating the conductive cantilever by applying a voltage to the capacitor; and at least a first resistor arranged in series between the voltage source and one of the first and second electrodes such as to form an RC circuit for damping a vibration of the cantilever.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2019Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNOInventors: Roelof Willem Herfst, Hamed Sadeghian Marnani
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Patent number: 11589788Abstract: The present invention relates to a method to predict the risk of obtaining a stress related mood disorder or syndrome by a person, comprising a. Measuring at least three parameters comprising at least one sympathetic, one parasympathetic and one hormonal parameter during a stress response, said result of the measurement depicted as RS, RP and RH respectively; b. Estimate the value of one of these parameters by calculating it from the other two parameters; c. Predict the risk on basis of the deviation between calculated and measured value of the parameter that has been estimated in step b).Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2018Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST-NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNOInventor: Victor Louis Kallen
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Patent number: 11595185Abstract: Computation efficiency of distributed secure implementation of the computation of a (sum of) products of values Vi, Wi from different servers on a distributed computing system is improved by generation of coefficients of a first and second polynomials P, Q by a first server. The first polynomial P has all numbers Xi from a first data set on the first server as roots. The second polynomial Q has values Q(Xi)=Vi for the numbers Xi from the first data set. The first server transmits coefficients of the polynomials to a second server in encrypted form. The second sever computes encrypted values <P(Xi?)> and <Q(Xi?)> of the polynomials for a number Xi? in a second set from the encrypted coefficients. The second server computes an encrypted binary value <di> from the encrypted value <p(Xi?) of the first polynomial p and computes an encrypted value of a product <di Q(Xi?) Wi>.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2018Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNOInventor: Peter Joannes Mathias Veugen
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Publication number: 20230050891Abstract: The invention is directed to a process for the preparation of formaldehyde, said process comprising electrochemically reducing CO to form formaldehyde. The process is carried out in a supporting electrolyte that comprises less than 50% water and a non-aqueous solvent such as an alcohol.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2021Publication date: February 16, 2023Applicant: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNOInventors: Elena PÉREZ GALLENT, Earl Lawrence Vincent GOETHEER, Francesc SASTRE CALABUIG