Patents Assigned to Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO
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Patent number: 12004904Abstract: A device (100) and method for adhering by suction to a target surface (200). The device has a substrate (20) with a contact surface (20a) for contacting the device (100) to the target surface (200). A plurality of pocket (10) are formed by respective pocket surfaces (10a) concavely extending into the contact surface (20a). The pockets (10) have an open side (10b) facing and being closed off by the target surface (200). A flexible membrane (15) forms at least part of the pocket surface (10a). An actuator (40) is configured to actuate the flexible membrane (15). A one-way valve (30) through the pocket surface (10a) is configured to direct a contents of the pocket (10) via the one-way valve (30) to an environment (300).Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2020Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNOInventors: Paul Louis Maria Joseph Van Neer, Arno Willem Frederik Volker, Hylke Broer Akkerman, Gerwin Hermanus Gelinck, Antonius Maria Bernardus Van Mol, Arthur Perry Berkhoff
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Publication number: 20240181370Abstract: The invention provides the use of a clearing gas in the separation of a mixture comprising a light and a heavy component that are difficult to separate. The invention further concerns a process for such a separation, comprising (a) providing a product mixture containing at least a light component and a heavy component, wherein a binary system of the light component and the heavy component has a Henry's law constant of at least 0.001 mol m?3 Pa?1, and the boiling point of the light component is at least 30° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2022Publication date: June 6, 2024Applicant: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNOInventors: Jurriaan Boon, Vladimir Dikic, Marija Saric
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Patent number: 12000641Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 8, 2020Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNOInventors: Moulay El Hassan Tijani, Jan Aiso Lijcklama à Nijeholt
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Patent number: 11987896Abstract: The invention is directed to a process for the preparation of formaldehyde, the 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: GrantFiled: January 25, 2021Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNOInventors: Elena Pérez Gallent, Earl Lawrence Vincent Goetheer, Francesc Sastre Calabuig
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Patent number: 11985181Abstract: An orchestration system and method are described for at least in part orchestrating a multidevice video session in which a plurality of devices each transmit a video, for example of a user, via a network and in which a composition system receives said transmitted videos and composites, for a respective device from the plurality of devices, videos of other devices into one or more video streams and transmits the one or more video streams via the network to the device. A grouping of the users/devices may be determined to allow the video stream(s) to be generated for respective devices in a manner which may be dependent on the group to which they are deemed to belong. In particular, the video stream(s) may be generated by the composition system such that the videos of devices within a same group are shown in a better quality than the videos of devices from another group, as a user of a device may prefer to see the users from the same group in a better quality than the users from another group.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignees: Koninklijke KPN N.V., Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNOInventors: Simon Norbert Bernard Gunkel, Hans Maarten Stokking
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Patent number: 11977337Abstract: The present document describes a lithographic patterning method for creating features on a surface of a substrate. The patterning method includes the steps of applying a resist material to the substrate surface for providing a resist material layer, selectively exposing, dependent on a location and based on patterning data, the resist material layer to a surface treatment step for chemically modifying the resist material of the resist material layer, and developing, based on the chemical modification of the resist material, the resist material layer such as to selectively remove the resist material. In particular, prior to the step of developing, the method comprises a step of scanning at least a part of the surface using an acoustic scanning probe microscopy method for determining a local contact stiffness of the substrate surface at a plurality of locations, for measuring one or more critical dimensions of the features to be formed on the surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2019Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNOInventors: Diederik Jan Maas, Hamed Sadeghian Marnani, Emile Van Veldhoven
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Patent number: 11979923Abstract: A software-implemented method for assisting in handling of connection setup requests in a telecommunications network is disclosed. The method includes intercepting a connection setup request from a user equipment (UE) to a control node of a radio access network part of the telecommunications network, determining whether the connection setup request is to be fulfilled based at least on information regarding resource use within a network access point serving the UE, and passing the connection setup request for further processing within the telecommunications network only upon positive determination.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignees: KONINKLIJKE KPN N.V., NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST-NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNOInventors: Rudolf Strijkers, Shuang Zhang
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Patent number: 11965759Abstract: Ultrasonic measurements of fluid properties are performed with the aid of an optical fiber or a package of optical fibers by exciting ultrasound waves at a first location along the optical fiber in the fluid by means of light from the optical fiber and detecting an effect of the ultrasound waves on light reflection or propagation in the optical fiber and/or a further optical fiber in the package at a second location along the optical fiber or at the end of the optical fiber.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNOInventors: Gert-Jan Adriaan Van Groenestijn, Paul Louis Maria Joseph Van Neer, Fokko Pieter Wieringa, Arno Willem Frederik Volker, Lun Kai Cheng
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Patent number: 11958790Abstract: The invention is directed to a co-layered propellant grain having an exposed outer surface, wherein said propellant grain comprises an outer layer comprising a slow burning propellant composition located on essentially the entire outer surface of the grain, and an inner layer comprising a fast burning propellant composition having a higher linear burn rate than said slow burning propellant composition; wherein said propellant grain has a structure such that after ignition, the inner layer becomes increasingly exposed at the outer surface.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2018Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNOInventors: Christoffel Adrianus Van Driel, Martijn Zebregs, Dinesh Ravindre Ramlal, Michiel Hannes Straathof
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Publication number: 20240112960Abstract: The invention is directed to a composite substrate wherein a diamond is embedded into another substrate, to a process for manufacturing a composite substrate, to a composite substrate obtainable by said process, to uses of said composite substrate and to a device comprising said composite substrate. The composite substrate of the invention comprises a substrate having a recess in a surface of said substrate, wherein the recess comprises embedded material comprising diamond and a filling material wherein the filling material at least in part fills the volume between diamond and the inner surface of the recess.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2022Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNOInventors: René VOLLMER, Emanuele UCCELLI
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Publication number: 20240105866Abstract: A photo-voltaic element comprising a stack of layers is disclosed, as well as a method of making the photo-voltaic element. The stack of layers at least includes the following: a first electrode layer, a first charge carrier transport layer, an insulating layer, a second electrode layer, a second charge carrier transport layer, and a photo-electric conversion layer. The photo-electric conversion layer comprises a plurality of distributed extensions extending through the second charge carrier transport layer, the second electrode layer, and the insulating layer, to the first charge carrier transport layer. The distributed extensions have an effective cross-section Deff in the range of 0.5 to 10 micron, and have an average pitch in the range of 1.1 to 5 times said effective cross-section.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNOInventors: Herbert LIFKA, Siegfried Christiaan VEENSTRA, Maarten Sander DORENKAMPER, Hieronymus Antonius Josephus Maria ANDRIESSEN, Huibert Johan VAN DEN HEUVEL
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Patent number: 11943452Abstract: A method is described for forming output video frames by a decoder device, comprising: receiving a bitstream comprising bitstream parts representing encoded media data of video tiles and tile positioning information associated with the encoded video tiles; extracting tile positioning information from the bitstream, the tile positioning information comprising tile identifiers for identifying encoded video tiles, a tile identifier being associated with one or more boundary identifiers, each identifying a boundary of a video tile identified by a tile identifier; determining a tile map based on the boundary identifiers, the tile map representing a spatial layout of video tiles in an output video frame; and forming an output video frame, including identifying parts of the bitstream representing encoded media data of video tiles identified in the tile map, decoding the identified encoded media data and copying the decoded media data in the output video frame buffer according to spatial layout.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2017Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignees: Koninklijke KPN N.V., Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNOInventors: Emmanuel Thomas, Omar Aziz Niamut, Robert Koenen
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Patent number: 11940416Abstract: The present invention relates to a heterodyne scanning probe microscopy method for imaging structures on or below the surface of a sample, the method including applying, using a transducer, an acoustic input signal to the sample sensing, using a probe including a probe tip in contact with the surface, an acoustic output signal, wherein the acoustic output signal is representative of acoustic surface waves induced by the acoustic input signal wherein the acoustic input signal comprises at least a first signal component having a frequency above 1 gigahertz, and wherein for detecting of the acoustic output signal the method comprises a step of applying a further acoustic input signal to at least one of the probe or the sample for obtaining a mixed acoustic signal, the further acoustic input signal including at least a second signal component having a frequency above 1 gigahertz, wherein the mixed acoustic signal comprises a third signal component having a frequency equal to a difference between the first frequenType: GrantFiled: April 13, 2017Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNOInventors: Hamed Sadeghian Marnani, Maarten Hubertus van Es, Paul Louis Maria Joseph van Neer, Rutger Meijer Timmerman Thijssen
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Publication number: 20240093917Abstract: A thermoacoustic system for transfer of energy by an acoustic wave, includes a process volume. The process volume is filled with a fluid through which the acoustic wave propagates, and includes an acoustic network including a compliance volume, a thermoacoustic core and a fluidic inertia; the thermoacoustic core including a cold heat exchanger, a hot heat exchanger and a regenerator; the cold heat exchanger arranged on a first side of the hot heat exchanger with the regenerator between the hot and cold heat exchangers; a thermal buffer zone is positioned adjoining the hot heat exchanger on a second side thereof. The thermoacoustic system includes a partitioning element that is arranged in the thermal buffer zone adjacent to the hot heat exchanger. The partitioning element is configured for blocking mass flow of the fluid through the thermal buffer zone in a direction of acoustic wave propagation in the thermal buffer zone, while allowing passage of the acoustic wave through the thermal buffer zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2020Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNOInventors: Jan-Aiso Lycklama a Nijeholt, Moulay EL Hassan Tijani
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Patent number: 11932616Abstract: The invention is directed to a process for the ring-opening of a cycloadduct obtainable from a reaction of a furanic compound and a diene, said process comprising contacting the cycloadduct with an acidic mixture comprising sulfuric acid and an activating agent to obtain a ring-opened product. The present invention is particularly directed a continuous process.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNOInventors: Marc Crockatt, Johan Urbanus
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Patent number: 11927564Abstract: A cantilever (30) for an ultrasound acoustic microscopy device is provided comprising a transmission tip (31) to contact a sample (11) to therewith transmit an ultrasound acoustic signal as an ultrasound acoustic wave into the sample. The cantilever further comprises a reception tip (32) separate from the transmission tip (31) to contact the sample to receive an acoustic signal resulting from reflections of the ultrasound wave from within the sample.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNOInventors: Maarten Hubertus Van Es, Abbas Mohtashami, Benoit Andre Jacques Quesson, Paul Louis Maria Joseph Van Neer
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Patent number: 11921955Abstract: A proximity sensitive display element (1) is provided that comprises a light guide (10), at least one light emitting element (30) and at least one infrared radiation sensor (40). The light guide (10) comprises a substrate (11) with a first and a second mutually opposite main sides (12, 14), respectively having a first and a second reflective layer (22, 24), with a reflective inner surface (222, 242) facing inside the light guide. At least one window (16) is defined in the first main side to allow optical radiation to enter and to leave the light guide. The at least one light emitting element (30) is typically embedded in the substrate at its second main side to generate optical radiation in said light guide. The at least one IR-sensor (40) is arranged at the second main side of the substrate and faces the first main side through a semi-transparent patch (240) in the second reflective layer (24).Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2019Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNOInventors: Stephan Harkema, Jeroen Franciscus Marinus Schram
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Patent number: 11924745Abstract: The invention relates to a wireless access telecommunications system comprising at least an SA-cell with which a terminal in an active mode is configured to have a data connection and an LA-cell on which the terminal in an idle mode is configured to camp. A method for the terminal to at least obtain LA-cell system information and SA-cell system information includes, when the terminal is in the active mode and an SA-cell radio interface of the terminal is enabled, the terminal receiving at least a part of the SA-cell system information for the terminal from the SA-cell via the SA-cell radio interface. The method further includes enabling an LA-cell radio interface of the terminal during one or more of a plurality of LA time periods and receiving at least a part of the LA-cell system information for the terminal from the LA-cell via the LA-cell radio interface.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignees: Koninklijke KPN N.V., Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNOInventors: Haibin Zhang, Ljupco Jorguseski, Job Cornelis Oostveen, Jacob Cornelis Van der Wal
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Patent number: 11920241Abstract: A fluid handling structure for a gas phase deposition apparatus, the structure defining a flow path with an inlet and an outlet for transmitting pressurized fluid from said inlet to the outlet, wherein the structure includes an elongated slit and a series of nozzles through which pressurized fluid is allowed to enter the elongated slit, the inlet being upstream the series of nozzles, and wherein the outlet is formed downstream at a gap opening of the elongated slit allowing pressurized fluid to discharge from the elongated slit towards a substrate, wherein the series of nozzles are configured to provide a larger flow resistance than the elongated slit, and wherein the series of nozzles are adapted to form a series of jet flows directed towards one or more impingement surfaces of the structure when pressurized fluid is transmitted through the flow path.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNOInventors: Ruud Olieslagers, Jeroen Anthonius Smeltink
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Publication number: 20240067593Abstract: The invention is directed to a process for the preparation of an aromatic acid or a phenolic compound, said process comprising reacting a dienophile and a furanic compound comprising an acetal moiety in a Diels-Alders reaction to obtain an aromatic compound comprising said acetal moiety, followed by hydrolysis and oxidation of said acetal moiety into a hydroxide or carboxylate moiety to form the aromatic acid or phenolic compound, wherein said dienophile is selected from the group consisting of alkylenes, acetylenes, acrylates, maleates, fumarates, maleimides, propiolates, acetylene dicarboxylates, and benzynes and wherein said acetal moiety is bound directly to the 2-position of the furanic compound.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2020Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNOInventor: Marc CROCKATT