Patents Assigned to Technische Universität Darmstadt
  • Publication number: 20170340742
    Abstract: A method for delivering a substance into cells, wherein the method comprises the following steps: a) providing the substance, wherein the substance comprises a cell-penetrating compound comprising a basic amino functional group, b) providing cells; and c) contacting the substance with the cells; wherein the method comprises the additional step of—adjusting a p H in an extracellular fluid to a p H of at least 7.7.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT DARMSTADT
    Inventors: Angel Enrique GARCIA, Henry David HERCE, Maria Cristina CARDOSO
  • Patent number: 9668392
    Abstract: A method for producing a housing structure at least partially enclosing at least one component, wherein the housing structure is produced with a construction process utilizing at least one of repeated layered deposition and solidification of material, which is interrupted at least once before completion of the housing structure, and during at least one interruption at least one component, which is not produced by the construction process, is joined to or disposed in a partially finished housing structure, and the construction process is then continued after the interruption until the housing is completed, wherein at least one of an actuator and sensor comprising at least partially a transformer material selected as the at least one component to be joined to or disposed in the housing structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignees: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V., TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET DARMSTADT
    Inventors: Matthias Rauschenbach, David Flaschentraeger, Tobias Melz, Eberhard Abele, Jakob Fischer, Hanns Stoffregen
  • Publication number: 20160240707
    Abstract: A photoconducting layered material arrangement for producing or detecting high frequency radiation includes a semiconductor material including an alloy comprised of InGaAs, InGaAsSb, or GaSb, with an admixture of Al, which material is applied to a suitable support substrate in a manner such that the lattices are suitably adjusted, wherewith the semiconductor material comprised of InGaAlAs, InGaAlAsSb, or GaAlSb has a band gap of more than 1 eV, as a consequence of the admixed proportion of Al. The proportion x of Al in the semiconductor material InyGa1?y?xAlxAs is between x=0.2 and x=0.35, wherewith the proportion y of In may be between 0.5 and 0.55. The support substrate is InP or GaAs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: Technische Universität Darmstadt
    Inventors: Sascha Preu, Arthur C. Gossard, Christopher J. Palmstrom, Hong Lu
  • Publication number: 20160218212
    Abstract: A field effect transistor arrangement having as planar channel layer comprises semiconductor material, the whole surface of the underside of the layer being applied to an upper side of an electrically insulating substrate layer and the upper side of the planar channel layer being covered by an insulation layer. The arrangement has a source electrode on a first side edge of the channel layer and a drain electrode on a second side edge of the channel layer and a control electrode arranged above the channel layer. An adjusting electrode is arranged on an underside of the substrate layer. A contact region between the source and drain electrodes and the planar channel layer is in each case configured as a midgap Schottky barrier. A respective barrier control electrode is arranged in the vicinity of the contact region of the source electrode and of the drain electrode, Each barrier control electrode can have a section that projects outwards in the direction of the planar channel layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Applicant: TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT DARMSTADT
    Inventors: Udo SCHWALKE, Frank WESSELY, Tilmann KRAUSS
  • Patent number: 9353728
    Abstract: A rotor blade is provided, in particular for wind turbine generators including a means for the modification of the camber, wherein the modification of the camber is realized by means of elements passively coupled to one another, i.e. without external energy supply (apart from the energy contained in the airflow surrounding the rotor blade). One of the elements is therefore arranged at the leading and the trailing edge of the airfoil of the rotor blade, respectively. The coupling of the elements, the stiffness of the airfoil and the strength of the damping are hereby arranged in a manner suitable to be modified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Technische Universität Darmstadt
    Inventors: Klaus Hufnagel, Benjamin Lambie
  • Publication number: 20150380789
    Abstract: A phase shift device includes a planar transmission line that is formed by a signal electrode and a ground electrode which are separated by a dielectric substance, whereby the signal electrode of the planar transmission line is divided into several pieces and includes overlapping areas of adjacent pieces that are filled with a tunable liquid crystal material, thereby forming a dielectric tunable component (varactor) with a metal-insulator-metal type capacitor. The several pieces of the signal electrode are arranged at two or more different distance levels with respect to the ground electrode. The tunable liquid crystal material is arranged as a continuous layer between several pieces of the signal electrode that are arranged at two different distance levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Applicant: TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT DARMSTADT
    Inventors: Rolf JAKOBY, Onur Hamza KARABEY, Hu WENJUAN
  • Publication number: 20140268143
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining the size d of a transparent particle, according to which method the particle is illuminated with light from a light source, a radiation detector measures a time-resolved intensity profile of light of the light source scattered by the particle, a reflection peak (10) and a refraction peak are determined in the intensity profile and the size d of the particle is determined based on a time difference between the reflection peak (10) and the refraction peak.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET DARMSTADT
    Inventors: Cameron Tropea, Walter Schaefer
  • Patent number: 8618817
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for determining at least one parameter of at least one medium, said medium being introducible into at least one measuring path. An electric and/or electromagnetic field can be partially coupled into or out of the medium by passing at least one electric and/or electromagnetic signal into the measuring path. The measuring path comprises at least one line arrangement having at least two elementary cells arranged along the measuring path, said elementary cells comprising at least one electric path from at least one input to at least one output and comprising at least one respective capacitative element. The electrical properties of the capacitative element can by be modified by the medium. The electric and/or the electromagnetic signal can be applied to the input of a first elementary cell and the output of the first elementary cell can be connected to the input of a second elementary cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Technische Universitaet Darmstadt
    Inventors: Rolf Jakoby, Martin Schuessler, Andreas Penirschke, Holger Maune
  • Patent number: 8495492
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided for distributed augmentation. In one implementation, a system is provided. The system includes one or more presentation applications, each presentation application operable to provide a presentation output and a plurality of augmentation and presentation control (iAPC) modules operable to provide user augmentations of the presentation output. The system also includes one or more distributed augmentation and presentation management (DAPm) modules operable to separately manage augmentations from the presentation output and to provide an augmented presentation output and one or more display devices for presenting the augmented presentation output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Technische Universität Darmstadt
    Inventors: Eberhard Max Mühlhäuser, Christoph Trompler, Georg Turban
  • Publication number: 20130142390
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are described for monocular 3D human pose estimation and tracking, which are able to recover poses of people in realistic street conditions captured using a monocular, potentially moving camera. Embodiments of the present invention provide a three-stage process involving estimating (10, 60, 110) a 3D pose of each of the multiple objects using an output of 2D tracking-by detection (50) and 2D viewpoint estimation (46). The present invention provides a sound Bayesian formulation to address the above problems. The present invention can provide articulated 3D tracking in realistic street conditions. The present invention provides methods and apparatus for people detection and 2D pose estimation combined with a dynamic motion prior. The present invention provides not only 2D pose estimation for people in side views, it goes beyond this by estimating poses in 3D from multiple viewpoints. The estimation of poses is done in monocular images, and does not require stereo images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicants: TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT DARMSTADT, TOYOTA MOTOR EUROPE NV/SA
    Inventors: Gabriel Othmezouri, Ichiro Sakata, Bernt Schiele, Mykhaylo Andriluka, Stefan Roth
  • Patent number: 8150053
    Abstract: The invention is a device and a method for eliminating vibrations of a mechanical structure with at least one electromechanical converter material that is actively connected to the mechanical structure and connected to an electrical circuit with at least one electrical impedance. The electrical circuit is connected to an interface, via which the at least one electrical impedance can be variably adjusted by wireless or wired communications with a control unit that is separated from the electrical circuit in which the electrical impedance features at least one variable ohmic resistor, inductive resistor or capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignees: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., Technische Universität Darmstadt
    Inventors: Holger Hanselka, Tobias Melz, Dirk Mayer, Christoph Klein
  • Patent number: 8064740
    Abstract: An inexpensive and compact arrangement for the electrical control and fast modulation of THz transmitters and THz measuring systems is proposed, wherein said arrangement is stable, requires no mechanical movements and operates with a purely electric control, consumes little power and also has a high speed potential for the phase modulation. This is achieved by replacing the components known from the state of the art, namely two lasers, the beam splitters, the couplers and the mechanically moved delay line, with a compact monolithic or hybrid integrated chip (10), particularly a so-called optical master chip without moving parts that comprises at least the two lasers (1, 2), the beam splitters (S3.1, S3.2), the couplers (K3.1, K3.2) and a phase modulator (4.1) for one of the laser waves such that the two generated beat signals are respectively delivered to different chip outputs (6, 7) in order to separately control the THz transmitter and the local oscillator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignees: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V., Technische Universitaet Darmstadt
    Inventors: Bernd Sartorius, Michael Feiginov, Cezary Sydlo
  • Publication number: 20100163837
    Abstract: A Gunn diode includes an active layer having a top and a bottom, a first contact layer disposed adjacent to the top of the active layer, a second contact layer disposed adjacent to the bottom of the active layer, wherein the first and second contact layers are more heavily doped than the active layer, and at least one outer contact layer disposed at an outer region of at least one of the first and second contact layers, the at least one outer contact layer being more heavily doped than the first and second contact layers, wherein the first and second contact layers, the active layer, and the at least one outer contact layer include a base material that is the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: Technische Universitaet Darmstadt
    Inventors: Oktay Yilmazoglu, Kabula Mutamba, Dimitris Pavlidis, Tamer Karduman
  • Publication number: 20100148804
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for determining at least one parameter of at least one medium, said medium being introducible into at least one measuring path. An electric and/or electromagnetic field can be partially coupled into or out of the medium by passing at least one electric and/or electromagnetic signal into the measuring path. The measuring path comprises at least one line arrangement having at least two elementary cells arranged along the measuring path, said elementary cells comprising at least one electric path from at least one input to at least one output and comprising at least one respective capacitative element. The electrical properties of the capacitative element can by be modified by the medium. The electric and/or the electromagnetic signal can be applied to the input of a first elementary cell and the output of the first elementary cell can be connected to the input of a second elementary cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2007
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET DARMSTADT
    Inventors: Rolf Jakoby, Martin Schuessler, Andreas Penirschke, Holger Maune
  • Patent number: 7426183
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining the load in a communication network provided with network elements such as internal nodes and links and with access nodes, respectively comprising an input node and an output node, which derive and transfer data packets from connected terminals and/or other networks. The internal nodes and links from paths according to routing algorithms and the internal nodes provide data packets with a load-dependent marking. According to the invention, the output nodes separately count up the data packets arriving from the communication network and the markings contained therein according to paths, deriving therefrom a value for the relative load along the respective path, and the values derived from all output nodes are introduced as parameters into system of equations describing the communication network with the internal nodes access nodes, whereby the solution thereof results in a determined relative network element load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2008
    Assignee: Technische Universitaet Darmstadt
    Inventors: Martin Karsten, Jens Schmitt