Patents Assigned to Technische Universität Wien
  • Patent number: 12178567
    Abstract: The invention relates to a medical analysis device (1) for assessing a patient's suitability for anaesthesia by analysing at least one physiological biosignal (S) detected during an apnoea, wherein the medical analysis device (1) comprises the following: —an input interface (2) for detecting a time curve of at least one physiological biosignal (S) of a patient, —a computing unit (3) which is configured to compare a time curve of the at least one physiological biosignal (S) with at least one predefinable curve or a limit value according to an algorithm (4) in order to determine a patient's suitability for anaesthesia and to calculate an assessment result (E) depending thereon, wherein the time curve of the at least one physiological biosignal (S) comprises at least the duration of a patient's apnoea, and —an output interface (5) connected to the computing unit (3), to output the assessment result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignees: Technische Universität Wien, Medizinische Universität Wien
    Inventors: Eugenijus Kaniusas, Klaus Ulrich Klein, Florian Thürk, Stefan Kampusch
  • Patent number: 12163112
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a microfluidic device (1; 8) for the production of cellular spheroids comprising at least one chamber (2; 9) comprising a fluid inlet (3) for introducing fluid into the chamber (2; 9) and a fluid outlet (4) for removing said fluid from the chamber (2, 9), wherein said at least one chamber (2; 9) comprises a base formed by a substrate (5; 10) comprising at least two recesses (6; 11) to collect a fluid comprising biological cells when the substrate (5, 10) is contacted with the fluid, wherein the size of the at least two recesses (6; 11) decreases from the fluid inlet (3) to the fluid outlet (4) of the at least one chamber (2; 9).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Technische Universität Wien
    Inventors: Mario Rothbauer, Peter Ertl, Christoph Eilenberger
  • Patent number: 11858169
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing shaped bodies (5) from a building material, in which a layered structure of a shaped body (5) takes place by successively solidifying layers of the building material by exposure to electromagnetic radiation in a layer area having a contour specified for the respective layer. The method provides that together with the shaped body (5), a sleeve-like frame (6) surrounding the shaped body at a distance is constructed layer by layer from the building material, and that in addition, a plurality of pin-like connections (10) are constructed integral with the frame (6) and the shaped body (5), which are distributed around the shaped body (5) and which connect the shaped body (5) with the frame (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignees: Ivoclar Vivadent AG, Technische Universität Wien
    Inventors: Jörg Ebert, Julia Anna Schönherr, Robert Gmeiner
  • Publication number: 20230265247
    Abstract: The invention relates to a stoichiometric salt of a tetracarboxylic acid and a diamine of the following general formula (I), wherein R1 is selected from tetravalent residues of butane, cyclobutane, cyclopentane, cyclohexane, tetrahydrofurane and benzophenone and R2 is selected from divalent residues of unbranched, branched or cyclic aliphatic hydrocarbons with 3 to 15 carbon atoms, with the proviso that the salt of the formula (I) is water-soluble and is selected from compounds (1) to (28); and to the polyimides prepared from these salts by polycondensation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: Technische Universität Wien
    Inventors: Miriam Margarethe UNTERLASS, Daniel Alonso CERRON-INFANTES
  • Patent number: 11674640
    Abstract: A safety system is provided for a machine tool which has a frame and a tool. The safety system has a clamping device and a motion device. The clamping device is movable by the motion device from a working position, in which the tool is extended and can be used for working, to a safety position, in which the tool is retracted. The motion device has a first magnetic means connected to or arranged on the tool and a second magnetic means connected to or arranged on the frame, such that movement of the tool by the motion device from the working position to the safety position can be triggered and/or at least partially performed by magnetic force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignees: Felder KG, Technische Universität Wien
    Inventors: Thomas Weiler, Helmut Caudr, Friedrich Bleicher
  • Publication number: 20220247446
    Abstract: Method and apparatus to produce a wideband RF signal covering an increased first bandwidth, utilizing at least one narrowband transceiver (1) capable of producing an output RF signal with a base frequency fbase and a second bandwidth, wherein the second bandwidth is lower than the first bandwidth, and wherein the base frequency Case depends on the setting of at least one frequency register (2, 2?, 2?), which is adjustable by a control unit, as well as method to estimate the position of a narrowband RF transceiver (1) using a multitude of coherent wideband RF receivers (12) and computer-readable medium comprising computer-executable instructions causing an electronic device to perform the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: Technische Universität Wien
    Inventors: Holger Arthaber, Daniel Neunteufel
  • Patent number: 11321512
    Abstract: A method for automatic detection of a functional primitive in a model of a hardware system, the model being a netlist having cells and net links therebetween, comprising the steps: a) mapping the cells to target nodes, each of which having a target node type, and the net links to edges of a target graph, and mapping the functional primitive to a search pattern having search nodes and connections therebetween; b) selecting candidates from those target nodes the target node types of which match a search node type, and selecting a candidate structure from those selected candidates the target nodes and edges of which match the search nodes and connections of the search pattern; c) reverse-mapping the target nodes and edges of the selected candidate structure to the cells and net links of the netlist; and d) outputting said cells and net links as detected functional primitive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Technische Universität Wien
    Inventors: Christian Krieg, Axel Jantsch, Martin Mosbeck
  • Patent number: 11198668
    Abstract: Radically polymerizable composition which contains at least one vinyl ether according to general formula I:
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignees: Ivoclar Vivadent AG, Technische Universität Wien
    Inventors: Norbert Moszner, Yohann Catel, Iris Lamparth, Robert Liska, Christian Gorsche, Gernot Peer
  • Patent number: 11068564
    Abstract: A method to assess the distribution of electronic files within provider networks, wherein each provider network includes at least one server computer which distributes the electronic files to a multitude of client computers within the provider network. The present teaching also relates to an electronic data analysis device and a system for implementing such a method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Technische Universität Wien
    Inventors: Radostina Kostadinova, Peter Filzmoser, Nermina Mumic
  • Patent number: 10781223
    Abstract: Radically polymerizable silane according to the general formula I in which R1 is a linear or branched aliphatic C1-C9-alkyl radical, phenyl or alkylated phenyl radical, R2, R3 independently of each other in each case are absent or are a linear or branched aliphatic C1-C20-alkylene radical, which can be interrupted by S or O atoms, R4, R5, R6 independently of each other in each case are —Cl, —O—CH3, —O—C2H5, —CH3 or —C2H5, X is CH2 or O, Y is absent, or is O or NR?, wherein R? is H or a C1-5-alkyl radical, and Z is absent, or is O, NR?, —CO—O—, —CO—NR?—, —O—CO—O—, —O—CO—NR?—, or —NR?—CO—NR?—, wherein R? is H or a C1-5-alkyl radical and wherein the radicals R2 and R3 cannot be absent at the same time and Z is absent if R2 or R3 is absent, polycondensates based thereon and fillers surface-modified therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignees: Technische Universität Wien, Ivoclar Vivadent AG
    Inventors: Norbert Moszner, Jörg Angermann, Urs Karl Fischer, Iris Lamparth, Yohann Catel, Robert Liska
  • Patent number: 10737439
    Abstract: A stereolithography device having a trough (2) for accommodating free-flowing, photopolymerizable material, a construction platform (4) suspended above the trough bottom on a lifting unit (6), and having a heating unit for heating the photopolymerizable material in the trough. The heating unit has a transparent, electrically conductive layer (33), which covers the entire area of at least the exposure region above the trough bottom, and which is provided outside the exposure region on opposing sides of the layer with electrical contacts (20) extended over the opposing sides, which are connected to a controlled electrical supplier to enable heating of the entire area of photopolymerizable material above the trough bottom in the exposure region by current flow through the layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignees: Ivoclar Vivadent AG, Technische Universität Wien
    Inventors: Jörg Ebert, Robert Gmeiner
  • Patent number: 10563013
    Abstract: A solvothermal synthesis process for polyimides is provided. The process uses solution polymerization of monomers in an appropriate solvent, by mixing the solvent and the monomers and heating the mixture under pressure at temperatures exceeding the respective boiling point at normal pressure. The process produces essentially completely crystalline polyimides by a) mixing and heating the solvent and the monomers by either (i) heating the solvent up to solvothermal conditions and subsequently adding the monomers to initiate the reaction, or (ii) mixing the monomers with the solvent and heating the mixture up to solvothermal conditions within a period of 5 min, the reaction temperature TR being held below the solid-state polymerization temperature TP of the monomers during the polymerization; and b) carrying out the solution polymerization until essentially complete conversion is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Technische Universität Wien
    Inventors: Miriam Margarethe Unterlass, Bettina Baumgartner
  • Publication number: 20200049597
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for analysing a solid specimen material by means of ablating particles of the solid specimen material by laser into a carrier liquid, having: a specimen holder for arranging the solid specimen material covered by the carrier liquid, a laser apparatus for irradiating the solid specimen material to produce a suspension of particles of the solid specimen material and the carrier liquid, an analysis apparatus for analysing the particles, an ablation cell with the specimen holder, having a liquid channel for the carrier liquid and having an entry window made of a material that transmits the laser beam, a supply line for supplying the carrier liquid into the liquid channel of the ablation cell and a discharge line for discharging the suspension of particles of the solid specimen material and the carrier liquid from the liquid channel of the ablation cell into the analysis apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: Technische Universität Wien
    Inventors: Andreas LIMBECK, Maximilian BONTA, Johannes FRANK
  • Patent number: 10558173
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a reference frequency ?f. According to the invention, the use of a first optical resonator (3a; 24) and of a second optical resonator (25) is provided, wherein the first resonator (3a; 24) has a first resonator mode having a first frequency f1 and the second resonator (25) has a second resonator mode having a second frequency f2, wherein the frequencies of the two resonator modes are functions of an operating parameter BP and assume the values f1 and f2 at a specified value BP0 of the operating parameter such that f1(BP0)=f1 and f2(BP0)=f2 apply, wherein the resonators (3a; 24, 25) are designed in such a way that the respective first derivatives of the frequencies f1(BP), f2(BP) with respect to BP or at least respective difference quotients around BP0 correspond within a deviation of at most ±0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Technisch Universität Wien
    Inventor: Michael Trupke
  • Patent number: 10342744
    Abstract: Radically polymerizable dental material, which contains at least one compound of Formula I: The material preferably additionally contains a radically polymerizable monomer, an initiator for the radical polymerization and filler. It is characterized by a low polymerization contraction stress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignees: Ivoclar Vivadent AG, Technische Universität Wien
    Inventors: Norbert Moszner, Urs-Karl Fischer, Iris Lamparth, Peter Burtscher, Robert Liska, Christian Gorsche, Konstanze Seidler, Paul Gauss
  • Publication number: 20180369075
    Abstract: Radically polymerizable dental material, which contains at least one sulphonic acid ester of Formula 1: in which A is H, CN, an aromatic, cycloaliphatic, linear or branched aliphatic C1-C30-hydrocarbon radical or a combination thereof; X is COO— or —CON(R1)— or is absent; B is an aromatic, cycloaliphatic, linear or branched aliphatic C1-C30-hydrocarbon radical, or a combination thereof; R1 is hydrogen or an aromatic, cycloaliphatic, linear or branched aliphatic C1-C10-hydrocarbon radical; m is an integer from 1 to 6, n is an integer from 1 to 6 and p is an integer from 1 to 6; wherein m and p cannot simultaneously be greater than 1. The compounds of Formula 1 are active as chain transfer agents in radical polymerization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2016
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicant: Technische Universität Wien
    Inventors: Norbert Moszner, Iris Lamparth, Urs Karl Fischer, Kai Rist, Peter Burtscher, Robert Liska, Christian Gorsche, Konstanze Seidler
  • Publication number: 20180142082
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of sulfonic acid esters of the following Formula 1 and/or Formula 2, individually or as a mixture of more than one thereof, as regulators in polymerization reactions of radically polymerizable, ethylenically unsaturated monomers: wherein A in each case independently is selected from H, CN, linear, branched or cyclic aliphatic or aromatic C1-C30 hydrocarbon residues; X in each case independently is —COO— or —CON(R1)—, wherein the binding to A occurs via O or N, or is absent if A is an aromatic hydrocarbon residue or CN; B in each case independently is selected from linear, branched or cyclic aliphatic or aromatic C1-C30 hydrocarbon residues; R1 in each case independently is selected from hydrogen and linear, branched or cyclic aliphatic or aromatic C1-C10 hydrocarbon residues, which are optionally substituted with one or more OH groups, wherein the aliphatic hydrocarbon residues are optionally interrupted by one or more oxygen atoms; and n in each case independently is an
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2016
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Applicants: Ivoclar Vivadent AG, Technische Universität Wien
    Inventors: Robert Liska, Christian Gorsche, Konstanze Seidler, Norbert Moszner
  • Patent number: 9952384
    Abstract: An optical diode (1) comprising an optical wave guide for guiding light, preferably of a light mode, with a vacuum wavelength ?0, wherein the optical wave guide has a wave guide core (2, 3, 14) with a first index of refraction (n1), and the wave guide core (2, 3, 14) is surrounded by at least one second optical medium which has at least one second index of refraction (n2), wherein n1>n2 applies, wherein the wave guide core (2, 3, 14) has at least in sections a smallest lateral dimension (7) which is a smallest dimension of a cross section (6) perpendicular to a propagation direction (5) of the light in the wave guide core (2, 3, 14), wherein the smallest lateral dimension (7) is greater than or equal to ?0/(5*n1) and less than or equal to 20*?0/n1, wherein the optical diode (1) additionally comprises at least one absorber element (10, 11, 15, 16) which is arranged in a near field, wherein the near field consists of the electromagnetic field of the light of the vacuum wavelength ?0 in the wave guide core (2
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Technische Universität Wien
    Inventors: Jürgen Volz, Philipp Schneeweiss, Clement Sayrin, Arno Rauschenbeutel
  • Patent number: 9796138
    Abstract: A method and a device for processing a light-polymerizable material (5, 55) for building up an object (27) in layers, using a lithography based generative manufacture having a construction platform (12) for building up the object (27), a projecting exposure unit (10, 60) that can be controlled for locally selected exposing of a surface on the construction platform (12, 62) to an intensity pattern having a prescribed shape, and a control unit (11, 61) prepared for polymerizing overlapping layers (28) on the construction platform (12, 62) in successive exposure steps, each having a prescribed geometry, by controlling the projecting exposure unit (10, 60), in order to thus successively build up the object (27) in the desired shape, said shape resulting from the sequence of layer geometries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignees: Ivoclar Vivadent AG, Technische Universitat Wien
    Inventors: Robert Liska, Johannes Patzer, Jurgen Stampfl, Wolfgang Wachter, Christoph Appert
  • Patent number: 9784475
    Abstract: A heat storage system using sand as a solid heat storage medium has a fluidized bed heat exchanger (3) arranged between and separated from a storage tank (1) for cold sand and a storage tank (2) for hot sand by weirs (4, 5). The heat exchanger (3) is divided into a plurality of chambers (7) by weirs (6). The weirs (4, 5, 6) are arranged as a combination of overflow and underflow weirs. Fluidized sand is produced in the chambers (7) by a blower (14) positioned underneath the heat exchanger (3). Heat is transferred from a heat source to the sand fluidized and from the fluidized sand to a heat transport medium by transferring mechanisms (8, 9) in the chambers (7). The sand is redirected in a horizontal direction by horizontally acting blowers and/or installations (12) projecting into a respective chamber from a side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Technische Universität Wien
    Inventors: Markus Haider, Roland Eisl, Franz Holzleithner