Patents Assigned to TNO
  • Publication number: 20120140632
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for congestion control in a telecommunications network. The telecommunications network supports one or more active data sessions between a server and at least a first and second communication terminal by providing at least a first and a second bearer for these terminals. The at least first and second communication terminal are assigned to a group for which a common group identifier is or has been stored. Further, a first individual congestion parameter for the first bearer and a second individual congestion parameter for the second bearer of the first and second communication terminal are or have been stored. A group load indicator is defined for the group of terminals corresponding to the common group identifier. The group load indicator is monitored and compared with a group load condition for the group of the at least first and second communication terminals corresponding to the common group identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2010
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicants: Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast- Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO, KONINKLIJKE KPN N.V.
    Inventors: Antonius Norp, Annemieke Kips, Johannes Maria Van Loon
  • Patent number: 8192657
    Abstract: Method and system for making a product (1) having a solid body (2) and having one or more cavities (3, 15) inside that solid body, with a broad surface and a small thickness. A liquid material is provided within a mold (4), and solidification of the liquid material is controlled in a position dependent way from the outside of the product. When using a thermoplastic material, the system may cool said liquid material less in areas that are projections of the cavities on the outside of the product on its broad surface. When using a thermosetting material the system may include means (5, 9) for controlled heating the liquid material, excluding the projections of the intended cavities. Once part of the product has sufficiently solidified outside the intended cavities the liquid material is driven from the intended cavities by means of a fluid. In the product some cavities may be provided with a conductive layer or structure, e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO
    Inventors: Renatus Marius De Zwart, Joseph Mathias Gerardus Kunen
  • Patent number: 8188485
    Abstract: The invention relates to a light emitting diode having at least one (semi)conductive electroluminescent active layer which comprises at least two different electroluminescent functionalities, wherein the emission spectrum of the diode exhibits at least two intensity maxima. The invention further relates to a detector which comprises a light emitting diode which is capable of emitting light at least two mutually separate intensity maxima.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO
    Inventors: Harmannus Franciscus Maria Schoo, Jacobus Johannes Frederik Van Veen, Hermanus Hendricus Petrus Theodorus Bekman
  • Publication number: 20120129296
    Abstract: A method for forming an organic material layer on a substrate in an in-line deposition system is disclosed. In one aspect, the organic material is deposited with a predetermined non-constant deposition rate profile, which includes a first predetermined deposition rate range provided to deposit at least a first monolayer of the organic material layer with a first predetermined average deposition rate and a second predetermined deposition rate range provided to deposit at least a second monolayer of the organic material layer with a second predetermined average deposition rate. The injection of organic material through the openings of the injector is controlled for realizing the predetermined deposition rate profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicants: IMEC, Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast-Natuurwe tenschappelijk Onderzoek (TNO)
    Inventors: Cedric Rolin, Jan Genoe
  • Patent number: 8184037
    Abstract: Radar system for providing an aircraft with a facility for in use at least detecting another aircraft in at least one monitorable zone within a region surrounding of that aircraft, wherein the system comprises for each monitorable zone at least one subsystem comprising one transmitter for sending an electro-magnetic probe signal and at least one receiver for receiving a reflection of that probe signal, wherein the transmitter is arranged to send the probe signal in a direction that is static with respect to that aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO
    Inventors: Albert Gezinus Huizing, Ronald Nikola Huib Willem Van Gent
  • Publication number: 20120122147
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for real-time detection of viable microorganisms comprising: a. addition of a cell-permeable, phototautomeric compound to a micro-organism or other living cell; and b. measuring the fluorescent emission of said phototautomeric compound. Preferably the phototautomeric compound is salicylic acid, 2-hydroxy-1-naphtoic acid or 1-hydroxy-2-naphtoic acid. Further, the assay can he used to assess the antibiotic effect of a test compound. This test can be used as a high—throughput screening for compounds with antibiotic activity. Also part of the invention is the use of a cell permeable phototautomeric compound in a method for determining the viability of micro-organisms and for assessing the antibiotic effect of a test compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast- Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO
    Inventors: Remco Kort, Frank Schuren, Roy Montun
  • Patent number: 8178170
    Abstract: The present invention describes a method for applying a hybrid coating to a substrate. A coating according to the invention is formed by an inorganic component and an organic component. As a result, this coating has the hybrid character whereby the advantages of inter alia hardness are combined with flexibility. The invention also describes a device for the manufacture of a hybrid coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO
    Inventors: Joannes Leonard Linden, Gregory Robert Alcott, Edward Aloys Gerard Hamers, Mauritius Cornelis Maria van de Sanden
  • Patent number: 8178211
    Abstract: The invention is directed to the use of a specific class of compounds in the treatment of wood, to a method of treating wood, and to the wood obtained by said method. The black insoluble polymer which forms after oxidative polymerisation of this class of compounds is able to color the wood through and through in a homogeneous fashion and cannot be rinsed off or leached with water or solvent and is stable upon UV radiation. In addition it was found that the treated wood of the present invention has a strong resistance against wood degrading fungi.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek Tno
    Inventors: Jacobus Eversdijk, Michael Fritz Sailer
  • Publication number: 20120106150
    Abstract: An illumination system (30), comprising: a plurality of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) (34), each LED having at least a first, light-emitting surface (36) and a second surface (37), at least one of the first and the second surface being substantially flat; a plurality of electrical pathways (56), selectively connected to the respective LEDs, such that each LED can be individually controlled; and a levelling surface (46, 52), wherein the levelling surface is substantially flat and in levelling contact with the at least one substantially flat surface (37, 36) of each LED, such that a two-dimensional array of LEDs extends in a plane parallel to the levelling surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: Nederlandse Organisatie Voor toegepast- natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO
    Inventors: Mark Herman Else Vaes, Herman Hendrikus Maalderink, Adrianus Johannes Petrus Maria Vermeer, Jacobus Hubertus Theodoor Jamar, Antonius Hubertus Joannes Gerardus Lommen, Andries Rijfers
  • Publication number: 20120107498
    Abstract: A multicomponent particle generating system may include a first nozzle constructed to generate at least one isolated particle, and a second nozzle arranged to generate a generally uninterrupted fluid jet without breaking up. The first and second nozzles are arranged to have the isolated particle traverse the fluid jet from one side to the other side so as to combine the particle with fluid of the second fluid jet, for providing a multicomponent particle. A collector is arranged on the other side of the fluid jet by which the isolated particles can be captured after collision with the fluid jet. The system includes a modulator, for modulating the second fluid jet so as to provide an undulated jet having thicker and thinner portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST- NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNO
    Inventors: Rene Jos Houben, Andries Rijfers, Leonardus Antonius Maria Brouwers
  • Publication number: 20120108245
    Abstract: The invention relates to cooperation between first and second wireless access networks that can be used to obtain energy reduction for or traffic routing within the overall telecommunications infrastructure while still enabling acceptable network coverage and satisfactory performance by the telecommunications infrastructure as a whole. The cooperation refers to the fact that the wireless access networks provide duplicate coverage in a particular area when both wireless access networks are active, and that traffic can be switched between the cooperating networks in order to temporarily adjust (e.g. switch off) resources of one or the wireless access networks. In this manner, energy reduction and/or traffic routing can be obtained under the constraint that sufficient service coverage and capacity remains at an acceptable quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicants: Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-Natuurweten -schappelijk Onderzoek TNO, KONINKLIJKE KPN N.V.
    Inventors: Haibin Zhang, Job Cornelis Oostveen, Ljupco Jorguseski, Remco Litjens, Adrian Victor Pais
  • Publication number: 20120105268
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of detecting a scatterer in a structure, such as a building structure. The method comprises the steps of transmitting from one or a multiple number of positions exterior to a structure, a wall probing radar signal towards the structure. The method also comprises the step of receiving, at one or a multiple number of positions exterior to the structure, signals that have been reflected by scatterers in the structure. Further, the method comprises the step of filtering, from the received signals, reflection information of a specific scatterer at a specific position. In addition, the method comprises the step of identifying a geometry of the specific scatterer, based on the reflection information. The filtering step comprises applying a phase change algorithm corresponding to a specific scatterer type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO
    Inventors: Felix Maria Antonius Smits, Jacobus Johannes Maria de Wit, Wilhelmus Lambertus van Rossum
  • Publication number: 20120108550
    Abstract: Use of polyunsaturated fatty acid derivatives as medicaments or functional foods. The present invention relates to the use of 1,2-fatty acid derivatives in the treatment or prevention of common diseases whose etiology is based on alterations (of any type) of the cell membrane lipids, for example, changes in levels, in the composition or in the structure of these lipids. In addition, for diseases in which the regulation of lipid composition and of the structure of the membranes (or proteins that interact with membranes) causes the reversion of pathological state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST- NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNO VK
    Inventors: Pablo Vicente Escriba Ruiz, Xavier Busquets Xaubet, Silvia Teres Jimenez, Gwendolyn Barcelo Coblijn, Victoria Llado Canellas, Amaia Marcilla Etxenike, Maria Laura Martin, Monica Higuera Urbano, Rafael Alvarez Martinez, Daniel Horacio Lopez
  • Patent number: 8162494
    Abstract: A structure such as an electronically deformable mirror contains a deformable membrane, an array of actuators located facing the membrane, each actuator being arranged to actuate local displacement of the membrane perpendicular to its surface. The actuators and the membrane are connected via an array of actuating connections. The actuating connections substantially transmit movement perpendicular to the second surface, but leave planar displacement and/or local rotation of the second surface substantially free. Preferably, the actuators contain an array of soft magnetic islands on a soft magnetic base plane, with actuator coils running around the islands and a system of sort magnetic walls on the base plane to separate the coils. The walls support a soft magnetic resilient surface that extend over of the islands and serve to drive the actuating connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO
    Inventors: Roger Franciscus Mattheus Maria Hamelinck, Petrus Carolus Johannes Nicolaas Rosielle, Jakobus Pieter Kappelhof
  • Patent number: 8158267
    Abstract: A method for partially metallizing a product comprising a first surface, a first polymer material, and a second surface, a second polymer material, wherein the method comprises the sequential steps of exposing the first and second surfaces to conditions which render the first surface hydrophilic, and the second surface hydrophobic; contacting the first and second surfaces with water or aqueous solution; contacting the first and second surfaces with a solution of a film former in a water-immiscible solvent; evaporating the solvent to allow formation of a film by the film former on the second surface; adherence of a film by the film former on the first surface is prevented by the presence of the water or aqueous solution thereupon; performing a conventional metallization process to deposit a metal layer on the first and second surface; and removing the metallized film from the second surface to render the first surface metallized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO
    Inventors: Roland Anthony Tacken, Franky Flory Vercauteren, Hendrik Rendering
  • Publication number: 20120088273
    Abstract: The invention relates to a lignocellulose active protein comprising a DUF1996 domain and proteins that additionally comprise a CBM1 domain. Also included in the invention are proteins with a new domain, characterized by the consensus sequence [GA]-[ST]-[IV]-[ILV]-W-[DS]-G-[RIFS]-F-[ND]-[DS]-X (residues 1-12 of SEQ ID NOS:6-7). The invention relates to a lignocellulose active protein comprising a DUF1996 domain and proteins that additionally comprise a CBM1 domain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2010
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast- Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek Tno
    Inventor: Peter Jan Punt
  • Publication number: 20120088459
    Abstract: A device with a substrate lens antenna uses a lens shaped dielectric body located on top of a planar feed antenna. A leaky wave antenna structure is used as feed antenna. The leaky wave antenna structure has a feed input and a first and second wave propagation branch extending from the feed input. The lens shaped dielectric body has a plane surface containing a focal point of the lens shaped dielectric body, the plane surface located adjacent the first plane, with the focal point adjacent the position of the feed input. Preferably the lens shaped dielectric body is spaced from the leaky wave structure at a sufficient distance to remove most of the propagation speed reduction effect of the dielectric on wave propagation along the leaky wave antenna. This helps to suppress undesirable side-lobes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2009
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast- natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO
    Inventors: Andrea Neto, Giampiero Gerini
  • Publication number: 20120081696
    Abstract: The invention relates to a sensor system comprising a waveguide, which waveguide comprises a grating in at least a part of the waveguide, which waveguide further comprises a coating, the coating comprising a polymer, which polymer comprises a chain, in which chain are present an aromatic group and a chemical group selected from the group of sulfonyl groups, carbonyl groups, carbonate groups, fluorocarbon groups, siloxane groups, pyridine groups and amide groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Applicant: Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepastnatuurwetenschapelijk onderzoek TNO
    Inventors: Arjen Boersma, Theodorus Henricus Cornelus Panken, Lun Kai Chang
  • Publication number: 20120076216
    Abstract: A stream of information is communicated by means of transmission distributed over a plurality of transmission antennas and reception distributed over a plurality of reception antennas. In the method the stream is encoded according to an error correcting code, into a series of multi-bit symbols. A sequence of the multi-bit symbols is interleaved, by which symbols are assigned to time slots, so that the multiple bits of the symbols remain together in the same time slot. The interleaved multi-bit symbols are transmitted, with each symbol distributed over the transmission antennas in a respective time slot. Signals received at the reception antennas in each respective time slot are received and demodulated, to produce demodulation results each for a respective time slot. A time-slot sequence of the demodulation results is deinterleaved. Decoded symbol values are selected under a constraint that a series of the selected symbols belongs to the error correcting code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2010
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast- Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO
    Inventor: Haibin Zhang
  • Patent number: 8144888
    Abstract: A filter apparatus for reducing noise from a primary noise source, comprising a secondary source signal connector for generating secondary noise to reduce said primary noise and a sensor connector for connecting to a sensor for measuring said primary and secondary noise as an error signal. A first control filter is arranged to receive a reference signal and calculate a control signal for the secondary source signal. A second control filter is arranged to receive a delayed reference signal and calculate an auxiliary control signal; wherein an adaptation circuit is arranged to adapt said second control filter while receiving an error signal as a sum of the auxiliary control signal and an auxiliary noise signal. The auxiliary noise signal is constructed from a difference of the delayed filtered error signal and a delayed control signal. The first control filter is updated by a copy of said updated second control filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepastnatuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO
    Inventors: Arthur Perry Berkhoff, Gerard Nijsse