Patents by Inventor Andreas Böttcher

Andreas Böttcher has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8632639
    Abstract: A mobile cleaning device for cleaning parts of a burner is provided. The mobile cleaning device includes a closable pressure vessel, wherein a nozzle end of the burner is located inside the pressure vessel. An end of the burner, which is used for supplying fuel and is arranged opposite from the nozzle end, is located outside the pressure vessel. Further, a method for cleaning parts of the burner is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Böttcher, Andre Kluge, Sabine Tüschen
  • Publication number: 20130213122
    Abstract: A method for testing a component for determining a maximum period of use for renewed use of the component is proposed. The component was in use and is subjected to a refurbishment for reuse. Core drilling of the used component enables a simultaneous refurbishment of the component. The state of the component is analyzed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2010
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Inventors: Andreas Böttcher, Tobias Krieger
  • Patent number: 8464536
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustion chamber is provided. The gas turbine includes a combustion chamber interior and a combustion chamber wall which has a substantially rotationally symmetrical cross-section, wherein on the side of the combustion chamber wall facing away from the combustion chamber interior there is arranged over the entire cross-sectional circumference of the combustion chamber wall a corrugated component which, in combination with the combustion chamber wall, embodies a plurality of separate resonance chambers and wherein openings are incorporated in the combustion chamber wall in such a way that a fluidic connection is established in each case between the combustion chamber interior and one of the resonance chambers and wherein the corrugated component has two locking rings which are connected to the combustion chamber wall in order to seal off the resonance chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Böttcher, Olga Deiss
  • Patent number: 8327616
    Abstract: A gas turbine burner with an igniter and an ignition electrode for installation in a main burner of a gas turbine is disclosed. The ignition electrode is protected from damage by a protective element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Böttcher, Andre Kluge, Claus Krusch, Elmar Pfeiffer, Sabine Tüschen
  • Publication number: 20120309897
    Abstract: Polymer, comprising at least one heterocyclic 3-membered-ring compound and one iodine-containing compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2010
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: LANXESS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventor: Andreas Boettcher
  • Publication number: 20120234010
    Abstract: A burner assembly having a fuel distribution ring, number of fuel nozzles which are mounted on the fuel distribution ring in the direction of low is provided. The fuel distribution ring has a ring-shaped surface in the direction of flow and wherein the fuel distribution ring center and an opposite outer outer side and wherein there is at least one slot on the surface between the fuel nozzles and the at least one slot extends on the surface from the outside to the inside. There is at least one recess arranged on the surface and the at least one recess also partially includes the outside of the fuel distributor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2010
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Inventors: Andreas Böttcher, Tobias Krieger, Daniel Vogtmann, Ulrich Wörz
  • Publication number: 20120234009
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustion chamber is provided. The gas turbine includes a combustion chamber interior and a combustion chamber wall which has a substantially rotationally symmetrical cross-section, wherein on the side of the combustion chamber wall facing away from the combustion chamber interior there is arranged over the entire cross-sectional circumference of the combustion chamber wall a corrugated component which, in combination with the combustion chamber wall, embodies a plurality of separate resonance chambers and wherein openings are incorporated in the combustion chamber wall in such a way that a fluidic connection is established in each case between the combustion chamber interior and one of the resonance chambers and wherein the corrugated component has two locking rings which are connected to the combustion chamber wall in order to seal off the resonance chambers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Inventors: Andreas Böttcher, Olga Deiss
  • Publication number: 20120207574
    Abstract: A gripper assembly for use with a moving device. The moving device can be a mechanical device such as a robot. The gripper assembly includes a platform and an elongate arm extending from the platform. The elongate arm is in the form of least one elongate member. Each elongate member has a body which has a proximal end and an opposed distal end. A gripping mechanism is rotatably supported relative to the arm, and includes a holder having a pivoting arm pivotably joined to the body in the region of the distal end of the body. An actuator is in operable communication with the pivoting arm to impart pivotable movement to the pivoting arm and rotational movement to said gripping mechanism about a horizontal axis upon actuation of the actuator. The gripper assembly may have a center of mass substantially aligned with a vertical rotation axis of the gripper assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2012
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Inventors: Stefano La Rovere, Jia-wei Chiu, Andreas Boettcher, Jeffrey Kyle Werner
  • Publication number: 20120208918
    Abstract: Use of aziridines for stabilizing iodine-containing compounds, especially biocides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: LANXESS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Böttcher, Bernd Koop, Peter Spetmann
  • Publication number: 20120205928
    Abstract: A gripper assembly for a mechanical device includes an elongate arm in engagement with robotic translation and rotation means. The elongate arm has a platform with at least one elongate member having a bearing bore defined at a free extent thereof. Each bearing bore accommodates insertion of a bearing shaft upon which a gripping mechanism, such as a suction cup assembly, is rotatably supported. The suction cup assembly includes a pivoting arm having a pivoting bore in engagement with a free extent of a linkage element that establishes pivotable movement between the pivoting arm and an actuator means. The gripper assembly has a center of mass substantially aligned with a vertical rotation axis between an initial article picking orientation, wherein the suction cup assembly engages an article in a random orientation, and a successive article rotation orientation, wherein the suction cup assembly rotates a picked article around a horizontal axis for placement in an article placement position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2011
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Inventors: Stefano La Rovere, Jia-wei Chiu, Andreas Boettcher, Jeffrey Kyle Werner
  • Publication number: 20120186487
    Abstract: Inorganic carrier material, comprising at least one adsorptively or covalently bound heterocyclic 3-membered-ring compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: LANXESS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventor: Andreas Böttcher
  • Publication number: 20120178804
    Abstract: The invention relates to nitrogen-containing inorganic carrier materials, more particularly to inorganic carrier materials containing organically bonded nitrogen, to their preparation and also to their use for stabilizing iodine-containing compounds, and also to binder formulations comprising them and to the use thereof for protecting industrial materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: LANXESS Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Böttcher, Hermann Uhr
  • Publication number: 20120076638
    Abstract: An axial turbomachine including a rotor-blade cascade is provided. The turbomachine includes a casing in which the cascade is installed and a guide-blade carrier which encloses the cascade and is integrated into the inner side of the housing. The guide-blade carrier is arranged immediately adjacently to the blade tips faulting a radial gap, wherein the guide-blade carrier is mounted in the housing, such that it may be displaced parallel to the axis of the axial turbomachine, and includes an adjusting ring which is supported on contact surfaces on the housing and guide-blade carrier and may be rotated about the axis, wherein the contact surfaces of the adjusting ring and of the housing and/or of the guide-blade carrier are set with respect to a plane perpendicular to the axis, so that, when the adjusting ring is rotated about the axis, the guide-blade carrier is displaced axially by the adjusting ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2010
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Inventors: Francois Benkler, Andreas Böttcher, Uwe Kahlstorf, Torsten Matthias, Dieter Minninger, Oliver Schneider, Peter Schröder, Vyacheslav Veitsman
  • Publication number: 20120047900
    Abstract: A burner assembly is provided. The burner assembly includes a support housing with a supply manifold, the supply manifold includes a fuel passage system, and fuel nozzles extending from the supply manifold and being supplied with fuel through the fuel passage system of the supply manifold. The supply manifold is sandwiched using at least two subparts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Inventors: Andreas Böttcher, Tiimothy A. Fox, Thomas Grieb, Birgit Grüger, Tobias Krieger, Stephen A. Ramier, Christin Schlensog, Holger Streb
  • Patent number: 8114425
    Abstract: Process for the production of wood-based materials containing wood parts, comprising the steps a) bringing wood parts into contact with a1) alkaline binder and a2) thiacloprid and b) pressing a bed of wood parts, containing wood parts treated according to step a), under pressure at a temperature of the press contact surfaces of 126° C. to 240° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: LANXESS Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Steffen Donath, Thomas Jaetsch, Peter Spetmann, Tobias Zahlmann, Andreas Böttcher, Erasmus Vogl
  • Patent number: 8091364
    Abstract: In a combustion chamber wall for a combustion chamber having a combustion chamber outlet through which a hot combustion exhaust gas can exit the combustion chamber, the combustion chamber wall comprises an outlet end which surrounds the combustion chamber outlet, and the outlet end is provided with a tempering device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Böttcher, Jens Kleinfeld, Claus Krusch
  • Publication number: 20110280721
    Abstract: A gas turbine including a plurality of hook elements disposed one inside the other and designed substantially in the form of hollow cones or hollow cylinders, and including a stator blade support, is intended to enable an especially high efficiency while maintaining the greatest possible operating safety and operating life. To this end, at least one of the hook elements or the stator blade support has a substantially elliptical cross-sectional contour.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Inventors: Francois Benkler, Tobias Buchal, Andreas Böttcher, Martin Hartmann, Patricia Hülsmeier, Uwe Kahlstorf, Ekkehard Maldfeld, Dieter Minninger, Michael Neubauer, Peter Schröder, Rostislav Teteruk, Vyacheslav Veitsman
  • Patent number: 8053457
    Abstract: The invention relates to 3-heterocyclyl indolyl compounds of formula I capable of inhibiting the interaction between p53, or variants thereof, and MDM2 and/or MDM4, or variants thereof, respectively: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, RA, Y and Y are as defined in the specification. Due to their activity, the compounds are useful in the treatment of various disorders and diseases mediated by the activity of MDM2 and/or MDM4, or variants thereof, such as inflammatory or proliferative diseases or in the protection of cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Andreas Boettcher, Nicole Buschmann, Pascal Furet, Jean-Marc Groell, Jorg Kallen, Joanna Hergovich Lisztwan, Keiichi Masuya, Lorenz Mayr, Andrea Vaupel
  • Publication number: 20110247338
    Abstract: Disclosed is a fuel lance for a burner, in particular a gas turbine burner, including a tip that has a nozzle surface including at least two fuel nozzles. The nozzle surface is provided with slots between the fuel nozzles. As a rule, the lance is provided for operation with a liquid fuel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2009
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Inventors: Andreas Böttcher, Tobias Krieger, Jürgen Meisl
  • Publication number: 20110214431
    Abstract: A turbine guide vane support for an axial-flow gas turbine is provided. The support includes a tubular wall having an inflow-side end and an outflow-side end for a hot gas flowing in the interior of the turbine guide vane support in a flow path of the gas turbine. Cooling channels for a coolant are provided in the wall. The cooling channels extend from a coolant inlet to a coolant outlet, respectively. At least one of the cooling inlets and one of the cooling outlets, respectively, is disposed at the outflow-side end of the turbine guide vane support, wherein the cooling channel associated with the respective inlet and outlet extends up to the inflow-side end of the turbine guide vane support and transitions to a redirecting area from which the respective cooling channel further extends to the outflow-side end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2009
    Publication date: September 8, 2011
    Inventors: Francois Benkler, Andreas Böttcher, Daniel Grundei, Uwe Lohse, Ekkehard Maldfeld, Mirko Milazar, Oliver Schneider, Shilun Sheng