Patents by Inventor Andreas Fritz
Andreas Fritz 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).
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Publication number: 20080093160Abstract: In an exhaust system of a motor vehicle, a tailpipe cover is disposed on the exhaust pipe and protrudes through a cutout in the vehicle rear part with a defined gap clearance. In a hot condition, where a length of the exhaust system is increased due to thermal expansion, a greater clearance arises between the edge of the cutout and the tailpipe cover than in the cold condition. The tailpipe cover is trumpet cone shaped.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2007Publication date: April 24, 2008Inventor: Andreas Fritz
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Patent number: 7323327Abstract: The invention relates to newly identified gene sequences that encode novel proteases obtainable from Aspergillus niger. The invention features the full length gene sequence of the novel genes, their cDNA sequences as well as the full-length functional protein and fragments thereof. The invention also relates to methods of using these enzymes in industrial processes and methods of diagnosing fungal infections. Also included in the invention are cells transformed with DNA according to the invention and cells wherein a protease according to the invention is genetically modified to enhance or reduce its activity and/or level of expression.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2002Date of Patent: January 29, 2008Assignee: DSM IP Assets B.V.Inventors: Luppo Edens, Albertus Van Dijk, Philipp Krubasik, Kaj Albermann, Alexander Stock, Erik Kimpel, Sabine Klugbauer, Christian Wagner, Andreas Fritz, Wilk Von Gustedt, Oliver Heinrich, Dieter Maier, Fabio Spreafico, Ulrike Folkers, Sylvia Hopper, Wolfram Kemmner, Pamela Tan, Josephine Stiebler, Richard Albang
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Publication number: 20060281080Abstract: The invention relates to a newly identified polynucleotide sequence comprising a gene that encodes a novel lipolytic enzyme from Aspergillus niger. The invention features the full length nucleotide sequence of the novel gene, the cDNA sequence comprising the full length coding sequence of the novel lipolytic enzyme as well as the amino acid sequence of the full-length functional protein and functional equivalents thereof. The invention also relates to methods of using these enzymes in industrial processes and methods of diagnosing fungal infections. Also included in the invention are cells transformed with a polynucleotide according to the invention and cells wherein a lipolytic enzyme according to the invention is genetically modified to enhance its activity and/or level of expression.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2003Publication date: December 14, 2006Inventors: Richard Albang, Andreas Fritz, Oliver Heinrich, Hilmar Ilgenfritz, Dieter Maier, Christian Wagner, Ulrike Folkers, Beatrix Gerhard, Fabio Spreafico, Lex De Boer, Roelf Meima
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Publication number: 20060205917Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel catalyst complex for catalysing esterification and trans-esterification reactions, comprising: (i) a polymeric titanium glycolate having the formula [TiO4(CH2)4]n wherein n=1 to 200; and (ii) an alkali metal glycolate; wherein the molar ratio of the polymeric titanium glycolate and the alkali metal glycolate is about 1.25:1 to about 100:1, preferably about 1.25:1 to about 10:1; and to a process for esterification of a dicarboxylic acid compound and an dialcoholic compound, followed by polycondensation to form a polyester.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2003Publication date: September 14, 2006Inventors: Jamil Siddiqui, Khaled Al-Luhaidan, Bander Alfarhood, Rainer Gutmann, Aref Uria, Michael Schweizer, Andreas Fritz
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Publication number: 20050253387Abstract: A connecting device includes a ring element which has a V-shaped cross-section and is connected with a face-side flange of the exhaust gas inlet pipe. The V-shaped ring element is supported with one of its sloping surfaces on an opposite sloping surface of a ring element having an angular cross-section. The ring element with an angular cross-section is arranged and connected with the receiving pipe in the area of the insulation for the catalyst, and both the V-shaped ring element and the angular ring element are fastened in a cohesive manner jointly by way of a tensioning clamp.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2005Publication date: November 17, 2005Inventors: Andreas Fritz, Martin Bayha
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Patent number: 6872882Abstract: An electrical conductor including an areal conductor having a constricted current path region along a length thereof is described, in which an accessory conductor bridges the constricted current path region along the length of the areal conductor such that a substantially uniform current density exists throughout the electrical conductor. In this way, current hot spots in the region of the current path constriction are avoided. The constricted current path region may be defined by two lengthwise edges of the areal conductor and the accessory conductor may include two circular or parabolic contours, each opposing and spaced apart from a respective edge of the areal conductor defining the constricted current path region.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2002Date of Patent: March 29, 2005Assignee: W.E.T. Automotive Systems AGInventor: Andreas Fritz
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Publication number: 20050064403Abstract: The invention relates to newly identified gene sequences that encode novel proteases obtainable from Aspergillus niger. The invention features the full length gene sequence of the novel genes, their cDNA sequences as well as the full-length functional protein and fragments thereof. The invention also relates to methods of using these enzymes in industrial processes and methods of diagnosing fungal infections. Also included in the invention are cells transformed with DNA according to the invention and cells wherein a protease according to the invention is genetically modified to enhance or reduce its activity and/or level of expression.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2002Publication date: March 24, 2005Inventors: Luppo Edens, Dijk Alard, Philipp Krubasik, Kaj Albermann, Stock Alexander, Erik Kimpel, Sabine Klugbauer, Christian Wagner, Andreas Fritz, Gustedt Wilk, Oliver Heinrich, Dieter Maier, Fabio Spreafico, Ulrike Folkers, Sylvia Hopper, Wolfram Kemmner, Pamela Tan, Josephine Stiebler, Richard Albang
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Patent number: 6859718Abstract: In a method for entering program data into a control unit in a motor vehicle, the program data are provided by a data transfer point, via the following steps: a program data acceptance request is sent to the control unit, the control unit changes to a program data acceptance state, the program data are transmitted to the control unit, and the program data are accepted by the control unit. Before the control unit changes to the program data acceptance state, the control unit checks whether program data acceptance conditions prescribed for the control unit exist.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2003Date of Patent: February 22, 2005Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Andreas Fritz, Bernd Oeffinger, Michael Sorg
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Patent number: 6830024Abstract: A suction system for an internal-combustion engine is provided with at least one container, which can be connected by way of feed pipes with the intake ports of a cylinder head. Openings of the intake ports for charge cycle control are monitored by valves. In the container or in the feed pipes, at least one reflection chamber is provided, which is connected with the interior volume of the container by way of a hole structure. The hole structure is formed by a plurality of openings that are formed in a wall section of the container, and are closed off by a cover fastened to the exterior side of the container wall, providing a reflection chamber which reduces noise in the suction system without adversely affecting air flow in the interior of the suction system.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2002Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c.F. Porsche AktiengesellschaftInventors: Juergen Kodweiss, Wolfgang Horlacher, Juergen Schorn, Andreas Fritz
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Patent number: 6782282Abstract: The present invention concerns the improvement of the supercurrent carrying capabilities, i.e. the increase of critical current densities, of bicrystalline or polycrystalline superconductor structures, especially of high-Tc superconductors. By providing an appropriate predetermined dopant profile across the superconductor structure, in particular within or in the vicinity of the grain boundaries, the space-charge layers at the grain boundaries are reduced and thereby the current transport properties of the superconductor significantly improved. Simultaneously, the influence of magnetic fields on the critical current densities is significantly reduced, which in turn enhances the overall supercurrent carrying capabilities while keeping the supercurrent transport properties of the grains at good values.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2003Date of Patent: August 24, 2004Inventors: Hartmut Ulrich Bielefeldt, Barbel Martha Gotz, German Hammerl, Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Hilgenkamp, Jochen Dieter Mannhart, Andreas Fritz Albert Schmehl, Christof Walter Schneider, Robert Ralf Schulz
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Publication number: 20040147403Abstract: The present invention concerns the improvement of the supercurrent carrying capabilities, i.e. the increase of critical current densities, of bicrystalline or polycrystalline superconductor structures, especially of high-Tc superconductors. By providing an appropriate predetermined dopant profile across the superconductor structure, in particular within or in the vicinity of the grain boundaries, the space-charge layers at the grain boundaries are reduced and thereby the current transport properties of the superconductor significantly improved. Simultaneously, the influence of magnetic fields on the critical current densities is significantly reduced, which in turn enhances the overall supercurrent carrying capabilities while keeping the supercurrent transport properties of the grains at good values.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2003Publication date: July 29, 2004Inventors: Hartmut Ulrich Bielefeldt, Barbel Martha Gotz, German Hammerl, Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Hilgenkamp, Jochen Dieter Mannhart, Andreas Fritz Albert Schmehl, Christof Walter Schneider, Robert Ralf Schulz
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Patent number: 6699820Abstract: The present invention concerns the improvement of the supercurrent carrying capabilities, i.e. the increase of critical current densities, of bicrystalline or polycrystalline superconductor structures, especially of high-Tc superconductors. By providing an appropriate predetermined dopant profile across the superconductor structure, in particular within or in the vicinity of the grain boundaries, the space-charge layers at the grain boundaries are reduced and thereby the current transport properties of the superconductor significantly improved. Simultaneously, the influence of magnetic fields on the critical current densities is significantly reduced, which in turn enhances the overall supercurrent carrying capabilities while keeping the supercurrent transport properties of the grains at good values.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2001Date of Patent: March 2, 2004Inventors: Hartmut Ulrich Bielefeldt, Barbel Martha Gotz, German Hammerl, Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Hilgenkamp, Jochen Dieter Mannhart, Andreas Fritz Albert Schmehl, Christof Walter Schneider, Robert Ralf Schulz
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Publication number: 20030225485Abstract: In a method for entering program data into a control unit in a motor vehicle, the program data are provided by a data transfer point, via the following steps: a program data acceptance request is sent to the control unit, the control unit changes to a program data acceptance state, the program data are transmitted to the control unit, and the program data are accepted by the control unit. Before the control unit changes to the program data acceptance state, the control unit checks whether program data acceptance conditions prescribed for the control unit exist.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2003Publication date: December 4, 2003Inventors: Andreas Fritz, Bernd Oeffinger, Michael Sorg
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Patent number: 6573220Abstract: The present invention concerns an enhancement of the supercurrent carrying capabilities of bicrystalline or polycrystalline high-Tc superconductors, i.e. the critical current densities in such superconductors. The current transport properties are improved by chemically altering, especially doping, the superconductors. It seems that a modification of the space-charge layers at the boundary, e.g. by an increase of the mobile charge carrier concentrations particularly in the superconductor's grain boundaries, which concentrations differ from those resulting in optimum superconducting properties of the grains, are responsible for this positive effect.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2001Date of Patent: June 3, 2003Inventors: Jochen Dieter Mannhart, Hartmut Ulrich Bielefeldt, Barbel Martha Gotz, Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Hilgenkamp, Andreas Fritz Albert Schmehl, Christof Walter Schneider, Robert Ralf Schulz
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Publication number: 20030041832Abstract: A suction system for an internal-combustion engine is provided with at least one container, which can be connected by way of feed pipes with the intake ports of a cylinder head. Openings of the intake ports for charge cycle control are monitored by valves. In the container or in the feed pipes, at least one reflection chamber is provided, which is connected with the interior volume of the container by way of a hole structure. The hole structure is formed by a plurality of openings that are formed in a wall section of the container, and are closed off by a cover fastened to the exterior side of the container wall, providing a reflection chamber which reduces noise in the suction system without adversely affecting air flow in the interior of the suction system.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2002Publication date: March 6, 2003Inventors: Juergen Kodweiss, Wolfgang Horlacher, Juergen Schorn, Andreas Fritz
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Publication number: 20030010773Abstract: An electrical conductor including an areal conductor having a constricted current path region along a length thereof is described, in which an accessory conductor bridges the constricted current path region along the length of the areal conductor such that a substantially uniform current density exists throughout the electrical conductor. In this way, current hot spots in the region of the current path constriction are avoided. The constricted current path region may be defined by two lengthwise edges of the areal conductor and the accessory conductor may include two circular or parabolic contours, each opposing and spaced apart from a respective edge of the areal conductor defining the constricted current path region.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2002Publication date: January 16, 2003Inventor: Andreas Fritz
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Superconductor with enhanced current carrying capability and method for making such a superconductor
Publication number: 20020165100Abstract: The present invention concerns the improvement of the supercurrent carrying capabilities, i.e. the increase of critical current densities, of bicrystalline or polycrystalline superconductor structures, especially of high-Tc superconductors. By providing an appropriate predetermined dopant profile across the superconductor structure, in particular within or in the vicinity of the grain boundaries, the space-charge layers at the grain boundaries are reduced and thereby the current transport properties of the superconductor significantly improved. Simultaneously, the influence of magnetic fields on the critical current densities is significantly reduced, which in turn enhances the overall supercurrent carrying capabilities while keeping the supercurrent transport properties of the grains at good values.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2001Publication date: November 7, 2002Inventors: Hartmut Ulrich Bielefeldt, Barbel Martha Gotz, German Hammerl, Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Hilgenkamp, Jochen Dieter Mannhart, Andreas Fritz Albert Schmehl, Christof Walter Schneider, Robert Ralf Schulz -
Publication number: 20010043072Abstract: Method for monitoring a load circuit with an electronic flasher relay. In known methods, the comparison threshold is obtained from a voltage measurement made during operation and stored in a volatile memory in order to record a load element failure. If the load elements malfunction during voltage measurement, incorrect comparison thresholds are defined. In accordance with the method according to the invention, the characteristic values for determining the voltage thresholds are stored in a non-volatile memory before the load circuit commences operation. Thus, no malfunction can occur as a result of incorrectly defined comparison thresholds.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2001Publication date: November 22, 2001Inventor: Andreas Fritz
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Patent number: 6243009Abstract: A blinker-hazard flasher circuit has a single comparator (37) for comparing measured circuit output signals (36) containing information with reference signals having different voltage threshold levels to ascertain the information regarding the status of the flasher circuit, for example whether there is a short-circuit or whether the lamps operated by the circuit are in an operational or failed condition. A reference signal generator (40) for generating reference signals at the different voltage threshold levels receives control signals from a central processing unit. These control signals determine the sequence of the voltage threshold levels. The different levels of the reference signals provide different comparator output signals which are further processed and evaluated for obtaining the status information in response to the measured circuit output signals.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 1999Date of Patent: June 5, 2001Assignee: TEMIC Semiconductor GmbHInventors: Andreas Fritz, Roland Schropp
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Patent number: 6134886Abstract: 05267372An exhaust manifold includes a curved end portion and at least two T-shaped portions connected to the curved portion through sliding fits, wherein the end portion and the T-shaped portions each are provided with a flange connection and a pipe connection, and wherein each T-shaped portion has a sliding fit connection piece. Each sliding fit connection piece is shaped by internal high pressure shaping at the outer radius of a curved section of the T-shaped portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 1998Date of Patent: October 24, 2000Assignee: Benteler AGInventors: Johannes Bussmann, Andreas Fritz, Jurgen Kleinschmidt