Patents by Inventor Andreas Winkler
Andreas Winkler 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: 20240085885Abstract: A visualisation system for visualising the processing of a chemical product uses at least two processing units. The visualisation system contains a communication interface, a profiling module, and a user interface. The communication interface is configured for communicating with the processing units to receive a respective value of processing parameters for processing the chemical product. The profiling module is configured for providing a reference profile including a respective reference value for processing parameters for a reference chemical product and for providing a profile for the chemical product. The profile includes a respective deviation value of processing parameters for the chemical product determined based on a difference between the respective value of the processing parameters for processing the chemical product and the respective reference value.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Christian-Andreas Winkler, Hans Rudolph, Michael Hartmann
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Publication number: 20240061403Abstract: The present teachings relate to a method for improving a production process for manufacturing a chemical product using at least one input material at an industrial plant, the industrial plant comprising a plurality of physically separated equipment zones, the method comprising: providing, via an interface, an upstream object identifier comprising input material data; receiving, at a computing unit, real-time process data from one or more of the equipment zones; determining, via the computing unit, a subset of the real-time process data based on the upstream object identifier and a zone presence signal; computing, via the computing unit, at least one zone-specific performance parameter of the chemical product related to the upstream object identifier based on the subset of the real-time process data and historical data; determining, in response to at least one of the performance parameters, a target equipment zone where the input material and/or chemical product is to be sent.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2021Publication date: February 22, 2024Inventors: Christian Andreas Winkler, Hans Rudolph, Michael Hartmann, Markus Rautenstrauch, Yuan En Huang, Sebastian Wandernoth, Nataliya Yakut
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Publication number: 20240024839Abstract: The present teachings relate to a method for monitoring a production process for manufacturing a chemical product at an industrial plant, the method comprising: providing an up-stream object identifier comprising input material data, receiving real-time process data from one or more of the equipment zones; determining a subset of the real-time process data based on the upstream object identifier and a zone presence signal; computing at least one zone-specific performance parameter of the chemical product related to the up-stream object identifier based on the subset of the real-time process data and historical data; appending, to the upstream object identifier, the at least one zone-specific performance parameter. The present teachings also relate to a system for monitoring a production process, a dataset, use, a method for generating the dataset and a software program for the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2021Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: Christian-Andreas Winkler, Hans Rudolph, Michael Hartmann, Markus Rautenstrauch, Yuan En Huang, Sebastian Wandernoth, Nataliya Yakut
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Publication number: 20240012395Abstract: A method can be used for controlling a downstream production process for manufacturing an article at a downstream industrial plant, by processing at least one thermoplastic polyurethane (“TPU”) and/or expanded thermoplastic polyurethane (“ETPU”) material using the downstream production process. The method involves providing, at a downstream computing unit, a set of downstream control settings for controlling the production of the article. The downstream control settings are determined based on a downstream object identifier; at least one desired downstream performance parameter related to the article; and downstream historical data. The set of downstream control settings is usable for manufacturing the article at the downstream industrial plant. A corresponding system for downstream production, use, and software product are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2021Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: BASE SEInventors: Christian-Andreas WINKLER, Hans Rudolph, Michael Hartmann, Markus Rautenstrauch, Yuan En Huang, Nataliya Yakut, Sebastian Wandermoth
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Publication number: 20230409015Abstract: The present teachings relate to a method for improving a production process for manufacturing a chemical product at an industrial plant comprising at least one equipment and one or more computing units, and the product being manufactured by processing at least one input material, which method comprises: receiving real-time process data from the equipment; determining a subset of the real-time process data; computing at least one state related to the input material and/or the equipment. The present teachings also relate to a system for improving the production process, a use, and a software program.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2021Publication date: December 21, 2023Inventors: Christian Andreas Winkler, Hans Rudolph, Michael Hartmann, Markus Rautenstrauch, Yuan En Huang, Sebastian Wandernoth, Nataliya Yakut
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Publication number: 20230390725Abstract: The present teachings relate to a method for monitoring and/or controlling a production process for manufacturing at least one industrial product at an industrial plant comprising at least one equipment by processing at least one input, the method comprising: receiving, via an input inter-face, real-time process data from the equipment; determining, via the computing unit, a subset of the real-time process data; providing as output data the subset of the real-time process data. The present teachings also relate to a system, a use, and a software product.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2021Publication date: December 7, 2023Inventors: Christian Andreas Winkler, Hans Rudolph, Michael Hartmann, Markus Rautenstrauch, Yuan En Huang, Sebastian Wandernoth, Nataliya Yakut
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Publication number: 20230350395Abstract: The present teachings relate to a method for controlling a production process, for manufacturing a chemical product, comprising: providing an upstream object identifier comprising input material data and at least one desired performance parameter related to the chemical product; determining a set of process and/or operation parameters based on the upstream object identifier and the at least one desired performance parameter; determining zone-specific control settings for each of the equipment zones based on the determined set of process and/or operation parameters and historical data; providing the zone-specific control settings for controlling the production of the chemical product related to the upstream object identifier. The present teachings also relate to a system for controlling a production process, a use of the control settings, and a software product for implementing the method steps disclosed herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2021Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventors: Christian-Andreas Winkler, Hans Rudolph, Michael Hartmann, Markus Rautenstrauch, Yuan En Huang, Sebastian Wandernoth, Nataliya Yakut
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Publication number: 20230350396Abstract: The present teachings relate to a method for digitally tracking a chemical product manufactured at an industrial plant comprising at least one equipment; and, the product being manufactured by processing, via the equipment, at least one input material using a production process, which method comprises: providing, via an interface, an object identifier comprising input material data; wherein the input material data is indicative of one or more property of the input material, receiving, via the interface, process data from the equipment; the process data being indicative of the process parameters and/or equipment operating conditions that the input material is processed under, appending, to the object identifier, at least a part of the process data. The present teachings also relate to a system for digitally tracking a chemical product and a software product.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2021Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventors: Hans Rudolph, Christian-Andreas Winkler, Michael Hartmann, Markus Rautenstrauch, Yuan En Huang
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Publication number: 20230341838Abstract: The present teachings relate to a method for controlling a downstream production process for manufacturing a chemical product using at least one precursor material, the method comprising: providing a set of downstream control settings for controlling the production of the chemical product, wherein the downstream control settings are determined based on: a downstream object identifier; the downstream object identifier comprising precursor data; at least one desired downstream performance parameter related to the chemical product; downstream historical data; and wherein the set of downstream control settings is usable for manufacturing the chemical product at the downstream industrial plant. The present teachings also relate to a system, a use and a software product.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2021Publication date: October 26, 2023Inventors: Christian-Andreas Winkler, Hans Rudolph, Michael Hartmann, Markus Rautenstrauch, Yuan En Huang, Sebastian Wandernoth, Nataliya Yakut
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Patent number: 11285474Abstract: Acoustofluidic components in which at least one microfluidic element and at least one acoustic transducer element are arranged on a piezoelectric substrate and/or on a piezoelectric layer on a non-piezoelectric substrate and/or on a non-piezoelectric substrate on a piezoelectric layer. The at least one microfluidic element is arranged in at least one propagation direction of an acoustic wave excited by the acoustic transducer element and the at least one microfluidic element prepared at least partially by lamination and photolithographic structuring comprises a base, walls and a top. At least the top is prepared by lamination and photolithographic structuring, and the microfluidic element has top thicknesses of 0.01 to 10 times the wavelength of the acoustic wave excited by the acoustic transducer element.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2019Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FUER FESTKOERPER-UND WERKSTOFFORSCHUNG DRESDEN E.V.Inventors: Andreas Winkler, Christine Henze, Thomas Gemming
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Patent number: 11135687Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a refrigerator unit and/or freezer unit having a refrigerated inner space and having an outer unit wall, wherein at least one vacuum insulation body is arranged between the refrigerated inner space and the outer unit wall to minimize the heat input from outside into the refrigerated inner space, wherein the vacuum insulation body and/or the contact region of the unit to which it is to be connected is/are provided with a hot melt adhesive; the vacuum insulation body is moved into the desired position relative to the contact region and is applied there; and the hot melt adhesive is then activated by the effect of heat.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2018Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: LIEBHERR-HAUSGERÄTE LIENZ GMBHInventors: Thomas Gruidl, Andreas Winkler, Markus Köfele
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Patent number: 10690395Abstract: A vacuum insulation body comprising at least one vacuum-tight covering that surrounds at least one evacuated region, wherein one or more core materials are arranged in the evacuated region, and wherein the vacuum-tight covering has at least one evacuation opening that is provided with at least one valve having at least one valve disk that opens the evacuation opening in the opened state and that releases the evacuation opening in the closed state, with means for a vacuum-tight sealing of the evacuation opening being arranged outside the sealing region of the valve disk.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2017Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignees: LIEBHERR-HAUSGERATE LIENZ GMBH, LIEBHERR-HAUSGERATE OCHSENHAUSEN GMBHInventors: Andreas Winkler, Jochen Hiemeyer
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Publication number: 20200030923Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a refrigerator unit and/or freezer unit having a refrigerated inner space and having an outer unit wall, wherein at least one vacuum insulation body is arranged between the refrigerated inner space and the outer unit wall to minimize the heat input from outside into the refrigerated inner space, wherein the vacuum insulation body and/or the contact region of the unit to which it is to be connected is/are provided with a hot melt adhesive; the vacuum insulation body is moved into the desired position relative to the contact region and is applied there; and the hot melt adhesive is then activated by the effect of heat.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2018Publication date: January 30, 2020Inventors: Thomas Gruidl, Andreas Winkler, Markus Köfele
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Publication number: 20190374941Abstract: Acoustofluidic components in which at least one microfluidic element and at least one acoustic transducer element are arranged on a piezoelectric substrate and/or on a piezoelectric layer on a non-piezoelectric substrate and/or on a non-piezoelectric substrate on a piezoelectric layer. The at least one microfluidic element is arranged in at least one propagation direction of an acoustic wave excited by the acoustic transducer element and the at least one microfluidic element prepared at least partially by lamination and photolithographic structuring comprises a base, walls and a top. At least the top is prepared by lamination and photolithographic structuring, and the microfluidic element has top thicknesses of 0.01 to 10 times the wavelength of the acoustic wave excited by the acoustic transducer element.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2019Publication date: December 12, 2019Applicant: LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FUER FESTKOERPER-UND WERKSTOFFFORSCHUNG DRESDEN E.V.Inventors: Andreas WINKLER, Christine HENZE, Thomas GEMMING
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Publication number: 20190170430Abstract: A vacuum insulation body comprising at least one vacuum-tight covering that surrounds at least one evacuated region, wherein one or more core materials are arranged in the evacuated region, and wherein the vacuum-tight covering has at least one evacuation opening that is provided with at least one valve having at least one valve disk that opens the evacuation opening in the opened state and that releases the evacuation opening in the closed state, with means for a vacuum-tight sealing of the evacuation opening being arranged outside the sealing region of the valve disk.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2017Publication date: June 6, 2019Applicants: LIEBHERR-HAUSGERATE LIENZ GMBH, LIEBHERR-HAUSGERATE OCHSENHAUSEN GMBHInventors: Andreas WINKLER, Jochen HIEMEYER
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Patent number: 10252228Abstract: The present invention concerns a method and a device for feeding at least one chemical substance into a main process stream. The method of the invention comprises the steps of providing a concentrated stream of said chemical substance, mixing said concentrated stream with a diluent stream to provided a diluted stream of said chemical substance, injecting said diluted stream of said chemical substance into said main process stream, wherein said mixing of said concentrated stream with said diluent stream is effected by injecting a jet of either one of said concentrated stream or said diluent stream into the respective other stream.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2013Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Marko Petteri Kajasvirta, Frank Breithecker, Joachim Hege, Christian-Andreas Winkler, Florian Scharf
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Publication number: 20170189875Abstract: A packed bed includes a vessel including a shell, an inlet, and an outlet, wherein the space inside the shell between the inlet and outlet forms an internal volume; a plurality of packing material structures filling at least a portion of the internal volume thereby forming a packed volume, wherein the packed volume has a void fraction, and the packing material structures provide an aggregate surface area; and the vessel has a pressure drop between the vessel inlet and vessel outlet, wherein the pressure drop is less than 1.0 times that of a packed bed of the non-twisted shapes with the same cross-section.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2015Publication date: July 6, 2017Applicant: BASF CorporationInventors: Dieter G. VON DEAK, Stefan LIPP, Christian-Andreas WINKLER, Wolfgang GERLINGER
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Patent number: 9453431Abstract: A tilting-segment radial bearing for a single-shaft turbomachine is provided, having a support ring, a tilting-segment mounting and a tilting segment, which in the installed state of the tilting-segment radial bearing is supported on the support ring such as to be seated on top and be radially displaceable by the tilting-segment mounting. The mounting has a preload device, by means of which the tilting segment is preloaded in the direction toward the shaft of the single-shaft turbomachine when the operating rotational speed of the single-shaft turbomachine is above a predetermined tilting-segment preload rotational speed, such that the tilting segment can be radially moved without preload when the operating rotational speed of the single-shaft turbomachine is below the tilting-segment preload rotational speed.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2012Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Bernadette Brahm, Frank Bockel, Diethelm Dettmar, Anna Christina Droschinski, Bernd Luneburg, Umit Mermertas, Jan Soggeberg, Marcel Stranger, Andreas Winkler
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Patent number: 9243754Abstract: Described is a method of charging a sorption store with a gas. The sorption store comprises a closed container which is at least partly filled with an adsorption medium and has an inlet and an outlet which can each be closed by a shut-off element. The method comprises the steps: (a) closing of the outlet shut-off element and opening of the inlet shut-off element, (b) introduction of gas to be stored under a predetermined pressure through the inlet, (c) rapid opening of the outlet shut-off element with the inlet shut-off element open so that a gas flow having a predetermined flow rate is established in the container, (d) reduction of the flow rate as a function of the adsorption rate of the gas adsorbed in the store, and (e) complete closing of the outlet shut-off element.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2013Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Mathias Weickert, Stefan Marx, Ulrich Müller, Peter Renze, Christian-Andreas Winkler
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Publication number: 20150209739Abstract: The present invention concerns a method and a device for feeding at least one chemical substance into a main process stream. The method of the invention comprises the steps of providing a concentrated stream of said chemical substance, mixing said concentrated stream with a diluent stream to provided a diluted stream of said chemical substance, injecting said diluted stream of said chemical substance into said main process stream, wherein said mixing of said concentrated stream with said diluent stream is effected by injecting a jet of either one of said concentrated stream or said diluent stream into the respective other stream.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2013Publication date: July 30, 2015Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Marko Petteri Kajasvirta, Frank Breithecker, Joachim Hege, Christian-Andreas Winkler, Florian Scharf