Patents by Inventor Andreas Winter

Andreas Winter 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: 9611340
    Abstract: A catalyst system for the polymerization of olefins may include a first solid catalytic component and a second solid catalytic component. The first solid catalytic component may include: a spherical MgCl2-xROH support; a group 4-8 transition metal; and a diether internal electron donor. The second solid catalytic component may include: a spherical MgCl2-xROH support; a group 4-8 transition metal; and a diether internal electron donor. The first solid catalytic component produces a propylene homopolymer having a Xylene Solubles (XS) value of greater than 2 wt %; and the second solid catalytic component produces a propylene homopolymer having a XS value of less than 2 wt %. The second catalytic component may act as an external electron donor during use, and embodiments herein do not require use of any additional external electron donors to control polymerization and reliably vary the properties of the resulting polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Lummus Novolen Technology GmbH
    Inventors: Yvonne Denkwitz, Oliver Schuster, Andreas Winter
  • Publication number: 20170059000
    Abstract: A drive unit with an electric motor and a speed-transforming transmission connected in a rotationally driven manner to a power take-off shaft of the electric motor, in which the electric motor comprises a stator and a rotor comprising the power take-off shaft, is characterized in that the speed-transforming transmission is arranged inside the power take-off shaft constituted as a hollow shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: EHRT Maschinenbau GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas WINTERS
  • Publication number: 20170057034
    Abstract: A drive unit with a spindle drive and a spindle-drive drive motor, which comprises a rotor, is characterized in that a spindle of the spindle drive is arranged inside the rotor acting as a spindle nut and comprising a hollow shaft. As a result, a particularly compact construction for the drive unit can be realized, which can serve, in particular, as a linear drive of tool sleeve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: EHRT Maschinenbau GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas WINTERS
  • Publication number: 20170022304
    Abstract: Improved Ziegler-Natta catalysts and methods of making the improved catalyst are described. The Ziegler-Natta catalyst is formed using a spherical MgCl2-xROH support, where R is a linear, cyclic or branched hydrocarbon unit with 1-10 carbon atoms and where ROH is an alcohol or a mixture of at least two different alcohols and where x has a range of about 1.5 to 6.0, preferably about 2.5 to 4, more preferably about 2.9 to 3.4, and even more preferably 2.95 to 3.35. The Ziegler-Natta catalyst includes a Group 4-8 transition metal and an internal donor comprising a diether compound. The catalyst has improved activity in olefin polymerization reactions as well as good stereoregularity and hydrogen sensitivity, and may be useful in the production of phthalate-free propylene polymers having a molecular weight distribution (PI(GPC)) in the range from about 5.75 to about 9.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Applicant: Lummus Novolen Technology GmbH
    Inventors: Yvonne Denkwitz, Oliver Schuster, Andreas Winter
  • Publication number: 20170022305
    Abstract: A method for making a solid catalyst component for use in a Ziegler-Natta catalyst includes combining in a hydrocarbon solvent a porous particulate support with a hydrocarbon soluble organomagnesium compound to form a suspension. The organomagnesium compound is halogenated followed by addition of an alcohol and the mixture is then reacted with a titanium compound followed by a reaction with at least one diether compound to form the solid catalyst component. Afterwards the reaction product is extracted with a mixture of a titanium compound and a hydrocarbon solvent. The solid catalyst component recovered is combined with an aluminum cocatalyst to form a Ziegler-Natta catalyst system for the polymerization of olefins. In particular, the catalyst system including a diether internal electron donor may have an activity and hydrogen response suitable for the production of propylene polymers having a molecular weight distribution (PI(GPC)) in the range from about 5.75 to about 9.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Applicant: Lummus Novolen Technology GmbH
    Inventors: Yvonne Denkwitz, Oliver Schuster, Andreas Winter
  • Patent number: 9522968
    Abstract: Improved Ziegler-Natta catalysts and methods of making the improved catalyst are described. The Ziegler-Natta catalyst is formed using a spherical MgCl2-xROH support, where R is a linear, cyclic or branched hydrocarbon unit with 1-10 carbon atoms and where ROH is an alcohol or a mixture of at least two different alcohols and where x has a range of about 1.5 to 6.0, preferably about 2.5 to 4, more preferably about 2.9 to 3.4, and even more preferably 2.95 to 3.35. The Ziegler-Natta catalyst includes a Group 4-8 transition metal and an internal donor comprising a diether compound. The catalyst has improved activity in olefin polymerization reactions as well as good stereoregularity and hydrogen sensitivity, and may be useful in the production of phthalate-free propylene polymers having a molecular weight distribution (PI(GPC)) in the range from about 5.75 to about 9.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Lummus Novolen Technology GmbH
    Inventors: Yvonne Denkwitz, Oliver Schuster, Andreas Winter
  • Publication number: 20160356579
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing electric trigger elements for pyrotechnic articles such as fuses or igniters, wherein, in a first stage, a) a lacquer is applied by photolithography to an electrically non-conductive substrate, b) a conductive material having a specific resistance of 0.1 ?*mm to 5.0 ?*mm is applied to the lacquer and substrate by means of a PVD process in a layer thickness of 0.02 ?m to 8.0 ?m, and c) the lacquer is removed from the substrate, and possibly, in a second stage, d) a photolithographic process is again carried out in which a precisely defined region of the resistor strip is covered with photoresist, e) the entire substrate surface is covered with a layer of a metal having a specific resistance of 0.01 ?*mm to 0.1 ?*mm in a thickness of 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Applicant: RUAG Ammotec GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas WINTER, Georg ULRICH
  • Patent number: 9510150
    Abstract: In a method of integrating position information including: position data of an object that will be embedded in a material at a worksite is determined. The position data of the object is recorded, in an information management system. The position data is used to update a record at the information management system, where the record indicates that the object is an embedded object and the position data of the object includes a position of the embedded object. The position of the embedded object is conveyed from information management system to the to a handheld tool at the worksite. The position of the embedded object is displayed on a display device integrated with the handheld tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Trimble Navigation Limited
    Inventors: Kent Kahle, Pat Bohle, Reinhard Waibel, Markus Messmer, Oliver Glockner, Angela Beckenbauer, Till Cramer, Andreas Winter
  • Patent number: 9481741
    Abstract: A method for making a solid catalyst component for use in a Ziegler-Natta catalyst includes combining in a hydrocarbon solvent a porous particulate support with a hydrocarbon soluble organomagnesium compound to form a suspension. The organomagnesium compound is halogenated followed by addition of an alcohol and the mixture is then reacted with a titanium compound followed by a reaction with at least one diether compound to form the solid catalyst component. Afterwards the reaction product is extracted with a mixture of a titanium compound and a hydrocarbon solvent. The solid catalyst component recovered is combined with an aluminum cocatalyst to form a Ziegler-Natta catalyst system for the polymerization of olefins. In particular, the catalyst system including a diether internal electron donor may have an activity and hydrogen response suitable for the production of propylene polymers having a molecular weight distribution (PI(GPC)) in the range from about 5.75 to about 9.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Lummus Novolen Technology GmbH
    Inventors: Yvonne Denkwitz, Oliver Schuster, Andreas Winter
  • Publication number: 20160238706
    Abstract: A system and a method for determining a position and an orientation of an object relative to a defined reference frame is disclosed. A plurality of targets are disposed at known locations relative to the defined reference frame. A head assembly is disposed on the object, where the head assembly includes a plurality of cameras. The head assembly determines the position and the orientation of the object from location data associated with the plurality of targets and image data from the plurality of cameras.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Paul Yalden MONTGOMERY, Andreas WINTER, Till CRAMER
  • Publication number: 20160169651
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electromechanical primer cap, having an explosive mixture for the selective electrical or mechanical initiation of the explosive mixture, having an outer metal cup, and electrically conductive pole piece, a firing bridge support body made of an electrically insulating material, with a through-bore, on the upper side of which a firing bridge is arranged, and having a counter surface placed onto the explosive mixture, wherein a hole through which the pole piece protrudes is constructed in the vase of the metal cup. A portion of the explosive mixture lies on a contact surface of the pole piece, and the counter surface protrudes as far as the through-bore of the firing bridge support body, or into or through the bore, and continues to just above the contact surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Andreas WINTER, Wolfgang MOSIG, Ulrich BLEY, Aleksej HOSCHENKO
  • Publication number: 20160169671
    Abstract: A method for calibrating a measurement device by a target object is disclosed. Prior to calibrating the measurement device the suitability of the target object is inspected by multiple evaluation criteria. The calibration of the measurement device by the target object is only performed if the target object meets all evaluation criteria. To evaluate the target object, a camera device takes an image of the target object without using a laser beam and an image of the target object with using a laser beam, with the images then evaluated by image processing and object identification procedures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Andreas WINTER
  • Publication number: 20160161237
    Abstract: The invention relates to a primer cap for small-caliber ammunition, having an outer metallic cup in which is arranged a priming composition which generates hot combustion gases following initiation. To enable more versatile control of the initiation process in the weapon, it is proposed that a resistance bridge which can be initiated electrically, and an electrically conductive pole piece, are additionally arranged in the primer cap, wherein the first pole of the resistance bridge is connected to the cup and the second pole is connected to the cup and the second pole is connected to the pole piece, which protrudes out of the cup and is electrically insulated from the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Andreas WINTER, Wolfgang MOSIG, Ulrich BLEY, Aleksej HOSCHENKO, Martin LIEBL
  • Publication number: 20160091639
    Abstract: Reflective target for surveying instruments having a plurality of planar reflective sections arranged to form a shape having a target axis. Each reflective section includes a plurality of prisms, each prism constituted by a corner cube having three surfaces oriented perpendicular to one another and forming a base for receiving incident light, and each of the prisms is oriented such that a common edge formed by two of the three surfaces of the prism is oriented such that the common edge and the target axis or a line parallel to the target axis lie in a common plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2015
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventors: Andreas Winter, Ute Natura
  • Publication number: 20160057400
    Abstract: A method for displaying objects and object data of a design plan on a boundary surface of a room is disclosed. In a first step, a design plan of the room is selected and loaded into a control device. In a second step, the current display field of a display device is determined. In a third step, the current display field of the display device is compared on the boundary surface against the design plan, and the objects of the design plan lying in the current display field are determined. In a fourth step, projection parameters suitable for the objects lying in the current display field are determined and transmitted to the display device. In a fifth step, the objects lying in the current display field are projected by the display device on the boundary surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Applicant: Hilti Aktiengeselischaft
    Inventors: Andreas WINTER, Herwig HABENBACHER, Torsten GOGOLLA, Christoph WUERSCH
  • Publication number: 20160054446
    Abstract: A device for the optical measurement of a distance from a reflecting or scattering target object is disclosed. The device has a distance measurement device and an adjusting device arranged outside of the distance measurement device having a second transmission optical unit adjustable between a first and second position for forming the laser light into a beam, where in the first position, the second transmission optical unit is arranged in the laser beam, and in the second position, it is arranged outside of the laser beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Applicant: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas WINTER, Torsten GOGOLLA, Petra EYRICH
  • Patent number: 9263085
    Abstract: A method for copy protection in which an audiovisual or audio data is divided into a plurality of portions. The plurality of portions is at least partly scrambled and prepared so as to be stored on a record carrier in the scrambled order. This is done so that a physical position on the record carrier, e.g., a sector of the record carrier, where a respective portions of the divided data is stored depends on the scrambled order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: SONY DADC Austria AG
    Inventors: Markus Spitzlinger, Andreas Winter, Walter Hinterhoelzl, Peter Eisenmann, Klaus Holzapfel, Dominik Engel, Juergen Gruenberger
  • Publication number: 20160002732
    Abstract: Methods and compositions are provided for the identification of a molecular diagnostic test for cancer. The test identifies cancer subtypes that have an up-regulation or a down-regulation in biomarker expression related to angiogenesis and vascular development. The present invention can be used to determine whether patients with cancer are clinically responsive or non-responsive to a therapeutic regimen prior to administration of any anti-angiogenic agent. This test may be used in different cancer types and with different drugs that directly or indirectly affect angiogenesis or angiogenesis signalling. In addition, the present invention may be used as a prognostic indicator for certain cancer types. In particular, the present invention is directed to the use of certain combinations of predictive markers, wherein the expression of the predictive markers correlates with responsiveness or non-responsiveness to a therapeutic regimen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Inventors: Dennis Paul HARKIN, Fionnuala PATTERSON, Claire TRINDER, Eamonn J. O'BRIEN, Caroline MICHIE, Charlie GOURLEY, Laura A. HILL, Katherine E. KEATING, Jude O'DONNELL, Max BYLESJO, Steve DEHARO, Vitali PROUTSKI, Richard KENNEDY, Timothy DAVISON, Andreas WINTER, Andrena MCCAVIGAN
  • Publication number: 20150346341
    Abstract: Method for determining the position coordinates (XM, YM, ZM) of a target object (11) in a measurement range (12) in at least two dimensions (X, Y, Z), with the steps: a target device (13) with a reflector element (31) is positioned at the target object (11), a laser beam (46) is transmitted from a transmitting element (41) of a laser distance measurement device (14) onto the target device (13), at least a part of the laser beam (46) is partially reflected on the reflector element (31), a camera device (15) records an image of the target device (13) with the at least partially reflected laser beam as a light reflection, the focus of the light reflection in the image of the target device (13) is determined, a receiver element in the laser distance measuring device (14) receives the laser beam partially reflected on the reflector element (31) as the received beam, a distance to the target object (11) is calculated from the received beam, a first offset is calculated from a focal length of the camera device (15),
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicant: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Torsten GOGOLLA, Andreas WINTER
  • Publication number: 20150346319
    Abstract: A method for determining the position coordinates of a target object in a measurement field in at least two dimensions is disclosed. In a first step, a target device is positioned with a reflector element on the target object and a first basic distance between a first and a second laser distance measuring device is determined. In a second step, a first distance from the first laser distance measuring device to the target object and a second distance from the second laser distance measuring device to the target object are determined by laser distance measurement by the laser distance measuring devices. In a third step, the position coordinates of the target object are calculated from the distances by a control device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicant: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christoph WUERSCH, Andreas WINTER, Torsten GOGOLLA, Till CRAMER, Herwig HABENBACHER