Patents by Inventor Armin Müller
Armin Müller 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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Patent number: 7981214Abstract: In the case of a device for the melting and/or crystallizing of non-ferrous metals, especially of silicon, provision is made, for improving the quality of the crystallized and block-shaped non-ferrous metal, for there to be arranged around a container for receiving the non-ferrous metal at least one controllable cooling element for the active removal of heat from the non-ferrous metal.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2006Date of Patent: July 19, 2011Assignee: Deutsche Solar GmbHInventors: Armin Müller, Michael Ghosh, Jens Seidel, Bert Geyer
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Publication number: 20100254878Abstract: Process for winning pure silicon comprising the following steps: Providing a suspension, which exhibits at least some contaminated silicon particles, and guiding the suspension through at least one microstructure apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2010Publication date: October 7, 2010Inventors: Armin MÜLLER, Christian Kusterer, Silvio Stute, Martin Bertau, Ute Singliar, Robert Schulze, Edwin Kroke, Hans-Joachim Möller
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Patent number: 7758839Abstract: Method for producing silicon which is suitable as a starting material for producing a silicon melt for the fabrication of silicon blocks or silicon crystals, comprising the following steps: introducing a gaseous mixture of monosilane and hydrogen into a reactor, thermal degrading the gaseous mixture for forming silicon powder, separating the formed silicon powder produced from the gaseous mixture, and mechanical compacting the separated silicon powder with compacting rollers which having a roller jacket consisting of a ceramic material selected from graphite, glass and silicon nitride.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2005Date of Patent: July 20, 2010Assignee: Joint Solar Silicon GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Peter Adler, Andreas Gölz, Holger Kirchner, Armin Müller, Torsten Sill, Raymund Sonnenschein
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Patent number: 7658900Abstract: In a reactor for the decomposition of a silicon-containing gas, provision is made, to avoid silicon deposition on an inner wall of a reactor vessel, for at least one catalytically active mesh to be provided within a reaction chamber between at least one gas feed line and the inner wall (4). The mesh accelerates the thermal decomposition of the gas and reduces the deposition of silicon on the inner wall. Also described is a process for the preparation of silicon using the reactor according to the invention and the use in photovoltaics of the silicon prepared.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2006Date of Patent: February 9, 2010Assignee: Joint Solar Silicon GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Rico Berthold, Christian Beyer, Armin Müller, Carsten Pätzold, Torsten Sill, Ute Singliar, Raymund Sonnenschein, Gerald Ziegenbalg
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Publication number: 20090326790Abstract: The invention relates to a control device for a motor vehicle having an internal combustion engine and a stop/start device, and to a method for controlling the operation of an internal combustion engine in such a motor vehicle, wherein the stop/start device is designed to switch off the internal combustion automatically when at least one stop condition is met, wherein the switching off of the internal combustion engine when the stop condition is present does not take place until after a switch off delay time has passed. The control device is designed to prevent, in reaction to a first voice command, the automatic switching off of the internal combustion engine for a predefined time period and/or until a predefined vehicle operating state criterion has been fulfilled irrespective of whether or not the stop condition was already met at the time when the voice command was issued.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2009Publication date: December 31, 2009Inventors: Urs Christen, Rainer Busch, Uwe Gussen, Thomas Rambow, Markus Kees, Armin Mueller-Lerwe
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Publication number: 20090232590Abstract: A joint for a motor vehicle is provided with a housing (5), a bearing shell (4) arranged in the housing (5), a bearing journal (3), which has a bearing area (1) and a pivot area (2) and which is mounted pivotably and/or rotatably in the bearing shell (4) with the bearing area (1). The joint has at least one tensioning device (33), which is arranged in the housing 5, is designed as a solid body and by which a mechanical stress exerted by the bearing shell 4 on the bearing area 1 can be changed. The bearing shell 4 is springy at least in some areas and is deformable by the tensioning means 33 in a springy manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2005Publication date: September 17, 2009Inventors: Metin Ersoy, Martin Rechtien, Joachim Spratte, Frank Budde, Armin Müller
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Patent number: 7584919Abstract: Compacting device for the low-metal compaction of a powder with a casing which at least in part surrounds a working chamber, with a feed arrangement arranged on the casing and feeding a powder, which is to be compacted, into the working chamber, with at least a compacting roller which is rotatably arranged in the working chamber, comprises a roller jacket and, together with an opposing wall, forms a compacting gap for compacting the powder therein, characterised in that the at least one compacting roller consists of ceramic, at least on the roller jacket.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2005Date of Patent: September 8, 2009Assignee: Joint Solar Silicon GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Peter Adler, Andreas Gölz, Holger Kirchner, Armin Müller, Torsten Sill, Raymund Sonnenschein
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Publication number: 20080279748Abstract: Method for producing silicon which is suitable as a starting material for producing a silicon melt for the fabrication of silicon blocks or silicon crystals, comprising the following steps: introduction of a gaseous mixture of monosilane and hydrogen into a reactor, thermal degradation of the gaseous mixture with formation of silicon powder, separation of the silicon powder obtained from the gaseous mixture, and mechanical compacting of the separated silicon powder.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2005Publication date: November 13, 2008Inventors: Peter Adler, Andreas Gölz, Holger Kirchner, Armin Müller, Torsten Sill, Raymund Sonnenschein
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Patent number: 7423242Abstract: Oven for non-metal melting, in particular silicon melting, with a housing enclosing an interior, at least one mould arranged in the interior for receiving a non-metal melt, at least one electrical heating device enclosing, at least partially, the at least one mould for influencing the temperature of the non-metal melt, and a power supply device connected in an electrically conductive manner to the at least one heating device for providing the heating device with a time-variable current I(t), wherein the current I(t) has a frequency of 0.1 Hz to 1000 Hz and the current I(t) is of a magnitude sufficient for setting a predetermined temperature of the non-metal melt, the currents in the plurality, where necessary, of heaters having a defined phase position in respect of one another.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2007Date of Patent: September 9, 2008Assignee: Deutsche Solar AGInventors: Marc Dietrich, Bernhard Freudenberg, Armin Müller, Jens Seidel, Josef Stenzenberger
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Publication number: 20080189454Abstract: A device for data transmission for a motor vehicle is presented, which has sensors used for generating data. The sensors are arranged on or in chassis components occupying a variable position relative to the body of the motor vehicle. Furthermore, the device for data transmission has components or assembly units provided as rigid parts of the body for processing and/or evaluating the data generated in or on the chassis components occupying a variable position and a means for transmitting the data supplied by the sensors to said components, which are arranged as rigid parts of the body. The transmission means is designed according to the present invention as a plastic film web, which is provided with strip conductors and whose strip conductors establish a connection between interfaces provided on the chassis side and on the body side.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2005Publication date: August 7, 2008Inventors: Metin Ersoy, Felix Haeusler, Michael Klank, Bernd Grannemann, Armin Mueller, Joachim Spratte
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Patent number: 7063480Abstract: A ball-and-socket joint for a motor vehicle, especially for the chassis of the motor vehicle, is provided, wherein the ball-and-socket joint has a ball-and-socket joint housing (4) provided with a joint opening (6) as well as a ball pivot (3). The ball pivot (3) includes a joint ball (1) and a pivot (2). The ball pivot (3) is mounted with its joint ball (1) rotatably and pivotably in the ball-and-socket joint housing (4) and protrudes with its pivot (2) from the ball-and-socket joint housing (4). A separate closing element (10), which closes a mounting opening (9) provided in the ball-and-socket joint housing at least partially, and at which at least one electronic component (11) is arranged, is fastened to the ball-and-socket joint housing (4).Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2002Date of Patent: June 20, 2006Assignee: ZF Lemförder Metallwaren AGInventors: Metin Ersoy, Joachim Spratte, Armin Müller
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Patent number: 6932440Abstract: A method and apparatus for braking a vehicle having a vehicle brake system with a brake control device, and an engine whose torque is transmitted via a transmission to driven wheels. When there is a malfunction of the braking system and a demand for a braking operation, the transmission ratio is increased by a transmission control unit, which activates the transmission, to produce increased braking torque at the driven wheels.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2000Date of Patent: August 23, 2005Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Rainer Freitag, Wilfried Huber, Armin Mueller, Harry Troester
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Patent number: 6502908Abstract: A control system for a vehicle has a detection device for generating signals which describe the operating and vehicle state. The latter signals are supplied to a regulating and control unit which generates actuating signals for switching on and off a vehicle component that influences a brake servo device for automatically producing braking force if the accelerator pedal is not actuated by the driver. This “acceleration—automatic braking” mode is triggered if the brake pedal has been actuated in a prescribed manner within a defined period of time.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2000Date of Patent: January 7, 2003Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Armin Mueller, Thomas Roehrig-Gericke, Reinhold Schoeb, Harry Troester
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Patent number: 6468468Abstract: Described is a process for producing sintered parts from an aluminum sintering mixture, wherein between 10 and 70% by weight of pure aluminum powder and between 30 and 90% by weight of an aluminum alloy powder are mixed to form an aluminum sintering mixture. The aluminum alloy powder is of the following composition: between 14 and 35% by weight of Si; between 1 and 7% by weight of Cu; between 0.3 and 2.5% by weight of Mg; between 0.3 and 6% by weight of a transition metal, the balance aluminum. The pure alloy powder and the aluminum alloy powder are each of a grain size of a maximum of 315 &mgr;m. The aluminum sintering mixture is mixed with between 0.5 and 2% by weight of compacting additive. The mix of alloy sintering mixture and compacting additive is compacted to form a green compact. The green compact is then sintered. As no low-melting phases occur in the invention, sintered bodies which are stable in respect of shape are reproducibly obtained in the sintering operation.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2000Date of Patent: October 22, 2002Assignee: Ecka Granulate GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Hans-Claus Neubing, Johann Gradl, Armin Müller
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Patent number: 6449572Abstract: In a method for classifying the driving style of a driver in a motor vehicle, measured variables indicative of driving style are recorded and driving-style classification figures are determined by a comparison with reference values, parameter settings corresponding to the driving-style classification figures being carried out to adapt the functioning of a regulation and control unit. In order to improve the handling of a motor vehicle with the aid of a driver classification, it is provided that presettings for the driving-style classification figures are stored in the regulation and control unit of the motor vehicle, it being possible to prescribe driving-style classification figures for a plurality of different driver reaction stages, and that the current driver is classified in a prescribed driver reaction stage in the motor vehicle by measuring classifying indicators, and driving-style classification figures corresponding to the driver reaction stage are activated in the regulation and control unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 1999Date of Patent: September 10, 2002Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Gerhard Kurz, Armin Müller, Thomas Röhrig-Gericke, Reinhold Schöb, Harry Tröster, Andy Yap
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Patent number: 6276630Abstract: A device for winding webs of fabric into a lap, arranged on a lap rod, with a machine frame, a lap carrier which can move to and from with respect to the machine frame between a winding position and an unloading position and is provided with receiving mechanism for the two ends of the lap rod, which have positioning guides which position the lap rod in the winding position of the lap carrier in a winding rotational position, and with securing elements which secure the lap rod, in the winding position of the lap carrier, against any movement out the positioning guides.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 1999Date of Patent: August 21, 2001Assignee: Terrot Strickmaschinen GmbHInventors: Armin Mueller, Werner Engelfried
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Patent number: 6247335Abstract: A circular knitting machine for producing knitted fabrics with combed-in fibers, comprising a needle cylinder, at least one carding device with a comb-in wheel and an extraction device for waste fibers, which produces knitted facbrics of a high quality and requires as little maintenance as possible. The extraction device has at least one extraction nozzle for generating a directional extraction flow.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2000Date of Patent: June 19, 2001Assignee: Terrot Strickmaschinen GmbHInventors: Erwin Schaeberle, Klaus Kunde, Armin Mueller
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Patent number: 5706198Abstract: In order to avoid faults as a result of different diameters of tires, under prescribed conditions a correction of one wheel speed with respect to the other on each side of the vehicle is performed. The conditions are based on a comparison of the throttle valve angle to the zero torque angle, and a comparison of the speed of the driven wheel to the speed of the non-driven wheel.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1995Date of Patent: January 6, 1998Assignees: Robert Bosch GmbH, Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, Mercedes-Benz AGInventors: Johannes Schmitt, Dirk Saewe, Armin Mueller, Alfred Straub
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Patent number: 5693275Abstract: The method of making a pre-adherized polyester filament yarn with adhesion properties for rubber includes applying a pre-adherizing agent to a polyester filament yarn having a boiling water shrinkage value of <20% while spinning it at not less than 3200 m/min, heat treating the pre-adherized polyester filament yarn with hot air on a bobbin for several days at from 50.degree. to 90.degree. C., and then subjecting the conditioned POY to a single drawing step in which the take-off speed is 1.7 to 2.2 times faster than the inlet speed. Impregnated tire cord made from the polyester filament yarn so treated has a tensile strength of 60 to 70 cN/tex and a tempered shrinkage test value at 190.degree. C. of less than 3.5%, an adhesive power of 18 to 25 daN to rubber, an appearance grade of 2.5-4.0 and a dimensional stability value of greater than 24,000 cN/tex.sup.2.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 1996Date of Patent: December 2, 1997Assignee: Rhone-Poulenc ViscosuisseInventors: Peter Reinthaler, Armin Mueller
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Patent number: 5653517Abstract: For the determination of the friction/slip characteristics of the tires of a road vehicle which is equipped with an antilock system designed for an individual wheel control, in an initial phase of a controlled braking, only the wheel brake of an individual vehicle wheel is acted upon by brake pressure and the latter is dimensioned so that the result is the initial retardation in accordance with the driver's wish. During this initial test phase of the braking, the absolute brake slip .lambda..sub.B as well as the friction utilization .mu..sub.B linked therewith is continuously determined as soon as, as a result of just the braking of the test wheel, the vehicle retardation z increases no further and/or the braked vehicle wheel is more strongly retarded than corresponds to a predetermined threshold value, the test braking is interrupted and the braking is continued by pressure action on the further vehicle wheels; corresponding test braking phases are carried out in cyclic sequence for all guidance wheels.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 1996Date of Patent: August 5, 1997Assignee: Mercedes-Benz AGInventors: Manfred Burckhardt, Gerd Eilert, Rainer Freitag, Armin Mueller, Reinhold Schoeb, Rainer Spiecker, Sinan Kazan, Richard Zimmer