Patents by Inventor Benno Knott

Benno Knott 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: 10459044
    Abstract: A method for operating an NMR probehead (10) with an MAS stator (11) receiving a circular-cylindrical hollow MAS rotor (13) with an outer jacket. The MAS rotor is mounted on pressurized gas in a measuring position within the MAS stator via a gas supply device with a bearing nozzle (12?) and rotates about the cylinder axis of the MAS rotor at a rotation frequency f?30 kHz. During a measurement, a temperature control gas is blown by a temperature control nozzle (12) onto the outer jacket of the rotor at an angle ?<90° with respect to the longitudinal axis of the cylinder-symmetrical rotor. The flow speed of the temperature control gas corresponds in the nozzle cross section to at least half the circumferential speed of the outer jacket of the rotating rotor and to at most the speed of sound in the temperature control gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: BRUKER BIOSPIN GMBH
    Inventors: David Osen, Armin Purea, Benno Knott, Fabian Kuehler, Florian Helbing, Alia Hassan, Jevgeni Guidoulianov, Nicolas Freytag
  • Patent number: 10241162
    Abstract: A nuclear magnetic resonance-magic angle spinning (NMR-MAS) turbine assembly has a MAS rotor with turbine cap having a stopper region and a turbine region. The stopper region allows feeding into a rotor tube and has at least one sealing section for resting against an inner wall of the rotor tube. The turbine region has a collar section for resting against a face side of the rotor tube and a turbine section that forms the turbine blades, which protrude axially from the collar section without extending radially further than the collar section. The arrangement of the rotor allows for very high rotation frequencies that, correspondingly, reduce line broadening in NMR measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Inventors: David Osen, Benno Knott
  • Patent number: 10132881
    Abstract: An MAS stator (7) for an NMR-MAS probe head (1) has a bottom bearing (8) with at least one nozzle and at least one radial bearing (9a, 9b), wherein one substantially circular cylindrical MAS rotor (21c) is provided for receiving a measurement substance. The MAS rotor can be supported by compressed gas in a measurement position within the MAS stator by means of a gas supply device and can be rotated about the cylinder axis of the MAS rotor by means of a pneumatic drive. A suction device (100) is provided in a space below the radial bearing for suctioning-off the gas introduced by the gas supply device, and generates an underpressure in the space below the radial bearing during measurement operation. This provides a stator for NMR-MAS spectroscopy in which the closure at the head end of the stator is omitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Bruker BioSpin GmbH
    Inventors: David Osen, Benno Knott, Armin Purea
  • Publication number: 20180088190
    Abstract: A method for operating an NMR probehead (10) with an MAS stator (11) receiving a circular-cylindrical hollow MAS rotor (13) with an outer jacket. The MAS rotor is mounted on pressurized gas in a measuring position within the MAS stator via a gas supply device with a bearing nozzle (12?) and rotates about the cylinder axis of the MAS rotor at a rotation frequency f?30 kHz. During a measurement, a temperature control gas is blown by a temperature control nozzle (12) onto the outer jacket of the rotor at an angle ?<90° with respect to the longitudinal axis of the cylinder-symmetrical rotor. The flow speed of the temperature control gas corresponds in the nozzle cross section to at least half the circumferential speed of the outer jacket of the rotating rotor and to at most the speed of sound in the temperature control gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: David OSEN, Armin PUREA, Benno KNOTT, Fabian KUEHLER, Florian HELBING, Alia HASSAN, Jevgeni GUIDOULIANOV, Nicolas FREYTAG
  • Patent number: 9778331
    Abstract: An NMR MAS probe head (1) has an MAS stator (7) with a base bearing (8) and a front bearing (75) for receiving a substance to be measured at a measurement position within an MAS rotor. The front bearing has an opening for inserting the MAS rotor into the space between the base bearing and the front bearing. The opening can be closed by a closing device that, in a loading state, opens and, in a measuring state, closes the opening by means of a movement that is transverse with respect to an axis (a) through the centers of the base bearing and the opening of the front bearing of the MAS stator. This enables automated loading and unloading of the MAS rotor in the space between the base bearing and the front bearing inside the MAS stator in a simple way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: BRUKER BIOSPIN GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Hunkeler, Benno Knott, David Osen
  • Publication number: 20170108561
    Abstract: A nuclear magnetic resonance-magic angle spinning (NMR-MAS) turbine assembly has a MAS rotor with turbine cap having a stopper region and a turbine region. The stopper region allows feeding into a rotor tube and has at least one sealing section for resting against an inner wall of the rotor tube. The turbine region has a collar section for resting against a face side of the rotor tube and a turbine section that forms the turbine blades, which protrude axially from the collar section without extending radially further than the collar section. The arrangement of the rotor allows for very high rotation frequencies that, correspondingly, reduce line broadening in NMR measurements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: David OSEN, Benno KNOTT
  • Publication number: 20160334478
    Abstract: An MAS stator (7) for an NMR-MAS probe head (1) has a bottom bearing (8) with at least one nozzle and at least one radial bearing (9a, 9b), wherein one substantially circular cylindrical MAS rotor (21c) is provided for receiving a measurement substance. The MAS rotor can be supported by compressed gas in a measurement position within the MAS stator by means of a gas supply device and can be rotated about the cylinder axis of the MAS rotor by means of a pneumatic drive. A suction device (100) is provided in a space below the radial bearing for suctioning-off the gas introduced by the gas supply device, and generates an underpressure in the space below the radial bearing during measurement operation. This provides a stator for NMR-MAS spectroscopy in which the closure at the head end of the stator is omitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: David Osen, Benno Knott, Armin Purea
  • Publication number: 20140125340
    Abstract: An NMR MAS probe head (1) has an MAS stator (7) with a base bearing (8) and a front bearing (75) for receiving a substance to be measured at a measurement position within an MAS rotor. The front bearing has an opening for inserting the MAS rotor into the space between the base bearing and the front bearing. The opening can be closed by a closing device that, in a loading state, opens and, in a measuring state, closes the opening by means of a movement that is transverse with respect to an axis (a) through the centers of the base bearing and the opening of the front bearing of the MAS stator. This enables automated loading and unloading of the MAS rotor in the space between the base bearing and the front bearing inside the MAS stator in a simple way.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Inventors: Andreas Hunkeler, Benno Knott, David Osen
  • Patent number: 8212559
    Abstract: A nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) magic angle spinning (MAS) probe head (1; 61) for measuring a measuring substance in an MAS rotor (21a-21c), comprises a bottom box (3) and a tube (2) mounted to the bottom box (3) and projecting from the bottom box, wherein, in the area of the end (5) of the tube (2) facing away from the bottom box (3), an MAS stator (7; 62) is disposed within the tube (2) for receiving an MAS rotor (21a-21c), and with a pneumatic sample changing system for supplying and discharging an MAS rotor (21a-21c) to/from the MAS stator (7; 62). A transport conduit (10) is provided for pneumatically transferring an MAS rotor (21a-21c) within the transport conduit (10), wherein the transport conduit (10) extends in the inside of the tube (2) from the bottom box (3) to the MAS stator (7; 62). The probe head realizes fast change between different MAS rotors and facilitates RF shielding and keeping of defined extreme temperature conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Bruker BioSpin GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Armbruster, Benno Knott
  • Publication number: 20100109666
    Abstract: A nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) magic angle spinning (MAS) probe head (1; 61) for measuring a measuring substance in an MAS rotor (21a-21c), comprises a bottom box (3) and a tube (2) mounted to the bottom box (3) and projecting from the bottom box, wherein, in the area of the end (5) of the tube (2) facing away from the bottom box (3), an MAS stator (7; 62) is disposed within the tube (2) for receiving an MAS rotor (21a-21c), and with a pneumatic sample changing system for supplying and discharging an MAS rotor (21a-21c) to/from the MAS stator (7; 62). A transport conduit (10) is provided for pneumatically transferring an MAS rotor (21a-21c) within the transport conduit (10), wherein the transport conduit (10) extends in the inside of the tube (2) from the bottom box (3) to the MAS stator (7; 62). The probe head realizes fast change between different MAS rotors and facilitates RF shielding and keeping of defined extreme temperature conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2009
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: Bruker BioSpin GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Armbruster, Benno Knott