Patents by Inventor Bernd Mergner

Bernd Mergner 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: 9551253
    Abstract: The accuracy of the coating concentration when applying a catalytically active coating to suitable carrier bodies can be increased if, following raw coating with a relatively wide fluctuation range in the coating concentration, excessive or insufficient coating applied is if appropriate corrected iteratively. Excessive coating suspension applied is removed, for example by subsequent suction, while the coating is still in the wet state, whereas insufficient coating suspension applied is topped up, for example by spraying on additional coating suspension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: UMICORE AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Oliver Fehnle, Dieter Detterbeck, Axel Wienand, Bernd Mergner
  • Patent number: 9488087
    Abstract: The invention relates to a novel assembly for coating substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: UMICORE AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Bernd Mergner, Wolfgang Hasselmann, Dieter Detterbeck, Sigurd Adler
  • Patent number: 8794178
    Abstract: The invention relates to a novel coating device, the method carried out using said device, products obtained thereby, and use of said products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Umicore AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Bernd Mergner, Stephane Masson
  • Publication number: 20120321537
    Abstract: The invention relates to a novel coating device, the method carried out using said device, products obtained thereby, and use of said products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2011
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: UMICORE AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Bernd Mergner, Stephane Masson
  • Publication number: 20120315381
    Abstract: The invention relates to a novel assembly for coating substrates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: UMICORE AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Bernd Mergner, Wolfgang Hasselmann, Dieter Detterbeck, Sigurd Adler
  • Publication number: 20090130294
    Abstract: The accuracy of the coating concentration when applying a catalytically active coating to suitable carrier bodies can be increased if, following raw coating with a relatively wide fluctuation range in the coating concentration, excessive or insufficient coating applied is if appropriate corrected iteratively. Excessive coating suspension applied is removed, for example by subsequent suction, while the coating is still in the wet state, whereas insufficient coating suspension applied is topped up, for example by spraying on additional coating suspension.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2005
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Inventors: Oliver Fehnle, Dieter Detterbeck, Axel Wienand, Bernd Mergner
  • Publication number: 20080107806
    Abstract: Wall-flow filters can be reproducibly provided with a catalytically active coating by providing a defined quantity of a coating composition and sucking this coating composition through the openings of the entry passages into the filter body. The coating composition is sucked in by applying a subatmospheric pressure to the openings of the exit passages of the wall-flow filters. A different ratio of the coating quantities on the inner surfaces (pore surfaces) and outer surfaces (geometric surfaces of the passage walls) forms depending on the type of coating composition—suspension of fine-particle solids, colloidal solution or solution of soluble precursors of catalytically active components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2005
    Publication date: May 8, 2008
    Applicant: UMICORE AG & CO.KG
    Inventors: Bernd Mergner, Wolfgang Hasselmann
  • Patent number: 6149973
    Abstract: A process for the coating of the flow channels of a cylindrical, honeycomb form catalyst carrier with a dispersion coating through filling of the vertically oriented flow channels with a fill quantity of the coating dispersion through the bottom face of the catalyst carrier and subsequent downward emptying and clearance extraction of the flow channels, as well as drying and calcination of the catalyst carrier, by the following steps:a) filling of the flow channels with a fill quantity that is about 10% greater than the empty volume of the flow channels, so that the coating dispersion goes over the upper face of the catalyst carrier after completion of the filling cycle,b) removal of the excess coating dispersion at the top before emptying of the flow channels andc) emptying and clearance extraction of the flow channels through an extraction impulse, which is generated by connection of a vacuum tank with the bottom face of the catalyst carrier,whereby the time between the beginning of the fill cycle and the en
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2000
    Assignee: Degussa-Huls Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martin Foerster, Ewald Dittrich, Gerhard Birtigh, Walter Leibold, Bernd Mergner, Michael Hoffmann, Wolfgang Hasselmann, Robert Schafer
  • Patent number: 5139993
    Abstract: The thermal shock resistance of monolithic catalysts is improved by pre-coating a ceramic monolithic carrier, before the application of catalytic components, with an organic filling material which can be melted and burned out and which comprises a dispersion of very fine solid particles, by heating the carrier above the melting point of the filling material, then applying the catalytic components and then burning out the filling material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1992
    Assignee: Degussa Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Felix Schmidt, Bernd Mergner, Rainer Domesle