Patents by Inventor Bjoern HOFFMANN

Bjoern HOFFMANN 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).

  • Publication number: 20240350386
    Abstract: The presently claimed invention relates to oxidative hair colouring compositions comprising at least one alkalizing agent of general formula (I), The oxidative hair colouring compositions comprising at least one compound of general formula (I) provide the combined benefit of delivering broader colour shade palette and improved colour intensity with a low level of hair damage, while ensuring low or no odour levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Viktoriya SENDYUREVA, Simon GODFREY, Axel MEYER, Emad BADALI-BAGHAL, Teresa BURGAHN, Bjoern HOFFMANN, John LANKHOF
  • Publication number: 20240342067
    Abstract: The presently claimed invention relates to hair colouring formulations comprising 2-amino-1-Propanol (2A1P/Alanilol) as an alkalizing agent. The compositions of the presently claimed invention provide a series of desirable properties to the user such as a pleasant low chemical odour and a high level of hair bleaching with an acceptable damage profile. The compositions of the presently claimed invention further enable formulators to deliver a wider range of shades or colour formulations by reducing the off-toning adducts of oxidative dyes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: Simon GODFREY, Viktoriya SENDYUREVA, Teresa BURGAHN, Axel MEYER, Emad BADALI-BAGHAL, Bjoern HOFFMANN, John LANKHOF
  • Publication number: 20240322461
    Abstract: A high-current module connector includes at least one electrical connector with a first connector portion, a threaded socket and a housing, wherein the housing is designed in the manner of a hollow body and encloses a housing interior, wherein the housing has a latching device, a first insertion opening arranged at the end and a feed opening on a housing portion extending circumferentially around the installation axis, wherein the connector traverses the first feed opening in such a way that the first connector portion and the threaded socket arranged on the first connector portion are arranged in the housing interior, wherein the latching device is arranged at the feed opening, wherein the latching device retains the first connector portion and the threaded socket in the housing interior by the threaded socket bearing against the latching device. A module connector system including the high-current module connector and a method for installing the high-current module connector are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Frank KAEHNY, Marcus WOLF, Manuel EHEIM, Bjoern HOFFMANN, Gerzson TOTH
  • Publication number: 20240298569
    Abstract: Computer-implemented method for determining and providing an application scheme for fertilizers, comprising the following steps: providing agricultural crop data (S10) comprising information about an agricultural crop species sown or planned to sow in a field; providing application time data (S20) comprising information about at least one planned application time of applying fertilizers in the field; providing nutrient specifier data (S30) comprising information about at least one nutrient specifier present or expected in the field; performing a database search in a fertilizer product database (S50) at least based on the provided agricultural crop data, the provided application time data, the provided nutrient specifier data and determining the fertilizer products matching the agricultural crop and the application time and one of the nutrient specifiers, wherein the fertilizer product database comprises information about a plurality of fertilizer products, and wherein the information about the fertilizer prod
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: Holger HOFFMANN, Mollie Jo HOSS-KUHNE, Bjoern KIEPE, Umit Baran ILBASI
  • Publication number: 20240291197
    Abstract: An electrically insulating touch protection cover for an electrical module connector with two connection members connecting two current conductors in a conductive manner, wherein the touch protection cover includes two protective housings, one for each of the two connection members, that can be plugged together along a plugging direction, wherein one of the two protective housings comprises an inner collar and the other of the two protective housings comprises an outer collar that is configured to receive at least in part the inner collar, wherein the inner collar comprises at least one positive-fit element and the outer collar comprises at least one positive-fit element that is complementary thereto, wherein the positive-fit elements are configured to latch in the plugging direction, and wherein the inner collar and the outer collar are configured to be rotatable relative to each other in a latched state of the positive-fit elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventors: Manuel EHEIM, Alexander WEBER, Patrick DISTLER, Bjoern HOFFMANN, Marcus WOLF
  • Patent number: 12027282
    Abstract: An arrangement includes an insulator sleeve, a mounting sheath, an end piece of the insulator sleeve is received in a receptacle opening of the mounting sheath, and a holding pin penetrating the insulator sleeve and fixing the mounting sheath on the insulator sleeve in a non-displaceable manner in a length direction of the insulator sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Bjoern Hoffmann, Frank Kaehny, Marcus Wolf, Alexander Weber
  • Publication number: 20240145947
    Abstract: A connection assembly includes a busbar made of a first metallic material, where busbar comprises a hole; a contact element which is arranged in the hole in busbar and is made of a second metallic material; where the outer diameter of the part of contact element, which in a direction of insertion is at the rear, is larger than the outer diameter of the part of contact element which in the direction of insertion is at the fore; where the inner surface of the hole in busbar comprises a recess which is filled with the material of contact element, whereby contact element is held in the hole in busbar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Manuel Eheim, Patrick Distler, Bjoern Hoffmann, Ron Buchholz, Marcus Wolf
  • Patent number: 11901653
    Abstract: A module connector for electrically connecting a pair of electric modules includes a pair of contact assemblies spaced from one another and fastening the module connector to the electric modules, a conductor assembly electrically connecting the contact assemblies and, with the contact assemblies, forming an electrical connection between the electric modules, and a housing formed of an electrically insulating material. The contact assemblies and the conductor assembly are accommodated in the housing. At least one of the contact assemblies is fastened to the conductor assembly in a manner displaceable relative to the conductor assembly in a direction of displacement directed towards and/or away from the other of the contact assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Chris Buechling, Frank Kaehny, Manuel Eheim, Marcus Wolf, Bjoern Hoffmann, Alexander Weber, Patrick Distler
  • Publication number: 20240014599
    Abstract: A module connector for electrically connecting two electric modules comprises a busbar, at least one screw and at least one screw guide. The busbar includes at least one flat face defining a busbar plane, and a through opening extending perpendicularly to the busbar plane and through the busbar. The at least one screw is held in the through hole, rotatable relative to the busbar and slidable parallel to the busbar plane. The at least one screw guide is rotatable relative to the busbar and held at least sectionally in the through opening. The at least one screw guide includes a hole extending parallel to the through opening in which the at least one screw is held at least sectionally.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Marcus Wolf, Maik Schaefer, Bjoern Hoffmann, Ron Buchholz, Patrick Distler, Manuel Eheim
  • Publication number: 20230327360
    Abstract: A screw for a touch-proof plug connection includes a screw body and a touch protection device. The screw body has a screw head and a screw shank extending from the screw head along a screw-in direction to a screw tip. The screw tip has a connecting element. The touch protection element has a connection device on a coupling side. The connection device is a connection counterpart to the connecting element and connects the touch protection element to the screw body. The touch protection element has an electrically insulating surface on a front side that points in the screw-in direction in a connected state of the screw body and the touch protection element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Ron Buchholz, Manuel Eheim, Alexander Weber, Marcus Wolf, Bjoern Hoffmann, Patrick Distler
  • Publication number: 20230311376
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a cushioning article comprising a polymeric foam layer; and at least one longitudinal spacer element arranged along the plane formed by the polymeric foam layer, wherein the longitudinal spacer element is adjacent to, or at least partly embedded into the polymeric foam layer, and wherein the longitudinal spacer element has an aspect ratio AR (ratio x/y), where x is the length of the greatest dimension of the longitudinal spacer element and y is the length of the smallest dimension of the longitudinal spacer element, and wherein the aspect ratio of the longitudinal spacer element is greater than 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Simon PLUGGE, Micheal KEMPF, Pierre BIEBER, Thomas APELDORN, René KUHLMANN, Roman KONIETZNY, Björn HOFFMANN, Torsten KOPPENHAGEN, Sascha SPROTT
  • Publication number: 20230303794
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a cushioning article comprising a non-syntactic polymeric foam layer; and a plurality of spacer elements arranged within the polymeric foam layer, wherein each spacer element is at least partly embedded into the polymeric foam layer, and wherein each spacer element has a size greater than 200 micrometers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas APELDORN, Michael KEMPF, Pierre BIEBER, René KUHLMANN, Simon PLUGGE, Björn HOFFMANN, David RUDEK, Roman KONIETZNY
  • Publication number: 20230272177
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a multilayer construction comprising a polymeric foam layer; and at least one spacer layer comprising a plurality of spacer elements, wherein each spacer element comprises a protruding portion and two opposite terminal portions, and wherein at least one terminal portion of each spacer element is fully embedded into the polymeric foam layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas APELDORN, Roman KONIETZNY, Pierre BIEBER, René KUHLMANN, Michael KEMPF, Simon PLUGGE, Björn HOFFMANN, Thomas HANNEN
  • Publication number: 20230159718
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a silicone rubber foam layer obtainable by a process that includes providing a substrate; providing a first solid film and applying it onto the substrate; providing a coating tool provided with an upstream side and a downstream side, wherein the coating tool is offset from the substrate to form a gap normal to the surface of the substrate; moving the first solid film relative to the coating tool in a downstream direction; providing a curable and foamable precursor of the silicone rubber foam to the upstream side of the coating tool thereby coating the precursor of the silicone rubber foam through the gap as a layer onto the substrate provided with the first solid film; providing a second solid film and applying it along the upstream side of the coating tool, such that the first solid film and the second solid film are applied simultaneously with the formation of the adjacent layer of the precursor of the silicone rubber foam; foaming or allowing the precursor of the silicone
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Inventors: Michael KEMPF, Roman KONETZNY, René KUHLMANN, Simon PLUGGE, Thomas APELDORN, Claus MIDDENDORF, Björn HOFFMANN, Christoph KUESTERS, Karoline A. OSTROWSKI, Pierre Reinhard BIEBER
  • Patent number: 11628127
    Abstract: Composition for lightening keratin fibers, comprising: at least 20% weight of fatty substances free of carboxylic acid groups relative to the total weight of the composition, at least one alkalizing agent, at least one surfactant, and at least one oxidizing agent, wherein the concentration of oxidizing agent in the composition is from 1.5% to 2.5% by weight relative to the total weight of the composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: WELLA OPERATIONS US, LLC
    Inventors: Andrej Gross, Bjoern Hoffmann, Simon Paul Godfrey, Lina Makavou-Jennen
  • Publication number: 20220384911
    Abstract: A contact assembly includes a contact element having a lead-through opening, a contact section extending in a tube-shaped manner along the lead-through opening and having a contact surface, and a collar section connected to the contact section and extending the lead-through opening in a sleeve-shaped manner, a busbar having a reception opening receiving the collar section, and a fastener inserted into the lead-through opening. The contact element has a first friction surface affixable with the busbar in the reception opening in a frictionally engaging manner and a second friction surface affixable in the reception opening with the busbar or in the lead-through opening with the fastener in a frictionally engaging manner. The first friction surface and the second friction surface are mutually offset in a radial direction with respect to the lead-through opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Manuel Eheim, Alexander Weber, Bjoern Hoffmann, Frank Kaehny, Patrick Distler, Marcus Wolf
  • Publication number: 20220311172
    Abstract: An electrically insulating touch protection device for an electrical conductor includes an insulating tube and a housing receiving an end of the electrical conductor. The housing has an end section pointing toward the insulating tube. The end section has a first segment and a second segment. The first segment is inserted into the insulating tube and the second segment is placed on the insulating tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Bjoern Hoffmann, Alexander Weber, Frank Kaehny, Chris Buechling, Marcus Wolf, Manuel Eheim, Patrick Distler
  • Publication number: 20220231436
    Abstract: A module connector for electrically connecting a pair of electric modules includes a pair of contact assemblies spaced from one another and fastening the module connector to the electric modules, a conductor assembly electrically connecting the contact assemblies and, with the contact assemblies, forming an electrical connection between the electric modules, and a housing formed of an electrically insulating material. The contact assemblies and the conductor assembly are accommodated in the housing. At least one of the contact assemblies is fastened to the conductor assembly in a manner displaceable relative to the conductor assembly in a direction of displacement directed towards and/or away from the other of the contact assemblies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Chris Buechling, Frank Kaehny, Manuel Eheim, Marcus Wolf, Bjoern Hoffmann, Alexander Weber, Patrick Distler
  • Publication number: 20220200220
    Abstract: A busbar contact includes a contact ring and a fastening element. The contact ring has a contact surface at a distal end and a press-in flange projecting radially. The press-in flange has a cylindrical contact surface pointing radially outward.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Chris Buechling, Frank Kaehny, Manuel Eheim, Marcus Wolf, Bjoern Hoffmann, Alexander Weber, Patrick Distler
  • Patent number: 11219587
    Abstract: An agent for dyeing keratin fibers comprises a composition A comprising at least one alkalizing agent, at least one oxidative dye precursor, at least one surfactant and at least one fatty substance free of carboxylic acid groups and a composition B comprising at least one oxidizing agent and at least one surfactant. The concentration of fatty substances free of carboxylic acid groups after mixing composition A and composition B is at least 20% by weight relative to the total weight of the mixed composition A and B. The concentration of alkalizing agent after mixing composition A and composition B is not more than 1.75% by weight relative to the total weight of the mixed composition A and B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: WELLA OPERATIONS US, LLC
    Inventors: Axel Meyer, Andrej Gross, Bjoern Hoffmann, Simon Paul Godfrey, Lina Makavou-Jennen