Patents by Inventor Christian Gotz
Christian Gotz 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: 11148335Abstract: An apparatus for controlling the rate of flow of a fluid mold material comprising: a manifold, an actuator interconnected to a valve pin, a position sensor that senses position of the valve pin, a controller that controls movement of the actuator according to instructions that instruct the actuator to drive the valve pin upstream at one or more selected intermediate velocities in response to receipt by the controller of a signal from the position sensor that the valve pin is disposed in the one or more intermediate upstream gate open positions.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2018Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Synventive Molding Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Sergio Ribeiro de Oliveira Antunes, Christian Gotz, Juergen Wilhelm Emich
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Publication number: 20200108537Abstract: An injection molding system for implementing a molding process, comprising: a mold, a controller, a position sensor, wherein during an injection cycle, the system feeds the fluid material to one or more nozzles at one or more predetermined times, the controller being configured to receive and process the output signal from the position sensor to determine one or more actual flow rate indicative parameters, a user interface that displays one or more pin positions and one or more flow rate indicative parameters by which a user of the system can track the one or more pin positions and flow rate indicative parameters in real time during the injection cycle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2019Publication date: April 9, 2020Inventors: Sergio Ribeiro de Oliveira Antunes, Christian Gotz, Juergen Wilhelm Emich
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Publication number: 20190091910Abstract: An apparatus for controlling the rate of flow of a fluid mold material comprising: a manifold, an actuator interconnected to a valve pin, a position sensor that senses position of the valve pin, a controller that controls movement of the actuator according to instructions that instruct the actuator to drive the valve pin upstream at one or more selected intermediate velocities in response to receipt by the controller of a signal from the position sensor that the valve pin is disposed in the one or more intermediate upstream gate open positions.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventors: Sergio Ribeiro de Oliveira Antunes, Christian Gotz, Juergen Wilhelm Emich
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Patent number: 10173356Abstract: An apparatus for controlling the rate of flow of a fluid mold material comprising: a manifold, an actuator interconnected to a valve pin, a position sensor that senses position of the valve pin, a controller that controls movement of the actuator according to instructions that instruct the actuator to drive the valve pin upstream at one or more selected intermediate velocities in response to receipt by the controller of a signal from the position sensor that the valve pin is disposed in the one or more intermediate upstream gate open positions.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2017Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: Synventive Molding Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Sergio Ribeiro de Oliveira Antunes, Christian Gotz, Juergen Wilhelm Emich
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Publication number: 20170210048Abstract: An apparatus for controlling the rate of flow of a fluid mold material comprising: a manifold, an actuator interconnected to a valve pin, a position sensor that senses position of the valve pin, a controller that controls movement of the actuator according to instructions that instruct the actuator to drive the valve pin upstream at one or more selected intermediate velocities in response to receipt by the controller of a signal from the position sensor that the valve pin is disposed in the one or more intermediate upstream gate open positions.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2017Publication date: July 27, 2017Inventors: Sergio Ribeiro de Oliveira Antunes, Christian Gotz, Juergen Wilhelm Emich
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Publication number: 20170190090Abstract: An apparatus for controlling the rate of flow of a fluid mold material comprising: a manifold, an actuator interconnected to a valve pin, a position sensor that senses position of the valve pin, a controller that controls movement of the actuator according to instructions that instruct the actuator to drive the valve pin upstream at one or more selected intermediate velocities in response to receipt by the controller of a signal from the position sensor that the valve pin is disposed in the one or more intermediate upstream gate open positions.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2017Publication date: July 6, 2017Inventors: Sergio Ribeiro de Oliveira Antunes, Christian Gotz, Juergen Wilhelm Emich
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Patent number: 9636858Abstract: An apparatus for controlling the rate of flow to a mold cavity including a controller instructing a valve system to drive an actuator and a valve pin and including instructions that instruct the valve system to drive an actuator and a valve pin and including instructions that instruct the valve system to move from a start position to one or more intermediate drive rate positions and subsequently from the one or more intermediate drive rate positions to a high drive rate position on receipt by the controller of a signal from a position sensor that is indicative of the valve pin having reached a second position.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2014Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Synventive Molding Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Sergio Ribeiro de Oliveira Antunes, Christian Gotz, Juergen Wilhelm Emich
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Publication number: 20150147256Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing trisilylamine and polysilazanes in the liquid phase, in which ammonia dissolved in an inert solvent is initially introduced in a substoichiometric amount relative to monochlorosilane which is likewise present in an inert solvent. The reaction is carried out in a reactor in which trisilylamine formed according to the following equation 4NH3+3H3SiCl?3NH4Cl+(SiH3)3N and polysilazanes are formed. The reactor is subsequently depressurized and TSA is separated off in gaseous form from the product mixture. The TSA obtained is purified by filtration and distillation and obtained in high or very high purity. Further ammonia dissolved in an inert solvent is subsequently introduced into the reactor, using, together with the previously introduced amount of ammonia, a stoichiometric excess of ammonia relative to the amount of MCS previously present.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2013Publication date: May 28, 2015Applicant: Evonik Industries AGInventors: Carl-Friedrich Hoppe, Christian Götz, Hartwig Rauleder, Goswin Uehlenbruck
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Patent number: 9011736Abstract: An apparatus for controlling the rate of flow to a mold cavity including a controller instructing a valve system to drive an actuator and a valve pin and including instructions that instruct the valve system to drive an actuator and a valve pin and including instructions that instruct the valve system to move from a start position to one or more intermediate drive rate positions and subsequently from the one or more intermediate drive rate positions to a high drive rate position on receipt by the controller of a signal from a position sensor that is indicative of the valve pin having reached a second position.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2012Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: Synventive Molding Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Sergio Ribeiro de Oliveira Antunes, Christian Götz, Juergen Wilhelm Emich
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Publication number: 20150091198Abstract: An apparatus for controlling the rate of flow to a mold cavity including a controller instructing a valve system to drive an actuator and a valve pin and including instructions that instruct the valve system to drive an actuator and a valve pin and including instructions that instruct the valve system to move from a start position to one or more intermediate drive rate positions and subsequently from the one or more intermediate drive rate positions to a high drive rate position on receipt by the controller of a signal from a position sensor that is indicative of the valve pin having reached a second position.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2014Publication date: April 2, 2015Inventors: Sergio Ribeiro de Oliveira Antunes, Christian Gotz, Juergen Wilhelm Emich
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Patent number: 8915998Abstract: The invention relates to a pigment granulate which contains 40 to 65% by weight of pigment and at least 10% by weight of a compound of general formula (I) CH3—(CH2)n—CH2—O—[(CH2)p—O]m—H, wherein n=8-18, p=1-4 and m=35-100, the weight ratio of the compound of general formula I to the pigment being ? the STSA surface area of the pigment in m2/g multiplied by 0.0021 g/m2 and the mass-weighted particle size of the pigment granulate being <20 ?m. The pigment granulate can be produced by dispersing the pigment and the compound of formula I in a solvent and then drying the dispersion obtained. The pigments according to the invention can be used for dying and/or the antistatic finishing in water-based paints and lacquer systems, dispersion on paints, printing inks, ink systems and coating systems.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2009Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: Evonik Carbon Black GmbHInventors: Christian Götz, Gerd Tauber, Ralph McIntosh, Werner Kalbitz, Frank Stenger, Rüdiger Mertsch, Mandy Mühlbach
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Patent number: 8349244Abstract: In an injection molding apparatus comprising a clamp plate, a heated manifold and a mold, a system for mounting an actuator to the manifold and the clamp plate, the system comprising: a mount comprised of a thermally conductive material having first and second heat conductive surfaces; the first conductive surface being in heat conductive communication with the actuator, the second conductive surface being in heat conductive communication with the clamp plate; the actuator being mounted in thermal communication with the manifold; the mount being adjustably mounted to the actuator such that the second conductive surface can be adjusted in position toward and away from the actuator.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2012Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Synventive Molding Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Gunter Wernz, Christian Gotz
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Patent number: 8297836Abstract: Apparatus for measuring the temperature of a nozzle having fluid material injected from an injection molding machine through a flow channel in a heated manifold that is coupled to a nozzle that is coupled to the cavity of a mold, the apparatus comprising: a heating device comprising a controllably heatable thermally conductive heating element; the heating element of the heating device being mounted on or around the outer surface of the tube of the nozzle at an end point; a temperature monitor comprising a temperature sensor mounted on or around the nozzle at a selected position along the axis of the bore of the nozzle; and, a thermal insulator disposed along the axis of the nozzle separating the end point of the heating element and the temperature sensor.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2009Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignee: Synventive Molding Solutions, Inc.Inventors: John Peter Kuntz, Sebastiaan Hubertus Franciscus Smits, Michael Lewis Vasapoli, Christian Götz, Vito Galati
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Publication number: 20120248644Abstract: An apparatus for controlling the rate of flow to a mold cavity including a controller instructing a valve system to drive an actuator and a valve pin and including instructions that instruct the valve system to drive an actuator and a valve pin and including instructions that instruct the valve system to move from a start position to one or more intermediate drive rate positions and subsequently from the one or more intermediate drive rate positions to a high drive rate position on receipt by the controller of a signal from a position sensor that is indicative of the valve pin having reached a second position.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2012Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: Synventive Molding Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Sergio de OLIVEIRA ANTUNES, Christian GOTZ, Juergen Wilhelm EMICH
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Publication number: 20120231108Abstract: In an injection molding apparatus comprising a clamp plate, a heated manifold and a mold, a system for mounting an actuator to the manifold and the clamp plate, the system comprising: a mount comprised of a thermally conductive material having first and second heat conductive surfaces disposed between the clamp plate and the actuator; the first conductive surface being in heat conductive communication with the actuator, the second conductive surface being in heat conductive communication with the clamp plate; the actuator being mounted in thermal communication with the manifold; the mount being adjustably mounted to the actuator such that the second conductive surface can be adjusted in position toward and away from the actuator.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2012Publication date: September 13, 2012Applicant: Synventive Molding Sulutions, Inc.Inventors: Gunter Wernz, Christian Gotz
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Publication number: 20110232531Abstract: The invention relates to a pigment granulate which contains 40 to 65% by weight of pigment and at least 10% by weight of a compound of general formula (I) CH3—(CH2)n—CH2—O—[(CH2)p—O]m—H, wherein n=8-18, p=1-4 and m=35-100, the weight ratio of the compound of general formula I to the pigment being ? the STSA surface area of the pigment in m2/g multiplied by 0.0021 g/m2 and the mass-weighted particle size of the pigment granulate being <20 ?m. The pigment granulate can be produced by dispersing the pigment and the compound of formula I in a solvent and then drying the dispersion obtained. The pigments according to the invention can be used for dying and/or the antistatic finishing in water-based paints and lacquer systems, dispersion on paints, printing inks, ink systems and coating systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2009Publication date: September 29, 2011Applicant: Evonik Carbon Black GmbHInventors: Christian Götz, Gerd Tauber, Ralph McIntosh, Werner Kalbitz, Frank Stenger, Rüdiger Mertsch, Mandy Mühlbach
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Patent number: 7850102Abstract: A process for milling amorphous solids using a milling apparatus can result in particles having a median particle diameter d50 of <1.5 ?m. The process includes: operating a mill in a milling phase with an operating medium selected from the group consisting of gas, vapor, steam, a gas containing steam and mixtures thereof, and heating a milling chamber in a heat-up phase before the actual operation with the operating medium in such a way that a temperature in the milling chamber, the mill exit or both, is higher than a dew point of the operating medium.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2007Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Assignee: Evonik Degussa GmbHInventors: Karl Meier, Ulrich Brinkmann, Christian Panz, Doris Misselich, Christian Götz
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Publication number: 20100091814Abstract: Apparatus for measuring the temperature of a nozzle having fluid material injected from an injection molding machine through a flow channel in a heated manifold that is coupled to a nozzle that is coupled to the cavity of a mold, the apparatus comprising: a heating device comprising a controllably heatable thermally conductive heating element; the heating element of the heating device being mounted on or around the outer surface of the tube of the nozzle at an end point; a temperature monitor comprising a temperature sensor mounted on or around the nozzle at a selected position along the axis of the bore of the nozzle; and, a thermal insulator disposed along the axis of the nozzle separating the end point of the heating element and the temperature sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2009Publication date: April 15, 2010Applicant: Synventive Molding Solutions, Inc.Inventors: John Peter Kuntz, Sebastian Hubertus Franciscus Smits, Michael Lewis Vasapoli, Christian Götz, Vito Galati
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Patent number: 7612137Abstract: The invention relates to surface-modified silica gels, to a process for preparing them, and to their use as matting agents in coating materials. As a result of the nature of the surface modification, the viscosity of 2-component coating materials is increased only slightly, or not at all, after the matting agent has been added.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2005Date of Patent: November 3, 2009Assignee: Degussa AGInventors: Ulrich Brinkmann, Christian Götz, Hans-Dieter Christian
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Patent number: 7374223Abstract: Vehicle seat which effects a sideways movement of the occupant sitting on the vehicle seat during a lateral impact or directly before a lateral impact. The sideways movement takes place away from the side of the vehicle which faces the impact and toward the center of the vehicle, at least one seat cushion being transversely displaceable separately in relation to the seat components and in relation to the seat fixing elements for the sideways movement.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2002Date of Patent: May 20, 2008Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Markus Däuber, Christian Götz, Christian Mayer