Patents by Inventor Christian Schmitt
Christian Schmitt 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: 9488156Abstract: An apparatus is provided having a sling or sock configured for contacting a wind turbine blade. A reinforcement member attached to the sling or sock. The reinforcement member configured to resist sling or sock collapse and maintain the sling or sock in an open configuration. A method is also provided for moving a wind turbine part, such as a rotor or blade. The method includes the step of attaching a sling or sock to the wind turbine part, where the sling includes a reinforcement member attached thereto.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2013Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Raymond Francis Rose, Jr., Michael Royce Johnson, Neils Christian Schmitt, Brent Hamilton Holloway
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Publication number: 20160207353Abstract: The invention relates to a wheel bearing unit (1) for supporting a vehicle wheel which can be driven. This wheel bearing unit (1) includes a wheel hub (2) which forms a hollow space (11) and is rotatably supported by a wheel bearing (3) formed as a rolling bearing , wherein the wheel bearing is inserted (3) in a wheel carrier. Furthermore the wheel hub (2) is connected by a hub flange (21) to the vehicle wheel and reciprocally to the hub flange (21) by an end toothing (9) in positive engagement with a drive joint (8). A measurement of a torque or a torsion takes place by a sensor (18) at an inner wall (17) of the hollow space (11) of the wheel hub (2).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2014Publication date: July 21, 2016Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Christian Mock, Christian Schmitt, Florian Koniger
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Publication number: 20160000961Abstract: This invention relates to a feminine hygiene absorbent article comprising water-absorbing composites obtainable by foaming an aqueous mixture comprising at least one monoethylenically unsaturated monomer bearing acid groups, at least one crosslinker, at least one initiator and at least one surfactant, contacting the foam obtained with at least one web of synthetic fibers and polymerizing, to the composites themselves and to their use for absorbing aqueous fluids.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2015Publication date: January 7, 2016Inventors: Achille Di Cintio, Antje Ziemer, Horst Jurgen Kaluza, Ernst Juergen Bauer, Stefan Bruhns, Thomas Daniel, John Christian Schmitt, Kerstin Meyer-Lipp, Guenter Reinhard Schmidt
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Publication number: 20150345982Abstract: A method for moving image contents that are displayed on a display device of a motor vehicle is disclosed. A movement of the image content takes place by user input on a touch-sensitive surface differing from the display device. The user input involves touching the touch-sensitive surface with a finger on a first point, movement of the finger over the touch-sensitive surface from the first point to a second point, and holding the finger on the second point during the movement of the image content. A direction in which the image content is moved is based on a relative position of the second point in relation to the first point. A distance from the second point to the first point determines a speed at which the image content is moved. A corresponding control and display device and computer program product are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2013Publication date: December 3, 2015Applicant: Daimler AGInventor: Christian SCHMITT
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Patent number: 9198996Abstract: This invention relates to a process for producing water-absorbing composites comprising the steps of foaming an aqueous mixture comprising at least one monoethylenically unsaturated monomer bearing acid groups, at least one crosslinker, at least one initiator and at least one surfactant, contacting the foam obtained with at least one web of synthetic fibers and polymerizing, to the composites themselves and to their use for absorbing aqueous fluids.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2012Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Antje Ziemer, Horst Kaluza, Ernst Jürgen Bauer, Stefan Bruhns, Thomas Daniel, John Christian Schmitt, Kerstin Meyer-Lipp, Guenter Reinhard Schmidt
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Patent number: 9149556Abstract: This invention relates to a feminine hygiene absorbent article comprising water-absorbing composites obtainable by foaming an aqueous mixture comprising at least one monoethylenically unsaturated monomer bearing acid groups, at least one crosslinker, at least one initiator and at least one surfactant, contacting the foam obtained with at least one web of synthetic fibers and polymerizing, to the composites themselves and to their use for absorbing aqueous fluids.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2012Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Achille Di Cintio, Antje Ziemer, Horst Jürgen Kaluza, Ernst Juergen Bauer, Stefan Bruhns, Thomas Daniel, John Christian Schmitt, Kerstin Meyer-Lipp, Guenter Reinhard Schmidt
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Publication number: 20150110638Abstract: An apparatus is provided having a sling or sock configured for contacting a wind turbine blade. A reinforcement member attached to the sling or sock. The reinforcement member configured to resist sling or sock collapse and maintain the sling or sock in an open configuration. A method is also provided for moving a wind turbine part, such as a rotor or blade. The method includes the step of attaching a sling or sock to the wind turbine part, where the sling includes a reinforcement member attached thereto.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2013Publication date: April 23, 2015Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Raymond Francis Rose, JR., Michael Royce Johnson, Neils Christian Schmitt, Brent Hamilton Holloway
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Publication number: 20140377078Abstract: A rotor blade for a wind turbine may include a body extending between a root end and a tip end. The body may include a root portion extending from the root end. The root portion may include an inner surface defining an inner circumference. The rotor blade may also include a root stiffener disposed within the root portion of the body. The root stiffener may be substantially ring-shaped and may extend around the inner circumference of the root portion. The root stiffener may define a plurality of radially oriented openings configured to receive fasteners for coupling the root stiffener to the root portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2013Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventors: Bharat Bagepalli, Bradley Graham Moore, Neils Christian Schmitt
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Publication number: 20140158626Abstract: This invention relates to a process for producing water-absorbing composites comprising the steps of foaming an aqueous mixture comprising at least one monoethylenically unsaturated monomer bearing acid groups, at least one crosslinker, at least one initiator and at least one surfactant, contacting the foam obtained with at least one web of synthetic fibers and polymerizing, to the composites themselves and to their use for absorbing aqueous fluids.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2012Publication date: June 12, 2014Applicant: VASF SEInventors: Antje Ziemer, Horst Kaluza, Ernst Jürgen Bauer, Stefan Bruhns, Thomas Daniel, John Christian Schmitt, Kerstin Meyer-Lipp, Guenter Reinhard Schmidt
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Patent number: 8605926Abstract: The production of sealing units, and especially of face plates for hearing devices and other hearing apparatuses, is to be further automated. A sealing unit for sealing a shell of a hearing apparatus that can be worn in the auditory canal is accordingly proposed, with a face plate having a battery opening for holding a battery, with battery contacts, to which at least one signal processing module is connected, being arranged in or on the battery opening. A mount is removably affixed in or on the battery opening in order to hold the at least one signal processing module in or perpendicularly above/below the battery opening. The mount thus serves not only to retain the signal processing components during transport, but also to affix them into the face plate for example during milling of positioning holes for microphones.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2008Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: Siemens Medical Instruments Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Peter Nikles, Erika Radick, Benjamin Schmidt, Christian Schmitt, Erwin Singer, Cornelia Wiedenbrüg
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Patent number: 8374369Abstract: Hearing apparatuses and in particular hearing devices are to be designed to be smaller. To this end, provision is made for an assembly device for fastening a component in the housing of a hearing apparatus with a first arm for retaining the component and a second arm, which can be plugged at least partially into/onto a corresponding fastening element on the interior of the housing. A hinge connects the two arms in a pivotable fashion. After connecting the assembly device to the fastening element, the two arms are snapped onto one another by pivoting about the hinge and thus adopt a final assembly position. This retractable mechanism also allows the use of space below a cover segment of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2007Date of Patent: February 12, 2013Assignee: Siemens Audiologische Technik GmbHInventors: Peter Nikles, Benjamin Schmidt, Christian Schmitt, Erwin Singer
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Publication number: 20120296296Abstract: This invention relates to a feminine hygiene absorbent article comprising water-absorbing composites obtainable by foaming an aqueous mixture comprising at least one monoethylenically unsaturated monomer bearing acid groups, at least one crosslinker, at least one initiator and at least one surfactant, contacting the foam obtained with at least one web of synthetic fibers and polymerizing, to the composites themselves and to their use for absorbing aqueous fluids.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2012Publication date: November 22, 2012Inventors: Achille DI CINTIO, Antje Ziemer, Horst Jürgen Kaluza, Ernst Juergen Bauer, Stefan Bruhns, Thomas Daniel, John Christian Schmitt, Kerstin Meyer-Lipp, Guenter Reinhard Schmidt
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Patent number: 8275161Abstract: For enabling fast, customer-specific and precise matching of a hearing device's directional characteristic, a hearing device having a signal processing unit for performing a processing algorithm is provided, with at least one design-related parameter of the hearing device having been made available to the signal processing unit and with the signal processing unit performing the processing algorithm based on the design-related parameter of the hearing device. It should be considered as especially advantageous in the case of the inventive hearing device that a processing algorithm can be performed particularly precisely and customer-specifically based on the provided design-related parameters of the hearing device.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2008Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: Siemens Medical Instruments Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Eghart Fischer, Peter Nikles, Erika Radick, Benjamin Schmidt, Christian Schmitt, Erwin Singer, Cornelia Wiedenbrüg
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Patent number: 8238594Abstract: The invention specifies a sealing apparatus for a microphone opening in a front plate. It comprises a sound-permeable covering medium made of a first material and a sound-permeable membrane, with a sealant arranged on the exterior of the covering medium made of a second material being designed so as to produce a tight form fit between the covering medium and the front plate when said covering medium is inserted into the microphone opening. A front plate that is compatible with the sealing apparatus according to the invention is also specified. The advantage here is that the microphone opening can be sealed in a water-tight fashion and as a result protects a microphone positioned beneath it against external influences.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2008Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: Siemens Medical Instruments Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Joseph Sauer, Benjamin Schmidt, Christian Schmitt
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Patent number: 8213656Abstract: An energy storage means holding device and an associated housing module for a hearing device are provided. The holding device includes a holding module and a contact arranged in the holding module for connection to an energy charging device. A gripping is embodied in the holding module and cover the contact such that the contact can be contacted outside but cannot however be reached by human fingers when inserting the holding device into a housing module of the hearing device.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2008Date of Patent: July 3, 2012Assignee: Siemens Medical Instruments Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Uwe Rass, Joseph Sauer, Benjamin Schmidt, Christian Schmitt
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Patent number: 8204264Abstract: A faceplate of a hearing device housing with a component fitted in an opening of the faceplate and an associated method are provided. The faceplate is formed from a first material. When a predefinable distance between the support surface of the components in the opening and the surface facing away from the exterior of the faceplate is not reached, a second material is applied below the support surface to the surface of the faceplate such that the predefinable distance is produced. As a result, even with fitted components, for instance the volume controller or program selection switch, the mechanical stability of the faceplate is ensured.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2008Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: Siemens Medical Instruments Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Peter Nikles, Erika Radick, Benjamin Schmidt, Christian Schmitt, Erwin Singer, Cornelia Wiedenbrüg
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Patent number: 8116492Abstract: The hearing device operated with an accumulator and comprising an externally accessible electrically conductive structure element is provided. The structure element fulfilling an additional function as a contact element, in order to receive a charging current when electrically connected to an external charging device. The term “structure element” is understood in the context of the present invention to mean an element, which is constitutively present in the structure of the hearing device due to its construction, e.g. the structure element can be a housing element, a fastening element, such as a screw, a control element, a nameplate or suchlike.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2007Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: Siemens Audiologische Technik GmbHInventors: Michael Sattler, Christian Schmitt, Erwin Singer, Markus Trautner
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Patent number: 8050438Abstract: The manufacture of housing parts of a hearing apparatus and in particular a hearing device is to be simplified. To this end, provision is made to also efficiently use a so-called tumbling process for the surface treatment of housing. On account of this, a closure element is proposed for closing openings of housing parts for a hearing apparatus of this type during a tumbling process. The closure element has a disk-like center part, a first column section, which protrudes from the one side of the disk-like center part and has a first swelling on its free end, and a second column section, which protrudes from the other side of the disk-like center part and has a second swelling on its free end. A closure element of this type allows openings of housing parts, which are attached to the column sections, to be closed and protected for a tumbling process.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2008Date of Patent: November 1, 2011Assignee: Siemens Medical Instruments Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Peter Nikles, Erika Radick, Benjamin Schmidt, Christian Schmitt, Erwin Singer, Cornelia Wiedenbrüg
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Patent number: 7844066Abstract: An in-the-ear hearing aid is to have a more compact design. For this purpose there is inserted into a housing shell an electronics module having all the electronic components of the hearing aid, the electronic components being secured to a flexible supporting structure. As a result of the open construction of the electronics module, the individual electronic components can be compactly inserted with short stranded wires, thus also increasing electromagnetic compatibility. The flexibility of the supporting structure enables allowance to be made for individually differing auditory canal shapes.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2006Date of Patent: November 30, 2010Assignee: Siemens Audiologische Technik GmbHInventors: Joseph Sauer, Christian Schmitt
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Publication number: 20090175475Abstract: Hearing apparatuses and in particular hearing devices are to be designed to be smaller. To this end, provision is made for an assembly device for fastening a component in the housing of a hearing apparatus with a first arm for retaining the component and a second arm, which can be plugged at least partially into/onto a corresponding fastening element on the interior of the housing. A hinge connects the two arms in a pivotable fashion. After connecting the assembly device to the fastening element, the two arms are snapped onto one another by pivoting about the hinge and thus adopt a final assembly position. This retractable mechanism also allows the use of space below a cover segment of the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2007Publication date: July 9, 2009Inventors: Peter Nikles, Benjamin Schmidt, Christian Schmitt, Erwin Singer