Patents by Inventor Christoph Schneider
Christoph Schneider 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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Publication number: 20180169572Abstract: The invention relates to a process for dehumidifying a moist gas mixture. The invention further relates to an apparatus for dehumidifying a moist gas mixture and to the use of said apparatus in the process according to the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2016Publication date: June 21, 2018Applicant: Evonik Degussa GmbHInventors: Olivier ZEHNACKER, Xinming WANG, Benjamin WILLY, Rolf SCHNEIDER, Marc-Christoph SCHNEIDER
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Patent number: 9993859Abstract: A process includes flexible rolling of a strip made of a metallic material, wherein a thickness profile with different sheet thicknesses along the length of the strip is produced such that successive regions of the flexibly rolled strip each correspond to a target thickness profile of a sheet metal blank to be cut out of same; determining a measured thickness profile of a plurality of successive regions of the strip; calculating a target position in the strip for a sheet metal blank to be cut out of the strip depending on the generated measured thickness profile of at least two successive regions of the strip; cutting the flexibly rolled strip by at least one cutting device along the target position for producing the sheet meal blank. A plant is further provided for producing a sheet metal blank.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2016Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Muhr und Bender KGInventors: Christoph Schneider, Harald Eichner, Joachim Ivo
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Publication number: 20180135894Abstract: The invention relates to the use of methanesulphonic acid as sorption medium in an absorption heat pump; a sorption medium for an absorption heat pump which comprises methanesulphonic acid and an ionic liquid; and an absorption heat pump having an absorber, a desorber, a condenser, an evaporator and a working medium comprising a volatile refrigerant and a sorption medium, wherein the sorption medium comprises methanesulphonic acid.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2018Publication date: May 17, 2018Applicant: EVONIK DEGUSSA GmbHInventors: Olivier Zehnacker, Rolf Schneider, Marc-Christoph Schneider, Matthias Seiler, Xinming Wang
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Patent number: 9938600Abstract: A hardened formed part is manufactured with the steps: producing a blank from a hardenable strip material; heating of the blank to an austenitization temperature; forming and hardening of the blank to a hardened formed part; cleaning the hardened formed part; coating the hardened formed part with a metallic coating in an dipping bath with an electrolyte solution, wherein during the coating process, at least one auxiliary element is used in the dipping bath, such, that the deposition of the coating is partially influenced. A plant is used for manufacturing a hardened formed part.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2015Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: Muhr und Bender KGInventors: Thomas Muhr, Jorg Dieter Brecht, Christoph Schneider, Philip Beiter
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Patent number: 9914180Abstract: The invention concerns a method to generate and/or machine gear teeth on a workpiece, wherein the workpiece is subjected to a movement from a first location where the workpiece, while being held by a clamping device connected to a workpiece spindle, is brought into machining engagement with a first tool, to a second location where the work piece, while remaining in its clamped condition, is brought into machining engagement with a second tool, wherein prior to performing the movement, the connection between the clamping device and the workpiece spindle is released, and after the movement, the clamping device is connected to another workpiece spindle for the machining engagement with the second tool.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2014Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: GLEASON-PFAUTER MASCHINENFABRIK GMBHInventors: Johannes Brogni, Gerhard Krebser, Christoph Schneider, Matthias Philippin
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Publication number: 20170260005Abstract: A device for transporting elongated metal material comprises two chain drive units with a continuous chain, which are arranged such that the elongated material is passed through between the chains with frictional contact so that the elongated material is moved; two controllable pressure units configured to apply pressure forces to the chains towards each other; at least one controllable adjusting unit which is mechanically connected to at least one of the chain drive units and which is configured to move same in a longitudinal direction of the elongated material during operation. A plant can have such a device, and a process is used for controlling such a device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2017Publication date: September 14, 2017Inventors: Harald Eichner, Christoph Schneider, Stephan Pritz
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Publication number: 20170173651Abstract: A process includes flexible rolling of a strip made of a metallic material, wherein a thickness profile with different sheet thicknesses along the length of the strip is produced such that successive regions of the flexibly rolled strip each correspond to a target thickness profile of a sheet metal blank to be cut out of same; determining a measured thickness profile of a plurality of successive regions of the strip; calculating a target position in the strip for a sheet metal blank to be cut out of the strip depending on the generated measured thickness profile of at least two successive regions of the strip; cutting the flexibly rolled strip by at least one cutting device along the target position for producing the sheet meal blank. A plant is further provided for producing a sheet metal blank.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2016Publication date: June 22, 2017Inventors: Christoph Schneider, Harald Eichner, Joachim Ivo
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Publication number: 20160175766Abstract: Ionic liquids of the structure Q+A?, in which Q+ is a 1,3-dialkylimidazolium ion, in which the alkyl groups, independently of one another, are linear C1-C4-alkyl groups and A? is the anion of an acid HA with a pKa of less than 3, can be purified by desorption of volatile compounds at a temperature of 100 to 200° C. and a pressure of at most 100 mbar over a period of at least 0.1 h and be used for dehumidifying air.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2015Publication date: June 23, 2016Applicant: Evonik Degussa GmbHInventors: Olivier Zehnacker, Benjamin Willy, Xinming Wang, Rolf Schneider, Marc-Christoph Schneider
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Publication number: 20160122889Abstract: A product is made from a rolled strip material with the steps: rolling of a strip material from a sheet metal; working of a blank out of the rolled strip material; forming of the blank to a formed part; cleaning the formed part such that an amount of maximal 0.7 ppm of diffusible hydrogen is introduced into the formed part by cleaning, and coating the formed part with a metal coating material for producing a corrosion protection coating, wherein the step of coating is carried out in an immersion bath with an electrolyte solution, wherein between the formed part and the electrolyte solution a flow is generated.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2014Publication date: May 5, 2016Applicant: Muhr und Bender KGInventors: Thomas Muhr, Christoph Schneider, Jörg Dieter Brecht, Christoph Hahn, Jürgen Butzkamm, Hubertus Steffens, Wolfgang Eberlein
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Publication number: 20160114417Abstract: The invention concerns a method to generate and/or machine gear teeth on a workpiece, wherein the workpiece is subjected to a movement from a first location where the workpiece, while being held by a clamping device connected to a workpiece spindle, is brought into machining engagement with a first tool, to a second location where the work piece, while remaining in its clamped condition, is brought into machining engagement with a second tool, wherein prior to performing the movement, the connection between the clamping device and the workpiece spindle is released, and after the movement, the clamping device is connected to another workpiece spindle for the machining engagement with the second tool.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2014Publication date: April 28, 2016Applicant: GLEASON-PFAUTER MASCHINENFABRIK GMBHInventors: Johannes Brogni, Gerhard Krebser, Christoph Schneider, Matthias Philippin
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Publication number: 20150375877Abstract: A method and a device for producing collars (14) of packets (10) for cigarettes, a preferably continuous material web (23) formed of a packaging material for the collars (14) being conveyed along a transport path (collar path 36), one or more processing stations for processing the material web (23) with regard to one or more characteristic properties of the collars (14) being arranged along the transport path, and the collars (14) being severed from the material web (23) in a processing station by applying a transversely directed severing cut. The material web (23) for the collars (14) is processed in the processing station or processing stations in such a way that at least some collars (14) differ with regard to at least one characteristic property.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2014Publication date: December 31, 2015Applicant: FOCKE & CO. (GMBH & CO. KG)Inventors: Martin Stiller, Corvyn Sommer, Christoph Schneider
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Publication number: 20150337406Abstract: A hardened formed part is manufactured with the steps: producing a blank from a hardenable strip material; heating of the blank to an austenitisation temperature; forming and hardening of the blank to a hardened formed part; cleaning the hardened formed part; coating the hardened formed part with a metallic coating in an dipping bath with an electrolyte solution, wherein during the coating process, at least one auxiliary element is used in the dipping bath, such, that the deposition of the coating is partially influenced. A plant is used for manufacturing a hardened formed part.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2015Publication date: November 26, 2015Inventors: Thomas Muhr, Jorg Dieter Brecht, Christoph Schneider, Philip Beiter
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Publication number: 20150308720Abstract: The invention relates to the use of methanesulphonic acid as sorption medium in an absorption heat pump; a sorption medium for an absorption heat pump which comprises methanesulphonic acid and an ionic liquid; and an absorption heat pump having an absorber, a desorber, a condenser, an evaporator and a working medium comprising a volatile refrigerant and a sorption medium, wherein the sorption medium comprises methanesulphonic acid.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2013Publication date: October 29, 2015Applicant: EVONIK DEGUSSA GMBHInventors: Olivier ZEHNACKER, Rolf SCHNEIDER, Marc-Christoph SCHNEIDER, Matthias SEILER, Xinming WANG
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Patent number: 9163565Abstract: A valve flap device for an exhaust system of a motor vehicle, having at least one tubular valve housing with a flow cross section running perpendicular to a central axis and being formed by the inner geometry and a shaft which can turn about a valve axis with a valve flap mounted on the shaft, being mounted in the valve housing to close the flow cross section. The valve flap device can be made with low material input and at the same time with low fabrication expense at low costs. For this, the valve housing is made from a tubular blank of sheet metal with a tube diameter that is calibrated to the flow cross section at least partially by mechanical, plastic forming.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2011Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: TENNECO GMBHInventors: Marcel Womann, Marc Sommerfeld, Rico Weinert, Alexander Schinko, Christoph Schneider
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Patent number: 8696928Abstract: The invention relates to an operating medium for an absorption refrigeration device, comprising 5 to 30 wt % water and 65 to 95 wt % of a sorption agent comprising lithium bromide and at least one ionic liquid and wherein the sorption agent comprises ionic liquid and lithium bromide in a weight ratio of 0.5:1 to 5:1, having a lower friction coefficient compared to an operating medium comprising water and lithium bromide.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2010Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Evonik Degussa GmbHInventors: Matthias Seiler, Rolf Schneider, Olivier Zehnacker, Marc-Christoph Schneider
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Publication number: 20130219949Abstract: A working medium comprising at least one refrigerant, at least one monohydric aliphatic alcohol having from 6 to 10 carbon atoms and at least one ionic liquid composed of at least one organic cation and at least one anion shows an improved efficiency COP in an absorption heat pump compared to working media which do not contain an alcohol having from 6 to 10 carbon atoms.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2011Publication date: August 29, 2013Applicant: Evonik Degussa GmbHInventors: Matthias Seiler, Rolf Schneider, Olivier Zehnacker, Marc-Christoph Schneider
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Publication number: 20130031930Abstract: An absorption heat pump with a sorbent which comprises lithium chloride and at least one salt Q+Cl? with an organic cation Q+ and the shared anion chloride, the organic cation Q+ having a molar mass of not more than 200 g/mol, exhibits an improved degassing range of the working medium composed of refrigerant and sorbent.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2011Publication date: February 7, 2013Applicant: EVONIK DEGUSSA GMBHInventors: Matthias Seiler, Olivier Zehnacker, Rolf Schneider, Marc-Christoph Schneider
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Publication number: 20130031931Abstract: An absorption heat pump with a sorbent comprising a lithium salt and at least one organic salt with an organic cation Q+, the lithium salt and organic salt having the same anion, the anion having a molar mass of not more than 200 g/mol and not being halide, and the organic cation Q+ having a molar mass of not more than 200 g/mol, exhibits an improved degassing range of the working medium composed of refrigerant and sorbent.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2011Publication date: February 7, 2013Applicant: Evonik Degussa GmbHInventors: Matthias Seiler, Rolf Schneider, Olivier Zehnacker, Marc-Christoph Schneider
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Publication number: 20120247144Abstract: The invention relates to an operating medium for an absorption refrigeration device, comprising 5 to 30 wt % water and 65 to 95 wt % of a sorption agent comprising lithium bromide and at least one ionic liquid and wherein the sorption agent comprises ionic liquid and lithium bromide in a weight ratio of 0.5:1 to 5:1, having a lower friction coefficient compared to an operating medium comprising water and lithium bromide.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2010Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: Evonik Degussa GbmHInventors: Matthias Seiler, Rolf Schneider, Olivier Zehnacker, Marc-Christoph Schneider
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Publication number: 20110297862Abstract: A valve flap device for an exhaust system of a motor vehicle, having at least one tubular valve housing with a flow cross section running perpendicular to a central axis and being formed by the inner geometry and a shaft which can turn about a valve axis with a valve flap mounted on the shaft, being mounted in the valve housing to close the flow cross section. The valve flap device can be made with low material input and at the same time with low fabrication expense at low costs. For this, the valve housing is made from a tubular blank of sheet metal with a tube diameter that is calibrated to the flow cross section at least partially by mechanical, plastic forming.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2011Publication date: December 8, 2011Applicant: HEINRICH GILLET GMBH - TENNECOInventors: Marcel Womann, Marc Sommerfeld, Rico Weinert, Alexander Schinko, Christoph Schneider