Patents by Inventor Christoph Schnitter

Christoph Schnitter 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: 20240123496
    Abstract: A three-dimensional article is obtained by a process which includes providing a metal powder, and using the metal powder to build up the three-dimensional article layer by layer. The metal powder is a metal which is selected from the group of tantalum and impurities, titanium and impurities, niobium and impurities, an alloy of tantalum, niobium and impurities, an alloy of titanium, niobium and impurities, and an alloy of tantalum, titanium, niobium and impurities. Particles of the metal powder have a dendritic microstructure. Particles of the metal powder have an average aspect ratio TA of from 0.7 to 1, where ?A=xFeret min/xFeret max.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: TANIOBIS GMBH
    Inventors: MARKUS WEINMANN, HOLGER BRUMM, CHRISTOPH SCHNITTER, MELANIE STENZEL
  • Publication number: 20240123495
    Abstract: A method of using a metal powder in an additive manufacturing process. The method includes providing the metal powder, and using the metal powder in the additive manufacturing process. The metal powder is a metal which is selected from tantalum and impurities, titanium and impurities, niobium and impurities, an alloy of tantalum, niobium and impurities, an alloy of titanium, niobium and impurities, and an alloy of tantalum, titanium, niobium and impurities. Particles of the metal powder have a dendritic microstructure. Particles of the metal powder have an average aspect ratio ?A of from 0.7 to 1, where ?A=XFeret min/XFeret max.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: TANIOBIS GMBH
    Inventors: MARKUS WEINMANN, HOLGER BRUMM, CHRISTOPH SCHNITTER, MELANIE STENZEL
  • Publication number: 20240124321
    Abstract: A niobate powder for a piezoelectric application. The niobate powder includes a general composition of Li(Na/K)NbO3 and a carbon content per BET surface area of the niobate powder of from 10 to 100 ppm/(m2/g). The BET surface area is determined in accordance with DIN ISO 9277. The carbon content is determined via a non-dispersive infrared absorption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: TANIOBIS GMBH
    Inventors: CHRISTOPH SCHNITTER, RALPH OTTERSTEDT, SVEN ALBRECHT
  • Patent number: 11865612
    Abstract: The present invention relates to metal powders which are suitable to be employed in 3D printing processes as well as a process for the production of said powders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: TANIOBIS GMBH
    Inventors: Markus Weinmann, Holger Brumm, Christoph Schnitter, Melanie Stenzel
  • Publication number: 20230405558
    Abstract: A layered niobate which is used as a photocatalyst. The layered niobate has the formula [HaAb]+[Sr2Nb3O10]?. [Sr2Nb3O10]? forms main layers. [HaAb]+ forms interlayers, wherein H includes H+ and H3O+, A is K+, Cs+ and Rb+, 0.6?a?1, 0?b?0.4, and a+b=1. The layered niobate has different spacings between the main layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: TANIOBIS GMBH
    Inventors: CHRISTOPH SCHNITTER, SVEN ALBRECHT, ROLAND MARSCHALL, NATALIA KULISCHOW, FLAVIU CALIN LADASIU CIOLACU
  • Publication number: 20230272508
    Abstract: An alloy powder which has a composition AlxScy, where 0.1?y?0.9 and x=1?y. The allow powder has purity of 99% by weight or more, based on metallic impurities, and an oxygen content of less than 0.7% by weight, based on a total weight of the alloy powder, as determined by a carrier gas hot extraction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: TANIOBIS GMBH
    Inventors: CHRISTOPH SCHNITTER, HELMUT HAAS, HOLGER BRUMM
  • Publication number: 20230061639
    Abstract: A tungsten(VI) oxytetrachloride having a chemical purity of greater than 99.95%. The tungsten(VI) oxytetrachloride has a fraction of compounds selected from WCl6, WO2Cl2, WO3 and WO2, as defined as a ratio of a reflection having a highest intensity of one of WCl6, WO2Cl2, WO3 and WO2, (I(P2)100) in an x-ray diffraction pattern to a reflection having a highest intensity of the tungsten(VI) oxytetrachloride (I(WOCl4)100) in the x-ray diffraction pattern, expressed as I(P2)100/I(WOCl4)100, of less than 0.03.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: TANIOBIS GMBH
    Inventors: CHRISTOPH SCHNITTER, HOLGER BRUMM, GERD PASSING, TOMASZ KUPKA
  • Publication number: 20220395900
    Abstract: A spherical powder for manufacturing a three-dimensional component. The spherical powder is an alloy powder which has at least two refractory metals. The alloy powder has a homogeneous microstructure and at least two crystalline phases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: TANIOBIS GMBH
    Inventors: MARKUS WEINMANN, HOLGER BRUMM, CHRISTOPH SCHNITTER
  • Publication number: 20220118515
    Abstract: A powder for producing a superconducting component. The powder includes NbxSny, where 1?x?6 and 1?y?5. The powder does not have any separate NbO phases and/or SnO phases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: TANIOBIS GMBH
    Inventors: HOLGER BRUMM, HELMUT HAAS, CHRISTOPH SCHNITTER
  • Publication number: 20220118512
    Abstract: A powder for the production of a superconducting component. The powder includes NbxSny, where 1?x?6 and 1?y?5, and three-dimensional agglomerates having a particle size D90 of less than 400 ?m, as determined via a laser light scattering. The three-dimensional agglomerates have primary particles which have an average particle diameter of less than 15 ?m, as determined via a scanning electron microscopy, and pores of which at least 90% have a diameter of from 0.1 to 20 ?m, as determined via a mercury porosimetry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: TANIOBIS GMBH
    Inventors: HOLGER BRUMM, MARKUS WEINMANN, CHRISTOPH SCHNITTER
  • Publication number: 20220023941
    Abstract: The present invention relates to metal powders which are suitable to be employed in 3D printing processes as well as a process for the production of said powders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: TANIOBIS GMBH
    Inventors: MARKUS WEINMANN, HOLGER BRUMM, CHRISTOPH SCHNITTER, MELANIE STENZEL
  • Patent number: 10872732
    Abstract: A method for producing an electrical component via a 3D printing includes preparing a first layer which includes a valve metal powder, consolidating at least a portion of the valve metal powder of the first layer via a first selective irradiation with a laser, applying a second layer which includes the valve metal powder to the first layer, consolidating at least a portion of the valve metal powder of the second layer via a second selective irradiation with the laser so as to form a composite of the first layer and of the second layer, applying respective additional layers which include the valve metal powder to the composite, and consolidating at least a portion of the valve metal powder of the respective additional layers via a respective additional selective irradiation with the laser to thereby obtain the electrical component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: TANIOBIS GMBH
    Inventors: Helmut Haas, Marcel Hagymasi, Kamil Paul Rataj, Christoph Schnitter, Markus Weinmann
  • Publication number: 20190206629
    Abstract: A method for producing an electrical component via a 3D printing includes preparing a first layer which includes a valve metal powder, consolidating at least a portion of the valve metal powder of the first layer via a first selective irradiation with a laser, applying a second layer which includes the valve metal powder to the first layer, consolidating at least a portion of the valve metal powder of the second layer via a second selective irradiation with the laser so as to form a composite of the first layer and of the second layer, applying respective additional layers which include the valve metal powder to the composite, and consolidating at least a portion of the valve metal powder of the respective additional layers via a respective additional selective irradiation with the laser to thereby obtain the electrical component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2017
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Applicant: H.C. STARCK TANTALUM AND NIOBIUM GMBH
    Inventors: HELMUT HAAS, MARCEL HAGYMASI, KAMIL PAUL RATAJ, CHRISTOPH SCHNITTER, MARKUS WEINMANN
  • Publication number: 20180308641
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the deoxidation of valve metal primary powders by means of reducing metals and/or metal hydrides, and a process for the production of tantalum powders that are suitable as anode material for electrolytic capacitors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Helmut Haas, Ulrich Bartmann, Christoph Schnitter, Elisabeth Droste
  • Patent number: 10032564
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the deoxidation of valve metal primary powders by means of reducing metals and/or metal hydrides, and a process for the production of tantalum powders that are suitable as anode material for electrolytic capacitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: H.C. Starck Tantalum and Niobium GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Haas, Ulrich Bartmann, Christoph Schnitter, Elisabeth Droste
  • Patent number: 9466433
    Abstract: A refractory metal compound agglomerate powder having a product of a BET surface area in m2/g and a sliding coefficient of ? of 0.33 to 0.95, wherein the refractory metal compound agglomerate powder is selected from niobium agglomerate powder, niobium suboxide agglomerate powder, and tantalum agglomerate powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: H.C. STARCK GMBH
    Inventors: Christoph Schnitter, Holger Brumm
  • Patent number: 9378894
    Abstract: A process for producing an anode for an electrolytic capacitor includes pressing a tantalum powder around a tantalum wire, a tantalum ribbon, or a tantalum sheet to form a pressed body. The pressed body is sintered to form a porous sintered body. The porous sintered body is cooled to form a cooled porous sintered body. The cooled porous sintered body is treated with at least one oxidant comprising at least one of a gaseous oxidant and a liquid oxidant to form a treated sintered body. The treated sintered body is anodically oxidized in an electrolyte to form a dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: H.C. STARCK GMBH
    Inventors: Helmut Haas, Marcel Hagymasi, Holger Brumm, Christoph Schnitter
  • Patent number: 9309158
    Abstract: A process for producing a homogenous multi compound system which is hydroxide- and/or oxide-based includes a first alternative process comprising providing a first and a second refractory metal in respective hydrofluoric solutions, and mixing the first and second hydrofluoric solutions to provide a mixed hydrofluoric solution comprising a dissolved first and second refractory metal. A second alternative process comprises dissolving the first and the second refractory metal in an alternative mixed hydrofluoric solution. The mixed hydrofluoric solution or the alternative mixed hydrofluoric solution is precipitated with a precipitant to provide a solids mixture in a suspension. The first and second refractory metal is from the group consisting of Mo, W, Nb, Re, Zr, Hf, V, Sb, Si, Al, and Ta. The first and second refractory metal are different. At least one of the first and second refractory metal is provided as a fluoro and/or as an oxyfluoro complex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: H.C. STARCK GMBH
    Inventors: Karsten Beck, Sven Albrecht, Christoph Schnitter, Timo Langetepe, Ralph Otterstedt
  • Patent number: 9085468
    Abstract: A niobium suboxide powder comprising niobium suboxide particles having a bulk nitrogen content of between 500 to 20,000 ppm. The nitrogen is distributed in the bulk of the powder particles. The nitrogen at least partly is present in the form of at least one of Nb2N crystals or niobium oxynitride crystals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: H. C. STARCK GMBH
    Inventors: Christoph Schnitter, Holger Brumm, Christine Rawohl, Colin McCracken
  • Publication number: 20150162137
    Abstract: A refractory metal compound agglomerate powder having a product of a BET surface area in m2/g and a sliding coefficient of ? of 0.33 to 0.95, wherein the refractory metal compound agglomerate powder is selected from niobium agglomerate powder, niobium suboxide agglomerate powder, and tantalum agglomerate powder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Inventors: CHRISTOPH SCHNITTER, Holger Brumm