Patents by Inventor Dirk Mueller

Dirk Mueller 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: 20190017302
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an exterior door handle (10) for a vehicle (3) particularly for an activation of an electric lock (2) of the vehicle (3) comprising: a door handle body (20) with a wall (22), wherein the door handle body (20) is configured such that an activation action is performable by a user (5) at the door handle body (20) in the deformation area (40), at least one inductive activation means (60) which is arranged in the deformation area (40), at least one sensor device (30) arranged within the door handle body (20) for inductivity measurements at the activation means (60), wherein the door handle body (20) is at least configured elastically deformable in the deformation area (40) and the sensor device (30) for the detection of the activation action is arranged spaced apart to the activation means (60) such that the deformation of the door handle body (20) is detectable by the inductivity measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: Andreas Beck, Serdal Bitirim, Dirk Müller, Martin Witte
  • Publication number: 20190017303
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an exterior door handle (10) for a vehicle (3) particularly for an activation of an electric lock (2) of the vehicle (3) comprising: a door handle body (20) with a wall (22), wherein the door handle body (20) is configured such that an activation action is performable by a user (5) at the door handle body (20) in the deformation area (40), at least one inductive activation means (60) which is arranged in the deformation area (40), at least one sensor device (30) arranged within the door handle body (20) for inductivity measurements at the activation means (60), wherein the door handle body (20) is at least configured elastically deformable in the deformation area (40) and the sensor device (30) for the detection of the activation action is arranged spaced apart to the activation means (60) such that the deformation of the door handle body (20) is detectable by the inductivity measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2016
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: Andreas Beck, Serdal Bitirim, Dirk Müller, Martin Witte
  • Patent number: 10120970
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods, processing systems and computer program products of global routing of integrated circuits based on localized routing optimization. In certain embodiments, the method may include one or more of: defining one or more regions, one or more netgroups, and combinations thereof of an integrated circuit, associating at least one optimization objective with each region and/or each netgroup defined, generating one or more constraints for each region and/or each netgroup based on the associated optimization objectives, and performing global routing of the integrated circuit according to the one or more constraints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dirk Mueller, Sven Peyer, Sourav Saha
  • Patent number: 10072446
    Abstract: The invention relates a door handle unit (10) for actuating a lock (101) of a movable part (100) of a motor vehicle, particularly a door, a flap or the like, with a door handle (11), which is movably mounted at the support element (12) for mechanically opening the movable part (100) by a user, wherein the door handle (11) comprises at least a rest position and a operative position, a mechanical coupling element (13), which is movably mounted at the support element (12) and by which a movement of the door handle (11) is transmitted to the lock (101) from the rest position to the operating position, wherein the door handle (11) and the coupling element (13) are mechanically cooperating and form a movable actuating mechanism (15), and at least a locking unit (16), which in a normal case enables a movement of the actuating mechanism (15) for actuating the lock (101) and only in a case of locking blocks a movement of the actuating mechanism (15) for actuating the lock (101).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Huf Hülsbeck & Fürst GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Dirk Müller, Markus Bartels, Reinhold Mathofer, Ralf Lennhoff, Timo Hoppe, Mario Christensen, Andreas Beck
  • Publication number: 20180243937
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing wood materials from lignocellulose-containing crushed products, in particular for producing wooden insulating panels or OSB boards, wherein in order to decrease or reduce the emission of volatile organic compounds (VOC) and, if relevant, very volatile organic compounds (VVOC), including terpenes, acids and aldehydes, said wood materials are treated with a combination of additives during production. According to the invention, the treatment is carried out with a first component made of porous carbon and a second component, a hydrogen sulphite salt. The invention further relates to wood materials that can be obtained using the method according to the invention, having reduced emissions of VOCs, including terpenes, acids and aldehydes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Applicant: Swiss Krono Tec AG
    Inventors: Norbert KALWA, Dirk MÜLLER, Gunnar THIELECKE
  • Publication number: 20180236529
    Abstract: A die for deforming a workpiece material in a joining tool comprises a head with a top side partially defining a cavity in which the workpiece material is to be deformed, a bottom side opposite the top side, a lateral side arranged between the top side and the bottom side, and a stem which extends along a longitudinal axis from the bottom side of the head. The die further comprises an identification tag, preferably an RFID tag, having an antenna for receiving and/or transmitting a signal, and a storing element for storing information, and the antenna is wrapped circumferentially around the head, such that the antenna entirely surrounds the head. The head may also include a groove extending around the head on the lateral side with the antenna arranged in the groove. Additionally, the die may include a recess with the storing element located in the recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: David HISSERICH, Dirk MÜLLER, Andreas TRIPP
  • Publication number: 20180230717
    Abstract: vehicle door handle assembly with a sensor device for detecting an actuation is provided. A handle of the handle assembly has a section which can be gripped from behind and an outer wall that delimits an interior in which an electronic sensor device is arranged and fixed. The handle section is formed with a reduced outer wall thickness in an actuation region and has a deformability that is increased with respect to the remaining sections of the handle. The outer wall thickness is reduced solely on the outer wall face oriented towards the interior. The handle outer wall inner face oriented towards the interior is coated with a metal layer at least in the actuation region. The electronic sensor device comprises at least one inductive distance sensor which lies opposite the metal layer in the interior of the handle to detect a deformation of the opposing outer wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2016
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Andreas Beck, Serdal Bitirim, Dirk Mueller, Martin Witte
  • Publication number: 20180209182
    Abstract: A vehicle door handle with a handle component is provided. The handle component includes a hollow body, and an inductive sensor device is arranged in a cavity in order to detect an actuation of the handle component. A support having a support fastening section and a self-supporting section connected to the latter are arranged in the cavity, wherein the support fastening section is secured to the vehicle door handle, and wherein the self-supporting section of the support extends in the interior of the cavity at a distance from the wall surfaces of the handle component such that the self-supporting section of the support is mechanically decoupled from the wall surfaces of the handle component. The inductive sensor device is held in the self-supporting section, wherein a metallic material is arranged in at least one section of those wall surfaces of the handle component which surround the self-supporting section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2016
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Inventors: Andreas Beck, Serdal Bitirim, Dirk Mueller, Martin Witte
  • Publication number: 20180187461
    Abstract: A lock system for a motor vehicle includes a handle for opening a door or hatch, a drive device coupled to the handle, and a control device which is suited for checking an access code of a mobile ID transmitter, coupled to the drive device. A lock device is provided for the door or hatch. The handle can move between a non-use position in which it is flush with an outer contour of the door or hatch and an opening position in which it protrudes at least in part from the outer contour. The drive device is coupled and designed for opening or closing the door or hatch such that it moves along a movement path along which the drive device extends the handle into its opening position or retracts it into its non-use position, as well as actuating the lock device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Applicant: Huf Huelsbeck & Fuerst GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Dirk Mueller, Mirko Schindler, Coen Dieker, Thorsten Torkowski, Marco Rosenbaum
  • Publication number: 20180147163
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions comprising at least two different active compounds and the use of such combination compositions in medicine, in particular in methods for treating obesity and obesity-related disorders and/or in methods for inhibiting weight gain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: Timo Dirk MUELLER, Matthias TSCHOEP, Christoffer CLEMMENSEN, Brian FINAN
  • Patent number: 9975920
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the purification of target molecules like immunoglobulins from plasma. The use of a certain type of ion exchanger based on a crosslinked polyvinylether results in especially high yields of the target molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Annika Aldinger, Achim Schwaemmle, Matthias Joehnck, Dirk Mueller, Marc Mazur
  • Publication number: 20180066459
    Abstract: A door handle assembly for a motor vehicle includes a handle carrier mounted on the vehicle and a grip part rotatably mounted on the handle carrier. The grip part opens a door or flap of the motor vehicle. A coupling device is rotatably mounted on the handle carrier for transmitting an actuation of the grip part to a locking arrangement on the vehicle. A joint element pivotably interconnects the coupling device and the grip part. The joint element movably supports an actuating member which is moved by rotation translationally between mounting and operating positions. In the operating position, the actuating member is pivotably mounted on the coupling device and is in engagement with the grip part. In the mounting position, the actuating member bears against a blocking surface of the coupling device that blocks rotation of the actuating member and is out of engagement with the grip part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2016
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Applicant: Huf Huelsbeck & Fuerst GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Beck, Dirk Müller, Raimund Hübner, Matthias Löw
  • Publication number: 20170357744
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods, processing systems and computer program products of global routing of integrated circuits based on localized routing optimization. In certain embodiments, the method may include one or more of: defining one or more regions, one or more netgroups, and combinations thereof of an integrated circuit, associating at least one optimization objective with each region and/or each netgroup defined, generating one or more constraints for each region and/or each netgroup based on the associated optimization objectives, and performing global routing of the integrated circuit according to the one or more constraints.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventors: Dirk Mueller, Sven Peyer, Sourav Saha
  • Publication number: 20170312936
    Abstract: A method of producing wood-base panels, especially OSB wood-base panels is provided. The method including the steps of providing wood strands, applying at least one adhesive system to the wood strands having at least one polymer adhesive and at least one nanoparticle below 500 nm, and pressing the wood strands admixed with the adhesive system to form wood-base panels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventors: Andreas Gier, Norbert Kalwa, Dirk Mueller
  • Publication number: 20170313556
    Abstract: A crane system having a gas turbine that has a manhole on the outer housing thereof, the manhole being designed to open up a maintenance access to hot gas parts of the gas turbine in the open state of the manhole, which is provided with a fastening section; the crane system further has a hoisting mechanism that includes a mating fastening section which is connected to the fastening section of the manhole in such a way that the hoisting mechanism introduces weights that same has to lift into the outer housing of the gas turbine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Griese, Dirk Müller, Katrin Tritsch, Heiko Gellenthien
  • Publication number: 20170276025
    Abstract: A device for installing and removing a component in a gas turbine, includes a rail system for fastening to the gas turbine, on which rail system at least one runner is provided, which can be moved along a predetermined movement axis. A load arm is fastened to the runner, which load arm is designed to be pivoted in at least two spatial directions, and wherein the load arm has a fastening segment, which is designed to form a detachable connection to the component in question. The load arm has three joints each having a defined pivot axis, of which pivot axes preferably at least two are parallel to each other, wherein the joints each have a pivoting resistance device, which pivoting resistance devices are designed to set the pivoting resistance of the respective joints.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2015
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christian Kowalzik, Dirk Müller
  • Publication number: 20170268382
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for installing and removing a component on a gas turbine, having a rail system on which in particular a rotor can be displaced along a predetermined displacement axis, and having a terminal positioning part which is fixedly connected to the rail system. The positioning part has at least one guide portion which is designed to co-operate mechanically with a respective counterpart guide portion on the housing of the gas turbine, in order to achieve a suitable orientation of the device with respect to the housing of the gas turbine. The positioning part also has at least one connecting section which is designed in each case to form a fixed but releasable connection to a respective counterpart connecting section on the housing of the gas turbine construct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2015
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Dirk Müller, Christian Kowalzik, Ismail Belkahla
  • Publication number: 20170234040
    Abstract: Actuating handle (100) for a motor vehicle for opening and/or closing a door or a flap, comprising a grip element (101) which is designed for movement between an actuating position, in which the grip element (101) is arranged that can be actuated for manually opening a door or a flap (103), and a locking position, in which the grip element (101) is accommodated in a recess (105), wherein the grip element (101) comprises surrounding grip element delimiting sections (107) and the recess (105) has recess delimiting sections (109), wherein the actuating handle (100) is designed such that in the locking position of the grip element (101) each of the grip element delimiting sections (107) is arranged opposite a corresponding recess delimiting section (109), and wherein lighting means (201) are arranged at least in some regions on the grip element delimiting sections (107).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Markus Bartels, Coen Dieker, Dirk Mueller, Stefan Moenig
  • Patent number: 9700645
    Abstract: A two-phase system containing at least one solvatochromic dye, water, at least one fragrance, and at least one solvent. Wherein the two-phase system includes liquid phases layered one on top of the other. The inventive compositions can be used as exhaustion indicators for fragrance release systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: SYMRISE AG
    Inventors: Dirk Mueller, Joern Wiedemann, Jennifer Rube
  • Patent number: 9650806
    Abstract: A door handle assembly for a motor vehicle has a handle mount, a handle and a coupling device, wherein the handle is coupled to the coupling device in the region of its second handle end which provides a door handle assembly in a structurally simple manner, in which the play in the longitudinal direction of the handle mount, and thus the clearance in the opening in the door panel for the handle ends, is reduced to a minimum. This is achieved in that the second handle end of the handle and a deflection lever of the mechanical coupling device are moveably coupled to one another by a pivotable and hinge-like articulated connection of the second handle end in relation to the deflection lever, when the handle has been actuated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Huf Huelsebeck & Fuerst GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Beck, Dirk Mueller, Raimund Huebner, Matthias Loew