Patents by Inventor Ernst-Jurgen Grittmann

Ernst-Jurgen Grittmann 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).

  • Patent number: 7255472
    Abstract: A device comprising a shaft, a front ring connected to this shaft, an end ring connected to the shaft at a distance A from the front ring, and a loose mixing ring, which is freely rotatable and located between the front ring and the end ring. The mixing ring has a first region in which its inside diameter is large enough for it to be able to overlap with a region of smaller diameter of the front ring has an adjoining region in which the mixing ring has on its inner side at least two channels (4k) which run axially parallel, at an angle in relation to the axis of the shaft or helically thereto, and also an adjoining third region in which its inside diameter is large enough for it to be able to overlap with a region of smaller diameter of the end ring and the mixing ring is so long that, in its respective end positions, the other of the two rings respectively is partially overlapped by the mixing ring. The mixing ring channels are offset in relation to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hartmut Nikolai, Ernst-Jürgen Grittmann
  • Publication number: 20060164911
    Abstract: A device comprising a shaft (1), a front ring (2), which is non-positively and positively connected to this shaft, an end ring (3), which is non-positively and positively connected to the shaft at a distance A from the front ring, and a loose mixing ring (4), which is freely rotatable and located between the front ring and the end ring, wherein the front ring and the end ring in each case have at least one channel (2k) or (3k), respectively, which runs axially parallel, at an angle in relation to the axis of the shaft or helically, and has in each case at least two regions (2b1 and 2b2) or (3b1 and 3b2) of different outside diameters, of which the region with the smaller outside diameter (2b2) or (3b2) is respectively located on the side facing the mixing ring, and the mixing ring has a first region (4b1) in which its inside diameter is large enough for it to be able to overlap with the region of smaller diameter of the front ring (2b2), has an adjoining region (4b2) in which the mixing ring has on its inne
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2003
    Publication date: July 27, 2006
    Applicant: BASF AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT Patents, Trademarks and Licenses
    Inventors: Hartmut Nikolai, Ernst-Jurgen Grittmann
  • Patent number: 5515223
    Abstract: A cleaning cassette for magnetic heads in a cassette drive includes at least one container with cleaning fluid, comprising an at least partially flexible hollow body, at least one valve device and at least one feed channel for the cleaning fluid to the cleaning device. The cleaning system can be used for tape cassettes and disk cassettes with magnetic medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 7, 1996
    Assignee: BASF Magnetics GmbH
    Inventors: Ernst-Jurgen Grittmann, Peter Hammerschmitt, Peter Felleisen, Volker Koch