Patents by Inventor Franz Kugelmann

Franz Kugelmann 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: 20140127668
    Abstract: A device for the laser transmission welding of two plastic assembly parts is provided, wherein at least one of the plastic assembly parts contains an absorber for laser light, comprising a processing head with a processing side, with a processing-side discharge shaft for at least one laser beam and with a laser-transparent pressing means for pressing together the plastic assembly parts, wherein the laser-transparent pressing means is guided decoupled from the processing head in the discharge shaft. Furthermore, a method for producing a welded joint between two plastic assembly parts by laser transmission welding is specified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Franz KUGELMANN, Lars MOSER, Andreas KLEMM
  • Publication number: 20130281963
    Abstract: The subject matter of the invention is a container system having an inner container for receiving ready-to-use liquid, in particular dialysis liquid, and an outer container surrounding the inner container to receive spent liquid such that the inner container has through-openings which establish a fluidic connection for the liquid in the outer container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Inventors: Franz KUGELMANN, Claus HAUPERT, Joern HOERMANN
  • Publication number: 20130281964
    Abstract: The subject of the invention is a bag for receiving, preparing and producing dialysis fluid. The invention relates in particular to a bag having a sealing bordering line and a flexurally rigid hard plastic part connected to the film material. The hard plastic part is connected to the film material separately from the sealing bordering line and offers an area for gripping the bag for fastening it without having to act mechanically on the sealing bordering line in a direct manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Inventors: Franz KUGELMANN, Joern HOERMANN
  • Patent number: 8557571
    Abstract: A reactor has a reactor unit with a first chamber and a second chamber, with the first chamber being formed by the interior of a housing and the second chamber being formed by the interior of a plurality of hollow fibers arranged in the housing. The hollow fibers are arranged in the housing such that their density in at least one region of the first chamber does not exceed 10 fibers/mm2, based on the cross-sectional area of the first chamber. The reactor unit can include two casting compounds, in which a portion of the hollow fibers are embedded and between which another portion of the hollow fibers extends. The length of at least some or all of the hollow fibers is at least 0.5% greater than the distance of the casting compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Kugelmann, Paul Hengster, Raimund Margreiter, Bernd Nederlof, Massimo Fini, Ciro Tetta, Thomas Wild, Micaela Yakubovich, Michael Paul, Marco Caronna
  • Publication number: 20130248629
    Abstract: A medical treatment apparatus, and in particular an extra-corporeal blood treatment apparatus, has a socket unit for the connection of a plug unit belonging to a device for supplying a medical fluid for the medical treatment apparatus. A filling apparatus for filling a device for supplying a medical fluid has a socket unit for the connection of a plug unit of the device for supplying a medical fluid. The device has a plug unit having means for indicating two states of operation, while the socket unit of the treatment apparatus has means for destroying the means for indicating two states of operation. When the plug unit is connected to the socket unit, the means for indicating two states of operation are destroyed, to rule out the possibility of the device being re-used. Re-use of the device is ruled out by the fact that the device cannot be re-filled with fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Brandl, Thomas Faulhaber, Joern Hoermann, Franz Kugelmann, Goekhan Oerter, Rafael Sterzer
  • Publication number: 20130245531
    Abstract: A medical apparatus includes a socket unit for connecting a plug unit of a device for supplying medical fluids, in which the medical apparatus is in particular an extracorporeal blood treatment apparatus, for example an extracorporeal dialysis apparatus or an apparatus for peritoneal dialysis, or an apparatus for filling the device for supplying medical fluids. The socket unit comprises connection pieces for the connection of connectors of a plug unit, so that a flow connection can be produced for supplying or discharging a fluid. The connection pieces are surrounded by connection parts thereby forming rinsing chambers, in which the rinsing chambers are closed by closure pieces, said closure pieces being part of a closure body which is disposed rotatably on the socket unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Brandl, Thomas Faulhaber, Joern Hoermann, Franz Kugelmann, Goekhan Oerter, Rafael Sterzer
  • Publication number: 20130245530
    Abstract: A medical apparatus includes a socket unit for connection to a plug unit belonging to a device for supplying medical fluids for a blood treatment apparatus, the medical apparatus being in particular an extra-corporeal blood treatment apparatus such for example as an extra-corporeal dialysis apparatus or an apparatus for peritoneal dialysis, or an apparatus for filling the device for supplying medical fluids. A device for supplying medical fluids for a blood treatment apparatus, which has a plug unit for connection to a socket unit of a medical apparatus, is also described. The socket unit and the plug unit are characterised in that a safe and secure fluid-tight connection can easily be made with the two units between the device for supplying medical fluids and, on the one hand, the blood treatment apparatus or, on the other hand, the apparatus for filling the device for supplying medical fluids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Brandl, Thomas Faulhaber, Joern Hoermann, Franz Kugelmann, Goekhan Oerter, Rafael Sterzer
  • Publication number: 20130195716
    Abstract: The invention concerns the use of a sterilization agent comprising H2O2 or a derivative thereof, capable of generating H2O2 as the sterilising component under sterilization conditions, for enhancing the hemocompatibility of objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2011
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Thorsten Fehr, Claus Haupert, Franz Kugelmann, Nicole Simon, Ansgar Erlenkoetter
  • Publication number: 20130105025
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for sterilizing at least one object, wherein the object is exposed to a sterilization agent, wherein at least one first support pressure and at least one second support pressure are applied and wherein a sterilization of a first region of the object takes place by the sterilization agent at the first support pressure and a sterilization of a second region of the object takes place at the second support pressure. The present invention furthermore relates to a sterilizing apparatus and to a use herefor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Thorsten Fehr, Claus Haupert, Franz Kugelmann, Nicole Simon
  • Publication number: 20130072895
    Abstract: A multilayer film for medical purposes is proposed, with one or two external layers, wherein the external layers contain: a first polyalphaolefin; a first thermoplastic elastomer with a melt viscosity of a melt flow index according to ISO 1133 of from 0.001 to 6 g/10 min at 230° C., 2.16 kg; and a second thermoplastic elastomer with a high melt viscosity not measurable according to ISO 1133 which is higher than the melt viscosity of the first thermoplastic elastomer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Kreischer, Joern Hoermann, Franz Kugelmann
  • Publication number: 20130020250
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a filter module and to a method of manufacturing a hollow fiber membrane bundle having at least two concentrically arranged filter stages. The present invention furthermore relates to a method of manufacturing a hollow fiber membrane bundle, to a disposable and to a blood treatment apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Applicant: Fresenius Medical Care Duetschland GmbH
    Inventors: Torsten KELLER, Franz Kugelmann, Wolfgang Wehmeyer
  • Publication number: 20120310150
    Abstract: Method of dissolving/mixing of a concentrate in/with a fluid in a multi-chamber bag and a method for the production of a medical fluid, in particular a dialysis fluid, in a multi-chamber bag. Moreover, the multi-chamber bag itself is disclosed. In all embodiments, at least two different concentrates can be included separately in powder form, liquid form or semi-liquid slurry form for dissolution in a fluid in the multi-chamber bag. In addition, the use of the multi-chamber bag in haemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis or a haemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis device, in particular as a container for a dialysis fluid in a haemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis device, is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Inventors: Matthias Brandl, Philippe Laffay, Michael Herrenbauer, Thomas Fichert, Franz Kugelmann, Joern Hoermann
  • Publication number: 20120288572
    Abstract: The subject matter of the present invention is a multichamber container and a method for preparing medical fluids composed of concentrates which make a contribution toward the electrical conductivity of the solution and are additionally prepared from concentrates which do not make a contribution toward the electrical conductivity of the solution. The inventive multichamber container is characterized in that it is constructed by dividing the solution components into multiple chambers, so that following the dissolving due to breaking open of the first chamber border of a solution component, which makes a contribution toward the electrical conductivity of the medicinal solution, another chamber border of another solution component which does not make any contribution toward the electrical conductivity of the solution is broken open.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Inventors: Franz KUGELMANN, Joern Hoermann
  • Patent number: 8215261
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for introducing a sealing compound into a filter device include attaching sealing caps for the purpose of producing the sealing compound, and distributing the sealing compound from a sealing chamber via the sealing caps onto the ends of the filter device. The sealing compound is passed from the sealing chamber into a rotationally symmetrical cantilevered projection of the respective sealing cap, from which the sealing compound penetrates into the housing via corresponding slots of the sealing cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Helff, Franz Kugelmann
  • Patent number: 8114061
    Abstract: A welding boat for a pouch has a center part and two prolongations extending therefrom in opposite directions and tapering acutely. The welding boat has an opening for the filling of the pouch with a substance in manufacture and inlets and outlets for the actual use of the pouch. The center part is substantially filled by an opening with a lumen which is as large as possible and preferably circular, and the side edges of the side prolongations contact the opening tangentially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Brandl, Peter Hilgers, Franz Kugelmann, Matthias Meisinger
  • Publication number: 20110249916
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a disposable bag which comprises a multilayer film for accommodating a fluid, and a device which comprises a support holder for the disposable bag according to the invention in which the disposable bag is arranged. The present invention also relates to a process for the production of the disposable bag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland Gmbh
    Inventors: Michael Herrenbauer, Manfred Weis, Franz Kugelmann
  • Publication number: 20110200791
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of producing a composite by transmission laser welding, comprising the steps: a)flat arrangement of a multilayer film (2), which has a joint layer, on a hard plastic part (1) such that the joint layer abuts the hard plastic part (1), wherein the joint layer contains an absorber for laser light, b) pressing of the multilayer film (2) against the hard plastic part (1) with a pressure tool (4) permeable for laser light, and c) irradiation of the array obtained in step b) with laser light from the multilayer film (2) side, a composite obtainable with the method and a composite-welding array which is used in the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2009
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicant: GANGNAM CHICAGO DENTAL CLINIC 3F
    Inventors: Franz Kugelmann, Tobias Weber
  • Publication number: 20090238967
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method for introducing a sealing compound into a filter device, sealing caps being attached for the purpose of producing the sealing compound, and the sealing compound being distributed from a sealing chamber via the sealing caps onto the ends of the filter device. In accordance with the invention, the sealing compound is passed from the sealing chamber into a rotationally symmetrical cantilevered projection of the respective sealing cap, from where it penetrates into the housing via corresponding slots of the sealing cap. The invention furthermore relates to an apparatus for introducing the sealing compound into a filter device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Inventors: Markus Helff, Franz Kugelmann
  • Publication number: 20090218325
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for welding tube segments to a tubular shaped body, and to a laser welding method for connecting a tube segment to a tubular shaped body, in which the tube wall of the tube segment is constructed from at least two material layers that differ from each other, and one of these layers contains, at least portionally, an absorber for laser radiation, comprising the steps of provision of a PVC-free tube segment and a tubular shaped body, positive insertion of tube segment and tubular shaped body into one another with the result that surface regions of the tube segment and of the tubular shaped body overlap, irradiation of the overlapping surface regions with laser radiation of defined wavelength, wherein it is unnecessary, in the case of the laser welding method, to move either the joint partners or parts of the apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2007
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Inventors: Thomas Kreischer, Franz Kugelmann
  • Publication number: 20080145926
    Abstract: This invention relates to a reactor unit with a first chamber and a second chamber, wherein the first chamber is formed by the interior of a housing and wherein the second chamber is formed by the interior of a plurality of hollow fibers arranged in the housing. The hollow fibers are arranged in the housing such that their density in at least one region of the first chamber does not exceed 10 fibers/mm2, based on the cross-sectional area of the first chamber. In accordance with another aspect of the invention it is provided that in the reactor unit two casting compounds are arranged, in which a portion of the hollow fibers is embedded and between which another portion of the hollow fibers extends, wherein the length of at least some or all hollow fibers is at least 0.5% greater than the distance of the casting compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Inventors: Franz Kugelmann, Paul Hengster, Raimund Margreiter, Bernd Nederlof, Massimo Fini, Ciro Tetta, Thomas Wild, Micaela Yakubovich, Michael Paul, Marco Caronna