Patents by Inventor Franz Ulrich

Franz Ulrich 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: 20080197666
    Abstract: A convertible vehicle has a roof that is movable between a closed position extending over the passenger compartment and an opened position stowed in a rearward storage region. A movable cover has a closed position wherein the cover covers the rearward storage area and is movable to a first opened position to provide a passage opening for the roof and to a second opened position to provide a loading opening for baggage. A cover extension has an extended position wherein the cover extension at least partially covers an opening between the movable cover and the passenger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2006
    Publication date: August 21, 2008
    Inventor: Franz-Ulrich Brockhoff
  • Publication number: 20080193411
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds, stereoisomers, tautomers, pharmaceutically acceptable salts, or prodrugs thereof of having Formula (I), their preparation, use, and compositions thereof for treating an infection mediated at least in part by a virus in the Flaviviridae family of viruses, wherein A, L1, V, W, T, Z, R, Y1, and p are as defined herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2007
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Inventors: Martin Robert Leivers, Franz Ulrich Schmitz, Christopher Don Roberts, Ali Dehghani Mohammad Abadi
  • Publication number: 20080181866
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds, stereoisomers, tautomers, pharmaceutically acceptable salts, or prodrugs thereof of having Formula (I), their preparation, use, and compositions thereof for treating an infection mediated at least in part by a virus in the Flaviviridae family of viruses, wherein A, R3, X, V, W, T, Z, R, Y1, and p are as defined herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2007
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Inventors: Martin Robert Leivers, Franz Ulrich Schmitz, Ronald Conrad Griffith, Christopher Don Roberts, Ali Dehghani Mohammad Abadi, Stephanie Anna Chan, Roopa Rai, Irina Slobodov, Tony Loc Ton
  • Patent number: 7404587
    Abstract: A motor vehicle includes a roof having at least one part which can be moved as a whole between an opened position and a closed position and which, in the closed position, extends between an area near a wind shield frame and a rear rigid roof part. The rear rigid roof part includes two lateral tips which, when the roof is closed, are overlapped on their upper side by frame parts which can be moved upward to create an opening for the passage of the movable roof part. The roof has a rear window which is mounted relatively far towards the front so that the rear window is not window is not moved upwardly when the frame parts are moved upwardly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2008
    Assignee: Wilhelm Karmann GmbH
    Inventor: Franz-Ulrich Brockhoff
  • Patent number: 7344650
    Abstract: Alkaline waste waters formed in the washing of crude nitrobenzene which has been prepared by the adiabatic nitration of benzene with nitrating acid, washed in an acidic washing process, and then washed in an alkaline washing process are treated. The alkaline waste water being treated generally contains benzene in a concentration of from about 100 to about 3000 ppm and nitrobenzene in a concentration of from about 1000 to about 10,000 ppm. In the process of the present invention, undissolved benzene and/or nitrobenzene are separated from the alkaline waste water, residual benzene and/or nitrobenzene is/are then optionally stripped out of the alkaline waste water, and the alkaline waste water from which benzene and/or nitrobenzene has been removed is heated to a temperature of from 150 to 500° C. under excess pressure with the exclusion of oxygen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignee: Bayer MaterialScience AG
    Inventors: Thomas Knauf, Franz-Ulrich Von Gehlen, Wolfgang Dohmen, Jörg Schmiedler
  • Patent number: 7326816
    Abstract: Nitrobenzene is produced and then purified using an acidic wash, an alkaline wash, a neutral wash, subjecting a dispersion formed in the neutral wash to electrophoresis to separate water and benzene from the nitrobenzene and recover purified nitrobenzene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignee: Bayer MaterialScience AG
    Inventors: Thomas Knauf, Franz-Ulrich Von Gehlen, Jörg Schmiedler, Klaus Pilarczyk, Peter Drinda
  • Publication number: 20070249873
    Abstract: Nitrobenzene is produced and then purified using an acidic wash, an alkaline wash, a neutral wash, subjecting a dispersion formed in the neutral wash to electrophoresis to separate water and benzene from the nitrobenzene and recover purified nitrobenzene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2007
    Publication date: October 25, 2007
    Inventors: Thomas Knauf, Franz-Ulrich Von Gehlen, Jorg Schmiedler, Klaus Pilarczyk, Peter Drinda
  • Publication number: 20070238901
    Abstract: Crude aniline is produced by hydrogenating nitrobenzene in the presence of a catalyst. The crude aniline is then extracted with aqueous alkali metal hydroxide solution under conditions such that the aqueous phase is the lower phase during separation of the aqueous and organic phases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2007
    Publication date: October 11, 2007
    Inventors: Markus Dugal, Franz-Ulrich Von Gehlen, Stefan Wershofen, Andre Lago, Peter Lehner, Werner Backer, Benie Marotz, Horst Brinkschulte
  • Publication number: 20070203364
    Abstract: Crude aniline is produced by hydrogenating nitrobenzene in the presence of a catalyst. This crude aniline is then purified by means of a single-step or multi-step distillation process in which aqueous alkali metal hydroxide solution is added to the crude aniline prior to distillation and/or during distillation of the crude aniline.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2007
    Publication date: August 30, 2007
    Inventors: Markus Dugal, Franz-Ulrich Von Gehlen, Stefan Wershofen, Andre Lago, Peter Lehner, Benie Marotz
  • Publication number: 20070187984
    Abstract: A convertible vehicle is provided with a rear windshield and a rear roof element that laterally comprises C pillars that are at least substantially located next to the rear windshield, adjoining which is at least one front roof element, arranged upstream thereof in the direction of travel when the roof is closed. In order to open the roof the rear roof element can move rearward and downward, and the front roof element can swivel toward the rear roof element. When the roof is open, the C pillars can be swiveled inward in relation to a center section comprising the windshield about axes into a position lying above the center position when the roof is open, and the axes when the roof is closed have at least one component in the direction of travel and one upwardly directed component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2005
    Publication date: August 16, 2007
    Applicant: WILHELM KARMANN GMBH
    Inventor: Franz-Ulrich Brockhoff
  • Publication number: 20070187992
    Abstract: A B-pillar segment (24) for a convertible vehicle (10) comprises a stationary lower part (30) and an upper part (28) displaceable relative to the stationary part (28), wherein the upper part (28) is insertable into the lower part (30) when the side windows (18, 20) of the vehicle (10) are opened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2007
    Publication date: August 16, 2007
    Applicant: Wilhelm Karmann GmbH
    Inventor: Franz-Ulrich Brockhoff
  • Publication number: 20070132271
    Abstract: In a convertible vehicle having a folding convertible top (16), whose rear side is affixed to a tensioning bow (20) laterally supported relative to the vehicle, and a rear trunk lid (14) laterally supported relative to the vehicle, wherein its front side is arranged in the vicinity of the tensioning bow in its closed state, the tensioning bow (20) can be brought into an upwardly pivoted position during the opening of the rear trunk lid (14) or when the rear trunk lid is opened, so that an opening for loading of a luggage compartment, which is arranged underneath the rear trunk lid and underneath the tensioning bow at least when the folding convertible top is closed, is enlarged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2004
    Publication date: June 14, 2007
    Inventors: Franz-Ulrich Brockhoff, Winfried Bunsmann, Siegfried Licher
  • Patent number: 7204541
    Abstract: The invention relates a motor vehicle (1) comprising a roof (2) consisting of at least one part (3) which is completely displaceable between open and closed positions. In the closed position, said part of the roof is arranged between an area near a windscreen frame (4) and the rigid rear part of the roof (5, 5a). The inventive motor vehicle is constructed in such a way that the movable part of the roof (3) is divided into several adjacent sectors (15, 16) in order to enable a reduced width to pass to a normal width and vice versa by displacing said sectors and to move between the open and closed positions thereof when the width is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: Wilhelm Karmann GmbH
    Inventor: Franz-Ulrich Brockhoff
  • Publication number: 20060279108
    Abstract: In a motor vehicle having a tail gate (10) affixed to a lateral, rear pillar of the vehicle structure by means of at least one hinge so as to be pivotable about a substantially vertical axis (A-A), a hinge part that swings out together with the tail gate is located in an area of a lateral tail light (18) of the vehicle when the tail gate (10) is closed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2006
    Publication date: December 14, 2006
    Applicant: Wilhelm Karmann GmbH
    Inventors: Franz-Ulrich Brockhoff, Winfried Bunsmann, Jochen Klein, Wolfgang Nentwig, Markus Grave
  • Publication number: 20060131919
    Abstract: The invention relates a motor vehicle (1) comprising a roof (2) consisting of at least one part (3) which is completely displaceable between open and closed positions. In the closed position, said part of the roof is arranged between an area near a windscreen frame (4) and the rigid rear part of the roof (5, 5a). The inventive motor vehicle is constructed in such a way that the movable part of the roof (3) is divided into several adjacent sectors (15, 16) in order to enable a reduced width to pass to a normal width and vice versa by displacing said sectors and to move between the open and closed positions thereof when the width is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2003
    Publication date: June 22, 2006
    Inventor: Franz-Ulrich Brockhoff
  • Publication number: 20060125281
    Abstract: Disclosed is a motor vehicle (1) comprising a roof (2) that is provided with at least one roof part (3) which is movable as a whole between an open position and a closed position. Said roof part (3) extends between an area located close to a windshield frame (4) and a rear, especially stiff roof part (5) in the closed position. The inventive motor vehicle is embodied such that the rear roof part (5) comprises two lateral tips (7) called fins which extend in the direction of the tail. Frame parts (31) which can be raised so as to unblock a passage for the movable roof part (3) engage over the top side of said lateral tips (7) when the roof (2) is closed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2003
    Publication date: June 15, 2006
    Inventor: Franz-Ulrich Brockhoff
  • Publication number: 20050224424
    Abstract: Alkaline waste waters formed in the washing of crude nitrobenzene which has been prepared by the adiabatic nitration of benzene with nitrating acid, washed in an acidic washing process, and then washed in an alkaline washing process are treated. The alkaline waste water being treated generally contains benzene in a concentration of from about 100 to about 3000 ppm and nitrobenzene in a concentration of from about 1000 to about 10,000 ppm. In the process of the present invention, undissolved benzene and/or nitrobenzene are separated from the alkaline waste water, residual benzene and/or nitrobenzene is/are then optionally stripped out of the alkaline waste water, and the alkaline waste water from which benzene and/or nitrobenzene has been removed is heated to a temperature of from 150 to 500° C. under excess pressure with the exclusion of oxygen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2005
    Publication date: October 13, 2005
    Inventors: Thomas Knauf, Franz-Ulrich Von Gehlen, Wolfgang Dohmen, Jorg Schmiedler
  • Publication number: 20050111726
    Abstract: Manufacturing lines include inspection systems for monitoring the quality of parts produced. Manufacturing lines for making semiconductor devices generally inspect each fabricated part. The information obtained is used to fix manufacturing problems in the semiconductor fab plant. A machine-vision system for inspecting devices includes a light source for propagating light to the device and an image detector that receives light from the device. Also included is a light sensor assembly for receiving a portion of the light from the light source. The light sensor assembly produces an output signal responsive to the intensity of the light received at the light sensor assembly. A controller controls the amount of light received by the image detector to a desired intensity range in response to the output from the light sensor. The image detector may include an array of imaging pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2004
    Publication date: May 26, 2005
    Inventors: Joshua Hackney, Arye Malek, Franz Ulrich, John Estridge
  • Patent number: 6773707
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and compositions for inducing an immune response in a subject, wherein the subject is administered an effective amount of a heat shock protein complexed to a hybrid antigen comprising an antigenic domain and a heat shock protein-binding domain. These methods and compositions may be used in the treatment of infectious diseases and cancers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research
    Inventors: James E. Rothman, Franz-Ulrich Hartl, Mee H. Hoe, Alan Houghton, Yoshizumi Takechi, Mark Mayhew
  • Patent number: 6761892
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and compositions for inducing an immune response in a subject, wherein the subject is administered an effective amount of a heat shock protein complexed to a hybrid antigen comprising an antigenic domain and a heat shock protein-binding domain. These methods and compositions may be used in the treatment of infectious diseases and cancers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2004
    Assignee: Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research
    Inventors: James E. Rothman, Franz-Ulrich Hartl, Mee H. Hoe, Alan Houghton, Yoshizumi Takechi, Mark Mayhew