Patents by Inventor Günter Hofmann
Günter Hofmann 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).
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Patent number: 8658123Abstract: Method for the production of a coarse-grained ammonium sulphate product by crystallization and installation for carrying out the method from an ammonium sulphate solution in a DTB type crystallizer having an internal suspension circuit and a clarifying zone, from which a clarified partial flow of solution is constantly drawn off into an external circuit, is heated in a heat exchanger to dissolve the solids contained therein and is guided back as a clear solution into the lower region of the crystallizer. A fine crystal suspension flow is drawn off from the clarifying zone as a further partial flow and guided back into the internal circuit of the crystallization stage without any previous dissolution of the solid proportion contained therein.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2013Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: GEA Messo GmbHInventors: Günter Hofmann, Holger Leptien, Johannes Widua
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Publication number: 20130230446Abstract: Method for the production of a coarse-grained ammonium sulphate product by crystallization and installation for carrying out the method. A method for the continuous production of a coarse-grained ammonium sulphate product from an ammonium sulphate solution in a crystallizer operates in accordance with the DTB principle and has an internal suspension circuit and a clarifying zone, from which a clarified partial flow of solution is constantly drawn off into an external circuit, is heated in a heat exchanger so as to dissolve the solids contained therein and is then guided back as a clear solution into the lower region of the crystallizer. In order to ensure production of a product crystallizate with a grain coarseness which is practically constant over time, a fine crystal suspension flow may be drawn off from the clarifying zone as a further partial flow and guided back into the internal circuit of the crystallization stage without any previous dissolution of the solid proportion contained therein.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2013Publication date: September 5, 2013Applicant: GEA Messo GmbHInventors: Guenter Hofmann, Holger Leptien, Johannes Widua
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Patent number: 8486158Abstract: The invention proposes a method and a device for continuously producing a crystallite, wherein a metered amount of seed crystals is fed continuously to the internal solution circuit of a crystallizer, in particular a DTB crystallizer, through a crystallization seed line from a seed generator preferably designed as a flash crystallizer. The amount of seed crystals fed is controlled by an electronic control system as a function of a measured value determined by a sensor, said value being representative of the particle size distribution of the crystallites in the solution in the internal circuit in the crystallizer. By way of a line, the seed generator receives a partial stream of the external solution circuit of the crystallizer, said external circuit being routed through a line. Excess fine crystalline suspension can be fed back to the external circuit from the seed generator by way of a return line.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2009Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: GEA Messo GmbHInventors: Reinhard Scholz, Günter Hofmann
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Patent number: 7942939Abstract: A method and installation for the production of a coarse-grained ammonium sulfate product by crystallization includes firstly generating a crystal having a grain smaller than the desired grain size in a pre-crystallizer and withdrawing a suspension therefrom, from which the fine crystal was previously separated in a classification connecting piece. This suspension, which contains medium-sized grain, is then conducted with a proportion of undersaturated mother liquor, which is sufficient for further crystal growth, into a DTB product crystallizer and crystallized therein to a desired grain size. The heating of the product crystallizer is performed by the heat contained in the vapors of the pre-crystallization. The pre-crystallization may also operate according to the DTB principle, wherein the mother liquor needed for crystallization is supplied in the form of separately admixed concentrated sulfuric acid and ammonia into the external solution loop of the pre-crystallizer.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2009Date of Patent: May 17, 2011Assignee: Gea Messo GmbHInventors: Günter Hofmann, Reinhard Scholz
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Publication number: 20110061205Abstract: The invention proposes a method and a device for continuously producing a crystallite, wherein a metered amount of seed crystals is fed continuously to the internal solution circuit of a crystallizer, in particular a DTB crystallizer, through a crystallization seed line from a seed generator preferably designed as a flash crystallizer. The amount of seed crystals fed is controlled by an electronic control system as a function of a measured value determined by a sensor, said value being representative of the particle size distribution of the crystallites in the solution in the internal circuit in the crystallizer. By way of a line, the seed generator receives a partial stream of the external solution circuit of the crystallizer, said external circuit being routed through a line. Excess fine crystalline suspension can be fed back to the external circuit from the seed generator by way of a return line.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2009Publication date: March 17, 2011Applicant: GEA Messo GmbHInventors: Reinhard Scholz, Günter Hofmann
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Publication number: 20110038781Abstract: A method and installation for the production of a coarse-grained ammonium sulfate product by crystallization includes firstly generating a crystal having a grain smaller than the desired grain size in a pre-crystallizer and withdrawing a suspension therefrom, from which the fine crystal was previously separated in a classification connecting piece. This suspension, which contains medium-sized grain, is then conducted with a proportion of undersaturated mother liquor, which is sufficient for further crystal growth, into a DTB product crystallizer and crystallized therein to a desired grain size. The heating of the product crystallizer is performed by the heat contained in the vapors of the pre-crystallization. The pre-crystallization may also operate according to the DTB principle, wherein the mother liquor needed for crystallization is supplied in the form of separately admixed concentrated sulfuric acid and ammonia into the external solution loop of the pre-crystallizer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2009Publication date: February 17, 2011Applicant: GEA Messo GmbHInventors: Günter Hofmann, Reinhard Scholz
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Patent number: 7653166Abstract: A synchronization device for determining a position of a synchronization signal in a receive signal, the synchronization signal being based on a coarse synchronization signal and a fine synchronization signal, includes a signal processing means configured to determine, based on the coarse synchronization signal, a section of the receive signal in which is located the fine synchronization signal, and to determine in the section of the receive signal, based on the fine synchronization signal, the position of the synchronization signal in the receive signal for a synchronization.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2005Date of Patent: January 26, 2010Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V.Inventors: Carmen Wagner, Stefan Koehler, Holger Stadali, Guenter Hofmann, Marco Breiling
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Patent number: 7643541Abstract: A device for determining a correlation value from a correlation between a first sequence of values with complex values and a second sequence of values with complex values has a correlation means for determining a first partial correlation value from a correlation between a first subset of the first sequence of values and a first subset of the second sequence of values, and for determining a second partial correlation value from a correlation between a second subset of the first sequence of values and a second subset of the second sequence of values. The device further has a processing means for determining a processed partial correlation value with an adjusted phase term from the first partial correlation value or the second partial correlation value, and a calculating means for determining the correlation value using the processed partial correlation value.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2005Date of Patent: January 5, 2010Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V.Inventors: Carmen Wagner, Holger Stadali, Guenter Hofmann, Marco Breiling
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Patent number: 7627063Abstract: A device for determining a time of arrival of a receive sequence in a receiver includes a correlation for determining a correlation value sequence from a correlation of the receive sequence with a transmit sequence, wherein the correlation sequence includes a peak shape having a main maximum and at least one local side maximum. The device further includes a processor to determine a point of the correlation sequence which lies within an interval which is on the one side bounded by the local side maximum and on the other side by the peak shape, and which is implemented to determine the time of arrival depending on the point.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2005Date of Patent: December 1, 2009Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V.Inventors: Guenter Hofmann, Marco Breiling
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Patent number: 7406853Abstract: In the transverse wedge rolling machine as claimed in the invention the drive motor is a permanent magnet motor, especially a torque motor. Furthermore the rotational speed of the rollers is controlled depending on their rotary position.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2006Date of Patent: August 5, 2008Assignee: Langenstein and Schemann GmbHInventors: Guenter Hofmann, Stelios Katsibardis, Sigfried Hausdoerfer, Henry Zwilling, Guenther Vogler, Herbert Rueger
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Patent number: 7395110Abstract: An electrode assembly for an apparatus for trans-surface molecular includes a non-conductive carrier having a proximal surface, a distal surface, and a plurality of through holes from the proximal surface to the distal surface, a plurality of first electrodes disposed on the proximal surface, a first conductor disposed on at least a first portion of the distal surface and extending through at least a first portion of the plurality of through holes and connected to the first electrodes on the proximal surface, a plurality of second electrodes disposed on the proximal surface, and a second conductor disposed on at least a second portion of the distal surface and extending through at least a second portion of the plurality of through holes and connected to the second electrodes on the proximal surface, wherein the first electrodes and the second electrodes are configured and disposed in closely spaced relation on the proximal surface for engaging the tissue surface and applying an electric field.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2004Date of Patent: July 1, 2008Assignee: Genetronics, Inc.Inventors: Günter A. Hofmann, Dietmar P. Rabussay, Zei Zhang
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Patent number: 7225656Abstract: In the transverse wedge rolling machine as claimed in the invention the drive motor is a permanent magnet motor, especially a torque motor. Furthermore the rotational speed of the rollers is controlled depending on their rotary position.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2004Date of Patent: June 5, 2007Assignee: Langenstein & Schemann, GmbHInventors: Guenter Hofmann, Stelios Katsibardis, Siegfried Hausdoerfer, Henry Zwilling, Guenther Vogler, Herbert Rueger
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Publication number: 20070044533Abstract: In the transverse wedge rolling machine as claimed in the invention the drive motor is a permanent magnet motor, especially a torque motor. Furthermore the rotational speed of the rollers is controlled depending on their rotary position.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2006Publication date: March 1, 2007Applicant: Langenstein & Schemann GMBHInventors: Guenter Hofmann, Stelios Katsibardis, Siegfried Hausdoerfer, Henry Zwilling, Guenther Vogler, Herbert Rueger
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Patent number: 7139582Abstract: In a method for the continuous real time tracking of the position of at least one mobile object in a defined multidimensional space, at least one mobile transmitter module is attached to at least one mobile object and the signals from the at least one module are received by a stationary receiving and signal processing network and then centrally processed. The signals emitted by each transmitter module are electromagnetic waves sent within a frequency band range using time division multiplexing techniques.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2003Date of Patent: November 21, 2006Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderlung der Angewandten Forschung E.V.Inventors: Sylvia Couronné, Marcus Bliesze, Günter Hofmann, Ernst Eberlein, Stefan Koehler, Thomas Von Der Grün, Marco Breiling, Reiner Retkowski
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Publication number: 20060165200Abstract: A synchronization device for determining a position of a synchronization signal in a receive signal, the synchronization signal being based on a coarse synchronization signal and a fine synchronization signal, includes a signal processing means configured to determine, based on the coarse synchronization signal, a section of the receive signal in which is located the fine synchronization signal, and to determine in the section of the receive signal, based on the fine synchronization signal, the position of the synchronization signal in the receive signal for a synchronization.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2005Publication date: July 27, 2006Inventors: Carmen Wagner, Stefan Koehler, Holger Stadali, Guenter Hofmann, Marco Breiling
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Publication number: 20060159205Abstract: A device for determining a correlation value from a correlation between a first sequence of values with complex values and a second sequence of values with complex values has a correlation means for determining a first partial correlation value from a correlation between a first subset of the first sequence of values and a first subset of the second sequence of values, and for determining a second partial correlation value from a correlation between a second subset of the first sequence of values and a second subset of the second sequence of values. The device further has a processing means for determining a processed partial correlation value with an adjusted phase term from the first partial correlation value or the second partial correlation value, and a calculating means for determining the correlation value using the processed partial correlation value.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2005Publication date: July 20, 2006Inventors: Carmen Wagner, Holger Stadali, Guenter Hofmann, Marco Breiling
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Publication number: 20060159206Abstract: A device for determining a time of arrival of a receive sequence in a receiver comprises correlation means which is implemented to determine a correlation value sequence from a correlation of the receive sequence with a transmit sequence, wherein the correlation sequence comprises a peak shape having a main maximum and at least one local side maximum. The device further comprises processing means which is implemented to determine a point of the correlation sequence which lies within an interval which is on the one side bounded by the local side maximum and on the other side by the peak shape, and which is implemented to determine the time of arrival depending on the point.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2005Publication date: July 20, 2006Inventors: Guenter Hofmann, Marco Breiling
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Patent number: 7010952Abstract: A device for holding at least one roller of a rolling machine that can rotate about a rotational axis includes two holding arrangements that can be arranged on opposite faces of the roller viewed in the direction of the rotational axis. The device further includes at least two coupling parts each configured for a coupled mode and an uncoupled mode. A first of the two coupling parts has at least one, preferably essentially straight first groove, and has a second groove that does not run parallel to the first groove. A second of the two coupling parts includes a first coupling element and a second coupling element, wherein the first coupling element projects further outward from the second coupling part than the second coupling element. In at least one implementation, the roller can be detached or removed from the holding arrangements when the holding arrangements are in uncoupled mode.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2004Date of Patent: March 14, 2006Assignee: Langenstein & Schemann GmbHInventors: Günter Hofmann, Stelios Katsibardis, Siegfried Hausdörfer, Henry Zwilling, Günther Vogler
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Publication number: 20040231380Abstract: In the transverse wedge rolling machine as claimed in the invention the drive motor is a permanent magnet motor, especially a torque motor. Furthermore the rotational speed of the rollers is controlled depending on their rotary position.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2004Publication date: November 25, 2004Inventors: Guenter Hofmann, Stelios Katsibardis, Siegfried Hausdoerfer, Henry Zwilling, Guenther Vogler, Herbert Rueger
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Patent number: 6748265Abstract: An electrode assembly for an apparatus for trans-surface molecular includes a non-conductive carrier having a proximal surface, a distal surface, and a plurality of through holes from the proximal surface to the distal surface, a plurality of first electrodes disposed on the proximal surface, a first conductor disposed on at least a first portion of the distal surface and extending through at least a first portion of the plurality of through holes and connected to the first electrodes on the proximal surface, a plurality of second electrodes disposed on the proximal surface, and a second conductor disposed on at least a second portion of the distal surface and extending through at least a second portion of the plurality of through holes and connected to the second electrodes on the proximal surface, wherein the first electrodes and the second electrodes are configured and disposed in closely spaced relation on the proximal surface for engaging the tissue surface and applying an electric field.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2001Date of Patent: June 8, 2004Assignee: Genetronics, Inc.Inventors: Günter A. Hofmann, Dietmar P. Rabussay, Zei Zhang