Patents by Inventor Gerald Urban
Gerald Urban 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: 11973313Abstract: A diode laser arrangement includes at least one emitter, first and second cooling devices and a first connecting layer. The emitter is configured to emit a laser beam and is disposed between the first and second cooling devices. The first and second cooling devices are each configured for cooling the emitter. The emitter is connected to the first cooling device by the first connecting layer, and the first connecting layer has a connecting material or is composed of a connecting material selected from a group including gold, a gold alloy, silver, a silver alloy, a silver sintered material, copper, a copper alloy, nickel, a nickel alloy, palladium, a palladium alloy, platinum, a platinum alloy, rhodium, a rhodium alloy, iridium, an iridium alloy, germanium, a germanium alloy, tin, a tin alloy, aluminum, an aluminum alloy, indium, an indium alloy, lead and a lead alloy.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: TRUMPF Photonics, Inc.Inventors: Stephan Strohmaier, Arne-Heike Meissner-Schenk, Gerald Urban, Gerd Hansen, Christian Carstens
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Patent number: 11824324Abstract: A diode laser arrangement has a diode laser device and at least one cooling device. The at least one cooling device is arranged on the diode laser device. The at least one cooling device is configured to cool the diode laser device. The at least one cooling device has a contact body and at least one heat conducting insert. The contact body contains a first material or consisting of a first material, and the at least one heat conducting insert has a second material, which is different from the first material, or consisting of a second material, which is different from the first material, and the contact body is arranged on the diode laser device. The at least one heat conducting insert is embedded in the contact body.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2019Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: TRUMPF Photonics, Inc.Inventors: Stephan Strohmaier, Arne-Heike Meissner-Schenk, Gerald Urban, Gerd Hansen, Christian Carstens
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Patent number: 11811192Abstract: A diode laser arrangement includes a diode laser device, first and second cooling elements and at least one spacing device. The laser device and spacing device are mutually spaced apart between the first and second cooling elements. The laser device and the spacing device are disposed on respective first and second outer surfaces of respective cooling elements. The first and second cooling elements cool the laser device. The laser device has first and second diode main surfaces. The first diode main surface is on the first outer surface in a first front region and/or the second diode main surface is on the second outer surface in a second front region. The spacing device places the first outer surface in the first front region parallel to the first diode main surface, and/or the second outer surface in the second front region parallel to the second diode main surface.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2019Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: TRUMPF Photonics, Inc.Inventors: Stephan Strohmaier, Arne-Heike Meissner-Schenk, Gerald Urban, Gerd Hansen, Christian Carstens
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Patent number: 11414761Abstract: At least one substrate part for is provided for coating. A first deposition is provided on the at least one support part as microstructuring of at least one first substance selected from the group consisting of rhenium, ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, silver, osmium, iridium, platinum, gold, tin, zinc, copper, cobalt, lead, nickel and alloys comprising these, from at least one first compound which provides the at least one first substance. A second deposition is provided on the at least one support part as a nano-structuring of at least one second substance chosen from a group comprising rhenium, ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, silver, osmium, iridium, platinum, gold and/or alloys thereof, of at least one second compound which provides the at least one second substance, in a solution.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2016Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: ALBERT-LUDWIGS-UNIVERSITÄT FREIBURGInventors: Patrick Daubinger, Jochen Kieninger, Gerald Urban
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Publication number: 20220240808Abstract: An electrochemical method and an electrochemical sensor for breath analysis of single or multiple analytes using a porous, preferably flexible and disposable supporting material is provided, a salt is incorporated, and which can be wetted in contact with the exhaled breath condensate. The electrochemical method acting simultaneously as sampling method, as an electrolyte and as a support for the electrode structures. In some embodiments the salt may be hygroscopic, such that the porous substrate stays wet. To ensure that the obtained signal originates from the analyte, the electrochemical sensor preferably exhibits a differential electrode design, including a sensing (analyte-sensitive) and a blank (analyte-insensitive) electrode in order to isolate and remove the background signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2020Publication date: August 4, 2022Applicants: Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg, Imperial College LondonInventors: Can Dincer, Elmar Laubender, Daniela Maier, Stefan Schumann, Gerald Urban, Firat Guder
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Patent number: 11156579Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electrode structure includes providing an initial structure, the initial structure including at least two elevated regions extending from a substrate, wherein top portions of the two elevated regions are separated by a first lateral distance, depositing material onto the elevated regions by means of physical vapor deposition such that adjacent top portions of the deposited material are separated by a second lateral distance that is smaller than the first lateral distance, and applying electrodes onto the top portions of the material.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2017Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignees: Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg, Fachhochschule Vorarlberg GmbHInventors: Stefan Partel, Stephan Kasemann, Can Dincer, Jochen Kieninger, Gerald Urban
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Publication number: 20210257807Abstract: A diode laser arrangement includes a diode laser device, first and second cooling elements and at least one spacing device. The laser device and spacing device are mutually spaced apart between the first and second cooling elements. The laser device and the spacing device are disposed on respective first and second outer surfaces of respective cooling elements. The first and second cooling elements cool the laser device. The laser device has first and second diode main surfaces. The first diode main surface is on the first outer surface in a first front region and/or the second diode main surface is on the second outer surface in a second front region. The spacing device places the first outer surface in the first front region parallel to the first diode main surface, and/or the second outer surface in the second front region parallel to the second diode main surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2019Publication date: August 19, 2021Inventors: Stephan Strohmaier, Arne-Heike Meissner-Schenk, Gerald Urban, Gerd Hansen, Christian Carstens
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Publication number: 20210119413Abstract: A diode laser arrangement includes at least one emitter, first and second cooling devices and a first connecting layer. The emitter is configured to emit a laser beam and is disposed between the first and second cooling devices. The first and second cooling devices are each configured for cooling the emitter. The emitter is connected to the first cooling device by the first connecting layer, and the first connecting layer has a connecting material or is composed of a connecting material selected from a group including gold, a gold alloy, silver, a silver alloy, a silver sintered material, copper, a copper alloy, nickel, a nickel alloy, palladium, a palladium alloy, platinum, a platinum alloy, rhodium, a rhodium alloy, iridium, an iridium alloy, germanium, a germanium alloy, tin, a tin alloy, aluminum, an aluminum alloy, indium, an indium alloy, lead and a lead alloy.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2019Publication date: April 22, 2021Inventors: Stephan Strohmaier, Arne-Heike Meissner-Schenk, Gerald Urban, Gerd Hansen, Christian Carstens
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Publication number: 20210119412Abstract: A diode laser arrangement has a diode laser device and at least one cooling device. The at least one cooling device is arranged on the diode laser device. The at least one cooling device is configured to cool the diode laser device. The at least one cooling device has a contact body and at least one heat conducting insert. The contact body contains a first material or consisting of a first material, and the at least one heat conducting insert has a second material, which is different from the first material, or consisting of a second material, which is different from the first material, and the contact body is arranged on the diode laser device. The at least one heat conducting insert is embedded in the contact body.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2019Publication date: April 22, 2021Inventors: Stephan Strohmaier, Arne-Heike Meissner-Schenk, Gerald Urban, Gerd Hansen, Christian Carstens
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Patent number: 10610617Abstract: A method for coating a medical implant applies at least one coating to at least one surface of the implant by plasma polymerization. The implant has pores sized in the nanometer range. The method stabilizes the pores. The plasma polymerization is conducted in the presence of a coating gas and oxygen. A coating parameter can be selected so that a rough surface of the implant is coated. An implant includes a membrane having pores sized in the nanometer range. A surface of the implant is at least partially coated with a plasma polymer. The interior of the pores is uncoated.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2015Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignees: BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat FreiburgInventors: Andreas Bunge, Michael Bergmann, Loic Ledernez, Alexander Borck, Gerald Urban
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Publication number: 20200093964Abstract: An implant includes a membrane having pores sized in the nanometer range. A surface of the implant is at least partially coated with a plasma polymer. The interior of the pores is uncoated.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2019Publication date: March 26, 2020Inventors: Andreas Bunge, Michael Bergmann, Loic Ledernez, Alexander Borck, Gerald Urban
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Patent number: 10131933Abstract: The present invention relates to materials and methods suitable for determining the presence or amount of Botulinum toxin (BoNT) in a test sample by means of a luminescence assay in which the substrate peptide is composed of: an amino acid sequence susceptible to proteolytic cleavage by BoNT, an amino acid sequence corresponding to a reporter domain encoding a fluorescent or bioluminescent polypeptide, and a tag suitable for attaching the substrate peptide to a suitable support, preferably by covalent bond.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2012Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet FreiburgInventors: Gregory Stevens, Michael Krueger, Andrea Zgaga-Griesz, Gerald Urban, Dalice Silver
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Patent number: 9962696Abstract: The present invention relates to phaseguide patterns for use in fluid systems such as channels, chambers, and flow through cells. In order to effectively control filling and/or emptying of fluidic chambers and channels, techniques for a controlled overflowing of phaseguides are proposed. In addition, techniques of confined liquid patterning in a larger fluidic structure, including approaches for patterning overflow structures and the specific shape of phaseguides, are provided. The invention also proposes techniques to effectively rotate the advancement of a liquid/air meniscus over a certain angle. In particular, a phaseguide pattern for guiding a flow of a liquid contained within a compartment is provided, wherein an overflow of the phaseguide by a moving liquid phase is controlled by a local change in capillary force along the phaseguide, wherein said overflow by the liquid over the phaseguide is provoked at the position of the local change in capillary force.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2015Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: UNIVERSITY LEIDENInventors: Paul Vullo, Gerald Urban, Susann Podszun
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Publication number: 20180106749Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electrode structure includes providing an initial structure, the initial structure including at least two elevated regions extending from a substrate, wherein top portions of the two elevated regions are separated by a first lateral distance, depositing material onto the elevated regions by means of physical vapor deposition such that adjacent top portions of the deposited material are separated by a second lateral distance that is smaller than the first lateral distance, and applying electrodes onto the top portions of the material.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2017Publication date: April 19, 2018Inventors: Stefan PARTEL, Stephan KASEMANN, Can DINCER, Jochen KIENINGER, Gerald URBAN
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Publication number: 20170304501Abstract: A method for treating a medical implant uses plasma polymerization to apply a coating At least one treatment parameter is selected so that the reactive chemical groups of the coating are chemically modified to prevent an adsorption of interfering substances into the coating. An implant includes a plasma polymer coating that is biocompatible, and includes a antibiotically acting metal.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2015Publication date: October 26, 2017Inventors: Andreas Bunge, Michael Bergmann, Loic Ledernez, Josef Horak, Gerald Urban
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Publication number: 20170296709Abstract: A method for coating a medical implant applies at least one coating to at least one surface of the implant by plasma polymerization. The implant has pores sized in the nanometer range. The method stabilizes the pores. The plasma polymerization is conducted in the presence of a coating gas and oxygen. A coating parameter can be selected so that a rough surface of the implant is coated. An implant includes a membrane having pores sized in the nanometer range. A surface of the implant is at least partially coated with a plasma polymer. The interior of the pores is uncoated.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2015Publication date: October 19, 2017Inventors: Andreas BUNGE, Michael Bergmann, Loic Ledernez, Alexander Borck, Gerald Urban
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Publication number: 20170081772Abstract: At least one substrate part for is provided for coating. A first deposition is provided on the at least one support part as microstructuring of at least one first substance selected from the group consisting of rhenium, ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, silver, osmium, iridium, platinum, gold, tin, zinc, copper, cobalt, lead, nickel and alloys comprising these, from at least one first compound which provides the at least one first substance. A second deposition is provided on the at least one support part as a nano-structuring of at least one second substance chosen from a group comprising rhenium, ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, silver, osmium, iridium, platinum, gold and/or alloys thereof, of at least one second compound which provides the at least one second substance, in a solution.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2016Publication date: March 23, 2017Inventors: Patrick Daubinger, Jochen Kieninger, Gerald Urban
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Patent number: 9492109Abstract: A medical sensor system (10, 10?) for detecting at least one characteristic (12) of an human and/or animal body has a sensor (14), a first characteristic carrier (16), and a characteristic carrier receptor (18). The first characteristic carrier (16) differs, in terms of at least one characteristic parameter, from a second characteristic carrier (20) which is present at least at the time of detection. The sensor (14) is preferably located in vivo at the time of detection of the at least one characteristic.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2011Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: Biotronik SE & Co. KGInventors: Andreas Bunge, Sarah Biela, Sven Bode, Joerg Naehring, Hoc Khiem Trieu, Gerald Urban
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Publication number: 20160025116Abstract: The present invention relates to phaseguide patterns for use in fluid systems such as channels, chambers, and flow through cells. In order to effectively control filling and/or emptying of fluidic chambers and channels, techniques for a controlled overflowing of phaseguides are proposed. In addition, techniques of confined liquid patterning in a larger fluidic structure, including approaches for patterning overflow structures and the specific shape of phaseguides, are provided. The invention also proposes techniques to effectively rotate the advancement of a liquid/air meniscus over a certain angle. In particular, a phaseguide pattern for guiding a flow of a liquid contained within a compartment is provided, wherein an overflow of the phaseguide by a moving liquid phase is controlled by a local change in capillary force along the phaseguide, wherein said overflow by the liquid over the phaseguide is provoked at the position of the local change in capillary force.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2015Publication date: January 28, 2016Applicant: Universiteit LeidenInventors: Paul Vulto, Gerald Urban, Susann Podszun
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Patent number: 9174215Abstract: The present invention relates to phaseguide patterns for use in fluid systems such as channels, chambers, and flow through cells. In order to effectively control filling and/or emptying of fluidic chambers and channels, techniques for a controlled overflowing of phaseguides are proposed. In addition, techniques of confined liquid patterning in a larger fluidic structure, including approaches for patterning overflow structures and the specific shape of phaseguides, are provided. The invention also proposes techniques to effectively rotate the advancement of a liquid/air meniscus over a certain angle. In particular, a phaseguide pattern for guiding a flow of a liquid contained within a compartment is provided, wherein an overflow of the phaseguide by a moving liquid phase is controlled by a local change in capillary force along the phaseguide, wherein said overflow by the liquid over the phaseguide is provoked at the position of the local change in capillary force.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2010Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: Universiteit LeidenInventors: Paul Vulto, Gerald Urban, Susann Podszun