Patents by Inventor Guenter Schmid

Guenter Schmid 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: 20210180196
    Abstract: An electrolysis cell having a multi-chamber structure, wherein an anion exchanger with a first ion exchanger membrane connects to a cathode chamber, wherein a salt bridge chamber connects to the first ion exchanger membrane, the salt bridge chamber with a fixed anion exchanger. An electrolysis system has such an electrolysis cell and a method for electrolysis of CO2 uses such an electrolysis cell or electrolysis system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bernhard Schmid, Günter Schmid, Christian Reller, Dan Taroata
  • Patent number: 11038127
    Abstract: An optoelectronic component includes a substrate, a first electrode, a second electrode, and at least one organic functional layer, which is arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode. The organic functional layer includes a matrix material, a first compound, and a second compound. The first compound interacts with the second compound, and the first compound and/or the second compound interacts with the matrix material. A conductivity of the organic functional layer is produced by the interactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GMBH
    Inventors: Arndt Jaeger, Günter Schmid
  • Publication number: 20210172079
    Abstract: An electrode, which includes at least one tetragonally crystallized compound containing at least one element selected from the group of Cu and Ag, the crystal lattice of the compound being of the space group I41/amd type. An electrolysis cell includes the electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Nemanja Martic, Christian Reller, Günter Schmid, Bernhard Schmid, David Reinisch
  • Publication number: 20210079538
    Abstract: Various embodiments include an electrolysis cell comprising: a cathode space housing a cathode for the reduction of CO2; a first ion exchange membrane including an anion exchanger and/or an anion transporter, the first ion exchange membrane adjoining the cathode space and in direct contact with the cathode; an anode space housing an anode; a first separator membrane; and a salt bridge space housing an electrolyte disposed between the first ion exchange membrane and the first separator membrane. The electrolyte in the salt bridge space comprises a liquid acid and/or a solution of an acid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bernhard Schmid, Christian Reller, Günter Schmid
  • Publication number: 20210040627
    Abstract: An electrolysis cell, includes a cathode space with a cathode, an anode space with an anode, and a salt bridge space, which is arranged between the cathode and the anode, wherein the cathode space and the salt bridge space are delimited from one another by the cathode and the salt bridge space and the anode space are delimited from one another by the anode, and the cathode and the anode are formed as a gas diffusion electrode. An electrolysis plant has a corresponding electrolysis cell and a method for carries out electrochemical reactions with the electrolysis cell or electrolysis plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bernhard Schmid, Christian Reller, Günter Schmid
  • Patent number: 10910571
    Abstract: An organic electronic component is disclosed. In an embodiment an organic electronic component includes at least one organic layer having a fluorinated sulfonimide metal salt of the following formula: wherein M is either a divalent or higher-valent metal having an atomic mass of greater than 26 g/mol or a monovalent metal having an atomic mass of greater than or equal to 39 g/mol, where 1?n?7, and wherein R1, R2 are selected independently of one another from the group consisting of a fluorine-substituted aryl radical, a fluorine-substituted alkyl radical and a fluorine-substituted arylalkyl radical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GMBH
    Inventors: Florian Kessler, Andreas Rausch, Anna Maltenberger, Dominik Pentlehner, Niels Gerlitzki, Günter Schmid, Sabine Szyszkowski, Dimitrios Zevgitis
  • Publication number: 20210010142
    Abstract: A device for the electrochemical production of a product containing CO, and a method for the electrochemical production of a product containing CO, in which a return of a material stream containing the educt and CO is carried out after the electrochemical production.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Applicants: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Linde GMBH
    Inventors: Clara Delhomme-Neudecker, Marc Hanebuth, Andreas Peschel, Günter Schmid, Nicole Schödel, Dan Taroata
  • Publication number: 20200399766
    Abstract: An electrolysis system and an electrolysis method wherein the electrolysis system includes a pressure-electrolytic cell and a throttle in the catholyte line, by which the catholyte flow can be divided into a gas and liquid phase. In this way, (by-)products of the electrolysis can be recycled, while the electrolytic cell can be operated effectively at a high pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicants: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Linde GMBH
    Inventors: Benjamin Hentschel, Andreas Peschel, Marc Hanebuth, Günter Schmid, Dan Taroata
  • Publication number: 20200385875
    Abstract: A method for the electrochemical reaction of an organic material, and a device in which a corresponding method is carried out including a porous electrode for the electrochemical reaction of organic compounds in two immiscible phases in an electrochemical flow reactor. A first nonpolar solvent and a first polar electrolyte or a first organic material in the form of a liquid or gas and the first polar electrolyte form a first phase boundary with one another in such a form that the first phase boundary in the electrochemical conversion is at least partly within a first electrode, preferably at an interface between a first lipophilic layer and a second hydrophilic layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bernhard Schmid, Christian Reller, Günter Schmid
  • Publication number: 20200385877
    Abstract: An electrode including Cu4O3, in particular an ethylene-selective electrode with a mixed valence Cu4O3 catalyst. A method for producing an electrode of this type, an electrolytic cell having an electrode of this type, and a method for electrochemically converting carbon dioxide using such an electrode including Cu4O3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Nemanja Martic, Christian Reller, Günter Schmid, Bernhard Schmid, David Reinisch
  • Publication number: 20200378015
    Abstract: A method for the electrochemical production of a gas including CO, in particular CO or syngas, from CO2, wherein the electrochemical production of the gas including CO, in particular CO or syngas, from CO2 takes place in multiple electrolytic cells, which are arranged in series one behind the other in the direction of at least one electrolyte flow and each include a cathode and an anode, wherein the at least one electrolyte flow is conducted through the electrolytic cells which are arranged in series one behind the other and is intermediately cooled between at least two electrolytic cells which are arranged in series one behind the other. A device is adapted for carrying out the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Marc Hanebuth, Günter Schmid, Dan Taroata, Clara Delhomme-Neudecker, Benjamin Hentschel, Andreas Peschel, Nicole Schödel
  • Publication number: 20200373503
    Abstract: The present invention relates to heteroleptic complexes comprising a phenylimidazole or phenyltriazole unit bonded via a carbene bond to a central metal atom, and phenylimidazole ligands attached via a nitrogen-metal bond to the central atom, to OLEDs which comprise such heteroleptic complexes, to light-emitting layers comprising at least one such heteroleptic complex, to a device selected from the group consisting of illuminating elements, stationary visual display units and mobile visual display units comprising such an OLED, to the use of such a heteroleptic complex in OLEDs, for example as emitter, matrix material, charge transport material and/or charge blocker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicants: BASF SE, OLEDWORKS GMBH, OSRAM OLEO GMBH
    Inventors: Evelyn FUCHS, Oliver MOLT, Korinna DORMANN, Thomas GESSNER, Nicolle LANGER, lngo MUENSTER, JianQiang Qu, Christian LENNARTZ, Christian SCHILDKNECHT, Soichi WATANABE, Gerhard WAGENBLAST, Guenter SCHMID, Herbert Friedrich BOERNER, Volker van ELSBERGEN
  • Patent number: 10760170
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to electrolysis. For example, an electrolysis system for carbon dioxide utilization may include: an electrolysis cell having an anode and a cathode, where carbon dioxide reduces at the cathode to at least one hydrocarbon compound or to carbon monoxide; first and second electrolyte reservoirs; a first product gas line from the first electrolyte reservoir; a second product gas line from the second electrolyte reservoir; a first connecting line supplying electrolyte from the first electrolyte reservoir to the anode; a second connecting line taking electrolyte from the anode to the second electrolyte reservoir; a third connecting line supplying electrolyte from the second electrolyte reservoir to the cathode; a fourth connecting line taking electrolyte from the cathode off to the first electrolyte reservoir; and a pressure-equalizing connection directly connecting the first and second electrolyte reservoirs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Maximilian Fleischer, Philippe Jeanty, Ralf Krause, Erhard Magori, Nayra Sofia Romero Cuéllar, Bernhard Schmid, Günter Schmid, Kerstin Wiesner-Fleischer
  • Publication number: 20200263311
    Abstract: An electrolyser arrangement with at least one electrolytic cell, having two electrodes, namely an anode and a cathode, each of the two electrodes being in contact with an electrode compartment for filling with a liquid electrolyte, the two electrode compartments being separated by a membrane and a conveying device being provided, one for each of the two electrodes, for conveying the electrolyte in each case in a circuit, a cathode circuit and an anode circuit, through the electrode compartment via at least one collection vessel per circuit and back into the electrode chamber. A device is provided outside the electrolytic cell, for conveying an auxiliary volume flow between the cathode circuit and the anode circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Marc Hanebuth, Günter Schmid, Katharina Meltzer, Dan Taroata
  • Patent number: 10707422
    Abstract: A method is provided for producing organic electrical layers having organic emitters that are phosphorescent at room temperature. Organic fluorescent emitters, together with organic complex ligands containing metal complexes, and at least one heavy main group metal, selected from the group comprising In, Tl, Sn, Pb, Sb and Bi, are deposited jointly inside a layer, and the heavy main group metal changes its coordination sphere by receiving the organic fluorescent emitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Florian Kessler, Ana-Maria Krestel, Anna Maltenberger, Guenter Schmid, Dan Taroata
  • Publication number: 20200208280
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a method for producing a gas diffusion electrode comprising a metal M selected from Ag, Au, Cu and mixtures and/or alloys, the method comprising: providing a copper-, silver- and/or gold-containing starting material comprising at least one alkaline earth metal-copper, alkaline earth metal-silver and/or alkaline earth metal-gold phase, where the alkaline earth metal is selected from the group consisting of: Mg, Ca, Sr, and Ba; introducing the starting material into a solution having a pH of less than 5 and reacting to give a catalyst material; removing and washing the catalyst material; and processing the catalyst material to form a gas diffusion electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ralf Krause, Christian Reller, Bernhard Schmid, Günter Schmid
  • Publication number: 20200185624
    Abstract: An organic electronic device having a charge carrier generation layer is disclosed. In an embodiment an organic electronic device includes a first organic functional layer stack, a second organic functional layer stack and a charge carrier generation layer arranged therebetween, the charge carrier generation layer including an n-conducting region, an organic p-doped region and an intermediate region arranged therebetween, wherein the organic p-doped region has as a p-type dopant a fluorinated sulfonimide metal salt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicants: OSRAM OLED GmbH, OSRAM OLED GmbH
    Inventors: Dominik Pentlehner, Niels Gerlitzki, Florian Kessler, Anna Maltenberger, Günter Schmid, Sabine Szyszkowski, Dimitrios Zevgitis
  • Publication number: 20200131649
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a gas diffusion electrode comprising: a metal M selected from the group consisting of: Ag, Au, Cu, and Pd; a binder; hydrophilic and hydrophobic pores and/or channels; and an anion transport material in the pores and/or channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ralf KRAUSE, Christian RELLER, Günter SCHMID, Bernhard SCHMID, Frank STEINBACHER
  • Patent number: 10604853
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for converting carbon dioxide and water, wherein the electrolyte comprises a proton sponge which serves to accumulate CO2 in the electrolyte. The invention further relates to a corresponding use of a proton sponge and to an electrolyte comprising at least one proton sponge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Maximilian Fleischer, Philipp Groenninger, Ralf Krause, Mark Matzas, Guenter Schmid, Kerstin Wiesner
  • Publication number: 20200080211
    Abstract: Various embodiments include an electrolysis cell comprising: a cathode space housing a cathode; a first ion exchange membrane including an anion exchanger and adjoining the cathode space; an anode space housing an anode; a second ion exchange membrane including a cation exchanger and adjoining the anode space; and a salt bridge space disposed between the first ion exchange membrane and the second ion exchange membrane. The cathode comprises: a gas diffusion electrode having a porous bound catalyst structure of a particulate catalyst on a support; a coating of a particulate catalyst on the first and/or second ion exchange membrane; and a porous conductive support impregnated with a catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bernhard Schmid, Christian Reller, Günter Schmid