Patents by Inventor Hans-Erik Kiil
Hans-Erik Kiil 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: 11563053Abstract: A light emitting transducer including a flexible sheet having a bottom side and a top side, the flexible sheet including a substrate that is stretchable and compressible, the substrate having a bottom substrate surface at the bottom side, and a top substrate surface facing towards the top side, the top substrate surface comprising a surface pattern of a plurality of raised and depressed micro-scale surface portions which extend in at least one direction; a light emitting diode layer above the substrate and conforming in shape to the top substrate surface, the light emitting diode layer corresponding with the surface pattern of the top substrate surface, wherein the light emitting diode layer has a bottom diode surface facing towards the bottom side, and a top diode surface facing towards the top side, a bottom electrode on the bottom diode surface, and a top electrode on the top diode surface.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2021Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: Flexucell ApSInventors: Jens William Larsen, Hans-Erik Kiil
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Publication number: 20220153514Abstract: The invention relates to a profile in a container, where a profile (5, 6, 7, 8, 101) comprising a cross section where at least a part of the cross section over a length of the profile is provided with a crumple zone, which crumple zone has a critical buckling load being smaller than the critical buckling load for zones abutting the crumple zone. The invention further relates to a method of manufacturing a profile for a container, where one or more profiles (5, 6, 7, 8, 101) in the container (1) is provided with a crumple zone, which crumple zone has a critical buckling load being smaller than the rest of the profile (5, 6, 7, 8, 101).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2020Publication date: May 19, 2022Inventors: Lars LÜBKER, Thomas Therkel NIELSEN, Hans-Erik KIIL
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Publication number: 20220020813Abstract: A light emitting transducer including a flexible sheet having a bottom side and a top side, the flexible sheet including a substrate that is stretchable and compressible, the substrate having a bottom substrate surface at the bottom side, and a top substrate surface facing towards the top side, the top substrate surface comprising a surface pattern of a plurality of raised and depressed micro-scale surface portions which extend in at least one direction; a light emitting diode layer above the substrate and conforming in shape to the top substrate surface, the light emitting diode layer corresponding with the surface pattern of the top substrate surface, wherein the light emitting diode layer has a bottom diode surface facing towards the bottom side, and a top diode surface facing towards the top side, a bottom electrode on the bottom diode surface, and a top electrode on the top diode surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2021Publication date: January 20, 2022Applicant: Flexucell ApSInventors: Jens William LARSEN, Hans-Erik KIIL
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Publication number: 20210309451Abstract: The invention relates to a cooling container e.g. a refrigerated cargo box of a truck or trailer, a railway container, an intermodal container or a shipping container comprising panels to be connected, having at least one connection between panels (10, 40) comprising a layer of overmoulding material (14), where a panel (10, 40) at least partially is covered on a first side (100) and a second side (200) by the overmoulding material (14). The invention further relates to a method of assembling a cooling container e.g. a refrigerated cargo box of a truck or trailer, a railway container, an intermodal container or a shipping container comprising panels to be connected, where at least one panel (10, 40) is provided with an overmoulding zone (11) comprising a layer of overmoulding material (14) covering at least partially a first side (100) and a second side (200) of the panel (10, 40).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2019Publication date: October 7, 2021Inventors: Hans-Erik KIIL, Lars LÜBKER
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Patent number: 11127778Abstract: A light emitting transducer including a flexible sheet having a bottom side and a top side, the flexible sheet including a substrate that is stretchable and compressible, the substrate having a bottom substrate surface at the bottom side, and a top substrate surface facing towards the top side, the top substrate surface comprising a surface pattern of a plurality of raised and depressed micro-scale surface portions which extend in at least one direction; a light emitting diode layer above the substrate and conforming in shape to the top substrate surface, the light emitting diode layer corresponding with the surface pattern of the top substrate surface, wherein the light emitting diode layer has a bottom diode surface facing towards the bottom side, and a top diode surface facing towards the top side, a bottom electrode on the bottom diode surface, and a top electrode on the top diode surface.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2018Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Inventors: Jens William Larsen, Hans-Erik Kiil
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Publication number: 20200243599Abstract: A light emitting transducer including a flexible sheet having a bottom side and a top side, the flexible sheet including a substrate that is stretchable and compressible, the substrate having a bottom substrate surface at the bottom side, and a top substrate surface facing towards the top side, the top substrate surface comprising a surface pattern of a plurality of raised and depressed micro-scale surface portions which extend in at least one direction; a light emitting diode layer above the substrate and conforming in shape to the top substrate surface, the light emitting diode layer corresponding with the surface pattern of the top substrate surface, wherein the light emitting diode layer has a bottom diode surface facing towards the bottom side, and a top diode surface facing towards the top side, a bottom electrode on the bottom diode surface, and a top electrode on the top diode surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2018Publication date: July 30, 2020Applicant: Flexucell ApSInventors: Jens William LARSEN, Hans-Erik KIIL
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Patent number: 9972767Abstract: The invention relates to a dielectric transducer structure comprising a body of elastomeric material that is provided with an electrode arrangement on each of two boundary surfaces lying oppositely to one another. At least one boundary surface comprises a corrugated area that comprises heights and depths. The aim of the invention is to improve the compliance to elastic deformations of the dielectric transducer structure. To this end, the heights and depths are arranged in both perpendicular directions of the boundary surface.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2014Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: Danfoss A/SInventors: Hans-Erik Kiil, Mohamed Benslimane
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Publication number: 20160164435Abstract: The invention provides a garment having transducer capabilities and comprising an outer layer (1) of an elastically deformable and skin-friendly material, a first electrically conductive layer (3) being stretchable being attached to the outer layer, a layer of a deformable polymer film, and a second electrically conductive layer (4) attached to the polymer film. The invention provides a high strain sensing or actuating garment.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2013Publication date: June 9, 2016Applicant: LEAP TECHNOLOGY ApSInventors: Hans-Erik KIIL, Mohamed BENSLIMANE, Alan POOLE
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Publication number: 20150372220Abstract: The invention relates to a dielectric transducer structure comprising a body of elastomeric material that is provided with an electrode arrangement on each of two boundary surfaces lying oppositely to one another. At least one boundary surface comprises a corrugated area that comprises heights and depths. The aim of the invention is to improve the compliance to elastic deformations of the dielectric transducer structure. To this end, the heights and depths are arranged in both perpendicular directions of the boundary surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2014Publication date: December 24, 2015Inventors: Hans-Erik KIIL, Mohamed BENSLIMANE
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Patent number: 8421316Abstract: The invention provides a transducer for converting between mechanical and electrical energies. The transducer comprises an EAP laminate with a layer of an elastomer material arranged between two electrode layers, each electrode layer comprising a second layer of a plastically deformable material, e.g. metal or a thermoplastic material, and a third layer of an electrically conductive material. Due to the layer of plastically deformable material, the electrode layers can be shaped into various shapes which can provide anisotropic characteristics of the transducer.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2009Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: Danfoss PolyPower A/SInventors: Michael Tryson, Mohamed Benslimane, Hans-Erik Kiil, Michael Allen Zumbrum
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Publication number: 20110232744Abstract: A photoelectric transducer comprising in order: a substrate (1, 5), a rear side electrode (2, A), a photoelectric active (photovoltaic) layer (3), and a front side electrode (4, B). The substrate (1, 5) is constituted by a flexible, elastic web or foil, that on a front side of the substrate has a three-dimensional surface pattern of raised and depressed surface portions formed therein. The photoelectric active (photovoltaic) layer (3) is deposited onto the three-dimensional surface pattern. The front side electrode (4, B) and rear side electrode (2, A) are electrically conductive layers, which comprise electrically conductive materials, or which are electrically conductive coatings. The elasticity and flexibility are important features making possible to durably mount the solar cell of the invention on complex surfaces comprising inwardly bending (concave) as well as outwardly bending (convex) surface parts.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2009Publication date: September 29, 2011Inventors: Jens William Larsen, Hans-Erik Kiil
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Publication number: 20110198971Abstract: The invention provides a transducer for converting between mechanical and electrical energies. The transducer comprises an EAP laminate with a layer of an elastomer material arranged between two electrode layers, each electrode layer comprising a second layer of a plastically deformable material, e.g. metal or a thermoplastic material, and a third layer of an electrically conductive material. Due to the layer of plastically deformable material, the electrode layers can be shaped into various shapes which can provide anisotropic characteristics of the transducer.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2009Publication date: August 18, 2011Inventors: Michael Tryson, Mohamed Benslimane, Hans-Erik Kiil, Mike Zumbrum
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Patent number: 6619937Abstract: The invention concerns a hydraulic machine (1) with a tooth set (2), having a gear wheel (3), which is arranged to be rotating and orbiting in a toothed ring (4), the tooth set (2) being arranged between two plates (10, 11) in the axial direction. It is desired to extend the life of such a machine, also when operated with an impurified hydraulic fluid. For this purpose, at least a section (9′) of the circumferential surface of one of the two components, toothed ring (4) and gear wheel (3), is made of a material, which is substantially harder than the material of the part of the other component, gear wheel (3) and toothed ring (4), bearing on this section.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2002Date of Patent: September 16, 2003Assignee: Sauer-Danfoss Holding A/SInventors: Welm Friedrichsen, Hans-Erik Kiil, Claus Tjørnly Rasmussen
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Publication number: 20020192095Abstract: The invention concerns a hydraulic machine (1) with a tooth set (2), having a gear wheel (3), which is arranged to be rotating and orbiting in a toothed ring (4), the tooth set (2) being arranged between two plates (10, 11) in the axial direction. It is desired to extend the life of such a machine, also when operated with an impurified hydraulic fluid. For this purpose, at least a section (9′) of the circumferential surface of one of the two components, toothed ring (4) and gear wheel (3), is made of a material, which is substantially harder than the material of the part of the other component, gear wheel (3) and toothed ring (4), bearing on this section.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2002Publication date: December 19, 2002Inventors: Welm Friedrichsen, Hans-Erik Kiil, Claus Tjornly Rasmussen