Patents by Inventor Harald Walter

Harald Walter 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).

  • Patent number: 11102977
    Abstract: The invention relates to fungicidal compositions comprising as active ingredient a combination of components A) and B) as defined in the patent claims, to a method of controlling phytopathogenic diseases on crop plants using such a composition and to a method of protecting natural substances of vegetable and/or animal origin and/or their processed forms using such a composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC
    Inventors: Harald Walter, Urs Neuenschwander, Ronald Zeun, Josef Ehrenfreund, Hans Tobler, Camilla Corsi, Clemens Lamberth
  • Publication number: 20210259247
    Abstract: A method of controlling phytopathogenic diseases on useful plants or on propagation material thereof, which comprises applying to the useful plants, the locus thereof or propagation material thereof a combination of components (A) and (B) in a synergistically effective amount, wherein component (A) is a compound of formula I compound of formula I wherein R is hydrogen or methoxy; Q is R1 is hydrogen, halogen or C1-C6alkyl; R2 is hydrogen, halogen, C1-C6alkyl, C2-C6alkenyl, C3-C6alkinyl, C3-C6cycloalkyl-C3-C6alkinyl, halophenoxy, halophenyl-C3-C6alkinyl, C(C1-C4alkyl)=NO—C1-C4alkyl, C1-C6haloalkyl, C1-C6haloalkoxy, C2-C6haloalkenyl, or C2-C6haloalkenyloxy; R3 is hydrogen, halogen, C1-C6alkyl; R4, R5 and R6, independently from each other, are hydrogen, halogen or -?-R7 with the proviso that at least one of R4, R5 and R6 is different from hydrogen; R7 is hydrogen, C1-C6alkyl, C1-C6haloalkyl or C1-C4alkoxyalkyl; and R8 is hydrogen or methoxy; and agrochemically acceptable salts/isomers/structural isomers/
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: SYNGENTA PARTICIPATIONS AG
    Inventors: Harald WALTER, Daniel STIERLI
  • Publication number: 20210131484
    Abstract: The invention relates to a ball joint (5) including a ball stud (10) which has a spherical portion (12), two bearing shells (20) that are arranged on the spherical portion (12) such that there is a small gap (30) between them, and a housing (40) that is made from plastic in one piece and encloses the two bearing shells (20) such that they are urged against the spherical portion (12) by the housing (40).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Lothar SCHAUMANN, Harald WALTER
  • Publication number: 20210129611
    Abstract: A chassis control arm for a wheel suspension has a control arm body, a spring abutment and an actuator which is arranged between the control arm body and the spring abutment and with which the position of the spring abutment relative to the control arm body can be adjusted. The actuator comprises a lifting gear which is configured as a movement thread and which includes a lifting spindle on which the spring abutment is arranged or on which the spring abutment is axially movably mounted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Vadim KIRSCH, Manjunatha MADIVALA, Tamil Selvan RAJAGOPAL, Wataru SAITO, Marius TILLMAN, Harald Walter
  • Publication number: 20210107312
    Abstract: A security element with one or more first microstructures, wherein the first microstructures are provided in each case in one or more tracks which are curved at least in sections or in one or more sections of a track which are curved at least in sections, and/or in each case run along one or more tracks which are curved at least in sections or along one or more sections of a track which are curved at least in sections, and a method, wherein at least one file containing image points of one or more image elements is provided, which includes the locational arrangement of the image points, and one or more tracks which are curved at least in sections or one or more sections of one or more tracks which are curved at least in sections are determined from the locational arrangement of the image points, and in the one or more tracks or sections of tracks in each case one or more first microstructures are provided which, when illuminated, provide a first item of optically variable information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Harald Walter, Corrado Fraschina, Sebastian Mader
  • Patent number: 10926570
    Abstract: A multilayer body (1, 2, 3) and a method for producing a security element are described. The multilayer body has a metal layer (21). An optically active surface relief is molded at least in areas in a first surface of the metal layer (21) facing the upper side of the multilayer body or forming the upper side of the multilayer body and/or in a second surface of the metal layer (21) facing the underside of the multilayer body or forming the underside of the multilayer body. In at least one first area (31 to 39) of the multilayer body the surface relief is formed by a first relief structure (61).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: OVD KINEGRAM
    Inventors: Harald Walter, Wayne Robert Tompkin
  • Publication number: 20210031553
    Abstract: A method and a security element with a front side and a rear side lying opposite the front side, wherein the security element has two or more security features, wherein a first security feature of the two or more security features has one or more first layers and a second security feature of the two or more security features has one or more second layers, wherein the first security feature and the second security feature are in particular arranged in register with each other, wherein the first security feature generates at least one first optically variable effect and the second security feature generates at least one second optically variable effect, wherein the at least one first optically variable effect has a first color and the at least one second optically variable effect has a second color, wherein the first color and the second color differ from each other, as well as a method for producing a security element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Ludwig BREHM, Anja CATHOMEN, Christian SCHULZ, René STAUB, Harald WALTER
  • Patent number: 10882351
    Abstract: A method for producing a multilayer body, with the steps of: a) providing a substrate film with a replication layer; b) molding a surface relief appearing to the observer in the form of a three-dimensional free-form surface, which is formed in particular by structures with a lens-like design generating a magnifying, demagnifying or distorting effect, into a surface of the replication layer; c) applying a first metal layer to the surface of the replication layer forming the surface relief; d) wet-chemically applying an at least partially transparent spacer layer to the metal layer; e) applying a second metal layer to the spacer layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignees: LEONHARD KURZ Stiftung & Co. KG, OVD KINEGRAM AG
    Inventors: Harald Walter, Ludwig Brehm, Sebastian Mader, Wayne Robert Tompkin, Eser Alper Unal
  • Publication number: 20200384791
    Abstract: A method for producing a hologram (1), (1) for security elements (1a) and/or security documents (1b). One or more virtual hologram planes (10) are arranged in front of and/or behind one or more virtual models (20) and/or one or more virtual hologram planes (10) are arranged such that they intersect one or more virtual models (20). One or more virtual light sources (30) are arranged on one or more partial regions of the surface (21) of one or more of the virtual models (20). One or more virtual electromagnetic fields (40) are calculated starting from at least one of the virtual light sources (30) in one or more zones (11) of the one or more virtual hologram planes (10). In the one or more zones (11), in each case, a virtual total electromagnetic field (41) is calculated on the basis of the sum of two or more, of the virtual electromagnetic fields (40) in the respective zone (11). One or more phase images (50) are calculated from the virtual total electromagnetic fields (41) in the one or more zones (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Sebastian Mader, Harald Walter, Corrado Fraschina
  • Patent number: 10844899
    Abstract: In a ball joint with a housing, a ball stud which includes a ball head mounted in the housing, and with a sealing bellows which includes a ring-shaped housing-side connecting region, it is provided that at the housing a ring-shaped channel is provided, in which the housing-side connecting region is accommodated, wherein the outer radius of the channel at the channel bottom is greater than the outer radius at the free edge of the channel, and on the housing-side connecting region of the sealing bellows at least one holding element made of a rigid material is provided, which in particular in a top view in longitudinal direction of the ball stud is at least partly covered by the free edge of the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: THK RHYTHM AUTOMOTIVE GmbH
    Inventors: Harald Walter, Markus Ortmann, Uwe Forthaus
  • Patent number: 10759212
    Abstract: The invention relates to a security element (1), a security document (2) with at least one security element (1), a transfer foil (3) with at least one security element (1) as well as a method for producing a security element (1), wherein the security element has at least one layer (11) that is electrically alterable in its optical effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignees: LEONHARD KURZ Stiftung & Co. KG, OVD Kinegram AG
    Inventors: Wayne Robert Tompkin, Harald Walter, Rainer Stahl, Rouven Spiess, Rene Staub
  • Publication number: 20200163337
    Abstract: A composition suitable for control of diseases caused by phytopathogens comprising (A) a compound of formula I wherein R1 is difluoromethyl or trifluoromethyl and X is chloro, fluoro or bromo; and (B) at least one compound selected from compounds known for their fungicidal activity; and a method of controlling diseases on useful plants, especially rust diseases on soybean plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION, LLC
    Inventors: Hans TOBLER, Harald WALTER, Ulrich Johannes HAAS
  • Patent number: 10575523
    Abstract: A composition suitable for control of diseases caused by phytopathogens comprising (A) a compound of formula I wherein R1 is difluoromethyl or trifluoromethyl and X is chloro, fluoro or bromo; and (B) at least one compound selected from compounds known for their fungicidal activity; and a method of controlling diseases on useful plants, especially rust diseases on soybean plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION LLC
    Inventors: Hans Tobler, Harald Walter, Ulrich Johannes Haas
  • Publication number: 20200000092
    Abstract: The invention relates to fungicidal compositions comprising as active ingredient a combination of components A) and B) as defined in the patent claims, to a method of controlling phytopathogenic diseases on crop plants using such a composition and to a method of protecting natural substances of vegetable and/or animal origin and/or their processed forms using such a composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC
    Inventors: Harald Walter, Urs Neuenschwander, Ronald Zeun, Josef Ehrenfreund, Hans Tobler, Camilla Corsi, Clemens Lamberth
  • Patent number: 10427368
    Abstract: The invention relates to a multi-layer body (10) and a process for the production thereof. The multi-layer body has a first layer (23) with a first surface (231) and a second surface (232) opposite the first surface (231). The first surface (231) of the first layer (23) is defined by a base plane spanned by coordinate axes x and y, wherein a large number of facet faces (50) are molded into the second surface (232) of the first layer (23) in a first area (31). Each of the facet faces (50) is determined by one or more of the parameters F, S, H, P, Ax, Ay and Az, wherein the parameters of the facet faces (50) arranged in the first area (31) are varied pseudorandomly in the first area (31) within a variation range predefined in each case for the first area of surface and wherein a reflective second layer (24) is applied to each of the facet faces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: OVD Kinegram AG
    Inventors: Wayne Robert Tompkin, Harald Walter
  • Patent number: 10405548
    Abstract: The invention relates to fungicidal compositions comprising as active ingredient a combination of components A) and B) as defined in the patent claims, to a method of controlling phytopathogenic diseases on crop plants using such a composition and to a method of protecting natural substances of vegetable and/or animal origin and/or their processed forms using such a composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection LLC
    Inventors: Harald Walter, Urs Neuenschwander, Ronald Zeun, Josef Ehrenfreund, Hans Tobler, Camilla Corsi, Clemens Lamberth
  • Patent number: 10363221
    Abstract: A solid pharmaceutical dosage form has micro- or nanostructures impressed on the surface thereof or an interface thereof. The dosage form includes a suitable quantity and distribution of ingredients, such as one or more dyes, so as to enhance the optical contrast effect caused by the micro- or nanostructures so that the micro- or nanostructures are observable by the human eye and thereby able to provide anti-counterfeiting characteristics to the dosage form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: I-Property Holding Corp.
    Inventors: Stefan Klocke, Harald Walter, Alexander Stuck
  • Publication number: 20190092081
    Abstract: A security element with a first volume hologram layer, which spans a coordinate system with the coordinate axes x and y perpendicular to each other in an unbent state of the security element, wherein a first volume hologram is introduced into the first volume hologram layer in at least one first area, wherein the first volume hologram is formed such that a first item of information is visible for an observer in a first observation situation in a first predefined bent state of the security element and is not visible in the first observation situation in the unbent state of the security element or vice versa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Wayne Robert Tompkin, Markus Burkhardt, Norbert Lutz, Harald Walter, Andreas Schilling
  • Patent number: 10219514
    Abstract: A method of controlling phytopathogenic diseases on useful plants or on propagation material thereof, which comprises applying to the useful plants, the locus thereof or propagation material thereof a combination of components (A) and (B) in a synergistically effective amount, wherein component (A) is a compound of formula I compound of formula I wherein R is hydrogen or methoxy; Q is R1 is hydrogen, halogen or C1-C6alkyl; R2 is hydrogen, halogen, C1-C6alkyl, C2-C6alkenyl, C3-C6alkinyl, C3-C6cycloalkyl-C3-C6alkinyl, halophenoxy, halophenyl-C3-C6alkinyl, C(C1-C4alkyl)?NO—C1-C4alkyl, C1-C6haloalkyl, C1-C6haloalkoxy, C2-C6haloalkenyl, or C2-C6haloalkenyloxy; R3 is hydrogen, halogen, C1-C6alkyl; R4, R5 and R6, independently from each other, are hydrogen, halogen or -?-R7; with the proviso that at least one of R4, R5 and R6 is different from hydrogen; R7 is hydrogen, C1-C6alkyl, C1-C6haloalkyl or C1-C4alkoxyalkyl; and R8 is hydrogen or methoxy; and agrochemically acceptable salts/isomers/structural is
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Syngenta Participations AG
    Inventors: Harald Walter, Daniel Stierli
  • Publication number: 20190053491
    Abstract: A composition suitable for control of diseases caused by phytopathogens comprising (A) a compound of formula I wherein R1 is difluoromethyl or trifluoromethyl and X is chloro, fluoro or bromo; and (B) at least one compound selected from compounds known for their fungicidal activity; and a method of controlling diseases on useful plants, especially rust diseases on soybean plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Applicant: Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC
    Inventors: Hans TOBLER, Harald WALTER, Ulrich Johannes HAAS