Patents by Inventor Herbert Mueller

Herbert Mueller 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: 6390144
    Abstract: Ground warp and pile warp thread sheets are supplied to a shed forming device. The ground warp and the pile warp are separately deflected over a deflecting rod upstream from the shed forming device. The deflecting rod supports the ground warp and directs the pile warp to cross and interpenetrate through the ground warp before deflecting the pile warp into the back shed. The deflecting rod is positively driven and controlled to pivot about a horizontal axis to provide a positive controlled partial compensation of the pile warp thread length variations. The pile warp also runs over a pile warp thread reserve and compensating device upstream from the thread crossing location to provide an additional passive uncontrolled compensation of the pile warp thread length variations and to provide a pile warp thread reserve during the pile loop formation and/or the shed changes in the weaving process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2002
    Assignee: Lindauer Dornier Gesellschaft GmbH
    Inventors: Adnan Wahhoud, Peter Czura, Herbert Mueller, Fritz Rupflin, Thomas Laukamp
  • Patent number: 6382708
    Abstract: Arrangement for controlling the movement of a rearward-side air guiding system on motor vehicles, the rearward-side air guiding system having a rear spoiler provided on a rearward-side hood and a rear wing connected therewith, and the rear wing being movable by means of the arrangement from a retracted inoperative position into an extended operative position and vice versa. The arrangement for controlling the movement of the rear wing includes at least two telescopic tilt-out devices and one connection respectively between a driving device and the telescopic tilt-out device. The driving device contains a motor and at least one hydraulic cylinder, so that, when the motor (17) is triggered, a pressure is built up in the at least one hydraulic cylinder (18,18′) which can be transmitted to the telescopic tilt-out devices (16,16′) and has the effect that the rear wing (12) is moved against a spring force into its operative position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2002
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c.F. Porsche AG
    Inventors: Georg Erdelitsch, Walter Haecker, Thomas Jagodizinski, Herbert Mueller, Johannes Preis
  • Patent number: 6367511
    Abstract: A ground warp thread sheet and a pile warp thread sheet are supplied to a shed forming device. Two stop motions on separate planes respectively monitor the pile warp and the ground warp. The ground warp and the pile warp are deflected over a deflecting rod upstream from the shed forming device. The deflecting rod supports the ground warp and directs the pile warp to cross and interpenetrate through the ground warp before being deflected into the back shed. The vertices of the ground warp and pile warp back sheds are thus located on opposite sides of the deflecting rod. The pile warp crosses through the ground warp directly upstream from the deflecting rod, at a steep angle, for example from 45 to 135 °.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2002
    Assignee: Lindauer DORNIER Gesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Adnan Wahhoud, Peter Czura, Herbert Mueller
  • Publication number: 20020021022
    Abstract: Arrangement for controlling the movement of a rearward-side air guiding system on motor vehicles, the rearward-side air guiding system having a rear spoiler provided on a rearward-side hood and a rear wing connected therewith, and the rear wing being movable by means of the arrangement from a retracted inoperative position into an extended operative position and vice versa. The arrangement for controlling the movement of the rear wing includes at least two telescopic tilt-out devices and one connection respectively between a driving device and the telescopic tilt-out device. The driving device contains a motor and at least one hydraulic cylinder, so that, when the motor (17) is triggered, a pressure is built up in the at least one hydraulic cylinder (18,18′) which can be transmitted to the telescopic tilt-out devices (16, 16′) and has the effect that the rear wing (12) is moved against a spring force into its operative position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2001
    Publication date: February 21, 2002
    Inventors: Georg Erdelitsch, Walter Haecker, Thomas Jagodizinski, Herbert Mueller, Johannes Preis
  • Publication number: 20010054450
    Abstract: Ground warp and pile warp thread sheets are supplied to a shed forming device. The ground warp and the pile warp are separately deflected over a deflecting rod upstream from the shed forming device. The deflecting rod supports the ground warp and directs the pile warp to cross and interpenetrate through the ground warp before deflecting the pile warp into the back shed. The deflecting rod is positively driven and controlled to pivot about a horizontal axis to provide a positive controlled partial compensation of the pile warp thread length variations. The pile warp also runs over a pile warp thread reserve and compensating device upstream from the thread crossing location to provide an additional passive uncontrolled compensation of the pile warp thread length variations and to provide a pile warp thread reserve during the pile loop formation and/or the shed changes in the weaving process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2001
    Publication date: December 27, 2001
    Inventors: Adnan Wahhoud, Peter Czura, Herbert Mueller, Fritz Rupflin, Thomas Laukamp
  • Publication number: 20010039974
    Abstract: A ground warp thread sheet and a pile warp thread sheet are supplied to a shed forming device. Two stop motions on separate planes respectively monitor the pile warp and the ground warp. The ground warp and the pile warp are deflected over a deflecting rod upstream from the shed forming device. The deflecting rod supports the ground warp and directs the pile warp to cross and interpenetrate through the ground warp before being deflected into the back shed. The vertices of the ground warp and pile warp back sheds are thus located on opposite sides of the deflecting rod. The pile warp crosses through the ground warp directly upstream from the deflecting rod, at a steep angle, for example from 45 to 135°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2001
    Publication date: November 15, 2001
    Inventors: Adnan Wahhoud, Peter Czura, Herbert Mueller
  • Patent number: 6307340
    Abstract: A main drive shaft of a power loom reaches the rated operating rpm of the loom by the time of the first beat-up of the reed, thus avoiding start-up faults in the fabric. A flywheel mass is accelerated to a start-up rpm that is higher than the rated operating rpm before it is coupled with the main drive shaft. The start-up rpm is determined automatically and iteratively, with ever-increasing accuracy in successive starts of the loom. When the main drive shaft is coupled to the flywheel mass, the flywheel mass rpm decreases simultaneously as the main drive shaft rpm increases from standstill to the operating rpm. The actual main drive shaft rpm is measured at least at the time of the first beat-up and any deviation from the rated operating rpm is evaluated by the loom control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Assignee: Lindauer Dornier Gesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Arno Wagner, Herbert Mueller
  • Patent number: 6271413
    Abstract: An improved process for the preparation of polytetramethylene ether glycol diesters of the formula R—CO—O(—CH2-CH2-CH2-CH2-O)n-COR1 in which R and R1 are identical or different and are an alkyl radical or a derivative thereof, by polymerization of tetrahydrofuran in the presence of a fixed-bed polymerization catalyst and a carboxylic acid anhydride. Through use of neutral or weakly basic magnesium-aluminium hydrosilicates instead of the known acidic montmorillonite, zeolite or kaolin catalysts, polymers with more uniform properties and a narrower molecular weight distribution are obtained at a higher rate of polymerization, even when technical-grade tetrahydrofuran is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2001
    Assignee: Korea PTG Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Herbert Müller
  • Patent number: 6229017
    Abstract: An improved process for preparing quinolone- and naphthyridonecarboxylic acids and esters thereof from benzoyl chlorides and nicotinoyl chlorides, respectively, in which the reaction carried out in the presence of a non-polar to slightly polar solvent without separation of intermediaries that form during the process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Norbert Lui, Hans Panskus, Herbert Müller
  • Patent number: 6194503
    Abstract: The molecular weight distribution of polytetrahydrofuran and copolymers of tetrahydrofuran with alkylene oxides is narrowed down by blending the polymers with a mixture of an alicyclic compound, methanol and water at a temperature ranging from 0-40° C. The two phases formed are separated at 40-80° C., and polymers with low molecular weight distributions are isolated therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2001
    Inventor: Herbert Müller
  • Patent number: 6186191
    Abstract: A fluid jet loom includes a source of pressurized fluid, a magnetic valve, and at least one nozzle, such as a weft insertion air jet nozzle, as well as at least one flexible pressure hose connecting and providing pressurized fluid from the magnetic valve to the nozzle. In order to detect any hole, rupture or separation of the pressure hose, the hose includes at least one electrical conductor embedded in or arranged on the hose wall. An electrical current flows through the electrical conductor, which preferably forms a conductor loop and especially a resonant circuit loop. By monitoring an electrical characteristic, such as the resonant frequency, of the electrical signal received from the conductor loop, any disruption in the pressure hose can be immediately detected as a change in the monitored electrical characteristic, which in turn causes a loom stop signal to be generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2001
    Assignee: Lindauer Dornier Gesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Peter D. Dornier, Herbert Mueller
  • Patent number: 6148872
    Abstract: The starting time of a weft thread insertion in a jet loom is automatically adapted to a change in the speed of the main loom drive shaft, in order to assure that the leading end of the weft thread always arrives at the same time at a weft stop motion device at an exit end of a weft insertion channel through the loom shed. For this purpose, the starting time of the weft insertion is advanced when the loom drive shaft rpm is increased and delayed when the rpm is decreased. The advance or delay has reference to a weaving cycle that begins with the opening of a shed and ends when the shed is fully closed. The flight time .DELTA.t.sub.F of a weft thread through the shed is constant. The adaptation is performed in response to measuring the rotational drive shaft angle .alpha..sub.AR at which a weft thread arrives at the weft stop motion device and determining the starting time in such a way that the weft arrival time (t.sub.2, t.sub.4, t.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2000
    Assignee: Lindauer Dornier Gesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Adnan Wahhoud, Ewald Zimmermann, Herbert Mueller, Peter Czura, Dieter Teufel
  • Patent number: 6135162
    Abstract: In a loom of which the backrest (3) and/or the warp stop motion (17) are adjustably supported on the machine frame (22) and are adjustable by associated adjusting equipment with at least one adjusting function, at least the backrest (3) and/or the warp stop motion (17) are automatically adjusted. To achieve this, at least one controllable driven adjusting device (30) connected to the loom control is allocated to the adjusting equipment. The existing actual position of the backrest and/or of the warp stop motion is determined. At least the measured values characteristic of the actual position are compared to prescribed nominal or desired values. From this comparison, an adjusting signal is generated, which is then provided to the adjusting device, which then automatically moves the backrest (3) and/or the warp stop motion (17) automatically into the respective desired position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2000
    Assignee: Lindauer Dornier Gesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Peter D. Dornier, Herbert Mueller, Stefan Arndt
  • Patent number: 6026865
    Abstract: A controlled weft thread presenting and clamping arrangement minimizes weft thread waste and ensures proper tensioning of the weft thread during its presentation to the insertion gripper, in a gripper loom for weaving with plural different weft threads. The arrangement includes a control shaft (13) that has a drive key (14) protruding therefrom in a reference plane (7), and that is rotatably supported on a support bracket (10, 11, 12), which may be mounted on the loom. Weft thread presenting levers (15) each carrying a respective clamp (16) are movably arranged on the shaft (13), which passes through a hole in each of the presenting levers (15). A translational drive (22) acts on a presenting lever support (17) to translationally move all of the presenting levers (15) in unison together axially along the shaft (13) until a selected lever (15) is positioned in the reference plane (7), with the lever's drive groove 15B engaged on the drive key (14) of the shaft (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2000
    Assignee: Lindauer Dornier Gesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Valentin Krumm, Horst Haeussler, Stephan Arndt, Siegbert Gsell, Peter Schiller, Herbert Mueller
  • Patent number: 6016850
    Abstract: In the event of an interruption of the weaving process and in the case of weaving-technical operations, such as tabby weaving and unraveling, a trailing of warp thread bobbins and thus a trailing of warp threads which are withdrawn from the bobbins and form a warp thread family, cannot be avoided without significant expenditures. The trailing results in a so-called trailing length in the thread family which, unless it is correspondingly taken up and correspondingly released during the new start of the weaving process, results in an overstretching of the warp thread family during a starting operation of the bobbins. This disadvantage is avoided by deflecting the thread family within a feeding stand, in the event of a weaving stop, in a controlled manner from a reference plane into at least one defined position. At the new start of the weaving process, the deflection is eliminated in a controlled manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2000
    Assignee: Lindauer Dornier GmbH
    Inventors: Ewald Zimmermann, Herbert Mueller, Martin Eberle
  • Patent number: 5925793
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of dialkylamines of the general formula I, ##STR1## in which R.sup.1, R.sup.2, and R.sup.3 denote C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 alkyl, by the reaction of a dialkylamine of the general formula II ##STR2## in which R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 denote C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 alkyl, with alcohols R.sup.3 --OH in the presence of a (copper chromite/alkaline-earth metal chromite)-containing hydrogenation/dehydrogenation catalyst, in which the reaction is carried out in the liquid phase over a fixed bed catalyst in the presence of the water formed during the reaction at temperatures ranging from 180.degree. to 210.degree. C. and pressures ranging from 40 to 120 bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1999
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Herbert Mueller
  • Patent number: 5808136
    Abstract: A catalyst and method of its production for use in making vinyl acetate monomer. The carrier is impregnated with a basic solution and a solution containing gold salts and palladium salts and finally impregnated with alkali acetate. The activity and selectivity of the catalyst, its mechanical strength, the noble-metal adhesion and the dispersion of noble metal on the carrier can be improved if the carrier is impregnated in a pretreatment with salts containing as cation elements of groups IA, IIA, IIIA and IVB of the periodic table and as anions elements of group VIIA or complex anions such as nitrate, sulfate or anions of organic acids such as acetate and lactate and is subsequently dried and calcined at temperatures of at least 160.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1998
    Assignee: Degussa Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Tacke, Herbert Mueller, Uwe Ohlrogge, Francis P. Daly, Hans Lansink Rotgerink, Helmfried Krause
  • Patent number: 5714638
    Abstract: Polyoxyalkylene glycol monoethers of monohydric alcohols are prepared by a process in which tetrahydrofuran or a mixture of tetrahydrofuran with a total of not more than 95 mol %, based on the amount of tetrahydrofuran used, of one or more comonomers from the group consisting of the cyclic ethers and acetals is polymerized in the absence of water and in the presence of a monohydric alcohol and of an anhydrous heteropoly acid catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1998
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen Weyer, Rolf Fischer, Gerhard Jeschek, Herbert Mueller
  • Patent number: 5681588
    Abstract: A cylindrical delayed release tablet with a convex or flat upper side and lower side is provided, along with a method for its production and a gelatin capsule containing 3-200 tablets of the same having identical or different release rates, wherein the tablet if made of .beta.-phenylpropiophenone derivatives of the formula I as active ingredient ##STR1## where R is n-propyl or 1,1-dimethylpropyl, and their pharmacologically acceptable salts, wherein the tablet has a height and diameter that are both, independently of one another, 1-3 mm, the active ingredient content is in the range from 81-99.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1997
    Assignee: Knoll Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Karl Kolter, Helmut Fricke, Volker Buehler, Herbert Mueller-Peltzer
  • Patent number: 5659068
    Abstract: Polyoxyalkylene glycol monoesters of carboxylic acids are prepared by a process in which tetrahydrofuran or a mixture of tetrahydrofuran with a total of not more than 95 mol %, based on the amount of tetrahydrofuran used, of one or more comonomers from the group consisting of the cyclic ethers and acetals is polymerized in the absence of water and in the presence of a carboxylic acid and of an anhydrous heteropolyacid catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1997
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen Weyer, Rolf Fischer, Gerhard Jeschek, Herbert Mueller