Patents by Inventor Jörg-Rainer Schmitz

Jörg-Rainer Schmitz 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).

  • Device and Process for Substance Separation in a Microstructured Apparatus
    Publication number: 20110139728
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for separation of substance mixtures on the micro scale. The invention further relates to a process for separating substance mixtures using the inventive device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2009
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Applicants: BAYER TECHNOLOGY SERVICES GMBH, EHRFELD MIKROTECHNIK BTS GMBH
    Inventors: Jürgen Kern, Thomas Runowski, Marcus Paul Grün, Gerhard Ruffert, Rebeka Zecirovic, Jörg-Rainer Schmitz, Helmut Mothes, Olaf Stange, Frank Herbstritt
  • Self-cleaning separator for cohesive or adhesive products
    Patent number: 6491167
    Abstract: A self-cleaning separator is described for cohesive or adhesive solids from a fluidborne stream of solids on the basis of a cyclonelike separation. The separator consists at least of a cylindrical upper section (8) having a separating chamber (3), a product inlet (2), a fluid outlet (5), and of a conical lower section (6) having a solids outlet (7) adjoining below the lower section (6), at least the side wall (4) of the upper section (8) being produced from an elastic material, in particular an elastomeric material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2002
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jochen Mahrenholtz, Jörg-Rainer Schmitz, Klaus-Michael Zeyen, Oliver Fleschenträger