Patents by Inventor Jürgen Butz
Jürgen Butz 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: 11957525Abstract: An interdental cleaner has a rod-shaped support which is made of plastics material and the rear end region of which has a handle part and the opposite front end region of which supports a coating made of a soft-elastic plastics material. At least one radially protruding finger which is integrally connected to the coating is arranged on the outside of the coating. A recess is formed in the outer surface of the coating, and the radially inner foot region of the finger is arranged in the recess and is connected to the coating at the bottom of the recess.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Sunstar Suisse SAInventor: Jürgen Butz
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Publication number: 20230380945Abstract: The invention relates to an interdental cleaner comprising a rod-like support which has a cleaning part in an axial end region, which cleaning part is provided with a coating on its external surface in a coating region. The coating region comprises merely one portion of the external surface of the cleaning part and extends preferably between two adjacent rows of cleaning elements held on the cleaning part. A transfer element is provided for applying the coating, which transfer element is provided on the outside with a coating agent and, in order to form the coating, is subsequently brought into contact with the external surface of the cleaning part.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2021Publication date: November 30, 2023Inventor: Jürgen BUTZ
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Patent number: 11648097Abstract: An interdental cleaner for cleaning interdental spaces includes a cleaning portion for interdental cleaning and a handle portion connected as a grip to the cleaning portion by a flexible neck portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2018Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: SUNSTAR SUISSE S.A.Inventor: Jürgen Butz
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Patent number: 11576760Abstract: An interdental cleaner has a rod-shaped support, which is made of plastic and, in one end region thereof, is provided with a cleaning part made of a flexible plastic, and a handle part made of plastic. The support, at a support end facing the handle part, is integrally connected to the handle part in a connection region via a web. The connection region is configured as a joint, and the web is provided at least partially with a sheath made of a flexible plastic. Provision is made here that the web has at least one protruding web rib, and/or that at least one rib is formed on the outer face of the sheath.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2017Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: SUNSTAR SUISSE S.A.Inventor: Jürgen Butz
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Publication number: 20230034146Abstract: An index plate molding device configured to produce a multi-component part including an injection mold having an injection parting surface, and an ejection mold having an ejection parting surface in selective contact with the injection parting surface to form an ejection parting line therebetween. The index plate molding device also includes an index plate movable relative to the injection mold and the ejection mold, where the index plate includes an index parting surface in selective contact with the injection parting surface to form an index parting line therebetween, and where the index plate is shaped such that the outer surface of the first component of the multi-component part is available for overmolding on both sides of the index parting line when the first component is coupled to the index plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventors: Jürgen Butz, Rudi Locher
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Patent number: 11554952Abstract: A method for closing openings in a flexible diaphragm of a MEMS element. The method includes: providing at least one opening in the flexible diaphragm, situating sealing material in the area of the at least one opening, melting-on at least the applied sealing material in the area of the at least one opening, and subsequently cooling the melted-on material to close the at least one opening.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Bernhard Gehl, Christoph Hermes, Juergen Butz
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Patent number: 11484110Abstract: An interdental cleaner (10) has a rod-shaped support (11) made of plastic, a handle part (12) connected to the support (11), and a cleaning part (13) which has a sleeve-shaped cover (14) arranged on the support (11). The cover carries radially outwardly protruding cleaning elements (15). Provision is made that the cover consists of a plurality of cover parts, wherein a first cover part (16) consists of a first soft-elastic plastic, and wherein a second cover part (17) consists of a second soft-elastic plastic or of a thermoplastic, wherein the plastics material of the first cover part (16) is different than the plastics material of the second cover part (17). Preferably, the plastics material of the first cover part (16) has a lower Shore hardness than the plastics material of the second cover part (17).Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2018Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Sunstar Suisse SAInventors: Jürgen Butz, Gerhard Pötsch
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Publication number: 20220338614Abstract: An interdental cleaner has a rod-shaped support made of plastics material, which has a cleaning device in an axial end region, which cleaning device has a covering for the support made of a soft-elastic plastics material and a bristle set having a plurality of bristle bundles protruding, with a radial component, from the covering. The bristle bundles extend through the support and are embedded and held therein. The covering has at least one recess on its outer surface, wherein at least one of the bristle bundles is arranged within the recess.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2022Publication date: October 27, 2022Applicant: Interbros GmbHInventor: Juergen BUTZ
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Publication number: 20220306461Abstract: A method for locally removing/modifying a polymer material on a surface of a wafer. The method includes: a) aligning a mask with respect to the surface; b) locally exposing the surface through the mask using a VUV light source while simultaneously supplying a gas mixture containing at least oxygen; c) purging the surface with a gas mixture containing at least nitrogen and oxygen, the VUV light source being switched off; and d) repeating at least steps b) and c) until the removal/modification is complete. A device is described for locally removing/modifying a polymer material on a surface of a wafer, including a mask. The device includes an adjustable wafer table for holding the wafer, and is configured to set an exposure gap between the wafer and the mask in a first operating state, and to set a purge gap between the wafer and the mask in a second operating state.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2020Publication date: September 29, 2022Inventors: Barbara Will, Juergen Butz, Ricardo Zamora, Timo Kuhn
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Patent number: 11259622Abstract: An interdental cleaner with a rod-like support which has a cleaning device in an axial end region. The cleaning device includes a cover on the support made of a soft-elastic plastic, and structuring is formed on the outside of the cover having a plurality of fingers protruding with radial components from the cover, which fingers are made of the same material as the cover and are connected as one piece thereto. The structuring additionally has a bristle edging with a plurality of bristle bundles protruding with radial components from the cover and/or individual bristles which are each formed from pre-produced bristles embedded in the cover and/or in the support.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2013Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: INTERBROS GMBHInventors: Jürgen Butz, Gerhard Pötsch, Markus Rümmele, Hannes Hauser, Steffen Lehr
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Publication number: 20210386531Abstract: An interdental cleaner has a rod-shaped support which is made of plastics material and the rear end region of which has a handle part and the opposite front end region of which supports a coating made of a soft-elastic plastics material. At least one radially protruding finger which is integrally connected to the coating is arranged on the outside of the coating. A recess is formed in the outer surface of the coating, and the radially inner foot region of the finger is arranged in the recess and is connected to the coating at the bottom of the recess.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2019Publication date: December 16, 2021Inventor: Jürgen BUTZ
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Patent number: 11147657Abstract: An interdental cleaner has a rod-shaped support which is made of plastic and which, at a support rear end region, has a grip part. A support opposite front end region has a flocking with flock fibers made of plastic. The rod-shaped support is provided, in the support front end region, with a sleeve-shaped cover made of a flexible plastic. The flocking is arranged on the cover.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2017Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: SUNSTAR SUISSE S.A.Inventors: Gerhard Pötsch, Christian Leisinger, Jürgen Butz
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Publication number: 20210229983Abstract: A method for closing openings in a flexible diaphragm of a MEMS element. The method includes: providing at least one opening in the flexible diaphragm, situating sealing material in the area of the at least one opening, melting-on at least the applied sealing material in the area of the at least one opening, and subsequently cooling the melted-on material to close the at least one opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2018Publication date: July 29, 2021Inventors: Bernhard Gehl, Christoph Hermes, Juergen BUTZ
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Publication number: 20210120944Abstract: An interdental cleaner (10) has a rod-shaped support (11) made of plastic, a handle part (12) connected to the support (11), and a cleaning part (13) which has a sleeve-shaped cover (14) arranged on the support (11). The cover carries radially outwardly protruding cleaning elements (15). Provision is made that the cover consists of a plurality of cover parts, wherein a first cover part (16) consists of a first soft-elastic plastic, and wherein a second cover part (17) consists of a second soft-elastic plastic or of a thermoplastic, wherein the plastics material of the first cover part (16) is different than the plastics material of the second cover part (17). Preferably, the plastics material of the first cover part (16) has a lower Shore hardness than the plastics material of the second cover part (17).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2018Publication date: April 29, 2021Inventors: Jürgen BUTZ, Gerhard PÖTSCH
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Publication number: 20210000577Abstract: An interdental cleaner with a rod-shaped carrier which is made of a first plastics material and extends along a longitudinal axis. At its front end, the rod-shaped carrier has a cleaning part in the form of a cover made of a soft elastic plastics material. A handle part is arranged at the rear end of the carrier which is opposite the front end. A connecting section of the carrier which exhibits a significantly greater deformation under certain conditions is formed between the handle part and the cover.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2019Publication date: January 7, 2021Inventor: Jürgen BUTZ
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Patent number: 10843390Abstract: A method for manufacturing an interdental cleaner includes providing a rod-shaped carrier made of plastic, into which laterally protruding bristles are embedded. In this case, a filament array formed of a plurality of filament strands is inserted into a holding cassette and is fixed in a predefined alignment in the holding cassette by means of a holding device. The holding cassette is then inserted into an injection-molding device and the filament array is coated with plastic in the injection-molding device, forming a plurality of rod-shaped carriers arranged spaced apart next to one another. Finally, the filament strands forming the filament array are separated at least in the sections located between adjacent rod-shaped carriers. In addition, a device for carrying out the method is provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2015Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: SUNSTAR SUISSE SAInventor: Jürgen Butz
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Patent number: 10766778Abstract: A polycrystalline material having low mechanical strain is provided. The polycrystalline material includes one or multiple layers of a first type and one or multiple layers of a second type. The layers of the first type and the layers of the second type each include at least one polycrystalline material component. The layers of the first type have a smaller average crystal grain size than the layers of the second type, a layer of the first type and a layer of the second type being situated, at least in part, one above the other in an alternating sequence, and it being the case for the transition between the layers of the first type and the layers of the second type to be abrupt or continuous.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2018Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Andreas Hartlieb, Heiko Stahl, Jochen Beintner, Juergen Butz
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Patent number: 10687923Abstract: An interdental cleaner has a rod-shaped carrier consisting of plastic, which has a cleaning device in an axial end area. The cleaning device comprises at least one fabric part, which extends in the direction of a longitudinal axis of the carrier and which has mutually intersecting thread systems with warp threads and weft threads. Provisions are made for the fabric part to be connected to the carrier and to radially project from same, wherein thread systems or the warp threads, on the one hand, and the weft threads, on the other hand, extend at an angle in the range of 20° to 70° to the longitudinal axis of the rod-shaped carrier and pass through the rod-shaped carrier.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2015Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: SUNSTAR SUISSE S.A.Inventor: Jürgen Butz
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Publication number: 20190183617Abstract: An interdental cleaner has a rod-shaped support which is made of plastic and which, at a support rear end region, has a grip part. A support opposite front end region has a flocking with flock fibers made of plastic. The rod-shaped support is provided, in the support front end region, with a sleeve-shaped cover made of a flexible plastic. The flocking is arranged on the cover.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2017Publication date: June 20, 2019Applicant: SUNSTAR SUISSE S.A.Inventors: Gerhard PÖTSCH, Christian LEISINGER, Jürgen BUTZ
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Patent number: D871775Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2018Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: SUNSTAR SUISSE S.A.Inventor: Jürgen Butz