Patents by Inventor Jürgen Klein
Jürgen Klein 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: 8227777Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of operating an electrical discharge device (12) comprising at least one first electrode (14) and at least one second electrode (16) at a distance therefrom, which electrodes are electrically connected to a power supply (18) and, upon ignition of a first gas discharge (22) between the electrodes (14, 16), transmit an electrical current (I), as a result of which a plasma (24) is produced in a working gas (26), which plasma emits radiation (28), in particular extreme ultraviolet and/or soft X-ray radiation, which is passed via a solid angle (30) into a chamber (32) outside the electrodes (14, 16). In order to prevent erosion at the electrodes (14, 16), it is proposed that the formation of a secondary plasma (34) in the chamber (32) is suppressed by a device (42).Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2005Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventors: Michael Loeken, Jakob Willi Neff, Juergen Klein, Sven Probst
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Patent number: 8067070Abstract: The invention relates to a composite material (1), to containers made therefrom and to a method for producing the composite material (1), which comprises a substrate (2) and a coating (3) on the substrate (2), wherein the coating (3) provides at least a first region (31) facing the substrate (2) and at least a second region (32) facing away the substrate (2), and wherein the first region (31) comprises a barrier layer (4) and the second region (32) a passivation layer (5).Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2007Date of Patent: November 29, 2011Assignee: Schott AGInventors: Juergen Klein, Tanja Woywod, Stephan Behle, Uwe Rothhaar
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Patent number: 7926446Abstract: A coating apparatus is provided for simplifying the introduction and removal of workpieces into and from a reactor for plasma coating and to increase the throughput. The coating apparatus has a reactor with a moveable sleeve part and a base element, at least one sealed coating chamber being defined between sleeve part and base element when the latter two parts are fitted onto one another. The coating apparatus also has a device for introducing electromagnetic energy into the at least one coating chamber. The reactor has at least two coating places.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2003Date of Patent: April 19, 2011Assignee: Schott AGInventors: Stephan Behle, Andreas Luttringhaus-Henkel, Gregor Arnold, Mathias Bicker, Marten Walther, Juergen Klein
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Patent number: 7810448Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for the coating of hollow bodies, in particular for the internal coating of plastic drinks bottles by means of a PICVD. It is an object of the invention to ensure a flexible process sequence, a high throughput, an improved supply of fluid and a high-quality coating. The invention in particular proposes a rotary apparatus which comprises a treatment device with double reactors for receiving in each case at least one workpiece, a fluid supply apparatus and at least one fluid control device, which can be used to control the supply of fluid to the treatment device. It is preferable for the vacuum pumps to be arranged on the rotor such that they rotate therewith.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2003Date of Patent: October 12, 2010Assignee: Schott AGInventors: Stephen Behle, Andreas Lüttringhaus-Henkel, Gregor Arnold, Matthias Bicker, Jürgen Klein
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Patent number: 7811384Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for the treatment of substrates, in particular for the coating of plastic containers on a rotary installation. A plurality of treatment devices are arranged on the rotor and pass through a plurality of process phases as a function of their angle position on the rotor. For at least one process phase, the angle position can be set variably as a function of the current rotational speed of the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2005Date of Patent: October 12, 2010Assignee: Schott AGInventors: Matthias Bicker, Stephan Behle, Andreas Lüettringhaus-Henkel, Gregor Arnold, Juergen Klein
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Patent number: 7765832Abstract: The invention provides a method of producing reflectors from glass or glass ceramics comprising the steps of: molding a reflector being open to the outside and having a closed bottom in a mold at a temperature above the transformation temperature; placing the reflector in a recess of a holder; heating up the reflector in the area of its bottom; lifting the bottom of the reflector from below using a die; punching out at least one opening from the bottom by moving at least one plunger into at least one matching opening in the die.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2007Date of Patent: August 3, 2010Assignee: Schott AGInventors: Hans-Walter Abraham, Armin Zehner, Gernot Frei, Hans-Juergen Klein, Thomas Niklos, Ulrich Zirfas, Willi Mattheis
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Patent number: 7699933Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device which are used for the plasma treatment of work pieces. Said work piece is inserted into an at least partially evacuatable chamber of a treatment station (3) and the work piece is positioned inside the treatment station of retaining elements. At least one operating agent is at least partially impinged upon by a transporting device (44) which is displaced together with the treatment station on a closed and rotating transport path.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2003Date of Patent: April 20, 2010Assignee: KHS Corpoplast GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Michael Lizenberg, Frank Lewis, Hartwig Müller, Klaus Vogel, Gregor Arnold, Stephan Behle, Andreas Lüttringhaus-Henkel, Matthias Bicker, Jürgen Klein
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Publication number: 20090071399Abstract: The invention relates to a fluid rotary leadthrough having a journal and a sleeve. The sleeve and the journal are sealed off with respect to one another. The journal and the sleeve each have a line connection. The line connections, at least from time to time, are connected to one another via a fluid passage so that a flow of fluid through the fluid rotary leadthrough is made possible. The journal is arranged rotatably in the sleeve.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2006Publication date: March 19, 2009Applicant: SCHOTT AGInventors: Gregor Arnold, Andreas Luettringhaus-Henkel, Juergen Klein, Stephan Behle
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Patent number: 7446944Abstract: An objective lens comprises a housing, an iris diaphragm and a plurality of lens groups. For focusing the objective lens while minimizing the variation of the image angle at least two lens groups are adapted to be moved relative to the housing. The one lens group is arranged in front of the iris diaphragm. The other lens group is arranged at least partially behind the iris diaphragm.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2007Date of Patent: November 4, 2008Assignee: Carl Zeiss AGInventors: Juergen Klein, Juergen Noffke, Dietmar Gaengler
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Publication number: 20080174034Abstract: The invention provides a method of producing reflectors from glass or glass ceramics comprising the steps of: molding a reflector being open to the outside and having a closed bottom in a mold at a temperature above the transformation temperature; placing the reflector in a recess of a holder; heating up the reflector in the area of its bottom; lifting the bottom of the reflector from below using a die; punching out at least one opening from the bottom by moving at least one plunger into at least one matching opening in the die.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2007Publication date: July 24, 2008Inventors: Hans-Walter Abraham, Armin Zehner, Gernot Frei, Hans-Juergen Klein, Thomas Niklos, Ulrich Zirfas, Willi Mattheis
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Publication number: 20080090039Abstract: The invention relates to a composite material (1), to containers made therefrom and to a method for producing the composite material (1), which comprises a substrate (2) and a coating (3) on the substrate (2), wherein the coating (3) provides at least a first region (31) facing the substrate (2) and at least a second region (32) facing away the substrate (2), and wherein the first region (31) comprises a barrier layer (4) and the second region (32) a passivation layer (5).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2007Publication date: April 17, 2008Applicant: Schott AGInventors: Juergen Klein, Tanja Woywod, Stephan Behle, Uwe Rothhaar
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Publication number: 20070236805Abstract: An objective lens comprises a housing, an iris diaphragm and a plurality of lens groups. For focusing the objective lens while minimizing the variation of the image angle at least two lens groups are adapted to be moved relative to the housing. The one lens group is arranged in front of the iris diaphragm. The other lens group is arranged at least partially behind the iris diaphragm.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2007Publication date: October 11, 2007Inventors: Juergen Klein, Juergen Noffke, Dietmar Gaengler
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Patent number: 7126143Abstract: A method for generating extreme ultraviolet radiation and soft x-ray radiation with a gas discharge operated on the left branch of the Paschen curve, in particular, for EUV lithography, wherein a discharge chamber (10) of a predetermined gas pressure and two electrodes (11, 12) are used, wherein the electrodes have an opening (14, 15), respectively, positioned on the same symmetry axis (13) and, in the course of a voltage increase (16) upon reaching a predetermined ignition voltage (Uz), generate a plasma (17) located in the area between their openings (14, 15), which plasma is a source of the radiation (17?) to be generated, wherein an ignition of the plasma (17) is realized by affecting the gas pressure and/or by triggering, and wherein, with the ignition of the plasma (17), an energy storage device supplies by means of the electrodes (11, 12) stored energy into the plasma (17), characterized in that the ignition of the plasma (17) is realized by using a predetermined ignition delay (18).Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2002Date of Patent: October 24, 2006Assignees: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., Philips Corporate Intellectual Property GmbH, Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventors: Jürgen Klein, Willi Neff, Stefan Seiwart, Klaus Bergmann, Joseph Pankert, Michael Löken
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Patent number: 7074275Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for coating hollow bodies, e.g. plastic drinks bottles. It is an object of the invention to provide an apparatus for treating workpieces which operates reliably and with low maintenance, can be flexibly adapted to the user's requirements or to the requirements of the desired process sequence, and which allows efficient evacuation. The apparatus according to the invention comprises at least one treatment device (101) for receiving at least one workpiece, a rotor on which the treatment device is arranged, a fluid rotary leadthrough for feeding at least one fluid onto the rotor and/or for discharging at least one fluid from the rotor, the fluid rotary leadthrough having a journal and a sleeve, which at least in sections are sealed off from one another, and the journal being arranged rotatably in the sleeve. The proposed radial arrangement is particularly unsusceptible to faults and entails little maintenance.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2004Date of Patent: July 11, 2006Assignee: Schott AGInventors: Gregor Arnold, Andreas Lüttringhaus-Henkel, Jürgen Klein, Stephan Behle
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Publication number: 20060051520Abstract: The invention provides a process for coating workpieces by plasma-induced chemical vapor deposition, in which a process gas is introduced into a coating chamber and a plasma is ignited by electromagnetic energy in at least one region of the coating chamber which adjoins the workpiece and in which the process gas is present, wherein the coating operation is monitored on the basis of at least one measured spectral parameter of the plasma, and the workpiece is removed in the event of a deviation from a desired range for the parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2005Publication date: March 9, 2006Inventors: Stephan Behle, Andreas Luettringhaus-Henkel, Peter Eimann, Juergen Klein
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Publication number: 20050284550Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for the treatment of substrates, in particular for the coating of plastic containers on a rotary installation. A plurality of treatment devices are arranged on the rotor and pass through a plurality of process phases as a function of their angle position on the rotor. For at least one process phase, the angle position can be set variably as a function of the current rotational speed of the rotor.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2005Publication date: December 29, 2005Inventors: Matthias Bicker, Stephan Behle, Andreas Luettringhaus-Henkel, Gregor Arnold, Juergen Klein
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Patent number: 6565576Abstract: A distraction assembly for the plastic surgery of the face, for correcting the upper and/or lower jaw, for example for removing an overbite, a cross bite, a cleft palate or for bridging bone structure that was removed by, for example, surgery, consists of a device with at least two elements which are axially moveable in relation to each other. The device can be completely implanted subcutaneously and can be indirectly or directly actuated without contact, especially by energy inductively supplied from outside.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2001Date of Patent: May 20, 2003Assignee: Wittenstein GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Roman Stauch, Jürgen Klein
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Patent number: 6540715Abstract: Method for the in situ formulation of a medicinal substance solution for parenteral administration, in which at least two metered part-streams are continuously combined with the aid of a mixer to an active ingredient-containing total volumetric flow, characterized in that the resulting medicinal substance solution is not in thermodynamic equilibrium, and in that the resulting total volumetric flow after mixing is 0.2 ml/h to 500 ml/h, preferably 5 ml/h to 500 ml/h, an apparatus for carrying out the method, and an active ingredient administration kit which contains the apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2000Date of Patent: April 1, 2003Assignee: Bayer AktiengesellschaftInventors: Bernd Kühn, Georg Wiessmeier, Roland Rupp, Bernd Krumbach, Lothar Weismantel, Erhard Herrmann, Jürgen Klein
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Patent number: 6533791Abstract: An instrument system for the operative correction of vertebral displacements and for the stabilizing of repositioned vertebral bodies is described which is characterized by correction and support devices which are formed in two parts and which are displaceable in the axial direction guided relative to one another by means of an integrated setting member, as well as by interim spacers which are adapted in their spacer dimensions to the respective correction and support devices and by perforated hollow cylinder implants which are provided with outwardly lying fixing members and which are replaceable by the correction and support devices in repositioned vertebral bodies.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2000Date of Patent: March 18, 2003Assignee: Sulzer Orthopedics Ltd.Inventors: Augustin Betz, Jürgen Klein, Helmut Oexle, Lutz Todt
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Patent number: 6401397Abstract: A sealing profile for use in automobile door openings, having a profile body and a covering element secured to the profile body. The covering element is made of two layers, a lower layer facing the profile body and comprising an unfoamed thermoplastic elastomer, and an upper layer facing away from the profile body and comprising a water foamed thermoplastic elastomer. The sealing profile can be used to seal the door of the automobile against the interior roof of the automobile in an attractive an economical manner.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 1999Date of Patent: June 11, 2002Assignee: Henniges Elastomer- und Kunstsofftechnik GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Jürgen Klein, Rudolf Szed, Werner Sievers