Patents by Inventor Joachim Kuhn
Joachim Kuhn 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: 11974719Abstract: In summary, to simplify operation of a medical image acquisition system, it is proposed that the image acquisition system continuously monitors a current image acquisition situation and assigns at least one new function to at least one, preferably manual, operating element, which is adapted to a detected new image acquisition situation, in response to a change in the image acquisition situation, to the extent that said newly assigned function is adjustable and/or operable with the at least one operating element. To this end, the image acquisition system can detect the change in the image acquisition situation using predefined parameters by means of sensors and/or through communication with peripheral units and/or preferably through image analysis of an image sequence which is recorded with an image sensor of the image acquisition system.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2020Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: SCHÖLLY FIBEROPTIC GMBHInventors: Stefan Schröer, Matthias Kühn, Alexander Köhler, Daniel Härter, Joachim Jauss
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Publication number: 20230356928Abstract: Transport container 1 for temperature-controlled transport of temperature-sensitive goods, comprising a container wall 2 which, in a closed state, completely encloses an interior space 3, the container wall 2 comprising three side wall elements 21a, 21b, 21c, a top element 22, a base element 23 and a door element 24, which door element 24 can be arranged on the transport container 1 in such a way as to completely close an opening 10 of the transport container 1, and wherein at least one receiving strip 4 is arranged on each of the three side wall elements 21a, 21b, 21c in such a way as to attach temperature storage elements 5 thereto, and wherein on at least one of the side wall elements 21a; 21c, a receiving frame 6 with at least one receiving strip 4 for the attachment of temperature storage elements 5 is movably arranged in such a way that, in the closed state of the transport container 1, the opening is at least partially covered and, in an open state of the transport container 1, the opening 10 is compleType: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2021Publication date: November 9, 2023Inventors: Johannes Leven, Fabian Eschenbach, Joachim Kuhn, Markus Gorran
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Publication number: 20230322469Abstract: Insert for accommodating an insulating material of a transport container, comprising a lid compartment, a base compartment and at least one side wall which comprises a continuous accommodating compartment for an insulating material, which accommodating compartment completely encloses a receiving space delimited by the top compartment and the base compartment.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Inventors: Thomas Taraschewski, Adrian Lesch, Joachim Kuhn, Fabian Eschenbach
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Publication number: 20230294871Abstract: A transport rack 1 for fixing a receptacle 101 in a transport container 102, the transport rack 1 comprising a plurality of interconnected frame elements 2 arranged in such a way as to form a receiving space 11 for the receptacle 101 disposed therein, the transport rack 1 further comprising a movable fixing means 3 for fixing the receptacle 101 disposed in the receiving space 11.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2021Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventors: Johannes Leven, Fabian Eschenbach, Joachim Kuhn, Markus Gorran
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Publication number: 20230202141Abstract: The present invention pertains to a vacuum insulation element suitable as a fire protection insulation element, comprising a core material and an envelope completely surrounding the core material, said envelope comprising a plastics layer and a stainless steel layer disposed on the plastics layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2022Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Tobias Bock, Sebastian Gralla, Kenny Rottenbacher, Joachim Kuhn
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Publication number: 20230173785Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a heat-resistant vacuum insulation panel having two heat-resistant protective layers to improve fire protection, in particular at locations of the vacuum insulation panel subject to mechanical stress.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2022Publication date: June 8, 2023Inventors: Joachim KUHN, Tobias BOCK, Kerstin MÜLLER, Slava LEJA, Hendrik FEUERSTEIN
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Patent number: 11661262Abstract: Thermal-insulation container 1, comprising a bottom 26, side walls 21, 22, 23, 24 arranged on the bottom 26 and a lid 25 arranged on the side walls 21, 22, 23, 24, wherein the bottom 26, the side walls 21, 22, 23, 24 and the lid 25 completely enclose an interior space 3, and wherein the lid 25 has a heat transfer coefficient kD, the bottom 26 has a heat transfer coefficient kB, and each of the side walls 21, 22, 23, 24 has one of the heat transfer coefficients kS1, kS2, kS3 or kS4, and further kD<minimum [kS1, kS2, kS3, kS4, kB].Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2020Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: va-Q-tec AGInventors: Joachim Kuhn, Sebastian Satzinger, Thomas Taraschewski
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Publication number: 20230141586Abstract: Thermally insulated carrier bag to be carried by one person, comprising an insulation cover with a base insulation element, a peripheral insulation side wall (and a cover insulation element, which are designed in such a way as to form a receiving space. Enclosing, further comprising a carrying case with a base element, a peripheral side wall and a cover element, which are designed in such a way as to enclose an interior space for the insulation case, the base insulation element and/or the insulating side wall and/or the lid insulating element comprise at least one vacuum insulating element, and the carrying case has at least one carrying element for carrying by one person.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2022Publication date: May 11, 2023Inventors: Kristina Kletzel, Tobias Bock, Fabian Eschenbach, Joachim Kuhn
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Patent number: 11629911Abstract: Temperature-controllable container with vacuum insulation elements and with an interior space, which container comprises a wall with an opening for objects to be placed into the interior space, and a door element closing the opening, wherein transport elements are arranged on an outer surface of the container, which transport elements are designed to enable lifting by means of a transport vehicle, and wherein the container further comprises a temperature control unit which is designed so as to bring the interior space to a predetermined temperature T, wherein the temperature control unit comprises a heating/cooling unit operated via a solar energy device or a heating/cooling unit operated via a power supply network, and wherein a receptacle means for melt-storage elements or sample bodies is arranged in the interior space, which receptacle means is designed so as to position at least two melt-storage elements or sample bodies at a distance from each other.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2019Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: va-Q-tec AGInventors: Joachim Kuhn, Sebastian Schmidt, Thomas Taraschewski
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Patent number: 11325746Abstract: Pallet container 1 for the transport of temperature-sensitive products, which pallet container 1 comprises at least one side part 21, one bottom part 22, one top part 23 and one lid part 24, each having at least one vacuum insulation panel 3 disposed therein, and wherein the at least one side part 21, the bottom part 22 and the top part 23 comprise a common stop rim portion 4, at which stop rim portion 4 the lid part 24 comes to rest partially or fully circumferentially, characterized in that the pallet container 1 comprises at least one edge protection element 7 in order to distribute a load applied by a tensioning element 6.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2019Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: va-Q-tec AGInventors: Joachim Kuhn, Fabian Eschenbach, Lukas Kratsch, Lorenz Straub
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Patent number: 11204195Abstract: The invention relates to a method for preparing a transport container which has an accommodation space for goods to be transported, said accommodation space being insulated by external thermal insulation. At an equipment site, the accommodation space is equipped with preconditioned, main latent heat storage elements necessary for a target heat capacity. In addition to the preconditioned, main latent heat storage elements, the accommodation space is also equipped with further thermal energy storage elements, the auxiliary energy storage elements, which are preconditioned to a specified temperature. This means that a longer transfer time period can be allowed after equipping and before filling the accommodation space with the goods to be transported, such that, from the filling time, the full target time period within the desired target temperature range is available for transporting the goods to be transported.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2018Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: VA-Q-TEC AGInventors: Fabian Eschenbach, Joachim Kuhn, Thomas Taraschewski
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Publication number: 20210278120Abstract: The invention relates to a process for providing a transport container system with a container internal temperature within a target range. The transport container system has a container having a receiving space wherein the temperature in the receiving space of the container is the container internal temperature and at least two PCM elements which can be removed from the container and inserted into the container. All PCM elements have the same phase change material. At least one first PCM element is tempered outside the container in such a way that the phase change material of this first PCM element is in a completely solid state. At least one second PCM element is tempered outside the container in such a way that the phase change material of this second PCM element is in a completely liquid state. The tempered PCM elements are arranged in the container.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2019Publication date: September 9, 2021Inventors: Joachim KUHN, Fabian ESCHENBACH, Martin HEINEMANN, Thomas WOLLHEIM
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Publication number: 20210094750Abstract: Thermal-insulation container 1, comprising a bottom 26, side walls 21, 22, 23, 24 arranged on the bottom 26 and a lid 25 arranged on the side walls 21, 22, 23, 24, wherein the bottom 26, the side walls 21, 22, 23, 24 and the lid 25 completely enclose an interior space 3, and wherein the lid 25 has a heat transfer coefficient kD, the bottom 26 has a heat transfer coefficient kB, and each of the side walls 21, 22, 23, 24 has one of the heat transfer coefficients kS1, kS2, kS3 or kS4, and further kD<minimum [kS1, kS2, kS3, kS4, kB].Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Inventors: Joachim Kuhn, Sebastian Satzinger, Thomas Taraschewski
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Publication number: 20200378544Abstract: The invention relates to a vacuum insulation panel arrangement on a vacuum insulation panel having two mutually opposite outer faces and edges that connect these outer faces, and having a protective layer that surrounds the vacuum insulation panel tightly on all sides. The invention is characterized in that, in order to form the protective layer, the vacuum insulation panel is coated entirely with flexible synthetic foam.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2018Publication date: December 3, 2020Inventors: Tobias BOCK, Ivo NEMETZ, Joachim KUHN
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Patent number: 10766685Abstract: A box-type transport container has a box-type outer container with a base, four side walls and at least one lid. The lid is hinged on a side wall. Sheet-type vacuum insulation panels are arranged in the outer container to cover the surface of the side walls. At least one carrying opening, which can be gripped by hand in order to carry the transport box, is provided in each of two opposing, side walls. The material of the side wall is weakened above and to the side of the carrying opening, such that the material can be easily separated from the surrounding material of the side wall and together with the carrying opening can be folded out of the side wall. Alternatively, the vacuum insulation panels of the side wall are secured in their relative positions by at least one peripheral tensioning means.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2015Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: VA-Q-TEC AGInventors: Joachim Kuhn, Ines Wallaschek, Peter Bauer, Martin Heinemann, Thomas Taraschewski, Fabian Eschenbach
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Publication number: 20200141636Abstract: Temperature-controllable container with vacuum insulation elements and with an interior space, which container comprises a wall with an opening for objects to be placed into the interior space, and a door element closing the opening, wherein transport elements are arranged on an outer surface of the container, which transport elements are designed to enable lifting by means of a transport vehicle, and wherein the container further comprises a temperature control unit which is designed so as to bring the interior space to a predetermined temperature T, wherein the temperature control unit comprises a heating/cooling unit operated via a solar energy device or a heating/cooling unit operated via a power supply network, and wherein a receptacle means for melt-storage elements or sample bodies is arranged in the interior space, which receptacle means is designed so as to position at least two melt-storage elements or sample bodies at a distance from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2019Publication date: May 7, 2020Inventors: Joachim Kuhn, Sebastian Schmidt, Thomas Taraschewski
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Publication number: 20200115140Abstract: A vacuum insulation transport container for temperature-controlled transport of temperature-sensitive goods, such as foodstuffs, beverages, pharmaceutical products or medical products, includes a receptacle and a lid, wherein the receptacle has an outer upper rim portion, an inner upper rim portion and a middle upper rim portion disposed between the outer and inner upper edge portions, and wherein the outer upper rim portion at least one corner comprises an access portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2019Publication date: April 16, 2020Inventors: Joachim Kuhn, Kristina Kletzel
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Publication number: 20200049586Abstract: The invention relates to a method for checking the functional capability of the thermal insulation of a transport container, at least one vacuum insulation panel being installed in the thermal insulation of the transport container, which vacuum insulation panel consists of a porous core material of low thermal conductivity and a gas-tight casing, which surrounds the core material in a tightly contacting manner at very low internal pressure, and which vacuum insulation panel has a pressure sensor and a transponder connected to the pressure sensor within the casing, the transponder being controlled for checking by means of an external reading device from outside the thermal insulation and the response signal of the transponder being captured (read out) and the response signal being evaluated with respect to whether the internal pressure in the vacuum insulation panel is correctly low or incorrectly high.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2018Publication date: February 13, 2020Inventors: Fabian ESCHENBACH, Martin HEINEMANN, Thomas TARASCHEWSKI, Joachim KUHN
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Publication number: 20200039687Abstract: Pallet container 1 for the transport of temperature-sensitive products, which pallet container 1 comprises at least one side part 21, one bottom part 22, one top part 23 and one lid part 24, each having at least one vacuum insulation panel 3 disposed therein, and wherein the at least one side part 21, the bottom part 22 and the top part 23 comprise a common stop rim portion 4, at which stop rim portion 4 the lid part 24 comes to rest partially or fully circumferentially, characterized in that the pallet container 1 comprises at least one edge protection element 7 in order to distribute a load applied by a tensioning element 6.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2019Publication date: February 6, 2020Inventors: Joachim Kuhn, Fabian Eschenbach, Lukas Kratsch, Lorenz Straub
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Publication number: 20190383544Abstract: The invention relates to a method for preparing a transport container which has an accommodation space for goods to be transported, said accommodation space being insulated by external thermal insulation. At an equipment site, the accommodation space is equipped with preconditioned, main latent heat storage elements necessary for a target heat capacity. In addition to the preconditioned, main latent heat storage elements, the accommodation space is also equipped with further thermal energy storage elements, the auxiliary energy storage elements, which are preconditioned to a specified temperature. This means that a longer transfer time period can be allowed after equipping and before filling the accommodation space with the goods to be transported, such that, from the filling time, the full target time period within the desired target temperature range is available for transporting the goods to be transported.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 2, 2018Publication date: December 19, 2019Inventors: Fabian ESCHENBACH, Joachim KUHN, Thomas TARASCHEWSKI