Patents by Inventor Joerg Zimmermann

Joerg Zimmermann 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).

  • Publication number: 20250116339
    Abstract: A valve includes a body, an inlet configured to receive a pressurized gas, an outlet configured to receive the pressurized gas from the inlet, and a region configured to receive the pressurized gas from the inlet. The valve further includes a plug having a longitudinal axis and configured to be controllably moved within the body along the longitudinal axis. The plug is movable between a sealed position and at least one non-sealed position. The plug in the sealed position forms a first seal and a second seal with the body, the first seal between the inlet and the outlet and the second seal between the inlet and the region. The plug in the sealed position is biased towards the sealed position by the pressurized gas. The plug in the at least one non-sealed position is biased away from the sealed position by the pressurized gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventors: Cody John Pavel Esau, Joerg Zimmermann, James Hastings Wilkie, Nick Sirmas
  • Publication number: 20250044703
    Abstract: To measure an illumination angle distribution, which is established via a multiplicity of illumination channels of an illumination optics unit, on an object field via an obscured projection optics unit, a setpoint pupil lighting of an illumination pupil of the illumination optics unit is initially established. With the aid of the setpoint pupil lighting, whether splitting of a measurement pupil lighting into a reflection measurement pupil and a diffraction measurement pupil is desired is checked. Depending on the result of the check, a reflection measurement pupil lighting and/or a diffraction measurement pupil lighting of the illumination optics unit is established by establishing corresponding illumination channels. The reflection measurement pupil lighting is measured by inserting a reflective object into the object field and/or the diffraction measurement pupil lighting is measured by inserting a diffractive object into the object field. An actual pupil lighting is reconstructed from the measurement data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Robert BUSCHLINGER, Michael RAMOLLA, Joerg ZIMMERMANN
  • Publication number: 20240062919
    Abstract: A plasma compression system comprises a plasma containment vessel, an annular rotating core inside the vessel, and a plurality of compression drivers fixedly mounted to an outer surface of the vessel wall. The annular rotating core contains a liquid medium and is rotatable to circulate the liquid medium and form a liquid liner with a cavity. The rotating core comprises an outer surface spaced from an inner surface of the vessel wall to define an annular gap, and a plurality of implosion drivers each comprising a pusher bore with a pusher piston slideable therein. Each pusher bore extends through the rotating core. The plurality of compression drivers compresses a compression fluid in the annular gap and creates a pressure pulse, such that when the rotating core rotates and the liquid medium fills the pusher bores, the pusher pistons are operable to push the liquid medium inwards to collapse the liquid liner and compress a plasma in the cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Joerg ZIMMERMANN, Robert BOUCHAL, William Randolph SMITH, II
  • Patent number: 11711884
    Abstract: A plasma compression driver is connected to a plasma containment vessel containing a liquid medium that forms a liquid liner containing plasma, and comprises a pair of coaxially aligned pistons that are sequentially driven towards the liquid liner. A pusher bore containing a pusher piston is coaxial with and has a smaller diameter than a driver bore containing a driver piston such that an interconnecting annular face surface is defined at the junction of the driver and pusher bores. During the compression operation, a prime mover accelerates the driver piston towards the pusher piston and compresses a compression fluid, which accelerates the pusher piston and pushes the liquid medium in the pusher bore into the vessel, causing the liquid liner to collapse, and compressing the plasma. Outward forces on the vessel wall caused by compression driver recoil and increased vessel pressure is counteracted by an inward force applied by the compression fluid on the annular face surface during the compression operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: General Fusion Inc.
    Inventors: James Hastings Wilkie, Joerg Zimmermann, Martin Clifford Wight, Cody John Pavel Esau, Ivan Victorovich Khalzov
  • Publication number: 20230003205
    Abstract: A plasma compression driver is connected to a plasma containment vessel containing a liquid medium that forms a liquid liner containing plasma, and comprises a pair of coaxially aligned pistons that are sequentially driven towards the liquid liner. A pusher bore containing a pusher piston is coaxial with and has a smaller diameter than a driver bore containing a driver piston such that an interconnecting annular face surface is defined at the junction of the driver and pusher bores. During the compression operation, a prime mover accelerates the driver piston towards the pusher piston and compresses a compression fluid, which accelerates the pusher piston and pushes the liquid medium in the pusher bore into the vessel, causing the liquid liner to collapse, and compressing the plasma. Outward forces on the vessel wall caused by compression driver recoil and increased vessel pressure is counteracted by an inward force applied by the compression fluid on the annular face surface during the compression operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: James Hastings Wilkie, Joerg Zimmermann, Martin Clifford Wight, Cody John Pavel Esau, Ivan Victorovich Khalzov
  • Patent number: 11242089
    Abstract: A chassis for a passenger car includes two main longitudinal chassis beams which are connected to one another via a bumper cross member. A support arrangement extends between the two beams and is supported on a central tunnel. The support arrangement forms a load path in an event of a collision-related force being applied to the passenger car where above and/or below the support arrangement an installation space region is provided for accommodating a component or unit in need of protection. The support arrangement includes a strut which extends in a region of a center of the passenger car between the two beams and which forms a protective device which transmits impact forces forwards to the central tunnel. The strut has a first longitudinal section that is deformable in a targeted energy-absorbing manner and a second longitudinal section which functions as a rigid beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Michael Wirsing, Matthias Hildebrand, Andreas Freund, Peter Gere, Levent Aktay, Jan-Mark Opelka, Peter Kuemmerlen, Dietmar Kallfass, Jens Spremberg, Joerg Zimmermann, Dieter Edele, Steffen Dingfelder, Ralf Mehrholz, Marcus Hirzel, Bianca Oehm, Marie-Louise Hertfelder
  • Publication number: 20210308790
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for welding a zinc-coated motor vehicle component (1), in which a welding surface (3) of the zinc-coated motor vehicle component (1) is pretreated and a connecting element is subsequently welded on at the welding surface (3), wherein for the pretreatment the zinc layer (2) is deposited to a prescribed maximum layer thickness (6) in the region of the welding surface (3) by means of a laser device (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Clemens BERGMANN, Florian HOFBAUER, Joerg ZIMMERMANN
  • Publication number: 20210284241
    Abstract: A chassis for a passenger car includes two main longitudinal chassis beams which are connected to one another via a bumper cross member. A support arrangement extends between the two beams and is supported on a central tunnel. The support arrangement forms a load path in an event of a collision-related force being applied to the passenger car where above and/or below the support arrangement an installation space region is provided for accommodating a component or unit in need of protection. The support arrangement includes a strut which extends in a region of a center of the passenger car between the two beams and which forms a protective device which transmits impact forces forwards to the central tunnel. The strut has a first longitudinal section that is deformable in a targeted energy-absorbing manner and a second longitudinal section which functions as a rigid beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Michael WIRSING, Matthias HILDEBRAND, Andreas FREUND, Peter GERE, Levent AKTAY, Jan-Mark OPELKA, Peter KUEMMERLEN, Dietmar KALLFASS, Jens SPREMBERG, Joerg ZIMMERMANN, Dieter EDELE, Steffen DINGFELDER, Ralf MEHRHOLZ, Marcus HIRZEL, Bianca OEHM, Marie-Louise HERTFELDER
  • Patent number: 11064601
    Abstract: Examples of systems for imploding liquid liner are described. The imploding system comprises a vessel and a rotating member positioned within the vessel. The rotating member has a plurality of shaped blades that form a plurality of curved passages that have an inboard opening at an inner surface and an outboard end at an outer surface. The rotating member is at least partially filled with liquid medium. A driver is used to rotate the rotating member such that when the rotating member rotates the liquid medium is forced into the passages forming a liquid liner with an interface curved with respect to an axis of rotation and defining a cavity. The system further comprises an implosion driver that changes the rotational speed of the rotating member such that the liquid liner is imploded inwardly collapsing the cavity. The imploding liquid liner can be used in plasma compression systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Inventors: Joerg Zimmermann, David Franklin Plant, Robert Vlastimil Bouchal, Troy Nickolas Tyler, Victoria Suponitsky, Michael Harcourt Delage, Michel Georges Laberge, Malcolm Newton Williams
  • Patent number: 10976668
    Abstract: An illumination optical unit for EUV projection lithography serves for obliquely illuminating an illumination field, in which an object field of a downstream imaging catoptric optical unit and a reflective object to be imaged can be arranged. A pupil generating device of the illumination optical unit is embodied so that an illumination pupil results, which brings about a dependency of an imaging telecentricity against a structure variable of the object to be imaged. This dependency is such that a dependency of the imaging telecentricity against the structure variable of the object to be imaged on account of interaction of the oblique illumination with structures of the object to be imaged is at least partly compensated for. An optical system for EUV projection lithography also has an imaging catoptric optical unit alongside an illumination optical unit and can additionally have a wavefront manipulation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
    Inventor: Joerg Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 10798808
    Abstract: Examples of systems for forming cavity and a liquid liner are described. The system comprises a vessel and a rotating member positioned within the vessel and rotatable about an axis of rotation. The rotating member has an inner surface 5 curved with respect to the axis of rotation, an outer and plurality of fluid passages that each has an inboard opening at the inner surface and an outboard opening at the outer surface. The rotating member is filled with a liquid medium and a rotational driver rotates the rotating member such that when rotating the liquid medium at least partially fills the fluid passages forming liquid liner, defining the 10 cavity. The cavity formation system is used in a liquid liner implosion system with an implosion driver that causes the liquid liner to implode inwardly collapsing the cavity. The imploding liquid liner system can be used in plasma compression systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: General Fusion Inc.
    Inventors: Joerg Zimmermann, David Franklin Plant, Robert Vlastimil Bouchal, Troy Nickolas Tyler, Victoria Suponitsky, Michael Harcourt Delage, Michel Georges Laberge
  • Publication number: 20200245445
    Abstract: Examples of systems for forming cavity and a liquid liner are described. The system comprises a vessel and a rotating member positioned within the vessel and rotatable about an axis of rotation. The rotating member has an inner surface 5 curved with respect to the axis of rotation, an outer and plurality of fluid passages that each has an inboard opening at the inner surface and an outboard opening at the outer surface. The rotating member is filled with a liquid medium and a rotational driver rotates the rotating member such that when rotating the liquid medium at least partially fills the fluid passages forming liquid liner, defining the 10 cavity. The cavity formation system is used in a liquid liner implosion system with an implosion driver that causes the liquid liner to implode inwardly collapsing the cavity. The imploding liquid liner system can be used in plasma compression systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Joerg ZIMMERMANN, David Franklin PLANT, Robert Vlastimil BOUCHAL, Troy Nickolas TYLER, Victoria SUPONITSKY, Michael Harcourt DELAGE, Michel Georges LABERGE
  • Publication number: 20200236770
    Abstract: Examples of systems for imploding liquid liner are described. The imploding system comprises a vessel and a rotating member positioned within the vessel. The rotating member has a plurality of shaped blades that form a plurality of curved passages that have an inboard opening at an inner surface and an outboard end at an outer surface. The rotating member is at least partially filled with liquid medium. A driver is used to rotate the rotating member such that when the rotating member rotates the liquid medium is forced into the passages forming a liquid liner with an interface curved with respect to an axis of rotation and defining a cavity. The system further comprises an implosion driver that changes the rotational speed of the rotating member such that the liquid liner is imploded inwardly collapsing the cavity. The imploding liquid liner can be used in plasma compression systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Joerg ZIMMERMANN, David Franklin PLANT, Robert Vlastimil BOUCHAL, Troy Nikolas TYLER, Victoria SUPONITSKY, Michael Harcourt DELAGE, MIchel Georges LABERGE, Malcom Newton WILLIAMS
  • Publication number: 20200223754
    Abstract: A copolymer, in particular a dispersant for hydraulically setting binder compositions, including a specific dicarboxylic acid based subunit and a specific polyalkylene glycol based subunit wherein the molar ratio of the dicarboxylic acid based subunit to the polyalkylene glycol based subunit is from 1.5-4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Applicant: SIKA TECHNOLOGY AG
    Inventors: Yalei CHEN, Christina HAMPEL, Jianghong LIU, Joerg ZIMMERMANN
  • Publication number: 20200041911
    Abstract: An illumination optical unit for EUV projection lithography serves for obliquely illuminating an illumination field, in which an object field of a downstream imaging catoptric optical unit and a reflective object to be imaged can be arranged. A pupil generating device of the illumination optical unit is embodied so that an illumination pupil results, which brings about a dependency of an imaging telecentricity against a structure variable of the object to be imaged. This dependency is such that a dependency of the imaging telecentricity against the structure variable of the object to be imaged on account of interaction of the oblique illumination with structures of the object to be imaged is at least partly compensated for. An optical system for EUV projection lithography also has an imaging catoptric optical unit alongside an illumination optical unit and can additionally have a wavefront manipulation device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventor: Joerg Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 10394128
    Abstract: In a method for predicting at least one illumination parameter for evaluating an illumination setting for illuminating an object field of a projection exposure apparatus, illumination parameters are measured at a number of calibration settings, correction terms for prediction values of the illumination parameters are determined from the measured values, and then at least one illumination parameter of at least one illumination setting, which is not contained in the set of n calibration settings, is predicted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Gehrke, Christoph Hennerkes, Wolfgang Hoegele, Joerg Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 10283796
    Abstract: A complete fuel cell system (10) is disclosed. The fuel cell system (10) comprises at least two fuel precursors (16, 18) that react to create hydrogen. A solid fuel precursor (18) can be carried in disposable fuel cartridges (100). A passive pressure control system including a dose pump (22) and a pressure equalization system (24, 300, 504) is provided to dose a liquid fuel precursor (16) to the solid fuel precursor (18) in the fuel cartridge (100). The solid fuel precursor (18) may include larger metallic particles coated by another fine metallic particles such that multiple micro galvanic cells are formed on the surface of the larger metallic particles. The fuel cell system (10) may also include a gas buffer (40) that stores produced hydrogen that is unneeded by the fuel cell, a water trapping mechanism (604) and an electronic vent (46) that consumes unneeded hydrogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: INTELLIGEN ENERGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Gerard F. McLean, Laura Gill, Jean-Louis Iaconis, Jeremy Schrooten, Mikhail Gurin, Benjamin Tam, Sally Seaman, Joerg Zimmermann
  • Publication number: 20190004432
    Abstract: In a method for predicting at least one illumination parameter for evaluating an illumination setting for illuminating an object field of a projection exposure apparatus, illumination parameters are measured at a number of calibration settings, correction terms for prediction values of the illumination parameters are determined from the measured values, and then at least one illumination parameter of at least one illumination setting, which is not contained in the set of n calibration settings, is predicted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Ralf Gehrke, Christoph Hennerkes, Wolfgang Hoegele, Joerg Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 10078267
    Abstract: In a method for predicting at least one illumination parameter for evaluating an illumination setting for illuminating an object field of a projection exposure apparatus, illumination parameters are measured at a number of calibration settings, correction terms for prediction values of the illumination parameters are determined from the measured values, and then at least one illumination parameter of at least one illumination setting, which is not contained in the set of n calibration settings, is predicted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Gehrke, Christoph Hennerkes, Wolfgang Hoegele, Joerg Zimmermann
  • Publication number: 20180261854
    Abstract: A fuel cell system with planar manifold having at least one fuel cell assembly with a first side and a second side; a plurality of anodes on the first side; a plurality of cathodes on the second side; ion-conducting electrolyte between the first and second sides; a fluid manifold assembly fluidly connected to the first side. In the planar manifold a first barrier layer provides at least one inlet port in fluid communication with a hydrogen source, and at least one outlet port to remove any unreacted hydrogen and byproducts from the first side; a plurality of conduit layers, on at least one of which is disposed one or more channels fluidly connected to the at least one inlet port and one of which is fluidly connected to the at least one outlet port; and, a second barrier layer disposed above the plurality of conduit layers containing a plurality of perforations affixed to the first side to supply hydrogen gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Applicant: Intelligent Energy Limited
    Inventors: Jeremy SCHROOTEN, Paul SOBEJKO, Joerg ZIMMERMANN, Isabelle DEPATIE, Simon FOSTER, Christopher KIRK, Vincent FAUCHEUX