Patents by Inventor Johann Ertl

Johann Ertl 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).

  • Patent number: 9110119
    Abstract: An electric current measurement method is provided with: a first controlling process of sweeping a sensing current in a negative magnetization direction in a condition that a core is saturated magnetically in a positive magnetization direction; a second controlling process of sweeping the sensing current in the positive magnetization direction in a condition that the core is saturated magnetically in the negative magnetization direction; a first specifying process of specifying a value of the sensing current if the core is demagnetized in the first controlling process; a second specifying process of specifying a value of the sensing current if the core is demagnetized in the second controlling process; and a calculating process of calculating a value of a target electric current on the basis of the specified current values, the first and second controlling processes being performed repeatedly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
    Inventors: Satoru Sasaki, Hideki Tojima, Johann Kolar, Benjamin Wrzecionko, Lukas Steinmann, Johann Ertl
  • Publication number: 20130278252
    Abstract: An electric current measurement method is provided with: a first controlling process of sweeping a sensing current in a negative magnetization direction in a condition that a core is saturated magnetically in a positive magnetization direction; a second controlling process of sweeping the sensing current in the positive magnetization direction in a condition that the core is saturated magnetically in the negative magnetization direction; a first specifying process of specifying a value of the sensing current if the core is demagnetized in the first controlling process; a second specifying process of specifying a value of the sensing current if the core is demagnetized in the second controlling process; and a calculating process of calculating a value of a target electric current on the basis of the specified current values, the first and second controlling processes being performed repeatedly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicants: SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ZURICH, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoru SASAKI, Hideki TOJIMA, Johann KOLAR, Benjamin WRZECIONKO, Lukas STEINMANN, Johann ERTL
  • Patent number: 7202059
    Abstract: Fusion protein including a fusion part and a protein of interest, the combination of the two proteins leading to the fusion protein being secreted into a supernatant of a bacterial host with the protein of interest being present in its correct three-dimensional structure. Nucleic acid including a sequence coding for a fusion protein, the sequence including: —F—Asm—Rn—Y—, where F is a nucleic acid sequence coding for an amino acid sequence which allows secretion of a protein encoded by Y into a fermentation medium, As is a chemical bond or a nucleic acid sequence comprising a codon, m is an integer from 0–10, R is a chemical bond or an arginine codon, n is 0 or 1, and Y is a nucleic acid sequence coding for a protein of interest. Processes therefor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignees: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH, Wacker-Chemie GmbH
    Inventors: Paul Habermann, Johann Ertl
  • Patent number: 6693813
    Abstract: Three phase input voltage systems and three phase output voltage systems connected between a first rail and a second rail. Each of the three phase input voltage system includes an interruptible power transistor. Two series connected reverse diodes are connected in parallel with the interruptible power transistor. The phase input voltage system is connected with a node of the series connected reverse diodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Johann Walter Kolar, Johann Ertl
  • Patent number: 6686177
    Abstract: The invention relates to insulin analogs exhibiting enhanced zinc binding capacity and to stable zinc complexes thereof having a retarded activity in comparison with human insulin. The invention further relates to a method for the production of said insulin analogs and to their use, particularly in pharmaceutical preparations for therapy of type I and type II diabetes mellitus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2004
    Assignee: Aventis Pharma Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Johann Ertl, Paul Habermann, Karl Geisen, Gerhard Seipke, Axel Wollmer
  • Patent number: 6534288
    Abstract: The invention relates to a precursor of human insulin or of an insulin analog of the formula I: Fus-B(1-30)-RDVP-Yn-A(1-21)  (I); wherein Fus is an optionally present fusion portion; B(1-30) is a B chain of human insulin, Y is an amino acid chain which terminates with a basic amino acid at the C terminus; n is from 2 to 50 and indicates the length of the amino acid chain Y; and A(1-21) is an A chain of human insulin, and the A chain and/or the B chain can be modified by amino acid substitution, deletions and/or additions. The present invention also provides DNA coding for the above precursors, preparation and use of the instant precursors and DNA, and a process for preparing human insulin or an insulin analog.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2003
    Assignee: Aventis Pharma Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Paul Habermann, Johann Ertl, Johannes Meiwes, Gerhard Seipke
  • Publication number: 20030044906
    Abstract: Fusion protein including a fusion part and a protein of interest, the combination of the two proteins leading to the fusion protein being secreted into a supernatant of a bacterial host with the protein of interest being present in its correct three-dimensional structure. Nucleic acid including a sequence coding for a fusion protein, the sequence including: —F—Asm—Rn—Y—, where F is a nucleic acid sequence coding for an amino acid sequence which allows secretion of a protein encoded by Y into a fermentation medium, As is a chemical bond or a nucleic acid sequence comprising a codon, m is an integer from 0-10, R is a chemical bond or an arginine codon, n is 0 or 1, and Y is a nucleic acid sequence coding for a protein of interest. Processes therefor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2002
    Publication date: March 6, 2003
    Inventors: Paul Habermann, Johann Ertl
  • Publication number: 20030021126
    Abstract: Includes three phase input voltage systems and three phase output voltage systems connected between a first rail and a second rail. Each of the phase input voltage system includes an interruptible power transistor. Two series connected reverse diodes are connected in parallel with the interruptible power transistor. The phase input voltage system is connected with a node of the series connected reverse diodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Johann Walter Kolar, Johann Ertl
  • Patent number: 6399745
    Abstract: The invention relates to pharmaceutical agents containing leptin antagonists for treating Type II diabetes. One leptin antagonist is based on a murine leptin fragment and comprises amino acids 116 to 167 or 116 to 166. Methods of treating Type II diabetes are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2002
    Assignee: Aventis Pharma Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Johann Ertl, Gerald Preibisch, Günter Müller
  • Patent number: 6221633
    Abstract: The present invention relates to insulin derivatives which in comparison to human insulin, have an accelerated onset of action, to a process for their preparation and to their use, in particular in pharmaceutical preparations for the treatment of diabetes mellitus. In particular, the present invention relates to insulin derivatives or physiologically tolerable salts thereof in which asparagine (Asn) in position B3 of the B chain is replaced by a naturally occurring basic amino acid residue and at least one amino acid residue in the positions B27, B28 or B29 of the B chain is replaced by another naturally occurring amino acid residue, it optionally being possible for asparagine (Asn) in position 21 of the A chain to be replaced by Asp, Gly, Ser, Thr or Ala and for phenylalanine (Phe) in position B1 of the B chain and the amino acid residue in position B30 of the B chain to be absent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Assignee: Aventis Pharma Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Johann Ertl, Paul Habermann, Karl Geisen, Gerhard Seipke
  • Patent number: 6221837
    Abstract: Insulin derivatives with increased zinc binding where Z is a histidine residue or a peptide having 2 to 35 genetically encodable amino acid residues, having 1 to 5 histidine residues, are suitable for the production of pharmaceutical preparations for the treatment of diabetes. Insulins of the formula I form complexes with zinc++, comprising an insulin hexamer and approximately 5 to 9 mol of zinc++ per hexamer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Assignee: Aventis Pharma Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Johann Ertl, Paul Habermann, Karl Geisen, Gerhard Seipke