Patents by Inventor Jorg Hinrichs

Jorg Hinrichs 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: 10688206
    Abstract: A gas-permeable filter system for a sterile container includes a filter element and a seal portion that sealingly surrounds a gas exchange opening provided in a sterile container wall section in such a manner that the seal portion rests against the sterile container wall section so that a sterile flow path is formed through the gas exchange opening and the filter element. A temperature-sensitive adjusting section releases at least the seal portion from the sterile container wall section when a specified temperature is reached or exceeded such that a non-sterile flow path is formed which allows fluid to be supplied or discharged via the gas exchange opening while bypassing the filter element. The sterile container includes a base and walls that define a receiving space. The sterile container also includes a cover for closing the receiving space. At least one filter system is preferably secured to the sterile container base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: AESCULAP AG
    Inventors: Stefan Thomas, Wolfgang Sauter, Jörg Hinrich Timmermann
  • Patent number: 10548613
    Abstract: A medical shaft-type instrument includes an instrument head for applying clamps, the instrument head connectable via an instrument shaft to an instrument handle for actuating the instrument head. The instrument also includes a clip magazine having a housing, in which magazine a plurality of clamps are bunkered at a predetermined storage position spacing to each other according to the storage principle. All of the clamps can be moved forward by one storage position by a reciprocating transport and entraining rail within the scope of a single delivery stroke. The transport and entraining rail has one clamp entraining element per clamp. The relative distance of the individual clamp entraining elements differs from the respective storage position distances of the clamps in such a way that the entrainment of the bunkered clamps is carried out within the scope of one single delivery stroke in a clocked way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Aesculap AG
    Inventors: Thomas Scholten, Gunnar Wanke, Jörg Hinrich Timmermann, Michael Benk, Rainer Wursthorn
  • Patent number: 10507025
    Abstract: A medical shaft instrument includes an instrument head with at least one jaw member for applying clamps with two jaw member branches. The instrument head is connectable over an instrument shaft having an outer tube with a handle for actuation of the jaw member. A clip magazine includes a retaining rail for supporting clamps in a predetermined storage position distance from each other. All the clamps are advanceable by a forth and back movable conveying and advancing rail. The clamp closest to the instrument head is conveyable by a tongue into the jaw member between the jaw member branches. The retaining rail has a distally extending support plate or bridge, which covers a jaw member region of a jaw member branch on the other jaw member branch facing side such that a tipping of an advanced or advanceable clamp on the jaw member branch is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Aesculap AG
    Inventors: Thomas Scholten, Gunnar Wanke, Jörg Hinrich Timmermann, Michael Benk, Rainer Wursthorn
  • Publication number: 20190038788
    Abstract: A gas-permeable filter system for a sterile container includes a filter element and a seal portion that sealingly surrounds a gas exchange opening provided in a sterile container wall section in such a manner that the seal portion rests against the sterile container wall section so that a sterile flow path is formed through the gas exchange opening and the filter element. A temperature-sensitive adjusting section releases at least the seal portion from the sterile container wall section when a specified temperature is reached or exceeded such that a non-sterile flow path is formed which allows fluid to be supplied or discharged via the gas exchange opening while bypassing the filter element. The sterile container includes a base and walls that define a receiving space. The sterile container also includes a cover for closing the receiving space. At least one filter system is preferably secured to the sterile container base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: STEFAN THOMAS, WOLFGANG SAUTER, JÖRG HINRICH TIMMERMANN
  • Publication number: 20170056019
    Abstract: A medical shaft-type instrument includes an instrument head for applying clamps, the instrument head connectable via an instrument shaft to an instrument handle for actuating the instrument head. The instrument also includes a clip magazine having a housing, in which magazine a plurality of clamps are bunkered at a predetermined storage position spacing to each other according to the storage principle. All of the clamps can be moved forward by one storage position by a reciprocating transport and entraining rail within the scope of a single delivery stroke. The transport and entraining rail has one clamp entraining element per clamp. The relative distance of the individual clamp entraining elements differs from the respective storage position distances of the clamps in such a way that the entrainment of the bunkered clamps is carried out within the scope of one single delivery stroke in a clocked way.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Thomas Scholten, Gunnar Wanke, Jörg Hinrich Timmermann, Michael Benk, Rainer Wursthorn
  • Publication number: 20170049454
    Abstract: A medical shaft instrument includes an instrument head with at least one jaw member for applying clamps with two jaw member branches. The instrument head is connectable over an instrument shaft having an outer tube with a handle for actuation of the jaw member. A clip magazine includes a retaining rail for supporting clamps in a predetermined storage position distance from each other. All the clamps are advanceable by a forth and back movable conveying and advancing rail. The clamp closest to the instrument head is conveyable by a tongue into the jaw member between the jaw member branches. The retaining rail has a distally extending support plate or bridge, which covers a jaw member region of a jaw member branch on the other jaw member branch facing side such that a tipping of an advanced or advanceable clamp on the jaw member branch is prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Inventors: Thomas Scholten, Gunnar Wanke, Jörg Hinrich Timmermann, Michael Benk, Rainer Wursthorn
  • Patent number: 9023745
    Abstract: A photovoltaic cell, for example a thin-film photovoltaic cell, having a substrate glass made of aluminosilicate glass, has a glass composition which has SiO2 and Al2O3 as well as the alkali metal oxide Na2O and the alkaline earth oxides CaO, MgO, and BaO, and optionally further components. The glass composition includes 10 to 16 wt.-% Na2O, >0 to <5 wt.-% CaO, and >1 to 10 wt.-% BaO, and the ratio of CaO:MgO is in the range of 0.5 to 1.7. The aluminosilicate glass used is crystallization stable because of the selected quotient of CaO/MgO and has a transformation temperature >580° C. and a processing temperature <1200° C. Therefore, it represents a more thermally stable alternative to soda-lime glass. The aluminosilicate glass is used as a substrate glass, superstrate glass, and/or cover glass for a photovoltaic cells, for example for thin-film photovoltaic cells, in particular those based on semiconductor composite material, such as CdTe, CIS, or CIGS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Jörg Hinrich Fechner, Christof Kass, Franz Ott
  • Publication number: 20120318356
    Abstract: A photovoltaic cell, for example a thin-film photovoltaic cell, having a substrate glass made of aluminosilicate glass, has a glass composition which has SiO2 and Al2O3 as well as the alkaline oxide Na2O and the alkaline earth oxides CaO, MgO, and BaO, and optionally further components. The glass composition includes 10 to 16 wt.-% Na2O, >0 to <5 wt.-% CaO, and >1 to 10 wt.-% BaO, and the ratio of CaO:MgO is in the range of 0.5 to 1.7. The aluminosilicate glass used is crystallization stable because of the selected quotient of CaO/MgO and has a transformation temperature >580° C. and a processing temperature <1200° C. Therefore, it represents a more thermally stable alternative to soda-lime glass. The aluminosilicate glass is used as a substrate glass, superstrate glass, and/or cover glass for a photovoltaic cells, for example for thin-film photovoltaic cells, in particular those based on semiconductor composite material, such as CdTe, CIS, or CIGS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Inventors: Jörg Hinrich Fechner, Christof Kass, Franz Ott
  • Patent number: 8147970
    Abstract: The invention concerns an anti-scratch coating on a substrate, comprising one or several anti-scratch means and a pH buffer system which has in a watery solution a pH value ranging from neutral to highly alkaline, especially a pH value ranging between app. 7 and app. 12, preferably a pH value ranging from neutral to slightly alkaline, in particular a pH value ranging between app. 7 and app. 9. It is also the objective of the invention to produce and use the anti-scratch coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Folker Steden, Jorg Hinrich Fechner
  • Patent number: 8080490
    Abstract: The invention relates to an antimicrobial phosphate glass having the following composition in percent by weight on an oxide basis: P2O5>66-80 percent by weight; SO30-40 percent by weight; B203 0-1 percent by weight; Al2O3>6.2-10 percent by weight; SiO2 0-10 percent by weight; Na2O>9-20 percent by weight; CaO 0-25 percent by weight; MgO 0-15 percent by weight; SrO 0-15 percent by weight; BaO 0-15 percent by weight; ZnO>0-25 percent by weight; Ag2O 0-5 percent by weight; CuO 0-10 percent by weight; GeO2 0-10 percent by weight; TeO2 0-15 percent by weight; Cr2O3 0-10 percent by weight; J 0-10 percent by weight; F 0-3 percent by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Jörg Hinrich Fechner, José Zimmer, Karine Seneschal
  • Patent number: 7709027
    Abstract: The invention relates to an anti-inflammatory, wound-healing glass powder, whereby the glass of the glass powder comprises the following components: 20-80 wt. % SiO2, 0-40 wt. % Na2O, 0-40 wt. % K2O, 0-40 wt. % Li2O, 0-40 wt. % CaO, 0-40 wt. % MgO, 0-40 wt. % Al2O3, 0-1 wt. % P2O5, 0-40 wt. % B2O3 and 0-10 wt. % ZnO.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Jörg Hinrich Fechner, José Zimmer
  • Patent number: 7704903
    Abstract: The invention provides an antimicrobial phosphate glass composition including, in weight percent based on oxide: greater than 45 to 90 of P2O5, 0 to 60 of B2O3, 0 to 40 of SiO2, 0 to 20 weight percent of Al2O3, 0 to 30 of SO3, 0 to 0.1 of Li2O, 0 to 0.1 of Na2O, 0 to 0.1 of K2O, 0 to 40 of CaO, 0 to 40 of MgO, 0 to 15 of SrO, 0 to 40 of BaO, 0 to 40 of ZnO, 0 to 5 of Ag2O, 0 to 15 of CuO, 0 to 10 of Cr2O3, 0 to 10 of I—, 0 to 10 of TeO2, 0 to 10 of GeO2, 0 to 10 of TiO2, 0 to 10 of ZrO2, 0 to 10 of La2O3, 0 to 5 of Nb2O3, 0 to 5 of CeO2, 0 to 5 of Fe2O3, 0 to 5 of WO3, 0 to 5 of Bi2O3, and 0 to 5 of MoO3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Karine Seneschal, José Zimmer, Jörg Hinrich Fechner, Bianca Schreder
  • Publication number: 20090202841
    Abstract: The invention concerns an anti-scratch coating on a substrate, comprising one or several anti-scratch means and a pH buffer system which has in a watery solution a pH value ranging from neutral to highly alkaline, especially a pH value ranging between app. 7 and app. 12, preferably a pH value ranging from neutral to slightly alkaline, in particular a pH value ranging between app. 7 and app. 9. It is also the objective of the invention to produce and use the anti-scratch coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Applicant: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Folker Steden, Jorg Hinrich Fechner
  • Publication number: 20090039758
    Abstract: An adhesive agent for fluorescent dyes for adhering a fluorescent layer on a substrate, wherein the adhesive agent contains or consists of a glass composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2008
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Applicant: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Jorg Hinrich Fechner, Franz Ott
  • Patent number: 7439676
    Abstract: A cold cathode fluorescent lamp (1) has feedthrough pins (5) made from molybdenum or a molybdenum alloy that form a glass-metal seal (6) with a glass composed of 55-75 wt. % SiO2, 13-25 wt. % B2O3, 0-10 wt. % Al2O3, 5-12 wt. % alkali oxides, 0-3 wt. % alkali earth oxides, 0-5 wt. % ZrO2, 0-10 wt. % TiO2 und 0-5 wt. % remaining oxides. The lamp has hollow cathodes (4) made from a material of the group molybdenum, molybdenum alloys, niobium, niobium alloys, and the lamp is manufactured in a compact form using conventional manufacturing parameters, and the resulting lamp has crack free, long-term vacuum-tight glass-metal seals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2008
    Assignees: Plansee SE, Schott AG
    Inventors: Herman Walser, Wolfram Knabl, Gerhard Leichtfried, Jörg Hinrich Fechner, Franz Ott, Ralf Diezel, Brigitte Hueber
  • Publication number: 20080153068
    Abstract: The invention relates to a use of glass compositions having an antimicrobial and/or disinfectant effect in materials used for restoring teeth, excluding implants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2006
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Applicant: Schott AG
    Inventors: Susanne Kessler, Jorg Hinrich Fechner, Karine Seneschal, Jose Zimmer
  • Publication number: 20080063728
    Abstract: The invention relates to a water-insoluble silicate glass powder, wherein the silicate glass powder exhibits glass particles with the following composition in percentage by weight on an oxide basis: SiO2 20-80 Na2O ?5-30 K2O 0-5 P2O5 ?0-15 B2O3 ?0-10 CaO ?4-30 MgO 0-8 Al2O3 0-7 Fe2O3 0-2 as well as conventional fining agents in conventional quantities. The invention is characterized in that the glass particles contain at least one of the following components ZnO AgO CuO CeO2 GeO2 TeO2 wherein these components are concentrated in the regions of the glass particles that are near the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Publication date: March 13, 2008
    Applicant: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Jorg Hinrich Fechner, Jose Zimmer, Bernd Drapp, Frank Thoma
  • Publication number: 20080050467
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition and a method of preparing cheese products with a suitable moisture level. The cheese products that have been formed using the composition are characterised with an improve at least one of aroma, flavour, mildness, consistency, texture, syneresis, body, mouth feel, firmness, viscosity, gel fracture, wheying off, structure and/or organoleptic properties, nutrition and/or health benefits. In particular, the present invention provides a composition comprising a starter acidification micro-organism and an EPS fermentation culture comprising a viable micro-organism an enzyme produced by said micro-organism and an exopolysaccharide (EPS) produced by the activity of said enzyme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2005
    Publication date: February 28, 2008
    Applicant: Danisco A/S
    Inventors: Ralf-Christian Schlothauer, Inez Rademacher, Hans-Uwe Petersen, Jorg Hinrichs, Soren Kristian Lillevang
  • Patent number: 7192602
    Abstract: The invention relates to an antimicrobial silicate glass with the following weight composition in wt. % based on oxides: SiO2 20 to 70, Na2O 5 to 30, K2O 0 to 5, P2O5 1 to 15, B2O3 0 to 10, CaO 4 to 30, AgO 0 to 2, ZnO 0 to 8, CuO 0 to 5, MgO 0 to 8, Al2O3 0 to 7, CeO2 0 to 5, Fe2O3 0 to 2 whereby the sum of the components AgO, CuO, CeO2 is >10 ppm, preferably ?100 ppm and <8 wt. %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Jörg Hinrich Fechner, José Zimmer
  • Patent number: 7166549
    Abstract: The invention relates to an antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory and disinfecting glass, whereby the glass comprises: 30–95 wt. % SiO2,0–40 wt. % Na 2O, 0–40 wt. % K2O, 0–40 wt. % Li2O, 0–35 wt. % CaO, 0–10 wt. % MgO, 0–10 wt. % Al2O3, 0–15 wt. % P2O5 wt. % B2O3?, 0–10 wt. % NaF, 0–10 wt. % LiF, 0–10 wt. % KF, 0–10 wt. % CaF2, 0–5 wt. % Ag2O, 0–10 wt. % MgF2,0–2 wt. % Fe2O3and 0–10 wt. % XJy, where X?Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Ag or Zn and y=1 or y=2 and the sum of XJy> is 10 ppm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2007
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Jorg Hinrich Fechner, José Zimmer