Patents by Inventor Jorg Werner
Jorg Werner 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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Publication number: 20240043311Abstract: A method for producing a preform of an anti-resonant hollow-core fiber, comprising the method steps of a) providing a cladding tube, which has a cladding tube inner bore and a cladding tube longitudinal axis, along which a cladding tube wall extends, which is limited by an inner side and an outer side b) preparing a number of anti-resonance element preforms, which consist of several nested tubular structural elements, comprising an ARE outer tube and an ARE inner tube inserted therein, wherein the structural elements have a structural element longitudinal axis, c) arranging the anti-resonance element preforms on the inner side of the cladding tube wall, and d) thermal fixing of the anti-resonance element preforms to the cladding tube wall by means of heat input.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2021Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Manuel ROSENBERGER, Yusuf TANSEL, Jaqueline PLASS, Jörg WERNER
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Patent number: 11571682Abstract: A SCR catalyst composition comprises a SCR catalyst; and a binder comprising a porous inorganic material, wherein the porous inorganic material comprises a disordered arrangement of delaminated layers, has a disordered porous structure, and has a multimodal pore size distribution comprising at least a first modal maximum having a macroporous or mesoporous pore size and a second modal maximum having a microporous pore size. The SCR catalyst composition can be manufactured using the method comprising the steps of: (i) providing an inorganic material having a layered structure; (ii) contacting the material with a cationic surfactant to form a swollen material; (iii) agitating the swollen material to form an agitated material; and (iv) calcining the agitated material to recover a delaminated inorganic material, wherein an SCR catalyst is mixed with the inorganic material prior to step (iv).Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2020Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Inventors: Jürgen Bauer, Ralf Dotzel, Jörg Werner Muench, Ralitsa Purova, Wilhelm Schwieger, Thangaraj Selvam, Ameen Shahid
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Patent number: 10457879Abstract: A quenching chamber of an entrained-flow gasifier that gasifies fuels at temperatures of up to 1,800° C. and pressures of up to 10 MPa, wherein an annular chamber through which cooling water flows is formed between the pressure-bearing tank and the inner jacket. The overflow water is discharged from the annular chamber (skirt water) into the quenching chamber via the sleeve of a quenching lance, wherein blocking by the spray cone of the spray nozzle is prevented. The cooling water from the annular chamber is used in addition to the quenching water from the spray nozzle to cool and clean the raw gas in the quenching chamber.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2016Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Frank Hannemann, Tino Just, Friedemann Mehlhose, Jörg Werner
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Patent number: 10281389Abstract: A measuring cell includes a cavity for receiving a test sample to be used in a particle detection apparatus. The measuring cell is configured as an optical waveguide for guiding a light beam. The waveguide has a core which has a refractive index nK, extends along a longitudinal axis of the waveguide, has a cross-sectional area AK of less than 80 ?m2 in a cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, and which is surrounded by a cladding having a smaller refractive index than nK. The cavity forms a channel. The channel extends along the longitudinal axis, is formed inside of or in contact with the core, and has at least one open end with an opening area AH of less than 0.2 ?m2.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2015Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: Heraeus Quarzglas GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Stefan Weidlich, Clemens Schmitt, Jörg Werner, Markus Schmidt, Jens Kobelke
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Patent number: 10137433Abstract: A catalyst with a porous, ceramic support body having a porosity which is formed by pores in at least a part of the ceramic support body, and which furthermore has a catalytically active washcoat coating applied to the ceramic support body, which catalytically active washcoat coating having a layer thickness, comprises a permanent catalytically inactive impregnation comprising at least one catalytically inactive inorganic component, and wherein the permanent inactive impregnation has a layer thickness and is present at least partially between a surface of the porous ceramic support body and the catalytically active washcoat coating is present in the pores of the ceramic support body in a region with reduced porosity underneath the surface of the ceramic support body.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2016Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: JOHNSON MATTHEY CATALYSTS (GERMANY) GMBHInventors: Rainer Leppelt, Jõrg Werner Münch, Dominic Santi
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Publication number: 20180237708Abstract: A quenching chamber of an entrained-flow gasifier that gasifies fuels at temperatures of up to 1,800° C. and pressures of up to 10 MPa, wherein an annular chamber through which cooling water flows is formed between the pressure-bearing tank and the inner jacket. The overflow water is discharged from the annular chamber (skirt water) into the quenching chamber via the sleeve of a quenching lance, wherein blocking by the spray cone of the spray nozzle is prevented. The cooling water from the annular chamber is used in addition to the quenching water from the spray nozzle to cool and clean the raw gas in the quenching chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2016Publication date: August 23, 2018Applicant: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Frank Hannemann, Tino Just, Friedemann Mehlhose, Jörg Werner
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Patent number: 9987619Abstract: A filter incorporates a catalyst for the Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) of NOx gases and removal of particulate matter from the exhaust gas of a lean burn combustion engine, wherein the catalyst includes a vanadate component having an alkaline earth metal, a transition metal, a rare earth metal, or combinations thereof. The vanadate component may be iron vanadate. The filter includes a supported vanadate component disposed on a wall-flow filter. The method of making the filter includes applying an aqueous mixture of the supported vanadate component as a washcoat on the wall-flow filter or extruding a composition containing the supported vanadate component. The method of treating exhaust gases from an engine includes contacting the exhaust gas with the catalyst including the vanadate component.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2013Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: Johnson Matthey Public Limited CompanyInventors: Kaneshalingam Arulraj, Ralf Dotzel, Rainer Leppelt, Jorg Werner Muench, Alexandra Tsami Goodwin, Gudmund Smedler
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Publication number: 20170318833Abstract: An aerated confection is disclosed. The aerated confection comprising as an emulsifier polyglycerol ester (PGE) which is present at an air-water interface of air cells in the aerated confection. A method for the manufacture of the aerated confection is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2015Publication date: November 9, 2017Inventors: Corina Curschellas, Zeynel Deniz Gunes, Cecile Gehin-Delval, Helene Deyber, Hans Jorg Werner Limbach
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Publication number: 20170261423Abstract: A measuring cell includes a cavity for receiving a test sample to be used in a particle detection apparatus. The measuring cell is configured as an optical waveguide for guiding a light beam. The waveguide has a core which has a refractive index nK, extends along a longitudinal axis of the waveguide, has a cross-sectional area AK of less than 80 ?m2 in a cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, and which is surrounded by a cladding having a smaller refractive index than nK. The cavity forms a channel. The channel extends along the longitudinal axis, is formed inside of or in contact with the core, and has at least one open end with an opening area AH of less than 0.2 ?m2.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2015Publication date: September 14, 2017Inventors: Stefan WEIDLICH, Clemens SCHMITT, Jörg WERNER, Markus SCHMIDT, Jens KOBELKE
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Publication number: 20170209849Abstract: A catalyst with a porous, ceramic support body having a porosity which is formed by pores in at least a part of the ceramic support body, and which furthermore has a catalytically active washcoat coating applied to the ceramic support body, which catalytically active washcoat coating having a layer thickness, comprises a permanent catalytically inactive impregnation comprising at least one catalytically inactive inorganic component, and wherein the permanent inactive impregnation has a layer thickness and is present at least partially between a surface of the porous ceramic support body and the catalytically active washcoat coating is present in the pores of the ceramic support body in a region with reduced porosity underneath the surface of the ceramic support body.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2016Publication date: July 27, 2017Inventors: Rainer Leppelt, Jõrg Werner Münch, Dominic Santi
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Patent number: 9550182Abstract: An SCR-active zeolite catalyst and a method for producing same. To produce the catalyst, an Fe ion-exchanged zeolite is initially subjected to a first temperature treatment within a range of 300 to 600° C. in a reducing hydrocarbon atmosphere such that the oxidation state of the Fe ions decreases and/or the dispersity of the Fe ions on the zeolite increases, whereupon the reduced zeolite is subjected to a second temperature treatment within a range of 300 to 600° C. in an oxidizing atmosphere such that hydrocarbon residues or carbon residues are oxidatively removed, the zeolite being calcined to obtain a catalyst material during the two temperature treatments. Iron contained in the zeolite is stabilized in an oxidation state of less than +3 and/or the dispersity of the Fe ions on the zeolite is permanently increased such that a high SCR activity is achieved within a temperature range of less than 300° C.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2010Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: Johnson Matthey Catalysts (Germany) GMBHInventors: Jorg Werner Munch, Ralf Dotzel
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Patent number: 9377785Abstract: A device for the reliable measurement and control of the filling level in the quencher sump of a quenching chamber arranged downstream of the gasifying chamber is provided. The device has a differential-pressure transmitter. The measuring location recording the pressure of the gas chamber is flushed with inert gas. The device unproblematically senses the pressures in the quenching chamber and at the bottom of the quencher sump. The difference between which is used as a controlled variable for the filling level.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2013Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Norbert Fischer, Frank Hannemann, Tino Just, Friedemann Mehlhose, Jörg Werner
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Patent number: 9283519Abstract: A wall-flow filter for filtering particulate matter from a flowing exhaust gas comprises a catalyst for catalyzing both the conversion of solid carbon in the particulate matter by oxygen and the selective reduction of oxides of nitrogen in the exhaust gas with a nitrogenous reductant, which catalyst comprising optionally stabilized ceria and at least one metal selected from (i) tungsten and (ii) both tungsten and iron.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2011Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: Johnson Matthey Public Limited CompanyInventors: Jillian Elaine Collier, Ralf Dotzel, Sylvie Cécile Laroze, Rainer Leppelt, Paul James Millington, Jörg Werner Münch, Raj Rao Rajaram, Hubert Schedel
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Publication number: 20160040576Abstract: An extruded honeycomb catalyst for nitrogen oxide reduction according to the selective catalytic reduction (SCR) method in exhaust gases from motor vehicles includes an extruded active carrier in honeycomb form having a first SCR catalytically active component and with a plurality of channels through which the exhaust gas flows during operation, and a washcoat coating having a second SCR catalytically active component being applied to the extruded body, wherein the first SCR catalytically active component and the second SCR catalytically active component are each independently one of: (i) vanadium catalyst with vanadium as catalytically active component; (ii) mixed-oxide catalyst with one or more oxides, in particular those of transition metals or lanthanides as catalytically active component; and (iii) an Fe- or a Cu-zeolite catalyst.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2015Publication date: February 11, 2016Applicant: Johnson Matthey Public Limited CompanyInventors: Guy Richard Chandler, Neil Robert Collins, Ralf Dotzel, Jörg Werner Münch, Paul Richard Phillips, Gudmund Smedler, Andrew Peter Walker
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Patent number: 9138731Abstract: An extruded honeycomb catalyst for nitrogen oxide reduction according to the selective catalytic reduction (SCR) method in exhaust gases from motor vehicles includes an extruded active carrier in honeycomb form having a first SCR catalytically active component and with a plurality of channels through which the exhaust gas flows during operation, and a washcoat coating having a second SCR catalytically active component being applied to the extruded body, wherein the first SCR catalytically active component and the second SCR catalytically active component are each independently one of: (i) vanadium catalyst with vanadium as catalytically active component; (ii) mixed-oxide catalyst with one or more oxides, in particular those of transition metals or lanthanides as catalytically active component; and (iii) an Fe- or a Cu-zeolite catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2012Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: JOHNSON MATTHEY PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANYInventors: Guy Richard Chandler, Neil Robert Collins, Ralf Dotzel, Jörg Werner Münch, Paul Richard Phillips, Gudmund Smedler, Andrew Peter Walker
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Publication number: 20150190787Abstract: A filter incorporates a catalyst for the Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) of NOx gases and removal of particulate matter from the exhaust gas of a lean burn combustion engine, wherein the catalyst includes a vanadate component having an alkaline earth metal, a transition metal, a rare earth metal, or combinations thereof. The vanadate component may be iron vanadate. The filter includes a supported vanadate component disposed on a wall-flow filter. The method of making the filter includes applying an aqueous mixture of the supported vanadate component as a washcoat on the wall-flow filter or extruding a composition containing the supported vanadate component. The method of treating exhaust gases from an engine includes contacting the exhaust gas with the catalyst including the vanadate component.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2013Publication date: July 9, 2015Inventors: Kaneshalingam Arulraj, Ralf Dotzel, Rainer Leppelt, Jorg Werner Muench, Alexandra Tsami Goodwin, Gudmund Smedler
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Patent number: 9040003Abstract: A three way catalyst includes an extruded solid body having by weight: 10-100% of at least one binder/matrix component; 5-90% of a zeolitic molecular sieve, a non-zeolitic molecular sieve or a mixture of any two or more thereof; and 0-80% optionally stabilised ceria. The catalyst also includes at least one precious metal and optionally at least one non-precious metal, wherein: (i) the at least one precious metal is carried in one or more coating layer(s) on the body surface; (ii) at least one metal is present throughout the body and at least one precious metal is carried in one or more coating layer(s) on a body surface; or (iii) at least one metal is present throughout the body, is present in a higher concentration at a body surface, and at least one precious metal is carried in one or more coating layer(s) on the body surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2013Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: Johnson Matthey Public Limited CompanyInventors: Paul Joseph Andersen, Ralf Dotzel, Kwangmo Koo, Rainer Leppelt, Jörg Werner Münch, Jeffery Scott Rieck, Hubert Schedel, Duncan John William Winterborn, Todd Howard Ballinger, Julian Peter Cox
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Publication number: 20140370173Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for improving the heat shock resistance of frozen confections which comprises adding protein aggregates in the form of fibrils to a homogenized and pasteurized mix for frozen confection, before freezing the mix.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2012Publication date: December 18, 2014Inventors: Zeynel Deniz Gunes, Jin-Mi Jung, Hans Jörg Werner Limbach, Christophe Joseph Etienne Schmitt, Cédric Dubois
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Publication number: 20140335255Abstract: The present invention relates to aerated food products with enhanced foam stability comprising aggregated proteins in the form of mixtures of fibrils together with at least one other type or structure of aggregates such as worm-like aggregates and/or spherical like aggregates.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2012Publication date: November 13, 2014Inventors: Jin-Mi Jung, Christophe Joseph Etienne Schmitt, Zeynel Deniz Gunes, Cecile Gehin-Delval, Hans Jorg Werner Limbach
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Patent number: 8815190Abstract: A wall-flow filter comprises a catalyst for converting oxides of nitrogen in the presence of a reducing agent, which wall-flow filter comprising an extruded solid body comprising: 10-95% by weight of at least one binder/matrix component; 5-90% by weight of a zeolitic molecular sieve, a non-zeolitic molecular sieve or a mixture of any two or more thereof; and 0-80% by weight optionally stabilized ceria, which catalyst comprising at least one metal, wherein: the at least one metal is present throughout the extruded solid body alone or in combination with: is also present in a higher concentration at a surface of the extruded solid body; is also carried in one or more coating layer(s) on a surface of the extruded solid body; or both.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2013Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: Johnson Matthey Public Limited CompanyInventors: Ralf Dotzel, Rainer Leppelt, Jörg Werner Münch, Hubert Schedel