Patents by Inventor Jorge dos Santos
Jorge dos Santos 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: 20100256193Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compositions and pharmaceutical formulations comprising at least one active pharmaceutical ingredient chosen from nitrocatechol derivatives of formula I as defined herein and salts, esters, hydrates, solvates and derivatives thereof and methods of making said compositions and pharmaceutical formulations.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2010Publication date: October 7, 2010Applicant: BIAL - Portela & Ca, S.A.Inventors: Teófilo Cardoso de Vasconcelos, Ricardo Jorge dos Santos Lima, Rui Cerdeira de Campos Costa
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Publication number: 20100256194Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compositions and pharmaceutical formulations comprising at least one active pharmaceutical ingredient chosen from nitrocatechol derivatives of formula I as defined herein and salts, esters, hydrates, solvates and other derivatives thereof and methods of making the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2010Publication date: October 7, 2010Applicant: BIAL - Portela & Ca, S.A.Inventors: Teófilo Cardoso de Vasconcelos, Ricardo Jorge dos Santos Lima, Pedro Miguel da Costa Barrocas, Ligia Sofia de Castro Pereira, Rui Cerdeira de Campos Costa
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Patent number: 7588178Abstract: The disclosed method & apparatus are for forming a fluid connection or tap through the wall of a pipeline, particularly intended for “hot tapping” of subsea pipelines. The method comprises fitting a connecting piece having a mounting surface which extends around the tap location and at least partially over the tap location and a connecting wall (2h) which surrounds the tap location to provide an opening adapted for subsequent connection of a conduit to complete a fluid connection. The connecting piece is bonded to the pipeline by friction stitch welding performed inside said opening. The material at the tap location is removed (AC indicates after cutting) to define an aperture and provide said fluid connection surrounded closely by the weld between the connecting piece and the wall.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2001Date of Patent: September 15, 2009Assignee: Acergy UK LimitedInventors: Olav Vennemann, Axel Meyer, F. Jorge Dos Santos
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Publication number: 20090159643Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the joining of tube plates (10) and tubes (11) in a tube bundle heat transfer device with the help of a rotating friction tool. Here, the friction tool is rotatingly moved into the open end of a tube (11) surrounded by the tube plate (10) in the axial direction of said tube and pressed against the face of the tube (11) in the manner that the tube end (12) and the region of the tube plate (10) surrounding the tube end are plasticised and merge into a weld joint.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2008Publication date: June 25, 2009Inventors: Georg WIMMER, Arne Roos, Jorge Dos Santos
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Publication number: 20090110722Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition comprising licarbazepine acetate, especially eslicarbazepine acetate, in combination with suitable excipients, in particular a binder, and a disintegrant. Also disclosed is a granulation process, especially a wet granulation process, for making the pharmaceutical composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2008Publication date: April 30, 2009Applicant: BIAL- Portela & Ca, S.A.Inventors: Teofilo Cardoso de Vasconcelos, Ricardo Jorge dos Santos Lima, Rui Cerdeira de Campos Costa
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Patent number: 7234625Abstract: An apparatus is proposed for connection of workpieces using the friction stir welding method, with a shaft (33, 33?) which can be driven such that it rotates and at whose end remote from the drive end of the shaft a pin-like projection (8) is arranged, at whose end a first stop, which is formed by a first shoulder (6), is arranged, with the first shoulder having a diameter which is larger than the diameter of the pin-like projection (8), and with a second stop (7, 7?), which is formed from a second shoulder and is arranged such that the workpieces (19) to be connected can be enclosed between the stops (6, 7, 7?), in that at least one of the stops can be moved translationally in order to enclose the workpieces (19) with a predetermined force in the direction of the other stop.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2005Date of Patent: June 26, 2007Inventors: Henry Loitz, Jens P. Wulfsberg, Jens von der Wense, Alexander von Strombeck, Christoph Schilling, Jorge dos Santos
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Publication number: 20070130741Abstract: A method of connecting a metallic bolt to a plastic work piece is shown and described. The object to provide a method which makes possible a reliable connection between metal workpieces on the one hand and plastic workpieces on the other hand is achieved in that a first plastic work piece and a metallic bolt are provided, and in that the bolt is pressed into a surface of the first plastic workpiece, the bolt being rotated during the pressing-in, and the rotational speed of the bolt being selected in such a way that the first plastic workpiece is plasticized, so that the bolt is anchored in the first plastic workpiece in a positive-locking manner after the rotation is stopped.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2006Publication date: June 14, 2007Applicant: GKSS-FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM GEESTHACT GMBHInventors: Sergio De Traglia Amancio Filho, Matthias Beyer, Jorge Dos Santos
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Publication number: 20070124912Abstract: A method of connecting a plastic workpiece to a further workpiece and a device for carrying out the method are shown and described. The object of providing a method with which a positive-locking connection between a plastic workpiece and a further workpiece can be produced in a short time and without considerable outlay in terms of apparatus is achieved by a method comprising the following steps: providing a plastic workpiece and a further workpiece, placing the further workpiece against the plastic workpiece, providing a connecting element on a surface of the plastic workpiece, this surface being opposite the surface against which the further workpiece bears, producing a recess in the further workpiece, this recess being provided on the surface bearing against the plastic workpiece, heating the connecting element, so that the material of the connecting element is plasticized, and pressing plasticized material into the recess.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2006Publication date: June 7, 2007Applicant: GKSS-FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM GEESTHACHT GMBHInventors: Sergio De Traglia Amancio Filho, Jorge Dos Santos, Matthias Beyer
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Publication number: 20070080195Abstract: Illustrated and described is a friction stir welding device for mounting on a handling device. The object that the forces and moments which have to be absorbed by the handling device during the welding operation in the course of the movement of the friction stir welding tool along the weld seam are independent of the welding operation is achieved by a friction stir welding device with a tool drive, with a mounting element for connection to the handling device, with a friction stir welding tool, which is driven by the tool drive in a rotating manner about an axis of rotation, with a counterbearing roller and with a counterbearing drive, the counterbearing drive driving the counterbearing roller in a rotating manner about a counterbearing axis and the circumferential surface of the counterbearing roller being arranged opposite the friction stir welding tool.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2006Publication date: April 12, 2007Applicant: GKSS-FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM GEESTHACHT GMBHInventors: Henry Loitz, Shahram Sheikhi, Jens Wulfsberg, Jorge Dos Santos
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Publication number: 20070080191Abstract: A method for producing a welded connection between a first workpiece and a second workpiece and also an apparatus for carrying out the method are illustrated and described.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2006Publication date: April 12, 2007Applicant: GKSS-FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM GEESTHACHT GMBHInventors: Jorge Dos Santos, Arne Roos
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Publication number: 20060289603Abstract: The invention illustrates and describes an apparatus for friction stir welding having a pin (3) and a first friction surface segment (4), the pin (3) and the first friction surface segment (4) being driven in rotation about an axis of rotation (6), and the first friction surface segment (4) having a first friction surface (5) for resting on a workpiece (2), as well as a friction stir welding process. The object of providing an apparatus and a process for friction stir welding which allow better setting of the properties of the weld seam is achieved byvirtue of the fact that there is a feed device for introducing a filler material into the weld seam.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2006Publication date: December 28, 2006Applicant: GKSS-FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM GEESTHACHT GMBHInventors: Rudolph Zettler, Shahram Sheikhi, Mathias Beyer, Jorge dos Santos, Arne Roos, Henry Loitz
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Publication number: 20060289604Abstract: The invention illustrates and describes an apparatus for friction stir welding, having a pin (3) and a first friction surface segment (4), the pin (3) and the first friction surface segment (4) being rotationally driven about an axis of rotation (6), and the first friction surface segment (4) having a first friction surface (5) for resting on a workpiece (2). The object of providing a friction stir welding apparatus which can be used to better set the energy which is introduced into the workpiece by way of the friction between pin and friction surface, on the one hand, and workpiece, on the other hand, is achieved by virtue of the fact that a first inner segment (7) is provided, having a first inner friction surface (8) for resting on a workpiece (2, 2?), that the first inner segment (7) surrounds the pin (3), that the first friction surface segment (4) surrounds the first inner segment (7), and that the first friction surface segment (4) is rotationally driven independently of the first inner segment (7).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2006Publication date: December 28, 2006Applicant: GKSS-FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM GEESTHACHT GMBHInventors: Rudolph Zettler, Shahram Sheikhi, Mathias Beyer, Jorge dos Santos, Arne Roos, Henry Loitz
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Publication number: 20060006211Abstract: An apparatus is proposed for connection of workpieces using the friction stir welding method, with a shaft (33, 33?) which can be driven such that it rotates and at whose end remote from the drive end of the shaft a pin-like projection (8) is arranged, at whose end a first stop, which is formed by a first shoulder (6), is arranged, with the first shoulder having a diameter which is larger than the diameter of the pin-like projection (8), and with a second stop (7, 7?), which is formed from a second shoulder and is arranged such that the workpieces (19) to be connected can be enclosed between the stops (6, 7, 7?), in that at least one of the stops can be moved translationally in order to enclose the workpieces (19) with a predetermined force in the direction of the other stop.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2005Publication date: January 12, 2006Applicant: GKSS-FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM GEESTHACHT GMBHInventors: Henry Loitz, Jens Wulfsberg, Jens von der Wense, Alexander von Strombeck, Christoph Schilling, Jorge dos Santos
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Publication number: 20060006209Abstract: An apparatus is proposed for connection of workpieces using the friction stir welding method, with a shaft (33, 33?) which can be driven such that it rotates and at whose end remote from the drive end of the shaft a pin-like projection (8) is arranged, at whose end a first stop, which is formed by a first shoulder (6), is arranged, with the first shoulder having a diameter which is larger than the diameter of the pin-like projection (8), and with a second stop (7, 7?), which is formed from a second shoulder and is arranged such that the workpieces (19) to be connected can be enclosed between the stops (6, 7, 7?), in that at least one of the stops can be moved translationally in order to enclose the workpieces (19) with a predetermined force in the direction of the other stop.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2005Publication date: January 12, 2006Applicant: GKSS-FLORSCHUNGSZENTRUM GEESTHACHT GMBHInventors: Henry Loitz, Jens Wulfsberg, Jens von der Wense, Alexander von Strombeck, Christoph Schilling, Jorge dos Santos
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Patent number: 6799708Abstract: In a device for butt joining workpieces by friction stir welding along a connecting area, including a shaft having a driven end and, at the opposite end, a pin-like projection to be disposed in the connecting area of the workpieces, whereby, upon rotation of the shaft, the workpiece material in contact with the pin-like projection is plasticized, first and second stops with first and second shoulders are provided on the device and disposed at opposite sides of the workpieces and at least one of the stops is movable relative to the other and biased toward the other with a controllable force for engaging the workpieces between the shoulders of the stops during the friction stir welding procedure.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2002Date of Patent: October 5, 2004Assignee: GKSS - Forschungszentrum Geesthacht GmbHInventors: Alexander von Strombeck, Jorge Dos Santos
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Publication number: 20040089342Abstract: The disclosed method & apparatus are for forming a fluid connection or tap through the wall (1) of a pipeline, particularly intended for “for tapping” of subsea pipelines. The method comprises fitting a connecting piece (2) having a mounting surface which extends around the tap location (2g) and at least partially over the tap location (2n) and a connecting wall (2h) which surrounds the tap location to provide an opening (2k) adapted or subsequent connection of a conduit to complete a fluid connection. The connecting piece is bonded to the pipeline by friction stitch welding performed (4, 6) inside said opening. The material at the tap location is removed (AC indicates after cutting) to define an aperture and provide said fluid connection surrounded closely by the weld (6) between the connecting piece and the wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2003Publication date: May 13, 2004Inventors: Olav Vennemann, Axel Meyer, F. Jorge Dos Santos
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Patent number: 6722556Abstract: In a method and apparatus for joining at least two adjoining workpieces by friction welding, a rotatable shaft is provided at its front end with a friction welding tool which is biased toward the workpieces to plasticize an area of the workpiece into which the tool enters while the plasticized material is displaced and stored in, or around, the tool. Upon passing through the top workpiece and entering the lowermost work piece, the tool is removed and the stored plasticized material is returned to the void provided by the tool upon removal thereof from the workpieces for joining the workpieces.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2002Date of Patent: April 20, 2004Assignee: GKSS Forschungszentrum Geesthacht GmbHInventors: Christoph Schilling, Jorge dos Santos
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Patent number: 6604667Abstract: In a device for joining, by friction stir welding, at least two workpieces, a support structure is provided with a head portion which includes drive means and a shaft which is rotatable by the drive means and has a pin-like projection projecting toward a support member of the support structure for supporting workpieces to be joined by friction stir welding and wherein guide means are provided for moving the rotating pin-like projection into contact with, and into, the workpieces while plasticizing the workpieces in the contact area to form thereby a spot weld by friction stir welding.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2002Date of Patent: August 12, 2003Assignee: GKSS-Forschungszentrum Geesthacht GmbHInventors: Christoph Schilling, Jorge dos Santos
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Publication number: 20020179673Abstract: In a device for butt joining workpieces by friction stir welding along a connecting area, including a shaft having a driven end and, at the opposite end, a pin-like projection to be disposed in the connecting area of the workpieces, whereby, upon rotation of the shaft, the workpiece material in contact with the pin-like projection is plasticized, first and second stops with first and second shoulders are provided on the device and disposed at opposite sides of the workpieces and at least one of the stops is movable relative to the other and biased toward the other with a controllable force for engaging the workpieces between the shoulders of the stops during the friction stir welding procedure.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2002Publication date: December 5, 2002Inventors: Alexander von Strombeck, Jorge Dos Santos
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Publication number: 20020179674Abstract: In a device for joining, by friction stir welding, at least two workpieces, a support structure is provided with a head portion which includes drive means and a shaft which is rotatable by the drive means and has a pin-like projection projecting toward a support member of the support structure for supporting workpieces to be joined by friction stir welding and wherein guide means are provided for moving the rotating pin-like projection into contact with, and into, the workpieces while plasticizing the workpieces in the contact area to form thereby a spot weld by friction stir welding.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2002Publication date: December 5, 2002Inventors: Christoph Schilling, Jorge dos Santos