Patents by Inventor Lothar Schafer

Lothar Schafer 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: 20070175624
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for temperature regulation/limitation in a heat generating installation, said device comprising at least one probe (Tk) that is connected to a regulator (20) which, in turn, is connected to an automatic heating system (40) by means of a communication interface (30). The inventive device is characterised in that the automatic heating system (40) comprises a safety module (41) which compares the temperature detected by the probe, forwarded to the regulator and transmitted from the regulator to the automatic heating system by means of the communication interface, with a maximum admissible safety temperature (TSTB) stored in the safety module (41), and in that, once the safety temperature is reached or exceeded, the safety module (41) generates a cut-off signal which causes the installation to be cut off by the automatic heating system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2004
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: Siemens Building Technologies AG
    Inventors: Erhard Affolter, Rene Joubert, Josef Lelle, Lothar Schafer
  • Patent number: 6850598
    Abstract: The invention relates to an x-ray anode and a process for its manufacture. The x-ray anode is characterized in that the anode material is embodied as a layer on a diamond window. The x-ray anode is preferably used with x-ray units which require as selective as possible x-radiation production to achieve as high as possible radiation intensity. Use in x-ray microscopes in which a high radiation intensity guarantees the highest resolutions is particularly preferred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2005
    Assignee: Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Matthias Fryda, Lothar Schafer, Thorston Matthee
  • Publication number: 20020072746
    Abstract: An instrument for surgical purposes, especially for coagulation, is proposed. This instrument has at least one arm (2), the tips (4) of the arms having electrical contact regions (6, 7), which can be electrically connected to a control unit (12), for touching a tissue (13) for the purpose of coagulation. The contact regions are formed from doped diamond to produce the electrical conductivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2000
    Publication date: June 13, 2002
    Inventors: Christian Lingenfelder, Stephan Ertl, Stefan Strobel, Rudolf Rosch, Siegfried Forster, Matthias Fryda, Lothar Schafer, Inga Troster, Dennie Herrmann
  • Publication number: 20010049003
    Abstract: A gemstone has a plate-shaped support having a surface with at least one pyramid-shaped depression. A precious stone layer is produced by vapor phase deposition on the plate-shaped support. The precious stone layer can be cut.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 1999
    Publication date: December 6, 2001
    Inventors: ERNST MICHAEL WINTER, LOTHAR SCHAFER, THORSTEN MATTHEE
  • Patent number: 6042886
    Abstract: In a method for the manufacture of a coating on a grinding tool, a rough diamond layer (8, 10) is produced as an abrasive layer on the surface (2) of the body (1) of the grinding tool by vapor-phase deposition. This diamond layer is deposited on the grinding tool by the Hot Filament Chemical Vapor Deposition (HF-CVD) process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Thorsten Matthee, Lothar Schafer
  • Patent number: 5112649
    Abstract: Method of depositing micro-crystalline solid particles from a vapor phase containing a carbonaceous gas using chemical vapor deposition (CVD), in which the solid particles to be deposited are deposited at a pressure in the range from 10.sup.-5 to 1 bar onto a substrate which has been heated to a temperature in the range from 450.degree. to 1200.degree. C. and in which the chemical vapor phase reactions are effected in the gas phase which is thermally energized by means of a resistance heat conductor, a resistance heat conductor made of a carbide of at least one transition metal from the secondary group IVa to VIa of the periodic element system (PSE) with a carbon content which substantially corresponds to a stoichiometrical composition of the carbide and having a melting point of >2000.degree. C. being used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1992
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Udo Bringmann, Claus-Peter Klages, Rolf Six, Lothar Schafer