Patents by Inventor Manfred Kurbjuhn

Manfred Kurbjuhn 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: 6818085
    Abstract: A process for producing a fiber-reinforced, ceramic structural component comprising high-temperature resistant fibers which are reaction-bonded to a matrix of silicon carbide comprises the steps of coating bundles of fibers with pyrolysable binder and solidifying the binder, producing mixtures of fiber bundles, fillers and binders, pressing the mixtures to produce a pressed body, pyrolysing the pressed body under the exclusion of oxygen to form a porous, carbon-containing preform, infiltrating the preform with a silicon melt to form the silicon carbide matrix, in which various pressing compounds are produced, which contain fibers of different quality and in different proportions and different coatings. These pressing compounds are arranged at different levels and in different spatial directions in the press mould during the filling of the press mould. After the pressing, the regions produced in this way are retained in the press mould.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2004
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Thomas Behr, Manfred Kurbjuhn, Robert Michal, Michael Niestegge, Karl-Ludwig Weisskopf
  • Publication number: 20020179225
    Abstract: A process for producing a fiber-reinforced, ceramic structural component comprising high-temperature resistant fibers which are reaction-bonded to a matrix of silicon carbide comprises the steps of coating bundles of fibers with pyrolysable binder and solidifying the binder, producing mixtures of fiber bundles, fillers and binders, pressing the mixtures to produce a pressed body, pyrolysing the pressed body under the exclusion of oxygen to form a porous, carbon-containing preform, infiltrating the preform with a silicon melt to form the silicon carbide matrix, in which various pressing compounds are produced, which contain fibers of different quality and in different proportions and different coatings. These pressing compounds are arranged at different levels and in different spatial directions in the press mould during the filling of the press mould. After the pressing, the regions produced in this way are retained in the press mould.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2002
    Publication date: December 5, 2002
    Inventors: Thomas Behr, Manfred Kurbjuhn, Robert Michal, Michael Niestegge, Karl-Ludwig Weisskopf
  • Patent number: 5747184
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a self-supporting joining element for planar high-temperature fuel cells for high-temperature electrolysis cells comprising the materialLa.sub.1+.delta. Mg.sub.x Al.sub.y Cr.sub.1-x-y O.sub.3.+-..epsilon.wherein 0.ltoreq..delta..ltoreq.0.1;0.02.ltoreq.x.ltoreq.0.0;0.1.ltoreq.y.ltoreq.0.25; and0.ltoreq..epsilon..ltoreq.0.1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1998
    Assignee: Dornier GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Kurbjuhn, Detlef Stolten, Wolfgang Wagner