Patents by Inventor Manfred Zorn

Manfred Zorn 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).

  • Insulated container
    Patent number: 6519948
    Abstract: The invention relates to an insulated container, particularly a cooler bag, for the refrigerated transportation of foods, substances and/or articles, having a jacket surrounding a transportation space or area and a closable opening is provided in the jacket for accessing the transportation space. According to the invention the insulated container is characterized in that in the transportation space is received an active cooling device with a heat exchange device, that in the jacket there is at least one recess and that the recess is constructed for receiving and passing to the outside the heat exchange device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Assignee: IPV Inheidener Produktions-und Vertriebagesellschaft mbH
    Inventor: Manfred Zorn
  • Insulated container
    Publication number: 20020026798
    Abstract: The invention relates to an insulated container, particularly a cooler bag, for the refrigerated transportation of foods, substances and/or articles, having a jacket surrounding a transportation space or area and a closable opening is provided in the jacket for accessing the transportation space. According to the invention the insulated container is characterized in that in the transportation space is received an active cooling device with a heat exchange device, that in the jacket there is at least one recess and that the recess is constructed for receiving and passing to the outside the heat exchange device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2001
    Publication date: March 7, 2002
    Inventor: Manfred Zorn
  • Expression of the virally coded protease P2A of HRV2
    Patent number: 5149783
    Abstract: This invention relates to a DNA molecule or a functional derivative thereof coding for a fusion protein, the fusion protein comprising an enzymatically active component and a non-enzymatically active polypeptide component which may be cleaved therefrom, an expression system which contains the DNA molecule, the use thereof as a test system for inhibitors of viral proteases, and an assay for identifying viral inhibitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1992
    Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Sommergruber, Friederike Fessl, Ernst Kuechler, Dieter Blaas, Timothy Skern, Manfred Zorn, Markus Duechler, Heinrich Kowalski, Peter Volkmann, Ingrid Maurer-Fogy, Peter Pallai
  • Apparatus for cooling a glove compartment in a motor vehicle
    Patent number: 5099649
    Abstract: An apparatus for cooling a glove compartment in a motor vehicle is described, in which a Peltier element serves as a cooling unit for cooling the interior of a glove compartment. The latter contains a flexible bag, which is made from a material with a very low thermal conductivity and surrounds the cooling space within the glove compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1992
    Assignee: Coleman (Deutschland) GmbH
    Inventor: Manfred Zorn
  • Cooling box
    Patent number: D534771
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2007
    Assignee: IPV Inheidener Produktions-und Vertiebsges. mbH
    Inventor: Manfred Zorn