Patents by Inventor Marc Steffens

Marc Steffens 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: 20240141972
    Abstract: A group transmission device includes a main transmission which has a main shaft, a countershaft and a spur gear pair which includes a first spur gear arranged coaxially and axially overlapping with the main shaft and a second spur gear arranged coaxially and axially overlapping with the countershaft. A range group has a first shaft non-rotationally connected to the main shaft, a second shaft non-rotationally connected to a transmission output shaft, a third shaft and a blocking switching unit. A first switching unit non-rotationally connects the third shaft to a housing. A second switching unit has an axially shiftable switching element and non-rotationally connects the third shaft to the first spur gear. The main shaft is coupled non-rotationally to a transmission input shaft. A third switching unit has an axially shiftable further switching element and non-rotationally connects the first spur gear to the first shaft of the range group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Frank STEFFENS, Marc STROELIN, Jens LUCKMANN
  • Publication number: 20240141971
    Abstract: A group transmission device includes an upshift assembly with a first transmission element, a second transmission element and a third transmission element. A downshift assembly has a first transmission element, a second transmission element and a third transmission element. A main shaft is arranged coaxially to the upshift assembly and a layshaft is arranged parallel to the main shaft. A first idler gear is arranged coaxially to the main shaft and axially between the upshift assembly and the downshift assembly and is connectable to the main shaft for conjoint rotation by a first shift unit. The first idler gear is connectable to the third transmission element of the downshift assembly for conjoint rotation by a second shift unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Frank STEFFENS, Marc STROELIN, Jens LUCKMANN, Marc KLEIN, Detlef SCHNITZER
  • Publication number: 20230183620
    Abstract: A composition may be or include detergents, cleaning agents, and cosmetic agents and include an emulsifier and biodegradable microcapsules. The biodegradable microcapsules may include a core material and a shell where the shell consists of at least one barrier layer and a stability layer. The barrier layer may surround the core material. The stability layer may include at least one biopolymer and be arranged on the outer surface of the barrier layer(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Andreas BAUER, Marc-Steffen SCHIEDEL, Stefan URLICHS, Michael BIEDENBACH, Christian KIND, Andreas GERIGK, Manuela MATERNE, Hubert SMYREK, Christian GIESEN
  • Publication number: 20200338319
    Abstract: A device for delivering energy and/or measuring electrical activity in a tubular part of a body has a catheter and/or an inflatable balloon and at least one electrode. A distal end of the catheter with the at least one electrode, or the at least one electrode, is disposed on the outside of an envelope of the balloon. So as to achieve good contact between the at least one electrode and the wall of the vessel to be treated and continuous blood flow, the elasticity of the envelope of the balloon is less in at least one first region than in a second region that different from the first region. The distal end of the catheter with the at least one electrode is disposed in the at least one first region, or the at least one electrode is disposed in the at least one second region of the balloon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: Biotronik AG
    Inventors: Chritian BLUEMEL, Erik TRIP, Jan Helge RICHTER, Marc Steffen SCHURR
  • Publication number: 20200290797
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a portion capsule (2) for drinks and food products having a cup-shaped bowl (3) comprising a seal edge (30), a (31) and a covering face (32) and having a cup-base shaped filter element (4) which is inserted into the bowl (2) and in which a product is introduced, comprising the steps of: (a) forming a filter element (4) from a forming piece (42) comprising a filter material; (b) inserting the filter element (4) formed into a cup-shaped bowl (3); (c) connecting an edge of the formed filter element (4) to a seal edge (30) of the cup-shaped bowl (3); and (d) connecting the filter element (4) to the base (31) and/or the covering face (32) of the bowl (3). The invention further relates to an installation (1) for producing a portion capsule (2) and a portion capsule (2) for drinks and food products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: Optima Consumer GmbH
    Inventor: Marc Steffen
  • Patent number: 9725686
    Abstract: A strip-form toilet cleaning product comprising a width (B), a height (H) and a thickness (S), wherein the ratio between width (B), height (H) and thickness (S) is between 1:1:0.01 and 1:0.1:0.2, a first extruded phase and at least one second extruded phase, wherein at least the contour of a contact surface (4, 4a, 4b) along the center axis (8) takes the form of a sine wave which has an amplitude of A1,O, wherein the ratio of amplitude to width (B) A1,O:B amounts to between 1:10 and 1:25 and the periodic length of the sine wave corresponds to 0.1-1 times the width (B) of the toilet cleaning product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KAaA
    Inventors: Sabine Hochkugler, Christian Reichert, Robert Stephen Cappleman, Michael Horn, Keiwan Ebrahimzadeh, Petra Plantikow, Marc-Steffen Schiedel
  • Publication number: 20160251840
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device (1) for dispensing water-soluble active-substance preparations (5, 6) into a toilet bowl, having an accommodating container (2) which is to be arranged in the toilet bowl, wherein the accommodating container (2) can be fastened on the toilet bowl, wherein the accommodating container (2) comprises at least a first chamber (3) and a second chamber (4), wherein the first chamber (3), when flushing water flows over into it, dispenses a first active-substance preparation (5) into the toilet bowl, and the second chamber (4), when flushing water flows over into it, dispenses a second active-substance preparation (6) into the toilet bowl, and wherein the chambers (3, 4) are configured such that the first active-substance preparation (5) and the second active-substance preparation (6) are dispensed into the toilet bowl at staggered intervals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Inventors: Lars Zuechner, Jens Leffler, Anke Klemmstein, Katja Gerhards, Marc-Steffen Schiedel
  • Patent number: 9163226
    Abstract: Phosphonate-containing liquid washing or cleaning agent exhibiting advantageous proteolytic activity and improved storage stability comprising a protease having an amino acid sequence which is at least 80% identical to the amino acid sequence stated in SEQ ID NO. 1 and which comprises in position 99 in the numbering according to SEQ ID NO. 1 the amino acid glutamic acid (E) or aspartic acid (D) or the amino acid asparagine (N) or glutamine (Q) or the amino acid alanine (A) or glycine (G) or serine (S).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Susanne Wieland, Petra Siegert, Astrid Spitz, Karl-Heinz Maurer, Timothy O'Connell, Inken Prueser, Marc-Steffen Schiedel, Thomas Eiting, Dorota Sendor-Mueller, Thorsten Bastigkeit, Konstantin Benda, Sven Mueller
  • Publication number: 20150020330
    Abstract: A strip-form toilet cleaning product comprising a width (B), a height (H) and a thickness (S), wherein the ratio between width (B), height (H) and thickness (S) is between 1:1:0.01 and 1:0.1:0.2, a first extruded phase and at least one second extruded phase, wherein at least the contour of a contact surface (4, 4a, 4b) along the center axis (8) takes the form of a sine wave which has an amplitude of A1,O, wherein the ratio of amplitude to width (B) A1,O:B amounts to between 1:10 and 1:25 and the periodic length of the sine wave corresponds to 0.1-1 times the width (B) of the toilet cleaning product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: Sabine Hochkugler, Christian Reichert, Robert Stephen Cappleman, Michael Horn, Keiwan Ebrahimzadeh, Petra Plantikow, Marc-Steffen Schiedel
  • Patent number: 8914096
    Abstract: An adaptation probe for insertion into implanted electrode devices of active medical implants to enable them for use in high-frequency magnetic alternating fields of MRI systems comprises an elongated, flexible probe body, and at least one electrical assembly, which has one or more electrical components connected to an interface, in the probe body, and which can be electrically connected to a supply lead of the electrode device such that the electrically properties of the electrode device can be adapted, in particular the frequency-dependent resistance, impedance, capacitance, or inductance thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Biotronik SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ingo Weiss, Michael Friedrich, Stefan Knorr, René Fischer, Marc Steffen Schurr
  • Patent number: 8685913
    Abstract: The invention provides improvements in the primary detergency of detergents for washing textiles, particularly against oily stains and/or stains containing fat. These improvements are realized through the use of certain polycarbonate-, polyurethane-, and/or polyurea-polyorganosiloxane compounds or precursor compounds usable in the production thereof having certain reactive groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGAA
    Inventors: Nadine Warkotsch, Birgit Middelhauve, Marc-Steffen Schiedel, Konstantin Benda
  • Patent number: 8669218
    Abstract: An adherent gelled or pasty composition for cleaning and/or scenting a toilet, wherein the composition is applied internally onto the toilet ceramic and is rinsed off only after several flushing operations, the composition comprising: a surfactant selected from the group consisting of alkylpolyglycosides, amphoacetates, amphodiacetates, betaines, fatty alcohol ethercarboxylic acids, fatty acid sarcosinates, cocamidopropylamine oxide, aminopropionates, and biosurfactants; perfume; and water; wherein the composition comprises, as an adhesion promoter, an ester of polyisobutene succinic acid, and wherein the composition is free of further adhesion promoters and surfactants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Marc-Steffen Schiedel, Brigitte Giesen, Petra Plantikow, Luca Bellomi, Karl-Heinz Scheffler
  • Publication number: 20140005092
    Abstract: An adherent gelled or pasty composition for cleaning and/or scenting a toilet, wherein the composition is applied internally onto the toilet ceramic and is rinsed off only after several flushing operations, the composition comprising: a surfactant selected from the group consisting of alkylpolyglycosides, amphoacetates, amphodiacetates, betaines, fatty alcohol ethercarboxylic acids, fatty acid sarcosinates, cocamidopropylamine oxide, aminopropionates, and biosurfactants; perfume; and water; wherein the composition comprises, as an adhesion promoter, an ester of polyisobutene succinic acid, and wherein the composition is free of further adhesion promoters and surfactants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Inventors: Marc-Steffen Schiedel, Brigitte Giesen, Petra Plantikow, Luca Bellomi, Karl-Heinz Scheffler
  • Publication number: 20130239313
    Abstract: A toilet cleaning block which comprises perfume, at least one alkylbenzene sulfonate and at least one olefin sulfonate and not more than 2.5% by weight of nonionic surfactants can be shaped in a rolling machine or a press to give a rotationally symmetric body, especially to give a ball, and is employed in a system composed of at least one cleaning block and at least one release device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Marc-Steffen Schiedel, Brigitte Giesen, Anke Ernst, Christian Reichert, Robert Stephen Cappleman, Michael Horn
  • Patent number: 8527065
    Abstract: An electrode device for active medical implants that includes an elongated electrode body having a proximal end and a distal end, a tip contact pole on the distal end and/or a ring contact pole before the distal end, electrical supply leads to the tip and ring contact poles, and a high-frequency filter in at least one of the supply leads, which is composed of one or more electronic components (9) and is assigned to the tip and/or ring contact pole, wherein the electronic component(s) (9) are each designed as a miniature component using LTCC technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Biotronik SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ingo Weiss, Michael Friedrich, Stefan Knorr, René Fischer, Marc Steffen Schurr
  • Patent number: 8524648
    Abstract: The invention provides improvements in the color protection properties of detergents and cleaning agents during their utilization for washing or cleaning colored textile fabrics. Specific polycarbonate-, polyurethane- and/or polyurea-polyorganosiloxane compounds or a precursor compound thereof containing specific reactive groups, which can be used for the production of the polycarbonate-, polyurethane- and/or polyurea-polyorganosiloxane compounds, are utilized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Nadine Warkotsch, Birgit Middelhauve, Marc-Steffen Schiedel, Thomas Eiting
  • Patent number: 8486883
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of an anionic polymer in a liquid washing or cleaning agent for inhibiting graying when washing and/or cleaning textile web materials, and acrylic acid homopolymers comprising liquid washing and cleaning agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Marc-Steffen Schiedel, Ulrich Pegelow, Peter Schmiedel, Evelyn Langen, Sabine Schümann, Martina Hutmacher, Heinz-Jürgen Völkel, Matthias Sunder, Birgit Glüsen, Cornelius Bessler, Timothy O'Connell, Stephan Gomolka, Eva-Maria Wikker
  • Patent number: 8380322
    Abstract: Electrode device for active medical implants with an elongated electrode body (2) having a proximal end and a distal end (1), a tip contact pole (6) on the distal end (1), at least one ring contact pole (5) before the distal end (1), electrical supply leads (3, 4) to the tip and ring contact pole (6, 5), and a high-frequency filter (11) before the distal end (1), which has electrical contact to the tip contact pole (6) and is connected to the supply lead (4) thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Biotronik CRM Patent AG
    Inventors: Kerstin Taeubert, Hartmut Lenski, Ingo Weiss, Michael Friedrich, Stefan Knorr, René Fischer, Marc Steffen Schurr
  • Patent number: 8346371
    Abstract: An electrode unit for carrying current or voltage between an implantable electromedical device and a treatment and/or diagnosis site in the human body comprises at least one current-/voltage-carrying feed line (1) and at least one electric contact pole to the body part. The feed line (1) is associated with at least one section (4) having frequency-dependent transmission behavior, wherein this at least one frequency-dependent transmission section (4) at least partially filters out therapeutically and/or diagnostically undesirable signals in at least one defined frequency range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Biotronik SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ingo Weiss, Michael Friedrich, Stefan Knorr, René Fischer, Marc Steffen Schurr
  • Patent number: 8324145
    Abstract: The invention relates to a detergent which contains a surfactant and optionally further conventional additives of detergents and cleaning agents, the detergent comprising an anti-grey polycarbonate-, polyurethane- and/or polyurea-polyorganosiloxane compound or a precursor compound thereof containing specific reactive groups, which can be used for the production thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGAA
    Inventors: Nadine Warkotsch, Birgit Middelhauve, Marc-Steffen Schiedel, Thomas Eiting