Patents by Inventor Marcus Wolf

Marcus Wolf 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: 20240145947
    Abstract: A connection assembly includes a busbar made of a first metallic material, where busbar comprises a hole; a contact element which is arranged in the hole in busbar and is made of a second metallic material; where the outer diameter of the part of contact element, which in a direction of insertion is at the rear, is larger than the outer diameter of the part of contact element which in the direction of insertion is at the fore; where the inner surface of the hole in busbar comprises a recess which is filled with the material of contact element, whereby contact element is held in the hole in busbar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Manuel Eheim, Patrick Distler, Bjoern Hoffmann, Ron Buchholz, Marcus Wolf
  • Patent number: 11962109
    Abstract: A module connector includes a first connection part and a second connection part that can be electrically conductively connected with the first connection part. The first connection part has a first attachment element and the second connection part has a second attachment element; the first attachment element can be inserted into the second attachment element. Each of the first connection part and the second connection part has a contact protection at a side facing the other connection part. The contact protection has an outer electrically insulating collar and an electrically insulating protection pin surrounded by the outer electrically insulating collar. At least one of the first connection part and the second connection part has a current bridge between the outer electrically insulating collar and the electrically insulating protection pin. The outer electrically insulating collar and the electrically insulating protection pin extend beyond the current bridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Marcus Wolf, Patrick Distler, Frank Kaehny, Chris Buechling
  • Patent number: 11901653
    Abstract: A module connector for electrically connecting a pair of electric modules includes a pair of contact assemblies spaced from one another and fastening the module connector to the electric modules, a conductor assembly electrically connecting the contact assemblies and, with the contact assemblies, forming an electrical connection between the electric modules, and a housing formed of an electrically insulating material. The contact assemblies and the conductor assembly are accommodated in the housing. At least one of the contact assemblies is fastened to the conductor assembly in a manner displaceable relative to the conductor assembly in a direction of displacement directed towards and/or away from the other of the contact assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Chris Buechling, Frank Kaehny, Manuel Eheim, Marcus Wolf, Bjoern Hoffmann, Alexander Weber, Patrick Distler
  • Publication number: 20240014599
    Abstract: A module connector for electrically connecting two electric modules comprises a busbar, at least one screw and at least one screw guide. The busbar includes at least one flat face defining a busbar plane, and a through opening extending perpendicularly to the busbar plane and through the busbar. The at least one screw is held in the through hole, rotatable relative to the busbar and slidable parallel to the busbar plane. The at least one screw guide is rotatable relative to the busbar and held at least sectionally in the through opening. The at least one screw guide includes a hole extending parallel to the through opening in which the at least one screw is held at least sectionally.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Marcus Wolf, Maik Schaefer, Bjoern Hoffmann, Ron Buchholz, Patrick Distler, Manuel Eheim
  • Patent number: 11837805
    Abstract: An electrical conductor assembly includes a line section having a plurality of conductor wires formed of a first electrically conductive material, a contact section in which the conductor wires are compacted to form a contact unit, and a layer formed of a second electrically conductive material. The layer is disposed on a contact surface of the contact unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Maximilian Veihl, Chris Buechling, Manuel Eheim, Frank Kaehny, Marcus Wolf, Harald Ulrich, Kevin Scheer, Florian Lueck, Christoph Kosmalski, Rolf Maurus
  • Publication number: 20230327360
    Abstract: A screw for a touch-proof plug connection includes a screw body and a touch protection device. The screw body has a screw head and a screw shank extending from the screw head along a screw-in direction to a screw tip. The screw tip has a connecting element. The touch protection element has a connection device on a coupling side. The connection device is a connection counterpart to the connecting element and connects the touch protection element to the screw body. The touch protection element has an electrically insulating surface on a front side that points in the screw-in direction in a connected state of the screw body and the touch protection element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Ron Buchholz, Manuel Eheim, Alexander Weber, Marcus Wolf, Bjoern Hoffmann, Patrick Distler
  • Patent number: 11584920
    Abstract: Disclosed is a combination of two or more lipase enzymes, and its use for treating a lipid digestion deficiency and/or a digestive disorder. At least one lipase enzyme has a pH optimum at an acidic pH value, while at least one other lipase enzyme has a pH optimum at an alkalic pH value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: CILIAN AG
    Inventors: Marcus Wolf William Hartmann, Ingo Aldag
  • Publication number: 20220384911
    Abstract: A contact assembly includes a contact element having a lead-through opening, a contact section extending in a tube-shaped manner along the lead-through opening and having a contact surface, and a collar section connected to the contact section and extending the lead-through opening in a sleeve-shaped manner, a busbar having a reception opening receiving the collar section, and a fastener inserted into the lead-through opening. The contact element has a first friction surface affixable with the busbar in the reception opening in a frictionally engaging manner and a second friction surface affixable in the reception opening with the busbar or in the lead-through opening with the fastener in a frictionally engaging manner. The first friction surface and the second friction surface are mutually offset in a radial direction with respect to the lead-through opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Manuel Eheim, Alexander Weber, Bjoern Hoffmann, Frank Kaehny, Patrick Distler, Marcus Wolf
  • Publication number: 20220336974
    Abstract: An electrical conductor assembly includes a line section having a plurality of conductor wires formed of a first electrically conductive material, a contact section in which the conductor wires are compacted to form a contact unit, and a layer formed of a second electrically conductive material. The layer is disposed on a contact surface of the contact unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Maximilian Veihl, Chris Buechling, Manuel Eheim, Frank Kaehny, Marcus Wolf, Harald Ulrich, Kevin Scheer, Florian Lueck, Christoph Kosmalski, Rolf Maurus
  • Publication number: 20220311172
    Abstract: An electrically insulating touch protection device for an electrical conductor includes an insulating tube and a housing receiving an end of the electrical conductor. The housing has an end section pointing toward the insulating tube. The end section has a first segment and a second segment. The first segment is inserted into the insulating tube and the second segment is placed on the insulating tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Bjoern Hoffmann, Alexander Weber, Frank Kaehny, Chris Buechling, Marcus Wolf, Manuel Eheim, Patrick Distler
  • Publication number: 20220231436
    Abstract: A module connector for electrically connecting a pair of electric modules includes a pair of contact assemblies spaced from one another and fastening the module connector to the electric modules, a conductor assembly electrically connecting the contact assemblies and, with the contact assemblies, forming an electrical connection between the electric modules, and a housing formed of an electrically insulating material. The contact assemblies and the conductor assembly are accommodated in the housing. At least one of the contact assemblies is fastened to the conductor assembly in a manner displaceable relative to the conductor assembly in a direction of displacement directed towards and/or away from the other of the contact assemblies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Chris Buechling, Frank Kaehny, Manuel Eheim, Marcus Wolf, Bjoern Hoffmann, Alexander Weber, Patrick Distler
  • Publication number: 20220200220
    Abstract: A busbar contact includes a contact ring and a fastening element. The contact ring has a contact surface at a distal end and a press-in flange projecting radially. The press-in flange has a cylindrical contact surface pointing radially outward.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Chris Buechling, Frank Kaehny, Manuel Eheim, Marcus Wolf, Bjoern Hoffmann, Alexander Weber, Patrick Distler
  • Publication number: 20210408721
    Abstract: A module connector includes a first connection part and a second connection part that can be electrically conductively connected with the first connection part. The first connection part has a first attachment element and the second connection part has a second attachment element; the first attachment element can be inserted into the second attachment element. Each of the first connection part and the second connection part has a contact protection at a side facing the other connection part. The contact protection has an outer electrically insulating collar and an electrically insulating protection pin surrounded by the outer electrically insulating collar. At least one of the first connection part and the second connection part has a current bridge between the outer electrically insulating collar and the electrically insulating protection pin. The outer electrically insulating collar and the electrically insulating protection pin extend beyond the current bridge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Marcus Wolf, Patrick Distler, Frank Kaehny, Chris Buechling
  • Publication number: 20210166842
    Abstract: An arrangement includes an insulator sleeve, a mounting sheath, an end piece of the insulator sleeve is received in a receptacle opening of the mounting sheath, and a holding pin penetrating the insulator sleeve and fixing the mounting sheath on the insulator sleeve in a non-displaceable manner in a length direction of the insulator sleeve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Bjoern Hoffmann, Frank Kaehny, Marcus Wolf, Alexander Weber
  • Patent number: 10590402
    Abstract: Disclosed is a combination of two or more lipase enzymes, and its use for treating a lipid digestion deficiency and/or a digestive disorder. At least one lipase enzyme has a pH optimum at an acidic pH value, while at least one other lipase enzyme has a pH optimum at an alkalic pH value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: CILIAN AG
    Inventors: Marcus Wolf William Hartmann, Ingo Aldag
  • Publication number: 20200071683
    Abstract: Disclosed is a combination of two or more lipase enzymes, and its use for treating a lipid digestion deficiency and/or a digestive disorder. At least one lipase enzyme has a pH optimum at an acidic pH value, while at least one other lipase enzyme has a pH optimum at an alkalic pH value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Applicant: CILIAN AG
    Inventors: Marcus Wolf William Hartmann, Ingo Aldag
  • Patent number: 10481042
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for monitoring the function of a machine element lubricated by a lubricant. The method includes receiving measured values concerning the lubricant, determining a current chemical composition of the lubricant on the basis of the measured values, comparing the current chemical composition with chemical compositions known in advance, which are stored in a database, wherein function failure tendency values for the use of lubricants having the chemical compositions known in advance in connection with machine elements composed of materials known in advance are stored in the database, identifying a function failure tendency value on the basis of the comparison step, and outputting the function failure tendency value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Walter Holweger, Marcus Wolf, Matthias Goss
  • Patent number: 10483154
    Abstract: In various aspects, the present disclosure relates to device structures and a method of forming such a device structure. In some illustrative embodiments herein, a device is provided, including a semiconductor substrate having a first trench formed therein, and a first trench isolation structure formed in the first trench. The first trench isolation structure includes first and second insulating liners formed adjacent inner surfaces of the first trench, wherein the first insulating liner is in direct contact with inner surfaces of the first trench and the second insulating liner is formed directly on the first insulating liner, and a first insulating filling material which at least partially fills the first trench. In some aspects, a thickness of the first insulating liner is greater than a thickness of the second insulating liner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc.
    Inventors: Elliot John Smith, Marcus Wolf, Carsten Peters, Markus Lenski, Loic Gaben
  • Publication number: 20180073001
    Abstract: Disclosed is a combination of two or more lipase enzymes, and its use for treating a lipid digestion deficiency and/or a digestive disorder. At least one lipase enzyme has a pH optimum at an acidic pH value, while at least one other lipase enzyme has a pH optimum at an alkalic pH value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventors: Marcus Wolf William Hartmann, Ingo Aldag
  • Patent number: 9828680
    Abstract: A method for operating a bearing arrangement (1) including at least one rolling bearing (2). The method provides for applying a positive electric potential to a bearing part (3) of the rolling bearing (2), another part (4) of the bearing arrangement (1) being connected as a cathode, and a current flowing between the bearing part (3) and the cathode (4) is limited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Matthias Goss, Walter Holweger, Marcus Wolf, Toni Blass, Holger Kaup, Jorg Loos