Patents by Inventor Markus Schwarz
Markus Schwarz 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).
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Publication number: 20230360872Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include an electronic module. The module may include: an electrical circuit; a first MEMS switch having a first control contact with a first switching threshold voltage; and a second MEMS switch having a second control contact with a second switching threshold voltage different than the first. The first control contact and the second MEMS switch are linked to the electrical circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2021Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicant: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Oliver Raab, Markus Schwarz, Hans Santos Wilke, Stefan Kiefl
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Publication number: 20230253173Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include an electronic module comprising a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) switch with a substrate and a semiconductor component. The semiconductor component is formed with the substrate and connected to MEMS switch. The semiconductor component includes a diode. The substrate is formed from or with a silicon-on-insulator-wafer and/or silicon-on-insulator substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2021Publication date: August 10, 2023Applicant: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Oliver Raab, Stefan Kiefl, Markus Schwarz
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Publication number: 20230238894Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a rectifier. The rectifier may include: a rectifier circuit formed with current valves with microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) switches; and a switching controller driving the MEMS switches to switch and open. The switching controller opens the MEMS switches when a voltage feeding the rectifier falls below a minimum distance from a zero voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2021Publication date: July 27, 2023Applicant: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Franziska Lambrecht, Markus Schwarz, Harald Schweigert, Jörg Zapf
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Publication number: 20230196918Abstract: Technologies and techniques for reducing a collision risk between a first motor vehicle and a second motor vehicle. At least a first vehicle-to-environment message is transmitted by the first motor vehicle and received by the second motor vehicle. Using a second computing unit of the second motor vehicle, it is determined, depending on the vehicle-to-environment message, whether a risk situation exists in which the first motor vehicle is obscured by a preceding third motor vehicle. The second computing unit executes a criticality analysis to determine that the risk situation exists and, depending on the result of the criticality analysis, a risk-reducing measure is initiated.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2021Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventors: Johannes Hartog, Daniel Hermann, Markus Schwarz, Klaus Krumpholz, Thomas Biehle
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Publication number: 20220277913Abstract: Various embodiments include an arrangement comprising a plurality of MEMS switches with movable elements. The plurality of MEMS switches are connected to one another in a total-cross-tied configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2020Publication date: September 1, 2022Applicant: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Franziska Lambrecht, Markus Schwarz
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Patent number: 10227278Abstract: The production of 2-propylheptanol described here is effected via Rh-catalyzed hydroformylation of C4-olefin to afford C5-aldehyde, aldol condensation to afford the C10-aldehyde and hydrogenation to afford the C10-alcohol. The emphasis is on the hydroformylation and the ligand employed therein. The problem addressed by the invention is that of reducing the costs of 2PH production. This problem is solved when a cheaper catalyst system which simultaneously achieves a better regioselectivity is employed in the hydroformylation.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2016Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: EVONIK DEGUSSA GmbHInventors: Katrin Marie Dyballa, Robert Franke, Dirk Fridag, Markus Schwarz, Hermann-Josef Schulte-Althoff, Frank Geilen
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Publication number: 20180319727Abstract: The production of 2-propylheptanol described here is effected via Rh-catalyzed hydroformylation of C4-olefin to afford C5-aldehyde, aldol condensation to afford the C10-aldehyde and hydrogenation to afford the C10-alcohol. The emphasis is on the hydroformylation and the ligand employed therein. The problem addressed by the invention is that of reducing the costs of 2PH production. This problem is solved when a cheaper catalyst system which simultaneously achieves a better regioselectivity is employed in the hydroformylation.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2016Publication date: November 8, 2018Applicant: Evonik Degussa GmbHInventors: Katrin Marie DYBALLA, Robert FRANKE, Dirk FRIDAG, Markus SCHWARZ, Hermann-Josef SCHULTE-ALTHOFF, Frank GEILEN
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Publication number: 20180079536Abstract: The invention relates to a filling apparatus for filling containers (12a-d) with liquid and/or pasty materials, in particular for a packing machine (14a; 14d), having a metering apparatus (26a-d) having at least one metering pump (16a-d) having at least one metering stroke chamber (18a-d) having a stroke volume (24a-d) that can be varied by a metering piston (20a-d) in a piston stroke. According to the invention an overall stroke chamber (28a-d) of the metering apparatus (26a-d), comprising all metering stroke chambers (18a-d), corresponds at least to a multiple of a filling volume to be discharged to at least one container (12a-d) in one metering operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 29, 2016Publication date: March 22, 2018Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Markus Schwarz
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Patent number: 9272973Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing aldehydes having five carbon atoms, in which an input mixture containing 10% by weight to 50% by weight of linear butenes and less than 5% by weight of 1-butene is hydroformylated with synthesis gas in the presence of a catalyst system comprising rhodium and at least one bisphosphite ligand, wherein the hydroformylation is effected in a reactor from which, over an operating period, a cycle gas containing at least a portion of the products and unconverted reactants from the hydroformylation is continuously drawn off and partly condensed, and uncondensed components of the cycle gas are recycled into the reactor, and wherein, after the operating period has expired, the hydroformylation is stopped, the reactor is freed of reaction residues and the hydroformylation is restarted. It is based on the problem of making such a process more economically viable.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2013Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: Evonik Industries AGInventors: Dirk Fridag, Robert Franke, Dieter Hess, Markus Schwarz, Katrin Marie Dyballa, Hans-Gerd Lueken, Bart Hamers, Uwe Ernst
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Patent number: 9187412Abstract: The present invention refers to the preparation of 3-cyano-3,5,5-trimethylcyclohexanone (isophorone nitrile, abbreviation IPN) using a calcium alkoxide, particularly calcium ethoxide, as catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2012Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: Evonik Degussa GmbHInventors: Markus Schwarz, Andreas Merkel, Joerg-Joachim Nitz, Gerda Grund
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Patent number: 9119638Abstract: A device and method for treating all types of parts, in particular bones, organs, etc. of the human/animal body, which includes a housing (3), a tool (1) associated with the housing (3), and an actuation unit causing a relative movement between the housing and the tool. The device is designed and constructed to permit process control by the user, while utilizing the specific possibilities of robotics and computer-assisted navigation in such a manner that the position of the tool can be detected, and that the position of the body part being treated can be detected or predetermined, with the actuation unit being activatable in such a manner that it moves the tool within a predetermined work area to a predetermined relative position with respect to the body part being treated.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2005Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Inventors: Markus Schwarz, Peter Pott
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Publication number: 20150224488Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing aldehydes having five carbon atoms, in which an input mixture containing 10% by weight to 50% by weight of linear butenes and less than 5% by weight of 1-butene is hydroformylated with synthesis gas in the presence of a catalyst system comprising rhodium and at least one bisphosphite ligand, wherein the hydroformylation is effected in a reactor from which, over an operating period, a cycle gas containing at least a portion of the products and unconverted reactants from the hydroformylation is continuously drawn off and partly condensed, and uncondensed components of the cycle gas are recycled into the reactor, and wherein, after the operating period has expired, the hydroformylation is stopped, the reactor is freed of reaction residues and the hydroformylation is restarted. It is based on the problem of making such a process more economically viable.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2013Publication date: August 13, 2015Inventors: Dirk Fridag, Robert Franke, Dieter Hess, Markus Schwarz, Katrin Marie Dyballa, Hans-Gerd Lueken, Bart Hamers, Uwe Ernst
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Patent number: 9085506Abstract: The invention relates to an improved process for preparing 3-aminomethyl-3,5,5-trimethylcyclohexylamine, referred to hereinafter as isophoronediamine or, in abbreviated form, IPDA, by: I. preparation of isophorone by catalyzed aldol condensations with acetone as reactant; II. reaction of isophorone with HCN to form isophoronenitrile (IPN, 3-cyano-3,5,5-trimethylcyclohexanone); III. catalytic hydrogenation and/or catalytic reductive amination (also referred to as aminative hydrogenation) of 3-cyano-3,5,5-trimethylcyclohexanone, hereinafter called isophoronenitrile or, in abbreviated form, IPN, to give the isophoronediamine.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2011Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Assignee: Evonik Degussa GmbHInventors: Markus Galle, Gerda Grund, Axel Hengstermann, Michael D Hinton, Rolf Hirsch, Robert Jansen, Cord Knoop, Christian Lettmann, Juergen Lippe, Martin Maier, Joerg-Joachim Nitz, Matthias Orschel, Martina Ortelt, Norbert Richter, Armin Rix, Markus Schwarz, Guido Streukens
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Publication number: 20150038980Abstract: A robot for holding and for handling medical instruments/equipment (1), in particular retractors, preferably for use in orthopedic operations, comprises a manipulator (2) and an end effector (3) supported on the manipulator (2) for gripping/coupling of the particular instrument (1), wherein means for detecting external parameters relating to the holding situation are provided and wherein the holding/handling function of the robot can be defined on the basis of the identified parameters and optionally with the use of further predeterminable parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2012Publication date: February 5, 2015Applicant: Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet HeidelbergInventors: Michael Merscher, Ralf Gundling, Markus Schwarz, Juergen Hesser, Peter P. Pott, Robert Boesecke, Jens Brodersen, Vitor Vieira, Eugen Lisiak, Am Tuong Nguyen
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Patent number: 8889914Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing isophorone by catalyzed aldol condensation of acetone as an educt, reprocessing the reaction product, hydrolyzing the product stream, and separating into an organic and an aqueous fraction, obtaining isophorone from the organic fraction, distillatively reprocessing the aqueous fraction, and feeding the vapors from the head of the distillative reprocessing apparatus into the hydrolysis apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2011Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Evonik Degussa GmbHInventors: Matthias Orschel, Robert Jansen, Martin Maier, Gerda Grund, Markus Schwarz, Joerg-Joachim Nitz, Axel Hengstermann
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Patent number: 8884066Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing isophorone (3,5,5-trimethyl-2-cyclohexen-1-one) in the presence of at least one defoamer in the wastewater column in the workup section.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2012Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Evonik Degussa GmbHInventors: Matthias Orschel, Robert Jansen, Martin Maier, Joerg-Joachim Nitz, Markus Schwarz
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Patent number: 8731927Abstract: A system and method is provided for recognizing a speech input and selecting an entry from a list of entries. The method includes recognizing a speech input. A fragment list of fragmented entries is provided and compared to the recognized speech input to generate a candidate list of best matching entries based on the comparison result. The system includes a speech recognition module, and a data base for storing the list of entries and the fragmented list. The speech recognition module may obtain the fragmented list from the data base and store a candidate list of best matching entries in memory. A display may also be provided to allow a user to select from a list of best matching entries.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2013Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventor: Markus Schwarz
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Publication number: 20140114085Abstract: The present invention refers to the preparation of 3-cyano-3,5,5-trimethylcyclohexanone (isophorone nitrile, abbreviation IPN) using a calcium alkoxide, particularly calcium ethoxide, as catalyst.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2012Publication date: April 24, 2014Applicant: Evonik Degussa GmbHInventors: Markus Schwarz, Andreas Merkel, Joerg-Joachim Nitz, Gerda Grund
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Publication number: 20140107379Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing isophorone (3,5,5-trimethyl-2-cyclohexen-1-one) in the presence of at least one defoamer in the wastewater column in the workup section.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2012Publication date: April 17, 2014Applicant: Evonik Degussa GmbHInventors: Matthias Orschel, Robert Jansen, Martin Maier, Joerg-Joachim Nitz, Markus Schwarz
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Patent number: 8666743Abstract: The invention provides a speech recognition method for selecting a combination of list elements via a speech input, wherein a first list element of the combination is part of a first set of list elements and a second list element of the combination is part of a second set of list elements, the method comprising the steps of receiving the speech input, comparing each list element of the first set with the speech input to obtain a first candidate list of best matching list elements, processing the second set using the first candidate list to obtain a subset of the second set, comparing each list element of the subset of the second set with the speech input to obtain a second candidate list of best matching list elements, and selecting a combination of list elements using the first and the second candidate list.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2010Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: Markus Schwarz, Matthias Schulz, Marc Biedert, Christian Hillebrecht, Franz Gerl, Udo Haiber