Patents by Inventor Martin Brunner

Martin Brunner 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: 11976030
    Abstract: The presently claimed invention relates to a process for the recovery of 3-methyl-3-buten-1-ol from a stream obtained in the production of 3-methyl-3-buten-1-ol from 2-methylprop-1-ene and formaldehyde, by treating the stream with an amine catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Andreas Keller, Roland Minges, Martin Kamasz, Gabriele Gralla, Bernhard Brunner
  • Publication number: 20240128855
    Abstract: A charging voltage converter on a vehicle is equipped with an upstream circuit, which includes at least one working inductor. Furthermore, the converter has a switching unit, which is connected downstream of the upstream circuit. The working inductor connects a first input potential of an input of the voltage converter to the switching unit. A second input potential of the input is connected via a reverse current blocking device of the upstream circuit to the switching unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Franz Pfeilschifter, Martin Götzenberger, Manuel Brunner
  • Publication number: 20240035994
    Abstract: To provide a thermal analysis system and a thermal analysis method capable of easily performing thermal analysis while suppressing atmospheric exposure associated with sample movement. A thermal analysis system according to the present disclosure includes a sample preparing unit and a thermal analyzing unit. The sample preparing unit includes a wall portion forming an internal space, a gate portion capable of opening and closing an opening of the wall portion, and a sample holding member including a sample holder and temperature sensors. The thermal analyzer includes a moving mechanism for moving a sample holder into a thermal analysis part, a sealing mechanism for sealing the sample holder from an internal space of a sample preparation part, and a coupling mechanism for connecting a heating tube of the thermal analysis part to a gate part in a state of sealing the heating tube from the outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Martin Brunner, Ryoichi Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 11873387
    Abstract: A mono or multi-layer polyester film is described. Also described, is a process for producing the mono or multi-layer polyester film, the use of a surface-treated filler material product as a voiding agent in the mono or multi-layer polyester film, and an article including the mono or multi-layer polyester film. Further, use of the mono or multi-layer polyester film is described in packaging products, insulating materials, solar, marine or aviation applications, science, electronic or acoustic applications, wires, cables, radio frequency identifications, flexible circuits, graphic arts, stone paper, holograms, filter products, cosmetic products, household products, imaging, recording media, or industrial products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: OMYA INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Martin Brunner, Michael Knerr, Michael Tinkl, Karsten Udo Schulz
  • Patent number: 11873388
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a mono or multi-layer polyester film, a process for producing the mono or multi-layer polyester film, an article comprising the mono or multi-layer polyester film as well as the use of the mono or multi-layer polyester film packaging products, insulating materials, solar, marine or aviation applications, science, electronic or acoustic applications, wires, cables, radio frequency identifications, flexible circuits, graphic arts, stone paper, holograms, filter products, cosmetic products, household products imaging, recording media, or industrial products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: OMYA INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Michael Knerr, Tazio Fornera, Pierre Blanchard, Karsten Udo Schulz, Martin Brunner, Sulejman Zendeli, Matthias Welker
  • Patent number: 11746196
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a mono or multi-layer biaxially oriented polypropylene film having a density of ?0.72 g/cm3, a process for producing the mono or multi-layer biaxially oriented polypropylene film, the use of at least one natural calcium carbonate as cavitation agent in the mono or multi-layer biaxially oriented polypropylene film, an article comprising the mono or multi-layer biaxially oriented polypropylene film as well as the uses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Omya International AG
    Inventors: Martin Brunner, Christoph Hirsiger, Pierre Blanchard, Christophe René Pierre Roux
  • Patent number: 11747176
    Abstract: A measuring device that includes a housing and at least one vibration damper attached to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: NETZSCH-Gerätebau GmbH
    Inventors: Jürgen Blumm, Martin Brunner, Reinhard Gschwendtner, Georg Krist, Fabian Wohlfahrt
  • Patent number: 11708478
    Abstract: The present invention refers to the use of at least one mono-substituted succinic anhydride before or during extrusion of a polymer composition comprising polylactic acid as polymer component and at least one calcium carbonate-comprising material as filler, to reduce the polymer decomposition during processing and/or to decrease the melt flow rate of such an extruded polymer as well as a method for reducing the polymer decomposition during processing and decreasing the melt flow rate of a polymer composition comprising polylactic acid as polymer component and at least one calcium carbonate-comprising material as filler, the use of a polymer composition obtainable by a process comprising the steps of a) providing at least one polylactic acid as polymer component, b) providing at least one calcium carbonate-comprising material as filler, c) providing at least one mono-substituted succinic anhydride and d) contacting the components of a), b) and c) in any order and e) extruding the contacted components of step d
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: OMYA INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Samuel Rentsch, Matthias Welker, Christopher Pichler, Martin Brunner, Michael Knerr, Tazio Fornera
  • Publication number: 20230183491
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a mineral matter powder preparation by wet process without acrylic additive or other grinding aid additives and to Me use of said mineral matter after an optional hydrophobic treatment. Said mineral material Having superior dispersing properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: OMYA INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Pierre BLANCHARD, Jean-Pierre ELGOYHEN, Beat KARTH, Holger MULLER, Jurgen SPEHN, Martin BRUNNER, Pascal GONNON, Michael TINKL
  • Publication number: 20230100308
    Abstract: A device for determining the temperature conductivity, the heat capacity and/or the thermal conductivity of a material sample. The device has a light emitter for exposing a front side of the sample to a light energy beam and a radiation detector for determining the temperature rise at a rear side of the sample facing away from the front side by detecting the radiation emitted there as a function of temperature, and a sample holder for holding the sample in a defined position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Stefan Lauterbach, Martin Brunner, Artem Lunev
  • Publication number: 20230047798
    Abstract: A process for the production of a nonwoven fabric. In particular, it relates to the production of a nonwoven fabric having desirable tactile and haptic as well as mechanical properties, as well as to the nonwoven fabric itself. The process requires the selection of specific polylactic acid polymers and corresponding process conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: OMYA INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Martin BRUNNER, Christophe ROUX, Simon FREMEAUX
  • Patent number: 11555122
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a mineral matter powder preparation by wet process without acrylic additive or other grinding aid additives and to the use of said mineral matter after an optional hydrophobic treatment. Said mineral material having superior dispersing properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Omya International AG
    Inventors: Pierre Blanchard, Jean-Pierre Elgoyhen, Beat Karth, Holger Müller, Jürgen Spehn, Martin Brunner, Pascal Gonnon, Michael Tinkl
  • Patent number: 11530313
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing a surface treated filler material product with succinic anhydride(s), a surface treated filler material product, a polymer composition, a fiber and/or filament and/or film and/or thread comprising the surface treated filler material product and/or the polymer composition, an article comprising the surface treated filler material product and/or the polymer composition and/or the fiber and/or filament and/or film and/or thread as well as the use of a mono-substituted succinic anhydride for decreasing the hydrophilicity of a calcium carbonate-containing filler material surface and the use of a surface-treated filler material product for initiating the crosslinking reaction in epoxide resins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: OMYA INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Samuel Rentsch, Matthias Buri, René Vinzenz Blum, Martin Brunner, Patrick A. C. Gane
  • Publication number: 20220307699
    Abstract: A cooking appliance includes a housing having a cooking chamber, a door, and a guide apparatus with a locking apparatus, which can lock the coupled state between the door and the guide apparatus. The locking apparatus has a bearing support with a holder, in which in the coupled state a bearing element engages. The locking apparatus has a tubular sleeve with a carrier, which is supported rotatably on the bearing support, so that in the coupled state when the sleeve is in a first rotational position, an unlocking position can be established between the sleeve and the bearing element and in the coupled state when the sleeve is in a second rotational position, a locking position can be established between the sleeve and the bearing element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Thorsten Rausch, Kerstin Sickert, Martin Brunner, Michael Essert
  • Publication number: 20220307172
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the production of a nonwoven fabric. In particular, the present invention relates to the production of a nonwoven fabric having desirable tactile and haptic properties, as well as to the nonwoven fabric itself. The process requires the selection of specific materials and process conditions. The fabric is produced from a masterbatch of isotactic polypropylene homopolymer and a surface-treated calcium carbonate filler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: OMYA INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Martin BRUNNER, Christophe Rene Pierre ROUX, Melanie MONCEAUX, Simon FREMEAUX
  • Patent number: 11438343
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a motor vehicle having a data network via multiple control devices of the motor vehicle for exchanging message data (that are coupled together, wherein the data network is subdivided into different domains and via each of the domains respectively some of the control devices are coupled to the data network and in each domain respectively other of the control devices are included and the exchange of message data is blocked between the control devices of different domains or permitted only as a function of an authorization check of at least one domain transition is provided. The disclosure provides that the data network also includes an overall domain and each of the control devices is also coupled via the overall domain to the data network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Karsten Schmidt, Felix Friedrich, Martin Brunner
  • Publication number: 20220275947
    Abstract: A cooking appliance includes a door for closing a cooking compartment and a guide device which guides the door when moving into and out of a stowage compartment and includes a guide track in a stowage-compartment delimiting wall and a guide carriage connected to the door and including a guide runner guided in the guide track and connected to a connecting rod of the guide carriage. A door-opening device automatically moves the door between closed and open positions and includes a coupling rod which is mechanically coupled directly to the connecting rod such as to permit a relative movement between the coupling rod and the connecting rod, and which is mounted for rotation about an axis of rotation oriented in a heightwise direction so that, when the coupling rod is pivoted about the axis of rotation, the connecting rod is carried along in a depthwise direction of the cooking appliance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Martin Brunner, Bortolo Inserra, Daniel Hausner
  • Patent number: 11371715
    Abstract: A cooking appliance includes a housing having a cooking chamber and a storage space, which is separate from the cooking chamber. A door is movably arranged on the housing for closing the cooking chamber and for lowering into the storage space in an opened state of the door. A handle is arranged in a fixed location on the door. Movably supported on the door is a guide element which is connected directly to a first end of a retaining spring on the door so as to maintain a coupling position of the guide element on the door. A guide track is mounted in the storage space for guiding the guide element on the door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Dankwardt, Kerstin Sickert, Martin Brunner, Thorsten Rausch
  • Publication number: 20220170767
    Abstract: A measuring device that includes a housing and at least one vibration damper attached to the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Jürgen Blumm, Martin Brunner, Reinhard Gschwendtner, Georg Krist, Fabian Wohlfahrt
  • Patent number: D1021852
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Ott, Carlos M. Santana, William R. Rochowicz, Robert Boyd, Martin Gschwandtl, Guillaume Raoult, Christopher Kuh, Robert Brunner