Patents by Inventor Michael Baier
Michael Baier 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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Patent number: 6860210Abstract: A rail vehicle system that has connecting bogies, supply units, control units, and transportation units, which can be placed on said connecting bogies in order to form a train with a modular construction. The connecting bogies contain at least two axles, one of which is equipped with an electrical drive/brake unit, and which are configured so that they can be separated in a clutch-like manner. The supply units may contain vital devices such as current collectors, transformers and power converters for extracting power form a contact line and feeding it back into the contract line or converters of primary energy or electrical energy. The control units can be configured to be independent of current and load. The transportation units may differ according to whether they are for transporting passengers or goods and according to the type of goods being transported. The interfaces of all of the units are uniform and are configured in such a way that the units can be interchanged quickly and easily.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2002Date of Patent: March 1, 2005Inventor: Michael Baier
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Patent number: 6743404Abstract: A reactor for the catalytic oxidation of ammonia to form nitrogen oxides which has a noble metal gauze catalyst and a heat exchanger in that order in the direction of flow, a catalyst for the decomposition of N2O is located between the noble metal gauze catalyst and the heat exchanger and in a process for the catalytic decomposition of N2O in a gas mixture obtained in the preparation of nitric acid by catalytic oxidation of ammonia, where the N2O is decomposed catalytically over a catalyst of the decomposition of N2O, the hot gas mixture obtained from the catalytic oxidation of ammonia is brought to contact with the catalyst for the decomposition of N2O prior to subsequent cooling.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2000Date of Patent: June 1, 2004Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Volker Schumacher, Gert Bürger, Thomas Fetzer, Michael Baier, Michael Hesse
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Publication number: 20040097768Abstract: Iron oxides are upgraded by calcining at from 700 to 1200° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2003Publication date: May 20, 2004Inventors: Christian Walsdorff, Michael Baier, Reinhard Krner, Klaus Harth, Gerald Vorberg, Wilhelm Ruppel
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Patent number: 6723295Abstract: A copper-containing catalyst of the composition of N2O contains a compound of the formula MxAl2O4, where M is Cu or a mixture of Cu and Zn and/or Mg and x is from 0.8 to 1.5. The novel catalyst is used in a process for the catalytic decomposition of pure N2O or N2O contained in gas mixtures, at elevated temperatures.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2001Date of Patent: April 20, 2004Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Michael Baier, Thomas Fetzer, Otto Hofstadt, Michael Hesse, Gert Bürger, Klaus Harth, Volker Schumacher, Hermann Wistuba, Bernhard Otto
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Publication number: 20030163012Abstract: Olefinically unsaturated hydrocarbons are prepared from corresponding paraffinic hydrocarbons, in particular propylene is prepared from propane, by dehydrogenation over a catalyst comprising an oxide of a transition metal of group IV B of the Periodic Table, eg. TiO2 or ZrO2, and possibly at least one element selected from among elements of transition group VIII, eg. palladium, platinum or rhodium, and/or an element of transition group VI, eg. chromium, molybdenum or tungsten, and/or rhenium and/or tin and possibly a compound of an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal, a compound of main group III or transition group III or zinc.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2003Publication date: August 28, 2003Inventors: Daniel Heineke, Michael Baier, Dirk Demuth, Klaus Harth
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Patent number: 6576804Abstract: Olefinically unsaturated hydrocarbons are prepared from corresponding paraffinic hydrocarbons, in particular propylene is prepared from propane, by dehydrogenation over a catalyst comprising an oxide of a transition metal of group IV B of the Periodic Table, eg. TiO2 or ZrO2, and possibly at least one element selected from among elements of transition group VIII, eg. palladium, platinum or rhodium, and/or an element of transition group VI, eg. chromium, molybdenum or tungsten, and/or rhenium and/or tin and possibly a compound of an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal, a compound of main group III or transition group III or zinc.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 1999Date of Patent: June 10, 2003Assignee: BASF AktiengesellshaftInventors: Daniel Heineke, Michael Baier, Dirk Demuth, Klaus Harth
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Publication number: 20030084814Abstract: The invention relates to a rail vehicle system which has connecting bogies (2) and supply units (3), control units (4) and transportation units (5) which can be placed on said connecting bogies in order to form a train with a modular construction. The connecting bogies (2) contain at least two axles, one of which is equipped with an electrical drive/brake unit and which are configured so that they can be separated in a clutch-like manner. The supply units (3) contain vital devices such as current collectors, transformers and power converters for extracting power from a contact line and feeding it back into the contact line or converters of primary energy into electrical energy. The control units (4) can be configured to be independent of current and load. The transportation units (5) differ according to whether they are for transporting passengers or goods and according to the type of good being transported.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2002Publication date: May 8, 2003Applicant: Bombardier Transportation GmbHInventor: Michael Baier
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Patent number: 6551958Abstract: A process for the preparation of a catalyst comprising iron oxide, potassium oxide, a magnesium compound and a cerium compound, wherein the catalyst has one or more Fe/K phases K2O.Fe2O3 1:n, where n is a natural number from 1 to 11, and a process for the dehydrogenation of ethylbenzene to styrene.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2000Date of Patent: April 22, 2003Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Michael Baier, Otto Hofstadt, Wolfgang Jürgen Pöpel, Hermann Petersen
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Patent number: 6508180Abstract: A method for positioning railroad freight cars at specified positions while using robust positioning devices. One end of a train is prepositioned inside a comparatively wide area and a buffer device is activated. The locomotive pulls the train in a direction of travel until the activated buffer engages with a counter-buffer. The locomotive then exerts an additional tractive force so that the train is lengthened, whereby the front end of the first car, thus of the car coupled to the locomotive, is arranged in the area of a second counter-buffer device. A second buffer device is subsequently activated in a similar manner. The locomotive now decreases the tractive force so that the train is drawn together and so that the second buffer engages the second counter-buffer. The described positioning can be effected in the same manner by applying a pressure pretension onto the train.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2001Date of Patent: January 21, 2003Inventors: Hans-Jürgen Weidemann, Michael Baier, Klaus-Dieter Hilderbrandt, Rolf Krouzilek
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Patent number: 6506582Abstract: A nucleic acid which can be used to express a polypeptide with interleukin-16 activity in a prokaryotic or eukaryotic host cell wherein the nucleic acid codes for a polypeptide with the amino acid sequence SEQ ID NO:2 or a SEQ ID NO:2 elongated N-terminally by an aspartic acid residue or a form shortened at the C-terminus by up to 8 amino acids, and is suitable for the production of an active IL-16 polypeptide.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 1999Date of Patent: January 14, 2003Assignee: Bundesrepublik Deutschland vertreten durch den Bundesminister fur GesundheitInventors: Reinhard Kurth, Michael Baier, Norbert Bannert, Albrecht Werner, Kurt Lang
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Patent number: 6474242Abstract: A rail vehicle system that has connecting bogies, supply units, control units, and transportation units, which can be placed on said connecting bogies in order to form a train with a modular construction. The connecting bogies contain at least two axles, one of which is equipped with an electrical drive/brake unit, and which are configured to be separable. The supply units may contain vital devices such as current collectors, transformers and power converters for extracting power form a contact line and feeding it back into the contact line or converters of primary energy into electrical energy. The control units can be configured to be independent of current and load. The transportation units may differ according to whether they are for transporting passengers or goods and according to the type of good being transported. The interfaces of all of the units are uniform and are configured in such a way that the units can be interchanged quickly and easily.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2000Date of Patent: November 5, 2002Inventor: Michael Baier
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Patent number: 6444202Abstract: A nucleic acid, which can be used to express a polypeptide with interleukin-16 activity in a prokaryotic or eukaryotic host cell, wherein the said nucleic acid codes for a polypeptide with the amino acid sequence SEQ ID NO:2 and/or a SEQ ID NO:2 N-terminally elongated by Ala-Ser or a form thereof which is shortened at its C-terminus by up to 8 amino acids, is suitable for producing an active IL-16 polypeptide.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 1999Date of Patent: September 3, 2002Assignee: Bundesrepublic Deutschland, vertreten durch den Bundesminister fur GesundheitInventors: Reinhard Kurth, Michael Baier, Albrecht Werner, Dorothee Ambrosius, Martin Lanzendörfer
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Patent number: 6383739Abstract: The present invention is directed to an Immunodeficiency-virus Suppressing Lymphokine (ISL) produced by stimulated CD8+ PBMC, cloning and isolation of nucleic acid molecules for eukaryotic ISL, and methods of treating viral infections with ISL. ISL is able to suppress the replication of viruses, especially retroviruses, in vitro and in vivo. More, specifically, a method is described for detecting a compound capable of inducing the expression of ISL by measuring the presence of ISL and the ability of ISL to inhibit HIV transcription.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 1999Date of Patent: May 7, 2002Assignee: Budesrepublik Deutschland Vertreten Durch Den BundesministerInventors: Reinhard Kurth, Michael Baier, Karin Metzner, Albrecht Werner
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Publication number: 20020034469Abstract: A process for removing chloride from chloridic iron oxide comprises mixing said chloridic iron oxide with an acid and subsequently conducting a thermal treatment at from 50 to 1300° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2001Publication date: March 21, 2002Inventors: Christian Walsdorff, Hermann Petersen, Klaus Harth, Michael Baier
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Patent number: 6338844Abstract: A nucleic acid with which expression of a polypeptide having interleukin-16 activity can be achieved or regulated in a prokaryotic or eukaryotic host cell, wherein in the region coding for the polypeptide, the nucleic acid (1) corresponds to the DNA sequence SEQ ID NOS:1 and 5-7 or its complementary strand; (b) hybridizes under stringent conditions with the DNA of sequence SEQ ID NOS:1 and 5-7; (c) or is a nucleic acid sequence which, if there was no degeneracy of the genetic code, would hybridize under stringent conditions with the nucleic acid sequences defined by (a) and (b); (d) and, if it codes for a polypeptide having interleukin-16 activity, is suitable as genomic DNA for the recombinant production of IL-16 in eukaryotic host cells and processes for producing the same and pharmaceutical compositions containing the same.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 1999Date of Patent: January 15, 2002Assignee: Bundesrepublik Deutschland vertreten durch de Bundesminister für GesundheitInventors: Reinhard Kurth, Michael Baier, Norbert Bannert, Karin Metzner, Albrecht Werner
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Patent number: 6207144Abstract: A nucleic acid which can be used to express a polypeptide with interleukin-16 activity in a prokaryotic or eukaryotic host cell, wherein in the region coding for the said polypeptide the said nucleic acid a)corresponds to the DNA sequence of nucleotides 54-1175 from SEQ ID NO:1 or to its complementary strand, b) hybridizes with the DNA of nucleotide sequence 54-785 from SEQ ID NO:1 under stringent conditions, c) hybridizes with the DNA of nucleotide sequence 786-1175 from SEQ ID NO:1 under stringent conditions and at the 5′ end begins with nucleotides 756-785 from SEQ ID NO:1 or a part thereof which codes for part of the sequence of amino acids 235-244 from SEQ ID NO:1 or d) it is a nucleic acid sequence which would hybridize under stringent conditions with the nucleic acid sequences defined by a) or b) without the degeneracy of the genetic code, codes for proteins with improved interleukin-16 activity.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 1998Date of Patent: March 27, 2001Assignees: Roche Diagnostics, GmbH, Bundesrepublik Deutschland, vertreten durch den Bundesminister fur GesundheitInventors: Reinhard Kurth, Michael Baier, Norbert Bannert, Karin Metzner, Albrecht Werner, Kurt Lang
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Patent number: 6046130Abstract: The catalyst comprising at least one alkali metal on a spinel or inverse spinel as carrier may be doped with at least one compound of an alkali metal and/or alkaline earth metal, where the alkali metal/carrier ratio by weight is from 0.01 to 5 and, when a dopant is present, the dopant/carrier ratio by weight is from 0.01 to 5.The spinel therein has formula (I) and the inverse spinel has formula (II)AB.sub.2 X.sub.4 (I)B(AB)X.sub.4 (II)whereA is divalent metal,B is tri- or tetravalent metal,X is O, S, Se, halogen, pseudohalogen,the charges being balanced, and A preferably being selected from Mg, Cr, Fe, Zn, Mn, Co, Ni, Cu, Cd, Sn and mixtures thereof, and B being selected from Al, Ga, In, Fe, V, Cr, Ti, Pb, Mn, Co, Rh, Ni, Si and mixtures thereof, and X being O.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 1998Date of Patent: April 4, 2000Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Thomas Narbeshuber, Georg Heinrich Grosch, Michael Trefzer, Eugen Gehrer, Michael Baier
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Patent number: 6028027Abstract: Catalysts comprising iron and potassium and, if desired, further elements, which catalysts are suitable for dehydrogenating hydrocarbons to give the corresponding olefinically unsaturated hydrocarbons, are prepared by calcining a finely divided dry or aqueous mixture of an iron compound with a potassium compound and, if desired, compounds of further elements in a first step that agglomerates having a diameter of from 5 to 50 .mu.m and formed from smaller individual particles are obtained and, in a second step, preferably after shaping, calcining it at from 300 to 1000.degree. C., with the maximum calcination temperature in the second step preferably being at least 30.degree. below the calcination temperature in the first step. The catalysts thus prepared are useful, in particular, for dehydrogenating ethylbenzene to give styrene.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 1998Date of Patent: February 22, 2000Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Michael Baier, Christopher William Rieker, Otto Hofstadt, Wolfgang Buchele, Wolfgang Jurgen Popel, Hermann Petersen, Norbert Neth
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Patent number: 5985613Abstract: An isolated polypeptide which inhibits the replication of retroviruses in peripheral blood lymphocytes and i) is encoded by the DNA sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 1 or complementary sequences; or ii) is encoded by DNA sequences which are degenerate to those of SEQ ID NO: 1 or its complement, and nucleic acids encoding said polypeptide. The protein is useful for inhibition of viral replication.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 1997Date of Patent: November 16, 1999Assignee: Budresrepublik Deutschland Vertreten Durch Den Bundesminister Fur GesundheitInventors: Reinhard Kurth, Michael Baier, Karin Metzner, Albrecht Werner
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Patent number: 5705009Abstract: This invention relates to a process for producing an insulation system (1) for an electrically conductive component (10). Use is made of an insulating material (5) which is protected against damage by the partial discharge of electric fields. To produce the insulating material (5), a substrate material (2) having an insulating coating (3) on one or both of its surfaces is impregnated with a chemical compound (4). This is hardened by radiation polymerisation and/or the application of heat to secure the insulating material (5) and bond the insulation system (1) permanently to the component (10).Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 1995Date of Patent: January 6, 1998Assignee: ABB Patent GmbHInventors: Michael Baier, Henning Oetzmann, Peter Klee