Patents by Inventor Michael GÖTZ

Michael GÖTZ 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: 20240072280
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for starting a fuel cell stack at temperatures below the freezing point of a reaction product produced during the reaction between an anode-side fuel and a cathode-side fuel. The fuel cell stack comprises a plurality of individual cells having at least one internal cell which is arranged in the stacking direction in the interior of the fuel cell stack and an edge cell which is arranged in the stacking direction at the edge of the fuel cell stack. The fuel cell stack is connected to a cooling circuit having cooling fluid for cooling the fuel cell stack, which cooling fluid can be conducted through the fuel cell stack by a pump arranged in the cooling circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: EKPO Fuel Cell Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Dominik BERON, Jürgen KRAFT, Stefan HEMMER, Tobias KRÜGER, Michael GÖTZ
  • Publication number: 20230091303
    Abstract: The invention relates to a flow element, in particular, as a component of a bipolar plate of an electrochemical device, comprising a plate-like base body that extends in two main directions of extension that are oriented at an angle in relation to one another, and has an extension in a height direction that is oriented transversely and in particular perpendicularly thereto, wherein the base body has a channel structure having a plurality of channels that are arranged laterally adjacent to one another, wherein the channels are formed by recesses in the base body and are separated from one another by raised portions, arranged between the recesses, of the base body, wherein regions having a normal level difference, defined in the height direction, as a height difference between a raised portion and an adjoining recess are provided, as well as regions having a level difference, reduced in comparison with the normal level difference, as a height difference between a raised portion and an adjoining recess, wherein,
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: EKPO Fuel Cell Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Jürgen KRAFT, Manuel MORCOS, Michael GÖTZ, Wadim KAISER
  • Publication number: 20230016017
    Abstract: In order to create a bipolar plate for an electrochemical device, comprising at least one first bipolar plate layer and one second bipolar plate layer, between which an edge channel extending along a longitudinal direction is formed, and comprising a fluid channel running substantially in parallel to the edge channel, in which bipolar plate at least an edge channel portion of the edge channel can be flowed through by a fluid media to be supplied to the electrochemical device, for example by a fluid reaction media or by a cooling media, even though the edge channel has no direct fluidic connection to a medium channel by which the respective fluid media is supplied to the electrochemical device, it is proposed that the bipolar plate comprises at least one fluidic connection through which a fluid medium can flow from the edge channel into the adjacent fluid channel and/or from the adjacent fluid channel into the edge channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Jürgen KRAFT, Michael GÖTZ, Manuel MORCOS
  • Publication number: 20220384822
    Abstract: In order to create an electrochemical device, comprising a plurality of electrochemical units, which succeed one another along a stack direction, wherein each electrochemical unit comprises a bipolar plate and an electrically insulating seal, and a clamping device for clamping the electrochemical units along the stack direction, in which electrochemical device the risk of a short circuit between adjacent bipolar plates is reduced without the expenditure for the production of the electrochemical device being excessively increased, it is proposed that at least one seal of at least one electrochemical unit in the pressed state protrudes laterally beyond a contour of the bipolar plate of the electrochemical unit in a direction of protrusion directed perpendicularly to the stack direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Peter STAHL, Jürgen KRAFT, Manuel MORCOS, Michael GÖTZ
  • Patent number: 11469436
    Abstract: In order to provide a fuel cell device which can be produced simply and cost-effectively, it is proposed that the fuel cell device comprises the following: a plurality of fuel cell elements which are stacked one on top of another along a stacking direction and form a fuel cell stack; a clamping device for securing the fuel cell elements; a fluid guide unit for supplying fuel and/or oxidizer and/or coolant to the fuel cell elements and/or for removing fuel and/or oxidizer and/or exhaust gas and/or coolant from the fuel cell elements, wherein the clamping device comprises two or more crossmembers which extend at least approximately perpendicularly to the stacking direction, wherein in each case at least one crossmember is arranged at each end of the fuel cell stack, wherein the crossmembers can be drawn towards one another by means of clamping elements and the fuel cell stack can thereby be clamped between the crossmembers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: ElringKlinger AG
    Inventors: Stefan Hemmer, Jürgen Kraft, Manuel Morcos, Michael Götz, Wadim Kaiser
  • Publication number: 20210046211
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of ceramic parts that at least partly consist of a ceramic foam in the field of medical technology.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Inventors: Ulrike DEISINGER, Michael GÖTZ, Andreas REMPP
  • Patent number: 10875429
    Abstract: The invention relates to a sensor module (1), comprising: at least a first sensor (10) that is designed to measure relative humidity and/or temperature, wherein the sensor module (1) is configured to be mounted in an automotive seat (2), which automotive seat (2) comprises a seat cover region (200) forming an outer surface (200a) of the seat that faces a passenger (P) sitting on the automotive seat (2), wherein the sensor module (1) is configured to be mounted such in said automotive seat (2) that it is spaced apart from said seat cover region (200). Further, the invention relates to an automotive seat (2) comprising such a sensor module (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: SENSIRION AUTOMOTIVE SOLUTIONS AG
    Inventors: Lukas Hoppenau, Michael Gotze, Markus Graf, Pascal Hunziker
  • Publication number: 20200144651
    Abstract: In order to provide a fuel cell device which can be produced simply and cost-effectively, it is proposed that the fuel cell device comprises the following: a plurality of fuel cell elements which are stacked one on top of another along a stacking direction and form a fuel cell stack; a clamping device for securing the fuel cell elements; a fluid guide unit for supplying fuel and/or oxidizer and/or coolant to the fuel cell elements and/or for removing fuel and/or oxidizer and/or exhaust gas and/or coolant from the fuel cell elements, wherein the clamping device comprises two or more crossmembers which extend at least approximately perpendicularly to the stacking direction, wherein in each case at least one crossmember is arranged at each end of the fuel cell stack, wherein the crossmembers can be drawn towards one another by means of clamping elements and the fuel cell stack can thereby be clamped between the crossmembers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2020
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicant: ElringKlinger AG
    Inventors: Stefan HEMMER, Jürgen KRAFT, Manuel MORCOS, Michael GÖTZ, Wadim KAISER
  • Publication number: 20200061238
    Abstract: Disclosed is a ceramic sliding partner for a sliding bearing, said sliding partner being made at least in part, preferably entirely, of a ceramic foam. The ceramic sliding partner comprises at least one sliding surface on which a sliding partner can move, said sliding surface being made at least in part, preferably entirely, of a ceramic foam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Mateusz Maria JUSZCZYK, Michael GÖTZ
  • Patent number: 6146782
    Abstract: A fuel cell anode for the oxidation of methanol, which contains at least one platinum metal or alloys of platinum metals as the primary, catalytically active component. The anode is characterized in that it also contains transition metal complexes of phthalocyanine or substituted phthalocyanines as cocatalyst, these amplifying the catalytic effect of the platinum metals and their alloys for the anodic oxidation of methanol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2000
    Assignee: Degussa-Huls Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hartmut Wendt, Michael Gotz
  • Patent number: 5935410
    Abstract: A process for producing a structured area of porous silicon on a substrate, in which silicon is etched and structured by means of illumination, includes selectively aiming the illumination during or after the formation of the porous silicon directly at a selected area of a p-doped substrate in order to effect etching and structuring of the porous silicon in another area. A device for carrying out the process includes an illuminating system for supporting the etching process and for structuring the porous silicon, in which the illuminating system is selectively aimed during or after the formation of the porous silicon directly at a selected area of p-doped substrate in order to effect etching and structuring of the porous silicon in another area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1999
    Assignee: Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Thonissen, Michael Kruger, Hans Luth, Michael Gotz Berger, Wolfgang Theiss, Gilles Lerondel, Robert Romestain
  • Patent number: 5874047
    Abstract: A three-dimensional structure of porous silicon considerably improves the anchorage of sensor-active material such as, for example, enzymes, antibodies, etc., on or in the substrate surface of chemical sensors, in particular silicon-based biosensors. This structure is produced by means of suitable etching which forms pore apertures adapted to the penetrability of the sensor-active material. The pore walls advantageously receive a non-conductive boundary layer which consists of oxides of Si and/or Al or Ta or silicon nitride and are preferably 1-100 nm thick. The porous layer is advantageously between 10 nm and 100 .mu.m thick and the pores are preferably in the form of branched ducts whose average diameter is 1 nm-10 .mu.m and in particular 10-1000 nm. The sensor-active material can optionally be distributed in a glass, solid, plastics or polymer membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1999
    Assignee: Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Josef Schoning, Marion Thust, Stephan Frohnhoff, Michael Gotz Berger, Rudiger Arens-Fischer, Peter Kordos, Hans Luth
  • Patent number: 5831329
    Abstract: An electronic component has electrically activatable layer, e.g. in electroluminescent layer of porous silicon on a body of which two multiarthogonal grids are buried. A conductive layer on the electrically activatable layer forms a drain and another conductor forms the source, the grid bars being independently energizable to form current channels through the electrically activatable layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1998
    Assignee: Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH
    Inventors: Michel Marso, Andreas Schuppen, Herbert Munder, Michael Gotz Berger, Hans Luth
  • Patent number: 5696629
    Abstract: The invention relates to an optical component consisting of transparent thin layers of differing thickness and refractive indices. Such optical components are used, for example, as interference filters and mirrors. Optical components made of layers with gradually changing refractive indices are also known as waveguides of anti-reflective coatings. The invention achieves the aim of using, instead of layers of ordinary materials, another material by means of a component in which the layers consist of porous silicon. The special advantages of porous silicon as a coating material arises not only from the ease and economy of manufacture, but also in the facility for obtaining gradual refractive index transitions. It is therefore very easily possible to make waveguides on a silicon chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 9, 1997
    Assignee: Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Gotz Berger, Herbert Munder, Stephan Frohnhoff, Markus Thonissen, Hans Luth