Patents by Inventor Michael Kessler

Michael Kessler 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: 10440930
    Abstract: A hybrid mushroom culture of Agaricus bisporus, designated as strain J15987, includes a representative culture of the strain, which has been deposited under NRRL Accession No. 67646.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: SYLVAN AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Richard W. Kerrigan, Mark P. Wach, Michael A. Kessler, Mark G. Loftus, Michelle E. Schultz, William P. Swanik, Anthony J. Velko, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20190248067
    Abstract: A process is described for producing a three dimensional structure, the process including the following steps a) applying of at least a first material M1 onto a substrate to build a first layer L1 on the substrate; b) layering of at least one further layer Ly of the first material M1 or of a further material Mx onto the first layer L1, wherein the at least one further layer Ly covers the first layer L1 and/or previous layer Ly?1 at least partially to build a precursor of the three dimensional structure; c) curing the precursor to achieve the three dimensional structure; wherein at least one of the materials M1 or Mx provides a Mooney viscosity of >10 ME at 60° C. and of <200 ME at 100° C. before curing and wherein at least one of the first material Mi or of the further material Mx is a powder. Also, a three dimensional structure is described which is available according to the process according to the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Applicant: Covestro Deutschland AG
    Inventors: Dirk ACHTEN, Thomas BÜSGEN, Dirk DIJKSTRA, Bettina METTMANN, Levent AKBAS, Roland WAGNER, Michael KESSLER
  • Patent number: 8949665
    Abstract: An integrated bus controller and power supply device includes a typical or standard bus controller and a bus power supply disposed in a common housing, the size and external configuration of which may match a standard bus controller device associated with a typical I/O communication network. The bus controller may store and implement one or more control routines using one or more field devices connected to the I/O communication network while the bus power supply generates and provides the appropriate power signal to the bus of the I/O communication network, the power signal being used to power the field devices connected to the I/O communication network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Fisher-Rosemount Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Keith Law, Kent Allen Burr, Michael L. Marshall, Michael Kessler
  • Patent number: 8664425
    Abstract: Fluorescent compositions having emission under long UV excitation can be utilized as security taggants in printing inks. The fluorescent compositions can be esters of 2-naphthalenesulfonamide, and can be produced as solids in crystal or powder form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Potrawa, Michael Kessler
  • Patent number: 8351176
    Abstract: An electrical installation comprising control and/or monitoring means connected to a field device by means of an electrical communications circuit, in which the communications circuit comprises a power supply, a communications device, the field device as a load thereof, and Intrinsic Safety means, in which the communications device is adapted to send and receive signals over the communications circuit to and from the field device, in which the field device is adapted to send and receive signals over the communications circuit to and from the communications device, in which the Intrinsic Safety means renders all or part of the communications circuit Intrinsically Safe, in which the field device is located in an Intrinsically Safe part of the communications circuit, characterized in which the communications circuit is adapted to carry DSL signals, and in which the communications device and the field device communicate with one another according to the DSL protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Pepperl + Fuchs GmbH
    Inventors: Renato Kitchener, Gunther Rogoll, Michael Kessler
  • Patent number: 8274774
    Abstract: An electrical circuit comprising a power supply, a load, a pair of parallel positive cables between the power supply and the load, a pair of parallel negative cables between the load and the power supply, and incendive arc prevention means, comprising: monitoring means adapted to detect if the current and/or voltage in one of the pair of cables deviates from the other, and a control means adapted to fully or partially isolate the power supply from the pair of cables if the monitoring means detects that their current and/or voltage has deviated from the other, characterised in which: the electrical circuit comprises a common positive section between the power supply and the pair of positive cables, and a common negative section between the pair of negative cables and the power supply, in which a first modulation means is adapted to generate a modulated communications signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Pepperl + Fuchs GmbH
    Inventors: Renato Kitchener, Gunther Rogoll, Michael Kessler
  • Publication number: 20120094038
    Abstract: Yellow and yellow-green fluorescent compounds are provided herein that can be incorporated into carriers (e.g., inks) and applied (e.g., printed) as security features on substrates (e.g., documents). The compounds can be selected based upon their resistance to humidity, and preferably exhibit a high initial fluorescence intensity, and a relatively high fluorescence intensity as well as a low relative intensity loss after prolonged humidity exposure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Thomas R. Potrawa, Michael Kessler
  • Patent number: 8141540
    Abstract: In an internal combustion engine, at least one rotation variable characterizing the rotational movement of a crankshaft is ascertained cylinder-specifically. It is provided that, in an operating state in which differences and/or fluctuations of the rotation variable are basically a function of a combustion position, the instant of a fuel injection is adapted cylinder-specifically in order to reduce the differences and or fluctuations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Horst Wagner, Michael Kessler, Simon Wunderlin, Jens Damitz, Thomas Bossmeyer
  • Patent number: 8109253
    Abstract: Methods for ascertaining the combustion noises of an internal combustion engine need only a structure-borne noise sensor and may be carried out using little computing power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Schueler, Michael Kessler, Mohamed Youssef, Arnold Engber, Axel Loeffler
  • Publication number: 20110190528
    Abstract: Fluorescent compositions having emission under long UV excitation can be utilized as security taggants in printing inks. The fluorescent compositions can be esters of 2-naphthalenesulfonamide, and can be produced as solids in crystal or powder form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2011
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Thomas Potrawa, Michael Kessler
  • Publication number: 20110131455
    Abstract: An integrated bus controller and power supply device includes a typical or standard bus controller and a bus power supply disposed in a common housing, the size and external configuration of which may match a standard bus controller device associated with a typical I/O communication network. The bus controller may store and implement one or more control routines using one or more field devices connected to the I/O communication network while the bus power supply generates and provides the appropriate power signal to the bus of the I/O communication network, the power signal being used to power the field devices connected to the I/O communication network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2010
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Gary K. Law, Kent A. Burr, Michael L. Marshall, Michael Kessler
  • Patent number: 7921700
    Abstract: A method for determining cylinder-specific combustion features of an internal combustion engine, the cylinder-specific combustion features being ascertained from a variable which represents the crankshaft speed, especially being ascertained from a signal of a crankshaft sensor or camshaft sensor. The cylinder-specific combustion features include a combustion position of at least one cylinder and/or a torque of the crankshaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Raichle, Peter Skala, Andreas Rupp, Wolfgang Fischer, Michael Kessler, Mohamed Youssef, Joerg Breuninger, Haris Hamedovic, Axel Loeffler
  • Patent number: 7920957
    Abstract: A method for metering fuel into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine is provided, in which a fuel quantity to be metered for a combustion is metered by a preinjection and at least one additional injection, and in which, in the operation of the internal combustion engine, quantity errors of the preinjection are ascertained from the signal of at least structure-borne noise sensor. The method is distinguished in that a correction value is formed as a function of the quantity error of the preinjection, and at least one of the additional injections is corrected using the correction value. A control device is also provided that controls the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Patrick Mattes, Mark Damson, Matthias Schueler, Christian Mader, Michael Kessler, Vincent Dautel
  • Patent number: 7881855
    Abstract: A method and control unit for metering fuel into at least one combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine comprising at least one pilot injection and one main injection per combustion cycle, combustion features being detected and an effect of a fuel quantity injected prior to the main injection being ascertained from the combustion features. An actual value of a combined effect of at least two pilot injections per combustion cycle is ascertained and the actual value is regulated to a setpoint value via an intervention on at least one of the pilot injections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Jens Damitz, Matthias Schueler, Christian Mader, Michael Kessler, Vincent Dautel, Arvid Sievert
  • Patent number: 7876544
    Abstract: An electrical circuit comprising a power supply, a load and an incendive arc prevention means comprising a monitoring means and an isolation means, in which the monitoring means monitors the electrical circuit by means of a reactor means, in which if a short circuit with the potential to cause an incendive arc occurs in the electrical circuit the reaction of the reactor means is detected by the monitoring means and the isolation means fully or partially isolates the power supply from said short circuit, such that an incendive arc cannot occur, in which if an event with a current and/or voltage pattern which is characteristic of a propagating non-incendive arc occurs in the electrical circuit between the power supply and the load, the reaction of the reactor means is detected by the monitoring means, and the isolation means fully or partially isolates the power supply from said event, such that an incendive arc cannot occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Pepperl + Fuchs GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Kessler, Gunther Rogoll, Martin Junker, Renato Kitchener
  • Publication number: 20100303138
    Abstract: An electrical installation comprising control and/or monitoring means connected to a field device by means of an electrical communications circuit, in which the communications circuit comprises a power supply, a communications device, the field device as a load thereof, and Intrinsic Safety means, in which the communications device is adapted to send and receive signals over the communications circuit to and from the field device, in which the field device is adapted to send and receive signals over the communications circuit to and from the communications device, in which the Intrinsic Safety means renders all or part of the communications circuit Intrinsically Safe, in which the field device is located in an Intrinsically Safe part of the communications circuit, characterised in which the communications circuit is adapted to carry DSL signals, and in which the communications device and the field device communicate with one another according to the DSL protocol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2008
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: PEPPERL & FUCHS
    Inventors: Renato Kitchener, Gunther Rogoll, Michael Kessler
  • Patent number: 7810425
    Abstract: The present invention includes a method apparatus and system for processing grains, sugars, carbohydrates and oilseeds. Specifically, the present invention includes a method and apparatus for fermenting carbohydrates from grains to produce ethanol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Inventor: Michael Kessler
  • Publication number: 20100195255
    Abstract: An electrical circuit comprising a power supply, a load, a pair of parallel positive cables between the power supply and the load, a pair of parallel negative cables between the load and the power supply, and incendive arc prevention means, comprising: monitoring means adapted to detect if the current and/or voltage in one of the pair of cables deviates from the other, and a control means adapted to fully or partially isolate the power supply from the pair of cables if the monitoring means detects that their current and/or voltage has deviated from the other, characterised in which: the electrical circuit comprises a common positive section between the power supply and the pair of positive cables, and a common negative section between the pair of negative cables and the power supply, in which a first modulation means is adapted to generate a modulated communications signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2008
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: PEPPERL & FUCHS (DE)
    Inventors: Renato Kitchener, Gunther Rogoll, Michael Kessler
  • Patent number: 7669462
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine having at least two combustion chambers, the internal combustion engine having at least one sensor for detecting a parameter partially characterizing the course of combustion, in particular a parameter correlating with an internal combustion chamber pressure. The sensor is situated in a region of the internal combustion engine between two mutually adjacent combustion chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Kessler, Mattias Schueler, Martin Buchholz
  • Patent number: 7654132
    Abstract: In a method for indirectly ascertaining the cylinder pressure during the operation of piston engines by measuring cylinder pressure-dependent parameters at crankshaft bearings of the piston engine, one essential feature is that the force which is introduced by the main bearings of the crankshaft into an engine housing is measured. For performing the method, sensors for obtaining cylinder pressure-correlating signals are disposed on the bearing screws, and that the signals generated by the sensors are carried to the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Birk, Michael Kessler, Martin Buchholz