Patents by Inventor Michael Lorenz

Michael Lorenz 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: 12269202
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for transferring an embossed structure to at least a part of a surface of a coating (B2), using a composite (F1B1) composed of a substrate (F1) and of an at least partially embossed and at least partially cured coating (B1), where the coating (B2) and the coating (B1) of the composite (F1B1) have embossed structures which are mirror images of one another. Also described herein is a composite (B2B1F1). Further described herein is a use of this composite for producing an at least partially embossed coating (B2) in the form of a free film or a composite (B2KF2) composed of a substrate (F2), at least one adhesive (K), and the coating (B2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: BASF COATINGS GMBH
    Inventors: Jan-Bernd Kues, Susanne Piontek, Joerg Exner, Joerg Lenz, Birgit Kleine-Bley, Wilfried Schipper, Robert von der AA, Frank Bergmann, Michael Lorenz, Sven Olle Krabbenborg, Joerg Duennewald
  • Publication number: 20250102729
    Abstract: Methods for producing a multicore fiber comprise a method step in which a component group is reshaped to form the multicore fiber or a pre-form for the multicore fiber, which comprises a hollow cylinder comprising a central bore and a hollow cylinder longitudinal axis, which hollow cylinder comprises a cladding glass region made of cladding glass and a plurality of core glass regions occupied by a core glass, wherein at least part of the central bore is occupied by a glass filling material. In order to provide a method for producing multicore fibers without central signal core, in which the risk of rejects during the completion of the hollow glass cladding cylinder is reduced, a marker element made of marker glass adjacent to the glass filling material is used, which extends along the longitudinal axis of the central bore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Kay SCHUSTER, Michael LORENZ, Manuel ROSENBERGER, Michael HÜNERMANN, Tobias TIESS, Thomas KAYSER, Martin BÖTTCHER
  • Publication number: 20240345313
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a multicore fiber comprised of an elongate base body containing a glass cladding material and having at least two through-holes, inserting a core rod into the through-holes so as to form a component ensemble, drawing the component ensemble to form the multicore fiber, wherein the component ensemble is held from above by a holder made of glass, which is connected to the base body so as to form a welding contact surface. The fitting of the base body with core rods is not limited by the layout of the holder, and which in particular allows placement of all core rods from above even after the holder has been welded on, a holder with an elongate hollow part is used, having a hollow channel with an inner contour that is larger than a hole area circumference within which the through-holes lie at least 90% of their diameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventor: Michael LORENZ
  • Publication number: 20240216861
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for decomposing nitrous oxide from a gas stream (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Andreas WOELFERT, Michael LORENZ, Gerrit WATERS, Marcu REBLE, Holger FRIEDRICH, Andreas WEICKGENANNT, Wolfgang GMEINER
  • Publication number: 20240216862
    Abstract: The invention relates on a process for working-up a nitrous oxide comprising off-gas stream from a production process of adipic acid by decomposing the nitrous oxide contained in the off-gas stream into nitrogen and oxygen in a fixed bed reactor (21) of a N2O decomposition unit (9) at a temperature in the range from 430 to 800° C. to obtain a purified gas, wherein for controlling the N2O decomposition unit (9) a nonlinear model predictive control is used which is based on a reactor model of the fixed bed reactor based on equations of energy transport and species transport for nitrogen, oxygen and N2O.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Andreas WÖLFERT, Michael LORENZ, Gerrit WATERS, Marcus REBLE, Holger FRIEDRICH, Andreas WEICKGENANNT, Wolfgang GMEINER
  • Publication number: 20240217860
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing an MCF preform having a center longitudinal axis, a plurality of core rods each positioned in a respective core hole and extending along the axis, and a common cladding covering each of the plurality of core rods. The process includes the following steps. A cylinder is provided which will form the cladding of the preform and may have a center core hole. Peripheral core holes are created in the cylinder extending along the longitudinal axis. Each of a plurality of core rods is inserted into a respective peripheral core hole. The cylinder with the core rods inserted in the respective core holes is heated by exposing the cylinder and core rods to a heating element, thereby integrating the core rods and the cylinder and forming the preform, wherein the position error of the core holes with respect to the diameter of the preform is ?0.6%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Qiulin MA, Kai Huei CHANG, Kay SCHUSTER, Michael LORENZ
  • Patent number: 11969755
    Abstract: Described herein are a method for transferring an embossed structure, which includes at least the steps (1-i) and (2-i) or (1-ii) and (2-ii), where steps (1-i) and (2-i) or (1-ii) and (2-ii) are carried out using an embossing tool (P1) including at least one embossing die (p1), where the embossing die (p1) of the embossing tool (P1) is pretreated, before the implementation of step (2-i) or before the implementation of step (1-ii), with at least one organic solvent and/or at least one reactive diluent, and also a method of using a corresponding pretreated embossing tool (P1) including at least one embossing die (p1) for the purpose of transferring an embossed structure in such a way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: BASF COATINGS GMBH
    Inventors: Jan-Bernd Kues, Susanne Piontek, Joerg Exner, Birgit Kleine-Bley, Alberto Garcia Martin, Jens-Henning Noatschk, Michael Lorenz, Robert Von Der Aa, Frank Bergmann, Wilfried Schipper
  • Publication number: 20240105468
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a power module, comprising: providing an insulating substrate, composed of a first metal layer, a second metal layer, and an insulating layer placed between the first metal layer and second metal layer; formation of numerous contact wires located on a first side of the insulating substrate facing away from the second metal layer and on a second side of the insulating substrate facing away from the first metal layer; applying an electrically conductive layer to the first side, which comes in contact with numerous power switches, and applying a heatsink to the second side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Michael FÜGL, Torsten SCHELLER, Michael LORENZ, Sigrid ZISCHLER
  • Patent number: 11865858
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for transferring an embossed structure to a surface of a coating composition (B2a), which includes the steps (1-i) and (2-i) or (1-ii) and (2-ii) and also the steps (3) and optionally (4), where the steps (1-i) and (2-i) or (1-ii) and (2-ii) are performed using a composite (F1B1) which is employed as an embossing die (p2) of an embossing tool (P2) and which is composed of a substrate (F1) and of an at least partially embossed and at least partially cured coating (B1), and the coating composition (B1a) used for producing (B1) of the composite (F1B1) is a radiation-curable coating composition of defined constitution. Also described herein is a composite (F1B1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: BASF COATINGS GMBH
    Inventors: Jan-Bernd Kues, Susanne Piontek, Joerg Exner, Birgit Kleine-Bley, Robert von der Aa, Michael Lorenz, Frank Bergmann, Wilfried Schipper, Sven Olle Krabbenborg, Joerg Duennewald
  • Publication number: 20220314272
    Abstract: Described herein are a method for transferring an embossed structure, which includes at least the steps (1-i) and (2-i) or (1-ii) and (2-ii), where steps (1-i) and (2-i) or (1-ii) and (2-ii) are carried out using an embossing tool (P1) including at least one embossing die (p1), where the embossing die (p1) of the embossing tool (P1) is pretreated, before the implementation of step (2-i) or before the implementation of step (1-ii), with at least one organic solvent and/or at least one reactive diluent, and also a method of using a corresponding pretreated embossing tool (P1) including at least one embossing die (p1) for the purpose of transferring an embossed structure in such a way.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Jan-Bernd Kues, Susanne Piontek, Joerg Exner, Birgit Kleine-Bley, Alberto Garcia Martin, Jens-Henning Noatschk, Michael Lorenz, Robert Von Der Aa, Frank Bergmann, Wilfried Schipper
  • Publication number: 20220304593
    Abstract: Provided is a posture recognition system that can properly respond to an error that is changed according to a user's motion. A posture estimation section calculates posture data indicating a posture of a user wearing clothing, on the basis of motion data measured by a posture sensor attached to the clothing. An error estimation section calculates error data which is an estimate of an error that is occurring in the posture data, on the basis of the motion data and the posture data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Takehiro NIIKURA, Takayuki AKIYAMA, Bertram TAETZ, Gabriele BLESER, Michael LORENZ, Didier STRICKER
  • Publication number: 20210338928
    Abstract: An injection device has a generally disc-shaped housing including an arcuate clear section and graduated markings in an arcuate arrangement on or adjacent to the clear section. An arcuately expandable member is contained within the housing and is configured to hold a volume of liquid. An indicator is connected to the expandable member and positioned within the housing. The indicator is configured to move along an arcuate path adjacent to the clear section such that alignment of the indicator with the graduated markings indicates a volume of liquid within the expandable member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Michael D. Hooven, Matthew J. Huddleston, Joetta Renee Palmer, David Stefanchik, Michael Lorenz
  • Publication number: 20210129415
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for transferring an embossed structure to at least a part of a surface of a coating (B2), using a composite (F1B1) composed of a substrate (F1) and of an at least partially embossed and at least partially cured coating (B1), where the coating (B2) and the coating (B1) of the composite (F1B1) have embossed structures which are mirror images of one another. Also described herein is a composite (B2B1F1). Further described herein is a use of this composite for producing an at least partially embossed coating (B2) in the form of a free film or a composite (B2KF2) composed of a substrate (F2), at least one adhesive (K), and the coating (B2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: BASF Coatings GmbH
    Inventors: Jan-Bernd KUES, Susanne PIONTEK, Joerg EXNER, Joerg LENZ, Birgit KLEINE-BLEY, Wilfried SCHIPPER, Robert VON DER AA, Frank BERGMANN, Michael LORENZ, Sven Olle KRABBENBORG, Joerg DUENNEWALD
  • Patent number: 10974964
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a reactor R with apparatus D, the latter comprising a gas- and/or liquid-permeable tray B, in the edge region of which there is disposed a lateral boundary W which fully encloses the tray B and forms a volume V comprising catalytic and/or noncatalytic shaped bodies (F), wherein there is at least one braid made of precious metal and/or base metal on the upstream side opposite the tray B, and the catalytic and/or noncatalytic shaped bodies (F) are selected from (i) shaped bodies (F1) in the form of straight prisms, the footprint of which is selected from triangle, rectangle, hexagon or fragments of these polygons, and (ii) a combination of the shaped bodies (F1) with shaped bodies (F2) that are smaller than the shaped bodies (F1), wherein groups of m to n shaped bodies (F1), m and n being an integer from 3 to 30 with n>m, are framed in a metal cassette open in the upstream direction and closed in the downstream direction by a gas-permeable tray, in a virtually seamless manner
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Inventors: Gerhard Olbert, Jochen Gauer, Holger Friedrich, Andreas Spiegel, Andreas Wölfert, Wolfgang Gmeiner, Michael Lorenz
  • Publication number: 20210023873
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for transferring an embossed structure to a surface of a coating composition (B2a), which includes the steps (1-i) and (2-i) or (1-ii) and (2-ii) and also the steps (3) and optionally (4), where the steps (1-i) and (2-i) or (1-ii) and (2-ii) are performed using a composite (F1B1) which is employed as an embossing die (p2) of an embossing tool (P2) and which is composed of a substrate (F1) and of an at least partially embossed and at least partially cured coating (B1), and the coating composition (B1a) used for producing (B1) of the composite (F1B1) is a radiation-curable coating composition of defined constitution. Also described herein is a composite (F1B1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Jan-Bernd Kues, Susanne Piontek, Joerg Exner, Birgit Kleine-Bley, Robert von der Aa, Michael Lorenz, Frank Bergmann, Wilfried Schipper, Sven Olle Krabbenborg, Joerg Duennewald
  • Patent number: 10874818
    Abstract: An aerosol delivery system, which includes an aerosol delivery unit, the aerosol delivery unit including: a cartridge receiver, which is configured to receive a cartridge assembly; and an inductor configured to receive the cartridge assembly and heat a liquid formulation within a capillary tube to produce an aerosol by induction heating. The cartridge assembly including an active part of the cartridge assembly including a capillary tube; a susceptor, the susceptor configured to partially surround the capillary tube; and a pair of displaceable covers, which surround at least the capillary tube and the susceptor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Philip Morris USA Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Hassenpflug, Larry Keith Hooks, Jr., James A. Prescott, Ludwin Mora, Michael Scott Ulrich, Jane O'Loughlin, Steve Wilder, William G. Atterbury, Thomas D. Haubert, Ryan Somogye, Michael Ko, Stephen C. Schmitt, Michael Lorenz, Lawrence A. Weinstein, James Leamon
  • Patent number: 10611725
    Abstract: The present invention relates to beta-naphthol ether sulfonic acids or salts thereof having the general formula (I) R—O-(AO)n—CH2—CH2—S(O)3M (I), where R, AO, n and M have the definitions stated in the claims and in the description, to mixtures thereof, to aqueous solutions and to electrolytes comprising them, to processes for preparing them and to the use of these.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Sophie Maitro-Vogel, Michael Lorenz, Tobias Urban, Silke Annika Koehler
  • Patent number: 10501406
    Abstract: The invention relates to polyphenyl polymethylene polyisocyanates having an NCO number of at least 29% comprising less than 2% by weight ureas, less than 8% by weight carbodiimides or uretonimines and less than 1000 ppm organic chlorine compounds. The polyphenyl polymethylene polyisocyanates can be prepared according to the invention by reacting (i) polyphenyl polymethylene polyamines with organic carbonates to give the corresponding polyphenyl polymethylene polycarbamates, (ii) by thermally cleaving the polyphenyl polymethylene polycarbamates to give the polyphenyl polymethylene polyisocyanates, wherein, prior to the thermal cleavage, the free amino groups or urea groups present in the carhamate crude mixture comprising the polyphenyl polymethylene polycarbamates are reacted with a derivatizing reagent to give amide groups or urethane groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Michael Lorenz, Axel Franzke, Robert Baumann, Michael Bock, Geert Janssens
  • Patent number: 10450558
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a new method for enriching and/or isolating nucleic acids from microbial cells which comprises filtering a liquid sample through a nucleic acid-binding matrix which has a pore size small enough to retain microbial cells, lysing the microbial cells on the matrix to release the nucleic acids from the microbial cells, binding the nucleic acids to the matrix and subsequently eluting the DNA. The invention also relates to a method for enriching and/or isolating nucleic acids from microbial cells which are present in a liquid sample that comprises microbial cells and higher eukaryotic cells and/or tissues. The invention also provides a cartridge for carrying out the methods of the invention. Finally, the invention relates to kits for carrying out the methods of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Molzym GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Michael Lorenz
  • Patent number: 10416570
    Abstract: An optical imaging arrangement includes an optical element unit, and an actuator device connected to the optical element unit and is configured to be connected to a support structure for supporting the optical unit. The actuator device is configured to: actively adjust, in an adjustment state, a position and/or an orientation of the optical unit with respect to the support structure in N degrees of freedom; and support the optical element unit in a statically overdetermined manner in at least one of the N degrees of freedom via a plurality of active first and second actuator components such that, in a holding state following the adjustment state, the first and second actuator components cause a parasitic residual load introduced into the optical element unit in the at least one of the N degrees of freedom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
    Inventors: Jens Kugler, Stefan Hembacher, Michaela Schmid, Bernhard Geuppert, Burkhard Corves, Martin Riedel, Martin Wahle, Mathias Huesing, Michael Lorenz, Tim Detert, Marwène Nefzi