Patents by Inventor Peter Merkel

Peter Merkel 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: 20240082850
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a cross-flow shredder for grinding material with integrated dust-tight conveying means and air recirculation, and a method for grinding material using the cross-flow shredder according to the disclosure. An apparatus and a method for comminuting material to be ground are disclosed, the apparatus comprising a feed opening for material to be ground, a feed device, a cross-flow shredder, two screw conveyors for conveying the material to be ground and an intermediate dust-tight bunker, the two screw conveyors being connected in a dust-tight manner to the cross-flow shredder on the respective feed side and in a rod-tight manner to the intermediate bunker on the discharge side, the intermediate bunker being connected to the cross-flow shredder via a hose or pipe system, and the intermediate bunker having a discharge opening closed by a slide valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Martin Dreismann, Peter Merkel
  • Publication number: 20210340064
    Abstract: A filler for production of cement-bound shaped bodies, comprising a material group mixture of comminuted and sorted waste materials, conditioned with chemical reagents/compounds in the presence of water, wherein the material group mixture is composed of comminuted and sorted waste materials, selected from the following material groups: PPK: paper, paperboard, cardboard plastics inert material textiles wood which are mixed according with a mass-related material group vector and then comminuted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Jürgen STEINMÜLLER, Peter MERKEL, Martin DREISMANN
  • Patent number: 10543664
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a molding made from blowing agent-containing foam comprising at least one fiber (F), wherein the at least one fiber (F) is partially introduced into the blowing agent-containing foam. The two ends of the respective fiber (F) that are not surrounded by the blowing agent-containing foam thus project from one side of the corresponding molding. The present invention also provides the molding as such. The present invention further provides a panel comprising at least one such molding, produced by the process according to the invention, and at least one further layer (S1). The present invention also provides for the production of the panels of the invention and for the use thereof, for example as a rotor blade in wind turbines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Holger Ruckdäschel, Rene Arbter, Robert Stein, Daniela Longo-Schedel, Tim Diehlmann, Bangaru Sampath, Peter Gutmann, Alexandre Terrenoire, Markus Hartenstein, Andreas Kirgis, Alessio Morino, Gregor Daun, Marc Claude Martin, Peter Merkel, Thomas Kiciak
  • Patent number: 10090703
    Abstract: A converter module for use in a switchgear assembly for power distribution, has: one or more AC supply bus bars for providing AC power supply; one or more AC or DC power distribution bus bars for distributing power to loads; and one or more converter units for converting AC power from the AC supply bus bars to AC or DC power onto AC or DC power distribution bus bars, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: ABB AG
    Inventors: Hans-Peter Merkel, Matthias Forstbach, Andre Schaerer
  • Publication number: 20180257345
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a molding made from blowing agent-containing foam comprising at least one fiber (F), wherein the at least one fiber (F) is partially introduced into the blowing agent-containing foam. The two ends of the respective fiber (F) that are not surrounded by the blowing agent-containing foam thus project from one side of the corresponding molding. The present invention also provides the molding as such. The present invention further provides a panel comprising at least one such molding, produced by the process according to the invention, and at least one further layer (S1). The present invention also provides for the production of the panels of the invention and for the use thereof, for example as a rotor blade in wind turbines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: Holger RUCKDÄSCHEL, Rene ARBTER, Robert STEIN, Daniela LONGO-SCHEDEL, Tim DIEHLMANN, Bangaru SAMPATH, Peter GUTMANN, Alexandre TERRENOIRE, Markus HARTENSTEIN, Andreas KIRGIS, Alessio MORINO, Gregor DAUN, Marc Claude MARTIN, Peter MERKEL, Thomas KICIAK
  • Publication number: 20170369667
    Abstract: The invention relates to a molding composed of extruded foam, wherein at least one fiber (F) is present with a fiber region (FB2) within the molding and is surrounded by the extruded foam, while a fiber region (FB1) of the fiber (F) projects from a first side of the molding and a fiber region (FB3) of the fiber (F) projects from a second side of the molding, and the extruded foam is produced by an extrusion process comprising the following steps: I) providing a polymer melt in an extruder, II) introducing at least one blowing agent into the polymer melt provided in step I) to obtain a foamable polymer melt, III) extruding the foamable polymer melt obtained in step II) from the extruder through at least one die aperture into an area at lower pressure, with expansion of the foamable polymer melt to obtain an expanded foam, and IV) calibrating the expanded foam from step III) by conducting the expanded foam through a shaping tool to obtain the extruded foam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Holger RUCKDÄSCHEL, Rene ARBTER, Robert STEIN, Daniela LONGO-SCHEDEL, Tim DIEHLMANN, Bangaru SAMPATH, Peter GUTMANN, Alexandre TERRENOIRE, Markus HARTENSTEIN, Andreas KIRGIS, Gregor DAUN, Marc Claude MARTIN, Peter MERKEL, Thomas KICIAK, Alessio MORINO
  • Publication number: 20170005514
    Abstract: A converter module for use in a switchgear assembly for power distribution, has: one or more AC supply bus bars for providing AC power supply; one or more AC or DC power distribution bus bars for distributing power to loads; and one or more converter units for converting AC power from the AC supply bus bars to AC or DC power onto AC or DC power distribution bus bars, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: Hans-Peter Merkel, Matthias Forstbach, Andre Schaerer
  • Patent number: 9287687
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical low-voltage switchgear, comprising at least two power units accommodated in slide-in units or in a housing, and comprising control units assigned to the power units. The control units are spatially separated from the power units and power levers and are connected to one another via signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: ABB PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Klaus Kraft, Hans-Peter Merkel
  • Publication number: 20160023434
    Abstract: A process for the production of an at least two-layer thermoplastic foam sheet via symmetrical bonding, e.g., by thermal welding, of at least two thinner thermoplastic foam sheets to give the at least two-layer thermoplastic foam sheet. The invention further relates to thermoplastic foam sheets having at least two layers. The number of the layers of the thermoplastic foam sheet derives from the number of thin thermoplastic foam sheets that are thermally welded to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Dietrich SCHERZER, Klaus HAHN, Christoph HAHN, Tim DIEHLMANN, Peter MERKEL, Franz-Josef DIETZEN, Carsten SANDNER, Cathrin SCHRÖDER, Maria-Kristin SOMMER
  • Patent number: 9090768
    Abstract: A mixture which comprises from 5 to 50% by weight of a block copolymer A, which comprises one or more copolymer blocks (B/S)A each composed of from 65 to 95% by weight of vinylaromatic monomers and from 35 to 5% by weight of dienes and of a glass transition temperature TgA in the range from 40° to 90° C.; from 95 to 50% by weight of a block copolymer B, which comprises at least one hard block S composed of vinylaromatic monomers and comprises one or more copolymer blocks (B/S)B each composed of from 20 to 60% by weight of vinylaromatic monomers and from 80 to 40% by weight of dienes and of a glass transition temperature TgB in the range from ?70° to 0° C.; from 0 to 45% by weight of polystyrene or of a block copolymer C other than A and B; and from 0 to 6% by weight of a plasticizer; and its use for production of shrink films.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Styrolution Europe GmbH
    Inventors: Konrad Knoll, Helmut Steininger, Michael Schuster, Daniel Wagner, Peter Merkel
  • Patent number: 8994543
    Abstract: A diagnosis and maintenance device is provided for a switchgear assembly, for example, a low-voltage switchgear assembly. The diagnosis and maintenance device includes a data processing device and at least one first, internal interface device, which is connected to at least one connected and communication-capable apparatus in the switchgear assembly in a communicating manner and polls and/or processes the diagnosis and maintenance information and/or status information of the connected and communication-capable apparatus and provides said information in an accessible manner as usable and/or human-readable information and/or outputs and/or displays said information as usable and/or human-readable information. A switchgear assembly having such a device is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: ABB AG
    Inventors: Hans-Peter Merkel, Matthias Forstbach, Ralf Graf
  • Patent number: 8770630
    Abstract: A method for providing a hose pipe connection is disclosed. Embodiments of the method start with a pipe having an enlarged end portion. A sleeve is introduced into the end of the flexible hose. The sleeve has an inner diameter that is equal to the inner diameter of the hose. In an embodiment, the inner diameter of the sleeve is increased while the end of the hose is already placed on the sleeve. The hose fitted with the sleeve is then introduced into the enlarged end of the pipe. Crimping of the enlarged end will then secure the sleeve and the hose and provide a fluid tight and mechanically sturdy connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Eaton Fluid Power GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Zenon Zakrzewski, Andreas Richard Hilgert, Markus Angelo Ullrich, Ralph Peter Merkel
  • Publication number: 20120280491
    Abstract: A method for providing a hose pipe connection is disclosed. Embodiments of the method start with a pipe having an enlarged end portion. A sleeve is introduced into the end of the flexible hose. The sleeve has an inner diameter that is equal to the inner diameter of the hose. In an embodiment, the inner diameter of the sleeve is increased while the end of the hose is already placed on the sleeve. The hose fitted with the sleeve is then introduced into the enlarged end of the pipe. Crimping of the enlarged end will then secure the sleeve and the hose and provide a fluid tight and mechanically sturdy connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2012
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Inventors: Thomas Zenon Zakrzewski, Andreas Richard Hilgert, Markus Angelo Ullrich, Ralph Peter Merkel
  • Publication number: 20120283345
    Abstract: The invention is directed to extruded foam based on thermoplastic polymers. The foam contains at least one styrene copolymer which contains copolymerized maleic anhydride units or copolymerized maleimide units, and optionally styrene-acrylonitrile copolymers (SAN), and thermoplastic polymers and at least one halogen-containing polymer as flame retardant, and at least one flame retardant synergist selected from antimony trioxide and dicumyl. The invention also relates to a process for producing the foam with introducing carbon dioxide as blowing agent, and acetone as coblowing agent; into the polymer melt in order to form a foamable melt, and extruding the foamable melt into a region of relatively low pressure with foaming to give the extruded foam. The invention also relates to the use of said foam as insulation material and as structural foam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2012
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Holger Ruckdäschel, Ingo Bellin, Christian Däschlein, Klaus Hahn, Peter Merkel, Juan-Manuel Igea-Ruiz, Herbert Schall, Maria-Kristin Sommer, Tobias Höld, Christoph Hahn, Elmar Boy
  • Publication number: 20120262300
    Abstract: A diagnosis and maintenance device is provided for a switchgear assembly, for example, a low-voltage switchgear assembly. The diagnosis and maintenance device includes a data processing device and at least one first, internal interface device, which is connected to at least one connected and communication-capable apparatus in the switchgear assembly in a communicating manner and polls and/or processes the diagnosis and maintenance information and/or status information of the connected and communication-capable apparatus and provides said information in an accessible manner as usable and/or human-readable information and/or outputs and/or displays said information as usable and/or human-readable information. A switchgear assembly having such a device is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: ABB AG
    Inventors: Hans-Peter MERKEL, Matthias Forstbach, Ralf Graf
  • Publication number: 20120252914
    Abstract: Flame-retardant polymer foams which comprise, as flame retardant, at least one halogenated polymer, for example brominated polystyrene or styrene-butadiene block copolymer having bromine content in the range from 40 to 80% by weight, or tetrabromobisphenol A compounds (TBBPA), processes for producing these, and also flame-retardant expandable styrene polymers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Klaus Hahn, Olaf Kriha, Ingo Bellin, Frank Braun, Patrick Spies, Jan Kurt Walter Sandler, Geert Janssens, Jürgen Fischer, Christoph Fleckenstein, Hartmut Denecke, Sabine Fuchs, Peter Merkel, Manfred Pawlowski, Holger Ruckdäschel, Klemens Massonne
  • Patent number: 8262285
    Abstract: A device for measuring gas temperature in a casing box having different heat-generating units disposed therein. The device includes a temperature-measuring arrangement disposed substantially in a plane above the different heat-generating units. The temperature-measuring arrangement includes a matrix of uniformly distributed temperature sensors configured to measure a temperature of rising gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: ABB AG
    Inventors: Rudiger Kratschmar, Ralf Graf, Hans-Peter Merkel
  • Patent number: 8230573
    Abstract: A method for providing a hose pipe connection is disclosed. Embodiments of the method start with a pipe having an enlarged end portion. A sleeve is introduced into the end of the flexible hose. The sleeve has an inner diameter that is equal to the inner diameter of the hose. In an embodiment, the inner diameter of the sleeve is increased while the end of the hose is already placed on the sleeve. The hose fitted with the sleeve is then introduced into the enlarged end of the pipe. Crimping of the enlarged end will then secure the sleeve and the hose and provide a fluid tight and mechanically sturdy connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Eaton Fluid Power GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Zenon Zakrzewski, Andreas Richard Hilgert, Markus Angelo Ullrich, Ralph Peter Merkel
  • Patent number: 8217104
    Abstract: A mixture which comprises a) from 25 to 75% by weight of a block copolymer A which comprises at least one hard block S composed of vinylaromatic monomers and comprises one or more soft blocks BA in each case composed of from 0 to 5% by weight of vinylaromatic monomers and from 95 to 100% by weight of dienes, where the proportion by weight of the hard blocks S in the block copolymer A is from 65 to 90% by weight; b) from 5 to 25% by weight of a block copolymer B which comprises at least one hard block S composed of vinylaromatic monomers and comprises one or more copolymer blocks (B/S)B in each case composed of from 20 to 60% by weight of vinylaromatic monomers and from 80 to 40% by weight of dienes, where the proportion by weight of the hard blocks S in the block copolymer B is from 25 to 70% by weight; c) from 0 to 70% by weight of polystyrene or of a block copolymer C other than A and B, and d) from 0 to 6% by weight of a plasticizer D, where the entirety of components A) to D) gives 100% by weight, and
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Styrolution GmbH
    Inventors: Jennifer Stewart, Peter Merkel, Daniel Wagner, Konrad Knoll, Jürgen Koch
  • Publication number: 20120164425
    Abstract: A thermoplastic extruded foam sheet having a thickness in the range from 15 mm to 200 mm and cells having an average cell size in the range from 20 to 2000 ?m, wherein the cell membranes have a fibrous structure with fiber diameters below 1500 nm is useful for example as insulating material, especially in the building construction industry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Holger Ruckdäschel, Jens Aßmann, Carsten Schips, Klaus Hahn, Georg Gräßel, Jürgen Lambert, Christof Zylla, Peter Merkel, Geert Janssens