Patents by Inventor Ralf Sindelar

Ralf Sindelar 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: 7795693
    Abstract: The description is of a flat substrate with an electrically conductive structure integrated inside the flat substrate or applied to a surface of the flat substrate and/or with a technically improved surface. The invention is characterised in that at least one sensor is integrated inside the flat substrate or applied to a surface of the flat substrate, which generates sensor signals according to deformations occurring inside the flat substrate, at least one actuator is integrated inside the flat substrate or applied to the surface of the flat substrate, which enables the flat substrate to mechanically deform when activated, and a signal unit connected to the at least one sensor and to the at least one actuator is provided, which, on the basis of the sensor signals, generates actuator signals for activating the actuator, so that deformations occurring inside the flat substrate are reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Angewandten Forschung E. V.
    Inventors: Heinz Kaufmann, Tobias Melz, Ralf Sindelar
  • Publication number: 20080315941
    Abstract: The description is of a flat substrate with an electrically conductive structure integrated inside the flat substrate or applied to a surface of the flat substrate and/or with a technically improved surface. The invention is characterised in that at least one sensor is integrated inside the flat substrate or applied to a surface of the flat substrate, which generates sensor signals according to deformations occurring inside the flat substrate, at least one actuator is integrated inside the flat substrate or applied to the surface of the flat substrate, which enables the flat substrate to mechanically deform when activated, and a signal unit connected to the at least one sensor and to the at least one actuator is provided, which, on the basis of the sensor signals, generates actuator signals for activating the actuator, so that deformations occurring inside the flat substrate are reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2006
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung derangewandten Forschung e. V.
    Inventors: Heinz Kaufmann, Tobias Melz, Ralf Sindelar
  • Publication number: 20040044110
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing a polyceramic composite-material body, wherein a mixture of one or more polymer materials (i), one or more fillers (ii), and a further reactive component (iii), defined below, are subjected to a first temperature treatment to produce a green body and then to a further temperature treatment, at elevated temperatures that for a mixture without component (iii) lead only to partial pyrolysis; wherein the reactive component (iii) is added, in order to react with the structure-forming components of the polymer materials used and/or the reactive gases present, and by that means extensive dimensional constancy at various durations of pyrolysis and various material thicknesses is attained at an instant at which, without the addition of component (iii), dimensional constancy is not yet attained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2003
    Publication date: March 4, 2004
    Applicant: Rauschert GmbH
    Inventors: Theo te Baay, Ralf Sindelar, Peter Greil