Patents by Inventor Reinhard Schaefer

Reinhard Schaefer 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: 10782456
    Abstract: A reflector element and a method for manufacturing a reflector element are disclosed. In an embodiment the reflector element includes a plastic substrate and a silver layer arranged on the plastic substrate. The reflector element further includes a first barrier layer arranged on the silver layer, wherein the barrier layer has an at least 15 nm-thick oxide layer and a second barrier layer arranged on the first barrier layer, wherein the barrier layer includes siloxane, and wherein a thickness of the second barrier layer is at least 250 nm and at most 450 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: SITECO GMBH
    Inventors: Mark Schürmann, Peter Munzert, Dirk Salz, Klaus Stockwald, Reinhard Schaefer, Stefan Kotter, Paul Braun
  • Publication number: 20180045864
    Abstract: A reflector element and a method for manufacturing a reflector element are disclosed. In an embodiment the reflector element includes a plastic substrate and a silver layer arranged on the plastic substrate. The reflector element further includes a first barrier layer arranged on the silver layer, wherein the barrier layer has an at least 15 nm-thick oxide layer and a second barrier layer arranged on the first barrier layer, wherein the barrier layer includes siloxane, and wherein a thickness of the second barrier layer is at least 250 nm and at most 450 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Inventors: Mark Schürmann, Peter Munzert, Dirk Salz, Klaus Stockwald, Reinhard Schaefer, Stefan Kotter, Paul Braun
  • Patent number: 9503006
    Abstract: In some aspects, a power supply system for a plasma application and/or an induction heating system includes at least two controllable power generators of different types. Each controllable power generator includes an associated identifier, and at least one operating unit for controlling at least one of the power generators, the operating unit includes an operating application to import the respective identifiers from the power generators that are connected to the operating application, and based on generator-specific configuration data that are stored for each power generator and the identifiers, the operating application constructs a graphic user interface on a display device of the operating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: TRUMPF Huettinger GmbH + Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Pohl, Ulrich Heller, Holger Raschke, Richard Gottschalk, Reinhard Schaefer
  • Publication number: 20120101642
    Abstract: In some aspects, a power supply system for a plasma application and/or an induction heating system includes at least two controllable power generators of different types. Each controllable power generator includes an associated identifier, and at least one operating unit for controlling at least one of the power generators, the operating unit includes an operating application to import the respective identifiers from the power generators that are connected to the operating application, and based on generator-specific configuration data that are stored for each power generator and the identifiers, the operating application constructs a graphic user interface on a display device of the operating unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2011
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicant: HUETTINGER ELEKTRONIK GMBH + CO. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Pohl, Ulrich Heller, Holger Raschke, Richard Gottschalk, Reinhard Schaefer
  • Patent number: 7826309
    Abstract: A method for measuring a fill level of a fill substance in a container and for monitoring at least one predetermined fill level (LMIN, LMAX), using a fill level measuring device working according to the travel-time principle, as well as a corresponding fill level measuring device, wherein the monitoring satisfies high safety standards, wherein, in each measuring cycle, transmission signals (S) are sent toward the fill substance and their echo signals (E) are received, the fill level is determined, based on the echo signals (E), in a first evaluation method, and it is determined, based on the echo signals (E), in a second evaluation method independent of the first evaluation method, whether the fill level exceeds or falls beneath the predetermined fill levels (LMIN, LMAX).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Endress + Hauser GmbH + Co. KG
    Inventors: Dietmar Spanke, Edgar Schmitt, Reinhard Schaefer, Holger Steltner
  • Publication number: 20080302439
    Abstract: A method for measuring a fill level (7) of a fill substance (1) in a container (3) and for monitoring at least one predetermined fill level (LMIN, LMAX), using a fill level measuring device (5) working according to the travel-time principle, as well as a corresponding fill level measuring device (5), wherein the monitoring satisfies high safety standards, wherein, in each measuring cycle, transmission signals (S) are sent toward the fill substance (1) and their echo signals (E) are received, the fill level (7) is determined, based on the echo signals (E), in a first evaluation method, and it is determined, based on the echo signals (E), in a second evaluation method independent of the first evaluation method, whether the fill level exceeds or falls beneath the predetermined fill levels (LMIN, LMAX).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2004
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Applicant: Endress + Hauser GmbH + Co. KG
    Inventors: Dietmar Spanke, Edgar Schmitt, Reinhard Schaefer, Holger Steltner
  • Patent number: 7176606
    Abstract: A lamp includes a transparent envelope having a first region defining an enclosed interior volume and a closure region adjacent to the first region, a light source in the interior volume and electrically coupled through the closure region, an interference filter coating on the exterior of the first region, and a light absorbing coating that is 7–40 nanometers thick on the exterior of the first region, except in a ring-shaped portion adjacent to the closure region that has a thickness of 50–200 nanometers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2007
    Assignees: Patent-Treuhand-Gesellschaft fur Elektrisch Gluhlampen mbH, Deposition Sciences Incorporated
    Inventors: Reinhard Schaefer, Robert Nichols, Florence Taitel
  • Publication number: 20040222727
    Abstract: The invention relates to a lamp comprising a transparent envelope having a first region defining an enclosed interior volume, and a closure region adjacent said first region, a light source located in said interior volume and electrically coupled to the exterior through said closure region, an interference filter coating formed on the exterior of said first region, said interference filter coating defining a spectral region of transparency, a light absorbing coating formed on the exterior of said first region, wherein said light absorbing coating comprises a ring-shaped portion having a layer thickness of at least 20 nanometer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2004
    Publication date: November 11, 2004
    Applicants: DESPOSITION SCIENCES INC., PATENT-TREUHAND-GESELLSCHAFT FUR ELEKTRISCHE GLUHLAMPEN MBH
    Inventors: Reinhard Schaefer, Robert Nichols, Florence Taitel
  • Patent number: 6661164
    Abstract: The invention relates to an incandescent lamp whose lamp vessel (20) has an interference filter (30) with locally differing layer thickness for producing red light. The interference filter (30) has a second absorber layer and additional layers of low optical refraction and high optical refraction for reducing its transmission in the violet, blue and green spectral regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: Patent-Treund-Gesellschaft F. Elektrische Gluehlampen mbH
    Inventors: Juergen Ruemmelin, Reinhard Schaefer
  • Publication number: 20010043033
    Abstract: The invention relates to an incandescent lamp whose lamp vessel (20) has an interference filter (30) with locally differing layer thickness for producing red light. The interference filter (30) has a second absorber layer and additional layers of low optical refraction and high optical refraction for reducing its transmission in the violet, blue and green spectral regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2001
    Publication date: November 22, 2001
    Applicant: Patent-Treuhand-Gesellschaftfuer elektrische Gluehlampen mbH
    Inventors: Juergen Ruemmelin, Reinhard Schaefer