Patents by Inventor Rene Graf

Rene Graf 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: 20140180492
    Abstract: Method for anticipatory regulation of energy flows in an electrical supply grid of an automation installation, which includes a number of connecting devices that are connected to the electrical supply grid, wherein the connecting devices exchange information with respect to their energy requirements or their energy supply among one another and the connecting devices exchange energy among one another based on the information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2011
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Inventors: Rene Graf, Frank Konopka
  • Publication number: 20100017029
    Abstract: An industrial robot with a robotic arm and a data recording module connected to the robotic arm is described. The data recording module is designed for a wireless communication and has a self-sufficient power supply with a converter unit by which mechanical energy is converted into electrical energy, the energy from the movement of the robotic arm being used therefore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2009
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Inventor: Rene Graf
  • Publication number: 20060133908
    Abstract: An anchor element (11) has an anchor part (12), a sleeve part (13), and an expansion part (18) for expanding the sleeve part (13). The sleeve part (13) is secured to the anchor part (12) and is made of a thermoplastic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2005
    Publication date: June 22, 2006
    Inventors: Jakob Kunz, Falk Rosenkranz, Balz Gfeller, Frederic Pichelin, Mario Lehmann, Rene Graf
  • Patent number: 5244860
    Abstract: There is described a pressure-sensitive recording and transfer material containing in a first sheet a coating comprising one of the components (A) and (B) or a solvent for these components and in a second sheet the other or both of the components (A) and (B) and an electron-attracting and colour-developing material as component (C),(A) being a polycyclic compound of the formula ##STR1## where X is a monocyclic or polycyclic aromatic or heteroaromatic radical, Y is a substituent which is detachable as an anion, Q.sub.1 is --O--, --S--, ##STR2## Q.sub.2 is --CH.sub.2 --, --CO--, --CS-- or --SO.sub.2 --, R is hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 alkyl, C.sub.5 -C.sub.10 cycloalkyl, aryl, such as phenyl, or aralkyl, such as benzyl, and the ring A, which may be substituted, is an aromatic or heterocyclic radical of 6 ring atoms with or without a fused aromatic ring which may likewise be substituted, and(B) being an organic condensation component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1993
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Rene Graf, Werner Mischler, Peter Burri
  • Patent number: 4431213
    Abstract: A pressure-sensitive recording material which contains, on at least one support, at least one color former and one inorganic developer therefor applied in the form of coatings, said coatings additionally containing a urea-formaldehyde condensate with a BET specific surface area of 3 to 30 m.sup.2 /g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1980
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1984
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy AG
    Inventors: Arnold Hofer, Rene Graf, James H. Astbury