Patents by Inventor Rene RICHTER

Rene RICHTER 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: 11964138
    Abstract: In one aspect the present disclosure refers to a supplementary device for a manually operable injection device, the supplementary device comprising: a body attachable to an elongated housing of the injection device, at least one connector connected to the body and connectable to the housing, wherein the body is attachable to the housing via the at least one connector, a sensor arrangement coupled to at least one of the body and the at least one connector and configured to measure a longitudinal force component acting between the at least one connector and the body in a direction parallel to the elongation of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH
    Inventors: René Richter, Robert Witt, Richard Guenther
  • Publication number: 20240084708
    Abstract: A rotor of a gas turbine having two adjacent rotor discs, on each of which moving blades are fastened, an annular rotor component being arranged between the rotor discs and having at its opposite ends circumferential annular grooves, in each of which a circumferential fastening projection on the respective rotor disc engages. When the rotor is stationary a first outer flank of the first annular groove rests under pressure against a first outer flank of the first fastening projection and there is play between a first inner flank of the first annular groove and a first inner flank of the first fastening projection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Peter Kury, Mirko Milazar, Christopher W Ross, Yulia Bagaeva, Karsten Kolk, Ivan Lbov, Alexander Romanov, Harald Hoell, Kevin Kampka, Rene Mahnke, Andreas Andreas, Daniel Hofsommer, Ekkehard Maldfeld, Jörg Richter
  • Publication number: 20230330325
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a drug delivery device having a drive unit includes a stator comprising a plurality of coils consecutively arranged in an axial direction, and an armature axially movable within the stator, the armature including a number of magnets and pole shoes consecutively arranged in the axial direction. A respective pole shoe is arranged between respectively neighbouring magnets. At least one axial end of the armature comprises a terminal pole shoe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Christian Nessel, René Richter, Robert Witt, Richard Guenther
  • Publication number: 20230310736
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a medical pump for dispensing a liquid. The medical pump includes a housing, a receptacle and a piston. The housing includes an inlet for receiving said liquid and an outlet for dispensing said liquid. The receptacle includes a chamber and a passage that is in fluid communication with the chamber. The receptacle is received in the housing and is axially movable relative to the housing from a filling position, wherein the passage fluidly communicates the chamber with the inlet, to a dispensing position, wherein the passage fluidly communicates the chamber with the outlet. The piston is received in the chamber and is configured such that when the receptacle is in the filling position the piston is axially moveable relative to the receptacle and when the receptacle is in the dispensing position the piston is axially moveable relative to the receptacle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: René Richter, Sebastian Pech, Jens Lienig
  • Patent number: 11717607
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a drug delivery device having a drive unit includes a stator comprising a plurality of coils consecutively arranged in an axial direction, and an armature axially movable within the stator, the armature including a number of magnets and pole shoes consecutively arranged in the axial direction. A respective pole shoe is arranged between respectively neighbouring magnets. At least one axial end of the armature comprises a terminal pole shoe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH
    Inventors: Christian Nessel, René Richter, Robert Witt, Richard Guenther
  • Patent number: 11707565
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a medical pump for dispensing a liquid. The medical pump includes a housing, a receptacle and a piston. The housing includes an inlet for receiving said liquid and an outlet for dispensing said liquid. The receptacle includes a chamber and a passage that is in fluid communication with the chamber. The receptacle is received in the housing and is axially movable relative to the housing from a filling position, wherein the passage fluidly communicates the chamber with the inlet, to a dispensing position, wherein the passage fluidly communicates the chamber with the outlet. The piston is received in the chamber and is configured such that when the receptacle is in the filling position the piston is axially moveable relative to the receptacle and when the receptacle is in the dispensing position the piston is axially moveable relative to the receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Sanofi
    Inventors: René Richter, Sebastian Pech, Jens Lienig
  • Patent number: 11607490
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates in one aspect to a measuring arrangement for measuring a volume occupied by a liquid medium inside a liquid reservoir, the measuring arrangement including a container having an interior volume containing a gas reservoir filled with a gaseous medium and containing a liquid reservoir filled with a liquid medium, wherein the gas reservoir and the liquid reservoir are hermetically separated by an impenetrable separation wall, a volume modulator to induce a volume change of the gas reservoir, a pressure sensor arranged inside the gas reservoir to measure a pressure change of the gaseous medium in response to the volume change of the gas reservoir, and a controller connectable to the pressure sensor, wherein the controller is configured to calculate the volume of the liquid reservoir on the basis of the pressure change and the volume change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH
    Inventors: Rene Richter, Robert Witt, Richard Guenther, Thomas Nagel
  • Publication number: 20220255157
    Abstract: Rechargeable battery pack for an electric handheld power tool, wherein the rechargeable battery pack has a housing shell and a core pack which is accommodated in the housing shell, wherein the housing shell is potted with a potting compound which serves to dissipate heat from the core pack, wherein the potting compound is introduced into the housing shell at least in two layers by way of a first layer and a second layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Rene RICHTER, Alwin MÖHLMANN, Markus BUCHMEYER
  • Publication number: 20220131243
    Abstract: Rechargeable battery, in particular for supplying a machine tool with electrical power, comprising a housing for accommodating at least one energy storage cell, and a positive line and a negative line for connecting the at least one energy storage cell to an interface device. The rechargeable battery contains at least one overcurrent protection device in the positive line or in the negative line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Rene RICHTER, Andreas GUGGEMOS, Michael NITZSCHNER
  • Patent number: 11296054
    Abstract: A power semiconductor module, as well as a corresponding method of manufacture, are provided. The power semiconductor module has a plurality of power switches. A first subset of the power switches forms part of a first electrical current branch. A second subset of the power switches forms part of a second electrical current branch. Within the current branches, the associated power switches are arranged symmetrically with respect to the DC voltage contacts and are connected in such a way that a current density which is formed in the individual current paths which are respectively assigned to one of the power switches is at least substantially homogeneously distributed during the high frequency operation of the power semiconductor module and/or in the operation of the power switches with high voltage gradients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignees: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rene Richter, Thomas Schimanek, Maximillian Hofmann, Florian Hilpert, Andreas Schletz, Christoph Bayer, Uwe Waltrich
  • Patent number: 11246984
    Abstract: In one aspect the present disclosure refers to a measuring arrangement for measuring of a volume change of a liquid medium located inside a liquid reservoir, the measuring arrangement comprising: a gas tight enclosure having an interior volume containing a gas reservoir and containing the liquid reservoir, wherein the liquid reservoir is filled with a liquid medium, a gas inlet in flow connection with the gas reservoir and extending through a boundary of the gas tight enclosure to an exterior of the gas tight enclosure, an outlet connectable with the liquid reservoir and extending through the boundary of the gas tight enclosure, wherein the gas reservoir and the liquid reservoir are hermetically separated by an impenetrable separation wall, and a flow meter arranged in or across the gas inlet to measure an ingress of a gaseous medium through the inlet in response to a withdrawal of the liquid medium from the liquid reservoir through the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH
    Inventors: René Richter, Robert Witt, Richard Guenther, Thomas Nagel
  • Publication number: 20210252214
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a medical pump for dispensing a liquid. The medical pump comprises a housing, a receptacle and a piston. The housing comprises an inlet for receiving said liquid and an outlet for dispensing said liquid. The receptacle comprises a chamber and a passage that is in fluid communication with the chamber. The receptacle is received in the housing and is axially movable relative to the housing from a filling position, wherein the passage fluidly communicates the chamber with the inlet, to a dispensing position, wherein the passage fluidly communicates the chamber with the outlet. The piston is received in the chamber and is configured such that when the receptacle is in the filling position the piston is axially moveable relative to the receptacle and when the receptacle is in the dispensing position the piston is axially moveable relative to the receptacle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: René Richter, Sebastian Pech, Jens Lienig
  • Publication number: 20210218260
    Abstract: Protective apparatus for protecting a rechargeable battery pack including at least one rechargeable battery cell against an overvoltage in at least one line of the rechargeable battery pack. Method for protecting a rechargeable battery pack against an overvoltage, wherein the rechargeable battery pack includes at least one rechargeable battery cell and also a protective apparatus including a fuse device including at least one fuse, a short-circuiting line for optionally short-circuiting the at least one rechargeable battery cell by way of the at least one fuse, a monitoring device including at least one voltage comparator and at least one switch for optionally closing the short-circuiting line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Michael NITZSCHNER, Michael CANDUSSIO, Rene Richter, Andreas GUGGEMOS
  • Patent number: 11027406
    Abstract: The hand machine tool according to the invention has an integrated tool or a tool holder 2 to receive a tool 4. An electric motor 5 serves to drive the tool 4 or the tool holder 2. A battery pack 18 for supplying power to the electric motor 5 can be pushed into a guide 23 in a first direction. A plurality of electrical contacts 31 for contacting counter contacts 32 of the battery pack 18 are disposed in a contact holder 36. Wires 40, which are connected in each case to one of the electrical contacts 31, have cores which extend in a wave-like manner in the first direction 28 adjacent to the electrical counter contact 32.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Helmut Burger, Thomas Thanner, Rene Richter
  • Patent number: 10807227
    Abstract: An adapter apparatus for connecting a rechargeable battery to a power tool, containing a latching device for latching the adapter apparatus together with the power tool; and a locking device for locking the latching device is disclosed. The latching device is adjustable reversibly from a first position into a second position, wherein, in the first position, the adapter apparatus is firmly connected to the power tool and, in the second position, the adapter apparatus is detachable from the power tool, and the locking device is adjustable reversibly from a first position into a second position, wherein, in the first position, the locking device locks the latching device in the first position and, in the second position, the locking device does not lock the latching device and so the latching device is movable from the first position into the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: HILTI AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Thomas Thanner, Rene Richter, Johannes Stempfhuber
  • Publication number: 20200268964
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a drug delivery device having a drive unit includes a stator comprising a plurality of coils consecutively arranged in an axial direction, and an armature axially movable within the stator, the armature including a number of magnets and pole shoes consecutively arranged in the axial direction. A respective pole shoe is arranged between respectively neighbouring magnets. At least one axial end of the armature comprises a terminal pole shoe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Christian Nessel, René Richter, Robert Witt, Richard Guenther
  • Patent number: 10712148
    Abstract: A method for determining a position of a component in a medical apparatus along a travel distance. The method comprising the steps of generating light by a light source; fixing the component movably along a travel distance; providing a photosensitive sensor surface, and generating a silhouette of the component on the sensor surface by irradiating the component with light from the light source. Data relating to the silhouette is converted by a data processing unit into the position of the component along the travel distance. The component whose position is determined may comprise a stopper of a cartridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Rene Richter
  • Patent number: 10682459
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a drug delivery device having a drive unit includes a stator comprising a plurality of coils consecutively arranged in an axial direction, and an armature axially movable within the stator, the armature including a number of magnets and pole shoes consecutively arranged in the axial direction. A respective pole shoe is arranged between respectively neighbouring magnets. At least one axial end of the armature comprises a terminal pole shoe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH
    Inventors: Christian Nessel, René Richter, Robert Witt, Richard Guenther
  • Publication number: 20200152611
    Abstract: A power semiconductor module, as well as a corresponding method of manufacture, are provided. The power semiconductor module has a plurality of power switches. A first subset of the power switches forms part of a first electrical current branch. A second subset of the power switches forms part of a second electrical current branch. Within the current branches, the associated power switches are arranged symmetrically with respect to the DC voltage contacts and are connected in such a way that a current density which is formed in the individual current paths which are respectively assigned to one of the power switches is at least substantially homogeneously distributed during the high frequency operation of the power semiconductor module and/or in the operation of the power switches with high voltage gradients.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Rene Richter, Thomas Schimanek, Maximillian Hofmann, Florian Hilpert, Andreas Schletz, Christoph Bayer, Uwe Waltrich
  • Patent number: 10610637
    Abstract: A method of priming a medical pump is disclosed. The method includes providing a medical pump comprising a chamber, a first plunger element and, a second plunger element. The method further comprises determining a minimum distance (MD) between the first and the second plunger element and determining the location of an opening of the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH
    Inventors: Christian Nessel, Robert Witt, René Richter