Patents by Inventor Robert Jahn

Robert Jahn 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: 12158446
    Abstract: A measurement system (100) determines gas concentrations in a gas mixture of a gas sample by utilizing thermal conductivities and paramagnetic effects of thermal conductivities in the gas mixture involving data sets (203). A circuit arrangement provides measured values with an AC signal component and with a DC signal component to a calculation and control unit (200). An oxygen concentration in the gas mixture of the gas sample is determined based on the standardized AC signal components and a concentration of another gas in the gas mixture of the gas sample is determined based on the standardized DC voltage signal components. Output signals are generated by the calculation and control unit, which indicate the determined oxygen concentration and the determined concentration of another gas in the gas mixture of the gas sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: DRÄGERWERK AG & CO. KGAA
    Inventors: Hartmut Stark, Günter Steinert, Hans-Ullrich Hansmann, Tobias Heise, Robert Jahns
  • Patent number: 12001190
    Abstract: Method and systems for dynamically generating or editing a graphical dashboard via a graphical user interface (GUI) setup are provided. The method includes determining a type of a plant through the GUI setup, determining a configuration of the plant through the GUI setup, determining at least one component of the plant through the GUI setup, and configuring parameters of the at least one component and/or the plant through the GUI setup. The method also includes generating the dashboard including a plant control logic of the plant based on the type, the configuration, the at least one component, and the parameters of the at least one component and/or the plant. The method further includes controlling the plant based on the plant control logic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Brian Meyers, Kathylynn Hanggi Sedro, Anthony W. Bruno, Brian A Kirkman, Mayra R. Reyes Elizondo, Robert Jahn
  • Patent number: 11555780
    Abstract: A photoacoustic sensor (100) is capable of detecting a predefined target gas in an area (Um). A process is capable of detecting the target gas with the use of such a sensor (100). A sample chamber (3) holds a gas sample (Gp) to be tested. Electromagnetic waves (eW) from a radiation source (1) pass through the sample chamber (3) and the detection chamber (4). The waves elicit in the detection chamber (4) an acoustic effect, which is measured by an acoustic sensor (7). The acoustic effect is correlated with the concentration of the target gas in the sample chamber (3). The detection chamber (4) is fluid-tightly sealed, is free from target gas and is filled with a replacement gas (Eg). The transmission of the replacement gas (Eg) has a spectral response similar to that of the transmission of the target gas in a predefined target gas wavelength range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Ralf Buchtal, Gerd Peter, Bernd-Michael Dicks, Björn Spilker, Robert Jahns, Martin Kroh
  • Publication number: 20220206457
    Abstract: Method and systems for dynamically generating or editing a graphical dashboard via a graphical user interface (GUI) setup are provided. The method includes determining a type of a plant through the GUI setup, determining a configuration of the plant through the GUI setup, determining at least one component of the plant through the GUI setup, and configuring parameters of the at least one component and/or the plant through the GUI setup. The method also includes generating the dashboard including a plant control logic of the plant based on the type, the configuration, the at least one component, and the parameters of the at least one component and/or the plant. The method further includes controlling the plant based on the plant control logic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Brian Meyers, Kathylynn Hanggi Sedro, Anthony W. Bruno, Brian A. Kirkman, Mayra R. Reyes Elizondo, Robert Jahn
  • Publication number: 20220111357
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of reducing at least one aqueous organic compound in a triphasic reaction mixture, wherein the reaction mixture comprises at least one solid, at least one liquid and at least one gaseous component, wherein (i) the solid component is (a) a catalytically active composite based on (b) at least one perforated and permeable support, wherein the catalytically active composite is on at least one side of the support and inside the support and (a) the catalytically active composite is obtained by applying a suspension comprising at least one inorganic component of a compound of at least one of the elements Ce, La Sc, Y, Ti, Zr, Hf, Rf, V, Nb, Ta, Db, Cr, Mo, W, Sg, Mn, Tc, Re, Bh, Fe, Co, B, In, Tl, Si, Ge, Sn, Pb, Sb and Bi with at least one of the elements Te, Se, S, O, Sb, As, P, N, Ge, Si, C and Ga and/or a compound of one of the elements Ti, Zr, Ce and Si with oxygen, and/or a metal selected from Pt, Rh, Ru, Ir, Cu, Ni, Co, Zn, and Pd, in suspension in a sol, and (
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas HAAS, Robert JAHN, Christian HYING, Marc LOCHTHOVE
  • Patent number: 10428035
    Abstract: In a process for the epoxidation of an olefin by continuously reacting the olefin with hydrogen peroxide in a methanol solvent on a fixed bed epoxidation catalyst comprising a titanium zeolite, the hydrogen peroxide is used as an aqueous hydrogen peroxide solution made by an anthraquinone process, the aqueous hydrogen peroxide solution is mixed with methanol to give a feed mixture and this feed mixture is filtered before being contacted with the fixed bed epoxidation catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignees: Evonik Degussa GmbH, thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG
    Inventors: Matthias Pascaly, Manfred Bärz, Marc Brendel, Robert Jahn, Jürgen Schemel, Michael Dopfer
  • Publication number: 20180354923
    Abstract: In a process for the epoxidation of an olefin by continuously reacting the olefin with hydrogen peroxide in a methanol solvent on a fixed bed epoxidation catalyst comprising a titanium zeolite, the hydrogen peroxide is used as an aqueous hydrogen peroxide solution made by an anthraquinone process, the aqueous hydrogen peroxide solution is mixed with methanol to give a feed mixture and this feed mixture is filtered before being contacted with the fixed bed epoxidation catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Matthias PASCALY, Manfred BÄRZ, Marc BRENDEL, Robert JAHN, Jürgen SCHEMEL, Michael DOPFER
  • Patent number: 10125108
    Abstract: In a process for the epoxidation of propene, comprising the steps: reacting propene with hydrogen peroxide in the presence of a titanium silicalite catalyst and a methanol solvent; separating non-reacted propene and propene oxide from the resulting reaction mixture to provide a solvent mixture comprising methanol and water in a combined amount of at least 90% by weight; and feeding this solvent mixture as a feed stream to a continuously operated methanol distillation column at a feed point in the middle section of said column to provide an overhead product comprising at least 90% by weight methanol and a bottoms product comprising at least 90% by weight water; the addition of a liquid defoamer, having a solubility in the feed stream of less than 10 mg/kg at 25° C. and a surface tension at the liquid air interface of less than 22 mN/m at 20° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignees: EVONIK DEGUSSA GMBH, THYSSENKRUPP INDUSTRIAL SOLUTIONS
    Inventors: Robert Jahn, Wolfgang Wöll, Bernd Jaeger, Matthias Pascaly
  • Publication number: 20180134676
    Abstract: In a process for the epoxidation of propene, comprising the steps: reacting propene with hydrogen peroxide in the presence of a titanium silicalite catalyst and a methanol solvent; separating non-reacted propene and propene oxide from the resulting reaction mixture to provide a solvent mixture comprising methanol and water in a combined amount of at least 90% by weight; and feeding this solvent mixture as a feed stream to a continuously operated methanol distillation column at a feed point in the middle section of said column to provide an overhead product comprising at least 90% by weight methanol and a bottoms product comprising at least 90% by weight water; the addition of a liquid defoamer, having a solubility in the feed stream of less than 10 mg/kg at 25° C. and a surface tension at the liquid air interface of less than 22 mN/m at 20° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Applicants: Evonik Degussa GmbH, THYSSENKRUPP INDUSTRIAL SOLUTIONS AG
    Inventors: Robert JAHN, Wolfgang WÖLL, Bernd JAEGER, Matthias PASCALY
  • Patent number: 9885653
    Abstract: A device analyzes an anesthesia ventilation gas with an infrared radiation source and includes a gas cuvette, a Fabry-Perot interferometer with a band pass filter function, adjustable with respect to a central transmission wavelength as a function of a control signal, a detector providing a measured signal and a computing and control unit providing the control signal and detecting the measured signal. The computing and control unit is configured to actuate the Fabry-Perot interferometer in a first operating mode by the control signal such that the central transmission wavelength scans a predefined wavelength range, to detect a presence in the ventilation gas sample potential types of anesthetic gases based on the measured signal. In a second operating mode, the control unit controls the central transmission wavelength within a subrange of the predefined wavelength range and determines a plurality of concentration values at consecutive times for detected types of anesthetic gases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Ralf Buchtal, Livio Fornasiero, Robert Jahns, Heike Vöhringer
  • Patent number: 9863874
    Abstract: A method for signal detection with a gas analysis system (1, 1?) includes a radiation source (3); a gas measuring section (9) containing gas to be measured; a Fabry-Perot interferometer (13); a thermal sensor (17) configured to cause a change in voltage between electrodes with electromagnetic radiation falling thereon and arranged such that radiation released by a second interferometer mirror falls on the thermal sensor. The method includes irradiating the gas measuring section with radiation source radiation, continuously increasing or decreasing a distance of interferometer mirrors during a generating of time signal pulses at a constant period of time from one another. After a predefined number of time signal pulses, the voltage generated between the electrodes is detected and stored as a measured signal value. After a further predefined number of time signal pulses, the voltage generated between the electrodes is detected again and stored as a measured signal value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Peter Dreyer, Livio Fornasiero, Arne Tröllsch, Robert Jahns
  • Patent number: 9810749
    Abstract: A magnetic field measuring device with a holding body and a plurality of magnetoelectric cantilever sensors, each of which is designed to output one electrical voltage signal while it bends in the presence of a magnetic field, the cantilever sensors being non-positively connected or bonded to the holding body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet zu Kiel
    Inventors: Robert Jahns, Holger Runkowske, Reinhard Knoechel
  • Patent number: 9476791
    Abstract: A field testable instrument housing connection is made up of an integral instrument housing assembly that includes both an instrument housing and a separate one-piece compression nut portion and a separate modified reducing union. The instrument housing has a mating geometry that is disposed over the downhole portion of the separate modified reducing union and the separate one-piece compression nut portion is then disposed over both the uphole portion of the instrument housing and a downhole portion of the modified reducing union. The complete assembly of the modified reducing union, including primary and secondary seals in combination with the integral instrument housing assembly provide then both an annular seal and a seal of the instrument housing. The entire assembly is field testable via provided test ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Marion Robert Jahn
  • Patent number: 9383417
    Abstract: A method for measuring a time-variant magnetic field using a magnetoelectric sensor having mechanical resonant frequency fR, wherein the magnetic field has at least one component having harmonic time dependence with the measuring signal amplitude to be determined Hmess0 and the measuring signal frequency to be determined fmess in a known frequency interval fmin<fmess<fmax. The method includes: a. superimposing the magnetic field with a modulation magnetic field having harmonic time dependence with the known modulation amplitude Hmess0 and a selectable modulation frequency on the sensor, b. varying (wobbling) the modulation frequency over a complementary frequency interval determined by the known interval limits fmin, fmax and the resonant frequency of the sensor, c. measuring the sensor signal for each selected modulation frequency, d. searching for the at least one modulation frequency fmod, which results in a sensor signal in the mechanical resonance of the sensor, e.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet zu Kiel
    Inventors: Robert Jahns, Reinhard Knoechel, Eckhard Quandt
  • Publication number: 20160116552
    Abstract: A magnetic field measuring device with a holding body and a plurality of magnetoelectric cantilever sensors, each of which is designed to output one electrical voltage signal while it bends in the presence of a magnetic field, the cantilever sensors being non-positively connected or bonded to the holding body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: Robert Jahns, Holger Runkowske, Reinhard Knoechel
  • Publication number: 20140151998
    Abstract: A field testable instrument housing connection for field testing of multiple seal connections between concentric metal tubes and hermetically sealed instrument housings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES. INC.
    Inventor: Marion Robert Jahn
  • Publication number: 20130289913
    Abstract: A method for measuring a time-variant magnetic field using a magnetoelectric sensor having mechanical resonant frequency fR, wherein the magnetic field has at least one component having harmonic time dependence with the measuring signal amplitude to be determined Hmess0 and the measuring signal frequency to be determined fmess in a known frequency interval fmin<fmess<fmax. The method includes: a. superimposing the magnetic field with a modulation magnetic field having harmonic time dependence with the known modulation amplitude Hmess0 and a selectable modulation frequency on the sensor, b. varying (wobbling) the modulation frequency over a complementary frequency interval determined by the known interval limits fmin, fmax and the resonant frequency of the sensor, c. measuring the sensor signal for each selected modulation frequency, d. searching for the at least one modulation frequency fmod, which results in a sensor signal in the mechanical resonance of the sensor, e.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet zu Kiel
    Inventors: Robert Jahns, Reinhard Knoechel, Eckhard Quandt
  • Patent number: 7828066
    Abstract: An actuator for operating downhole tools includes a tool body and one or more members configured to perform a wellbore task. The tool may include a sealed power and a driven section in pressure communication with the wellbore. A magnetic coupling magnetically connects the power section to the driven section. The power section may include an electric motor; and the driven section may include a speed reducer/torque increaser. In some embodiments, the member may be a positioning member. The positioning member may be manipulated to position a sensor that is configured to measure a parameter of interest. In other embodiments, the member may be an element such as cutting elements that cut wellbore tubulars. In aspects, a method for actuating or operating downhole tools includes using an actuator that utilizes a magnetic coupling to convey energy across a pressure boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventor: Robert Jahn
  • Publication number: 20090194284
    Abstract: An actuator for operating downhole tools includes a tool body and one or more members configured to perform a wellbore task. The tool may include a sealed power and a driven section in pressure communication with the wellbore. A magnetic coupling magnetically connects the power section to the driven section. The power section may include an electric motor; and the driven section may include a speed reducer/torque increaser. In some embodiments, the member may be a positioning member. The positioning member may be manipulated to position a sensor that is configured to measure a parameter of interest. In other embodiments, the member may be an element such as cutting elements that cut wellbore tubulars. In aspects, a method for actuating or operating downhole tools includes using an actuator that utilizes a magnetic coupling to convey energy across a pressure boundary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2008
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventor: Robert Jahn
  • Patent number: 7364718
    Abstract: Hydrogen peroxide is produced by reacting hydrogen and oxygen in the presence of a noble metal catalyst in a liquid reaction medium, the reaction being performed in the presence of a sulfuric acid alkyl ester. In the presence of sulfuric acid alkyl esters the noble metal catalyst exhibits a high and lasting activity for the formation of hydrogen peroxide with an elevated selectivity of hydrogen peroxide formation relative to the hydrogen used. Solutions of hydrogen peroxide in methanol obtainable by the process are suitable for use for the epoxidation of olefins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: Degussa AG
    Inventors: Thomas Haas, Robert Jahn