Patents by Inventor Rudolf Lessmann

Rudolf Lessmann 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: 11091904
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method carried out by a sensor device arranged in and/or on a toilet bowl. The method includes the steps of detecting, by a sensor of the sensor device, at least one first environmental parameter in an environment of the sensor device with the first environmental parameter being characteristic of a cleanliness of the toilet bowl, and determining and/or effecting the determination of an item of control information by the sensor device at least partly depending on the detected first environmental parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Arnd Kessler, Tatiana Schymitzek, Lars Zuechner, Alexander Mueller, Georg Wawer, Nadine Goetz, Rudolf Lessmann
  • Publication number: 20200123754
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method carried out by a sensor device arranged in and/or on a toilet bowl. The method includes the steps of detecting, by a sensor of the sensor device, at least one first environmental parameter in an environment of the sensor device with the first environmental parameter being characteristic of a cleanliness of the toilet bowl, and determining and/or effecting the determination of an item of control information by the sensor device at least partly depending on the detected first environmental parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Applicant: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Arnd KESSLER, Tatiana SCHYMITZEK, Lars ZUECHNER, Alexander MUELLER, Georg WAWER, Nadine GOETZ, Rudolf LESSMANN
  • Patent number: 9722183
    Abstract: Display comprising at least one organic light emitting diode, wherein the at least one organic light emitting diode comprises an anode, a cathode, a light emitting layer between the anode and the cathode, and at least one layer comprising a compound according to formula (I) between the cathode and the light emitting layer: wherein A1 and A2 are independently selected from halogen, CN, substituted or unsubstituted C1-C20-alkyl or heteroalkyl, C6-C20-aryl or C5-C20-heteroaryl, C1-C20-alkoxy or C6-C20-aryloxy, A3 is selected from substituted or unsubstituted C6-C40-aryl or C5-C40-heteroaryl, m=0, 1 or 2, n=0, 1 or 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Novaled GmbH
    Inventors: Omrane Fadhel, Ramona Pretsch, Carsten Rothe, Rudolf Lessmann, Francois Cardinali
  • Patent number: 9502660
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electronic device comprising a compound according to formula 1 A-B (1) and wherein —Ar1 is a C6-C18 arylene, which can be monocyclic or polycyclic and may be optionally substituted by one or more C1-C10-alkyl or C3-C10-cycloalkyl groups, —Ar2 is a C6-C18 arene skeleton, optionally substituted with electron donating groups R4, —B1 and B2 are independently selected from B and Ar2, —B3 is independently selected from the same group as B, —R1, R2, R3 are independently selected from alkyl, arylalkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, dialkylamino, - x is selected from 0, 1, 2 and 3, wherein for x>1 each Ar1 may be different, - y is a non-zero integer up to the overall count of valence sites on the arene skeleton, - z is a integer from zero up to the overall count of valence sites on the arene skeleton minus y; as well as a respective compound according to formula A-B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: NOVALED GMBH
    Inventors: Sascha Dorok, Ulrich Heggemann, Ina Faltin, Manuela Klose, Rudolf Lessmann
  • Patent number: 9240560
    Abstract: The invention relates to an array of several semiconductor components (20, 30), comprising a layer array (40) having a first and a second semiconductor component (20, 30), each being formed in an electrode layer (34) having a drain and a source electrode (22, 23, 32, 33), a gate electrode (21, 31) in a further electrode layer, and a layer stack between the electrode layer (34) and the further electrode layer (21, 31). The invention further relates to a method for producing an array having a first and a second semiconductor component (20, 30) in a layer array (40) and to the application thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignees: NOVALED GMBH, TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET DRESDEN
    Inventors: Rudolf Lessmann, Hans Kleemann
  • Publication number: 20150115238
    Abstract: The invention relates to an array of several semiconductor components (20, 30), comprising a layer array (40) having a first and a second semiconductor component (20, 30), each being formed in an electrode layer (34) having a drain and a source electrode (22, 23, 32, 33), a gate electrode (21, 31) in a further electrode layer, and a layer stack between the electrode layer (34) and the further electrode layer (21, 31). The invention further relates to a method for producing an array having a first and a second semiconductor component (20, 30) in a layer array (40) and to the application thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Rudolf Lessmann, Hans Kleemann
  • Publication number: 20140332790
    Abstract: Display comprising at least one organic light emitting diode, wherein the at least one organic light emitting diode comprises an anode, a cathode, a light emitting layer between the anode and the cathode, and at least one layer comprising a compound according to formula (I) between the cathode and the light emitting layer: wherein A1 and A2 are independently selected from halogen, CN, substituted or unsubstituted C1-C20-alkyl or heteroalkyl, C6-C20-aryl or C5-C20-heteroaryl, C1-C20-alkoxy or C6-C20-aryloxy, A3 is selected from substituted or unsubstituted C6-C40-aryl or C5-C40-heteroaryl, m=0, 1 or 2, n=0, 1 or 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Inventors: Omrane Fadhel, Ramona Pretsch, Carsten Rothe, Rudolf Lessmann, Francois Cardinali
  • Publication number: 20140326310
    Abstract: The invention relates to an organic photovoltaic device, in a layered structure, comprising a substrate, a bottom electrode, a top electrode, wherein the bottom electrode is closer to the substrate than the top electrode, an electronically active region, the electronically active region being provided between and being in electrical contact with the bottom electrode and the top electrode, a light absorbing region provided in the electronically active region, and at least one of a non-flat layer provided in the electronically active region, and an electronically inactive non-flat layer provided between the substrate and the bottom electrode. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method of producing a photovoltaic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2012
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Inventors: Sven Murano, Jan Birnstock, Steffen Pfuetzner, Ansgar Werner, Michael Hofmann, Tobias Canzler, Rudolf Lessmann
  • Publication number: 20140182681
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electronic device comprising a compound according to formula 1 A-B (1) and wherein —Ar1 is a C6-C18 arylene, which can be monocyclic or polycyclic and may be optionally substituted by one or more C1-C10-alkyl or C3-C10-cycloalkyl groups, —Ar2 is a C6-C18 arene skeleton, optionally substituted with electron donating groups R4, —B1 and B2 are independently selected from B and Ar2, —B3 is independently selected from the same group as B, —R1, R2, R3 are independently selected from alkyl, arylalkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, dialkylamino, —x is selected from 0, 1, 2 and 3, wherein for x>1 each Ar1 may be different, —y is a non-zero integer up to the overall count of valence sites on the arene skeleton, —z is a integer from zero up to the overall count of valence sites on the arene skeleton minus y; as well as a respective compound according to formula A-B.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Inventors: Sascha Dorok, Ulrich Heggemann, Ina Faltin, Manuela Klose, Rudolf Lessmann
  • Patent number: 8764462
    Abstract: The invention concerns a semiconductor component with a layered arrangement with an electrode, an organic semiconductor layer, an injection layer, and an additive layer, which consists of an additive, which on contact with the molecular doping material modifies its doping affinity with respect to the organic material of the organic semiconductor layer, wherein in the injection layer a layered region is formed with a first doping affinity of the molecular doping material with respect to the organic material and a further layered region is formed with a second, in comparison to the first doping affinity smaller, doping affinity of the molecular doping material with respect to the organic material. Furthermore the invention concerns a method for the manufacture of a semiconductor component and also the application of a semiconductor component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Novaled AG
    Inventors: Sascha Dorok, Rudolf Lessmann, Tobias Canzler, Qiang Huang, Christiane Koehn
  • Publication number: 20130210192
    Abstract: The invention concerns a semiconductor component with a layered arrangement with an electrode, an organic semiconductor layer, an injection layer, and an additive layer, which consists of an additive, which on contact with the molecular doping material modifies its doping affinity with respect to the organic material of the organic semiconductor layer, wherein in the injection layer a layered region is formed with a first doping affinity of the molecular doping material with respect to the organic material and a further layered region is formed with a second, in comparison to the first doping affinity smaller, doping affinity of the molecular doping material with respect to the organic material. Furthermore the invention concerns a method for the manufacture of a semiconductor component and also the application of a semiconductor component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: Novaled AG
    Inventors: Sascha Dorok, Rudolf Lessmann, Tobias Canzler, Qiang Huang, Christiane Koehn
  • Publication number: 20120261652
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electro-optical, organic semiconductor component with a flat arrangement of stacked, organic layers. The invention further relates to a method for producing an electro-optical, organic semiconductor component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2010
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: NOVALED AG
    Inventors: Carsten Rothe, Falk Loeser, Rudolf Lessmann
  • Publication number: 20110220200
    Abstract: This disclosure provides organic photoactive devices, including organic light emitting diodes and organic solar cells. The devices have a first electrode, a second electrode, and a stack of organic layer between the first and second electrodes. The stack of organic layers has a first transport layer, a second transport layer, an interface mediating layer, and a photoactive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2011
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Applicant: NOVALED AG
    Inventors: Rudolf Lessmann, Ansgar Werner, Carsten Rothe