Patents by Inventor Siegfried Müller
Siegfried Müller 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).
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Publication number: 20150037896Abstract: A method is described for distributing samples within an automated analyzer from a linear arrangement of sample vessels to a processing plate in a two-dimensional n×m arrangement wherein samples are sorted, followed by transfer with a pipetting device with a linear arrangement to a processing vessel in a two-dimensional n×m arrangement and subsequent processing of samples using a second pipetting device which has a two-dimensional n×m arrangement.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2014Publication date: February 5, 2015Applicant: ROCHE MOLECULAR SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Paul Frank, Andreas Gisler, Robert Huesler, Rolf Knobel, Siegfried Mueller, Urs Schnieper, Heinz Trueeb
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Patent number: 8772036Abstract: A method is described for distributing samples within an automated analyzer from a linear arrangement of sample vessels to a processing plate in a two-dimensional n×m arrangement wherein samples are sorted, followed by transfer with a pipetting device with a linear arrangement to a processing vessel in a two-dimensional n×m arrangement and subsequent processing of samples using a second pipetting device which has a two-dimensional n×m arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2011Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.Inventors: Paul Frank, Andreas Gisler, Robert Huesler, Rolf Knobel, Siegfried Mueller, Urs Schnieper, Heinz Trueeb
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Publication number: 20140109554Abstract: A method for operating a motor vehicle diesel engine having an exhaust emission control system is provided. The emission control system includes an oxidation catalytic converter, a particle filter, and an SCR catalytic converter, in which the exhaust gas that is discharged from the diesel engine is passed through the oxidation catalytic converter before passing through the particle filter and the SCR catalytic converter. A regeneration of the particle filter with thermal soot burn-off is occasionally carried out, during which the diesel engine is operated at an air-fuel ratio having a lambda value (?) of at least approximately 1.0, and air is added to the exhaust gas after it exits the oxidation catalytic converter and before it enters the particle filter air, so that soot deposited on the particle filter is burnt-off.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2011Publication date: April 24, 2014Applicant: Daimler AGInventors: Ortwin Balthes, Thomas Beckmann, Berthold Keppeler, Siegfried Mueller
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Publication number: 20140041367Abstract: An operating method is provided for a motor vehicle diesel engine having an exhaust emission control system that includes a three-way catalytic converter and an SCR catalytic converter situated one behind the other in the flow direction of the exhaust gas. The diesel engine is operated, at least intermittently, with an air-fuel ratio of approximately ?=1.0 in a first operating range in which the SCR catalytic converter falls below a predefinable minimum temperature and with excess air that is typical for normal diesel engine operation in a second operating range in which the SCR catalytic converter exceeds the predefinable minimum temperature. An output signal of an exhaust gas sensor situated downstream from the three-way catalytic converter and which is correlated with a NOx concentration of the exhaust gas is used to set the air-fuel ratio in the first operating range.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2011Publication date: February 13, 2014Applicant: DAIMLER AGInventors: Ortwin Balthes, Berthold Keppeler, Siegfried Mueller
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Publication number: 20120164735Abstract: A method is described for distributing samples within an automated analyzer from a linear arrangement of sample vessels to a processing plate in a two-dimensional n×m arrangement wherein samples are sorted, followed by transfer with a pipetting device with a linear arrangement to a processing vessel in a two-dimensional n×m arrangement and subsequent processing of samples using a second pipetting device which has a two-dimensional n×m arrangement.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2011Publication date: June 28, 2012Applicant: ROCHE MOLECULAR SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Paul Frank, Andreas Gisler, Robert Huesler, Rolf Knobel, Siegfried Mueller, Urs Schnieper, Heinz Trueeb
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Publication number: 20120111359Abstract: A process and apparatus for cleaning and disinfection of textiles and the air from viruses, bacteria and spores, and also for purifying from dust, pollen, odors, etc. in which the employment of water and various other cleaning agents and disinfectants as well is not required includes a lock or chamberin which living beings are able to stay, and piece-goods and textiles, etc. are able to be treated as well. Therein, airborne aerosols (droplets, particles, dust) as well as aerosols and microbes, respectively, adhering to the clothing or body and to the product, respectively, are to be treated. The basic principle shall also be applicable to rooms (e.g. waiting rooms) or stables and under cleanroom conditions as well. Various aspects of the invention include plasma generation, producing an ion current from the plasma, ozone generation and activation, sterilization, oxidation and decomposition of gaseous components, and separation of microbes and aerosols and decomposition thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2008Publication date: May 10, 2012Applicant: Leibniz-Institut Fuer Plasmaforschung und Technologie e.V.Inventors: Siegfried Mueller, Rolf-Juergen Zahn, Wolfgang Reich, Klaus-Dieter Weltmann, Kirsten Anklam, Diana Neudeck, Tila Krueger, Norman Mleczko, Torsten Koburger, Ivonne Harfenstein
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Patent number: 7931879Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the automated handling of a fluid biological sample in an analytical instrument. Furthermore, the invention provides containers as well as instruments and systems suitable for the automated handling and processing of the fluid biological sample and discloses production methods for the manufacture of the containers.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2006Date of Patent: April 26, 2011Assignee: Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.Inventors: Alessandro D'Amore, Siegfried Mueller
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Patent number: 7546893Abstract: Describe is a front wall module for a motor vehicle. The front wall module forms at least one area of a front wall that defines the passenger compartment of a motor vehicle. The front wall module contains functional units, such as the fan for ventilating the passenger compartment or the like. The front wall module has a capping piece that is connected to two longitudinal beams of the motor vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2003Date of Patent: June 16, 2009Assignee: Faurecia Innenraum Systeme GmbHInventors: Peter Rahmstorf, Lydia Creutz, Eric Schaetzel, Siegfried Müller, Klaus Vornhof
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Publication number: 20070017927Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the automated handling of a fluid biological sample in an analytical instrument. This method comprises providing on an analytical instrument a container having a cup portion held in a receptacle and having an opening as well as a cap portion comprising a cover closing said opening and being permanently attached to one side of said cup portion and a handling head. During automated operation, the handling head approaches said container to a side of said container having a closure by which said cover is vertically and reversibly fixed for closing said opening and horizontally asserts pressure on said closure to release said cover from said vertical and reversible fixation, and optionally raising said cover by raising said handling head to open said cup portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2006Publication date: January 25, 2007Applicant: ROCHE MOLECULAR SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Alessandro D'Amore, Siegfried Mueller
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Patent number: 6892529Abstract: An Exhaust-gas purification system for an internal combustion engine, which, as seen in the direction of flow of the exhaust gas, has a particle filter, apparatus for providing a reducing agent in the exhaust-gas flow, a catalytic converter for reducing nitrogen oxide which is present in the exhaust gas, and a downstream oxidation catalytic converter. An upstream oxidation catalytic converter is arranged upstream of the particle filter.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2003Date of Patent: May 17, 2005Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Frank Duvinage, Christian Goerigk, Thomas Liebscher, Dieter Mainka, Siegfried Mueller-Lunz, Arno Nolte, Markus Paule
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Publication number: 20030209011Abstract: An Exhaust-gas purification system for an internal combustion engine, which, as seen in the direction of flow of the exhaust gas, has a particle filter, apparatus for providing a reducing agent in the exhaust-gas flow, a catalytic converter for reducing nitrogen oxide which is present in the exhaust gas, and a downstream oxidation catalytic converter. An upstream oxidation catalytic converter is arranged upstream of the particle filter.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2003Publication date: November 13, 2003Inventors: Frank Duvinage, Christian Goerigk, Thomas Liebscher, Dieter Mainka, Siegfried Mueller-Lunz, Arno Nolte, Markus Paule
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Patent number: 6615540Abstract: The invention relates to a planter comprising a plant container which opens upward and which has a bottom and sidewalls, as well as comprising an insert for insertion into the plant container. The insert is comprised of a basket which opens upward and which is provided for accommodating a plant culture, whereby the basket has a bottom and sidewalls. The planter additionally comprises a support which can be attached with an end thereof to the planter and can be attached with another end thereof to a fastening location. The planter is characterized in that the support consists of two retaining arms which can be attached to two opposing sidewalls of the planter, whereby each retaining arm can be fixed with a lower area thereof to an inner wall of a sidewall. The lower area of the retaining arm is provided with at least two holes in which the bolts mounted on the inner wall engage.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2001Date of Patent: September 9, 2003Inventor: Siegfried Müller
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Patent number: 6517786Abstract: A decomposition device and a method for decomposing gases with soot or other harmful substances has a processing station using dielectrically hindered discharge. The device has at least two electrodes, one of which is a porous and gas permeable electrode. In order to decompose the gas containing harmful substances, the gas is first introduced into a processing station in which the gas is subjected to plasma processing involving an alternate voltage supply, and from which the gas is let out. The gas is introduced through one end of the processing station formed by the two electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2000Date of Patent: February 11, 2003Assignee: Institute fuer Niedertemperatur-Plasmaphysik E. V. An der Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universitaet GreifswaldInventors: Walter Best, Johannes Peter Franziskus Conrads, Wolf-Dieter Franke, Siegfried Mueller, Wolfgang Reich
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Patent number: 4566472Abstract: An apparatus for applying color to hair includes a color-applying comb having several teeth which are substantially triangularly shaped in a top view, are arranged on a comb back, are spaced by relatively large distances, and are tapered toward their tips. The gaps which lie between the teeth are substantially triangularly shaped in a top view and taper toward the comb back. Each tooth has in its enlarged part and in the vicinity of the comb back a color chamber, and has a narrow slot which extends perpendicular to the comb back from the tooth tip into the color chamber.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 1983Date of Patent: January 28, 1986Inventors: Siegfried Mueller, Eberhard Schafer
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Patent number: 4093703Abstract: The removal of ethylene from gases which contain the ethylene in a concentration of not more than 1.8% by volume by means of a supported palladium catalyst which contains from 0.05 to 10 g of palladium per liter of an inert inorganic carrier, the oxidation reaction being started at a temperature of from 180.degree. to 200.degree. C.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 1977Date of Patent: June 6, 1978Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Oskar Buechner, Herbert Geierhaas, Volker Gierth, Siegfried Mueller, Wieland Zacher
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Patent number: 4027684Abstract: A permanent-wave or water-wave curler having an elongated cylindrical curler body with at least one holding body arranged at one end coaxially of the curler body axis. The holding body is greater in diameter than the curler body and has two axially spaced and radially extending flanges. The flanges have a resilient characteristic and substantially equal diameters to thereby define an annular groove therebetween. At least one of the flanges has a thickness slightly larger than the axial spacing between the two flanges so that when the one flange is inserted under force into a groove of an adjacent curler, the flanges on the adjacent curler will flex to permit entry of the one flange therebetween and effect a friction holding of the one flange against a rotation relative to the two flanges defining the groove.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 1975Date of Patent: June 7, 1977Inventor: Siegfried Mueller