Patents by Inventor Siegfried Thurm

Siegfried Thurm 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: 20050153146
    Abstract: The invention describes a process for coating a substrate with at least two layers, characterized by the following steps: a) applying a first layer comprising a first inorganic component to a substrate or to one of at least one layer applied to a substrate; b) treating the first layer with a plasma; c) applying a second layer comprising a second inorganic component to the first layer treated with plasma in accordance with b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventors: Siegfried Thurm, Michael Mager, Robert Maleika, Uwe Noreiks
  • Patent number: 6294726
    Abstract: The present invention relates to silicon with a high oxygen content and, at the same time, a high density of crystal lattice dislocations, and to its production. This silicon may be used in photovoltaics. Solar cells which are based on the material according to the invention exhibit high levels of efficiency despite the high oxygen content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2001
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christian Hässler, Hans-Ulrich Höfs, Wolfgang Koch, Siegfried Thurm, Otwin Breitenstein
  • Patent number: 5874180
    Abstract: The invention relates to electroluminescent arrangements (layers) containing special styrenes and to their use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1999
    Assignee: Bayer AG
    Inventors: Rolf Wehrmann, Andreas Elschner, Siegfried Thurm, Hans Jurgen Rosenkranz, Ralf Dujardin
  • Patent number: 5705267
    Abstract: Thermostable, flexible polarizers having a polarizing layer of a polymer with conjugated double bondings are obtained when their surfaces are sealed by a protective layer of SiO.sub.x where x is from 1 to 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1998
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Aleksander Ostoja Starzewski, Siegfried Thurm
  • Patent number: 5552226
    Abstract: In order to improve the adhesion of coatings, especially metal coatings, to the surfaces of plastic components, the latter are pretreated in low-pressure plasma with a process gas containing sulphur hexafluoride (SF.sub.6) which is substantially free of oxygen, the plastic surfaces being kept free of fluorine deposits or inclusions during the pretreatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1996
    Assignee: Bayer AG
    Inventors: Siegfried Thurm, Klaus Sommer, Peter Bier, Andreas Elschner, Manfred Kowitz, Axel Sandquist
  • Patent number: 5487810
    Abstract: In order to improve the adhesion of coatings, especially metal coatings, to the surfaces of plastic components, the latter are pretreated in low-pressure plasma with a process gas containing sulphur hexafluoride (SF.sub.6) which is substantially free of oxygen, the plastic surfaces being kept free of fluorine deposits or inclusions during the pretreatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1996
    Assignee: Bayer AG
    Inventors: Siegfried Thurm, Klaus Sommer, Peter Bier, Andreas Elschner, Manfred Kowitz, Axel Sandquist
  • Patent number: 5152879
    Abstract: The bonding properties of polyolefin films in composites are improved by a treatment with a low pressure plasma.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1992
    Assignee: Wolff Walsrode AG
    Inventors: Siegfried Thurm, Ulrich Reiners, Ingo Schinkel, Manfred Kowitz
  • Patent number: 5102740
    Abstract: This invention relates to synthetic resin bodies of thermoplastic polyarylene sulphides and/or of thermoplastic polycarbonates coated with zinc sulphide (ZnS).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1992
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Siegfried Thurm, Kurt-Rainer Stahlke, Reimer Holm, Klaus Sommer
  • Patent number: 5008148
    Abstract: This invention relates to a process for coating moulded plastic articles of thermoplastic polycarbonates or thermoplastic polyarylene sulphides with metal oxides, to the moulded plastic articles obtainable by the process according to the invention and to their technological application for outdoor use, for example for the production of coverings or facings in the building industry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1991
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Siegfried Thurm, Reimer Holm, Christian Leuschke, Dietrich Rathmann, Lutz Schrader
  • Patent number: 4589766
    Abstract: A strip of exposed and developed color film is transported through a transparency measuring system. The transparency of each frame of the film strip in the three primary colors is measured at a multiplicity of regions. The transparency values are converted to density values which are processed to generate a set of data characteristic of the film strip and indicative of the color compositions of the scanned regions. The characteristic set of data and the density values for the individual regions are used to determine whether or not a respective region contains a color dominant. For each frame, the amounts of copying light in the primary colors are established from the density values of those regions which are free of color dominants and have a neutral gray color composition. The amount of copying light in each of the three primary colors is calculated so that the regions of the original having a neutral gray color composition are copied neutral gray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 20, 1986
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Manfred Fursich, Gunter Findeis, Helmut Treiber, Berthold Fergg, Siegfried Thurm
  • Patent number: 4422752
    Abstract: An exposed color film having an exposed zone is provided with color areas prior to developing the same by exposing this unexposed zone to light passing through different narrow-band filters. After developing the film, the transmissivities of each of the color areas within a pair of narrow-band ranges is measured. The measured values are compared with known values for various types of film to establish the type of the particular color film. This information is used to adjust the exposures in the different colors when the images on the color film are copied onto a photographic copying material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1983
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Siegfried Thurm, Konrad Bunge
  • Patent number: 4344704
    Abstract: A method of determining correction parameters for adjusting the amounts of light to which originals are to be exposed in a color copying operation in dependence on the composition deviations of the respective original from a calibrating original involves establishing, for each of a multitude of regions of the respective original, two characteristic values respectively representative of a relationship between the blue and green color values, on the one hand, and the red and green color values, on the other hand, averaging those of the established characteristic values the relationships of which are within a distribution range normally encountered in an image of an object on the original, forming an average from the average values, and ascertaining the magnitude and direction of the correction parameters from the difference between the average obtained from the particular original and a like average obtained from the calibrating original.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1980
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1982
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Siegfried Thurm, Konrad Bunge
  • Patent number: 4279502
    Abstract: A method of determining the amounts of light in the basic colors to which an original is to be exposed during a color copying operation to obtain a copy the colors of which are matched in dependence on the image recorded on the original includes the establishment of color density difference functional correlations from values denoting the results of measurements at a multitude of regions of the film strip which includes the original in question. The correlations can then be used for determining the light amounts for most of the originals. Furthermore, the originals are evaluated for discrimination between daylight and artificial light exposures as well as for recognition of originals including color dominants and, in the latter instance, also for ascertaining whether the color dominant was caused by image-important features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1981
    Assignee: AGFA-Gevaert, A.G.
    Inventors: Siegfried Thurm, Konrad Bunge, Gunter Findeis
  • Patent number: 4274732
    Abstract: The exposed and developed frames of a color film are copied on the basis of information which is obtained by scanning the density of each frame in primary colors as well as on the basis of information which is obtained by imaging a series of gray filters having different densities onto one or more portions of the film outside of the film frames and scanning the density of the image of each filter. The information which is obtained as a result of such scanning is processed by a computer or an amplifier which controls the quantity of copying light in each of the primary colors, either by selecting the interval of exposure of each frame to light in each of the primary colors by controlling the intensity of light in each of the primary colors (if the exposure times in each of the primary colors are identical). The filters can be imaged prior to exposure of frames to scene light and/or shortly prior to development of the film in a processing laboratory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1981
    Assignee: AGFA-Gevaert, A.G.
    Inventors: Siegfried Thurm, Konrad Bunge
  • Patent number: 4217648
    Abstract: The densities of neighboring unit areas of a color photographic negative are measured in each of the primary colors and the results of measurements are compared with each other to ascertain the dimensions and boundaries of negative portions which exhibit dominant colors. Each such portion is considered in the selection of the amounts of copying light to the extent corresponding to a single unit area. The comparison is carried out by a computer which compares the results of measurements of neighboring unit areas, as considered in and at right angles to the direction of movement of the negative relative to the monitoring elements. A result of measurement is disregarded if it deviates from the result of measurement of a neighboring unit area by less than a preselected reference value which may but need not be different for each primary color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1978
    Date of Patent: August 12, 1980
    Assignee: AGFA-Gevaert, A.G.
    Inventors: Siegfried Thurm, Konrad Bunge