Patents by Inventor Stefan Schmitt

Stefan Schmitt 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: 8671680
    Abstract: A hydraulic system comprising a receiving body with electrohydraulic valve, with at least one hydraulic pump, and with channels for connecting the pump to at least one hydraulic load. A pulsation situation arises as a result of the delivery of a pressure medium by the pump and/or as a result of pressure medium being withdrawn by the load. At least one damping unit is provided, having a plurality of pulsation damping means such as, in particular, a damping chamber, and orifice. The hydraulic system provides a uniform and cost-effective solution for different operating situations and prevents a decrease in comfort. The damping unit has at least one switching means for adjusting the action of said damping unit to a varied pulsation situation by connecting or disconnecting one or more damping means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Ronald Kley, Stefan Schmitt
  • Publication number: 20130340865
    Abstract: An adjustable damping valve arrangement comprises an adjustable damping valve in which flow is bidirectional, wherein a pressure-dependent supplementary valve is associated with the adjustable damping valve in series therewith for each through-flow direction, wherein each supplementary valve has at least one separate through-channel, the outlet side thereof being at least partially covered by at least one valve disk, wherein the flow path proceeding from the adjustable damping valve in flow direction is carried out through the first supplementary valve from a smaller inlet diameter to a larger outlet diameter, and the at least one valve disk carries out a peripheral lift movement, wherein the flow path through the second supplementary valve in flow direction to the adjustable damping valve is implemented from a larger inlet diameter to a smaller outlet diameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Inventors: Thomas Manger, Stefan Schmitt, Bernd Zeissner
  • Publication number: 20130298047
    Abstract: Methods and systems may involve establishing a web portal session with a user of a web content management tool, and generating a user interface in the web content management tool during the web portal session. In one example, the user interface includes a page view and a content editing view. Additionally, the user interface may be transitioned between a page edit state and a page preview state while maintaining the web portal session with the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2012
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dieter Buehler, Jon M. Harris, Stefan A. Hepper, Carsten Leue, Stefan Schmitt, Jeffrey L. Sokolov
  • Publication number: 20130158270
    Abstract: An improved process for preparing dabigatran etexilate, as well as analogous compounds of formula 7, is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH
    Inventors: Frieder GNAD, Stefan SCHMITT, Hermann MUELLER-BOETTICHER, Helmut HEITGER, Seigfried MEINECK, Rolf DACH, Ingo HEDDESHEIMER
  • Publication number: 20130152611
    Abstract: An air-conditioning system for a vehicle, comprising a refrigerant circuit through which a refrigerant can flow and which is configured as a heat pump circuit and as a cooling system circuit, and associated with these, a compressor, at least one external heat exchanger, at least one internal heat exchanger that is associated with an internal heating condenser, whereby a device is provided for generating an air stream that can be thermally coupled to the internal heat exchanger and to the internal heating condenser, as well as a metering device that can meter the flow of at least a partial stream of the thermally coupled air stream through the internal heating condenser is provided, wherein in the heat pump mode of operation, the refrigerant can be or is conveyed from the high-pressure side of the compressor into the internal heating condenser, can be or is conveyed from the internal heating condenser via a first expansion valve to the internal heat exchanger, can be or is conveyed from the internal heat ex
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Inventors: Matthias Fürll, Stefan Schmitt, Horst Achim Schrõter, Stefan Brück, Gregor Homann
  • Patent number: 8399678
    Abstract: An improved process for preparing dabigatran etexilate, as well as analogous compounds of formula 7, is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH
    Inventors: Frieder Gnad, Stefan Schmitt, Hermann Mueller-Boetticher, Helmut Heitger, Siegfried Meineck, Rolf Dach, Ingo Heddesheimer
  • Patent number: 8356458
    Abstract: Loading arrangement for loading dollies which has a transport station for placing at least two dollies one behind another along their line of transport. The loading arrangement also has movable transport element with engaging structures, which engaging structures are configured to engage and move the dollies to position the dollies at a predetermined distance from one another at a loading station. The dollies are then loaded at the same time at the loading station before the engaging structures move the dollies to a transfer station which transfers loaded dollies out of the loading arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: KHS GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Rübsaamen, Joachim Junghans, Stefan Schmitt
  • Patent number: 8297133
    Abstract: A pressure sensor has a multiplicity of piezoelectric converter elements which are arranged such that they are essentially parallel to a force-applying or pressure-applying direction. The converter elements can be arranged at a distance from one another by an insulating material and/or are at least partially embedded in the material. A support material having greater mechanical rigidity than the converter elements, in particular in the force-applying or pressure-applying direction, is assigned to at least a number of piezoelectric converter elements, or the piezoelectric converter element is applied, in the form of a layer, to a supporting body made from this support material and is electrically contact-connected, for example, by a bottom electrode, which is arranged between the converter element layer and the supporting body, and a cover electrode which is applied to an outer side of the converter element layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignees: S.W.A.C. Schmitt-Walter Automation Consult GmbH, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V.
    Inventors: Stefan Schmitt-Walter, Lutz Seffner, Thomas Roedig, Sylvia Gebhardt, Bent Brueckner, Andreas Schoenecker
  • Publication number: 20120186245
    Abstract: The invention relates to an assembly including a pressure medium reservoir and a manually actuable master cylinder, in particular for a hydraulic motorcycle brake system, wherein the pressure medium reservoir is connected permanently to the master cylinder by at least one pressure medium connection, wherein the master cylinder has at least one pressure chamber, which can be connected to wheel brakes. According to the invention, provision is made for a protection device to be arranged in the region of the pressure medium connection, the device preventing air from penetrating into the pressure chamber and allowing air to escape in the direction of the pressure medium reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2010
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Stefan A. Schmitt, Peter Tandler, Werner Krebs, Stephan Schlicht, Hans-Jürgen Neumann, Christoph Schiel
  • Publication number: 20120173965
    Abstract: A method for providing a dynamic web portal page in a web portal environment by modifying the web portal page, the method comprising, with a server, providing a content with one or more portlets of the web portal page to a user; entering code from the server for identifying user-interface elements in the content of the web portal page; entering code from the server into the provided content of the web portal page for monitoring user actions related to the identified user-interface elements in the content of the web portal page; re-configuring automatically the content of the web portal page according to a user-specific preference extracted from the monitored user actions for the user at a later stage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dieter Buehler, Carsten Leue, Stefan Schmitt, Thomas Stober, Oliver Then, Steffen Uhlig, Holger Waterstrat
  • Publication number: 20110302962
    Abstract: A method to produce a clear glass or a clear drawn glass includes the steps of melting starting materials to obtain a glass batch melt, refining the obtained glass batch melt, homogenizing the obtained glass batch melt, and producing a glass product in the drawing process. A sulfate refining agent, selected from an alkali-, alkaline earth- or zinc sulfate or mixtures thereof is utilized in a predetermined amount and a predefined refining temperature during refining of the glass batch melt which is 0° C. to 100° C. higher than that in a refining process using a refining system which contains antimony oxide on its own or in combination with one or several other refining agents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Inventors: Artur Gattermann, Ralph Seuwen, Lothar Niessner, Stefan Schmitt
  • Publication number: 20110275824
    Abstract: An improved process for preparing dabigatran etexilate, as well as analogous compounds of formula 7, is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2010
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Applicant: BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM INTERNATIONAL GMBH
    Inventors: Frieder GNAD, Stefan SCHMITT, Hermann MUELLER-BOETTICHER, Helmut HEITGER, Siegfried MEINECK, Rolf DACH, Ingo HEDDESHEIMER
  • Publication number: 20110017332
    Abstract: A pulsation damping capsule including at least one hermetically joint-sealed metal membrane housing made of at least two preferably concave hemispheres, the housing being provided for separating an inner space from a surrounding pressure medium, wherein the hemispheres are connected together along a peripheral seam firmly bonded such that the pulsation damping capsule can be compressed and expanded as an energy accumulator with spring elasticity due to the effect of the pressure medium. A pulsation damping device is provided which is both dimensioned to withstand stresses and is simple to produce, the pulsation damping effect of which can be tailored especially easily to the existing conditions. Further disclosed is a pulsation damping module for housing a plurality of pulsation damping capsules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Thomas Bartsch, Johann Jungbecker, Peter Schack, Stefan A. Drumm, Stefan Schmitt, Georg Halasy-Wimmer, Ronald Kley, Marc Seckner, Jochen Glas, Andreas Kämpfe
  • Publication number: 20100319334
    Abstract: A hydraulic system comprising a receiving body with electrohydraulic valve, with at least one hydraulic pump, and with channels for connecting the pump to at least one hydraulic load. A pulsation situation arises as a result of the delivery of a pressure medium by the pump and/or as a result of pressure medium being withdrawn by the load. At least one damping unit is provided, having a plurality of pulsation damping means such as, in particular, a damping chamber, and orifice. The hydraulic system provides a uniform and cost-effective solution for different operating situations and prevents a decrease in comfort. The damping unit has at least one switching means for adjusting the action of said damping unit to a varied pulsation situation by connecting or disconnecting one or more damping means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicant: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Ronald Kley, Stefan Schmitt
  • Publication number: 20100206673
    Abstract: A brake system for a motor vehicle which simplifies the hydraulic design and avoids a vacuum prevailing over a relatively long period of time. The first hydraulic unit has a suction volume, which is connected to the suction side of the pump and which, in the event of a change in the pressure on the suction side of the pump, provides a pressure and volume equalization by means of the brake fluid stored in the suction volume, with an elastic element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2008
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Inventors: Michael Hitzel, Michael Jung, Bernhard Hauke, Ronald Kley, Stefan A. Schmitt
  • Publication number: 20100199720
    Abstract: The apparatus (300) for feeding, homogenizing, and conditioning a high viscosity glass melt for manufacturing display glass has a stirring device (110, 406), an upstream connecting part (100, 400) that connects the stirring device (110, 406) to an upstream melting and/or refining unit, and a downstream connecting part (120, 420) that connects the stirring device (110, 406) to a downstream forming or shaping device. Wall material and base material of the first and connecting parts and the stirring device (110, 406) coming in contact with the glass melt are made from a zirconium-dioxide-containing fire-resistant material containing a large amount, preferably more than 85 wt. %, of zirconium dioxide. A method of operating the apparatus to make display glass is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2010
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Inventors: Hildegard Roemer, Stefan Schmitt, Wilfried Linz, Joachim Kuester, Guido Raeke, Frank-Thomas Lentes, Karin Naumann
  • Publication number: 20100179161
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts or in vivo hydrolysable esters thereof, useful in the treatment of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2006
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicant: ASTRAZENECA AB
    Inventors: Balachandra Shankar Bandodkar, Stefan Schmitt
  • Publication number: 20100083617
    Abstract: A loading and palletizing device for roll trucks, such as dollies, and the associated method. The abstract of the disclosure is submitted herewith as required by 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b). As stated in 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b): A brief abstract of the technical disclosure in the specification must commence on a separate sheet, preferably following the claims, under the heading “Abstract of the Disclosure.” The purpose of the abstract is to enable the Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and gist of the technical disclosure. The abstract shall not be used for interpreting the scope of the claims. Therefore, any statements made relating to the abstract are not intended to limit the claims in any manner and should not be interpreted as limiting the claims in any manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Inventors: Martin Rübsaamen, Joachim JUNGHANS, Stefan SCHMITT
  • Publication number: 20100011884
    Abstract: A pressure sensor has a multiplicity of piezoelectric converter elements which are arranged such that they are essentially parallel to a force-applying or pressure-applying direction. These can be in the form of fibres, small rods, plates or the like, and may also be in the form of a thick or thin layer. When the converter elements are in the form of fibres, small rods or plates, they are arranged at a distance from one another by means of an insulating material and/or are at least partially embedded in said material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2005
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Inventors: Stefan Schmitt-Walter, Lutz Seffner, Thomas Roedig, Sylvia Gebhardt, Bent Brueckner, Andreas Schoenecker
  • Publication number: 20090198682
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of Network portals and in particular to a method and system for restricting access rights on user profile information using a new notion of peer groups, wherein a given user's peer group is defined to be the set of users containing all the members of all the user's communities, wherein the individual communities are defined within the web portal wherein on said web portal a plurality of composite applications are implemented, wherein each composite application (19; 50) has a predetermined number of users working with said composite application building a community for that composite application, characterized by the steps of: a) building a filter based on the peer group of the requesting user by collecting the communities of all composite applications which said user is member of (650, 660, 670) b) using said filter as an additional constraint when selecting (680) user information from the user registry in order to limit all query results to user profile informati
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dieter Buehler, Charles P. de Saint-Aignan, Stefan Hepper, Stefan Schmitt