Patents by Inventor Steffen Jakobs

Steffen Jakobs 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: 5968330
    Abstract: An electrode material is provided for electrochemical sensors, particularly for sensors detecting combustible gases. For these types of applications, perovskite electrode materials are known which, however, by modification of their oxygen stoichiometry, have a considerable charge carrier mobility. These defects are the causes for an additional, catalytic activity with oxidation processes at electrodes. The measurement of hydrocarbons from combustible gases is thus distorted with electrode materials of this type. These disadvantages are overcome by making such electrode materials from mixed oxides with non-perovskite crystalline structures, which have chemical compositions of one or more of the following general formulas: (A/D).sub.3-y B.sub.x C.sub.5-x O.sub.12.+-..delta., D.sub.1-y B.sub.1-x C.sub.x O.sub.4.+-..delta., D.sub.2-y B.sub.8-x C.sub.x O.sub.16.+-..delta., D.sub.2-y B.sub.1+x C.sub.1-x O.sub.5.+-..delta., or D.sub.2-y B.sub.x C.sub.2-x O.sub.7.+-..delta.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1999
    Assignee: Heraeus Electro-Nite International N.V.
    Inventors: Ulrich Guth, Steffen Jakobs, Edelbert Hafele