Patents by Inventor Theodor Konig

Theodor Konig 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: 7553466
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing highly pure, granular silicon with a narrow particle-size distribution by decomposing silanes or halosilanes in a fluidised bed and epitaxially growing silicon on silicon seed particles, which method is characterised in that the gas containing silicon is supplied to the reaction chamber in an upward flow and the contents of the fluidised bed are separated in a continuous or discontinuous manner, whereby a particle stream from the fluidised bed is supplied to a separator mounted outside the fluidised bed, particles of the desired size are separated and undersized particles are returned to the fluidised bed. The invention also relates to a device and the use thereof for carrying out said method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2009
    Assignee: Solarworld Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Heiko Herold, H. Günter Holdenried, Leslaw Mleczko, Matthias Pfaffelhuber, Karl-Theodor König
  • Publication number: 20040151652
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing highly pure, granular silicon with a narrow particle-size distribution by decomposing silanes or halosilanes in a fluidised bed and epitaxially growing silicon on silicon seed particles, which method is characterised in that the gas containing silicon is supplied to the reaction chamber in an upward flow and the contents of the fluidised bed are separated in a continuous or discontinuous manner, whereby a particle stream from the fluidised bed is supplied to a separator mounted outside the fluidised bed, particles of the desired size are separated and undersized particles are returned to the fluidised bed. The invention also relates to a device and the use thereof for carrying out said method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2004
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Heiko Herold, H. Gunter Holdenried, Leslaw Mleczko, Matthias Pfaffelhuber, Karl-Theodor Konig
  • Patent number: 6048906
    Abstract: The preparation of finely-divided, homodisperse dispersions from a liquid medium having sparingly soluble particles contained therein, the particles being produced in a tubular reactor by the reaction of reactants dissolved in the medium, is carried out by introducing the solutions of the reactants, at least at the reaction temperature, into the tubular reactor separately from one another, as coaxial, laminar, parallel flows, and by shielding them from the reactor wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2000
    Assignee: AGFA Gevaert N.V.
    Inventors: Jurgen Ernst, Uwe Schonebaum, Hans Hofmann, Theodor Konig