Patents by Inventor Thierry Muller
Thierry Muller 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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Patent number: 11753379Abstract: A process for forming 2-hydroxypyridine-1-oxide or derivatives thereof, the process comprising inter alia providing a solution comprising at least one compound according to Formula (1) and recovering a compound according to Formula (2) Also related products, uses, methods and compositions.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2019Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: CLARIANT INTERNATIONAL LTDInventors: Ute Back, Dirk Fischer, Sidonie Vollrath, Lothar Fisch, Thierry Muller
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Patent number: 11441025Abstract: The invention relates to a composition Z comprising a component A, component B and/or C, and component D, wherein the component A is a thermoplastic material selected from the group consisting of polyolefins, polyolefin copolymers and polystyrenes; the component B is an organic additive selected from the group consisting of glycerol, a polyglycerol, a glycerol ester, a polyglycerol ester and a combination thereof; the component C is an organic additive selected from the group consisting of sorbitol, a sorbitol ester, sorbitan, a sorbitan ester, and a combination thereof; the component D is an inorganic additive selected from the group of layered double hydroxides.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2017Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Clariant International LtdInventors: Natascha Schelero, Thierry Muller, Angelica Marson, Alessandra Stella Sacchi
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Publication number: 20220185780Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for recrystallizing piroctone olamine, to a process for preparing piroctone olamine crystals and to piroctone olamine crystals which may be obtained by such processes.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2020Publication date: June 16, 2022Applicant: Clariant International Ltd.Inventors: Andreas Endres, Hiten MEHTA, Thierry MULLER
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Patent number: 11120631Abstract: The invention concerns a cognitive training system (1) for providing a cognitive exercise. The cognitive training system comprises a head-mounted display (2) for providing a stereoscopic image (23) to a user (9). The system further comprises a controller (4) configured to control said head-mounted display (2) to provide the cognitive exercise by displaying virtual objects moving in a three-dimensional environment according to predetermined rules of motion, and by acquiring inputs provided by the user by means of an input unit (3). The cognitive training system (1) further comprises a perturbation unit (5) configured to control the head-mounted display (2) and/or the controller (4) to activate a virtual perturbation altering the appearance of the virtual objects. The perturbation unit determines the virtual perturbation based on a random or pseudorandom quantity.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2019Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: Neuropowertrain SàrlInventors: Jean-Philippe Jelmi, Thierry Müller
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Publication number: 20210214307Abstract: A process for forming 2-hydroxypyridine-1-oxide or derivatives thereof, the process comprising inter alia providing a solution comprising at least one compound according to Formula (1) and recovering a compound according to Formula (2) Also related products, uses, methods and compositions.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2019Publication date: July 15, 2021Applicant: Clariant International Ltd.Inventors: Ute BACK, Dirk FISCHER, Sidonie VOLLRATH, Lothar FISCH, Thierry MULLER
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Publication number: 20200317899Abstract: The invention relates to a composition Z comprising a component A, component B and/or C, and component D, wherein the component A is a thermoplastic material selected from the group consisting of polyolefins, polyolefin copolymers and polystyrenes; the component B is an organic additive selected from the group consisting of glycerol, a polyglycerol, a glycerol ester, a polyglycerol ester and a combination thereof; the component C is an organic additive selected from the group consisting of sorbitol, a sorbitol ester, sorbitan, a sorbitan ester, and a combination thereof; the component D is an inorganic additive selected from the group of layered double hydroxides.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2017Publication date: October 8, 2020Applicant: CLARIANT INTERNATIONAL LTDInventors: Natascha SCHELERO, Thierry MULLER, Angelica MARSON, Alessandra Stella SACCHI
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Publication number: 20200126304Abstract: The invention concerns a cognitive training system (1) for providing a cognitive exercise. The cognitive training system comprises a head-mounted display (2) for providing a stereoscopic image (23) to a user (9). The system further comprises a controller (4) configured to control said head-mounted display (2) to provide the cognitive exercise by displaying virtual objects moving in a three-dimensional environment according to predetermined rules of motion, and by acquiring inputs provided by the user by means of an input unit (3).The cognitive training system (1) further comprises a perturbation unit (5) configured to control the head-mounted display (2) and/or the controller (4) to activate a virtual perturbation altering the appearance of the virtual objects. The perturbation unit determines the virtual perturbation based on a random or pseudorandom quantity.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2019Publication date: April 23, 2020Inventors: Jean-Philippe JELMI, Thierry MÜLLER
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Publication number: 20190210337Abstract: The invention relates to a multilayer packaging film comprising at least three different types of layers (A), (B), and (C): (A) is at least one outer layer, (B) is at least one passive oxygen barrier layer, (C) is at least one active oxygen scavenging layer, characterized in that —the at least one outer layer (A) is a thermoplastic polymer; —the at least one passive oxygen barrier layer (B) is selected from the group consisting of ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymers, polyvinylchloride, copolymers of polyvinyl chloride, polyvinyl alcohol, polyvinylidene dichloride, copolymers of polyvinylidene dichloride, polyacrylonitrils, copolymers of polyacrylonitrils, polyethylene terephthalate, polyethylene naphthalate, polyethylenefuranoate, polysiloxanes, and polyamides; —the at least one active oxygen scavenging layer (C) comprises a) a plastic material which is a polyolefin, a polyolefin copolymer or a polystyrene, and additives (b) and (c), wherein b) is a polyterpenic resin; and c) is a transition metal catalystType: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2017Publication date: July 11, 2019Applicant: CLARIANT PLASTICS & COATINGS LTDInventors: Antonello DECORTES, Thierry MULLER
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Publication number: 20170101522Abstract: The invention relates to use of an additive as oxygen barrier in a plastic material wherein (a) the plastic material is a polyolefin, a polyolefin copolymer or a polystyrene, and the additive is (b) and optionally (c): (b) a compound of formula (I); wherein Ra represents C7-C20 alkyl, C6-C10 aryl, C4-C10 heteroaryl, wherein the heteroatoms are N, O and/or S, (C2-C6)-alkenylen-(C6-C10) aryl, C1-C6-alkylen-C6-C10-aryl, the aryl and heteroaryl radicals optionally being substituted by: hydroxyl, C1-C6-alkyl, C1-C6 alkoxyl, C6-C10 aryloxy, halogen, cyano, nitro, C6-C10-aryl, di(C1-C6)alkylamino, (C1-C6)alkylthio, C6-C10-arylthio, ?O, ?S, SO3H, SO2NR1R2, CO2R3, CONR1R2, NHCOR4, CO—C6-C10-aryl or a combination thereof, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4 are the same or different and independently represent hydrogen or Rb represents a group selected from the moieties of formula (II), (III), (IV), (V), (VI) and (VII); wherein each Rc can be the same or different and independently represents hydrogen, C1-C20Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2015Publication date: April 13, 2017Applicants: CLARIANT INTERNATIONAL LTD., Clariant Masterbatches (Italia) SpAInventors: Antonello DESCORTES, Pascal STEFFANUT, Angelica MARSON, Flavio FAVA, Thierry MULLER
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Publication number: 20160114259Abstract: A water treatment assembly is provided. The assembly includes a source generating a flow to be purified; a solar evaporation unit; a transfer duct; a heating device of the transfer duct; and a mechanical ventilation device provided to ensure a forced air circulation in the solar evaporation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2014Publication date: April 28, 2016Inventors: Thierry MULLER, Alejandro MOURGUES, Mehdi MOUSSAVI
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Patent number: 9296685Abstract: Method of producing a nanoparticle suspension with the steps (i) preparation of an emulsion of a disperse polar phase, where the aqueous phase comprises one or more precursor substances forming the nanoparticles, in a continuous organic phase in the presence of an emulsifier stabilizing the emulsion, (ii) conversion of the one or more precursor substances to nanoparticles in the disperse aqueous phase, (iii) breaking of the emulsion and phase separation, where the nanoparticle suspension is obtained as one phase, (iv) separation off of the nanoparticle suspension, (v) optionally isolation of the nanoparticles from the nanoparticle suspension, wherein the emulsifier is selected from compounds of the general formula (I) in which X is O, NH, Y is C(O), NH, R is a saturated or a mono- or polyunsaturated, linear or branched hydrocarbon radical having 6 to 30 carbon atoms and R1 is hydrogen or C1-C4-alkyl, and R2 is a saturated or a mono- or polyunsaturated, linear or branched hydrocarbon radical having 1 to 30 carType: GrantFiled: March 7, 2011Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Robert Engel, Wolfgang Gerlinger, Stefan Braese, Thierry Muller, Christina Belenki, Heike P. Schuchmann, Marion Gedrat
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Patent number: 9275763Abstract: A grid including at least two meshed grid parts intended to be superposed in a longitudinal direction, each grid part extending in a transverse plane, and the grid parts being moveable one relative to the other in at least one transverse direction between an open configuration for the insertion of nuclear fuel rods in the longitudinal direction through the grid parts, and a closed configuration allowing each fuel rod inserted through the grid parts to be clamped transversely between the grid parts. According to one aspect of the invention, the grid includes elements for transversely immobilizing the grid parts in the closed configuration, the immobilizing elements being designed to engage as the superposed grid parts are moved closer together in the longitudinal direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2008Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: AREVA NPInventors: Noemie Gomez, Angelo Beati, Dominique Hertz, Thierry Muller
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Patent number: 9240252Abstract: An assembly is provided including a mobile structure including a main pipe equipped with a first end intended to be connected to a water supply and a second end intended to be connected to a circuit connected to the primary circuit of the reactor, and including between these two ends in the direction of circulation of the water, a pump, a water heating device, an injector for continuously injecting the powdered neutron-absorbing element into the water of the main pipe, a first mixer for mixing and dissolving powder with water and a controller driving and controlling the flow rate of the water and the flow rate of the powder injected.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2012Date of Patent: January 19, 2016Assignee: AREVA NPInventors: Thierry Muller, Emilie Maud Guillaume, Jean-Paul Bombail, Michael Guillodo
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Publication number: 20140334594Abstract: A nuclear reactor primary circuit with a branch equipped with a thermal sleeve is provided. The nuclear reactor primary circuit includes a primary tubing, having an inner surface delimiting an inner volume in which a primary fluid circulates for cooling the nuclear reactor; a branch fastened to the primary tubing and delimiting an inner passage communicating with the inner volume of the primary tubing; a sleeve, having a first end connected to the branch and a second free end engaged in the inner volume of the primary tubing, the second end protruding in the inner volume relative to the inner surface over a non-zero length, an annular space being delimited between the sleeve and the branch.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2012Publication date: November 13, 2014Inventors: Olivier Cartier, Christel Dumez, Thierry Muller, Thierry Balancon
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Publication number: 20140065060Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound of the general formula (I) wherein R1 represents a group selected from the list consisting of methyl, ethyl, n-propyl, isopropyl, n-butyl, sec-butyl, tert-butyl, linear or branched, saturated or mono- or polyunsaturated aliphatic carbon chain containing from two to ten carbon atoms, phenyl, and phenylacetylen, and wherein R2 and R3 independently of each other represent a group selected from the list consisting of Cl, I, methyl, phenyl, or phenylacetylene.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2013Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicants: Karlsruher Institut fur Technologie (KIT), BASF SEInventors: Wolfgang Gerlinger, Bernd Sachweh, Stefan Bräse, Mirja Enders, Thierry Müller, Gerhard Kasper, Martin Seipenbusch, Kun Gao, Matthias Faust, Linus Reichenbach
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Patent number: 8660229Abstract: The invention relates to a nuclear reactor primary circuit comprising a primary pipeline (30), which defines an internal volume (32) and in which a primary nuclear reactor coolant downwardly runs, an additional pipeline (26) which is branched to the primary pipeline (30) and defines an internal volume communicating with the internal volume (32) of the primary pipeline (30) and a cuff (36) whose first end (50) is connected to the additional pipeline (26) and the second free end (52) is positioned in the internal volume (32) of the primary pipeline (30). According to said invention, the second end (52) is delimited by a free peripherial edge (53) comprising at least one upstream and downstream sections (56, 58) which are oriented towards the upstream, wherein the upstream section (56) penetrates into the internal volume (32) deeper from the primary pipeline (30) than the downstream section (58).Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2006Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: Areva NPInventors: Guy Barois, Jean-Georges Alibaud, Thierry Muller, Christelle Dumez
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Publication number: 20120329888Abstract: Method of producing a nanoparticle suspension with the steps (i) preparation of an emulsion of a disperse polar phase, where the aqueous phase comprises one or more precursor substances forming the nanoparticles, in a continuous organic phase in the presence of an emulsifier stabilizing the emulsion, (ii) conversion of the one or more precursor substances to nanoparticles in the disperse aqueous phase, (iii) breaking of the emulsion and phase separation, where the nanoparticle suspension is obtained as one phase, (iv) separation off of the nanoparticle suspension, (v) optionally isolation of the nanoparticles from the nanoparticle suspension, wherein the emulsifier is selected from compounds of the general formula (I) in which X is O, NH, Y is C(O), NH, R is a saturated or a mono- or polyunsaturated, linear or branched hydrocarbon radical having 6 to 30 carbon atoms and R1 is hydrogen or C1-C4-alkyl, and R2 is a saturated or a mono- or polyunsaturated, linear or branched hydrocarbon radical having 1 to 30 carType: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2011Publication date: December 27, 2012Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Robert Engel, Wolfgang Gerlinger, Stefan Braese, Thierry Muller, Christina Belenki, Heike P. Schuchmann, Marion Gedrat
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Patent number: 7929657Abstract: The invention relates to a pressurised water nuclear reactor vessel, comprising: an outer casing which comprises at least one cylindrical shell and a dished bottom head, a core support plate, a vessel bottom head space being delimited between the support plate and the dished bottom head, the support plate being perforated with holes for circulation of the primary coolant which place the vessel bottom head space in communication with the core, a calming device which is arranged in the vessel bottom head space, wherein the calming device comprises at least one calming plate which is substantially perpendicular relative to the centre axis of the vessel and a plurality of calming holes, the calming holes being provided in the calming plate and being capable of calming the primary coolant by passing the fluid through the holes.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2006Date of Patent: April 19, 2011Assignee: Areva NPInventors: Thierry Muller, Philippe Dolleans, Fabien Hensch
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Publication number: 20100246747Abstract: A grid including at least two meshed grid parts intended to be superposed in a longitudinal direction, each grid part extending in a transverse plane, and the grid parts being moveable one relative to the other in at least one transverse direction between an open configuration for the insertion of nuclear fuel rods in the longitudinal direction through the grid parts, and a closed configuration allowing each fuel rod inserted through the grid parts to be clamped transversely between the grid parts. According to one aspect of the invention, the grid includes elements for transversely immobilizing the grid parts in the closed configuration, the immobilizing elements being designed to engage as the superposed grid parts are moved closer together in the longitudinal direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2008Publication date: September 30, 2010Applicant: Areva NPInventors: Noemie Gomez, Angelo Beati, Dominique Hertz, Thierry Muller
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Patent number: 7804930Abstract: The nuclear fuel assembly having nuclear fuel rods and a support skeleton having two nozzles, guide tubes interconnecting the nozzles, and spacer grids for holding the rods, the grids being secured to the guide tubes. The assembly further has at least one lattice reinforcing device for reinforcing the support skeleton. The reinforcing device is placed between two spacer grids and is secured to the guide tubes. The invention is applicable to fuel assemblies for pressurized water reactors.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2004Date of Patent: September 28, 2010Assignee: Areva NPInventors: Angelo Beati, Thierry Muller, Jean-François Rondemerre