Patents by Inventor Thomas Bischoff

Thomas Bischoff 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: 11724437
    Abstract: A bending method and a bending device, wherein a composite bar comprising a bundle of reinforcing fibres embedded in a polymer matrix is bent at a bending point. To make it bendable, the composite bar is heated locally at the bending point using an ultrasonic device with a sonotrode. After the bending point has been heated, an infeeding movement between the composite bar and the sonotrode is used to deform a region of the composite bar at the bending point to create a deformed portion of which the outer dimensions are different from the outer dimensions of the bar portions of the composite bar adjoining the bending point. The two bar portions are then moved or angled away in relation to one another, and so the composite bar is curved at the bending point. Once the desired bending has been achieved, the composite bar is cured at the bending point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: SOLIDIAN GMBH
    Inventor: Thomas Bischoff
  • Publication number: 20210346967
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a fiber-plastics-composite tool component (1) having a matrix system (6) that has embedded fibers, PBO fibers (4) being selected as the fiber component and a thermosetting plastics matrix (8) being used as the matrix component of the matrix system (6) (S1), which thermosetting plastics matrix has such adhesion to the PBO fibers (4) in the hardened fiber-plastics composite (2) that the coefficient of thermal expansion of the PBO fibers (4) is imparted to the matrix system (6). The invention also relates to a load-bearing tool component (1) of a chip-removing tool in the design of a fiber-plastics-composite press-molded part, the load-bearing tool component (1) comprising a matrix system (6) that has a thermosetting matrix component (8) and comprising PBO fibers (4) embedded into said thermosetting matrix component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Applicant: Guehring KG
    Inventor: Thomas BISCHOFF
  • Patent number: 10988929
    Abstract: A concrete component has a concrete matrix (49) and at least one non-metal reinforcing element (50), which can be shaped and at least one reinforcing part (29). The at least one reinforcing part (29) has a plurality of reinforcing threads (34) or reinforcing yarn arranged in a plastic matrix of a plastic (K). The plastic (K) is designed to be reversibly cross-linked. The cross-links can be released by heating the plastic (K) and reestablished by cooling the plastic back down. Thus, it is possible to produce and store a reinforcing element in completely hardened form as a standard element. In one application, the produced reinforcing element can be reshaped into the desired shape by releasing the cross-links in one or more locations, reshaping the reinforcing element, and then hardening the reinforcing element again by reestablishing the cross-links.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Solidian GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Bischoff, Marcus Hinzen, Georgios Toskas
  • Patent number: 10967449
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rotary tool (1; 101; 201) for cutting large inside diameters at the outer circumference (2) of which at least one cutting edge (4) is arranged, comprising a support structure (10; 110; 210) which indirectly or directly supports the at least one cutting edge (4), and comprising a chucking portion (24) for coupling to a tool holder, wherein the support structure (10; 110; 210) widens in an umbrella-type manner starting from a coupling portion (11) adjacent to the chucking portion (24) and is radially stiffened by a stiffening structure (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Guehring KG
    Inventors: Peter Haenle, Thomas Bischoff
  • Publication number: 20200189174
    Abstract: A bending method and a bending device, wherein a composite bar comprising a bundle of reinforcing fibres embedded in a polymer matrix is bent at a bending point. To make it bendable, the composite bar is heated locally at the bending point using an ultrasonic device with a sonotrode. After the bending point has been heated, an infeeding movement between the composite bar and the sonotrode is used to deform a region of the composite bar at the bending point to create a deformed portion of which the outer dimensions are different from the outer dimensions of the bar portions of the composite bar adjoining the bending point. The two bar portions are then moved or angled away in relation to one another, and so the composite bar is curved at the bending point. Once the desired bending has been achieved, the composite bar is cured at the bending point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventor: Thomas Bischoff
  • Publication number: 20190314903
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rotary tool (1; 101; 201) for cutting large inside diameters at the outer circumference (2) of which at least one cutting edge (4) is arranged, comprising a support structure (10; 110; 210) which indirectly or directly supports the at least one cutting edge (4), and comprising a chucking portion (24) for coupling to a tool holder, wherein the support structure (10; 110; 210) widens in an umbrella-type manner starting from a coupling portion (11) adjacent to the chucking portion (24) and is radially stiffened by a stiffening structure (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: GUEHRING KG
    Inventors: Peter HAENLE, Thomas Bischoff
  • Publication number: 20190085563
    Abstract: A concrete component has a concrete matrix (49) and at least one non-metal reinforcing element (50), which can be shaped and at least one reinforcing part (29). The at least one reinforcing part (29) has a plurality of reinforcing threads (34) or reinforcing yarn arranged in a plastic matrix of a plastic (K). The plastic (K) is designed to be reversibly cross-linked. The cross-links can be released by heating the plastic (K) and reestablished by cooling the plastic back down. Thus, it is possible to produce and store a reinforcing element in completely hardened form as a standard element. In one application, the produced reinforcing element can be reshaped into the desired shape by releasing the cross-links in one or more locations, reshaping the reinforcing element, and then hardening the reinforcing element again by reestablishing the cross-links.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Thomas Bischoff, Marcus Hinzen, Georgios Toskas
  • Patent number: 10190239
    Abstract: A textile part is configured for producing a composite-material element (11) or a composite-material body (12). The textile part (10) has a reinforcing system (15) including reinforcing warp threads (16) and reinforcing weft threads (17), and a binding system (25) with binding warp threads (27) and binding weft threads (26). The reinforcing system (15) has at least one first portion (20), into which the reinforcing threads (16, 17) are interwoven with one another directly for binding to facilitate withstanding high mechanical. The reinforcing system (15) also has at least one second portion (21), in which the reinforcing threads (16, 17) form binding-free crossover locations (22) preferably laid on one another in a drawn-out state to constitute a laid structure surrounded by the binding threads (26, 27). The laid structure of the reinforcing system (15), ensures particularly good draping and deformation capability at this location of the composite material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Groz-Beckert KG
    Inventor: Thomas Bischoff
  • Patent number: 10161067
    Abstract: A fabric (10) for use in composite materials having a reinforcing system (11) made of reinforcing warp threads (13) and reinforcing weft threads (14), which are placed on top of one other in two different reinforcing layers (16), (17). A binding system (12) of binding warp threads (20) and binding weft threads (21) is formed from a binding yarn (30) with a lower yarn count than the reinforcing yarn (15). The reinforcing system (11) is enclosed between the binding warp threads (20) on the one side and the binding weft threads (21) on the other side, and thus, held in place at binding points (22). At each binding point (22), a binding warp thread (20) is guided and held between a stationary warp thread (25) and a regular warp thread (24) of a warp thread pair (23) of binding warp threads (20). Between two adjacent binding points of a warp thread pair (23), the stationary warp thread (25) and the regular warp thread (24) have intersecting points (26).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Groz-Beckert KG
    Inventors: Thomas Bischoff, Melike Afsar
  • Patent number: 10139733
    Abstract: The invention relates to an optical imaging device, in particular an objective 1 for microlithography in the field of EUVL for producing semiconductor components, having a beam path 2, a plurality of optical elements 3 and a diaphragm device 7 with an adjustable diaphragm opening shape. The diaphragm device has a diaphragm store 7a, 7b with a plurality of different diaphragm openings 6 with fixed shapes in each case, which can be introduced into the beam path 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
    Inventors: Hermann Bieg, Marcus Will, Thomas Bischoff, Yim-Bun Patrick Kwan, Uy-Liem Nguyen, Stefan Xalter, Michael Muehlbeyer
  • Patent number: 10088754
    Abstract: A raster arrangement includes at least one raster element of a first type and at least one raster element of a second type. Each raster element of the first type has a first bundle-influencing effect. Each raster element of the second type has a second bundle-influencing effect which is different from the first bundle-influencing effect. Each raster element of the first type is located in a first area of the raster arrangement. Each raster element of the second type is located in a second area of the raster arrangement which is different from the first area of the raster arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
    Inventors: Axel Scholz, Frank Schlesener, Nils Haverkamp, Vladimir Davydenko, Michael Gerhard, Gerhard-Wilhelm Ziegler, Mirco Kern, Thomas Bischoff, Thomas Stammler, Stephan Kellner, Manfred Maul, Daniel Walldorf, Igor Hurevich, Markus Deguenther
  • Patent number: 10078270
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an arrangement for an optical device including a component of the optical device and a support structure supporting the component. The support structure includes at least one locking device connected to the component and including a first fixation device and an associated second fixation device. The first fixation device and the second fixation device are adapted to be, in a movable state, movable with respect to each other along a first degree of freedom and a second degree of freedom into a final position. The first fixation device and the second fixation device are further adapted to be, in a locked state, fixed in the final position by at least one locking device contacting the first fixation device and the second fixation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Bischoff, Joachim Feucht, Jochen Wieland, Stefan Mueller
  • Publication number: 20170192361
    Abstract: A raster arrangement includes at least one raster element of a first type and at least one raster element of a second type. Each raster element of the first type has a first bundle-influencing effect. Each raster element of the second type has a second bundle-influencing effect which is different from the first bundle-influencing effect. Each raster element of the first type is located in a first area of the raster arrangement. Each raster element of the second type is located in a second area of the raster arrangement which is different from the first area of the raster arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Axel Scholz, Frank Schlesener, Nils Haverkamp, Vladimir Davydenko, Michael Gerhard, Gerhard-Wilhelm Ziegler, Mirco Kern, Thomas Bischoff, Thomas Stammler, Stephan Kellner, Manfred Maul, Daniel Walldorf, Igor Hurevich, Markus Deguenther
  • Patent number: 9645388
    Abstract: There is provided a facet mirror device comprising a facet element and a support unit, the support unit supporting the facet element. The support unit comprises a first support element and a second support element, the second support element being connected to the facet element to support the facet element. The first support element is connected to the second support element to support the second support element, the first support element being connected to the second support element via at least one flexure unit, the flexure unit comprising at least one flexure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard-Wilhelm Ziegler, Thomas Bischoff
  • Patent number: 9606441
    Abstract: A microlithography illumination system includes a first raster arrangement including a first plurality of bundle-forming raster elements arranged in or adjacent a first plane of the illumination system. The first plurality of bundle-forming raster elements is configured to generate a raster arrangement of secondary light sources. The illumination system also includes a transmission optics configured to superimpose transmission of the illumination light of the secondary light sources into the object field. The transmission optics includes a second raster arrangement comprising a second plurality of bundle-forming raster elements. The illumination system further includes a displacement device configured to displace a displaceable segment of the first raster arrangement relative to the second raster arrangement. The displaceable segment includes exactly one of the raster elements, a group of several raster elements, a raster column, a raster area, or several groups of raster elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
    Inventors: Axel Scholz, Frank Schlesener, Nils Haverkamp, Vladimir Davydenko, Michael Gerhard, Gerhard-Wilhelm Ziegler, Mirco Kern, Thomas Bischoff, Thomas Stammler, Stephan Kellner, Manfred Maul, Daniel Walldorf, Igor Hurevich, Markus Deguenther
  • Publication number: 20160282724
    Abstract: The invention relates to an optical imaging device, in particular an objective 1 for microlithography in the field of EUVL for producing semiconductor components, having a beam path 2, a plurality of optical elements 3 and a diaphragm device 7 with an adjustable diaphragm opening shape. The diaphragm device has a diaphragm store 7a, 7b with a plurality of different diaphragm openings 6 with fixed shapes in each case, which can be introduced into the beam path 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Hermann Bieg, Marcus Will, Thomas Bischoff, Yim-Bun Patrick Kwan, Uy-Liem Nguyen, Stefan Xalter, Michael Muehlbeyer
  • Publication number: 20160161858
    Abstract: An illumination system for microlithography serves to illuminate an illumination field with illumination light of a primary light source. A first raster arrangement has bundle-forming first raster elements which are arranged in a first plane of the illumination system or adjacent to the plane. The first raster arrangement serves to generate a raster arrangement of secondary light sources. A transmission optics serves for superimposed transmission of the illumination light of the secondary light sources into the illumination field. The transmission optics has a second raster arrangement with bundle-forming second raster elements. In each case one of the raster elements of the first raster arrangement is allocated to one of the raster elements of the second raster arrangement for guiding a partial bundle of an entire bundle of illumination light. The first raster arrangement for example has at least two types (I, II, III) of the first raster elements which have different bundle-influencing effects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Axel Scholz, Frank Schlesener, Nils Haverkamp, Vladimir Davydenko, Michael Gerhard, Gerhard-Wilhelm Ziegler, Mirco Kern, Thomas Bischoff, Thomas Stammler, Stephan Kellner, Manfred Maul, Daniel Walldorf, Igor Hurevich, Markus Deguenther
  • Publication number: 20160124315
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an arrangement for an optical device including a component of the optical device and a support structure supporting the component. The support structure includes at least one locking device connected to the component and including a first fixation device and an associated second fixation device. The first fixation device and the second fixation device are adapted to be, in a movable state, movable with respect to each other along a first degree of freedom and a second degree of freedom into a final position. The first fixation device and the second fixation device are further adapted to be, in a locked state, fixed in the final position by at least one locking device contacting the first fixation device and the second fixation device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Thomas Bischoff, Joachim Feucht, Jochen Wieland, Stefan Mueller
  • Patent number: 9329499
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an arrangement for an optical device including a component of the optical device and a support structure supporting the component. The support structure includes at least one locking device connected to the component and including a first fixation device and an associated second fixation device. The first fixation device and the second fixation device are adapted to be, in a movable state, movable with respect to each other along a first degree of freedom and a second degree of freedom into a final position. The first fixation device and the second fixation device are further adapted to be, in a locked state, fixed in the final position by at least one locking device contacting the first fixation device and the second fixation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Bischoff, Joachim Feucht, Jochen Wieland, Stefan Mueller
  • Patent number: 9280060
    Abstract: A raster arrangement includes first and second types of raster elements which have different bundle-influencing effects. There is a distance step between a first raster area and a second raster area. The first raster area comprises a raster element of the first raster element type. The second raster area includes a raster element of the second raster element type. The raster arrangement is configured to be used in a microlithography illumination system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
    Inventors: Axel Scholz, Frank Schlesener, Nils Haverkamp, Vladimir Davydenko, Michael Gerhard, Gerhard-Wilhelm Ziegler, Mirco Kern, Thomas Bischoff, Thomas Stammler, Stephan Kellner, Manfred Maul, Daniel Walldorf, Igor Hurevich, Markus Deguenther