Patents by Inventor Thomas Blum

Thomas Blum 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).

  • Publication number: 20110091190
    Abstract: A motor vehicle HVAC unit includes a housing, preferably a fan, preferably a coolant evaporator for cooling air to be supplied to the vehicle interior, at least two electric resistance heaters for heating the air to be supplied to the vehicle interior and at least one delay circuit, preferably two delay circuits. The at least two electric resistance heaters are suppliable with electric current, and a device is provided for supplying current to at least one of the at least two electric resistance heaters with a time delay relative to another electric resistance heater, and during the turning on or supplying current to the electric resistance heaters a small maximum current peak requirement is to occur at low technical expenditures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2010
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Inventors: Thomas Blum, Michel Brun
  • Publication number: 20100274116
    Abstract: In a method for supported recording and/or analysis, in particular assessment, of images which are to be and/or have been recorded with an imaging device using a database containing medical information, in particular a medical atlas, in the imaging device and/or in a computer, following a command from a user and/or through the occurrence of a triggering event, dependent existing image related data, at least one image related information item is selected from the database automatically, and the at least one, image related information item is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2010
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Inventors: Thomas Blum, Roland Faber
  • Publication number: 20100246909
    Abstract: In a method and device to evaluate a time series of in particular two-dimensional images of a contrast agent flow in at least one blood vessel of the human body within the scope of a test bolus measurement, wherein the acquisition of the time series begins with administration of the contrast agent, the time series of two-dimensional images or a time series of images derived from this is used as a time series of evaluation images, and in at least one evaluation image exhibiting a contrast agent signal, at least one point associated with a blood vessel is determined semi-automatically or automatically and transferred to further evaluation images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Inventors: Thomas Blum, Michaela Schmidt, Peter Schmitt, Michael Zenge
  • Patent number: 7076979
    Abstract: In a method and a device for producing curved lengths of spring band steel in order to produce precisely toleranced, dimensionally stable bending radii, the spring band steel (10) pass through a bending unit (20), which is comprised of three support points (23-25) spaced apart from one another, and passes through a reverse bending unit (22), which is disposed after the bending unit (20) in the advancing direction of the spring band steel (10) and is comprised of a fourth support point (32), and in a cutting unit (21), the curved and recurved lengths of spring band steel (11) are cut from the spring band steel (10). The central support point (24) of the bending unit (20) and the fourth support point (32) of the reverse bending unit (22) are embodied so that they can be moved and are controlled in their advancing in relation to the spring band steel (10) by means of a numerical control unit (20) in accordance with predetermined programs (FIG. 1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2006
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Wilhelm, Thomas Blum, Julius Mazurkiewicz, Theo Troester
  • Publication number: 20020116973
    Abstract: In a method and a device for producing curved lengths of spring band steel in order to produce precisely toleranced, dimensionally stable bending radii, the spring band steel (10) pass through a bending unit (20), which is comprised of three support points (23-25) spaced apart from one another, and passes through a reverse bending unit (22), which is disposed after the bending unit (20) in the advancing direction of the spring band steel (10) and is comprised of a fourth support point (32), and in a cutting unit (21), the curved and recurved lengths of spring band steel (11) are cut from the spring band steel (10). The central support point (24) of the bending unit (20) and the fourth support point (32) of the reverse bending unit (22) are embodied so that they can be moved and are controlled in their advancing in relation to the spring band steel (10) by means of a numerical control unit (20) in accordance with predetermined programs (FIG. 1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2001
    Publication date: August 29, 2002
    Inventors: Manfred Wilhelm, Thomas Blum, Julius Mazurkiewicz, Theo Troester
  • Patent number: 6405165
    Abstract: A medical workstation for treatment of a patient has a device for the electrical registration of voice signals, a device for continuously storing the registered voice signals and a communication path for the transmission of the registered voice signals from the device for registration to the device for storing the voice signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Blum, Dirk Birrenbach, Thomas Reichert
  • Patent number: 5501905
    Abstract: This invention relates to matt, multilayered propylene films to which their matt appearance is imparted by a one-sided, coextruded layer of a polymer mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1996
    Assignee: Wolff Walsrode Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Anton Krallmann, Thomas Blum, Ingo Schinkel
  • Patent number: 5425990
    Abstract: The invention relates to matt-effect multilayer polypropylene films which acquire their matt appearance from at least one-sided, coextruded layer of a polymer mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 20, 1995
    Assignee: Wolff Walsrode AG
    Inventors: Thomas Blum, Ingo Schinkel, Anton Krallmann