Patents by Inventor Thomas Brandl

Thomas Brandl 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: 20240153320
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a test rover apparatus, a test system and a test method using the test rover apparatus. For example, the test rover apparatus is provided with a chassis that is configured to support an object representing a mobile actor, and a motor that is coupled to at least one wheel. At least one spring is coupled between the at least one wheel and the chassis to: bias the at least one wheel to extend out of the cavity to engage an underlying surface, and compress in response to a load being applied to the top of the chassis thereby retracting the at least one wheel into the cavity. A controller is configured to control the motor to drive the at least one wheel to propel the chassis along a predetermined route that is based on simulation data and corresponds to a maneuver of the mobile actor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Daniel MCMENAMIN, JR., Raymond LEONARD, Michael BRANDL, Timothy RIGGS, Sean William SHAWGO, Dustin Ryan YAUTZ
  • Patent number: 11840952
    Abstract: An aftertreatment device includes flow guides disposed within a dosing conduit. Exhaust enters through a perforated region of the dosing conduit and passes through the flow guides. The flow guides induce swirling or other turbulence to mix injected reactant with the exhaust gas. Various types of flow guides include cantilevered vanes, guide passageways, and louvered openings of a second conduit. Some types of flow guides induce localized mixing to inhibit deposit formation at the doser mounting unit. Other types of flow guides induce mixing downstream of the dosing conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew S. Whitten, Todd R. Taubert, Derek M. Larsen, Korneel De Rudder, Mark Thomas Brandl
  • Publication number: 20220396582
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to novel crystalline forms of N-(4-(1-(2,6-difluorobenzyl)-5-((dimethylamino)methyl)-3-(6-methoxy-3-pyridazinyl)-2,4-dioxo-1,2,3,4-tetrahydrothieno[2,3-d]pyrimidin-6-yl)phenyl)-N?-methoxyurea. It also relates to methods of making the disclosed crystalline forms, pharmaceutical compositions and kits comprising them, and methods of treatment and uses comprising their administration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: Michael Thomas BRANDL, Patricia ANDRES, Petinka I. VLAHOVA, Tsuyoshi Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20220268192
    Abstract: An aftertreatment device includes flow guides disposed within a dosing conduit. Exhaust enters through a perforated region of the dosing conduit and passes through the flow guides. The flow guides induce swirling or other turbulence to mix injected reactant with the exhaust gas. Various types of flow guides include cantilevered vanes, guide passageways, and louvered openings of a second conduit. Some types of flow guides induce localized mixing to inhibit deposit formation at the doser mounting unit. Other types of flow guides induce mixing downstream of the dosing conduit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew S. WHITTEN, Todd R. TAUBERT, Derek M. LARSEN, Korneel DE RUDDER, Mark Thomas BRANDL
  • Patent number: 10940451
    Abstract: An exhaust treatment arrangement includes a mixing assembly disposed between first and second substrates; and an injection mounting location disposed at the mixing assembly. The mixing assembly includes a mixing arrangement configured to direct exhaust flow exiting the first substrate in a swirling configuration, a restricting member defining a restricted passage, and optionally a dispersing member configured to even out the exhaust flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Thomas Brandl, Korneel De Rudder, Bruce Hoppenstedt, Matthew S. Whitten
  • Patent number: 10844764
    Abstract: A dosing and mixing arrangement including an exhaust conduit defining a central axis; a mixing conduit positioned within the exhaust conduit; a dispersing arrangement (e.g., a mesh) disposed at the upstream end of the mixing conduit; an injector coupled to the exhaust conduit and configured to direct reactants into the exhaust conduit towards the mesh; and an annular bypass defined between the mixing conduit and the exhaust conduit for allowing exhaust to bypass the upstream end of the mixing conduit and to enter the mixing conduit downstream of the mesh.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Thomas Brandl, Bruce Hoppenstedt, Stephen Ronald Schiller, Matthew S. Whitten
  • Publication number: 20190118146
    Abstract: An exhaust treatment arrangement includes a mixing assembly disposed between first and second substrates; and an injection mounting location disposed at the mixing assembly. The mixing assembly includes a mixing arrangement configured to direct exhaust flow exiting the first substrate in a swirling configuration, a restricting member defining a restricted passage, and optionally a dispersing member configured to even out the exhaust flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Mark Thomas Brandl, Korneel DeRudder, Bruce Hoppenstedt, Matthew S. Whitten
  • Patent number: 10179315
    Abstract: An exhaust treatment arrangement includes a mixing assembly disposed between first and second substrates; and an injection mounting location disposed at the mixing assembly. The mixing assembly includes a mixing arrangement configured to direct exhaust flow exiting the first substrate in a swirling configuration, a restricting member defining a restricted passage, and optionally a dispersing member configured to even out the exhaust flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Thomas Brandl, Korneel DeRudder, Bruce Hoppenstedt, Matthew S. Whitten
  • Publication number: 20180328248
    Abstract: A dosing and mixing arrangement including an exhaust conduit defining a central axis; a mixing conduit positioned within the exhaust conduit; a dispersing arrangement (e.g., a mesh) disposed at the upstream end of the mixing conduit; an injector coupled to the exhaust conduit and configured to direct reactants into the exhaust conduit towards the mesh; and an annular bypass defined between the mixing conduit and the exhaust conduit for allowing exhaust to bypass the upstream end of the mixing conduit and to enter the mixing conduit downstream of the mesh.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: Mark Thomas Brandl, Bruce Hoppenstedt, Stephen Ronald Schiller, Matthew S. Whitten
  • Patent number: 10030562
    Abstract: A dosing and mixing arrangement including an exhaust conduit defining a central axis; a mixing conduit positioned within the exhaust conduit; a dispersing arrangement (e.g., a mesh) disposed at the upstream end of the mixing conduit; an injector coupled to the exhaust conduit and configured to direct reactants into the exhaust conduit towards the mesh; and an annular bypass defined between the mixing conduit and the exhaust conduit for allowing exhaust to bypass the upstream end of the mixing conduit and to enter the mixing conduit downstream of the mesh.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Thomas Brandl, Bruce Hoppenstedt, Stephen Ronald Schiller, Matthew S. Whitten
  • Patent number: 10018520
    Abstract: Measuring apparatus-calibration device for calibrating a measuring apparatus-temperature sensor of a, in particular optical, measuring apparatus, wherein the measuring apparatus-calibration device comprises a, preferably measuring apparatus-external, calibration-temperature sensor, which is traceably calibratable itself, for determining a calibration temperature in the region of a measuring surface of the measuring apparatus and a determination unit which is adapted for determining an information which is indicative for a discrepancy between a measuring apparatus-temperature which is captured by the measuring apparatus-temperature sensor in the region of the measuring surface and the calibration temperature, on whose basis the measuring apparatus-temperature sensor is calibratable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Anton Paar OptoTec GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Ostermeyer, Thomas Brandl
  • Publication number: 20170082004
    Abstract: A dosing and mixing arrangement including an exhaust conduit defining a central axis; a mixing conduit positioned within the exhaust conduit; a dispersing arrangement (e.g., a mesh) disposed at the upstream end of the mixing conduit; an injector coupled to the exhaust conduit and configured to direct reactants into the exhaust conduit towards the mesh; and an annular bypass defined between the mixing conduit and the exhaust conduit for allowing exhaust to bypass the upstream end of the mixing conduit and to enter the mixing conduit downstream of the mesh.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: Mark Thomas Brandl, Bruce Hoppenstedt, Stephen Ronald Schiller, Matthew S. Whitten
  • Patent number: 9528415
    Abstract: A dosing and mixing arrangement including an exhaust conduit defining a central axis; a mixing conduit positioned within the exhaust conduit; a dispersing arrangement (e.g., a mesh) disposed at the upstream end of the mixing conduit; an injector coupled to the exhaust conduit and configured to direct reactants into the exhaust conduit towards the mesh; and an annular bypass defined between the mixing conduit and the exhaust conduit for allowing exhaust to bypass the upstream end of the mixing conduit and to enter the mixing conduit downstream of the mesh.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Thomas Brandl, Bruce Hoppenstedt, Stephen Ronald Schiller, Matthew S. Whitten
  • Publication number: 20160361694
    Abstract: An exhaust treatment arrangement includes a mixing assembly disposed between first and second substrates; and an injection mounting location disposed at the mixing assembly. The mixing assembly includes a mixing arrangement configured to direct exhaust flow exiting the first substrate in a swirling configuration, a restricting member defining a restricted passage, and optionally a dispersing member configured to even out the exhaust flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Inventors: Mark Thomas Brandl, Korneel DeRudder, Bruce Hoppenstedt, Matthew S. Whitten
  • Publication number: 20160320252
    Abstract: Measuring apparatus-calibration device for calibrating a measuring apparatus-temperature sensor of a, in particular optical, measuring apparatus, wherein the measuring apparatus-calibration device comprises a, preferably measuring apparatus-external, calibration-temperature sensor, which is traceably calibratable itself, for determining a calibration temperature in the region of a measuring surface of the measuring apparatus and a determination unit which is adapted for determining an information which is indicative for a discrepancy between a measuring apparatus-temperature which is captured by the measuring apparatus-temperature sensor in the region of the measuring surface and the calibration temperature, on whose basis the measuring apparatus-temperature sensor is calibratable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Inventors: Martin Ostermeyer, Thomas Brandl
  • Publication number: 20150218996
    Abstract: A dosing and mixing arrangement including an exhaust conduit defining a central axis; a mixing conduit positioned within the exhaust conduit; a dispersing arrangement (e.g., a mesh) disposed at the upstream end of the mixing conduit; an injector coupled to the exhaust conduit and configured to direct reactants into the exhaust conduit towards the mesh; and an annular bypass defined between the mixing conduit and the exhaust conduit for allowing exhaust to bypass the upstream end of the mixing conduit and to enter the mixing conduit downstream of the mesh.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: Mark Thomas Brandl, Bruce Hoppenstedt, Stephen Ronald Schiller, Matthew S. Whitten
  • Publication number: 20150034029
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine having at least one cylinder with a reciprocating piston, and in which the cylinder head and the cylinder block are integrally arranged as a head-block unit, having at least one exhaust-gas turbocharger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: AVL LIST GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Obenaus, Helmut Melde-Tuczai, Thomas Brandl, Gyula Toth, Gerhard Maier
  • Patent number: 8887674
    Abstract: A cylinder head (1) for an internal combustion engine with liquid cooling and a liquid-cooled exhaust manifold (8) and which is arranged integrally with the cylinder head (1) includes at least one first and one second cooling chamber (4, 9) through which a coolant flows, and with the region of the exhaust manifold (8) being enclosed at least partly by the second cooling chamber. In order to ensure by way of simple production the optimal removal of heat from thermally critical regions, the first and second cooling chambers are flow-connected via at least one borehole (10) with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: AVL List GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Brandl, Christof Knollmayr
  • Publication number: 20120285403
    Abstract: A cylinder head (1) for an internal combustion engine with liquid cooling and a liquid-cooled exhaust manifold (8) and which is arranged integrally with the cylinder head (1) includes at least one first and one second cooling chamber (4, 9) through which a coolant flows, and with the region of the exhaust manifold (8) being enclosed at least partly by the second cooling chamber. In order to ensure by way of simple production the optimal removal of heat from thermally critical regions, the first and second cooling chambers are flow-connected via at least one borehole (10) with one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Inventor: Thomas Brandl
  • Patent number: 7893037
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of forming granules of (2R,3S,4R,5R)-5-(4-amino-2-oxo-2H-pyrimidin-1-yl)-2-azido-3,4-bis-iso-butyryloxy-tetrahydro-furan-2-ylmethyl isobutyrate; hydrochloride salt (I), comprising mixing I, with a granulating amount of a granulating liquid, and a polyethylene glycol (PEG)/polypropylene glycol (PPG) block copolymer as a binder and solubility enhancer to form wet granules which are then dried to remove the granulating liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Roche Palo Alto LLC
    Inventors: Kondamraj Birudaraj, Michael Thomas Brandl, Shridhar Hegde, Felix Sana, Dimitrios Stefanidis