Patents by Inventor Thomas Doerr

Thomas Doerr 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: 10712006
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustion chamber includes first admixing air holes having first inner and outer center points, and second admixing air holes having second inner and outer center points. The first and second inner center points respectively lie on a side of the first and second admixing air holes oriented towards the combustion chamber. The first and second outer center points lie on a side of the first and second admixing air holes facing away from the combustion chamber. An equation L=D2/D1*(D2?D1)/C2 is fulfilled, with L being a distance between the first and second inner center points and/or the first and second outer center points; D1 and D2 being flow diameters of the first and second admixing air holes respectively at an entry and/or exit side to the combustion chamber and C being an average flow rate coefficient of the first and second admixing holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventors: Carsten Clemen, Torsten Voigt, Thomas Doerr
  • Patent number: 10661087
    Abstract: An electrical implant or implant system includes an energy supply unit or is connected to an energy supply unit and includes at least one fixing device for permanently fixing the electrical implant or implant system to bodily tissue, or is connected to the fixing device. At least two implant components are releasably mechanically connected to one another. A first of the implant components includes at least parts of the fixing device. A second of the implant components includes an electromechanical component which, as a result of current drain or current feed, can swell in such a way that it causes a swelling at an outer contour of the electromechanical component at least at one point. The electromechanical component is disposed in such a way that a swelling of the electromechanical component results in a separation of the mechanical connection between the first and second implant components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Biotronik Se & Co. KG
    Inventor: Thomas Doerr
  • Publication number: 20190388687
    Abstract: A device has an energy source, an electronics unit and a pickup unit that is coupled with the electronics unit and is configured to measure electromagnetic waves in the frequency range 1013-1020 Hz. The device is configured for implantation in the human or animal body. The device is configured to detect that the electromagnetic waves were radiated from genetically manipulated tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: THOMAS DOERR, INGO WEISS
  • Publication number: 20190388684
    Abstract: A stimulation device includes an energy source; an electronics unit; an actuator that is coupled with the electronics unit and/or the energy source. The electronics unit includes a controller. The energy source, the electronics unit and the actuator are arranged in a housing. A fixing unit which is coupled with the housing and affixes the stimulation device on a heart or in a heart. The actuator emits electromagnetic waves for the stimulation of genetically manipulated tissue, and the controller controls the stimulation of the tissue by way of the electromagnetic waves of the actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: THOMAS DOERR, INGO WEISS
  • Publication number: 20190388686
    Abstract: A stimulation device contains an energy source, an electronics unit, and an actuator that is coupled with the electronics and/or the energy source. The actuator is configured to emit electromagnetic waves for stimulation of genetically manipulated tissue. The stimulation device is configured for at least temporary implantation in the human or animal body. The electronics unit has a controller configured to stimulate the tissue by use of the electromagnetic waves from the actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: THOMAS DOERR, INGO WEISS
  • Publication number: 20190388699
    Abstract: A stimulation device has an energy source, an electronics unit with a controller, a fixing unit and an actuator that is coupled with the electronics and/or the energy source. The actuator is configured to emit electromagnetic waves for stimulation of genetically manipulated tissue. The stimulation device is configured for at least temporary implantation in a human or animal body. The controller is configured to control the stimulation of the tissue by use of the electromagnetic waves of the actuator. The stimulation device has a control unit that picks up data that characterizes the tissue activity and/or the success of a stimulation by a stimulation carried out through the electromagnetic actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: THOMAS DOERR, INGO WEISS
  • Publication number: 20190388685
    Abstract: An implantable device for implantation in a human body or animal body. The device includes an energy source, an energy storage device, and an electronics unit. Further, an actuator is coupled with the energy storage device and it is configured to emit electromagnetic waves by discharging the energy storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: THOMAS DOERR, INGO WEISS
  • Publication number: 20190388701
    Abstract: A stimulation system includes an energy source, an electronics unit with a controller, and an actuator that is coupled with the electronics unit and/or the energy source. The actuator emits electromagnetic waves for stimulation of genetically manipulated tissue. The electronics unit is disposed in a housing. The stimulation system is configured for at least temporary implantation in a human or animal body. The controller controls the stimulation of tissue in the body by way of the electromagnetic waves emitted by the actuator. A selector of the stimulation system selects the area of the said tissue for stimulation. The selector includes a masking device for masking certain areas of the tissue, so that an intensity of the stimulation for the masked areas is reduced or equal to zero.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: THOMAS DOERR, INGO WEISS
  • Publication number: 20190388689
    Abstract: A device is described that is implantable in the human or animal body, this device comprising at least one substance that is designed to modify human or animal cell structures so that action potentials in the cell structures can be detected and/or evoked by irradiation with electromagnetic waves in the frequency range 1013-1020 Hz. The device comprises application means to deliver the substance to the tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: THOMAS DOERR, INGO WEISS
  • Publication number: 20190192866
    Abstract: An intracardiac system has an intracardiac pacemaker and a cover. The cover at least partially surrounds the pacemaker. An inner surface of the cover, which faces the pacemaker, includes an inner layer with bioresorbable material. There are also described methods for implanting and explanting an intracardiac pacemaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: THOMAS DOERR, DIRK MUESSIG
  • Patent number: 10293154
    Abstract: A device (110) for insertion into a human or animal body has a surface (610) which at least partially bears a surface structure (140, 140?), wherein the coefficient of static friction between the surface structure (140, 140?) and an interface within the body is anisotropic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Doerr, Gernot Kolberg
  • Patent number: 10285614
    Abstract: An implantable cardiac system that includes an implantable cardiac pacemaker or leadless pacemaker (iLP) and a second device such as a subcutaneous implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (S-ICD). The pacemaker includes an R-spike amplifier that amplifies stimulated ventricle excitations or R-waves to increase R-wave to T-wave signal to noise ratio and to improve indirect detection of ventricular rhythm classification by the S-ICD. The S-ICD includes an electrode line for defibrillation, a sensing unit and a stimulation detection unit. The S-ICD records a subcutaneous electrocardiogram between shock electrode poles and provides potentially life-saving therapy based thereon. The system significantly increases the specificity and sensitivity of an S-ICD in combination with an implanted cardiac pacemaker or iLP having an R-spike amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Doerr, Dirk Muessig
  • Publication number: 20190126054
    Abstract: A configuration performs electrical therapy on a patient and is configured to produce at least one electrical therapeutic voltage, which acts at a therapy site in or on the patient's body. The configuration contains at least one first and one second subunit, and every subunit has at least one energy storage. The amount of energy storable by every individual energy storage is smaller than the amount of energy required to produce the electrical voltage for therapy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: INGO WEISS, MICHAEL FRIEDRICH, THOMAS DOERR, ULRICH FEESE, KARSTEN SCHLODDER, GERNOT KOLBERG
  • Publication number: 20190113226
    Abstract: A nozzle for a combustion chamber of an engine for providing a fuel-air mixture at a nozzle exit opening of the nozzle includes a nozzle main body including the nozzle exit opening and extends along a nozzle longitudinal axis. The nozzle main body has a first air guiding channel, a fuel guiding channel and a further, radially outwardly second air guiding channel. One end of the fuel guiding channel is positioned in front of the end of the second air guiding channel. A tapering channel portion with a shell surface inclined with respect to a nozzle longitudinal axis in the axial direction and connects to a radially outer shell surface of the fuel guiding channel is formed between the end of the fuel guiding channel and the end of the second air guiding channel at the nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Thomas DOERR, Sebastian BAKE, Thilo DAUCH, Rainer KOCH, Hans-Joerg BAUER
  • Patent number: 10258283
    Abstract: Embodiments include an implant for insertion into a human and/or animal body and an insertion device for the implant. The implant includes a housing, at least one negative pressure unit and at least one adhesive application unit to temporarily and/or permanently fix the implant to a bodily tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Biotronik SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Doerr, Michael Diebold
  • Patent number: 10213161
    Abstract: Embodiments include a method of determining an oxygen content in a bodily tissue or in blood of a human or animal body, wherein a variable representative of oxygen content in the bodily tissue or in the blood is detected at least over one cardiac cycle and is correlated with a contraction state of a heart. Embodiments include a device configured to be inserted into the human or animal body, wherein the device includes at least one sensor unit that detects a signal representative of an oxygen content along a measurement path. Embodiments include a reflector provided on the device, wherein the reflector is arranged in the measurement path between a transmitter and a receiver of the at least one sensor unit to reflect the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Biotronik SE & Co. KG
    Inventor: Thomas Doerr
  • Publication number: 20190024518
    Abstract: A nozzle assembly group for a combustion chamber of an engine, with multiple nozzles for introducing fuel into the combustion chamber that are arranged next to each other, wherein each nozzle has a nozzle outlet opening and a fuel channel for conveying fuel in the direction of the nozzle outlet opening. According to the invention, it is provided that at least two different types of nozzles are provided, wherein the nozzles of different types have nozzle outlet openings with an identical cross section, and for predetermining different flow rates of fuel through the fuel channels of the nozzles of different types, a cross section of a fuel channel of one type of nozzle is different from a cross section of a fuel channel of another type of nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Carsten CLEMEN, Thomas DOERR
  • Patent number: 10092746
    Abstract: A test apparatus for an implantable electrode line and also for an electrode line and an implantable device, including a directional coupler or a circulator for coupling an electrical test symbol into at least one electrical conductor of the electrode line and for decoupling the reflected test signal from the electrical conductor of the electrode line. Such a directional coupler makes it possible to couple a test signal, e.g., a steep voltage pulse, into an electrical conductor of the electrode line and to decouple again the returning reflected voltage pulse (namely, the reflected test signal) from the electrical conductor by means of the directional coupler or circulator. A method for testing an electrical conductor of an implantable electrode line including: 1) coupling a test signal into the electrical conductor; 2) decoupling the test signal reflected in the electrical conductor from the electrical conductor; and 3) evaluating the reflected test signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Uwe Stuermer, Thomas Doerr
  • Publication number: 20180156450
    Abstract: The invention relates to a swirl generator of a fuel nozzle 6 of a gas turbine, with an inner 22 and an outer 21 ring element, wherein the ring elements 21, 22 are arranged so as to be concentric with respect to each other, and an outer annular channel 18a is formed between the inner ring element 22 and the outer ring element 21, having a radial height of h in its axially central area, characterized in that the outer annular channel 18a has a radial height of H at its inflow area 23 and is provided with air guiding elements 11 in the inflow area 23, wherein H>h applies, wherein an inner annular channel (18b) is formed at the radially inner side of the inner ring element (22), with its inflow area (23), which is provided with air guiding elements (11), having a larger radial height than a central area of the inner annular channel (18b), wherein the outer annular channel (18a) has an effective flow surface (A) in the area of the guide elements (11) that is larger than the effective flow surface in the axiall
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Inventors: Thomas DOERR, Carsten CLEMEN
  • Publication number: 20180104501
    Abstract: An electrical implant or implant system includes an energy supply unit or is connected to an energy supply unit and includes at least one fixing device for permanently fixing the electrical implant or implant system to bodily tissue, or is connected to the fixing device. At least two implant components are releasably mechanically connected to one another. A first of the implant components includes at least parts of the fixing device. A second of the implant components includes an electromechanical component which, as a result of current drain or current feed, can swell in such a way that it causes a swelling at an outer contour of the electromechanical component at least at one point. The electromechanical component is disposed in such a way that a swelling of the electromechanical component results in a separation of the mechanical connection between the first and second implant components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventor: THOMAS DOERR