Patents by Inventor Thomas Ernst

Thomas Ernst 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: 8656584
    Abstract: Method of fabricating an electro-mechanical microsystem provided with at least one fixed part comprising a bar, and at least one mobile part in rotation around at least one portion of said bar, the method comprising the steps of: a) formation, inside a layer of at least one given material resting on a support, of at least one bar, b) formation around the bar of at least one first graphene sheet, and of a least one second graphene sheet, separated from the first sheet and mobile with respect to the first sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
    Inventors: Jean-Christophe Gabriel, Philippe Andreucci, Thomas Ernst, Thierry Poiroux
  • Publication number: 20140018517
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of polycarbonate polyols, characterised in that cyclic carbonates are polymerised in the presence of DMC catalysts and chain-transfer agents consisting of polyether carbonate polyols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: BAYER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY GMBH
    Inventors: Igor Busygin, Thomas Ernst Müller, Christoph Gürtler, Anthony Kermagoret, Yvonne Dienes, Igor Busygin, Burkhard Köhler, Walter Leitner
  • Publication number: 20130296450
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of polyether carbonate polyols with primary hydroxyl end groups, comprising the steps of reaction of a starter compound containing active hydrogen atoms with an epoxide and carbon dioxide under double metal cyanide catalysis, reaction of the product obtained with a cyclic carboxylic acid anhydride and reaction of this product obtained with ethylene oxide in the presence of a catalyst which contains at least one nitrogen atom per molecule, excluding non-cyclic tertiary amines with identical substituents. The invention furthermore relates to polyether carbonate polyols obtainable by this process, compositions comprising these polyether carbonate polyols and polyurethane polymers based on these polyether carbonate polyols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH
    Inventors: Jörg Hofmann, Christoph Gürtler, Hartmut Nefzger, Norbert Hahn, Klaus Lorenz, Thomas Ernst Müller
  • Publication number: 20130203248
    Abstract: A method for producing an integrated circuit, including, in this order: a) producing at least one MOS electronic circuit and/or at least one level of electrical interconnections on a substrate; b) uniformly implantating dopants in at least a portion of a layer of crystalline semiconductor; c) thermally activating the dopants implanted in the portion of the crystalline semiconductor layer; d) rigidly connecting the crystalline semiconductor layer to the substrate; and e) producing at least one junctionless depletion-mode FET device including a part of the portion of the crystalline semiconductor layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives
    Inventors: Thomas Ernst, Marie-Anne Jaud, Perrine Batude
  • Patent number: 8502318
    Abstract: A microelectronic device including, on a substrate, at least one element such as a SRAM memory cell; one or more first transistor(s), respectively including a number k of channels (k?1) parallel in a direction forming a non-zero angle with the main plane of the substrate, and one or more second transistor(s), respectively including a number m of channels, such that m>k, parallel in a direction forming a non-zero angle, or an orthogonal direction, with the main plane of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives
    Inventors: Olivier Thomas, Thomas Ernst
  • Publication number: 20130187276
    Abstract: A microelectronic device, including: a substrate and a plurality of metal interconnection levels stacked on the substrate; a first metal line of a given metal interconnection level; a second metal line of another metal interconnection level located above the given metal interconnection level, the first and second lines are interconnected via at least one semiconductor connection element extending in a direction forming a nonzero angle with the first metal lines and the second metal line; and a gate electrode capable of controlling conduction of the semiconductor connection element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2011
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENE ALT
    Inventors: Thomas Ernst, Paul-Henry Morel, Sylvain Maitrejean
  • Patent number: 8492232
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a microelectronic device comprising: a support, an etched stack of thin layers comprising: at least one first block and at least one second block resting on the support, in which at least one drain region and at least one source region, respectively, are capable of being formed, several semiconductor bars connecting a first zone of the first block and another zone of the second block, and able to form a multi-branch transistor channel, or several transistor channels, the device also comprising: a gate surrounding said bars and located between said first block and said second block, the gate being in contact with a first and a second insulating spacer in contact with at least one sidewall of the first block and with at least one sidewall of the second block, respectively, and at least partially separated from the first block and the second block, via said insulating spacers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventors: Thomas Ernst, Christian Isheden
  • Publication number: 20130144542
    Abstract: A device for analyzing a fluid, including a layer including a plurality of sensors of MEMS and/or NEMS type, a layer including a mechanism controlling the sensor and for processing information transmitted by the sensors, the control and processing mechanism being electrically connected to the detectors, and a layer positioned on the layer including the sensors on a side of a face including the sensors including a mechanism spatially and temporally distributing the fluid on the sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicants: California Institute of Technology, Commissariat a l' Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventors: Thomas Ernst, Philippe Andreucci, Eric Colinet, Laurent Duraffourg, Edward B. Myers, Michael L. Roukes
  • Publication number: 20130072602
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of polyether carbonate polyols by catalytic copolymerization of carbon dioxide (CO2) with alkylene oxides in the presence of one or more H-functional starter substances with the aid of double metal cyanide (DMC) catalysts and in the presence of additives A) chosen from the group consisting of sterically non-hindered phenols, catechols, pyrocatechols, thiazines, phenothiazines, thiazoles, benzothiazoles, oxazines, phenoxazines, 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine 1-oxyl and nitrostyrenes and optionally in the presence of metal salts B).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2011
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: BAYER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY GMBH
    Inventors: Christoph Gürtler, Jörg Hofmann, Thomas Ernst Müller, Aurel Wolf, Stefan Grasser, Burkhard Köhler
  • Publication number: 20130066112
    Abstract: The invention relates to multi-amine functional oligomers and multi-oxime functional oligomers in addition to a method for producing the same by means of the co-polymerisation of carbonyl carriers such as olefins or dienes, reaction with hydroxylamine and a subsequent selective catalytic hydrogenation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2011
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Gürtler, Thomas Ernst Müller, Ewa Gebauer, Henning Vogt, Yevgen Berezhanskyy, Burkhard Köhler, Walter Leitner
  • Patent number: 8367487
    Abstract: The disclosure concerns a microelectronic device provided with one or more <<quantum wires>>, able to form one or more transistor channels, and optimized in terms of arrangement, shape or/and composition. The invention also uses a method for fabricating said device, comprising the steps of: the forming, in one or more thin layers resting on a support, of a first block and a second block in which at least one transistor drain region and at least one transistor source region are respectively intended to be formed, and of a structure connecting the first block to the second block, and the forming, on the surface of the structure, of wires connecting a first region of the first block with another region of the second block which faces the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventors: Thomas Ernst, Stephan Borel
  • Publication number: 20130018186
    Abstract: The invention relates to bimetallic complexes in which the ligand contains a salophen unit which complexes copper, manganese or cobalt and a phenanthroline unit which complexes palladium and the two systems are linked by a continuous conjugated system. The invention further relates to the use of these bimetallic complexes as catalysts for the oxidative carbonylation of aromatic hydroxy compounds to form diaryl carbonates, a process for preparing diaryl carbonates using the bimetallic complex as catalyst and also diaryl carbonates prepared by oxidative carbonylation of aromatic hydroxy compounds using the bimetallic complexes of the invention as catalysts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Gürtler, Thomas Ernst Müller, Pieter Ooms, Johann Rechner, Friedhelm Risse, Angelina Prokofieva, Franco Doro, Burkhard Köhler, Walter Leitner, Aurel Wolf
  • Patent number: 8343780
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for straining or deforming a pattern or a thin layer (24), starting from an initial component comprising the said thin layer and a prestressed layer (20), this method comprising: an etching step of the prestressed layer, perpendicular to its surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventors: Jean-Charles Barbe, Thomas Ernst
  • Patent number: 8321228
    Abstract: Techniques for providing network services at an audio interface unit include determining, based on spoken sounds of a user of an apparatus received at a microphone of the apparatus, whether to present audio data received from a different apparatus. If it is determined to present the received audio data, then presentation of the received audio data at a speaker of the apparatus is initiated. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a data communications bus; and logic encoded in one or more tangible media configured to performs the above steps. In some embodiments, the apparatus does not include a visual display and does not include a keypad of multiple buttons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Jan Chipchase, Pascal Wever, Nikolaj Bestle, Pawena Thimaporn, Thomas Ernst Arbisi, John-Rhys Newman, Andrew Julian Gartrell, Simon David James
  • Patent number: 8304509
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for continuously preparing diaryl carbonates from dialkyl carbonates and at least one monohydroxyl compound in the presence of catalysts, and to the use thereof for preparation of polycarbonates. The alkylene glycol obtained in the preparation of the dialkyl carbonate used is recycled by oxidative carbonylation with carbon monoxide in the presence of a catalyst to give the cyclic alkylene carbonate which is in turn converted to the dialkyl carbonate. More particularly, the process utilizes the alkylene glycol obtained for the diphenyl carbonate preparation process (DPC process).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Gürtler, Thomas Ernst Müller, Pieter Ooms, Friedhelm Risse, Johann Rechner, Franco Doro, Angelina Prokofieva
  • Patent number: 8288823
    Abstract: Double gate transistor microelectronic device comprising: a support, a structure suited to forming at least one multi-branch channel and comprising a plurality of separate parallel semi-conductor rods and situated in a plane orthogonal to the principal plane of the support, the rods linking a first block suited to forming a source region of the transistor and a second block provided, suited to forming a drain region of the transistor, a first gate electrode situated on one side of said structure against the sides of said semi-conductor rods, a second gate electrode, separate from the first gate and situated on another side of the structure against the opposite sides of the rods, the semi-conductor rods and one or several insulating rods situated between the semi-conductor rods, separating the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique
    Inventors: Thomas Ernst, Cecilia Dupre
  • Patent number: 8252636
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing at least one nanowire, the nanowire being parallel to its supporting substrate, the method including the formation on the supporting substrate of a structure comprising a bar and two regions, a first end of the bar being secured to one of the two regions and a second end of the bar being secured to the other region, the width of the bar being less than the width of the regions, the subjection of the bar to an annealing under gaseous atmosphere in order to transform the bar into a nanowire, the annealing being carried out under conditions allowing control of the sizing of the neck produced during the formation of the nanowire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventors: Erwan Dornel, Jean-Charles Barbe, Thomas Ernst
  • Patent number: 8246775
    Abstract: The disclosure concerns a method, an apparatus and a system for producing or equipping paperboard such that information carriers can be implanted between two layers of material, together with a piece of paperboard material produced in this way and a package. In particular, the disclosure concerns the implantation of an information carrier in corrugated paperboard, taking into account cuts that are subsequently to be made in the transverse direction, the distance of the position at which the cross-cuts are made from the position at which the information carriers are applied, and the movement executed by the web of material between the application position and the cross-cutting position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Texmag GmbH Vertriebsgesellschaft
    Inventor: Thomas Ernst
  • Publication number: 20120148478
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of chlorine by gas phase oxidation using a supported catalyst based on ruthenium, characterised in that the catalyst support has a plurality of pores having a pore diameter>50 nm and carries nanoparticles containing ruthenium and/or ruthenium compounds as catalytically active components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2010
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: Bayer MaterialScience AG
    Inventors: Timm Schmidt, Christoph Gürtler, Jürgen Kintrup, Thomas Ernst Müller, Tim Loddenkemper, Frank Gerhartz, Walther Müller
  • Publication number: 20120134206
    Abstract: A memory device comprising: a back gate including a first portion of electrically conductive material, a first portion of dielectric material arranged on the back gate, a semiconductor nanobeam arranged on the first portion of dielectric material, a second portion of dielectric material covering the semiconductor nanobeam, a portion of material capable of receiving electrons and holes, and able to perform storage of electrical charges and covering the second portion of dielectric material, a third portion of dielectric material covering the portion of material capable of performing storage of electrical charges, a front gate including a second portion of electrically conductive material covering the third portion of dielectric material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2011
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENE. ALT.
    Inventors: Alexandre Hubert, Maryline Bawedin, Sorin Cristoloveanu, Thomas Ernst