Patents by Inventor Thomas Friedrich

Thomas Friedrich 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).

  • Quick Coupler
    Publication number: 20140030005
    Abstract: A quick coupler for coupling a tool like for example a scoop, shell grab or demolition tongs to a tool guide such as an excavator arm or the like, including a coupling receptacle for receiving a first locking part and a locking receptacle for receiving a second locking part, wherein to the coupling receptacle a self-locking securing element is associated for catching and/or securing the first locking part in the coupling receptacle, and to the locking receptacle a pressure-medium-actuatable locking element is associated for locking the second locking part in the locking receptacle. The self-locking securing element of the coupling receptacle likewise is actuatable by the pressure circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Inventor: Thomas Friedrich
  • Amidase and Use Thereof for Producing 3-Aminocarboxylic Acid Esters
    Publication number: 20130337512
    Abstract: Process for producing optically active 3-aminocarboxylic acid ester compounds of general Formula I, and the ammonium salts thereof, in which R1 stands for alkyl, alkoxyalkyl, alkenyl, cycloalkyl, heterocycloalkyl, aryl, or hetaryl, and R2 stands for alkyl, cycloalkyl or aryl, in which an enantiomeric mixture of a simply N-acylated 3-aminocarboxylic acid ester of general formula (I.b), in which R1 and R2 have the meanings given above and R3 stands for hydrogen, alkyl, cycloalkyl or aryl, is submitted to an enantioselective deacylation by adding a polypeptide according to claim 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Inventors: Bernhard Hauer, Thomas Friedrich, Rainer Stürmer, Nina Schneider, Susanne Krauser, Wolf-Rüdiger Krahnert
  • First-wall component for a fusion reactor with a heat sink of a copper alloy
    Patent number: 8580383
    Abstract: A first-wall component of a fusion reactor has a heat shield and a heat sink. The heat shield is formed of a material from the group of graphite material, carbidic material, tungsten and tungsten alloy. The heat sink is formed of a spray-compacted copper alloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Plansee SE
    Inventors: Bertram Schedler, Thomas Huber, Anton Zabernig, Karlheinz Scheiber, Dietmar Schedle, Thomas Friedrich, Hans-Dieter Friedle, Sandra Mair, Nadine Wörle
  • Method of producing a material composite
    Patent number: 8557383
    Abstract: A material composite has at least one region of copper or a copper alloy, at least one region of a predominantly graphitic material, and at least one boundary region between them. The boundary region has one or more carbides from the group of the IVb, Vb, VIb transition metals and one or more elements of the group consisting of Si, B, Al, Ge, Mn, Sn. In a preferred implementation of the invention, the composite is produced with a back-casting process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Plansee SE
    Inventors: Bertram Schedler, Thomas Huber, Thomas Friedrich, Dietmar Schedle, Anton Zabernig, Karlheinz Schreiber, Hans-Dieter Friedle
  • Providing persistent refined intermediate results selected from dynamic iterative filtering
    Patent number: 8521711
    Abstract: A persistent filter refining system places a search result comprising objects in a dynamic non-persistent bucket and displays the search result in a dynamic non-persistent bucket display for selection of the objects by a user. The system transfers a selected object from the dynamic non-persistent bucket to a persistent bucket and displays the transferred selected object in a persistent bucket display. The system iteratively provides additional search results to the user for selection and transfer of additional selected objects to the persistent bucket to provide access by a user to take action on the transferred selected object and additional selected objects. In one embodiment, the present system displays one or more additional search results for comparison and selection of objects by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tanya Couch, Farnaz Erfan, Thomas Friedrich, Daina Edvina Pupons Wickham, Alexander Daniel Robinson
  • CRASH STRUCTURE HAVING ADJUSTABLE RIGIDITY FOR A DEFORMATION ELEMENT FOR A VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20130207407
    Abstract: The invention relates to a crash structure having adjustable rigidity for a deformation element for a vehicle, wherein the crash structure comprises a continuously adjustable rigidity, in that at least one blocking element (SR) moves in a plane rotated by an angle relative to the vehicle longitudinal axis with respect to a profile (MW), so that the rigidity is adjusted by a position of the at least one blocking element reached by the motion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2011
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Bernd Goetzelmann, Thomas Friedrich
  • CRASH STRUCTURE WITH ADJUSTABLE RIGIDITY FOR A DEFORMATION ELEMENT FOR A VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20130207408
    Abstract: A crash structure with adjustable rigidity for a deformation element in a vehicle includes an infinitely variably adjustable rigidity. The adjustable rigidity is adjusted by moving two profiles relative to each other such that a position of the two profiles opposite each other is reached. The position defines a degree of rigidity for the deformation element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2011
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Friedrich, Bernd Goetzelmann
  • Dehydrogenases, the derivatives thereof, and method for the production of optically active alkanols
    Patent number: 8455223
    Abstract: The present invention relates to proteins having an enzymatic activity of reducing substituted alkanones such as 3-methylamino-1-(2-thienyl)-propan-1-one. The invention furthermore relates to nucleic acids coding for said proteins, nucleic acid constructs, vectors, genetically modified microorganisms and to methods for preparing optically active substituted alkanols, such as, for example, (S)-3-methylamino-1-(2-thienyl)-(S)-propanol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Michael Breuer, Thomas Friedrich, Maria Kesseler
  • DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS HAVING A CACHE CONFIGURED TO PERFORM TAG LOOKUP AND DATA ACCESS IN PARALLEL, AND A METHOD OF OPERATING THE DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20130132675
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus has a cache with a data array and a tag array. The tag array stores address tag portions associated with the data values in the data array. The cache performs a tag lookup, comparing a tag portion of a received address with a set of tag entries in the tag array. The data array includes a partial tag store storing a partial tag value in association with each data entry. In parallel with the tag lookup, a partial tag value of the received address is compared with partial tag values stored in association with a set of data entries in said data array. A data value is read out if a match condition occurs. Exclusivity circuitry ensures that at most one partial tag value of said partial tag values stored in association with said set of data entries can generate said match condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2012
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: The Regents of the University of Michigan
    Inventors: Faissal Mohamad SLEIMAN, Ronald George Dreslinski, JR., Thomas Friedrich Wenisch
  • Managing consistent interfaces for goods tag, production bill of material hierarchy, and release order template business objects across heterogeneous systems
    Patent number: 8417588
    Abstract: A business object model, which reflects data that is used during a given business transaction, is utilized to generate interfaces. This business object model facilitates commercial transactions by providing consistent interfaces that are suitable for use across industries, across businesses, and across different departments within a business during a business transaction. In some operations, software creates, updates, or otherwise processes information related to a goods tag, a production bill of material hierarchy, and/or a release order template business object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: SAP AG
    Inventors: Benjamin Ringl, Frank O. Schulz, Martin Schmidt, Martin J. Wilmes, Michael Hartel, Michael Seubert, Sabine Seelenmeyer, Sergio Alberto Rozenszajn, Stefan Moeller, Thilo Kraehmer, Thomas Friedrich, Werner Gnan
  • CRASH BOX FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20130048455
    Abstract: A crash box for a motor vehicle, having at least one crash box component which is deformable in the event of a collision, and which in the event of a collision absorbs energy as a result of the deformation. The crash box includes at least one weakening tool which, for adjusting the energy absorption capability of the crash box component, weakens the overall structure of the at least one crash box component, as a result of which the rigidity of the crash box component is reducible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2011
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Inventors: Thomas Friedrich, Sven Robert Raisch
  • AMIDASE AND USE THEREOF FOR PRODUCING 3-AMINOCARBOXYLIC ACID ESTERS
    Publication number: 20130005002
    Abstract: Process for producing optically active 3-aminocarboxylic acid ester compounds of general Formula I, and the ammonium salts thereof, in which R1 stands for alkyl, alkoxyalkyl, alkenyl, cycloalkyl, heterocycloalkyl, aryl, or hetaryl, and R2 stands for alkyl, cycloalkyl or aryl, in which an enantiomeric mixture of a simply N-acylated 3-aminocarboxylic acid ester of general formula (I.b), in which R1 and R2 have the meanings given above and R3 stands for hydrogen, alkyl, cycloalkyl or aryl, is submitted to an enantioselective deacylation by adding a polypeptide according to claim 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2010
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Bernhard Hauer, Thomas Friedrich, Rainer Stürmer, Nina Schneider, Susanne Krauser, Wolf-Rüdiger Krahnert
  • Providing logistics execution application as enterprise services
    Patent number: 8326706
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including systems and computer program products, for a service architecture design that provides enterprise services having logistics execution functionality at the level of an enterprise application. The design includes a set of service operations, process components, and optionally deployment units. Suitable business objects are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: SAP AG
    Inventors: Achim Clemens, Stefan Moeller, Thomas Friedrich, Yair Ben-Shaul, Jochen Hirth, Wolfgang Barheine, Achim Heger, Stephan Hetzer, Andreas Bettin, Jochen Steinbach, Reiner Bildmayer, Jan Richert, Sergio Rozenszajn, Irena Kull, Shai Alfandary, Nir Pachter, Yuval Morad, Renzo Colle, Nico Apfelbach, Martin J. Wilmes, Sabine Deimel, Jens Freund, Frank Wagner
  • Process for enzymatic reduction of alkene derivatives
    Patent number: 8313923
    Abstract: A method for enzymatic preparation of compounds of the general formula (2) from unsaturated alkene derivatives of the general formula (1) by reducing a compound of the formula (1) in the presence of a reductase, comprising at least one of the polypeptide sequences SEQ ID NO: 1, 2 or 3 or having a functionally equivalent polypeptide sequence which is at least 80% identical to SEQ ID NO: 1, 2 or 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Rainer Stürmer, Bernhard Hauer, Thomas Friedrich, Kurt Faber, Melanie Hall
  • DEVICE HAVING PYROTECHNICALLY ADJUSTABLE RIGIDITY FOR ABSORBING CRASH ENERGY AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING THE RIGIDITY
    Publication number: 20120283917
    Abstract: A device having an adjustable rigidity for absorbing crash energy, includes: a housing for accommodating and deforming a deformation element when the deformation element is moved in a forward motion direction due to the crash energy; a disengageable die situated in the housing for accommodating and deforming the deformation element; a supporting device situated in the housing and configured to support, in a first position, the disengageable die against a radial force of the deformation element acting in a transverse direction to the forward motion direction, and (ii) release, in a second position, the disengageable die for a motion for disengagement due to the radial force; and a pyrotechnic actuator moving the supporting device from the first position into the second position, to adjust the rigidity of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2012
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Inventors: Reiner MARCHTHALER, Thomas FRIEDRICH, Achim MORITZ
  • Process for esterifying or transesterifying side chains in polymers
    Patent number: 8273555
    Abstract: Provided is a process for esterifying or transesterifying side chains in polymers, which involves esterifying or transesterifying the carboxyl group having the R4 radical of a copolymer obtained by polymerizing a (meth)acrylate of formula (I), and a monomer of formula (II): wherein R1 and R3 are independently H or CH3, R2 and R4 are independently H or an alkyl radical which is optionally substituted by functional groups such as acryloyl, ether, amino, epoxy, halogen or sulfonic acid groups, and n is from 1 to 40, with an alcohol in the presence of an enzyme which catalyzes the esterifying or transesterifying. Further provided is the esterified or transesterified polymer product and its use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Dietmar Haering, Lidcay Herrera Taboada, Bernhard Hauer, Thomas Friedrich, Alexander Goethlich
  • Monobloc cooling device component
    Patent number: 8249210
    Abstract: A cooling device component of monobloc design has a heat shield made from tungsten, a tungsten alloy, a graphitic material or a carbidic material provided with a through-hole. A cooling pipe for carrying coolant is joined in the through-hole. The heat shield is in turn joined or metallurgically joined to a structural part made from a material with a tensile strength at room temperature of >300 MPa and an electrical resistivity of >0.04 Ohm mm2m?1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignees: Plansee SE, The European Atomic Energy Community, Represented by the European Commission
    Inventors: Bertram Schedler, Dietmar Schedle, Karlheinz Scheiber, Thomas Huber, Thomas Friedrich, Anton Zabernig, Hans-Dieter Friedle
  • DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DIRECTING RADIATION IN THE DIRECTION OF AN OPTICAL ELEMENT OF AN IMAGE SENSING DEVICE OF A VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20120200704
    Abstract: A device for directing radiation in the direction of an optical element of an image sensing device of a vehicle. The device includes a central area for directing at least one portion of a first incident radiation onto the optical element. The device also includes at least one border area for directing at least one portion of at least one second incident radiation onto the optical element. The at least one second incident radiation runs in the opposite direction or at an obtuse angle with respect to the first incident radiation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Inventors: Gian Antonio D'Addetta, Thomas Lich, Thomas Friedrich
  • DEVICE AND METHOD FOR THE ADAPTIVE DEGRADATION OF COLLISION ENERGY
    Publication number: 20120187616
    Abstract: A device and a method for the adaptive degradation of collision energy. A deformation element is provided which carries out a first motion in one direction for degrading the collision energy and undergoes tapering. In addition, an actuator system is provided which adjusts the tapering for the adaptive degradation as a function of a control signal. The actuator system is configured for a second motion in the axis of the direction of the first motion and for adjusting the tapering of the deformation element. As a result of the second motion, the actuator system is able to hold at least one die plate having a respective opening through which the deformation element is driven for adjusting the tapering. A number of die plates held by the actuator system is a function of the control signal. The die plates held in each case cause tapering of the deformation element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2010
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Inventors: Thomas Friedrich, Willi Nagel
  • Process for the enzymatic preparation of citronellal
    Patent number: 8206957
    Abstract: A process for preparing optically active saturated aldehydes or alcohols of the formula (2) from ?,?-unsaturated aldehydes of the formula (1) by reduction in the presence of an enoate reductase (i) having the polypeptide sequence SEQ ID No. 1 or 2, or (ii) having a polypeptide sequence which is at least 80% identical to the sequence of SEQ ID No. 1 or 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Andreas Schädler, Thomas Friedrich, Rainer Stürmer, Sabine Rinck