Patents by Inventor Thomas Klein

Thomas Klein 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: 12643171
    Abstract: For an arc welding torch device with a consumable electrode designed as a welding wire, wherein the electrode is provided with a direction of movement from a rear end of the arc welding torch device to a feeder in the direction of a front end of the arc welding torch device, in the region of which the electrode melts during an arc welding process, wherein the electrode in the arc welding torch device is guided in an exchangeable wire core, wherein the wire core is itself arranged at least in the region of the rear end of the arc welding torch in a guide element which surrounds the wire core and which is designed as an exchangeable wear part, wherein the guide element of the wire core is provided for to be exchanged together with the wire core as the result of wear, to achieve a movement of the welding wire in the region the process end, with as little resistance as possible, and with the least possible risk that the welding wire buckles due to the feed movement, a single-piece design is proposed for the guide
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2026
    Assignees: SKS WELDING SYSTEMS GMBH, SKS WELDING SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventor: Thomas Klein
  • Patent number: 12590432
    Abstract: A soil processing machine, in particular a soil compactor, includes a hydraulic steering system with at least one steering element actuated with pressurized fluid and an electrohydraulic pressurized fluid source with at least one steering pressurized fluid pump that can be driven by at least one electric motor for feeding pressurized fluid into a steering pressurized fluid circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2026
    Assignee: HAMM AG
    Inventors: Josef Dagner, Stefan Braunschläger, Thomas Klein, Michael Sperber
  • Patent number: 12551964
    Abstract: In the case an arc welding torch device, having a consumable electrode. The electrode in the arc welding torch device is guided in an exchangeable wire core, the wire core being arranged at least in the region of the rear end of the arc welding torch device in a guide element surrounding the wire core and designed as an exchangeable wear part, and the guide element of the wire core being provided for the joint exchange of the wire core due to wear. It is proposed that a predetermined end position in the arc welding torch device is provided for the guide element with respect to its insertion direction into the arc welding torch device, and when the end position is attained by the guide element, a position signaling means is perceptible outside the arc welding torch device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2026
    Assignees: SKS WELDING SYSTEMS GMBH, SKS WELDING SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventor: Thomas Klein
  • Publication number: 20260029722
    Abstract: A plate processing line and methods for producing a flexographic printing plate. An imaging station applies image information to a first plate. A first exposure station cures the first plate. One or more of water, a solvent, and/or a thermal process is further applied to the first plate. A drying station or an after-exposure station is configured to expose the plate to further radiation. A feeding station is configured to feed the first plate cured by the exposure station and a second plate cured by a second exposure station to the processing station. A transportation cart may transport the plate between the first or second exposure stations and the processing station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2025
    Publication date: January 29, 2026
    Inventors: Thomas Klein, Pascal Thomas, Wolfgang Sievers
  • Patent number: 12534859
    Abstract: A tandem roller for compacting an underlying ground, comprising a machine frame supported by a front compaction drum and a rear compaction drum. The rear compaction drum is spaced apart from the front compaction drum in a longitudinal machine direction, and an operator platform with a driver's seat. The driver's seat is displaceable by an adjusting device from an operating position at a center of the operator platform with respect to a horizontal extension of the operator platform transverse to a forward direction in a direction of at least one side of the tandem roller transversely to the longitudinal machine direction to at least one defined first operating position and in the same direction to the side to at least one defined second operating position, the defined second operating position being spaced farther apart from the center of the operator platform than the defined first operating position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2026
    Assignee: BOMAG GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Klein, Tobias Kreutz
  • Patent number: 12516193
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel rubber-modified bitumen, to improved processes for producing rubber-modified bitumen using vulcanized rubber and to the use thereof in asphalt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2026
    Assignee: LANXESS Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Klein, Thomas Rossrucker, Sandra Horstmann, Svenja Kusterer
  • Publication number: 20250376595
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel bitumen-containing mixtures, to a method for the production thereof and to the use thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Publication date: December 11, 2025
    Applicant: LANXESS Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Klein, Sandra Horstmann, Svenja Kusterer
  • Patent number: 12486402
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polymer-modified bitumen, to a process for production thereof and to the use thereof for asphalt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2025
    Assignee: LANXESS Deutchland GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Klein, Thomas Rossrucker, Sandra Horstmann
  • Patent number: 12455506
    Abstract: A plate processing line and methods for producing a flexographic printing plate. An imaging station applies image information to a first plate. A first exposure station cures the first plate. One or more of water, a solvent, and/or a thermal process is further applied to the first plate. A drying station or an after-exposure station is configured to expose the plate to further radiation. A feeding station is configured to feed the first plate cured by the exposure station and a second plate cured by a second exposure station to the processing station. A transportation cart may transport the plate between the first or second exposure stations and the processing station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2025
    Assignee: Esko-Graphics Imaging GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Klein, Pascal Thomas, Wolfgang Sievers
  • Publication number: 20250207337
    Abstract: In a ground processing machine having two drive rollers arranged longitudinally and rotatable about a respective axis of rotation, wherein each drive roller comprises two drive roller segments aligned along the direction of the associated axis of rotation, having a hydraulic drive system for the drive rollers, a first fluid connection of a first traction drive hydraulic pump is connected or connectable by means of a first hydraulic line to a first and second traction drive hydraulic motor, and a first fluid connection of a second traction drive hydraulic pump is connected or connectable by means of a second hydraulic line to a third and fourth traction drive hydraulic motor. A second fluid connection of the first pump is connected or connectable by means of a third hydraulic line to the second and third motors, and a second fluid connection of the second pump is connected or connectable by means of a fourth hydraulic line to the first and fourth motors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2024
    Publication date: June 26, 2025
    Inventors: Thomas KLEIN, Detlef BORNEMANN
  • Publication number: 20250207338
    Abstract: An electro-hydraulic drive system for a ground processing machine with at least one drive roller comprises at least one hydraulic traction pump (P1, P2) that can be driven by a drive electric motor (E1, E2) for conveying hydraulic fluid, at least two hydraulic traction motors (M1, M2, M3, M4) that are to be fed with hydraulic fluid by means of the at least one hydraulic traction pump (P1, P2), a valve arrangement (26), wherein the valve arrangement (26) comprises at least one switching valve unit (S1, S2, S3, S4) in association with each hydraulic traction motor (M1, M2, M3, M4), a control unit (28) for operating the valve arrangement (26) in such a way that in a basic drive state each hydraulic traction motor (M1, M2, M3, M4) is fed with hydraulic fluid from the at least one hydraulic traction pump (P1, P2) to generate a drive torque and in a high-pressure drive state at least one hydraulic traction motor (M1, M2, M3, M4) is not fed with hydraulic fluid from the at least one hydraulic traction pump (P1, P2)
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2024
    Publication date: June 26, 2025
    Inventors: Thomas KLEIN, Detlef BORNEMANN
  • Patent number: 12312352
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for treating and/or preventing SIRS and/or sepsis comprising the administration of an effective amount of a certain DPP-4 inhibitor, as well as to the use of a certain DPP-4 inhibitor for treating and/or preventing a metabolic disease in a patient with or at risk of SIRS and/or sepsis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Klein, Andreas Daiber, Klaus Dugi, Michael Mark, Thomas Muenzel
  • Patent number: 12296667
    Abstract: A soil processing machine, in particular a soil compactor, comprises a machine frame and a casing (26, 28) carried on the machine frame and/or at least partially providing it and bounding a unit receptacle space (24), wherein the casing (26, 28) has a cooling air inlet area (30) and a cooling air outlet area (32) for cooling air flowing through the unit receptacle space (24), wherein a plurality of units around which cooling air can flow through the unit receptacle space (24) from the cooling air inlet area (30) to the cooling air outlet area (32) are arranged in the unit receptacle space (24), wherein at least two of the units arranged in the unit receptacle space (24) have maximum permissible operating temperatures different from one another and at least one unit having higher maximum permissible operating temperature is arranged upstream in a cooling air flow direction from the cooling air inlet area (30) to the cooling air outlet area (32) with respect to at least one unit having lower maximum permissible
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Hamm AG
    Inventors: Josef Dagner, Thomas Klein, Stefan Braunschläger, Ronny Pieske, Markus Golbs
  • Publication number: 20250082642
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the finding that certain DPP-4 inhibitors are particularly suitable for treating and/or preventing metabolic diseases, particularly diabetes, in patients with insufficient glycemic control despite a therapy with an oral and/or a non-oral antidiabetic drug.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Eva Ulrike GRAEFE-MODY, Thomas KLEIN, Michael MARK, Hans-Juergen WOERLE
  • Publication number: 20250025470
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a certain DPP-4 inhibitor for use in cardio- and/or renoprotective therapy, including in patients at high vascular risk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Odd-Erik JOHANSEN, Maximilian VON EYNATTEN, Thomas KLEIN, Hans-Juergen WOERLE
  • Publication number: 20250020269
    Abstract: A holding stand for a support is provided, comprising a put up-receiving device for the support which has a support put up face, and at least three stand legs. Each of the stand legs has a first arm and a second arm which are connected to one another. The second arm is oriented at an acute angle to the first arm. The put up-receiving device is arranged on the first arms of the stand legs. In a holding state of the holding stand, the stand legs define a stand leg put up plane for the holding stand. A floor side of the put up-receiving device facing away from the support put up face lies in the put up plane, at least when a force loading of the put up-receiving device exceeds a specific threshold value or threshold value range in the direction of the put up plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventors: Gerhard Kloepfer, Thomas Klein, Heiko Belz
  • Patent number: 12162101
    Abstract: A welding current source for supplying an arc welding torch with electric current and electric voltage for carrying out an arc welding method, wherein the arc welding current source is provided with a housing in which a current transformer device is provided for processing electric current and voltage fed into the welding current source for suitability in an arc welding method, wherein furthermore two pole contact devices are provided on the housing of the welding current source, each of which protrudes out of the housing along a respective longitudinal axis and is provided with connecting means for receiving a welding current cable. The aim is to provide a possibility that collisions with welding current cables connected to a welding current source of the aforementioned type can be prevented as much as possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: SKS WELDING SYSTEMS GMBH
    Inventor: Thomas Klein
  • Publication number: 20240402607
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for exposing a partially processed photopolymer printing plate to post-exposure radiation and finishing radiation, the printing plate defining a whole area having a first full lateral dimension and a second full lateral dimension perpendicular to the first lateral dimension. A plurality of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are arranged in one or more arrays; a surface for receiving the printing plate in a location disposed to receive the post exposure radiation and the finishing radiation; and one of more controllers connected to the one or more arrays to activate the one or more arrays to cause the plurality of sets of LEDs to emit radiation toward the printing plate. The plurality of LEDs includes at least a first set of LEDs to emit the post exposure radiation in a UVA spectral range and a second set of LEDs to emit the finishing radiation in a UVC spectral range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: Esko-Graphics Imaging GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Klein, Pascal Thomas, Wolfgang Sievers, Robert Bruce
  • Publication number: 20240351630
    Abstract: The invention relates to a road construction machine, in particular a road paver or a tandem roller, for working a ground in a forward direction with an operating device which can be displaced and swiveled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Thorsten Anheier, Thomas Haubrich, Thomas Klein
  • Publication number: 20240335514
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition according to the claim 1 comprising an SGLT2 inhibitor and an insulin which is suitable in the treatment or prevention of one or more conditions selected from type 1 diabetes mellitus, type 2 diabetes mellitus, impaired glucose tolerance and hyperglycemia.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2024
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Inventors: Rolf GREMPLER, Odd-Erik JOHANSEN, Thomas KLEIN, Gerd Roland LUIPPOLD, Michael MARK