Patents by Inventor Thomas Kramer
Thomas Kramer 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).
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Publication number: 20220134603Abstract: The present invention relates to an aqueous dipping composition for coating a textile reinforcing material, comprising 4% to 40% by dry weight of at least one rubber latex, with the proviso that the rubber latex is no isoprene rubber latex, 0.1% to 10% by dry weight of at least one blocked isocyanate, 1% to 20% by dry weight of at least one isoprene rubber latex, and 0% to 6% by dry weight of at least one epoxy group-containing compound, wherein the amounts in % by dry weight are based on the total weight of the aqueous dipping composition. The composition is essentially free of resorcinol, resorcinol precondensates, formaldehyde and formaldehyde-releasing substances. The present invention relates to a use of such a composition, a process for coating a textile reinforcing material with this composition, a coated textile reinforcing material and a respective elastomeric article comprising the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2020Publication date: May 5, 2022Applicants: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH, Kordsa Teknik Tekstil A.S.Inventors: Cornelia SCHMAUNZ-HIRSCH, Thomas KRAMER, Diana PINTO, Michael SCHUNACK, Ali Ersin ACAR, Mustafa Yasin SEN, Nurcin CEVAHIR, Yucel AYYILDIZ
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Publication number: 20220133289Abstract: Systems and methods for closing a tissue defect are disclosed. The systems may include a subcutaneous guide that is placed transcutaneously between two skin access sites and a self-locking strap that may be advanced into the body through a first access site via a first needle and then passed to a second needle. The strap may be withdrawn with the second needle through a second access site to the outside of the body. The strap may be withdrawn from the first needle, leaving the strap placed through both access sites and across the defect. As the subcutaneous guide is withdrawn from the body it pulls the captured strap such that both ends of the strap protrude from the first access site, allowing the strap to be tightened around the defect. Devices for closure of a tissue defect are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2022Publication date: May 5, 2022Inventors: Albert K. Chin, Thomas A. Kramer
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Publication number: 20220134602Abstract: The present invention relates to an aqueous dipping composition for coating a textile reinforcing material, comprising 4% to 50% by dry weight of at least one rubber latex, 0.1% to 4.5% by dry weight of at least one blocked isocyanate, 0.02% to 20% by dry weight of at least one filler, 0.2% to 4% by dry weight of at least one epoxy group-containing compound, and 0.1% to 2% by dry weight of at least one polymer with carboxylic acid functional groups, wherein the amounts in % by dry weight are based on the total weight of the aqueous dipping composition. The composition is essentially free of resorcinol, resorcinol precondensates, formaldehyde and formaldehyde-releasing substances. The present invention relates to a use of such a composition, a process for coating a textile reinforcing material with this composition, a coated textile reinforcing material and a respective elastomeric article comprising the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2020Publication date: May 5, 2022Applicants: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH, Kordsa Teknik Tekstil A.S.Inventors: Cornelia SCHMAUNZ-HIRSCH, Thomas KRAMER, Michael SCHUNACK, Diana PINTO, Ali Ersin ACAR, Mustafa Yasin SEN, Nurcin CEVAHIR, Unsal KOLDEMIR
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Publication number: 20220135826Abstract: The present invention relates to an aqueous dipping composition for coating a textile reinforcing material, comprising at least one rubber latex, at least one blocked isocyanate, at least one filler, at least one epoxy group-containing compound, and at least one polymer with carboxylic acid functional groups. The present invention further relates to the use of such a composition, to a process for coating a textile reinforcing material with this composition, to a coated textile reinforcing material and a respective elastomeric article comprising the coated textile reinforcing material.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2020Publication date: May 5, 2022Applicants: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH, Kordsa Teknik Tekstil A.S.Inventors: Cornelia SCHMAUNZ-HIRSCH, Thomas KRAMER, Michael SCHUNACK, Diana PINTO, Ali Ersin ACAR, Mustafa Yasin SEN, Nurcin CEVAHIR, Unsal KOLDEMIR
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Publication number: 20220056999Abstract: A seal assembly includes: a seal element; a part to be sealed; and a measuring arrangement for monitoring an aging of the seal element. The seal element is held on the part so as to provide a contact stress between the seal element and the part. The seal element has a contact face with which the seal element bears against the part. At least one measuring component of the measuring arrangement is integrated in each case into the seal element and into the part. The contact face of the seal element has a surface geometry with depressions.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2020Publication date: February 24, 2022Inventors: Olaf NAHRWOLD, Stefan SINDLINGER, Boris TRABER, Tanja CLAUS, Thomas KRAMER, Frank LAUER, Rainer KREISELMAIER, Guido HOHMANN, Christoph NAUMANN
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Patent number: 11213284Abstract: Systems, devices and methods for closing a tissue defect comprise a subcutaneous guide that is placed transcutaneously between two skin access sites and a self-locking strap that may be advanced into the body through a first access site via a first needle and then passed to a second needle. The strap may be withdrawn with the second needle through a second access site to the outside of the body. The strap may be withdrawn from the first needle, leaving the strap placed through both access sites and across the defect. As the subcutaneous guide is withdrawn from the body it pulls the captured strap such that both ends of the strap protrude from the first access site, allowing the strap to be tightened around the defect.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2018Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: TAS Medical, Inc.Inventors: Albert K Chin, Thomas A Kramer
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Publication number: 20210393426Abstract: Devices and systems to fit around a tissue or organ and methods of using the same. In at least one embodiment of an implantable device of the present disclosure, the implantable device comprises a first engaging component comprising a first rigid inner plate at least partially surrounded by a first flexible coating, a second engaging component comprising a second rigid inner plate at least partially surrounded by a coating selected from the group consisting of the first flexible coating and the second flexible coating, a first c-ring and a second c-ring coupled to the engaging components, and a cover flap coupled to either the first engaging component or the second engaging component and capable of either further coupling to the second engaging component when initially coupled to the first engaging component or further coupling to the first engaging component when initially coupled to the second engaging component.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2021Publication date: December 23, 2021Applicant: CVDevices, LLCInventors: Ghassan S. Kassab, Thomas A. Kramer
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Publication number: 20210386416Abstract: Systems and methods for closing a tissue defect are disclosed. The systems may include a subcutaneous guide that is placed transcutaneously between two skin access sites and a self-locking strap that may be advanced into the body through a first access site via a first needle and then passed to a second needle. The strap may be withdrawn with the second needle through a second access site to the outside of the body. The strap may be withdrawn from the first needle, leaving the strap placed through both access sites and across the defect. As the subcutaneous guide is withdrawn from the body it pulls the captured strap such that both ends of the strap protrude from the first access site, allowing the strap to be tightened around the defect. Devices for closure of a tissue defect are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2021Publication date: December 16, 2021Inventors: Albert K. Chin, Thomas A. Kramer
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Patent number: 11192402Abstract: A rubberized reinforcing ply (1) for articles consisting of an elastomeric material, preferably for vehicle tires, wherein the reinforcing ply (1) has a multiplicity of textile strengthening members (2) which are arranged parallel to and spaced apart from one another, wherein each textile strengthening member (2) is composed of at least one twisted multifilament yarn, and wherein the textile strengthening member (2) is not composed of the material rayon. The reinforcing ply (1) satisfies the following condition: (D2/E0) in mm corresponds to a value in a range from 0.22 mm to 0.38 mm, and the reinforcing ply (1) has a strength of >10 kN/dm, where D is the diameter of the textile strengthening member (2) in mm and lies in a range from 0.38 mm to 0.52 mm, and where E0=100/epdm.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2018Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbHInventor: Thomas Kramer
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Publication number: 20210369459Abstract: A prosthetic venous valve includes an expanding anchoring frame, a valve seat at the middle portion of the anchoring frame, a ball disposed within the lumen of the anchoring frame and having an outer diameter, and least one ball retention tether coupled with the ball and the anchoring frame. The ball retention tether includes at least one elastic component or material. The anchoring frame has an upstream end, a downstream end, a middle portion and a lumen extending through the anchoring frame from the upstream end to the downstream end. The ball moves between an open position, in which the ball is located apart from the valve seat, and a closed position, in which the ball is located in contact with or near the valve seat to reduce or prevent backflow of blood through the prosthetic venous valve.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Inventors: Dale L. Ehnes, Teresa Woodson, Christopher Staudenmayer, Austin Walker, Thomas Kramer, Albert K. Chin, Mark Geusen
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Patent number: 11148469Abstract: The invention relates to a hybrid cord for use as a reinforcement in a belt bandage of a pneumatic vehicle tire, consisting of at least two threads with ends which are twisted together. At least one first thread is a high-modulus thread with a specified thread fineness, and another thread is a low-modulus thread, said other low-modulus thread having a lower thread fineness than the first thread. The invention is characterized in that the proportion of the high-modulus thread in the hybrid cord is 80-95 wt. %; the difference between the thread fineness of the high-modulus thread and the thread fineness of the other low-modulus thread is >800 dtex; and the elongation at break of the high-modulus thread ranges from 1%-8%, and the elongation at break of the low-modulus thread ranges from 9%-30%.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2015Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbHInventors: Wolfgang Reese, Reinhard Ludwig, Heiner Volk, Thomas Kramer, Marcel Neumann
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Patent number: 11103375Abstract: Devices and systems to fit around a tissue or organ and methods of using the same. In at least one embodiment of an implantable device of the present disclosure, the implantable device comprises a first engaging component comprising a first rigid inner plate at least partially surrounded by a first flexible coating, a second engaging component comprising a second rigid inner plate at least partially surrounded by a coating selected from the group consisting of the first flexible coating and the second flexible coating, a first c-ring and a second c-ring coupled to the engaging components, and a cover flap coupled to either the first engaging component or the second engaging component and capable of either further coupling to the second engaging component when initially coupled to the first engaging component or further coupling to the first engaging component when initially coupled to the second engaging component.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2018Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: CVDevices, LLCInventors: Ghassan S. Kassab, Thomas A. Kramer
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Publication number: 20210252222Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of injector includes a trigger mechanism, an energy source, and a user-operable firing-initiation member. The trigger member can include a trigger member having a retainer portion, and a ram assembly having a ram configured to pressurize a medicament container for expelling a medicament therefrom and a trigger engagement member configured to engage the retainer portion of the trigger member in a pre-firing condition. The energy source can be associated with the ram for powering the ram to expel the medicament, and the user-operable firing-initiation member can be operable for causing an axial rotation between the trigger engagement member and the retainer portion from the pre-firing condition to a firing condition in which the trigger engagement member is released from the retainer portion to allow the energy source to fire the ram.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2021Publication date: August 19, 2021Applicant: Antares Pharma, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Kramer, Matthew H. Rust, Paul M. Goudreau, Peter A. Hoeft, Julius C. Sund, Peter L. Sadowski
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Publication number: 20210245548Abstract: Pneumatic vehicle tire of radial type of construction, in particular a commercial vehicle tire, having a belt assembly (3) made up of at least three plies (8, 9, 10), namely two working plies (8, 9) and a protective ply (10) arranged radially on the outside with respect to the working plies (8, 9), wherein the protective ply (10) has reinforcing members (11) made up of one or more twisted-together steel filaments (12), wherein the steel of the steel filaments (12) of the reinforcing members (11) of the protective ply (10) can be assigned to the strength class ST or to a higher strength class, wherein the strength class ST has a tensile strength in MPa of 3980-2000 d and the strength class UT has a tensile strength in MPa of 4400-2000 d, wherein d is the diameter of a steel filament in mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2019Publication date: August 12, 2021Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbHInventors: Tiago Moura, Thomas Kramer, Michael Schunack
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Publication number: 20210237514Abstract: The invention relates to a reinforcement cord for elastomeric products, in particular for pneumatic tires, comprising at least one yarn made of filaments. The invention further relates to an elastomeric product comprising at least one reinforcement cord. For protection of the environment and conservation of resources, together with good processing performance, at least one yarn of the reinforcement cord comprises filaments made of polybutylene dicarboxyfuranoate (PBF), where the PBF has been produced entirely or at least to some extent from biomass and/or from renewable raw materials.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2019Publication date: August 5, 2021Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbHInventors: Michael Schunack, Thomas Kramer
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Publication number: 20210186700Abstract: A valve prosthetic implant for treating a vein or other blood vessel includes a tubular, expandable anchoring frame extending from a proximal end to a distal end of the implant, a valve seat formed at or near the middle of the anchoring frame, an expandable ball disposed within the lumen of the anchoring frame, and a ball retention tether attached to the expandable ball and to the valve seat and/or the anchoring frame. The anchoring frame may include a cylindrical proximal portion at the proximal end, a cylindrical distal portion at the distal end, an inwardly angled inlet portion between the cylindrical proximal portion and a middle of the anchoring frame, and an inwardly angled outlet portion between the cylindrical distal portion and the middle of the anchoring frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2021Publication date: June 24, 2021Inventors: Albert K CHIN, Andrew MOLL, Andrew KWOK, Thomas A KRAMER, Austin WALKER, Eric CHEN
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Patent number: 10975231Abstract: The invention relates to a sulfur-crosslinkable rubber mixture, in particular for rubber-coating reinforcements in elastomer products, especially in vehicle tires, or inner components of vehicle tires, as well as to a vehicle tire. The rubber mixture comprises a diene rubber, an adhesive system, 10 to 200 phr silica, and 2 to 20 phr of a silane of the formula [(R1)3Si—X]mSn(R2)2-m, where residues R1 are identical or different alkoxy groups, cyclic dialkoxy groups, cycloalkoxy groups, phenoxy groups, aryl groups, alkyl groups, alkenyl groups, aralkyl groups, or halides, and where X is a polar organic group containing urea, m represents the value 1 or 2, n is an integer between 1 and 8, and R2 is a hydrogen atom or an acyl group comprising 1 to 20 carbon atoms.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2017Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: Evonik Operations GmbHInventors: Cornelia Schmaunz-Hirsch, Julia Schoeffel, Carla Recker, Kirsten Schwekendiek, Thomas Kramer, Katharina Herzog
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Publication number: 20210093435Abstract: A bioartificial device, such as a bioartificial pancreas, for implantation in a patient's vascular system. The bioartificial pancreas includes a scaffold adapted to engage an interior wall of a blood vessel, a cellular complex support by the scaffold and extending longitudinally within the interior cavity of the scaffold so as to be exposed to the blood flow when the scaffold is engaged with the blood vessel, the cellular complex support comprising one or more pockets bordered by thin film; and cellular complex comprising pancreatic islets disposed in the one or more pockets, the thin film being adapted to permit oxygen and glucose to diffuse from flowing blood into the one or more pockets at a rate sufficient to support the viability of the islets. The invention also includes methods of making and using a bioartificial pancreas.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Inventors: Sara Joan PHOTIADIS, Douglas Marc PHOTIADIS, Thomas A. KRAMER
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Publication number: 20210083248Abstract: Embodiments of an arrangement for cells for storing electrical energy having at least two cells are disclosed. The cells each have an axial direction, a circumferential region, and two end faces. The end faces are arranged opposite one another in the axial direction and a pole region is provided at one end face with at least one connecting plate. The cells are arranged at the connecting plate. Contact elements are provided between the connecting plate and the pole regions of the cells for an electrical contact. The problem of providing an arrangement which enables simple and reliable contacting of cells is solved in that the contact elements in contact with a cell is designed as a spring contact element which, in a deformed state, provides a spring force for bearing against the pole region of the cells to form the electrical contact between the connecting plate and pole region.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2020Publication date: March 18, 2021Applicant: E-Seven Systems Technology Management LtdInventor: Thomas Krämer
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Publication number: 20210078201Abstract: The invention relates to a conveyor line (1) for the continuous production of drywall boards as well as a slurry distributing device (22) which is used in this conveyor line (1). The distributing device is used for the uniform and low-speed flow distribution of slurries (20).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2020Publication date: March 18, 2021Inventors: Stergios Karakoussis, Thomas Koch, Thomas Kramer, Alexander Hartmann, Georgi Paraskov, Reiner Schneiderbanger, Carlo Knauf