Patents by Inventor Thomas Martini

Thomas Martini 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: 12113413
    Abstract: A vehicle, electric machine, and method of manufacturing an electric machine include a stator having teeth extending from a yoke portion toward a rotor and defining slots between adjacent teeth with windings positioned within the slots, wherein the slots are coated with an electrically insulating material having an arcuate surface exiting the slots and extending at least partially over the teeth on at least one end face of the stator to form a winding guide for bending/positioning the windings. The winding guide may be formed by a molded epoxy that replaces insulating paper slot liners while providing a template for forming the hairpin bends of end windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Franco Leonardi, Michael W. Degner, Man Prakash Gupta, Christopher White, Steven White, Gary Thomas Martini, Singar Rathnam
  • Publication number: 20240170640
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a battery electrode includes casting a solid battery electrode from a slurry including electrode particles, a binder, and a solvent, wherein residual solvent remains after the casting and the binder remains at least partially elastic. The solid battery electrode then undergoes flash-freezing such that the residual solvent forms dendritic ice having a pattern, and then the dendritic ice is removed from the solid battery electrode, thereby rearranging the electrode particles and the binder into a microstructure that represents a geometric negative of the pattern of the dendritic ice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: Paul John Bojanowski, Gary Thomas Martini
  • Publication number: 20230134509
    Abstract: A vehicle, electric machine, and method of manufacturing an electric machine include a stator having teeth extending from a yoke portion toward a rotor and defining slots between adjacent teeth with windings positioned within the slots, wherein the slots are coated with an electrically insulating material having an arcuate surface exiting the slots and extending at least partially over the teeth on at least one end face of the stator to form a winding guide for bending/positioning the windings. The winding guide may be formed by a molded epoxy that replaces insulating paper slot liners while providing a template for forming the hairpin bends of end windings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Franco LEONARDI, Michael W. DEGNER, Man Prakash GUPTA, Christopher WHITE, Steven WHITE, Gary Thomas MARTINI, Singar RATHNAM
  • Publication number: 20160368078
    Abstract: A method is provided for welding workpieces together while minimizing distortion in those workpieces. That method includes loading the workpieces to be welded together into a periphery clamp welding fixture. This is followed by tack welding the workpieces together by means of spot welds. Next is the removing of a portion of the welding fixture in order to provide an open field with respect to the workpieces and then completing welding of the workpieces together in the open field. Thus, the entire weld process may be completed utilizing a single periphery clamp welding fixture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Daniel E. Wilkosz, Gary Thomas Martini
  • Publication number: 20160091421
    Abstract: In a method for performing a refractive index based measurement of a property of a fluid such as chemical composition or temperature, a chirp in the local spatial frequency of interference fringes of an interference pattern is reduced by mathematical manipulation of the recorded light intensity in the interference pattern or by the physical positioning and arrangement of a detector used for capturing the interference pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Applicant: TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK
    Inventors: Henrik Schiøtt SØRENSEN, Thomas Martini JØRGENSEN
  • Publication number: 20160077000
    Abstract: In a method for performing a refractive index based measurement of a property of a fluid such as chemical composition or temperature by observing an apparent angular shift in an interference fringe pattern produced by back or forward scattering interferometry, ambiguities in the measurement caused by the apparent shift being consistent with one of a number of numerical possibilities for the real shift which differ by 2n are resolved by combining measurements performed on the same sample using light paths therethrough of differing lengths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Applicant: TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK
    Inventors: Henrik Schiøtt SØRENSEN, Thomas Martini JØRGENSEN
  • Publication number: 20070164526
    Abstract: A lawn and garden cart has a frame and an axle attached to the frame. A pair of wheels are attached to the axle, each wheel being rotatably attached to an opposing end of the axle. A longitudinal tow bar is attached to the frame at a first end, the tow bar including a connector at a second distal end. The cart further includes a container having a base, a plurality of generally vertical sidewalls and an angled rear wall, the container being pivotally attached to the frame and releasably coupled to the tow bar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2007
    Publication date: July 19, 2007
    Applicant: OHIO STEEL INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: THOMAS MARTINI, RODGER HAYS, MARK ZELLEFROW, JASON MOORE, KEN HOFFMAN, FREDERICK FEENEY, KEVIN CAHALAN, RICHARD BIGGS, TOM HAYS, HARLAN PEDEN, DALE BAUMAN, SEAN SVENDSEN
  • Publication number: 20060165981
    Abstract: A method has been found for brightening synthetic fibers and plastics. In this method, a granulate optical brightener is incorporated into the synthetic fibers or plastics, the granulated optical brightener being obtained via compacting of an optical brightener in powder form in a pressure compactor under a pressure of from 3 to 50 kNewton/cm of tube length and then comminuting the resultant compactate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2003
    Publication date: July 27, 2006
    Inventors: Thomas Martini, Jean-Luc Mura
  • Patent number: 6999950
    Abstract: The invention relates to n-tuple or RAM based neural network classification methods and systems and, more particularly, to n-tuple or RAM based classification systems where the decision criteria applied to obtain the output sources and compare these output sources to obtain a classification are determined during a training process. Accordingly, the invention relates to a system and a method of training a computer classification system which can be defined by a network comprising a number of n-tuples or Look Up Tables (LUTs), with each n-tuple or LUT comprising a number of rows corresponding to at least a subset of possible classes and comprising columns being addressed by signals or elements of sampled training input data examples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: Intellix A/S
    Inventors: Christian Linneberg, Thomas Martini Jørgensen
  • Publication number: 20050154085
    Abstract: The invention relates to granulated optical brightening agents that are coated with a wax.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2002
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventors: Thomas Martini, Alexander Lerch, Hans Metz
  • Publication number: 20050101703
    Abstract: In the production of polyester from a polyol, preferably di-alcohol, and a polycarboxylic acid, preferably dicarboxylic acid, an optical brightener is added in the esterification process whose structure is free from open-chain ethylenic double bonds and as a result is chemically stable to the free acid used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2002
    Publication date: May 12, 2005
    Inventors: Thomas Martini, Alexander Lerch, Gerhard Zirkenbach
  • Publication number: 20010031806
    Abstract: An optical brightener mixture comprising
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2001
    Publication date: October 18, 2001
    Inventors: Thomas Lutkenhorst, Thomas Martini, Joseph Thomas Craddock
  • Patent number: 6120704
    Abstract: The invention relates to mixtures of optical brighteners comprising nonionic polyester brighteners and anionic or nonionic polyamide brighteners, which develop a synergistic effect. The brighteners of the invention are suitable for polyamide and polyurethane fabrics but also for blends of these fabrics with other natural or synthetic fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2000
    Assignee: Clariant GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Martini, Helmut Neunzerling
  • Patent number: 5904739
    Abstract: Storage-stable liquid brightener formulations essentially comprise a basic optical brightener, an aprotic polar organic solvent and an acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1999
    Assignee: Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Martini, Petra Rothe
  • Patent number: 5389280
    Abstract: Stable and homogeneous aqueous formulations of surfactantsStable and homogeneous aqueous formulations of surfactants having an HLB value of less than or equal to 13, which additionally contain a compound of the formula I ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 is C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 -alkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 -alkenyl, phenyl, alkylphenyl or phenalkyl having in each case 1 to 4 carbon atoms in the alkyl chain or cyclohexyl, R.sup.2 is hydrogen or one of the radicals mentioned for R.sup.1, or R.sup.1 and R.sup.2, together with the nitrogen atom, are a heterocyclic radical, M is an alkali metal cation, an ammonium cation or one equivalent of an alkaline earth metal or aluminium cation and m and n in each case independently of one another are numbers from 6 to 8.By the presence of the compounds of the formula I, it is possible to prepare stable and homogeneous aqueous formulations even from those surfactants which are otherwise only sparingly soluble or not soluble at all in water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1995
    Assignee: Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Martini, Karl-Heinz Keil, Ignaz Wimmer
  • Patent number: 5230711
    Abstract: Water-soluble sulphur dyes can be applied to cellulose without reducing agents, without added salt and without oxidising agents if the cellulose has been grafted with a polymer obtained by polymerisation of at least one N-containing basic monomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1993
    Assignee: Cassella AG
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Keil, Thomas Martini
  • Patent number: 5131913
    Abstract: Process for producing pattern effects when dyeing or printing textile material in the absence of alkali or reducing agents, which comprises pretreating the textile material with a cationizing agent, drying, applying an oxidizing agent in the form of a pattern, drying and dyeing or printing with reactive, direct, acid, water-soluble sulfur dyes or pigment dyes in the absence of any alkali or reducing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1992
    Assignee: Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Thomas Martini
  • Patent number: 5006129
    Abstract: Process for dyeing textile material with pigment dyes, which comprises1. pretreating the textile material with a polymer which consists wholly or partly of monomeric units of the formula I ##STR1## where R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are each hydrogen, (C.sub.1 -C.sub.22)alkyl which may be interrupted by --CO--NH-- or --NH--CO--, or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -hydroxyalkyl,R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are each hydrogen or methyl, and Y.sup.- is a monovalent anion or one equivalent of a polyvalent anion,2. then dyeing with a pigment dye in the presence of a leveling or dispersing agent by the exhaust method and if necessary3. treating the dyeing in a liquor with a pigment binder and subsequently fixing it.This process makes it possible to dye textile material, in particular ready-made jeans garments, with pigment dyes by an exhaust method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 9, 1991
    Assignee: Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Martini, Karl-Heinz Keil, Ulrich Karsunky, Klaus Sternberger
  • Patent number: 4814453
    Abstract: New optical brighteners of the general formula ##STR1## in which R denotes hydrogen, alkyl, alkoxyalkyl, cyclohexyl, methylcyclohexyl, benzyl, phenylethyl, phenyl, alkylphenyl or xylyl,X denotes a C.sub.2 -C.sub.7 -alkylene group or a bridge member of the formula --X.sup.1 --(OX.sup.2).sub.n -- in which X.sup.1 and X.sup.2 denote C.sub.2 H.sub.4 or C.sub.3 H.sub.7 and n denotes 1 or 2 and Me denotes a proton, an alkali metal cation or a cation NH.sub.2 R.sup.1 R.sup.2 in which R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 represent hydrogen, alkyl or hydroxyalkyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1989
    Assignee: Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Erich Schinzel, Thomas Martini
  • Patent number: 4791205
    Abstract: Compounds of the general formula ##STR1## in which n denotes 1 or 2,X denotes an OMe group,Me denotes a proton, an alkali metal cation or an optionally substituted ammonium cation,R denotes hydrogen, a lower alkyl group or halogen, and, in the event thatn is 1,X also denotes an --NR.sup.1 R.sup.2 group in which R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 represent hydrogen or a lower alkyl group,a process for their preparation and their use as optical brighteners, especially for polyamide fibers and wool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 13, 1988
    Assignee: Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Erich Schinzel, Hans Frischkorn, Thomas Martini