Patents by Inventor Thomas Muller

Thomas Muller 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).

  • Publication number: 20180198236
    Abstract: An insertion-type connecting arrangement having at least one first and one second insertion-type connector and an arrangement of insertion points having at least one first and one second insertion point for the insertion of the insertion-type connectors, there being connected to the first insertion-type connector two or more cores laid up at a preset first lay length and to the second insertion-type connector two or more cores laid up at a preset second lay length, having a coding mechanism which allows the first insertion-type connector to be inserted in the first insertion point but not in the second one and which allows the second insertion-type connector to be inserted in the second insertion point but not in the first one.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventors: Gunnar Armbrecht, Stephan Kunz, Thomas Müller
  • Publication number: 20180194682
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of carboxylic acid-based polyoxyalkylenes as low-emissions shrinkage reducers in mineral binders, to methods of reducing shrinkage and to corresponding compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventors: Frank Schubert, Anke Reinschmidt, Andreas Vetter, Sabina Kruczek, Dieter Honert, Thomas Müller, Inna König, Oliver Blask, Arndt Eberhardt
  • Patent number: 9994431
    Abstract: The invention relates to a positioning zone (EB) for a travel path (1), wherein the travel path (1) has at least one guide rail (2, 3) and the guide rail (2, 3) is used to guide a current collector trolley (11), provided with current collector contacts (12), of a current collector system (10) arranged on a vehicle which can move along the travel path (1), and the travel path (1) has at least one travel path conductor bar (5), wherein the current collector trolley (11) can be moved horizontally and vertically to the travel path (1) in the positioning zone (EB) by a positioning device of the current collector system (10), characterized in that at least one further conductor bar (5?) is arranged in the region of the positioning zone (EB) or at least one travel path conductor bar (5) extends and/or is extended into the positioning zone (EB) beyond at least one guide rail (2, 3) of the travel path (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Paul Vahle GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Michael Raabe, Thomas Muller, Steffen Woyczechowski
  • Publication number: 20180144540
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an approach for rendering heterogeneous polydisperse granular media. In one aspect, a rendering application renders such granular media using a combination of explicit path tracing and accelerated path construction using proxy path tracing, shell tracing, and volumetric path tracing. In proxy path tracing in particular, the rendering application instantiates proxy geometry in the form of a bounding sphere and determines internal scattering in the grain using a precomputed grain scattering distribution function that relates incident and outgoing radiance functions on the bounding sphere. In shell tracing, the rendering application uses shells to aggregate many grain interactions into a single step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Inventors: Jan NOVAK, Thomas MULLER, Marios PAPAS, Wojciech JAROSZ
  • Publication number: 20180141693
    Abstract: A thermoform packaging machine including a forming station, a sealing station, a cutting station and a film conveying unit. The film conveying unit includes a clamp chain arranged on a lateral edge of a bottom film, wherein the clamp chain cyclically conveys the bottom film in a direction of production during operation, the bottom film is advanced one cycle length in each cycle of the thermoform packaging machine. Further, the thermoform packaging machine may include a pulling device that pulls a pull section of the bottom film and/or a top film in a direction parallel to the direction of production relative to the lateral edge of the bottom film held by the clamp chain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Inventors: Bernhard Grimm, Thomas Muller
  • Publication number: 20180132979
    Abstract: A dental material dispensing device has a plunger means which for dispensing the dental material is movable for urging at least one component of a dental material toward a dispensing area. The device further has cure control means with an energy source and a flow path on which the dental composition and/or the dental material flows past the energy source during dispensation. The device is operable for exposing the dental composition and/or the dental material to a specific energy by control of the energy source and/or by control of the speed of the flow of the dental composition and/or the dental material on the flow path. The device is configured for dispensing a coherent strand of dental material in a dispensing cycle. The device is further configured for operating in a first dispensing mode and additionally in a second dispensing mode during the same dispensing cycle. The ratio between the specific energy in the second dispensing mode and the specific energy in the first dispensing mode is smaller than 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Inventors: Christian A. Richter, Anja Friedrich, Thomas Müller, Rudolf Schmid
  • Patent number: 9944580
    Abstract: A solubilizer is used to stabilize crude polyol produced from biomass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: SIKA TECHNOLOGY AG
    Inventors: Dieter Honert, Hans Knauber, Thomas Müller
  • Patent number: 9905978
    Abstract: An insertion-type connector having a housing and at least two contact elements fixed within the housing, which are designed for connection to two cores of a twisted-pair cable, wherein the housing forms a guide by which the cores are fixed in a twist which continues the twist of the twisted-pair cable. A system having such an insertion-type connector and a twisted-pair cable is taught, and a method of producing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Rosenberger Hochfrequenztechnik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Martin Zebhauser, Christian Biermann, Till Bredbeck, Thomas Müller
  • Publication number: 20180050568
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pneumatic vehicle tire of a radial construction having a gas-tight inner layer, wherein on the side of the gas-tight inner layer that in the vulcanized and mounted pneumatic vehicle tire is directed towards the wheel rim there is at least one patch containing one or more liquid rubbers and one or more solid rubbers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Inventors: Thomas MÜLLER-WILKE, Teodoro NUNO, Mathias MÜLLER, Oliver KRÖHL, Michael GRAF, Ludger RECKERS
  • Publication number: 20170363157
    Abstract: A medical handle for pneumatically or hydraulically driven medical instruments or motor units includes a clutch member for mechanical and pneumatic/hydraulic coupling of a corresponding clutch member and a manually operable valve mechanism for selective pressurization of a medical instrument coupled thereto or the motor unit thereof, the valve mechanism being provided with a safety device for preventing pressurization in the case of an uncoupled medical instrument or the motor unit thereof. The clutch member present on the side of the handle is provided to interact with the valve mechanism such that during or by the mechanical coupling operation the latter is automatically opened and/or enabled for manual opening, whereas in the uncoupled state the valve mechanism is closed and/or enabling is cancelled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventors: Wolfgang Heine, Edgar Blust, Thomas Müller, Frederick Lenzenhuber, Anette Hildebrand, Simone Hermle, Uwe Mattes
  • Publication number: 20170305882
    Abstract: Compounds of formula (I) and their use as pharmaceuticals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Applicant: Bayer Pharma Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Anne MENGEL, Hans-Georg LERCHEN, Thomas MÜLLER, Lars BÄRFACKER, Marion HITCHCOCK, Arwed CLEVE, Hans BRIEM, Gerhard SIEMEISTER, Wilhelm BONE, Amaury Ernesto FERNÁNDEZ-MONTÁLVAN, Jens SCHRÖDER, Ursula MÖNNING, Simon HOLTON
  • Publication number: 20170306159
    Abstract: The invention relates to powder made of coated PVD metal effect pigment, highly concentrated suspensions of coated PVD metal effect pigment as well as the use thereof in powder lacquers and masterbatches. The powder according to the invention made of coated PVD metal effect pigments is characterized by a very good redispersibility and is outstandingly suitable in particular for the preparation of highly concentrated suspensions. Furthermore, it is very free flowing, substantially agglomerate-free and results in coatings with excellent metallic gloss.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventors: Christian LANG, Nina LANG, Fabian PIECH, Frank J. MAILE, Thomas MÜLLER
  • Publication number: 20170274477
    Abstract: In known methods for through-cut detection in the thermally assisted through cutting of a workpiece, the workpiece is subjected to a first alternating signal. Starting therefrom, to indicate a method which allows a fast and accurate detection of a through-cut made, it is suggested according to the invention that the method comprises the following method steps: a) detecting a second alternating electrical signal caused by the first alternating electrical signal in a measurement electrode spaced from the workpiece, b) determining the phase shift between first and second alternating electrical signal with output of a phase shift signal, c) detecting a temporal evolution of the phase shift electrical signal or a measurement variable derived therefrom in a predetermined time interval, wherein a workpiece through-cut made is detected in that the phase shift signal or the measurement variable derived therefrom is in the time interval within a predetermined fluctuation range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventors: Murat Cetin Bayram, Thomas Müller
  • Publication number: 20170275270
    Abstract: Compounds of formula (I) and their use as pharmaceuticals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: Bayer Pharma Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Lars BÄRFACKER, Thomas MÜLLER, Anne MENGEL, Marion HITCHCOCK, Arwed CLEVE, Hans BRIEM, Gerhard SIEMEISTER, Wilhelm BONE, Amaury Ernesto FERNANDEZ-MONTALVAN, Jens SCHRÖDER, Ursula MÖNNING
  • Publication number: 20170275269
    Abstract: Compounds of formula (I) and their use as pharmaceuticals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: Bayer Pharma Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Anne MENGEL, Thomas MÜLLER, Lars BÄRFACKER, Marion HITCHCOCK, Arwed CLEVE, Hans BRIEM, Gerhard SIEMEISTER, Wilhelm BONE, Amaury Ernesto FERNANDEZ-MONTALVAN, Jens SCHRÖDER, Ursula MÖNNING
  • Publication number: 20170273980
    Abstract: Compounds of formula (I) as defined herein and their use as pharmaceuticals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: Bayer Pharma Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Anne MENGEL, Hans-Georg LERCHEN, Manfred MÖWES, Thomas MÜLLER, Lars BÄRFACKER, Marion HITCHCOCK, Arwed CLEVE, Joachim KUHNKE, Hans BRIEM, Gerhard SIEMEISTER, Wilhelm BONE, Amaury Ernesto FERNANDEZ-MONTALVAN, Jens SCHRÖDER, Ursula MÖNNING, Simon HOLTON
  • Publication number: 20170268706
    Abstract: A connecting device for pipelines or hose lines with a threaded body and with a pipe-like end piece which can be inserted into a receptacle formed on the threaded body and which can be fitted therein by means of a swivel nut screwed onto the threaded body, wherein the receptacle of the threaded body has the shape of a widening cone and the circumferential surface of the end piece that engages in the receptacle has a conical design, is characterized in that the circumferential surface (12) of the threaded body (10) that bears the external thread (30) has, in the direction of the front end of said surface, an inclined profile directed opposite to the cone of the receptacle (11), and the swivel nut (17) has, with its surface (18) bearing the internal thread (31), a profile complementary thereto, and the external thread (30) and internal thread (31) are designed as tapered threads in such a way that a radial force emanating from the tapered thread with the swivel nut (17) screwed on is directed opposite to the ra
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventors: Carsten Schippers, Thomas Müller, Oliver Neiske, Andreas Udhöfer
  • Publication number: 20170267305
    Abstract: A holder for a two-wheeler accessory, in particular for a two-wheeler lock, comprises a base body by which a contact surface is defined which the two-wheeler accessory contacts when it is received in the holder and one or more pivot clips that each comprise a holding limb and a lever limb and are pivotable about a pivot axis beyond a dead center between a release position and a securing position in order to allow a receiving of the two-wheeler accessory in the holder or a removal of the two-wheeler accessory from the holder in the release position and to block the two-wheeler against a removal from the holder in the securing position by means of the holding limb when said two-wheeler accessory is received in the holder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventor: Thomas MULLER
  • Publication number: 20170248210
    Abstract: The present invention provides an adjustment arrangement (10), comprising a rotating input element (26) at which a first torque from a motor arrangement (18, 22) can be inputted into the adjustment arrangement, a rotating output element (16) at which a second torque can be outputted by the adjustment arrangement, and a transmission portion for converting the first torque into the second torque, the transmission portion comprising a transmission means (32) having a first threaded portion (30) and a second threaded portion (34), the first threaded portion converting a rotation of the input element (26) into an axial movement of the transmission means, and the second threaded portion converting an axial movement of the transmission means into a rotation of the output element (16).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Inventors: Thomas Müller, Jörg Hillen, Thordes Lüttchens, Mathias Wieland, Thomas Schuth
  • Patent number: D808256
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: ABUS August Bremicker Söhne KG
    Inventor: Thomas Muller