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).

  • GRINDING AID FOR CEMENT CLINKER BASED ON POLYCARBOXYLATE ETHERS AND/OR LIGNOSULFONATES
    Publication number: 20150284291
    Abstract: A description is provided of the use of an additive including polycarboxylate ether and/or lignosulfonate as grinding aid in cement grinding for producing a cement, especially when fly ash and rock flour are used in the cement. The additive is preferably an aqueous additive. The use of the grinding aid in the production of the cement leads to improved processability of concrete or mortar produced from the cement. In particular, improved stiffening behavior, a reduced water requirement, or a reduced superplasticizer requirement for the mortar or concrete is obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Applicant: SIKA TECHNOLOGY AG
    Inventors: Dieter Honert, Thomas Heller, Thomas Müller
  • METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TOTAL DISCHARGE PROTECTION OF A STORAGE BATTERY OF A HAND-HELD POWER TOOL
    Publication number: 20150280468
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for total discharge protection of a storage battery of a hand-held power tool, comprising the following steps: determining a current average ON-time of the hand-held power tool; and setting a reference duration for total discharge protection of the storage battery as a function of the determine average ON-time of the hand-held power tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2013
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Thomas Müller, Michael Brandner
  • PLUG CONNECTOR
    Publication number: 20150270647
    Abstract: A plug connector having a housing and at least four contact elements arranged within the housing to transmit high-frequency signals, wherein two contact elements respectively form a contact element pair, each of which is integrated into an insulating body. In that arrangement, the insulating bodies are each surrounded by a shield.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventors: Tobias-Lars Höher, Tobias Stadler, Thomas Müller
  • Dialkanolamines as additives for grinding solids
    Patent number: 9133057
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the use of an amino alcohol A and/or of a salt of the amino alcohol A as an additive when grinding at least one solid. The amino alcohol A has a structure according to formula I where: R1 and R2, independently of one another, each present an alkanol group including 2-4 carbon atoms, and b) R3 is a hydrocarbon group including 1-8 carbon atoms, and c) R3 is different from R1 and/or R2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: SIKA TECHNOLOGY AG
    Inventors: Beat Marazzani, Christian Bürge, Christophe Kurz, Thomas Müller
  • DIAGNOSTIC METHOD FOR RAIL VEHICLES
    Publication number: 20150251677
    Abstract: A method and a system for diagnosing one or more rail vehicles, each of which has at least one measuring device for measuring measurement values of at least one measurement variable. The method includes the following steps: measuring measurement values by way of at least one measuring device of at least one rail vehicle; transmitting the measurement values from the rail vehicle to a control center situated along the track; evaluating the measurement values in the control center by means of a predefined algorithm, and providing a result of the evaluation as an output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Inventors: Erhard Fischer, Thomas Müller, Frank Popp, Dirk Punstein, Christian Schulze, Ekkehard Tönsing
  • Machine tool and control procedure
    Patent number: 9126321
    Abstract: A machine tool has a tool retainer for retaining a tool, a motor and a drivetrain which couples the motor with the tool retainer for transmitting a torque. A system pushbutton is coupled with a motor control. When the system pushbutton is activated by a user, the motor control controls the motor in such a way that the motor turns in a first sense of rotation for a duration and then in a sense of rotation opposed to the first sense of rotation. The duration is shorter than 100 ms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: HILTI AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Thomas Muller, Germar Meiendres
  • Prognostic biomarkers for the progression of primary chronic kidney disease
    Patent number: 9128107
    Abstract: Subject of the present invention are assays and in vitro methods for prediction of the progression of primary chronic kidney disease (CKD) or for monitoring chronic kidney disease therapy comprising the determination of the level of ANP and/or ADM or its precursors or fragments thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: B.R.A.H.M.S. GMBH
    Inventors: Joachim Struck, Benjamin Dieplinger, Thomas Muller, Barbara Kollerits, Florian Kronenberg
  • MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES TO GROWTH AND DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 15 (GDF-15)
    Publication number: 20150239968
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel monoclonal anti-human-GDF-15 antibodies, pharmaceutical compositions, kits, methods and uses and the cell lines capable of producing the monoclonal antibodies described herein. The present invention further relates to novel antibodies to human GDF-15 capable of inhibiting cancer growth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: Jörg Wischhusen, Markus Junker, Thomas Müller, Stefan Saremba
  • USE OF SUBSTITUTED 2-AMIDOBENZIMIDAZOLES, 2-AMIDOBENZOXAZOLES AND 2-AMIDOBENZOTHIAZOLES OR SALTS THEREOF AS ACTIVE SUBSTANCES AGAINST ABIOTIC PLANT STRESS
    Publication number: 20150216168
    Abstract: The use of substituted 2-amidobenzimidazoles, 2-amidobenzoxazoles and 2-amidobenzothiazoles of the general formula (I) or salts thereof where the radicals in the general formula (I) correspond to the definitions given in the description, for enhancing stress tolerance in plants to abiotic stress, for strengthening plant growth and/or for increasing plant yield, and to selected processes for preparing the compounds mentioned above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2013
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: Jens Frackenpohl, Ines Heinemann, Thomas Müller, Jan Dittgen, Pascal Von Koskull-Döring, Dirk Schmutzler, Martin Jeffrey Hills
  • AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT MOUNTING
    Publication number: 20150201546
    Abstract: An agricultural vehicle has an implement connection hitch including means for controllably moving the same relative to a rear axle of the vehicle. A control system controlling movement of the connection hitch is coupled with position determining means such as a GPS receiver and determines a location for the vehicle. During turning manoeuvres, the control system moves the hitch relative to the rear axle of the vehicle until it reaches an offset position such as to reduce the turning circle of the vehicle and a connected implement. The extent of offset may be determined automatically by the control system on identification of a connected implement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventors: Thomas Müller, Benno PICHLMAIER, Jakob Kreitmayr
  • Chromatographic process for enrichment and isolation
    Patent number: 9073970
    Abstract: A chromatographic process for the enrichment of at least one compound of interest from a mixture is proposed, using chromatographic columns, wherein said process involves a sequence of the following steps: (i) a cyclic accumulation phase, in which the chromatographic columns are alternatingly operated in an interconnected phase, followed by a disconnected phase, wherein subsequently columns exchange places and wherein the phases are carried out sequentially; (ii) a cyclic separation phase, in which the chromatographic columns are alternatingly operated in an interconnected phase, followed by a disconnected phase, wherein after these phases columns exchange places to undergo the next interconnected and disconnected phases; and (iii) an elution phase, in which from the column, which at the end of phase (i) or at the end of phase (ii) contains the compound of interest, is extracted via the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: ChromaCon AG
    Inventors: Thomas Müller-Späth, Guido Ströhlein, Lars Aumann, Michael Bavand, Nicole Ulmer
  • Agricultural Implement Connection Control
    Publication number: 20150173291
    Abstract: An agricultural vehicle has an implement connection hitch including means for controllably moving the same relative to a rear axle of the vehicle under the direction of a vehicle control system. Under user control from a cab of the vehicle, the hitch is moved rearward from the vehicle until it reaches a first position at a chosen distance from the rear axle. Following the attachment of a known implement to the hitch, the control system retracts the hitch and implement toward the rear axle to a second position at a distance from the rear axle determined in the control system optionally at least partly on the basis of the identity of the implement. The identity of the implement may be input by the user or determined via an ISOBUS connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: Thomas Muller, Benno PICHLMAIER, Jakob KREITMAYR
  • SUBSTITUTED FUSED PYRIMIDINONES AND DIHYDROPYRIMIDINONES
    Publication number: 20150173359
    Abstract: The use of substituted fused pyrimidinones and dihydropyrimidinones of the formula (I) or salts thereof where the radicals of the formula (I) are each as defined in the description, for enhancing stress tolerance in plants to abiotic stress, and for invigorating plant growth and/or for increasing plant yield.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: Jens Frackenpohl, Hans-Joachim Zeiß, Ines Heinemann, Lothar Willms, Thomas Müller, Marco Busch, Pascal Von Koskull-Döring, Isolde Häuser-Hahn, Christopher Hugh Rosinger, Jan Dittgen, Martin Jeffrey Hills, Monika H. Schmitt
  • Method for producing hot rolled hollow sections having a rectangular cross-section and small edge radii
    Patent number: 9056344
    Abstract: In a method for producing hot-rolled sections of steel with a rectangular or square cross-section, a substantially round pipe blank produced seamlessly by hot rolling or cold finished and welded and having a defined nominal outside diameter is initially produced and then formed at a forming temperature into a hollow section having the required cross-section, with visible edges C1 and C2 of the hollow section having a value ?1.5×t (t=wall thickness). The pipe blank has a nominal outer diameter determined from a reduction ratio of the pipe blank to be achieved and the hollow section dimensions to be achieved, wherein the reduction ration lies within a range of ?2% to ?13% and is determined according to the following formula: Reduction ratio R[%]=[(2×(H+B))??×D]×100%/[2×(H+B)].
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Vallourec Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Müller, Nicolas Trapp, Norbert Arzt, Burkhard Helten, Thorsten Schmitz
  • SWITCH
    Publication number: 20150155109
    Abstract: A switch for electrically connecting at least two lines as and when required, having a housing having at least two terminals for the lines to be connected to, having a first conductor connected to a first terminal and a second conductor connected to a second terminal and having a connecting conductor which can be brought into contact with the two conductors by an actuating device in order to close the switch, wherein at least one of the conductors and the connecting conductor are in contact indirectly via a dielectric when the switch is in the closed state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicant: ROSENBERGER HOCHFREQUENZTECHNIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Christian Entsfellner, Thomas Müller
  • SENSOR ARRANGEMENT, ENERGY SYSTEM AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20150132614
    Abstract: A sensor arrangement according to an embodiment comprises a transmitter to be arranged inside a battery cell and to transmit a signal based on at least one sensed operational parameter of the battery cell wirelessly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Klaus Elian, Jochen Dangelmaier, Franz Michael Darrer, Thomas Müller, Mathias Vaupel, Manfred Fries, Günther Ruhl, Horst Theuss
  • INSERTION TYPE CONNECTOR
    Publication number: 20150132994
    Abstract: A connector having a housing and a plurality of contact element pairs fixed inside the housing, wherein at least two contact element pairs are arranged adjacent to each other in one row and at least one contact element pair is arranged adjacent to the row at a distance that is identical to that to the contact element pairs, and wherein a shielding element is arranged between the contact element pairs of the row and the further contact element pair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: ROSENBERGER HOCHFRQUENZTECHNIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Martin Zebhauser, Thomas Müller, Christian Schmidt, Till Bredback
  • Rotary anode for a rotary anode X-ray tube and method for manufacturing a rotary anode
    Patent number: 9031202
    Abstract: A rotary anode for a rotary anode X-ray tube has an anode disc with a supporting portion. A focal track is located in the vicinity of an outer diameter of the anode disc. The supporting portion has inhomogeneous material properties along a radial coordinate of the anode disc to provide a high mechanical load capacity in the area of an inner diameter of the anode disc and a high thermal load capacity at the focal track. These measures provide for a rotary anode for a rotary anode X-ray tube that meets the extreme thermal and mechanical loads during operation. Further, a method for manufacturing such a rotary anode is described as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Plansee SE
    Inventors: Ulrich Hove, Zoryana Terletska, Christoph Bathe, Peter Rödhammer, Jürgen Schatte, Wolfgang Glatz, Thomas Müller
  • Process for recovering aliphatic monocarboxylic acids from distillation
    Patent number: 9018417
    Abstract: A process is provided for recovering aliphatic monocarboxylic acids having from 4 to 11 carbon atoms from the distillation residue obtained in the oxidation of the corresponding aldehyde by means of oxygen or oxygen-containing gas mixtures in the presence of alkali metal carboxylates or alkaline earth metal carboxylates to form the corresponding monocarboxylic acid and subsequent distillation, characterized in that the distillation residue is reacted with an aqueous acid in a tube reactor and the two-phase mixture flowing out from the tube reactor is introduced into a settling vessel in which the organic phase which separates out has a pH of 4.5 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Oxea GmbH
    Inventors: Guido D. Frey, Jörg Arnold, Wolfgang Höfs, Matthias Kramer, Thomas Müller, Heinz Strutz
  • Method for identification and purification of multi-specific polypeptides
    Patent number: 9018137
    Abstract: The document pertains to a method for the purification of a ternary mixture of dimeric antibodies of the type AA, AB, BB, characterized in that for the separation of the three components and in particular for the isolation of the multi-specific fraction AB multicolumn counter current solvent gradient purification chromatography with a stationary phase load of more than 1 mg antibody mixture per milliliter stationary phase is used. It furthermore relates to a method for the identification of in particular bispecific antibody systems, which are particularly suitable for the application of such a purification method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: ChromaCon AG
    Inventors: Thomas Müller-Späth, Lars Aumann, Guido Ströhlein, Michael Bavand