Patents by Inventor Thomas Pfaff

Thomas Pfaff 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: 20230160527
    Abstract: Use of a fiber composite material connecting portion to connect a tubular fiber composite material structure to a connecting device, wherein the connecting portion has at least one fiber deflecting element in its interior, wherein the course of the long fibers from the fiber composite material component follows the shape of a fiber deflecting portion of a fiber deflecting element, so that the fiber direction thereof is deflected at the fiber deflecting portion, and wherein the long fibers do not completely loop around the fiber deflecting elements with which they are associated respectively, wherein the fiber deflecting elements consist of fiber composite material, for a pressure tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Applicants: Leibniz-Institut Fuer Verbundwerkstoffe GmbH, Hochschule Kaiserslautern
    Inventors: Uwe SCHMITT, Thomas PFAFF, Michael MAGIN
  • Patent number: 9442237
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing light guide bodies and to their use in lighting units, for example for liquid crystal displays or for monitors. In particular, the present invention relates to a method for producing light guide bodies which have a thickness of at most 1 mm and contain at least 80 wt % of polymethyl methacrylate and no light-scattering constituents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Evonik Roehm GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Parusel, Guenther Dickhaut, Thomas Pfaff, Helmut Haering, Michael Enders
  • Publication number: 20130343088
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing light guide bodies and to their use in lighting units, for example for liquid crystal displays or for monitors. In particular, the present invention relates to a method for producing light guide bodies which have a thickness of at most 1 mm and contain at least 80 wt % of polymethyl methacrylate and no light-scattering constituents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2011
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: Evonik Roehm GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Parusel, Guenther Dickhaut, Thomas Pfaff, Helmut Haering, Michael Enders
  • Publication number: 20070154649
    Abstract: A method for bonding of disk shaped substrates comprises the steps of providing a first and a second substrate, applying a liquid adhesive to a first bonding surface and a second surface, irradiating the lacquered surface of at least one of the substrates with UV light for increasing the viscosity of the lacquer, joining the substrates in vacuum, irradiating the joined disk with UV light for increasing the viscosity of the lacquer in between the joined disks, placing the disk onto a rotatable chuck, rotating the disc with a rotation speed preferably >500rpm, and finally separating the 2 substrates to leave the full bonding layer on one of the substrates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Publication date: July 5, 2007
    Applicant: OC Oerlikon Balzers AG
    Inventors: Bernd Heinz, Cem Yavaser, Thomas Pfaff
  • Publication number: 20070105400
    Abstract: It is shown a method and apparatus for distributing a viscous liquid over a surface of a substrate with high homogeneity in a defined area, e. g. on a semiconductor wafer or a data storage media, by conditioning the liquid on the substrate thermally in a first step and exposing it to UV radiation in two further steps, locally specific before or during the spin coating process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2005
    Publication date: May 10, 2007
    Applicant: Unaxis Balzers AG
    Inventors: Bernd Heinz, Cem Yavaser, Thomas Pfaff, Josef Steinkeller
  • Patent number: 7005180
    Abstract: Injection-molding materials comprised of polycarbonate can be processed into optically isotropic films in a chill roll extrusion method. The optically isotropic films for protecting data carriers (CD-ROMS) from becoming scratched, or they are used as supporting materials for the information layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: Roehm GmbH & Co., KG
    Inventors: Uwe Numrich, Klaus Hofmann, Roger Hugh Emerson, Thomas Pfaff, Michael Meier-Kaiser
  • Patent number: 6613264
    Abstract: Injection-molding materials comprised of polycarbonate can be processed into optically isotropic films in a chill roll extrusion method. The optically isotropic films are used as covering films for protecting data carriers (CD-ROMS) from becoming scratched, or they are used as supporting materials for the information layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: Roehm GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Uwe Numrich, Klaus Hofmann, Roger Hugh Emerson, Thomas Pfaff, Michael Meier-Kaiser
  • Publication number: 20030031849
    Abstract: Injection-molding materials comprised of polycarbonate can be processed into optically isotropic films in a chill roll extrusion method. The optically isotropic films for protecting data carriers (CD-ROMS) from becoming scratched, or they are used as supporting materials for the information layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2002
    Publication date: February 13, 2003
    Applicant: ROEHM GMBH & CO., KG
    Inventors: Uwe Numrich, Klaus Hofmann, Roger Hugh Emerson, Thomas Pfaff, Michael Meier-Kaiser