Patents by Inventor Thomas Ruhl

Thomas Ruhl 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: 10969693
    Abstract: A device and method for producing light-exposed structures on a workpiece having a light-sensitive surface. An optical unit includes a light source and a diffraction grating for producing a strip-shaped illumination pattern having strips extending in a longitudinal direction and having a pattern width extending transversely. A device moves the surface of the workpiece and optical unit relative to each other according to a path sequence, which includes movement longitudinal paths to produce a first and second light-exposed structure having strips, which is oriented parallel to each other on the workpiece surface. The movement paths are mutually spaced apart by less than the pattern width and the light-exposed structures overlap in such a way that strips of the light-exposed structures lie on each other. To obtain good light exposure of the surface by the illumination pattern, the diffraction grating is set oblique to the surface of the workpiece that is light-exposed by the illumination pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Temicon GmbH
    Inventors: Oliver Humbach, Thomas Ruhl
  • Publication number: 20200233313
    Abstract: A device and method for producing light-exposed structures on a workpiece having a light-sensitive surface. An optical unit includes a light source and a diffraction grating for producing a strip-shaped illumination pattern having strips extending in a longitudinal direction and having a pattern width extending transversely. A device moves the surface of the workpiece and optical unit relative to each other according to a path sequence, which includes movement longitudinal paths to produce a first and second light-exposed structure having strips, which is oriented parallel to each other on the workpiece surface. The movement paths are mutually spaced apart by less than the pattern width and the light-exposed structures overlap in such a way that strips of the light-exposed structures lie on each other. To obtain good light exposure of the surface by the illumination pattern, the diffraction grating is set oblique to the surface of the workpiece that is light-exposed by the illumination pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2018
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Oliver Humbach, Thomas Ruhl
  • Publication number: 20040156721
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pump (1) having a pump guide tube (13) for the transport of a heat-exchange medium (6) for a reactor having a bundle of catalyst tubes (2), where the pump (1) has a casing (14) which surrounds the pump guide tube (13), having an aperture (15) in the lower part of the casing (14) via which the heat-exchange medium (6) discharged from the lower region of the reactor by means of the pump (1) flows into the casing (14), flows upward in the region between the inner wall of the casing (14) and the outer wall of the pump guide tube (13), if desired via a heat exchanger (18), flows into the interior of the pump guide tube (13) via an aperture (16) in the upper region of the pump guide tube (13), flows through the pump guide tube (13) from top to bottom and flows via an aperture (17) in the lower region of the pump guide tube (13) into the reactor, into the upper region of the interspace between the catalyst tubes (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Inventors: Gerhard Olbert, Torsten Mattke, Matthias Kummer, Thomas Ruhl, Frank Rosowski
  • Publication number: 20040126285
    Abstract: A reactor for testing catalyst systems which has a plurality of catalyst tubes (2) which are arranged parallel to one another in the interior space of the reactor and whose ends are welded into tube plates and also has caps (3) at each end of the reactor which each bound a cap space (4), with a fluid reaction medium (5) being fed via one cap space (4) into the catalyst tubes (2), flowing through the catalyst tubes (2) and being discharged via the other cap space (4), and is also provided with a heat exchange medium circuit in which the heat exchange medium (6) is fed in at one end of the reactor, flows through the intermediate space between the catalyst tubes (2) and flows out at the other end of the reactor, wherein the catalyst tubes (2) are arranged in two or more catalyst tube regions (7) which are thermally separate from one another, is proposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2003
    Publication date: July 1, 2004
    Inventors: Gerhard Olbert, Torsten Mattke, Matthias Kummer, Thomas Ruhl, Frank Rosowski
  • Publication number: 20040060809
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the production of phthalic anhydride to a specification, using a distillative purification of crude phthalic anhydride, by introduction of crude phthalic anhydride into a distillation column, operating at reduced pressure, withdrawal of the low-boiling fraction from the head, or near the head of the column and withdrawal of the phthalic anhydride, which meets the specification, from a side-tap on the column, whilst operating the column at a reflux ratio x, with 1:1.7<x<1:3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: Walter Disteldorf, Jarren Peters, Bernd Morsbach, Matthias Kummer, Thomas Ruhl
  • Publication number: 20040011492
    Abstract: Application device for impinging on an element of a machine, including a plurality of nozzle units arranged at a respective distance from one another, the nozzle units being conveyed in a closed rotating path in a first direction extending generally transversely to a machine travel direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2001
    Publication date: January 22, 2004
    Applicant: VOITH PAPER PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Joachim Grabscheid, Ulrich Begemann, Oswald Satzger, Wolfgang Mayer, Ralf Rziha, Wolfgang Bamberger, Georg Kleiser, Thomas Ruhl
  • Publication number: 20030010460
    Abstract: In a method of monitoring the state of a felt serving for the dewatering of a fiber web, in particular of a paper web or of a cardboard web, the felt topography is measured and/or an image of the felt surface having definition in depth is produced by mean of an optical measuring device and the result of the measurement obtained is compared with previously stored error patterns by means of an evaluation and/or control unit. Corresponding felt conditioning measures are then initiated, preferably automatically, in dependence on the result of the comparison. A corresponding felt monitoring device is also described. In a further method of monitoring the state of a felt or screen serving the dewatering of a fiber web, in particular of a paper web or a cardboard web, specific felt and/or screen properties are determined permanently or cyclically at intervals and are filed under a pre-settable felt and/or screen name in a historical database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2002
    Publication date: January 16, 2003
    Inventors: Joachim Grabscheid, Ulrich Begemann, Oswald Satzger, Wolfgang Mayer, Ralf Rziha, Wolfgang Bamberger, Georg Kleiser, Thomas Ruhl
  • Publication number: 20020129914
    Abstract: Process for conditioning a circulating felt belt of a machine, pipe suction apparatus and traversing pipe suction apparatus therefor, the process including performing a zonal conditioning of a plurality of zones across a width of the felt belt by measuring at least one of, fibrous material web cross direction profile; felt belt cross direction profile; and permeability of the felt belt across the width of at least one of the web and the belt. The felt belt is conditioned depending on measuring results obtained for a respective zone. The pipe suction apparatus includes a ceramic body extending at least essentially across the entire width of the felt belt, the ceramic body being provided with a slotted surface by way of which the felt belt is subjectable to vacuum, with a respective effective amount of slotted surface being zonally variably adjustable by way of movable tongues.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2001
    Publication date: September 19, 2002
    Applicant: VOITH PAPER PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Joachim Grabscheid, Ulrich Begemann, Oswald Satzger, Wolfgang Mayer, Ralf Rziha, Wolfgang Bamberger, Georg Kleiser, Thomas Ruhl
  • Publication number: 20020112532
    Abstract: Process for determining disturbances of a moisture cross profile of a fibrous material web in a paper making machine, a paper making machine, and a measuring arrangement for measuring the disturbances, the process including guiding the fibrous material web by way of at least one water-permeable belt and collecting and draining off water released from the belt. The water is collected by several sections separated from one another. The process further includes measuring per time unit, the amount of water in each section, wherein the sections extend at right angles to a web running direction over only a partial section of the fibrous material web. The paper making machine includes at least one water-permeable belt, the belt being wrapped around a roll. The measuring arrangement includes a water collection device having the form of one of a trough, or channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2001
    Publication date: August 22, 2002
    Applicant: VOITH PATER PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Joachim Grabscheid, Ulrich Begemann, Oswald Satzger, Wolfgang Mayer, Ralf Rziha, Wolfgang Bamberger, Georg Kleiser, Thomas Ruhl
  • Publication number: 20010000035
    Abstract: A process for the reaction of an organic compound in the presence of a catalyst comprising, as active metal, ruthenium alone or together with at least one Group Ib, VIIb, or VIIIb metal in an amount of from 0.01 to 30 wt %, based on the total weight of the catalyst, applied to a support, wherein from 10 to 50% of the pore volume of the support comprises macropores having a pore diameter in the range of from 50 nm to 10,000 nm and from 50 to 90% of the pore volume of the support comprises mesopores having a pore diameter in the range of from 2 to 50 nm, the sum of said pore volumes being 100%, and said catalyst as such.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2000
    Publication date: March 15, 2001
    Inventors: Thomas Ruhl, Boris Breitscheidel, Jochem Henkelmann, Andreas Henne, Rolf Lebkucher, Konard Knoll, Paul Naegele, Hermann Gausepohl, Sabine Weiguny, Norbert Niessner
  • Patent number: 6121188
    Abstract: An activated fixed-bed Raney metal catalyst which is free of metal powder, has macropores and is based on an alloy of aluminum and at least one metal of subgroup VIII of the Periodic Table, contains more than 80% by volume, based on the total pores, of macropores and is used for the hydrogenation of low molecular weight and polymeric organic compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2000
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Boris Breitscheidel, Uwe Diehlmann, Thomas Ruhl, Sabine Weiguny
  • Patent number: 6099601
    Abstract: Copolymer comprising ethylene units and vinyl formate units, the content of free vinyl formate in the polymer preferably being not more than 5000 ppm, based on the weight of the copolymer, a process for its preparation, and its use as flow improver, especially in petroleum distillates, preferably fuel and propellant compositions, especially petroleum middle distillates, and also a fuel and propellant composition comprising a principal quantity of a fuel and propellant and that quantity of a copolymer as above which is effective in improving the flow properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2000
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Deckers, Bernd Wenderoth, Thomas Ruhl, Hans-Joachim Muller, Roger Klimesch
  • Patent number: 5976202
    Abstract: Reaction products of polyolefins having predominantly a terminal double bond and a number average molecular weight of from 250 to 10,000, which possess an aliphatic hydrocarbon skeleton which is straight-chain or carries C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl side chains, with from 1 to 10 mol, per equivalent of double bond, of one or more vinyl esters I ##STR1## are obtainable by reacting the stated polyolefins with the vinyl esters I in the presence of a free radical initiator at from 80 to 200.degree. C., it being possible for these reaction products subsequently to have been hydrolyzed to the corresponding alcohols or converted into the corresponding amines by reductive amination with amines II ##STR2## .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1999
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans Peter Rath, Helmut Mach, Harald Schwahn, Hans-Joachim Muller, Wolfgang Reif, Thomas Ruhl
  • Patent number: 5962700
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of butyrolactones of the formula I ##STR1## where the substituents R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are hydrogen, alkyl or hydroxyalkyl groups, or aryl and trialkylsilyl groups, if appropriate carrying inert: substituents, is described in which an alkyne of the formula IIR.sup.1 --C.tbd.C--R.sup.2 IIwhere the substituents have the meanings indicated above, is reacted under reducing conditions at elevated pressure and elevated temperature with carbon monoxide CO and hydrogen in the presence of a transition metal catalyst or with carbon monoxide and water in the presence of a transition metal catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1999
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Marc Heider, Thomas Ruhl, Jochem Henkelmann, Susanne Stutz, Thomas Preiss, Heinz Rutter, Martin Schafer, Arthur Hohn
  • Patent number: 5942645
    Abstract: A process for hydrogenating aromatic compounds in which at least one hydroxyl group is bonded to an aromatic ring comprises bringing at least one of these compounds into contact with free hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst, wherein the catalyst comprises ruthenium and, if desired, at least one metal of transition groups I, VII and VIII in an amount of from 0.01 to 30% by weight, preferably from 0.2 to 15% by weight, based on the total weight of the catalyst, applied to a support, where the support has a mean pore diameter of at least 0.1 .mu.m, preferably at least 0.5 .mu.m, and a surface area of at most 15 m.sup.2 /g, preferably at most 10 m.sup.2 /g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1999
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Heinz Rutter, Thomas Ruhl, Boris Breitscheidel, Jochem Henkelmann, Thomas Wettling
  • Patent number: 5936126
    Abstract: A process for the hydrogenation of an aromatic compound, in which at least one hydroxyl group is attached to an aromatic core, or an aromatic compound, in which at least one amino group is attached to an aromatic core, in the presence of a catalyst containing, as active metal, ruthenium and optionally one or more other Group IB, VIIB, or VIIIB metals, applied to a macroporous support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1999
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Ruhl, Boris Breitscheidel, Jochem Henkelmann, Wolfgang Reif, Helmuth Menig, Sabine Weiguny
  • Patent number: 5902916
    Abstract: A process for reacting an organic compound in the presence of a catalyst, wherein the catalyst comprises a homogeneous ruthenium compound or a mixture of two or more thereof deposited in situ on a support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1999
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Ruhl, Boris Breitscheidel, Franz Josef Brocker, Wolfgang Reif, Jochem Henkelmann, Karl Heinz Brauch, Andreas Henne
  • Patent number: 5874622
    Abstract: In a process for hydrogenating an aromatic compound in which at least one hydroxyl group is bonded to an aromatic ring or an aromatic compound in which at least one amino group is bonded to an aromatic ring, in the presence of a catalyst comprising as catalytically active component at least one metal of transition group I, VII or VIII of the Periodic Table applied to a support, the catalyst is obtainable bya) dissolving the catalytically active component or a precursor compound thereof in a solvent,b) admixing the solution thus obtained with an organic polymer which is able to bind at least ten times its own weight of water, giving a swollen polymer,c) subsequently mixing the swollen polymer with a catalyst support material andd) shaping, drying and calcining the composition obtained in this way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1999
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Boris Breitscheidel, Thomas Ruhl, Klemens Flick, Jochem Henkelmann, Andreas Henne, Rolf Lebkucher
  • Patent number: 5831129
    Abstract: N-Hydroxyalkyl-substituted aminoalkynes of the formula I ##STR1## are prepared by reacting an alkyne with a 1-oxa-3-azaheterocyclo-alkane in a reaction with heterogeneous catalysis by a catalyst which comprises a compound of a metal of the first or second sub-group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1998
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Preiss, Jochem Henkelmann, Joachim Wulff-Doring, Susanne Stutz, Thomas Ruhl
  • Patent number: 5808160
    Abstract: Hydroxyalkyl-substituted aminoalkynes of the general formula I ##STR1## where at least one of the substituents R.sup.1, R.sup.4 or R.sup.5 is hydroxyalkyl are prepared in a reaction with heterogeneous catalysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1998
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Ruhl, Thomas Preiss, Jochem Henkelmann