Patents by Inventor Thomas Schaefer

Thomas Schaefer 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: 20210048509
    Abstract: In a mobile part having at least one module, and a method for operating a mobile part, the mobile part is able to be moved on a driving surface, and the module includes a controllable illumination device. The illumination device is provided and/or situated in elongated form along a planar curve, in particular, a line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Applicant: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Serdal AYHAN, Thomas SCHÄFER
  • Patent number: 10916716
    Abstract: The present invention relates to metal-carbene complexes comprising a central atom selected from iridium and platinum, and diazabenzimidazolocarbene ligands, to organic light diodes which comprise such complexes, to light-emitting layers comprising at least one such metal-carbene complex, to a device selected from the group comprising illuminating elements, stationary visual display units and mobile visual display units comprising such an OLED and to the use of such a metal-carbene complex in OLEDs, for example as emitter, matrix material, charge transport material and/or charge or exciton blocker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: UDC IRELAND LIMITED
    Inventors: Oliver Molt, Nicolle Langer, Evelyn Fuchs, Korinna Dormann, Christian Schildknecht, Soichi Watanabe, Gerhard Wagenblast, Christian Lennartz, Thomas Schaefer, Heinz Wolleb, Teresa Marina Figueira Duarte, Stefan Metz, Peter Murer
  • Publication number: 20210021342
    Abstract: A system includes a first mobile part and a second mobile part, each being able to be moved in a movement plane of an installation. The first mobile part has corner modules at its outer corner areas, and the second mobile part also has corner modules at its outer corner areas. Each corner module has an electronic circuit together with transmitters and receivers such that modulated light is able to be emitted with the aid of the transmitters, and modulated light is able to be detected and demodulated with the aid of the receivers. The receivers have different sensitivities for light from different directions in space, in particular, the receivers of the respective corner module being situated in one plane with respect to this respective corner module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Thomas SCHÄFER, Andreas WANJEK, Zhidong HUA
  • Publication number: 20200389056
    Abstract: In a system having primary conductor sections supplied with alternating current by respective feed-in devices, and having at least one mobile part, and in a method for operating such a system, in which the mobile part has a secondary winding, in particular on its underside, which is able to be, in particular is, inductively coupled with one of the primary conductor sections, the feed-in devices inject respective alternating currents of different frequencies into the primary conductor sections, and the mobile part has a device for acquiring the frequency of the alternating current injected into the primary conductor section inductively coupled with the secondary winding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Applicant: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Josef SCHMIDT, Thomas SCHÄFER, Jens SCHÄFER, Jochen MAHLEIN, Ulrich STOCKENBERGER
  • Patent number: 10862051
    Abstract: A compound of the general formula (I), a process for the production of the compound and its use in electronic devices, especially electroluminescent devices. Improved efficiency, stability, manufacturability, or spectral characteristics of electroluminescent devices are provided when the compound of formula I is used as host material for phosphorescent emitters in electroluminescent devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: UDC IRELAND LIMITED
    Inventors: Thomas Schaefer, Flavio Luiz Benedito, Ute Heinemeyer, Nicolle Langer, Heinz Wolleb, Teresa Marina Figueira Duarte, Soichi Watanabe, Christian Lennartz, Gerhard Wagenblast, Annemarie Wolleb, Kristina Bardon
  • Publication number: 20200254510
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a riser sleeve (1) for using when pouring metals into a casting mould, comprising a riser body (2), comprising a riser cavity (3) for holding liquid metal and a riser opening (4) for joining the riser cavity (3) to a mould cavity of the casting mould during the casting process, wherein the riser cavity (3) has a greater diameter than the diameter of the riser opening (4) in at least one portion, the riser body (2) is made of an insulating and/or exothermic riser material, the riser body (2) is formed as a single piece, the riser opening (4) defines an axis (5), and the riser cavity (3) is asymmetric to the axis (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Olof Hilger, Jörg Schäfer, Thomas Schäfer
  • Patent number: 10697689
    Abstract: The efficiency of a household appliance device, in particular of a household refrigerator device, is improved. An inner container has at least one inner panel that delimits an interior at least partially. An air exchange unit is formed with at least two flow channels that run substantially parallel and that are in fluidic communication with the interior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Lindel, Elmar Faehnle, Felix Wiedenmann, Thomas Schaefer
  • Patent number: 10689385
    Abstract: Novel benzimidazolo[1,2-a]benzimidazoles carrying aryl- or heteroarylnitril groups, an electronic device, comprising said novel benzimidazolo[1,2-a]benzimidazoles carrying aryl- or heteroarylnitril groups, which is preferably an electroluminescent device, a charge transport layer, a charge/exciton blocker layer, or an emitting layer comprising said novel benzimidazolo[1,2-a]benzimidazoles carrying aryl- or heteroarylnitril groups, an apparatus selected from the group consisting of stationary visual display units; mobile visual display units; illumination units; key-boards; items of clothing; furniture; wallpaper, comprising said organic electronic device, or said charge transport layer, said charge/exciton blocker layer, or said emitting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Thomas Raimann, Thomas Schaefer, Masatoshi Saito, Heinz Wolleb, Flavio Luiz Benedito, Yuichi Nishimae, Yuki Nakano, Hideaki Nagashima
  • Publication number: 20200149799
    Abstract: A household refrigeration appliance has a housing and an inner compartment configured in the housing with a cover, which extends along a rear wall of the inner compartment and divides the inner compartment into a storage compartment for chilled goods and a cold air distribution region with a cold air distribution system arranged therein and with a first visible surface formed by the cover and facing an access opening of the inner compartment. The cold air distribution system has a vertical cold air duct segment extending in the direction of a top wall, which is arranged parallel to the rear wall in the longitudinal direction and has a horizontal cold air duct segment branching from the vertical cold air duct segment and extending in the direction of a left or right side wall, which is arranged parallel to the rear wall in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: CLAUDIA WEISS, THOMAS SCHAEFER, FRANK CIFRODELLI, JULIO CESAR SCHMIDT
  • Patent number: 10584126
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of formula(I), a process for their production and their use in electronic devices, especially electroluminescent devices. When used as charge transport material and/or host material for phosphorescent emitters in electroluminescent devices, the compounds of formula I may provide improved efficiency and reduced driving voltage of electroluminescent devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichi Nishimae, Julia Kohlstedt, Thomas Schaefer, Hideaki Nagashima
  • Patent number: 10525526
    Abstract: A method for producing a feeder (10) that is intended for use in a casting mold used for the casting of metals and comprises a feeder body (11), which encloses an inner cavity (25) as a feeder volume, consists of an exothermic and/or insulating material, has at least one lateral wall region (12) and a bottom region (13) with a feeder opening (14) arranged therein for connecting the inner cavity (25) of the feeder body (11) to the mold cavity of the casting mold during the casting operation and has a mesh-like fabric consisting of a refractory material covering over the feeder opening (14) therein, is characterized in that, in the course of the production of the feeder in a core shooter, a piece of fabric (21) of the mesh-like fabric is positioned in a pattern device (17) forming the shape of the feeder (10) in a core box (30) of the core shooter, in such a way that the peripheral region (22) of the piece of fabric (21) positioned in the bottom region (13) of the later feeder (10) is at least partially bent up
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: GTP Schäfer Giesstechnische Produkte GmbH
    Inventors: Jörg Schäfer, Thomas Schäfer
  • Publication number: 20190369638
    Abstract: In a system and method for operating a vehicle, the system includes the vehicle and a concrete floor, which has at least one reinforcement rod, the vehicle is disposed on the concrete floor so as to be movable, the vehicle has an evaluation device and a first sensor group, which has at least two sensors, the sensors are situated along a first reference line at a distance from one another, the sensors are adapted to detect the reinforcement rod, and the evaluation device is connected to the sensors and adapted to determine the driving direction based on the signals from the sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Josef SCHMIDT, Jürgen BÖCKLE, Zhidong HUA, Thomas SCHÄFER, Andreas WANJEK
  • Publication number: 20190361115
    Abstract: In a method and system for position capture of a vehicle along a driving route, situated on a concrete floor having a reinforcement: the vehicle carries out a reference drive along the driving route, the vehicle records measuring points along the driving route, and each measuring point allocates a signal from the reinforcement to a position on the driving route; a reference profile of the driving route is determined based on the measuring points ascertained during the reference drive; the vehicle drives along the driving route and records further measuring points; a profile segment is determined from the further measuring points; the profile segment is uniquely allocated to a segment of the reference profile, e.g., using a correlation method; a position on the driving route is uniquely allocated to the vehicle with the aid of the profile segment allocated to the reference profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Josef SCHMIDT, Jürgen BÖCKLE, Zhidong HUA, Thomas SCHÄFER, Andreas WANJEK
  • Publication number: 20190308306
    Abstract: A power tool (1) is provided, especially a hammer drill and/or a chiseling hammer drill, including a percussive mechanism (12) with a percussive element (13) to generate a percussive pulse onto a tool (1), the element being reversibly movable along a longitudinal axis (R) by a magnetic field in order to generate the percussive pulse, and including at least a first and a second coil device (1, 2) to generate the magnetic field. Each coil device (1, 2) has at least a first coil ring (3) with a first radius (R1) and a second coil ring (4) with a second radius (R2), whereby the first radius (R1) of the first coil ring (3) is greater than the second radius (R2) of the second coil ring (4), so that a space (S) is formed, at least in certain areas, between the at least first and second coil rings (3, 4), whereby a fluid (L), especially an air stream, that serves to cool the coil device (1, 2) can flow through the space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventors: Konrad ARTMANN, Thomas SCHAEFER, Markus HARTMANN, Norbert DAAM
  • Publication number: 20190300353
    Abstract: A holder for a food or drink component in a food or drink preparation machine includes a housing, a support constructed for reception of a food or drink component, a locking and guiding mechanism and a front panel for actuating the locking and guiding mechanism. The support is movable in a guide out of the housing with respect to a front side of the holder from a moved-in end position to a moved-out end position, and can be shifted by the locking and guiding mechanism to a fixing position, a securing position or an unlocking position. The locking and guiding mechanism in the fixing position retains the support in the moved-in end position relative to the housing, in the securing position blocks uncontrolled movement out of the housing of the support in a securing position, and in the unlocking position allows movement of the support out of the housing section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Peter Podlasin, Thomas Schaefer, Siegfried Adomeit, Arno Muth
  • Patent number: 10431750
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of formula a process for their production and their use in electronic devices, especially electroluminescent devices. When used as host material for phosphorescent emitters in electroluminescent devices, the compounds of formula I may provide improved efficiency, stability, manufacturability, or spectral characteristics of electroluminescent devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: UDC Ireland Limited
    Inventors: Thomas Schaefer, Teresa Marina Figueira Duarte, Christian Schildknecht, Nicolle Langer, Ute Heinemeyer, Heinz Wolleb, Soichi Watanabe, Christian Lennartz, Gerhard Wagenblast, Annemarie Wolleb, Kristina Bardon, FLavio Luiz Benedito
  • Patent number: 10406595
    Abstract: In a method for producing a riser for inserting into a casting mold used for casting metals, the riser includes a riser body (31) surrounding an inner cavity (36) as a riser volume and is composed of an exothermic and/or insulating riser material (30). To produce a single-piece riser body (31) in a two-part core box (10), a cavity (14) reproducing the outer contour of the riser body (31) is formed and, in order to produce the inner cavity (36), a reversibly expandable king (15) is set in the cavity (14) in such a way that, in the shooting of the riser body (31), the wall region (32), the cup region (33), and the base region (34) of the riser body are formed by the riser material (30) introduced into the intermediate space (41) between the expanded king (15) and the inner wall (40) of the cavity (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: GTP SCHAEFER GIESSTECHNISCHE PRODUKTE GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Baginski, Jörg Schäfer, Thomas Schäfer
  • Publication number: 20190273211
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of formula a process for their production and their use in electronic devices, especially electroluminescent devices. When used as host material for phasphorescent emitters in electroluminescent devices, the compounds of formula I may provide improved efficiency, stability, manufacturability, or spectral characteristics of electroluminescent devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: Thomas Schaefer, Teresa Marina Figueira Duarte, Christian Schildknecht, Nicolle Langer, Ute Heinemeyer, Heinz Wolleb, Soichi Watanabe, Christian Lennartz, Gerhard Wagenblast, Annemarie Wolleb, Kristina Bardon, Flavio Luiz Benedito
  • Publication number: 20190219423
    Abstract: A system includes a first part and a second part, the second part being movable relative to the first part, the first part having an optical waveguide that radiates light on the side, the second part at least one sensor system for detecting the light intensity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Zhidong HUA, Josef SCHMIDT, Thomas SCHÄFER, Andreas WANJEK
  • Patent number: 10337774
    Abstract: A refrigeration appliance has an inner container, which separates at least one storage compartment for refrigerated goods and an evaporator assembly from a surrounding heat insulation layer. A mounting element contains a base plate resting against a wall of the inner container and opposing a broad side of the evaporator assembly and retaining webs which project from the base plate and engage in a form-fit manner in two narrow sides of the evaporator assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Arbogast, Thomas Schaefer, Marcus Wehlauch