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: 20180212159
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device comprising an anode, a cathode and an emitting layer between the anode and the cathode, wherein the emitting layer comprises as a host material a compound represented by the following formula (1) and a compound represented by the following formula (2):
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro KAWAMURA, Hideaki NAGASHIMA, Thomas SCHAEFER
  • Patent number: 10016806
    Abstract: A casting flow running system (11) for supplying liquid metal to a mold cavity formed in a casting mold includes a plurality of pipe sections (13) that are connected to one another; at least one ingate pipe (13) for connecting the casting flow runner system (11) with an ingate of a casting model forming the mold cavity; and a frame (15) made of a heat-resistant material disposed on the ingate pipe (13). The frame has a net-like webbing (18) made of a fireproof material tensioned therein and is attached to the ingate pipe (13) such that the netlike webbing (18) at least partially spans a cross section of the ingate pipe (13) and is positioned in a region proximate to a surface of a casting piece formed by filling the mold cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: GTP SCHAEFER GIESSTECHNISCHE PRODUKTE GmbH
    Inventors: Joerg Schaefer, Thomas Schaefer
  • Publication number: 20180172330
    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: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: ANDREAS LINDEL, ELMAR FAEHNLE, FELIX WIEDENMANN, THOMAS SCHAEFER
  • Publication number: 20180164029
    Abstract: A household refrigeration appliance has a receiving space for foodstuffs which is delimited by walls of an inner container, and a cover plate which is separate from the inner container and is arranged in the receiving space forward of a wall of the inner container. The cover plate is connected to a rail system of the household refrigeration appliance. A functionally first connection type is embodied at a first connection point and a second connection type that is functionally different from the first connection type is embodied at a second connection point at a different location from the first connection point. We also describe a method for installing a cover plate in a household refrigeration appliance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Inventors: ANDREAS LINDEL, THOMAS SCHAEFER, MARCUS WEHLAUCH
  • Publication number: 20180164021
    Abstract: A household refrigerator has a receiving space for food which is delimited by walls of an inner container. A covering plate that is separate from the inner container is arranged in the receiving space in front of a wall of the inner container. A functional unit of the household refrigerator is arranged in the receiving space in front of the wall and in one spatial direction of the household refrigerator the covering plate ends next to the functional unit. The functional unit is covered, at least in certain sections, by a cover that is separate from the covering plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Inventors: Andreas Lindel, Thomas Schaefer, Marcus Wehlauch
  • Publication number: 20180156521
    Abstract: A household refrigerator has a receiving space for food, a back panel delimiting the receiving space at the back, a no-frost unit, and an air channel arranged behind the back panel and connected to the no-frost unit and has an outlet opening by which cold air from the no-frost unit can be introduced into the receiving space. A suction opening is provided by way of which air can be sucked out of the receiving space by the no-frost unit. The outlet opening and the suction opening are arranged at different levels. A baffle plate is arranged vertically between the outlet opening and the suction opening. The plate is arranged on the back panel and extends forwards in the direction of a loading opening, so cold air blown into the receiving space via the outlet opening flows around a leading edge of the baffle plate that faces the loading opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Inventors: Andreas Lindel, Thomas Schaefer, Marcus Wehlauch
  • Patent number: 9981307
    Abstract: A feeder (10) for use in a casting mold includes a feeder body (11) made from an exothermic and/or insulating material. The feeder body has a bottom surface (15) with a feeder opening (16) for connection of the inner cavity (12) of the feeder body (1) with the mold cavity of the casting mold during a casting process. A ring-shaped frame (17) made of a heat-resistant material is secured to the feeder body (11). A netlike webbing (18) made from a fire-resistant material is tensioned within the ring-shaped frame (17). The frame (17) is arranged on the surface (15) of the feeder body (11), such that the netlike webbing (18) is positioned with the feeder (10) formed in the casting mold directly on a surface of a casting piece to be formed during casting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: GTP SCHAEFER GIESSTECHNISCHE PRODUKTE GMBH
    Inventors: Joerg Schaefer, Thomas Schaefer
  • Patent number: 9979252
    Abstract: A rotor for an electrodynamic machine, in particular an electric motor, is disclosed. The rotor includes a rotor packet having a first rotor end and a second rotor end as well as a plurality of interconnected sheet metal rings. Each sheet metal ring forms a web. Further, the rotor includes a web insulation with at least one winding support element for receiving a rotor coil. In addition, the rotor includes an end sheet metal element with at least one support element, where the end sheet metal element is at least partially integrated into the winding support element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Mahler, Thomas Schaefer, Peter Hufnagel
  • Publication number: 20180086763
    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 het-eroarylnitril 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: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Thomas RAIMANN, Thomas SCHAEFER, Masatoshi SAITO, Heinz WOLLEB, Flavio Luiz BENEDITO, Yuichi NISHIMAE, Yuki NAKANO, Hideaki NAGASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20180079506
    Abstract: A latch assembly (1) is presented which comprises a safety latch (2) and a trigger latch (4). The safety latch (2) is releasable to raise from a lowered end position into a raised end position for, in use with an object, locking the object. The trigger latch (4) is adapted for fixing the safety latch (2) in its lowered end position and operable for releasing the safety latch (2). The safety latch (2) is adapted to be reset from its raised end position into its lowered end position for unlocking the object. Moreover, a storage compartment having at least one latch assembly (1) is presented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventors: Dennis HAUSNER, Thomas SCHAEFER, Thomas WIEGAND
  • Patent number: 9884726
    Abstract: Modular wafer transport and handling facilities are combined in a variety of ways deliver greater levels of flexibility, utility, efficiency, and functionality in a vacuum semiconductor processing system. Various processing and other modules may be interconnected with tunnel-and-cart transportation systems to extend the distance and versatility of the vacuum environment. Other improvements such as bypass thermal adjusters, buffering aligners, batch processing, multifunction modules, low particle vents, cluster processing cells, and the like are incorporated to expand functionality and improve processing efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Brooks Automation, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter van der Meulen, Christopher C. Kiley, Patrick D. Pannese, Raymond S. Ritter, Thomas A. Schaefer
  • Patent number: 9855597
    Abstract: A breaker core for use in a casting process includes a disk-shaped breaker core (10) having breaker core body and a through-opening (11) for liquid metal. A ring-shaped frame (12) made from a heat-resistant material is secured to the breaker core (10) and has a netlike webbing (15) tensioned therein. The netlike webbing (15) is made from a fire-proof material and spans the through-opening (11) of the breaker core (10) on an underside of a feeder. The frame (17) is secured with an outer sidewall (17) to the body of the disk-shaped breaker core (10). A plane of the netlike webbing (15) tensioned in the frame (12) is secured with a stepped offset to an upper end of the sidewall (17) facing the feeder, so that the netlike webbing (15) is placed in an area of an underside of the breaker core (10) facing the casting model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: GTP SCHAEFER GIESSTECHNISCHE PRODUKTE GMBH
    Inventors: Joerg Schaefer, Thomas Schaefer
  • Publication number: 20170363335
    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: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventors: MARKUS ARBOGAST, THOMAS SCHAEFER, MARCUS WEHLAUCH
  • Publication number: 20170362241
    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: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Applicant: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichi NISHIMAE, Julia KOHLSTEDT, Thomas SCHAEFER, Hideaki NAGASHIMA
  • Patent number: 9806270
    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 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: UDC Ireland Limited
    Inventors: Thomas Schäfer, 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: 20170253430
    Abstract: An automated storage and retrieval system including at least one autonomous rover for transferring payload within the system and including a communicator, a multilevel storage structure, each level allowing traversal of the at least one autonomous rover, at least one registration station disposed at predetermined locations on each level and being configured to communicate with the communicator to at least receive rover identification information, and a controller in communication with the at least one registration station and configured to receive the at least rover identification information and at least one of register the at least one autonomous rover as being on a level corresponding to a respective one of the at least one registration station or deregister the at least one autonomous rover from the system, where the controller effects induction of the at least one autonomous rover into a predetermined rover space on the level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Forrest Buzan, Edward A. MacDonald, Taylor A. Apgar, Thomas A. Schaefer, Melanie Ziegler, Russell G. Barbour
  • Publication number: 20170244051
    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: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    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
  • Patent number: 9656803
    Abstract: An automated storage and retrieval system including at least one autonomous rover for transferring payload within the system and including a communicator, a multilevel storage structure, each level allowing traversal of the at least one autonomous rover, at least one registration station disposed at predetermined locations on each level and being configured to communicate with the communicator to at least receive rover identification information, and a controller in communication with the at least one registration station and configured to receive the at least rover identification information and at least one of register the at least one autonomous rover as being on a level corresponding to a respective one of the at least one registration station or deregister the at least one autonomous rover from the system, where the controller effects induction of the at least one autonomous rover into a predetermined rover space on the level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Symbotic, LLC
    Inventors: Forrest Buzan, Edward A. MacDonald, Taylor A. Apgar, Thomas A. Schaefer, Melanie Ziegler, Russell G. Barbour
  • Patent number: 9637574
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing alkyl methacrylates and their conversion products which can be used in a multitude of chemical synthesis processes which can lead to a wide variety of different further processing products, and to an apparatus for performing this process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Evonik Röhm GmbH
    Inventors: Udo Gropp, Robert Weber, Thomas Schaefer, Andreas Perl, Rudolf Sing, Thomas Mertz
  • Patent number: 9620724
    Abstract: A compound of the general formula 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: July 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    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