Patents by Inventor Thomas Schafer

Thomas Schafer 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: 7087753
    Abstract: Novel compounds of formula I are described wherein E corresponds to the formula or to the formula and the radicals R1, R2, R11, R22, R?22, R?33 and R?33 are as defined in claim 1. Compounds of formula I are suitable for stabilizing organic material, especially plastics materials, surface-coatings, cosmetic preparations, sun protection agents or photographic material, against damage by light, oxygen and/or heat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2006
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corp.
    Inventors: Vien Van Toan, Georges Metzger, Thomas Schäfer, Stéphane Biry, Christophe Bulliard, Dieter Reinehr, Peter Michaelis
  • Publication number: 20060135766
    Abstract: Disclosed are electroluminescent devices that comprise organic layers that contain triazine compounds. The triazine compounds are suitable components of blue-emitting, durable, organo-electroluminescent layers. The electroluminescent devices may be employed for full color display panels in, for example, mobile phones, televisions and personal computer screens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2004
    Publication date: June 22, 2006
    Inventors: Pascal Hayoz, Thomas Schafer, Kristina Bardon
  • Publication number: 20060041126
    Abstract: Disclosed are electroluminescent devices that comprise organic layers that contain certain organic compounds containing one ore more pyrimidine moieties. The organic compounds containing one ore more pyrimidine moieties are suitable components of blue-emitting, durable, organo-electroluminescent layers. The electroluminescent devices may be employed for full color display panels in for example mobile phones, televisions and personal computer screens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2003
    Publication date: February 23, 2006
    Applicant: CIBA Specialty Chemicals Holding Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Schafer, Patrice Bujard, Jonathan Rogers, Kristina Bardon
  • Publication number: 20060025564
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polymers comprising diazine, especially pyrimidine, containing repeating units. Optical devices, comprising the polymers of the present invention, can show significant advantages in color purity, device efficiency and/or operational lifetime. In addition, the polymers can have good solubility characteristics and relatively high glass transition temperatures, which facilitates their fabrication into coatings and films that are relatively thin, thermally stable, and relatively free of defects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2003
    Publication date: February 2, 2006
    Inventors: Michael Craig, Jonathan Rogers, Thomas Schafer
  • Publication number: 20050169859
    Abstract: Novel compounds of formula I are described wherein E corresponds to the formula or to the formula and the radicals R1, R2, R11, R22, R?22, R?33 and R?33 are as defined in claim 1. Compounds of formula I are suitable for stabilising organic material, especially plastics materials, surface-coatings, cosmetic preparations, sun protection agents or photographic material, against damage by light, oxygen and/or heat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2005
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventors: Vien Toan, Georges Metzger, Thomas Schafer, Stephane Biry, Christophe Bulliard, Dieter Reinehr, Peter Michaelis
  • Patent number: 6907825
    Abstract: A delivery for a machine for processing flat printing materials includes sheet brakes for accepting sheets fed in a processing direction at an acceptance level and for releasing the sheets at a surrender level. The sheet brakes are adjustably disposed for varying the acceptance level and the surrender level. A machine is provided for processing flat printing materials, having the delivery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2005
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Andreas Böttger, Thomas Schäfer, Frank Gunschera, Sven Kerpe
  • Publication number: 20050092199
    Abstract: A method for transversely tautening a print-carrier sheet includes applying a twisting movement to a belt and transversely tautening the print-carrier sheet with the belt having the twisting movement. A device for performing the method and a print-carrier sheet processing machine, such as a sheet-fed printing press, including the device, are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2004
    Publication date: May 5, 2005
    Inventors: Thomas Schafer, Frank Schramm, Uwe Angst, Andreas Bottger, Ulrich Fellenberg, Christian Low
  • Publication number: 20050067761
    Abstract: A method for conveying sheets through a printing machine and an apparatus for conveying the sheets permit adaptation of a sheet brake to various sheet thicknesses by reducing a speed of the sheets in the direction of advance by bringing the sheets individually one after another into contact with at least one suction element moved in the direction of advance, and by holding each sheet by the action of a suction apparatus on the suction element along a conveying section, dependent upon the sheet thickness, the suction action of the suction element along the conveying section is changed locally.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2004
    Publication date: March 31, 2005
    Inventors: Thomas Schafer, Jurgen Furbass, Andrew McLellan
  • Publication number: 20050048611
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptides having alpha-amylase activity and polynucleotides having a nucleotide sequence which encodes for the polypeptides. The invention also relates to a polypeptide having carbohydrate-binding affinity and polynucleotides having a nucleotide sequence which encodes for the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the nucleic acid constructs as well as methods for producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2004
    Publication date: March 3, 2005
    Applicants: Novozymes A/S, Novozymes North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Tine Hoff, Carsten Andersen, Tina Spendler, Sven Pedersen, Anders Vikso-Nielsen, Thomas Schafer, Jiyin Liu
  • Publication number: 20050035529
    Abstract: An apparatus for conveying sheets in a printing press makes reliable sheet guiding possible with a low outlay on material and at low cost and includes an apparatus for conveying sheets in a printing press having at least one conveyor element for a sheet along a conveying path and at least one guide element for the sheet in the conveying direction, at least one elongate spring element being provided as a guide element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2004
    Publication date: February 17, 2005
    Inventors: Thomas Schafer, Steffen Siegemund
  • Publication number: 20050038245
    Abstract: Novel compounds of formula (I) are described, wherein E corresponds to the formula (a) or to the formula (b) and the radicals R1, R2, R11, R22, R?22, R33, and R?33 are as defined in claim 1. Compounds of formula (I) are suitable for stabilising organic material, especially plastics materials, surface-coatings, cosmetic preparations, sun protection agents or photographic material, against damage by light, oxygen and/or heat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2002
    Publication date: February 17, 2005
    Inventors: Vien Toan, Georges Metzger, Thomas Schafer, Stephane Biry, Christophe Bulliard, Dieter Reinehr, Peter Michaelis
  • Publication number: 20040198909
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a mixture encompassing at least one plastic A, in particular polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polyvinyl butyral (PVB), or a polysulfide, and at least one polyester B which can be prepared from a dicarboxylic acid I, and from at least one diol II selected from the group consisting of 1,2-propanediol, 1,3-butanediol, and 1,4-butanediol, and from a monocarboxylic acid III, in particular acetic acid, and also to the use of the mixtures of the invention in casings for electrical devices, in kitchen machines, in computer cases, in piping, chemical apparatus, cables, wire sheathing, window profiles, in interior fittings, in vehicle construction and furniture construction, in floorcoverings, for producing medical items, packaging for food or drink, gaskets, sealing compounds, including those for sealed glazing, films, including roofing films, composite films, phonographic disks, synthetic leather, toys, packaging containers, adhesive tape films, clothing, or coatings, or as fibers for fabric
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2004
    Publication date: October 7, 2004
    Inventors: Boris Breitscheidel, Thomas Schafer
  • Patent number: 6770110
    Abstract: The invention relates to a filtering device (1) comprising a tubular filter (6). One end of said filter is supported on a base part (2) and the other end is supported on a cupped filter housing (3). The filter housing overlaps the filter (6) with a radial clearance (7) and is detachably connected via the edge (4) thereof to the base part (2). The base part (2) comprises a first flow-through channel (33) which is connected to the clearance (7) and comprises a second flow-through channel (34) which is connected to a cavity (35) of the filter (6). The aim of the invention is to make it possible to attach or detach the filter housing (3) even when tight spatial relationships are present in the vicinity of the filter housing (3) or in order to hold the filter (6) in position against the filter housing (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Assignees: Brueninghaus Hydromatik GmbH, K. & H. Eppensteiner GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Bodo-Siegfried Seifert, Rudolf Stetter, Ulrich Eppensteiner, Thomas Schafer
  • Publication number: 20040124579
    Abstract: A sheet-processing machine includes a conveyor for transporting processed sheets at a processing speed and for releasing the sheets for braking to a depositing speed. A braking element serves for the braking of the released sheets to the depositing speed. A drive is provided for the braking element, and a drive connection is provided for connecting the drive to the braking element. Further included are an overrunning clutch in the drive connection, and a brake for retarding the braking element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2003
    Publication date: July 1, 2004
    Inventors: Thomas Schafer, Frank Gunschera, Carsten Kelm, Sven Kerpe, Ralf Steinmetz, Ralf Wadlinger
  • Patent number: 6742323
    Abstract: A strapping apparatus for securing a tape around a package has a housing, a support roll rotatable on the housing, a tube shaft pivotal on the housing adjacent the support roll about a tube-shaft axis, and a drive shaft rotatable in the tube shaft about a drive-shaft axis parallel to and offset from the tube-shaft axis. A first drive roll on the drive shaft carries a friction layer bearing axially offset from the drive-shaft axis on the housing. A first drive connected to the drive shaft rotates same and the first drive roll in a clamping direction and thereby oppositely rotates the tube shaft about the tube-shaft axis into an end position and also can rotate the drive shaft and the first drive roll in an opposite freeing direction to thereby oppositely rotate the tube shaft about the tube-shaft axis into another end position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2004
    Assignee: Titan Umreifungstechnik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Stefan Apel, Reinhard Naydowski, Thomas Schäfer
  • Patent number: 6723504
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of generating a gene library from an environmental pool of organisms, which gene library is enriched in DNA encoding a polypeptide with an activity of interest. Also, the invention provides a method of selecting a DNA sequence of interest from an environmental pool of organisms. Further, the invention relates to a gene library prepared from an enriched environmental pool of organisms enriched in DNA encoding a polypeptide with an activity of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2004
    Assignee: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Thomas Sandal, Carsten Sjøholm, Thomas Schäfer, Lene Lange, Fiona Duffner
  • Publication number: 20030221566
    Abstract: A strapping apparatus for securing a tape around a package has a housing, a support roll rotatable on the housing, a tube shaft pivotal on the housing adjacent the support roll about a tube-shaft axis, and a drive shaft rotatable in the tube shaft about a drive-shaft axis parallel to and offset from the tube-shaft axis. A first drive roll on the drive shaft carries a friction layer bearing axially offset from the drive-shaft axis on the housing. A first drive connected to the drive shaft rotates same and the first drive roll in a clamping direction and thereby oppositely rotates the tube shaft about the tube-shaft axis into an position and also can rotate the drive shaft and the first drive roll in an opposite freeing direction to thereby oppositely rotate the tube shaft about the tube-shaft axis into another end position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2003
    Publication date: December 4, 2003
    Applicant: TITAN Umreifungstechnik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Stefan Apel, Reinhard Naydowski, Thomas Schafer
  • Publication number: 20030215928
    Abstract: The inventors have discovered some striking, and not previously predicted structural similarities and differences between the structure of Novamyl and the reported structures of CGTases, and based on this they have constructed variants of maltogenic alpha-amylase having CGTase activity and variants of CGTase having maltogenic alpha-amylase activity. Further, on the basis of sequence homology between Novamyl and CGTases, the inventors have constructed hybrid enzymes with one or more improvements to specific properties of the parent enzymes, using recombinant DNA methodology.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2003
    Publication date: November 20, 2003
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Joel Robert Cherry, Allan Svendsen, Carsten Denmark Andersen, Lars Beier, Torben Peter Frandsen, Thomas Schafer
  • Publication number: 20030207408
    Abstract: The inventors have discovered some striking, and not previously predicted structural similarities and differences between the structure of Novamyl and the reported structures of CGTases, and based on this they have constructed variants of maltogenic alpha-amylase having CGTase activity and variants of CGTase having maltogenic alpha-amylase activity. Further, on the basis of sequence homology between Novamyl® and CGTases, the inventors have constructed hybrid enzymes with one or more improvements to specific properties of the parent enzymes, using recombinant DNA methodology.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2003
    Publication date: November 6, 2003
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Joel Robert Cherry, Allan Svendsen, Carsten Andersen, Lars Beier, Torben Peter Frandsen, Thomas Schafer
  • Publication number: 20030059902
    Abstract: The inventors have discovered some striking, and not previously predicted structural similarities and differences between the structure of Novamyl and the reported structures of CGTases, and based on this they have constructed variants of maltogenic alpha-amylase having CGTase activity and variants of CGTase having maltogenic alpha-amylase activity. Further, on the basis of sequence homology between Novamyl® and CGTases, the inventors have constructed hybrid enzymes with one or more improvements to specific properties of the parent enzymes, using recombinant DNA methodology.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2002
    Publication date: March 27, 2003
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Joel Robert Cherry, Allan Svendsen, Carsten Denmark Andersen, Lars Beier, Torben Peter Frandsen, Thomas Schafer