Patents by Inventor Thomas Schmitz-Rode
Thomas Schmitz-Rode 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).
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Publication number: 20240082541Abstract: The catheter device comprises a drive shaft connected to a motor, and a rotor mounted on the drive shaft at the distal end section. The rotor has a frame structure which is formed by a screw-like boundary frame and rotor struts extending radially inwards from the boundary frame. The rotor struts are fastened to the drive shaft by their ends opposite the boundary frame. Between the boundary frame and the drive shaft extends an elastic covering. The frame structure is made of an elastic material such that, after forced compression, the rotor unfolds automatically.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: AIS GMBH AACHEN INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONSInventors: Joachim Georg Pfeffer, Thomas Schmitz-Rode, Rolf W. Gunther
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Publication number: 20240041622Abstract: The present invention relates to an implant for implanting in a body, in particular in a hollow organ or a vessel of a body, the implant being composed of a filament which comprises at least one polymeric matrix material in which a magnetically heatable filler is arranged, the filament having a cross section with a core-sheath structure characterized in that the core forms a polymeric reinforcing structure, and in that the sheath comprises the polymeric matrix material in which the magnetically heatable filler is disposed, the loading of the filler being greater in the sheath than in the core.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2021Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: RHEINISCH-WESTFÄLISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE (RWTH) AACHENInventors: Benedict BAUER, Thomas Gerhard GRIES, Jeanette ORTEGA, loana SLABU, Thomas SCHMITZ-RODE, Benedikt MUES
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Patent number: 11786700Abstract: The catheter device comprises a drive shaft connected to a motor, and a rotor mounted on the drive shaft at the distal end section. The rotor has a frame structure which is formed by a screw-like boundary frame and rotor struts extending radially inwards from the boundary frame. The rotor struts are fastened to the drive shaft by their ends opposite the boundary frame. Between the boundary frame and the drive shaft extends an elastic covering. The frame structure is made of an elastic material such that, after forced compression, the rotor unfolds automatically.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2020Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: AIS GMBH AACHEN INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONSInventors: Joachim Georg Pfeffer, Thomas Schmitz-Rode, Rolf W. Gunther
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Patent number: 11583659Abstract: The catheter device comprises a drive shaft connected to a motor, and a rotor mounted on the drive shaft at the distal end section. The rotor has a frame structure which is formed by a screw-like boundary frame and rotor struts extending radially inwards from the boundary frame. The rotor struts are fastened to the drive shaft by their ends opposite the boundary frame. Between the boundary frame and the drive shaft extends an elastic covering. The frame structure is made of an elastic material such that, after forced compression, the rotor unfolds automatically.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2019Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: AIS GMBH AACHEN INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONSInventors: Joachim-Georg Pfeffer, Thomas Schmitz-Rode, Rolf W. Günther
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Patent number: 11338124Abstract: The catheter device comprises a drive shaft connected to a motor, and a rotor mounted on the drive shaft at the distal end section. The rotor has a frame structure which is formed by a screw-like boundary frame and rotor struts extending radially inwards from the boundary frame. The rotor struts are fastened to the drive shaft by their ends opposite the boundary frame. Between the boundary frame and the drive shaft extends an elastic covering. The frame structure is made of an elastic material such that, after forced compression, the rotor unfolds automatically.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: AIS GmbH Aachen Innovative SolutionsInventors: Joachim-Georg Pfeffer, Thomas Schmitz-Rode, Rolf W. Günther
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Publication number: 20220134082Abstract: The catheter device comprises a motor at the proximal end of the catheter device and a drive shaft, extending from the proximal end section to the distal end section of the catheter device, for driving a rotating element located at the distal end of the catheter device. The catheter device also comprises a hose-like catheter body which encompasses the drive shaft and extends from the proximal end section to the distal end section. At the proximal end of the catheter device, the drive shaft is connected to a motor by a clutch. The clutch is a magnetic clutch with a proximal and a distal magnet unit. The proximal magnet unit is connected to the motor and the distal magnet unit to the drive shaft. The distal magnet unit is mounted fluid-tight in a clutch housing. The proximal end of the catheter body makes a fluid-tight connection with the clutch housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2021Publication date: May 5, 2022Applicant: AIS GMBH AACHEN INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONSInventors: Joachim Georg Pfeffer, Thomas Schmitz-Rode, Rolf W. Gunther
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Patent number: 11291754Abstract: A system for the extracorporeal elimination of carbon monoxide, includes at least one pump and a gas exchange chamber, wherein the at least one pump can be connected to the blood circulatory system of a person by way of a first tube section connectable to a cannula and is connected to a gas exchange chamber via a second tube section, wherein the system is configured to transfer blood, via the first tube section, from the blood circulatory system of the person by way of at least one pump into the gas exchange chamber, and to return the blood from the gas exchange chamber to the blood circulatory system of the person via the same first tube section.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2017Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE (RWTH) AACHENInventors: Jutta Arens, Ralf Borchardt, Peter Christian Schlanstein, Thomas Schmitz-Rode, Lotte Schraven, Georg Wagner, Ulrich Steinseifer
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Patent number: 11273301Abstract: The catheter device comprises a drive shaft connected to a motor, and a rotor mounted on the drive shaft at the distal end section. The rotor has a frame structure which is formed by a screw-like boundary frame and rotor struts extending radially inwards from the boundary frame. The rotor struts are fastened to the drive shaft by their ends opposite the boundary frame. Between the boundary frame and the drive shaft extends an elastic covering. The frame structure is made of an elastic material such that, after forced compression, the rotor unfolds automatically.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: AIS GMBH AACHEN INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONSInventors: Joachim-Georg Pfeffer, Thomas Schmitz-Rode, Rolf W. Günther
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Patent number: 11253693Abstract: The catheter device comprises a drive shaft connected to a motor, and a rotor mounted on the drive shaft at the distal end section. The rotor has a frame structure which is formed by a screw-like boundary frame and rotor struts extending radially inwards from the boundary frame. The rotor struts are fastened to the drive shaft by their ends opposite the boundary frame. Between the boundary frame and the drive shaft extends an elastic covering. The frame structure is made of an elastic material such that, after forced compression, the rotor unfolds automatically.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: AIS GMBH AACHEN INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONSInventors: Joachim-Georg Pfeffer, Thomas Schmitz-Rode, Rolf W. Günther
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Publication number: 20210379252Abstract: A tubular nonwoven structure as an active agent carrier (“sleeve”) for the atraumatic treatment of hollow organs, in particular applicable via a balloon catheter, as well as a method for the production thereof, wherein the sleeve is folded about a longitudinal sleeve axis in an initial state and is unfoldable in a final state for attachment to an inner wall of a hollow organ, the tubular sleeve is formed of first biodegradable polymer nanofibers and the folding of the sleeve is directed as pleating about a longitudinal sleeve axis, a medicinal active agent is incorporated into the first polymer nanofibers and/or is arranged in interspaces between the polymer nanofibers, and the first polymer fibers are formed such that the polymer fibers degrade over a period of 2 weeks to 3 months so that the active agent can be delivered to a hollow organ wall in this period of time.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2021Publication date: December 9, 2021Inventors: Andrea BROHM-SCHMITZ-RODE, Thomas SCHMITZ-RODE
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Patent number: 11167124Abstract: The catheter device comprises a motor at the proximal end of the catheter device and a drive shaft, extending from the proximal end section to the distal end section of the catheter device, for driving a rotating element located at the distal end of the catheter device. The catheter device also comprises a hose-like catheter body which encompasses the drive shaft and extends from the proximal end section to the distal end section. At the proximal end of the catheter device, the drive shaft is connected to a motor by a clutch. The clutch is a magnetic clutch with a proximal and a distal magnet unit. The proximal magnet unit is connected to the motor and the distal magnet unit to the drive shaft. The distal magnet unit is mounted fluid-tight in a clutch housing. The proximal end of the catheter body makes a fluid-tight connection with the clutch housing.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2020Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: AIS GMBH AACHEN INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONSInventors: Joachim Georg Pfeffer, Thomas Schmitz-Rode, Rolf W. Günther
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Patent number: 11129978Abstract: The catheter device comprises a motor at the proximal end of the catheter device and a drive shaft, extending from the proximal end section to the distal end section of the catheter device, for driving a rotating element located at the distal end of the catheter device. The catheter device also comprises a hose-like catheter body which encompasses the drive shaft and extends from the proximal end section to the distal end section. At the proximal end of the catheter device, the drive shaft is connected to a motor by a clutch. The clutch is a magnetic clutch with a proximal and a distal magnet unit. The proximal magnet unit is connected to the motor and the distal magnet unit to the drive shaft. The distal magnet unit is mounted fluid-tight in a clutch housing. The proximal end of the catheter body makes a fluid-tight connection with the clutch housing.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2019Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: AIS GMBH AACHEN INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONSInventors: Joachim Georg Pfeffer, Thomas Schmitz-Rode, Rolf W. Günther
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Patent number: 11123539Abstract: The catheter device comprises a motor at the proximal end of the catheter device and a drive shaft, extending from the proximal end section to the distal end section of the catheter device, for driving a rotating element located at the distal end of the catheter device. The catheter device also comprises a hose-like catheter body which encompasses the drive shaft and extends from the proximal end section to the distal end section. At the proximal end of the catheter device, the drive shaft is connected to a motor by a clutch. The clutch is a magnetic clutch with a proximal and a distal magnet unit. The proximal magnet unit is connected to the motor and the distal magnet unit to the drive shaft. The distal magnet unit is mounted fluid-tight in a clutch housing. The proximal end of the catheter body makes a fluid-tight connection with the clutch housing.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2019Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: AIS GMBH AACHEN INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONSInventors: Joachim Georg Pfeffer, Thomas Schmitz-Rode, Rolf W. Günther
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Publication number: 20210268443Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a device for material exchange between two mediums, in which at least one mat of semipermeable hollow fibres (3) is wound onto a winding core (2), which has at least one core opening (2a) in its outer surface for a first in- or out-flowing medium, and the winding core (2) is arranged in an axially extending housing (1) having at least one housing opening (1a) for the first in- or out-flowing medium and the axial end regions of the housing (1) are sealed by an adhesive (4) arranged around the hollow fibres (3), wherein at least one chamber region (5) surrounding the hollow fibres (3) is formed via the adhesion between the axial end regions (1b, 1c) of the housing (1) and between the winding core (2) and the housing (1), through which chamber region the first medium can flow via the core opening (2a) and the housing opening (1a), wherein the axial distance between the core opening (2a) and the housing opening (1a) is adjusted to a desired value of multiple possiblType: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2019Publication date: September 2, 2021Inventors: Lotte SCHRAVEN, Jutta ARENS, Thomas SCHMITZ-RODE, Ulrich STEINSEIFER, Georg WAGNER, Peter Christian SCHLANSTEIN, Andreas KAESLER, Felix HESSELMANN
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Publication number: 20210236017Abstract: The invention relates to a rod-shaped body (1) comprised of one or more filaments (2) and of a non-ferromagnetic matrix material (3). The matrix material (3) surrounds the filament(s) (1) and/or adheres them to one another. The rod-shaped body is also comprised of a dopant consisting of particles that generate magnetic resonance tomographic artifacts that is introduced into the matrix material (3). Rod-shaped bodies of this type can be used to construct guide wires, catheters and other instruments to be used in minimally invasive surgical interventions.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2021Publication date: August 5, 2021Inventors: Joachim-Georg Pfeffer, Rolf W. Günther, Thomas Schmitz Rode
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Patent number: 11006850Abstract: The invention relates to a rod-shaped body comprised of one or more filaments and of a non-ferromagnetic matrix material. The matrix material surrounds the filament(s) and/or adheres them to one another. The rod-shaped body is also comprised of a dopant consisting of particles that generate magnetic resonance tomographic artifacts that is introduced into the matrix material. Rod-shaped bodies of this type can be used to construct guide wires, catheters and other instruments to be used in minimally invasive surgical interventions.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2018Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: MARVIS INTERVENTIONAL GMBHInventors: Joachim-Georg Pfeffer, Rolf W. Günther, Thomas Schmitz Rode
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Patent number: 10980927Abstract: The catheter device comprises a motor at the proximal end of the catheter device and a drive shaft, extending from the proximal end section to the distal end section of the catheter device, for driving a rotating element located at the distal end of the catheter device. The catheter device also comprises a hose-like catheter body which encompasses the drive shaft and extends from the proximal end section to the distal end section. At the proximal end of the catheter device, the drive shaft is connected to a motor by a clutch. The clutch is a magnetic clutch with a proximal and a distal magnet unit. The proximal magnet unit is connected to the motor and the distal magnet unit to the drive shaft. The distal magnet unit is mounted fluid-tight in a clutch housing. The proximal end of the catheter body makes a fluid-tight connection with the clutch housing.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2019Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: AIS GMBH AACHEN INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONSInventors: Joachim Georg Pfeffer, Thomas Schmitz-Rode, Rolf W. Günther
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Publication number: 20210106810Abstract: The catheter device comprises a drive shaft connected to a motor, and a rotor mounted on the drive shaft at the distal end section. The rotor has a frame structure which is formed by a screw-like boundary frame and rotor struts extending radially inwards from the boundary frame. The rotor struts are fastened to the drive shaft by their ends opposite the boundary frame. Between the boundary frame and the drive shaft extends an elastic covering. The frame structure is made of an elastic material such that, after forced compression, the rotor unfolds automatically.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Inventors: Joachim Georg Pfeffer, Thomas Schmitz-Rode, Rolf W. Gunther
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Patent number: 10894115Abstract: The catheter device comprises a drive shaft connected to a motor, and a rotor mounted on the drive shaft at the distal end section. The rotor has a frame structure which is formed by a screw-like boundary frame and rotor struts extending radially inwards from the boundary frame. The rotor struts are fastened to the drive shaft by their ends opposite the boundary frame. Between the boundary frame and the drive shaft extends an elastic covering. The frame structure is made of an elastic material such that, after forced compression, the rotor unfolds automatically.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2018Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: AIS GMBH AACHEN INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONSInventors: Joachim-Georg Pfeffer, Thomas Schmitz-Rode, Rolf W. Günther
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Patent number: 10874783Abstract: The catheter device comprises a drive shaft connected to a motor, and a rotor mounted on the drive shaft at the distal end section. The rotor has a frame structure which is formed by a screw-like boundary frame and rotor struts extending radially inwards from the boundary frame. The rotor struts are fastened to the drive shaft by their ends opposite the boundary frame. Between the boundary frame and the drive shaft extends an elastic covering. The frame structure is made of an elastic material such that, after forced compression, the rotor unfolds automatically.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: AIS GMBH AACHEN INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONSInventors: Joachim-Georg Pfeffer, Thomas Schmitz-Rode, Rolf W. Günther