Patents by Inventor Thomas Schmitz

Thomas Schmitz 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: 9091109
    Abstract: A revolving door with a drive unit drivingly connected to a turnstile of the revolving door. The revolving door has at least one glass ceiling element. The drive unit is gearlessly constructed and has an electronically commutated multipole motor. The multipole motor is arranged at the glass ceiling element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Dorma Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Sven Busch, Stefan Kissler, Thomas Schmitz
  • Patent number: 9072825
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: AIS GmbH Aachen Innovative Solutions
    Inventors: Joachim Georg Pfeffer, Thomas Schmitz-Rode, Rolf W. Gunther
  • Patent number: 9038639
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: MARVIS MEDICAL GMBH
    Inventors: Joachim Georg Pfeffer, Rolf W. Günther, Thomas Schmitz-Rode
  • Publication number: 20150076782
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a torsion beam axle for a vehicle. The torsion beam axle comprises two longitudinal swing arms connected by a torsion profile and two bearing arrangements. Each bearing arrangement is configured to attach a respective longitudinal swing arm to a body of the vehicle. Each bearing arrangement has a rotational axis, and the rotational axes of the bearing arrangements run in parallel to or are aligned with one another. Each of the bearing arrangements has a bearing core, which is connected to one of the longitudinal swing arms, and at least one bearing arm which is coupled to the bearing core. The bearing arm comprises a supporting section, which is coupled to the bearing core, and an elastic bending section with a connecting region, via which the bearing arm can be at least indirectly attached to the body of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Andreas CARLITZ, Eric Leonard BRANGER, Gunter WUERSIG, Thomas SCHMITZ
  • Publication number: 20140347031
    Abstract: A control device for a dc-dc converter. The control device is designed for an increase and a decrease in the output power of the dc-dc converter, and the increase in the output power occurs at a different speed than the decrease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Inventor: Thomas Schmitz
  • Patent number: 8870738
    Abstract: A cardiac function variation evaluation apparatus includes: a continuous flow type auxiliary artificial heart 20 connected to a ventricle (10A); a pressure sensor 30 for detecting ventricle (10A) internal pressure; and means (a personal computer 40) for evaluating contractile variation of the ventricle, to which the auxiliary artificial heart 20 is connected, based on internal area APMp of a closed-loop of a relationship between the ventricle internal pressure detected by the pressure sensor 30 and a consumption power of the auxiliary artificial heart 20. Thus, the contractile variation of the ventricle, to which an auxiliary artificial heart is connected, can be continuously evaluated not by use of an ultrasonic echo apparatus or a conductance catheter but by use of a non-invasive method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Reinheart GmbH
    Inventors: Setsuo Takatani, Yoshimasa Yokoyama, Thomas Schmitz-Rode, Ulrich Steinseifer
  • Publication number: 20140205523
    Abstract: Provided are catalyst composites whose catalytic material is effective to substantially simultaneously oxidize carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons and reduce nitrogen oxides. The catalyst composites have a two-metal layer on a carrier, the two-metal layer comprising a rhodium component supported by a first support comprising a refractory metal oxide component or a first ceria-zirconia composite; a palladium component supported by a second support comprising a second ceria-zirconia composite; one or more of a promoter, stabilizer, or binder; wherein the amount of the total of the first and second ceria-zirconia composites in the two-metal layer is equal to or greater than the amount of the refractory metal oxide component. Methods of making and using the same are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicants: BASF SE, BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Mirko Arnold, Stefan Kotrel, Attilio Siani, Stephan Siemund, Thomas Schmitz, Burkhard Rabe, Gary A. Gramiccioni, Oliver Seel, Torsten Neubauer, Knut Wassermann
  • Publication number: 20140197718
    Abstract: A drive unit for a revolving door with an electronically commutated multipole motor having a quantity of coil elements and a quantity of magnet elements. The multipole motor has a flat base structure and a disk-shaped or cup-shaped stator part arranged at a stationary structural component part. A disk-shaped or cup-shaped rotor part is arranged in a plane-parallel manner with respect to the stator part and can be drivingly connected to a turnstile of the revolving door. The coil elements and the magnet elements are received in an area between the stator part and the rotor part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Inventors: Sven BUSCH, Stefan KISSLER, Thomas SCHMITZ
  • Publication number: 20140196374
    Abstract: A revolving door with a drive unit drivingly connected to a turnstile of the revolving door. The revolving door has at least one glass ceiling element. The drive unit is gearlessly constructed and has an electronically commutated multipole motor. The multipole motor is arranged at the glass ceiling element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Inventors: Sven BUSCH, Stefan KISSLER, Thomas SCHMITZ
  • Patent number: 8780100
    Abstract: A display is disclosed, such as for a vehicle. A brightness sensor receives light from a flexible fiber-optic cable. An adapter element is provided proximate, such as between, the light output point of the optical fiber and the brightness sensor. The adapter element may be an angled piece, and may be extruded onto the optical cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Thomas Arheit, Markus Loeffler, Gerhard Kammerer, Detlef Kuehn, Mike Duss, Thomas Schmitz
  • Publication number: 20140061116
    Abstract: An exchanger device for transferring mass and/or energy between a first medium and a second medium includes a chamber having a first inlet and first outlet of the first medium and through which the first medium can flow. The chamber is equipped with at least one, preferably a plurality, of one mass- and/or energy-permeable exchanger hollow fibers connected at one end to a second inlet and at the other end to a second outlet of the second medium. The second medium can flow through the fiber(s) and the first medium can flow around the fiber(s). The chamber is equipped with at least one pump element for displacing the first medium in and out of the chamber in a pulsing manner. The pump element has an elastically deformable element, is connected to a third inlet of a third medium used as a driving medium, and is expandable by the third medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2012
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: Dritte Patentportfolio Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Schmitz-Rode, Ulrich Steinseifer, Jutta Arens, Peter Schlanstein, Ralf Borchardt
  • Patent number: 8647175
    Abstract: A radially inwardly open raceway formed in a nut centered on a nut axis is machined by of oscillating the nut about the nut axis while pressing a tool secured in a holder radially outwardly into the raceway of the nut. The holder is moved parallel to the nut axis and oscillated about a tool axis perpendicular to the nut axis synchronously with the oscillation of the nut about the nut axis. Springs brace the tool against the holder parallel to the nut axis such that the tool can move limitedly in the holder against spring bias parallel to the tool axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Thielenhaus Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Schmitz, Siegfried Hesse, Hans-Joachim Koerner
  • Publication number: 20130345492
    Abstract: The catheter device comprises a motor located 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 of the catheter device. 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: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Inventors: JOACHIM GEORG PFEFFER, THOMAS SCHMITZ-RODE, ROLF W. GUNTHER
  • Patent number: 8574291
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical linear drive, in particular for a pump system of an artificial heart, with a movable part and a stationary part, wherein the stationary part is formed by a permanent magnet arrangement and the movable part is formed by a coil arrangement, or vice versa, and wherein the coil arrangement and the permanent magnet arrangement can be moved to and fro relative to each other in an axial direction by means of current passed through the coil arrangement. The invention further relates to an electrical linear drive of this kind in which the permanent magnet arrangement is designed as a stack of frame-shaped, in particular ring-shaped magnets, which are magnetized alternately radially and axially in the axial direction, such that the magnetic field is strengthened on one side of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignees: Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Herz-und Diabeteszentrum NRW
    Inventors: Thomas Finocchiaro, Thomas Butschen, Marc Lessmann, Kay Hameyer, Thomas Schmitz-Rode, Ulrich Steinseifer, Paul Barteld Kwant
  • Patent number: 8568465
    Abstract: In a device (1) for recanalizing a cavity, organ path or vessel (4) which is at least partially occluded by at least one compressible occlusive object, in particular a thrombus or embolus (3), in the body of a human or animal, using at least one compressible and self-expanding stent (10) having a distal (12) and a proximal end (11), the at least one stent (10) is embodied substantially in a bell shape with a widened distal end (12) and a constricted proximal end (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: PFM Medical AG
    Inventors: Franz Freudenthal, Thomas Schmitz-Rode
  • Patent number: 8545662
    Abstract: An apparatus and method in which an insert with an undercut is mechanically coupled to a lay up mold for translated movement between an engaged position for molding with an undercut engaging the material to be molded and a remote position in which a resultant molded product maybe removed and the material may be laid up without interference with the undercut, preferably with the mechanical coupling allowing for hinged movement of the insert relative the lay up mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Weber Manufacturing Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Paul D. Jagos, Curtis Spencer Quesnelle, Thomas Schmitz
  • Publication number: 20130237744
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: AIS GMBH AACHEN INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS
    Inventors: JOACHIM GEORG PFEFFER, THOMAS SCHMITZ-RODE, ROLF W. GUNTHER
  • Patent number: 8489190
    Abstract: The catheter device comprises a motor located 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 of the catheter device. 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: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: AIS GmbH Aachen Innovative Solutions
    Inventors: Joachim Georg Pfeffer, Thomas Schmitz-Rode, Rolf W. Günther
  • Patent number: 8439859
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: AIS GmbH Aachen Innovative Solutions
    Inventors: Joachim Georg Pfeffer, Thomas Schmitz-Rode, Rolf W. Günther
  • Publication number: 20130014887
    Abstract: An apparatus and method in which an insert with an undercut is mechanically coupled to a lay up mold for translated movement between an engaged position for molding with an undercut engaging the material to be molded and a remote position in which a resultant molded product maybe removed and the material may be laid up without interference with the undercut, preferably with the mechanical coupling allowing for hinged movement of the insert relative the lay up mold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Inventors: Paul D. Jagos, Curtis Spencer Quesnelle, Thomas Schmitz