Patents by Inventor Thomas Vogels
Thomas Vogels 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: 20090025921Abstract: The capillary tube system comprises a capillary tube arrangement (10) including an inflow main tube (12) and an outflow main tube (14) and a plurality of capillary tubes (24) connecting said tubes (12,14), and a capillary tube mat (26) including a plurality of capillary tubes (34) fixed on a support structure (32), preferably on a flexible support structure, and being open on both of their ends, the distances between said capillary tubes (34) relative to each other being substantially equal to the distances between respectively adjacent capillary tubes (24) of the capillary tube arrangement (10).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2006Publication date: January 29, 2009Applicant: UPONOR INNOVATION ABInventors: Thomas Gillig, Thomas Vogel
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Patent number: 7414870Abstract: An inverter includes an intermediate circuit, inverter bridge branches downstream of the intermediate circuit for outputting a power signal, and a controller operable for individually turning on and off the inverter bridge branches. The controller may individually turn on and off the inverter bridge branches as a function of an electrical quantity. The electrical quantity may be indicative of a voltage or a change in voltage occurring in the intermediate circuit during operation of the inverter. The electrical quantity may be indicative of the output power signal. The inverter bridge branches may include three inverter bridge branches.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2007Date of Patent: August 19, 2008Assignee: Kostal Industrie Elektrik GmbHInventors: Dieter Röttger, Thomas Vogel
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Publication number: 20080073133Abstract: A power distribution unit for a vehicle includes a fuel cell stack, a bracket connected to the fuel cell stack and including at least one mount adapted to be connected directly to a vehicle to directly interconnect the fuel cell stack to the vehicle, a connection feature, and a traction system communicated with the fuel cell stack and carried by at least one of the fuel cell stack and the bracket with the connection feature disposed between the traction system and said at least one of the fuel cell stack and the bracket so that the traction system is indirectly connected to the vehicle. In one implementation, the connection feature includes an elastomeric pad disposed between a housing of the traction system and a mount or the vehicle frame. The pad provides a so-called “soft mount” of the traction system to the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2006Publication date: March 27, 2008Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.Inventors: Franz Winter, Reiner Essinger, Thomas Vogel, Michael J. Gorman
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Patent number: 7325180Abstract: A system to test integrated circuits on a wafer may include a transceiver formed on the wafer. The system may also include an antenna system couplable to the transceiver. The transceiver may be formed in one of a scribe line on the wafer, a chip on the wafer or on an otherwise unusable portion of the wafer. The antenna system maybe formed in at least one of the same scribe line as the transceiver or in at least one other scribe line formed in the wafer. Alternatively, the antenna system may include an antenna external to the wafer.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2003Date of Patent: January 29, 2008Assignee: Carnegie Mellon UniversityInventors: Lawrence Pileggi, Chik Patrick Yue, R. Shawn Blanton, Thomas Vogels
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Publication number: 20070217239Abstract: An inverter includes an intermediate circuit, inverter bridge branches downstream of the intermediate circuit for outputting a power signal, and a controller operable for individually turning on and off the inverter bridge branches. The controller may individually turn on and off the inverter bridge branches as a function of an electrical quantity. The electrical quantity may be indicative of a voltage or a change in voltage occurring in the intermediate circuit during operation of the inverter. The electrical quantity may be indicative of the output power signal. The inverter bridge branches may include three inverter bridge branches.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2007Publication date: September 20, 2007Applicant: Kostal Industrie Elektrik GmbHInventors: Dieter Rottger, Thomas Vogel
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Publication number: 20060229407Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel polymerisate, which is prepared by applying the method of atom transfer radical polymerisation. The novel polymerisate is useful for stabilising a composition of matter susceptible to degradation induced by light, heat or oxidation. The novel polymerisate is also useful as a dispersant in a pigment dispersion containing dispersible inorganic or organic pigment particles. Further embodiments of the invention relate to the process for preparing the novel polymerisate by applying the method of controlled or “living” polymerisation and to the use of the pigment dispersion for preparing inks, colour filters, coatings, images, lacquers and others.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2004Publication date: October 12, 2006Inventors: Thomas Vogel, Sibylle Soder, Peter Simmendinger
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Publication number: 20060186271Abstract: The invention relates to a loading device 1 for the at least partially automated loading and unloading of a cargo hold 5 on transport craft, in particular a cargo hold 5 on an aircraft, with at least one conveying system 21-28, 41 for positioning cargo units 17, 18, 19 in the area of a floor space 11 of the cargo hold 5, and with at least one guiding element, as well as at least one movement aid in the area of the floor space 11 of the cargo hold 5. According to the invention, each conveying system 21-28, 41 has at least one sensor 47, wherein the sensor 47 or sensors can detect the presence of a cargo unit 17, 18, 19 in the area of the conveying system 21-28, 41 without contact, and at least the position of a cargo unit 17, 18, 19 on the floor space 11 can be determined in at least two spatial dimensions without contact.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2006Publication date: August 24, 2006Inventors: Ruediger Jacobsen, Thomas Vogel
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Patent number: 7029294Abstract: A shielded cable assembly that receives a shielded cable therein and includes an isolator or spacer block having a bore and a spring having a fixed portion disposed about the isolator and a resilient portion extending into the bore. A housing retains the isolator and receives the shielded cable. The fixed portion of the spring is in pressed contact with an internal surface of the housing and the resilient portion of the spring is in pressed contact with a shield ring of the shielded cable to scrape the internal surface upon reception into the housing to remove a non-conductive oxide layer formed on the internal surface.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2004Date of Patent: April 18, 2006Assignee: General Motors CorporationInventors: Thomas Vogel, Manfred Goebel
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Publication number: 20060053055Abstract: Techniques, for automatically determining frequent traveler award redemptions by rule are disclosed. The frequent travel award redemption program is encoded in rules using predefined data structures based on fare by rule data structures. The techniques automatically determine a travel itinerary based on a query and the rules. Also included is a graphical user interface that displays a plurality of possible travel options for redemption using a frequent travel award. The rules include fields to determine co-pay options and for calculating mileage purchase options.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2004Publication date: March 9, 2006Inventors: David Baggett, Rodney Daughtrey, Daniel Thumim, Thomas Vogel
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Publication number: 20060053054Abstract: Techniques, for automatically determining frequent traveler award redemptions by rule are disclosed. The frequent travel award redemption program is encoded in rules using predefined data structures based on fare by rule data structures. The techniques automatically determine a travel itinerary based on a query and the rules. Also included is a graphical user interface that displays a plurality of possible travel options for redemption using a frequent travel award. The rules include fields to determine co-pay options and for calculating mileage purchase options.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2004Publication date: March 9, 2006Inventors: David Baggett, Rodney Daughtrey, Daniel Thumim, Thomas Vogel
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Publication number: 20060053053Abstract: Techniques, for automatically determining frequent traveler award redemptions by rule are disclosed. The frequent travel award redemption program is encoded in rules using predefined data structures based on fare by rule data structures. The techniques automatically determine a travel itinerary based on a query and the rules. Also included is a graphical user interface that displays a plurality of possible travel options for redemption using a frequent travel award. The rules include fields to determine co-pay options and for calculating mileage purchase options.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2004Publication date: March 9, 2006Inventors: David Baggett, Rodney Daughtrey, Daniel Thumim, Thomas Vogel
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Publication number: 20060053052Abstract: Techniques, for automatically determining frequent traveler award redemptions by rule are disclosed. The frequent travel award redemption program is encoded in rules using predefined data structures based on fare by rule data structures. The techniques automatically determine a travel itinerary based on a query and the rules. Also included is a graphical user interface that displays a plurality of possible travel options for redemption using a frequent travel award. The rules include fields to determine co-pay options and for calculating mileage purchase options.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2004Publication date: March 9, 2006Inventors: David Baggett, Rodney Daughtrey, Daniel Thumim, Thomas Vogel
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Publication number: 20050186814Abstract: A shielded cable assembly that receives a shielded cable therein and includes an isolator or spacer block having a bore and a spring having a fixed portion disposed about the isolator and a resilient portion extending into the bore. A housing retains the isolator and receives the shielded cable. The fixed portion of the spring is in pressed contact with an internal surface of the housing and the resilient portion of the spring is in pressed contact with a shield ring of the shielded cable to scrape the internal surface upon reception into the housing to remove a non-conductive oxide layer formed on the internal surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2004Publication date: August 25, 2005Inventors: Thomas Vogel, Manfred Goebel
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Publication number: 20050138499Abstract: A system to test integrated circuits on a wafer may include a transceiver formed on the wafer. The system may also include an antenna system couplable to the transceiver. The transceiver may be formed in one of a scribe line on the wafer, a chip on the wafer or on an usable portion of the wafer. The antenna system may be formed in at least one of the same scribe line as the transceiver or in at least one other scribe line formed in the wafer. Alternatively, the antenna system may include an antenna external to the wafer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2003Publication date: June 23, 2005Inventors: Lawrence Pileggi, Chik Yue, R. Blanton, Thomas Vogels
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Patent number: 6258919Abstract: A curable composition is described, comprising a) 10 to 90% by weight of at least one, optionally water-dilutable, water-emulsifiable or water-dispersible, epoxy resin having more than one epoxy group in the molecule; b) 90 to 10% by weight of at least one polyamine adduct which predominantly corresponds to the idealised formula (I) and which is prepared from an adduct of formula (A) and a polyamine of formula (XII), wherein the sum of the percentages by weight of components (a) and (b) is always 100%; c) optionally, at least one further aliphatic, cycloaliphatic, aromatic/aliphatic, aromatic or heteroaromatic mono- or polyamine which may optionally be modified by adduction; and d) optionally, at least one customary additive, R1 and R2 and also m and n and B being defined in more detail in the description. The novel compositions are used for the preparation of colourants and coatings.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 1998Date of Patent: July 10, 2001Assignee: Vantico Inc.Inventors: Thomas Vogel, Alex Wegmann
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Patent number: 6015193Abstract: The invention relates to a braking and steering system for a vehicle which provides at least fail-safe braking and steering. In a fault-tolerant, preferably redundant, computing unit, a desired braking effect is determined at least for each wheel of the vehicle, and a desired steering effect is determined for each wheel with a steering function, in each case in response to sensor signals. The braking function and the steering function for the wheels are regulated or controlled by means of adjusting systems on the basis of the determined desired braking effect and desired steering effect. The adjusting system for the braking function contains a service brake and that for the steering function additionally contains a steering adjuster. A fault-tolerant communication device connects the adjusting systems to the computing unit. The energy supply of the computing unit and of the adjusting systems is designed with fault tolerance.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 1996Date of Patent: January 18, 2000Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Thomas Vogel, Thomas Thurner
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Patent number: 5793337Abstract: In an aerial arrangement with a monopole aerial having a radiator and a counterweight, in which the radiator and the counterweight are each connected at opposite feed points to one conductor of a lead, a largely circular azimuthal pattern is obtained while avoiding the irradiation of the vehicle passenger compartment by using at least two parallel-connected monopole aerials interconnected via a line transformer.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 1996Date of Patent: August 11, 1998Assignee: Richard Hirschmann GmbH & CompanyInventors: Dieter Schenkyr, Thomas Vogel
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Patent number: 5511629Abstract: A control appliance for a motor vehicle steering system provides automatic control intervention (or steering intervention) without corresponding movement of the steering wheel. To this end, the drive connection between the steering wheel and the steered vehicle wheels can, in effect, be separated. The automatic control can be either a closed-loop control or an open-loop control.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 1994Date of Patent: April 30, 1996Assignee: Daimler-Benz AGInventor: Thomas Vogel
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Patent number: 5482655Abstract: A formulation comprisinga) at least one polythiophene in oxidised polycationic form and containing structural repeating units of formula I ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are each independently of the other linear or branched C.sub.1 -C.sub.18 alkyl or C.sub.2 -C.sub.18 alkoxyalkyl; or are C.sub.3 -C.sub.8 cycloalkyl, phenyl or benzyl which are unsubstituted or substituted by C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkoxy or halogen; or R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, taken together, are linear C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 alkylene which is unsubstituted or substituted by C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkoxy, halogen, C.sub.3 -C.sub.8 cycloalkyl, phenyl, benzyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkylphenyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxyphenyl, halophenyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkylbenzyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 1993Date of Patent: January 9, 1996Assignee: Ciba-Geigy CorporationInventors: Thomas Vogel, Jurgen Finter, Hartmut Bleier, Patrice Bujard
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Patent number: 5404599Abstract: The attachment plate has laterally several openings (4) which each extend along an edge (9) and around it. The openings (4) serve in each instance the purpose of inserting a rotary snap-in connector (15) which has a handle (17) and a head (16) formed on it. The head (16) is so shaped as to correspond to a dovetail groove (11) of a profile rod (10) and is snapped into it. A snapping lug (7) engages form-fittingly with a channel (12) of a contour of the rods (10). The rotary snap-in connectors (15) can be set in without tools, are latchable and permit an independent mounting of the attachment plate (1) on a supporting frame having profile rods (10).Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 1993Date of Patent: April 11, 1995Assignee: Geberit AGInventors: Clemens Warkus, Thomas Vogel