Patents by Inventor Thomas Welzel

Thomas Welzel 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: 10468164
    Abstract: The invention describes electrically conductive shaped bodies with an inherent positive temperature coefficient (PTC), produced from a composition which contains at least one organic matrix polymer (compound component A), at least one submicroscale or nanoscale, electrically conductive additive (compound component B) and at least one phase-change material with a phase-transition temperature in the range from ?42° C. to +150° C. (compound component D). The phase-change material is incorporated into an organic network (compound component C). The electrically conductive shaped body with an inherent PTC effect is, in particular, a filament, a fibre, a spun-bonded web, a foam, a film, a foil or an injection-moulded article. The switching point for the PTC behavior is dependent on the type and also the phase-conversion temperature of the phase-change material. By way of example, a self-regulating surface heater in the form of a film, foil and/or textile can be realized in this way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: THUERINGISCHES INSTITUT FUER TEXTIL-UND KUNSTSTOFF-FORSCHUNG E.V.
    Inventors: Klaus Heinemann, Ralf-Uwe Bauer, Thomas Welzel, Mario Schrödner, Frank Schubert, Sabine Riede
  • Publication number: 20190237224
    Abstract: The invention describes electrically conductive shaped bodies with an inherent positive temperature coefficient (PTC), produced from a composition which contains at lest one organic matrix polymer (compound component A), at least one submicroscale or nanoscale, electrically conductive additive (compound component B) and at least one phase-change material with a phase-transition temperature in the range from ?42° C. to +150° C. (compound component D). The phase-change material is incorporated into an organic network (compound component C). The electrically conductive shaped body with an inherent PTC effect is, in particular, a filament, a fibre, a spun-bonded web, a foam, a film, a foil or an injection-moulded article. The switching point for the PTC behavior is dependent on the type and also the phase-conversion temperature of the phase-change material. By way of example, a self-regulating surface heater in the form of a film, foil and/or textile can be realized in this way.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Klaus HEINEMANN, Ralf-Uwe BAUER, Thomas WELZEL, Mario SCHRÖDNER, Frank SCHUBERT, Sabine RIEDE
  • Patent number: 8521226
    Abstract: The invention relates to a mobile communications terminal device having a user interface for operating the mobile communications terminal device and/or use of services accessible via a mobile communications network, having a menu structure and a graphic user interface for visualizing the menu structure, wherein the mobile communications terminal device is operated by means of an operating system, wherein the user interface may be implemented independently of the operating system of the mobile communications terminal device, particularly in a network provider-specific fashion, and the data required for the user interface may be supplied by a memory unit independent of the mobile communications terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Deutsche Telekom AG
    Inventor: Thomas Welzel
  • Patent number: 8350038
    Abstract: Disclosed are pyridinyl-isoquinoline-dione derivatives, methods of producing these derivatives, conjugates comprising the pyridinyl-isoquinoline dione derivatives and (i) a solid support, or (ii) a biomolecule, methods of producing these conjugates as well as the use of these conjugates as quenchers in fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Rainer Beckert, Frank Bergmann, Dieter Heindl, Rupert Herrmann, Hans-Peter Josel, Thomas Welzel
  • Publication number: 20110092689
    Abstract: Disclosed are pyridinyl-isoquinoline-dione derivatives, methods of producing these derivatives, conjugates comprising the pyridinyl-isoquinoline dione derivatives and (i) a solid support, or (ii) a biomolecule, methods of producing these conjugates as well as the use of these conjugates as quenchers in fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2010
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Inventors: Rainer Beckert, Frank Bergmann, Dieter Heindl, Rupert Herrmann, Hans-Peter Josel, Thomas Welzel
  • Publication number: 20100255881
    Abstract: The invention relates to a mobile communications terminal device having a user interface for operating the mobile communications terminal device and/or use of services accessible via a mobile communications network, having a menu structure and a graphic user interface for visualizing the menu structure, wherein the mobile communications terminal device is operated by means of an operating system, wherein the user interface may be implemented independently of the operating system of the mobile communications terminal device, particularly in a network provider-specific fashion, and the data required for the user interface may be supplied by a memory unit independent of the mobile communications terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2008
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Inventor: Thomas Welzel