Patents by Inventor Thorsten Adam

Thorsten Adam 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: 12116952
    Abstract: An embodiment combustion chamber for an internal combustion engine includes a chamber body including a cylinder configured to receive fuel and air for carrying out an engine cycle including a combustion reaction of the fuel and a chamber roof including an injector tunnel opening disposed on an inner surface of the chamber roof, the injector tunnel opening being configured to guide the fuel injected in an injecting direction toward the cylinder, and the injector tunnel opening including a protrusion disposed on a path of the fuel along the injecting direction, the protrusion being configured to re-direct the path of the fuel along a re-directed path away from the inner surface of the chamber roof and a pair of grooves arranged on sides of the protrusion, respectively, the pair of grooves being configured to guide the fuel separated by the protrusion to the sides of the protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Milos Tichy, Daniel Riedl, André Schwab, Paul Fungai Kachisi, Thorsten Rau, Dominik Adam
  • Patent number: 11999935
    Abstract: A bioreactor for use on a moving platform including a bag. According to a first aspect, the bag defines a three-dimensional geometrical shape including at least one lower collecting vertex in which at least two edges of the geometrical shape meet at an angle not greater than 90°. The bioreactor further includes at least one port or sensor arranged in the vicinity of the collecting vertex. According to a second aspect, the bag defines a two-dimensional geometrical shape or a three-dimensional geometrical shape. The geometrical shape includes at least one edge, in which at least two faces of the geometrical shape meet at an angle not greater than 90°. A longitudinal port/sensor element is arranged along the edge and includes several ports and/or sensors. A bioreactor motion system including a moving platform and a bioreactor according to the first or second aspect. A method of performing a bioprocess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: SARTORIUS STEDIM BIOTECH GMBH
    Inventors: Gregory Bremer, Clint Kukla, Thorsten Adams, Fabian Tunzini, Rachel Delessert, Michael Bates
  • Publication number: 20220143619
    Abstract: A sensor positioning system for a bioprocess engineering unit, wherein a container is provided for receiving a biological medium which, when installed, extends in the axial direction from an upper container end to a lower container end, wherein a holder is provided for holding the container when installed, wherein a sensor is provided for fixing to the container. A positioning aid device for positioning the sensor to be fixed is provided on the container, the positioning aid device has a positioning aid that can be applied directly to or near the container on the holder, which can be brought into different vertical positions and/or circumferential positions relative to at least one reference point provided on the container and/or holder, and the positioning aid device has a technical storage medium or analog print medium with an allocation list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Matthias Bode, Christian Grimm, Thorsten Adams, Jens Rupprecht
  • Patent number: 11209056
    Abstract: A friction lining assembly having a backing plate and a sheet metal restoring spring fixed thereto, for a partially lined sliding-caliper type disk brake having a brake holder fixed with respect to the vehicle, on which friction lining assemblies arranged on both sides of a brake disk are slidably guided. A housing, which extends over the brake disk and the friction lining assemblies, is slidably mounted on the brake holder. The restoring spring is clamped axially between the brake holder and the friction lining assembly by at least one spring leg and applies a release clearance to the friction lining assembly. The spring leg extends over a hammer-head-shaped claw of the backing plate. The spring leg is plastically deformable in a defined manner under braking actuation as a result of a reduction in the friction-material thickness in order to impose a constantly dimensioned release clearance on the friction lining assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO. OHG
    Inventors: Sebastian Salzmann, Ralph Petri, Norman Langer, Werner Denhard, Thorsten Adam, Christian Lankes, Jens Bauer, Christoph Keil, Dietrich Golz, Mathias Haag, Christoph Kalff
  • Publication number: 20210324320
    Abstract: The invention relates to a harvesting device (100, 100a, 100b, 100c, 100d) for harvesting a content of a bioreactor bag (102) and to a method for harvesting a content of a bioreactor bag (102). The harvesting device (100, 100a, 100b, 100c, 100d) comprises: a first fixing device (104) for fixing one of the fixing portions (112, 114) to the harvesting device (100, 100a, 100b, 100c, 100d), a second fixing device (106) for fixing the other of the fixing portions (112, 114) to the harvesting device (100, 100a, 100b, 100c, 100d), a base (108), and an adjusting device (110) coupling the first fixing device (104) and/or the second fixing device (106) to the base (108). The adjusting device (110) is configured to selectively allow changing an arrangement of the first fixing portion (112) and/or the second fixing portion (114) relative to the base (108) or fixing the arrangement of the first fixing portion (112) and/or the second fixing portion (114) relative to the base (108).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: Sartorius Stedim Switzerland AG
    Inventors: Franziska Faulstich, Fabian Tunzini, Thorsten Adams
  • Patent number: 11084007
    Abstract: A mixing device with a stirring element includes a container (3) for receiving fluids and/or solids, at least one rotatable stirring element (100) for mixing the fluids and/or solids, at least one bearing element for the support of the stirring element (100). The stirring element (100) has at least one non-permanently magnetized element (118) so that the stirring element (100) can be put in a rotational movement by externally induced reluctance forces. A drive device having at least two pair of coils (208) through which current flows also is provided. A mixing device system includes the mixing device and the drive device. A method also is provided for driving a stirring element in a mixing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Inventor: Thorsten Adams
  • Patent number: 10968421
    Abstract: A method is provided for measuring parameters of state of a fluid contained in a container (10, 10?) that has a sensor carrier plate with plural sensors (S01-S10, S01?-S10?). Each sensor has a sensor head in operative contact with the interior of the container (10, 10?) and in operative contact with an external control unit (12). The external control unit (12) receives measurement data generated by the sensor heads of active sensors via their communication link and processes the data. An activation data record (24, 24?) is assigned to each sensor (S01-S10, S01?-S10?) and is recorded in a manner that is accessible for the external control unit (12). The external control unit (12) first accesses the activation data records (24, 24?), then classifies the sensors (S01-S10, S01?-S10?) as activatable or nonactivatable sensors, and subsequently activates only those sensors classified as activatable sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Inventors: Mario Becker, Gerhard Greller, Christian Grimm, Thorsten Adams, Lars Boettcher, Henry Weichert
  • Publication number: 20200339931
    Abstract: A bioreactor for use on a moving platform comprises a bag. According to a first aspect, the bag defines a three-dimensional geometrical shape including at least one lower collecting vertex in which at least two edges of the geometrical shape meet at an angle which is preferably not greater than 90°. The bioreactor further includes at least one port or sensor, preferably a biomass sensor, arranged in the vicinity of the collecting vertex. According to a second aspect, the bag defines a two-dimensional geometrical shape or a three-dimensional geometrical shape. The geometrical shape includes at least one edge, in which at least two faces of the geometrical shape meet at an angle which is preferably not greater than 90°. A longitudinal port/sensor element is arranged along the edge and includes several ports and/or sensors. A bioreactor motion system comprises a moving platform and a bioreactor according to the first or second aspect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Gregory BREMER, Clint KUKLA, Thorsten ADAMS, Fabian TUNZINI, Rachel DELESSERT, Michael BATES
  • Patent number: 10802033
    Abstract: A method is provided for measuring status parameters of a fluid contained in a container (10). The container (10) is configured for single use and has a wall on which a sensor-carrier plate is fixed in a fluid-tight manner. The plate carries sensors (S1-S5) that are in operative contact with the internal chamber of the container (10) and connected for data exchange (14) with an external control unit (16) that receives and processes the measurement data from the sensors (S1-S5). The sensor plate also carries a temporarily inactive duplicate (D1-D5) of at least one of the sensors (S1-S5) that is activated if measurement data of the sensor (S1-S5) is classified as atypical in the context of an integrity or plausibility test carried out by the external control unit (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH
    Inventors: Mario Becker, Gerhard Greller, Christian Grimm, Thorsten Adams, Lars Boettcher, Henry Weichert
  • Patent number: 10619684
    Abstract: A partially lined motor-vehicle disk brake of the first caliper type, with a housing including an actuator system as a normal force generator mounted in a slidably guided fashion on a holder, with at least one friction lining which is configured in a hammerhead shape with claws and which is accommodated in a guided fashion with pull-support in holder arms with receptacle recesses in the holder. In order to avoid reversing clicks, the holder is embodied as a closed frame in that holder webs connect the holder arms to one another, and the holder webs are positioned tangentially in front of the housing limbs of the housing. Accordingly, the force flux in the holder is closed, and in the case of pull suspension all the holder arms are nevertheless included in the force flux.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Thorsten Adam, Jens Bauer, Dietrich Golz, Mathias Haag, Valentin Hummel, Christoph Kalff, Norman Langer, Christian Lankes, Ralph Petri, Dirk Simon
  • Publication number: 20190219992
    Abstract: A computer system and computer-implemented method are described for controlling and monitoring a process to produce a chemical, pharmaceutical or biotechnological product. The method includes providing a database that stores sets of process parameters to control and monitor a plurality of processes performed in order to produce products, receiving a set of characterizing process parameters that characterize the process, identifying a first set process parameters from the stored sets of process parameters, and controlling and monitoring the process using a successful trajectory that includes a time-based profile of measurements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Applicant: Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Grimm, Mario Becker, Lars Böttcher, Thorsten Adams
  • Publication number: 20190024736
    Abstract: A friction lining assembly having a backing plate and a sheet metal restoring spring fixed thereto, for a partially lined sliding-caliper type disk brake having a brake holder fixed with respect to the vehicle, on which friction lining assemblies arranged on both sides of a brake disk are slidably guided. A housing, which extends over the brake disk and the friction lining assemblies, is slidably mounted on the brake holder. The restoring spring is clamped axially between the brake holder and the friction lining assembly by at least one spring leg and applies a release clearance to the friction lining assembly. The spring leg extends over a hammer-head- shaped claw of the backing plate. The spring leg is plastically deformable in a defined manner under braking actuation as a result of a reduction in the friction-material thickness in order to impose a constantly dimensioned release clearance on the friction lining assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Sebastian Salzmann, Ralph Petri, Norman Langer, Werner Denhard, Thorsten Adam, Christian Lankes, Jens Bauer, Christoph Keil, Dietrich Golz, Mathias Haag, Christoph Kalff
  • Publication number: 20190010999
    Abstract: A partially lined motor-vehicle disk brake of the first caliper type, with a housing including an actuator system as a normal force generator mounted in a slidably guided fashion on a holder, with at least one friction lining which is configured in a hammerhead shape with claws and which is accommodated in a guided fashion with pull-support in holder arms with receptacle recesses in the holder. In order to avoid reversing clicks, the holder is embodied as a closed frame in that holder webs connect the holder arms to one another, and the holder webs are positioned tangentially in front of the housing limbs of the housing. Accordingly, the force flux in the holder is closed, and in the case of pull suspension all the holder arms are nevertheless included in the force flux.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Inventors: Thorsten Adam, Jens Bauer, Dietrich Golz, Mathias Haag, Valentin Hummel, Christoph Kalff, Norman Langer, Christian Lankes, Ralph Petri, Dirk Simon
  • Publication number: 20190002810
    Abstract: A method is provided for measuring parameters of state of a fluid contained in a container (10, 10?) that has a sensor carrier plate with plural sensors (S01-S10, S01?-S10?). Each sensor has a sensor head in operative contact with the interior of the container (10, 10?) and in operative contact with an external control unit (12). The external control unit (12) receives measurement data generated by the sensor heads of active sensors via their communication link and processes the data. An activation data record (24, 24?) is assigned to each sensor (S01-S10, S01?-S10?) and is recorded in a manner that is accessible for the external control unit (12). The external control unit (12) first accesses the activation data records (24, 24?), then classifies the sensors (S01-S10, S01?-S10?) as activatable or nonactivatable sensors, and subsequently activates only those sensors classified as activatable sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Mario Becker, Gerhard Greller, Christian Grimm, Thorsten Adams, Lars Boettcher, Henry Weichert
  • Publication number: 20180188274
    Abstract: A method is provided for measuring status parameters of a fluid contained in a container (10). The container (10) is configured for single use and has a wall on which a sensor-carrier plate is fixed in a fluid-tight manner. The plate carries sensors (S1-S5) that are in operative contact with the internal chamber of the container (10) and connected for data exchange (14) with an external control unit (16) that receives and processes the measurement data from the sensors (S1-S5). The sensor plate also carries a temporarily inactive duplicate (D1-D5) of at least one of the sensors (S1-S5) that is activated if measurement data of the sensor (S1-S5) is classified as atypical in the context of an integrity or plausibility test carried out by the external control unit (16).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Mario Becker, Gerhard Greller, Christian Grimm, Thorsten Adams, Lars Boettcher, Henry Weichert
  • Patent number: 9852765
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a graphical user interface for arranging music, comprising a first display section showing different tracks and a second display section showing a first channel strip and a second channel strip. Preferably, the second channel strip shows the output routing or the destination of a Send of the first channel strip. The present invention also relates to a process for arranging music using the graphical user interface described above. The process allows that the channel associated with the second channel strip is automatically created when the associated bus is addressed for the first time as a Send or output destination in the first channel strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Thorsten Adam, Clemens Homburg
  • Publication number: 20170348655
    Abstract: A mixing device with a stirring element includes a container (3) for receiving fluids and/or solids, at least one rotatable stirring element (100) for mixing the fluids and/or solids, at least one bearing element for the support of the stirring element (100). The stirring element (100) has at least one non-permanently magnetized element (118) so that the stirring element (100) can be put in a rotational movement by externally induced reluctance forces. A drive device having at least two pair of coils (208) through which current flows also is provided. A mixing device system includes the mixing device and the drive device. A method also is provided for driving a stirring element in a mixing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventor: Thorsten Adams
  • Patent number: 9443501
    Abstract: A method, electronic device and non-transitory computer readable storage medium for simple and intuitive audio editing of multiple notes at once in an audio editing application. Audio editing can include selecting, inserting, and modifying multiple notes at once with respect to a time interval, including using a brush pattern tool to insert some or all of a stored pattern of notes, and using a time stretch tool to expand, contract, or reverse a set of selected notes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Thorsten Adam
  • Patent number: 9017997
    Abstract: The invention relates to a bioreactor for cultivating cells having a filter bag for separating culture fluid and cells, the filter medium of the filter bag having a degree of swelling of less than 1%. The bioreactor according to the invention is characterized by a high durability of the filter bag thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH
    Inventors: Eberhard Wuenn, Gerhard Greller, Thorsten Adams
  • Patent number: 8631912
    Abstract: A brake caliper for a disk brake is disclosed. The brake caliper includes a caliper housing defining a bore that extends along a bore axis. A piston of an actuating device is mounted within the bore so as to be movable along the bore axis in an application direction and a return direction. A sealing arrangement is at least partially provided between the piston and the bore. The sealing arrangement includes a sealing ring positioned in a radial groove. A base surface of the groove is formed in the direction of the bore axis and oriented antiparallel with respect to the bore axis such that the groove base surface approaches the bore axis in the application direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Langer, Hans Olms, Thorsten Adam, Frank Stretz