Patents by Inventor Thorsten Muller

Thorsten Muller 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: 6730846
    Abstract: A universal cable fitting for a wide variety of applications includes a longitudinally slit sleeve tube (MR) and sealing bodies (DKG, DK, DKDP, DKS, DKO) on the ends of the sleeve tube. A sealing system is formed along the longitudinal edges of the sleeve tube by a sealing groove (DN), a sealing tongue (DF) and a wedge-shaped closure rail (LVS) that subjects a longitudinal seal (LD) to pressing during closure. Each sealing body is provided with a sealing groove (DU) for receiving an encircling seal (UD) having a corrugated profile. The sealing groove is provided in the direction of the encircling seal with a cutout into which an extension (AS) of the longitudinal seal penetrates. The cutout and the extension in the longitudinal seal produce direct contact with the encircling seal located in the sealing groove of the sealing body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: CCS Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Thorsten Müller
  • Patent number: 6648541
    Abstract: The invention relates to a joining element (VE), consisting of a fixing component (FT) and a closing component (VT), for the ends (DE1, DE2) of a divided seal (D) in sealing systems in cable fittings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2003
    Assignee: CCS Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Thorsten Müller, Rainer Zimmer
  • Publication number: 20030039460
    Abstract: A sleeve insert for guiding optical waveguide elements and for accommodating a splicing device, comprising a profiled body being adapted to the dimension of the respective sleeve. The sleeve insert provides for clear and secure arrangement of the optical waveguide elements, that is to say of the multifiber buffers and ribbon fibers and for the accommodation of splicing devices in one sleeve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2002
    Publication date: February 27, 2003
    Inventors: Thorsten Muller, Rainer Zimmer
  • Publication number: 20020180163
    Abstract: The inventive sealing body (DK) is comprised of a number of segments (DS1, DS2, DS3) in whose sealing chambers (DKAA, DKAM) a sealing block (DBAS, DBMS) is arranged that is made of an easily deformable, in particular, gel-like substance. Tabs (ZE) which conically extend toward one another serve to center the cable which is inserted into the sealing body (DK) and held therein. Wedges (K) which can be actuated from the outside act upon assigned pressure elements (DE), which deform the corresponding sealing block (DBAS, DBMS) thus displacing the gel-like substance in a radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2002
    Publication date: December 5, 2002
    Inventors: Thorsten Muller, Rainer M Zimmer
  • Patent number: 6149789
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process for manipulating microscopic dielectric particles in which particles are exposed to an electric field. In disadvantaged processes the particles are exposed to inhomogeneous electric field and are polarized by them. The polarized particles are moved in the direction of higher field strength. These processes permit no reversal of the traveling direction of the particles. The particles are enriched at the electrode so that they cannot be retained in free space. In the invented process the particles are exposed to high-frequency field traveling in one or more prescribed direction, by which the particles are subject to a force which sets them in a motion that is strongly synchronous to the field. With the aid of a device for carrying out the invented process, the particles can be manipulated very flexibly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2000
    Assignee: Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.v.
    Inventors: Wolfgang Benecke, Bernd Wagner, Gunter Fuhr, Rolf Hagedorn, Thorsten Muller