Patents by Inventor Tobias Albert
Tobias Albert 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: 20210059460Abstract: An evaporator device for water, which is intended to produce steam for, for example, a steam cooking device, has a container which is closed apart from a water inlet and a steam outlet, and has heating elements on the outside of the container. An inner body is arranged inside the container and is, everywhere on its outer surface, which faces toward the heating element, spaced apart from the inner side of the container. Said inner body is permeable to steam and water and consists of a non-solid material or of a porous material or of a fabric material.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2019Publication date: March 4, 2021Inventors: Tobias Albert, Volker Block, Sebastian Eigl, Roland Muehlnikel, Konrad Schoenemann, Michael Tafferner
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Publication number: 20200371102Abstract: In one aspect, the present disclosure provides a system and method for the identification and characterization of a transglutaminase. Further, the present disclosure provides transglutaminase enzymes for forming isopeptide bonds, methods of forming isopeptide bonds in the presence of transglutaminases, and substrate tags for use with transglutaminases. In another aspect, the present disclosure provides glutamine-containing substrates (or Q-tag substrates) that are more resistant to proteases/clipping and therefore, more stable, than other Q-tag substrates, and their uses in substrate tags for cross-linking to an amine-donor tag via an isopeptide bond mediated by a microbial transglutaminase.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2020Publication date: November 26, 2020Inventors: Thomas Albert, Frank Bergmann, Victor Lyamichev, Mohamed Yosry Hassan Mohamed, Tobias Oelschlaegel, Jigar Patel, Michael Schraeml, Wojtek Steffen, Thomas Streidl
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Publication number: 20200337518Abstract: A water-conducting household appliance has a closable treatment chamber, in order to treat articles therein, at least one chamber water inlet into the treatment chamber, at least one sump under said treatment chamber, a coarse particle filter for separating coarse particles having a size ?5 mm from water exiting from the sump, wherein the coarse particle filter has a coarse particle filter inlet, a coarse particle filter water outlet and a coarse particle filtrate outlet. According to the invention, exactly one pump having a pump inlet and a pump outlet is provided for the entire household appliance, said pump being connected downstream of the sump and the coarse particle filter water outlet. Water lines, valve devices and a discharge outlet from the household appliance are also provided, wherein a water line leads from the coarse particle filter water outlet to the pump or to the pump inlet.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2020Publication date: October 29, 2020Inventors: Tobias Albert, Uwe Koegel, Uwe Schaumann
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Patent number: 10808705Abstract: An impeller pump has a pump chamber with an inlet and an outlet, and an impeller in the pump chamber. An auxiliary outlet out of the pump chamber together with an auxiliary outlet flap is provided, the auxiliary outlet flap having a closed position and at least one open position and being rotatable or movable between the positions. In the closed position, the auxiliary outlet flap closes off the auxiliary outlet and, in each of the open positions, the auxiliary outlet flap at least partially opens the auxiliary outlet. The auxiliary outlet flap has an actuator and is subjected to force loading by the actuator, such that the auxiliary outlet flap is moved automatically from the closed position into one of the open positions if the auxiliary outlet flap is free from fluid flow in a direction of rotation of the impeller.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2018Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: E.G.O. ELEKTRO-GERÄTEBAU GMBHInventor: Tobias Albert
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Publication number: 20200265852Abstract: There are disclosed apparatus and methods for encoding and/or decoding information signals (e.g., audio signals). An encoder apparatus includes a plurality of frequency domain (FD) encoder tools for encoding an information signal, and an encoder bandwidth detector and controller configured to select a bandwidth for at least a subgroup of the FD encoder tools. The subgroup includes less FD encoder tools than the plurality of FD encoder tools. The selection is based on information signal characteristics, so that one of the FD encoder tools of the subgroup has a different bandwidth with respect to at least one of the FD encoder tools which are not in the subgroup.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2020Publication date: August 20, 2020Inventors: Marku SCHNELL, Emmanuel RAVELLI, Conrad BENNDORF, Tobias ALBERT, Manfred LUTZKY, Adrian TOMASEK
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Patent number: 10743701Abstract: An evaporator device for water for installation in a steamer has a water tank having an encircling outer wall and an encircling inner wall, wherein a heating device is provided on the outer wall. The inner wall extends within the outer wall and with a clearance relative thereto, wherein a water zone is formed between the outer wall and the inner wall. A pump is arranged within the inner wall in order to pump water from a water reservoir into the water zone. A steam outlet emerges upwards from the water zone and leads into the steamer.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: E.G.O. Elektro-Geraetebau GmbHInventors: Konrad Schoenemann, Tobias Albert
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Publication number: 20200249231Abstract: In one aspect, the present disclosure provides a system and method for the identification and characterization of a transglutaminase. Further, the present disclosure provides transglutaminase enzymes for forming isopeptide bonds, methods of forming isopeptide bonds in the presence of transglutaminases, and substrate tags for use with transglutaminases. In another aspect, the present disclosure provides glutamine-containing substrates (or Q-tag substrates) that are more resistant to proteases/clipping and therefore, more stable, than other Q-tag substrates, and their uses in substrate tags for cross-linking to an amine-donor tag via an isopeptide bond mediated by a microbial transglutaminase.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2020Publication date: August 6, 2020Inventors: Thomas Albert, Frank Bergmann, Victor Lyamichev, Mohamed Yosry Hassan Mohamed, Tobias Oelschlaegel, Jigar Patel, Michael Schraeml, Wojtek Steffen, Thomas Streidl
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Publication number: 20200113368Abstract: An evaporator device for water, which is intended to produce steam for, for example, a steam cooking device, has a container which is closed apart from a water inlet and a steam outlet, and has heating elements on the outside of the container. An inner body is arranged inside the container and is, everywhere on its outer surface, which faces toward the heating element, spaced apart from the inner side of the container. Said inner body is permeable to steam and water and consists of a non-solid material or of a porous material or of a fabric material.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2019Publication date: April 16, 2020Inventors: Tobias Albert, Volker Block, Sebastian Eigl, Roland Muehlnikel, Konrad Schoenemann, Michael Tafferner
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Publication number: 20200051578Abstract: A downscaled version of an audio decoding procedure may more effectively and/or at improved compliance maintenance be achieved if the synthesis window used for downscaled audio decoding is a downsampled version of a reference synthesis window involved in the non-downscaled audio decoding procedure by downsampling by the downsampling factor by which the downsampled sampling rate and the original sampling rate deviate, and downsampled using a segmental interpolation in segments of 1/4 of the frame length.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2019Publication date: February 13, 2020Inventors: Markus SCHNELL, Manfred LUTZKY, Eleni FOTOPOULOU, Konstantin SCHMIDT, Conrad BENNDORF, Adrian TOMASEK, Tobias ALBERT, Timon SEIDL
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Publication number: 20190364619Abstract: In a method for the production of a heating device, comprising a support that is curved along one direction and at least one flat thick film heating element disposed thereon, the support and/or the heating device itself are processed from a tube, in particular a circular-cylindrical tube. For that purpose a tube wall is severed in one direction which does not exclusively have a peripheral direction component so that the support is not a circumferential tube. The thick film heating element can be applied before or after the severing.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2019Publication date: November 28, 2019Inventors: Konrad Schoenemann, Volker Block, Michael Tafferner, Tobias Albert, Kay Schmidt, Alfred Suss, Roland Muehlnikel, Daniel Fuchs
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Patent number: 10431230Abstract: A downscaled version of an audio decoding procedure may more effectively and/or at improved compliance maintenance be achieved if the synthesis window used for downscaled audio decoding is a downsampled version of a reference synthesis window involved in the non-downscaled audio decoding procedure by downsampling by the downsampling factor by which the downsampled sampling rate and the original sampling rate deviate, and downsampled using a segmental interpolation in segments of ¼ of the frame length.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2017Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung de angewandten forschung e.V.Inventors: Markus Schnell, Manfred Lutzky, Eleni Fotopoulou, Konstantin Schmidt, Conrad Benndorf, Adrian Tomasek, Tobias Albert, Timon Seidl
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Publication number: 20190203725Abstract: An impeller pump has a pump chamber with an inlet and an outlet, and an impeller in the pump chamber. An auxiliary outlet out of the pump chamber together with an auxiliary outlet flap is provided, the auxiliary outlet flap having a closed position and at least one open position and being rotatable or movable between the positions. In the closed position, the auxiliary outlet flap closes off the auxiliary outlet and, in each of the open positions, the auxiliary outlet flap at least partially opens the auxiliary outlet. The auxiliary outlet flap has an actuator and is subjected to force loading by the actuator, such that the auxiliary outlet flap is moved automatically from the closed position into one of the open positions if the auxiliary outlet flap is free from fluid flow in a direction of rotation of the impeller.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2018Publication date: July 4, 2019Inventor: Tobias Albert
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Patent number: 10302420Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for detecting and reconstructing a surface illuminated with spatially structured light such that the light illuminates an area of the surface from which the light is reflected back. The light includes a temporarily varying intensity in the form of successive light modulation patterns. The back-reflected light is detected by an optical sensor including a plurality of pixels. A pixel coordinate is associated to each pixel and each pixel generated a photocurrent proportional to the intensity of the light impinging on a respective pixel, computes a signal related to a photocurrent, and each pixel outputs an address-event merely when a respective signal due to the light impinging on the respective pixel increases by an amount larger than a first threshold or decreases by an amount larger than a second threshold since a last address-event from the respective pixel.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2014Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignees: Universitat Zurich, Eth ZurichInventors: Christian Brandli, Tobias Delbruck, Markus Andreas Hopflinger, Marco Hutter, Thomas Albert Mantel
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Patent number: 10260505Abstract: A pump for delivering fluid has a pump housing and a pump chamber having a pump chamber cover and a pump chamber base in said pump housing, an inlet and an outlet. In the pump chamber, an impeller rotates on a rotor shaft which is connected to a drive motor. The inlet is arranged in the pump chamber cover and the outlet is arranged below the impeller in the axial direction of the pump at that end region of the pump chamber which is remote from the inlet close to the outlet. The distance from the inlet to the outlet with the impeller therebetween can correspond approximately to the diameter of the pump chamber.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2014Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: E.G.O. ELEKTRO-GERÄTEBAU GMBHInventors: Volker Block, Uwe Kögel, Stefanie Roth, Tobias Albert
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Publication number: 20190086075Abstract: A steam generator for a steam cooking appliance having a cooking chamber has steam-generating means, a water supply to the steam-generating means, a cyclone separator for steam generated by the steam-generating means, and a steam outlet from the cyclone separator to the cooking chamber of the steam cooking appliance. The cyclone separator forms an integrated structural unit with the steam-generating means, with a direct entry of steam from the steam-generating means into the cyclone separator and with a direct exit of separated-off water from it into the steam-generating means. The integrated structural unit yields advantages in the production and assembly of the steam generator and installation of the steam cooking appliance as a whole.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventor: Tobias Albert
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Publication number: 20180366133Abstract: A downscaled version of an audio decoding procedure may more effectively and/or at improved compliance maintenance be achieved if the synthesis window used for downscaled audio decoding is a downsampled version of a reference synthesis window involved in the non-downscaled audio decoding procedure by downsampling by the downsampling factor by which the downsampled sampling rate and the original sampling rate deviate, and downsampled using a segmental interpolation in segments of 1/4 of the frame length.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2017Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventors: Markus SCHNELL, Manfred LUTZKY, Eleni FOTOPOULOU, Konstantin SCHMIDT, Conrad BENNDORF, Adrian TOMASEK, Tobias ALBERT, Timon SEIDL
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Publication number: 20180028013Abstract: An evaporator device for water for installation in a steamer has a water tank having an encircling outer wall and an encircling inner wall, wherein a heating device is provided on the outer wall. The inner wall extends within the outer wall and with a clearance relative thereto, wherein a water zone is formed between the outer wall and the inner wall. A pump is arranged within the inner wall in order to pump water from a water reservoir into the water zone. A steam outlet emerges upwards from the water zone and leads into the steamer.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2017Publication date: February 1, 2018Inventors: Konrad Schoenemann, Tobias Albert
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Patent number: 9816527Abstract: A pump for a dishwasher is configured as an impeller pump having a central water inflow to a rotating impeller for conveying the water in the radial direction out of the impeller into a pump chamber which surrounds the impeller in a ring-like manner and has a heated pump chamber wall on its outer side. Here, the pump has an outlet in the end region of the pump chamber at an axial spacing from the impeller. Heating elements which have a decreasing power output with regard to the area power output in the axial direction of the pump toward the outlet are arranged on the pump chamber wall. An input of energy into the pump chamber can thus be varied and in the process adapted depending on a turbulent or laminar flow.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2013Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: E.G.O. Elektro-Geraetebau GmbHInventors: Holger Koebrich, Tobias Albert, Volker Block
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Patent number: 9771950Abstract: An impeller pump has a pump casing including a pump chamber and an inlet and an outlet thereon and an impeller therein, and including a heating device for heating the conveyed medium, which heating device forms an external wall of the pump chamber. The pump chamber extends annularly around the impeller and away from the pump chamber floor, wherein the outlet leads off on a region of the pump chamber which, viewed in the axial direction of the impeller pump, is pointing away from the pump chamber floor. The cross-sectional area of the pump chamber decreases in the axial direction of the longitudinal center axis of the impeller pump away from the pump chamber floor toward the outlet by virtue of an obliquely inwardly inclined external wall.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2014Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: E.G.O Elektro-Geraetebau GmbHInventors: Joern Friedrichs, Tobias Albert, Volker Block
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Patent number: 9470242Abstract: An impeller radial pump includes a pump chamber with a central suction and with a pump chamber outlet, wherein an impeller is provided in the pump chamber. Radially outside of the impeller, a circular ring shaped and circumferential pump chamber ring section is provided as a part of the pump chamber, wherein the pump chamber ring section essentially has an extension along the axial direction of the pump from the impeller against the suction direction. The pump chamber ring section has a varying width and is configured to be narrower in a compression region in the circulation direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2013Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: E.G.O. Elektro-Geraetebau GmbHInventors: Tobias Albert, Uwe Koegel