Patents by Inventor Torsten Mueller

Torsten Mueller 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).

  • Publication number: 20060056137
    Abstract: The invention relates to a module for a measuring device and to a measuring device. The inventive module for a measuring device is provided with a plug-in contact element for the electrical contact of the plug-and-socket plate of the measuring device which is used for data transfer. Said module for the measuring device comprises a main circuit card arranged in the first circuit card space. Said first circuit card space is formed by at least one first element of the body which encompasses the circuit card in a closed manner on the level of the external periphery thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2003
    Publication date: March 16, 2006
    Inventors: Torsten Mueller, Birgit Seitz, Reiner Hausdorf, Rudolf Reckziegel
  • Patent number: 6991906
    Abstract: To measure or exert optically-induced forces on at least one particle in the focus of an optical cage, the following steps are taken: a) the focus is positioned in a microelectrode arrangement with a three-dimensional electrical field that has a field gradient which forms an electrical capture area, and the focus is at a distance from the capture are and b) the amplitude of the electrical field, the light power of the light beam forming the optical cage, and/or the distance of the capture area from the focus are varied to detect which varied field property moves the particle from the focus to the capture area or vice versa, or at least to temporarily move the particle into the capture area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2006
    Assignee: Evotec Biosystems AG
    Inventors: Günter Fuhr, Thomas Schnelle, Torsten Müller, Hermine Hitzler, Karl-Otto Greulich, Shamoi Monajembashi
  • Patent number: 6860538
    Abstract: A rail assembly has an elongated upwardly open and elongated metal rail fixed to a car-body support and two confronting and inwardly concave flanges forming transversely inwardly directed faces and an elongated metal rail fixed to a motor-vehicle seat, captured between the flanges, and having two transversely outwardly directed faces generally complementary to and bearing with prestress outwardly on the inwardly directed faces. Respective friction-reducing layers on the faces allow the seat rail to slide smoothly in the body rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2005
    Assignee: Westfalia Profil/Technik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Torsten Müller, Rüdiger Thomas
  • Patent number: 6848760
    Abstract: A slide has a pair of identical longitudinally extending and profiled rails each having at least one flange forming two longitudinally extending tracks. The rails are interfitted with the tracks of one rail transversely confronting the tracks of the other rails. Respective longitudinally extending rows of balls engaged in the tracks between the rails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2005
    Assignee: Westfalia Profiltechnik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rüdiger Thomas, Torsten Müller
  • Patent number: 6801311
    Abstract: For object detection, particularly in fluidic microsystems, optical imaging of at least one resting or moving object (10) on a structured mask (20) with at least one segment from a flat section (80), in which the object (10) is located at least partially or temporarily and which has a characteristic dimension smaller than the dimension of the object (10) or its movement path, to a detector unit, detection of the quantity of light transmitted by the structured mask (20), and generation of a detector signal which has a predetermined relationship with the quantity of light, and evaluation of the detector signal in regard to the presence of the object (10), its position, its shape and/or the temporal change of the position are performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2004
    Assignee: Evotec Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Günter Fuhr, Thomas Schnelle, Christoph Reichle, Henning Glasser, Torsten Müller
  • Patent number: 6749736
    Abstract: Electrode arrangement (10) in a microsystem adapted for dielectrophoretic manipulation of particles (30) in a suspension fluid in a channel (21), wherein at least one electrode (11, 11a, 11b, 12) is arranged on a lateral wall of the channel (21), the electrode (11, 11a, 11b, 12) consisting of a plurality of electrode segments adapted to generate at least one field gradient for influencing the movement paths of the particles (30) in the channel (21). In one embodiment of the invention, the particles are moved in the microsystem by exposure to centrifugal and/or gravitational forces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignee: Evotec Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Günter Fuhr, Thomas Schnelle, Rolf Hagedorn, Torsten Müller
  • Patent number: 6727451
    Abstract: To manipulate microparticles in a fluid that intersects a first channel or several first channels as a stream, one or more microparticles (14) are exposed to electrical field barriers that change their direction from the direction of flow toward the edge of the flow to a lateral hole (17) of the respective first channel. As a result, microparticles can be moved back and forth between streaming fluids. Preferred applications include treatment, separating, sorting or confinement procedures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Assignee: Evotec Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Günter Fuhr, Rolf Hagedorn, Torsten Müller, Thomas Schnelle, Gabriele Gradl
  • Patent number: 6663757
    Abstract: The aim of the invention is to convectively move at least one liquid in a channel of a microsystem which comprises a predetermined channel direction. To this end, the liquid is, in a partial section of the channel, subjected to an electric field gradient and optionally to a thermal gradient. The gradients are generated in the partial section corresponding to a predetermined field direction, whereby the field direction differs from the channel direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Assignee: Evotec Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Günter Führ, Torsten Müller, Thomas Schnelle, Rolf Hagedorn
  • Publication number: 20030107827
    Abstract: An external rear-view mirror for a motor vehicle is described, comprising a mirror housing (1) and a mirror base (4). The mirror housing comprises a mirror (6), on its rear side (2) and at least one lamp device (7), with at least one light source, that has a light outlet opening with a cover screen (3), for the light source arranged in the mirror housing (1). According to the invention the at least one light source comprises several distributed light diodes (12, 13).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2002
    Publication date: June 12, 2003
    Inventors: Manfred Marondel, Torsten Mueller
  • Patent number: 6492175
    Abstract: An electroporation and/or fusion treatment of microscopic objects occurs in a medium between at least two electrodes, with the electrodes being miniaturized electrodes in a microsystem with a channel structure which is set up for the flow-through of the medium with the objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2002
    Assignee: Evotec Bio Systems AG
    Inventors: Torsten Müller, Thomas Schnelle, Günter Fuhr, Stephen Graham Shirley, Gabriele Gradl
  • Patent number: 6386659
    Abstract: A drawer slide has an outer rail forming a plurality of parallel and inwardly open tracks, an inner rail fitting in the outer rail and having a plurality of flat surfaces each confronting and extending parallel to a respective one of the tracks, and a respective row of balls in each of the tracks and riding on the respective inner-rail surface. The outer rail has a normally horizontal bight portion having outer edges, respective planar lower side portions extending upward from the outer edges and forming therewith corners in turn forming tracks, respective planar upper side portions extending upward from upper edges of the lower side portions, and respective planar upper end portions extending inward from upper edges of the upper side portions and forming therewith corners in turn forming tracks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Assignee: Westfalia Metallformtechnik GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Torsten Müller, Rüdiger Thomas
  • Patent number: 5948328
    Abstract: In the method proposed, microparticles suspended in a liquid or droplets suspended in a liquid with which they are immiscible are shaped by high-frequency electric fields in a three-dimensional electrode array of a size in the micrometer or submicrometer range and subsequently consolidated by prior art chemical bonding procedures or by physical methods. The disposition, geometry and control of the electrodes determine the shape of the particles. The particles themselves must have a conductivity and/or relative dielectric constant lower than the solution surrounding them. For some, this can be achieved only at certain frequencies in the kHz and MHz band which are determined by the passive electrical properties of the particles and the surrounding solution. The particles or droplets are repelled by the electrodes so that they are shaped in the free solution without making contact with any surface and can then be consolidated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1999
    Assignee: Fraunhofer Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forschung E.V.
    Inventors: Stefan Fiedler, Andreas Voigt, Thomas Schnelle, Guenter Fuhr, Torsten Mueller, Rolf Hagedorn, Jan Hornung, Henning Glasser, Bernd Wagner