Patents by Inventor Ulrich Reiners

Ulrich Reiners 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: 20230347761
    Abstract: A supplementary charging device for an AC wallbox includes a housing, a first port for coupling to a charging port of a vehicle, the first port including an AC port and a DC port, a second port for coupling to an AC output of the AC wallbox via an AC charging cable, an at least unidirectionally formed DC/AC converter, and a control device arranged in the housing, the control device to couple the second port to the AC port of the first port, to couple the AC port of the at least unidirectionally formed DC/AC converter to the second port and to couple the DC port of the at least unidirectionally formed DC/AC converter to the DC port of the first port in a first operating mode, such that power coupled-in via the DC port of the DC/AC converter is provided at the second port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicants: AUDI AG, HAGER ELECTRO GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Martin DEHM, Ulrich REINER
  • Patent number: 7255902
    Abstract: A paper-like multilayer barrier film comprises a filled polypropylene layer and several unfilled layers. The filled layer contains 40-75% by wt. of inorganic fillers, forms one of the two outside layers of the film, and has a thickness of at least 40 ?m. The unfilled layers include a barrier layer, a sealing layer, and optionally at least one adhesive layer. The ratio of the total thickness of the unfilled layers to the thickness of the filled layer is in the range of 1:8 to 1:1.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Assignee: Convenience Food Systems B.V.
    Inventors: Ulrich Reiners, Erik Järund, Leif Linné
  • Patent number: 7070852
    Abstract: The invention relates to a multilayer film comprising the following sequence of layers: A) a basis layer of polyolefin foam, B) a layer based on at least one of the polyolefins of the foam layer A), C) optionally a tie layer based on a polyolefin, D) optionally an adhesive layer, E) optionally a gas- and/or flavortight barrier layer, F) an adhesive layer, G) an optionally sealable and/or peelable surface layer, whereby the total thickness of layers A) and B) ranges from 0.5 to 2 mm and the thickness of layer B) ranges from ? to ½ of the thickness of layer A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Covenience Food Systems B.V.
    Inventors: Ulrich Reiners, Michel Pittet
  • Patent number: 6691886
    Abstract: The invention relates to a resealable plastic packaging container (1) consisting of a tray (2) and a lid film (3) which in the sealing area (4) is sealed to the tray (2) such that it can be at least partly peeled back. The plastic packaging container comprises at least one hook and loop closure (9, 10, 11) whose two complementary parts (9′, 10′, 11′) are arranged opposite each other on the tray (2) and lid film (3), respectively, and by means of which the plastic packaging container can be resealed after the peel-back seal has been opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignee: Convenience Food Systems B.V.
    Inventors: Dieter Berndt, Matthias Giebel, Christoph Waldau, Ulrich Reiners, Rudi Fux, Roland Karlsson
  • Publication number: 20010033920
    Abstract: A paper-like multilayer barrier film comprises a filled polypropylene layer and several unfilled layers. The filled layer contains 40-75% by wt. of inorganic fillers, forms one of the two outside layers of the film, and has a thickness of 340 m. The unfilled layers include a barrier layer, a sealing layer, and optionally at least one adhesive layer. The ratio of the total thickness of the unfilled layers to the thickness of the filled layer is in the range of 1:8 to 1: 1.2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2001
    Publication date: October 25, 2001
    Applicant: Convenience Food Systems B.V.
    Inventors: Ulrich Reiners, Erik Jarund, Leif Linne
  • Patent number: 5985386
    Abstract: The invention relates to a multi-layer, coextruded, biaxially oriented tubular sausage casing with improved oxygen barrier properties especially for wrapping sausages, which are heat treated after filling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1999
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellscaft
    Inventors: Michael Hennig-Cardinal von Widdern, Ulrich Reiners
  • Patent number: 5863643
    Abstract: The invention relates to a coextruded, biaxially stretched, tubular film, with at least two adjacent layers made from aliphatic polyamide, for wrapping goods packaged in liquid or paste form, especially foodstuffs, which are subjected to heat-treatment during and/or after being wrapped, such as for example, various types of German sausage, cheese, butter, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1999
    Assignee: Wolff Walsrode AG
    Inventors: Michael Hennig-Cardinal von Widdern, Ulrich Reiners
  • Patent number: 5665469
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an oriented, particularly a biaxially oriented, sealable, metallisable multilayer film, characterised in that it is built up as follows:ABCBDa) where C is the core layer comprising isotactic polypropylene with an MFI between 0.5 and 4.5 g/10 min,b) A is the base layer for vacuum evaporation, comprising 0.1-0.5% of an organic or inorganic spacer and 1 to 10% of an ethylene/octene copolymer with a density <0.915 g/cm.sup.3, and 89.5 to 98.9% of a heat-sealable propylene/ethylene copolymer with an ethylene content of 1 to 8%,c) B represents the two intermediate layers comprising a propylene homopolymer with an MFI between 2 and 12 g/10 min,d) and D is the sealable layer comprising an olefinic homo-, co- or terpolymer and 0.1 to 0.5% of an inorganic or organic spacer, or a mixture of the two classes of spacer. The film is desirably metallized with a metal or metal oxide layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1997
    Assignee: Wolff Walsrode Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rainer Brandt, Ulrich Reiners
  • Patent number: 5593775
    Abstract: A single-layered, plastic and elastic thermoplastic hot-melt adhesive film which does not have a separating layer, wherein it can be wound on and off a reel without the use of a supplementary separating material, is essentially free of antiblocking agents and/or lubricants and that the maximum of its thermoanalytically determined main melting peak is below 90.degree. C. and which is essentially formed from at least two olefin copolymers with polar comonomers A and B, wherein ethylene is preferably used as an olefinic monomer, and whose essential comonomers contain oxygen atoms and the essential oxygen-containing comonomers in the olefin copolymers A and B are not identical, wherein the total proportion of oxygen-containing comonomer in the total weight of polymer resin forming the film is between 18 wt. % and 40 wt. % and the proportion of oxygen-containing comonomers in copolymer A is at least 60 wt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1997
    Assignee: Wolff Walsrode Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Nicole Hargarter, Dirk Schultze, Ulrich Reiners
  • Patent number: 5521004
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a stretched, multilayer, transparent film which is reflection-reduced on at least one side, consists predominantly of polypropylene and is very suitable as window film for envelopes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1996
    Assignee: Wolff Walsrode Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ulrich Reiners, Anton Krallmann, Neele Neelen, Helmut Kuhlenkamp
  • Patent number: 5512649
    Abstract: At least monoaxially stretched polypropylene film containing an antiblocking agent, wherein the antiblocking agent has a cuboid and/or cubic, preferably cubic, geometry with bevelled, i.e. chamfered, edges and is X-ray amorphous.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 30, 1996
    Assignee: Wolff Walsrode Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hermann Hendrickson-Benkhoff, Dietrich Stockmeier, Ulrich Reiners
  • Patent number: 5487950
    Abstract: The invention relates to the lacquering of polar film substrates with a coating system consisting of several components, the single application of material resulting in a multilayer structure of the lacquer coat. The coating system is preferably aqueous and free from organohalogen and results in an improved barrier action of the films against water vapor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1996
    Assignee: Wolff Walsrode Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Gunter Weber, Ulrich Reiners, Sebastian Meyer-Stork
  • Patent number: 5468563
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a stretched, multilayer, transparent film which is reflection-reduced on at least one side, consists predominantly of polypropylene and is very suitable as window film for envelopes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 21, 1995
    Assignee: Wolff Walsrode Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ulrich Reiners, Anton Krallmann, Eberhard Albinus, Jurgen Bohner
  • Patent number: 5466520
    Abstract: The invention relates to a white-opaque biaxially orientated multilayer film with good heat-sealing properties and with a paper-like appearance on at least one side, comprising an opaque core and at least one outer layer made of:10-15% by weight of an isotactic polypropylene having a density of 0.9-0.91 g/cm.sup.3 and a melt-flow index of 0.5 g/10 min to 8 g/10 min at 230.degree. C. under 21.2 N load (determined to DIN 53735),5-15% by weight of a low-density linear copolymer of ethylene, modified with rubber and with maleic acid anhydrite,40-80% by weight of a statistical propylene/ethylene copolymer with 2 to 6% by weight of ethylene or statistical terpolymers of propylene, ethylene and butylene with a comonomer content of <15% by weight and a butylene content of <7% by weight and5-15% by weight of an inorganic filler, preferably rutile-type titanium dioxide with an average diameter of 200 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 14, 1995
    Assignee: Wolff Walsrode Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Anton Krallmann, Ulrich Reiners, Eberhard Albinus, Jurgen Bohner, Neele Neelen
  • Patent number: 5447792
    Abstract: The invention relates to oriented, sealable polypropylene film combining an improved water vapor barrier effect with a considerably reduced coefficient of friction for packaging purposes, characterized in that they are free from polydimethyl siloxane and have the following structure:A B C B Awherea) C is the core layer consisting of polypropylene and a hydrocarbon resin, which has a molecular weight of up to about 2000 g/mol and a softening point above 130.degree. C., and 0.05 to 0.5% by weight erucic acid amide,b) the B's are two jacket layers of highly isotactic polypropylene (isotacticity >94%) free from hydrocarbon resin, the ratio between the thickness of the jacket layer and the thickness of the base layer being between 0.01 and 0.1,c) the A's are two surface layers of a heat-sealable polyolefin copolymer or terpolymer, these surface layers containing at least one antiblocking agent, an antistatic agent and, as lubricant, 0.05 to 0.5% by weight erucic acid amide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1995
    Assignee: Wolff Walsrode Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rainer Brandt, Ulrich Reiners, Anton Krallmann, Eberhard Albinus, Neele Neelen
  • Patent number: 5441806
    Abstract: The invention relates to an oriented sealable polypropylene film combining an improved water vapor barrier effect with considerably reduced global migration for packaging purposes and having the following layer structure:A B C B Awherea) C is a base layer of polypropylene and a hydrocarbon resin which has a molecular weight of up to about 2000 g/mol and a softening point above 130.degree. C.,b) the B's are jacket layers of highly isotactic polypropylene (isotacticity >94%) free from hydrocarbon resin, the ratio between the thickness of a jacket layer and the thickness of the base layer being between 0.01 and 0.1,c) the A's are two surface layers of a heat-sealable polyolefin copolymer or terpolymer, these surface layers containing at least one antiblocking agent, a lubricant and an antistatic agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 15, 1995
    Assignee: Wolff Walsrode Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rainer Brandt, Ulrich Reiners, Anton Krallmann, Jurgen Bohner, Neele Neelen
  • Patent number: 5441807
    Abstract: The invention relates to sealable polypropylene films having an improved water vapor barrier effect through the following layer structure:ABCBAwherea) C is the base layer of highly isotactic polypropylene with an isotacticity of >94% and a hydrocarbon resin which has a molecular weight of up to about 2000 g/mol and a softening point above 130.degree. C.,b) the B's are two jacket layers of highly isotactic polypropylene (isotacticity >94%) free from hydrocarbon resin, the ratio between the thickness of the jacket layer and the thickness of the base layer being between 0.01 and 0.1,c) the A's are two surface layers of a heat-sealable polyolefin homopolymer, copolymer or terpolymer, these surface layers containing at least one antiblocking agent, a lubricant and an antistatic agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 15, 1995
    Assignee: Wolff Walsrode Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rainer Brandt, Ulrich Reiners, Anton Krallmann, Neele Neelen, Jurgen Bohner
  • Patent number: 5152879
    Abstract: The bonding properties of polyolefin films in composites are improved by a treatment with a low pressure plasma.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1992
    Assignee: Wolff Walsrode AG
    Inventors: Siegfried Thurm, Ulrich Reiners, Ingo Schinkel, Manfred Kowitz
  • Patent number: 5126198
    Abstract: Improved heat-laminatable multi-layer film containing a polypropylene base layer, a heat-laminatable layer containing an ethylene/vinyl acetate copolymer and an ethylene/ethyl acrylate or ethylene/acrylic acid copolymer, one layer of the film being a gas barrier layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1992
    Assignee: Wolff Walsrode Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ingo Schinkel, Ulrich Reiners
  • Patent number: 5126197
    Abstract: An improved heat-laminatable, high-glass and high-slip, at least monoaxially stretched multilayer film comprises at least one base layer I consisting essentially of polypropylene, an outer layer II which is thin by comparison with layer I and which consists essentially of polypropylene and an addition of an anti-blocking additive and a heat-activatable, heat-laminatable layer III containing an ethylene/vinyl acetate copolymer A and an ethylene/ethyl acrylate copolymer B1 and/or an ethylene/acrylic acid copolymer B2, the base layer I containing no anti-blocking additives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1992
    Assignee: Wolff Walsrode AG
    Inventors: Ingo Schinkel, Ulrich Reiners