Patents by Inventor Uwe Thomas

Uwe Thomas 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: 20240423848
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for stretching, transferring, and bonding elastic parts under tension to an advancing carrier substrate during the assembly of absorbent articles. A continuous carrier substrate may be advanced in a machine direction at a first speed, and a discrete elastic part may be cut from a continuous elastic substrate having a direction of stretch in a cross direction. The speed of the discrete elastic part is changed from a second speed to the first speed, and the central region of the discrete elastic part is stretched in the cross direction. The discrete elastic part is bonded with the continuous carrier substrate such that the stretched central region extends in the cross direction between the first and second longitudinal edges of the continuous carrier substrate. The discrete elastic part may also be bonded with the carrier substrate with adhesive and/or mechanical bonds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: Uwe SCHNEIDER, Michael Brian QUADE, Jason Edward NAYLOR, Jeromy Thomas RAYCHECK
  • Publication number: 20240415706
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for stretching, transferring, and bonding elastic parts under tension to an advancing carrier substrate during the assembly of absorbent articles. A continuous carrier substrate may be advanced in a machine direction at a first speed, and a discrete elastic part may be cut from a continuous elastic substrate having a direction of stretch in a cross direction. The speed of the discrete elastic part is changed from a second speed to the first speed, and the central region of the discrete elastic part is stretched in the cross direction. The discrete elastic part is bonded with the continuous carrier substrate such that the stretched central region extends in the cross direction between the first and second longitudinal edges of the continuous carrier substrate. The discrete elastic part may also be bonded with the carrier substrate with adhesive and/or mechanical bonds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventors: Uwe SCHNEIDER, Michael Brian QUADE, Jason Edward NAYLOR, Jeromy Thomas RAYCHECK, Urmish Popatlal DALAL, Keith Richard WILLHAUS
  • Publication number: 20240408812
    Abstract: Methods and systems for mechanically forming one or more surface protrusions integrally from a garment material, the one or more surface protrusions extending outwardly from a garment surface of the garment material, include pre-heating at least one selected area of the garment material; placing the at least one selected area of the garment surface that is pre-heated against a first surface of a forming die, the first surface having a plurality of openings which have a configuration and orientation corresponding with the configuration and orientation of the one or more surface protrusions of the garment material. The garment surface may be softened by application of a source of energy, at least some of the softened garment surface positioned into at least one opening of the plurality of openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Uwe SCHNEIDER, Michael Devin LONG, Justin B. OWENS, Jeromy Thomas RAYCHECK, Urmish Popatlal DALAL, Jason Edward NAYLOR, Jeffry ROSIAK
  • Patent number: 12164283
    Abstract: A method for calling a function block of a control program of an industrial controller is disclosed. The industrial controller has an OPC UA server and communicates with an OPC UA client, wherein the function block is requested from an OPC UA call of the OPC UA client. When the function block is requested, an OPC UA call directed thereto is sent from the OPC UA client to the OPC UA server. The OPC UA call is stored by the OPC UA server. IN Parameters transferred together with the OPC UA call are then copied to corresponding IN parameters of the function block and, the function block is called at a previously defined point within a control task of the industrial controller and the IN parameters of the function block are processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Uwe Thomas, Andreas Weichelt
  • Patent number: 12121426
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for stretching, transferring, and bonding elastic parts under tension to an advancing carrier substrate during the assembly of absorbent articles. A continuous carrier substrate may be advanced in a machine direction at a first speed, and a discrete elastic part may be cut from a continuous elastic substrate having a direction of stretch in a cross direction. The speed of the discrete elastic part is changed from a second speed to the first speed, and the central region of the discrete elastic part is stretched in the cross direction. The discrete elastic part is bonded with the continuous carrier substrate such that the stretched central region extends in the cross direction between the first and second longitudinal edges of the continuous carrier substrate. The discrete elastic part may also be bonded with the carrier substrate with adhesive and/or mechanical bonds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Uwe Schneider, Michael Brian Quade, Jason Edward Naylor, Jeromy Thomas Raycheck, Urmish Popatlal Dalal, Keith Richard Willhaus
  • Patent number: 12115042
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for stretching, transferring, and bonding elastic parts under tension to an advancing carrier substrate during the assembly of absorbent articles. A continuous carrier substrate may be advanced in a machine direction at a first speed, and a discrete elastic part may be cut from a continuous elastic substrate having a direction of stretch in a cross direction. The speed of the discrete elastic part is changed from a second speed to the first speed, and the central region of the discrete elastic part is stretched in the cross direction. The discrete elastic part is bonded with the continuous carrier substrate such that the stretched central region extends in the cross direction between the first and second longitudinal edges of the continuous carrier substrate. The discrete elastic part may also be bonded with the carrier substrate with adhesive and/or mechanical bonds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Uwe Schneider, Michael Brian Quade, Jason Edward Naylor, Jeromy Thomas Raycheck
  • Publication number: 20240282544
    Abstract: Various systems and methods are provided for a biased cathode assembly of an X-ray tube with improved thermal management and a method of manufacturing same. In one example, a cathode assembly of an X-ray tube comprises an emitter assembly including an emitter coupled to an emitter support structure, and an electrode assembly including an electrode stack and a plurality of bias electrodes. The emitter assembly including a plurality of independent components that are coupled together. The electrode assembly including a plurality of independent components that are coupled together, and the emitter assembly being coupled to the electrode assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventors: Andrew Thomas Cross, Uwe Wiedmann, Marshall Gordon Jones, Carey Rogers, John Scott Price, Joseph Darryl Michael, Sergio Lemaitre, Fulton Jose Lopez, Vasile Bogdan Neculaes, Steve Buresh, David Wagner
  • Patent number: 12037719
    Abstract: Methods and systems for mechanically forming one or more surface protrusions integrally from a garment material, the one or more surface protrusions extending outwardly from a garment surface of the garment material, include placing at least one selected area of the garment surface against a first surface of a forming die having a plurality of openings which have a configuration and orientation corresponding with the configuration and orientation of the one or more surface protrusions of the garment material. The garment surface may be softened by application of a source of energy, wherein the source of energy comprises at least two sonotrodes mounted in a rotary drum. At least some of the softened garment surface is positioned into at least one opening of the plurality of openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Uwe Schneider, Michael Devin Long, Justin B. Owens, Jeromy Thomas Raycheck, Urmish Popatlal Dalal, Jason Edward Naylor, Jeffry Rosiak
  • Publication number: 20220276641
    Abstract: A method for calling an industrial controller control program function block having an OPC UA server and using the OPC UA communication protocol to communicate with an OPC UA client, the function block requested from an OPC UA call of the OPC UA client. The method further comprising: a call step directed to the method of the OPC UA server sent from the OPC UA client to the OPC UA server; a stored step, the OPC UA call is stored by the industrial controller OPC UA server; a transfer step, IN Parameters are transferred together with the OPC UA call from the OPC UA client to the OPC UA server, and copied to corresponding control program function block IN parameters; and a called step, the control program function block is called at a previously defined point within a industrial controller control task, and the function block IN parameters are processed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Uwe THOMAS, Andreas WEICHELT
  • Patent number: 10888263
    Abstract: A method for non-invasive video oculographic measurement of eye movements as diagnostic support for (early) detection of neuropsychiatric diseases, using an indicator for a visual stimulus and a camera for video recording. A position of the camera is kept constant in relation to the display and a face of a test person is continuously recorded, at least in parts. A recognition algorithm is started which creates an eye template in which an absolute position of the eye and a pupil of the eye are continuously recorded in the image. Furthermore, a reference range, especially around the eye, is defined and, after selecting a predefined measurement paradigm of the pupil are continuously recorded and analyzed at the end of the stimulus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: THOMAS RECORDING GMBH
    Inventors: Uwe Thomas, Stefan Dowiasch
  • Publication number: 20190246969
    Abstract: A method for non-invasive video oculographic measurement of eye movements as diagnostic support for (early) detection of neuropsychiatric diseases, using an indicator for a visual stimulus and a camera for video recording. A position of the camera is kept constant in relation to the display and a face of a test person is continuously recorded, at least in parts. A recognition algorithm is started which creates an eye template in which an absolute position of the eye and a pupil of the eye are continuously recorded in the image. Furthermore, a reference range, especially around the eye, is defined and, after selecting a predefined measurement paradigm of the pupil are continuously recorded and analyzed at the end of the stimulus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Applicant: THOMAS RECORDING GMBH
    Inventors: UWE THOMAS, STEFAN DOWIASCH
  • Patent number: 9222741
    Abstract: Safety system for a hand gun to prevent unauthorized use, with a blocking cartridge inserted and locked in the chamber of a hand gun, wherein upon manipulating said blocking cartridge in an internally located reaction chamber the individual components of an adhesive system are brought together, whereupon following the reaction of the components, the still-pasty adhesive system spreads and escapes through openings in the wall of the blocking cartridge and, after hardening, firmly adheres the blocking cartridge to the chamber. The blocking cartridge can be released only by an authorized institution or person equipped with a connection-releasing technology that is matched by the manufacturer to the composition of the adhesive system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Inventors: Siegbert Sauer, Klaus Gersten, Juergen Koerner, Uwe-Thomas Schade
  • Publication number: 20150233661
    Abstract: Safety system for a hand gun to prevent unauthorized use, with a blocking cartridge inserted and locked in the chamber of a hand gun, wherein upon manipulating said blocking cartridge in an internally located reaction chamber the individual components of an adhesive system are brought together, whereupon following the reaction of the components, the still-pasty adhesive system spreads and escapes through openings in the wall of the blocking cartridge and, after hardening, firmly adheres the blocking cartridge to the chamber. The blocking cartridge can be released only by an authorized institution or person equipped with a connection-releasing technology that is matched by the manufacturer to the composition of the adhesive system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2013
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Inventors: Siegbert Sauer, Klaus Gersten, Juergen Koerner, Uwe-Thomas Schade
  • Patent number: 8663341
    Abstract: A hair colorant composition comprises 2-methoxymethyl-1,4-diaminobenzene developer in combination with other p-phenylenediamine developers and selected couplers. A kit for coloring hair comprises the hair colorant composition. A method of treating hair comprises applying the hair colorant composition to hair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Richard Matthew Charles Sutton, Bryan Patrick Murphy, Margaret Ann Popp, Stephen Robert Schofield, Uwe Thomas Hirsch, John Peter Lankhof
  • Patent number: 8617587
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the supply and production of an animal medicine consisting of a substrate in pellet or tablet form, which is attractive to livestock and domestic animals, in which fine-grained particles of a neutral-tasting, physiologically compatible, solid carrier material are embedded, which is characterized in that said fine-grained particles of carrier material have an average diameter of 0.09 to 0.8 mm and are coated with an active substance from veterinary medicine, and said active substance layer is covered with a protective layer of a physiologically compatible polymer matrix, and to the production of this animal medicine. It also relates to the usage of said double-coated, fine-grained particles of carrier material in the production of a preparation for veterinary medicine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Hubert Thoma, Uwe Thomas Schote, Ute Isele
  • Publication number: 20130340181
    Abstract: A hair colorant composition comprises 2-methoxymethyl-1,4-diaminobenzene developer in combination with other p-phenylenediamine developers and selected couplers. A kit for coloring hair comprises the hair colorant composition. A method of treating hair comprises applying the hair colorant composition to hair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Inventors: Richard Matthew Charles SUTTON, Bryan Patrick MURPHY, Margaret Ann POPP, Stephen Robert SCHOFIELD, Uwe Thomas HIRSCH, John Peter LANKHOF
  • Publication number: 20100074952
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the supply and production of an animal medicine consisting of a substrate in pellet or tablet form, which is attractive to livestock and domestic animals, in which fine-grained particles of a neutral-tasting, physiologically compatible, solid carrier material are embedded, which is characterised in that said fine-grained particles of carrier material have an average diameter of 0.09 to 0.8 mm and are coated with an active substance from veterinary medicine, and said active substance layer is covered with a protective layer of a physiologically compatible polymer matrix, and to the production of this animal medicine. It also relates to the usage of said double-coated, fine-grained particles of carrier material in the production of a preparation for veterinary medicine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2009
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Applicant: Novartis Animal Health U.S., Inc.
    Inventors: Hubert Thoma, Uwe Thomas Schote, Ute Isele
  • Publication number: 20090156674
    Abstract: The invention relates to the production of a new salt form of valnemulin, a compound of formula I, which is notable for its good crystallinity in higher purity, its simpler technical usability and improved storage stability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2006
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Inventors: Ingolf Macher, Annett Geissler, Susanne Christine Wieland-Berghausen, Uwe Thomas Schote, Ferenc Jozsef Rakoczi
  • Patent number: 6953456
    Abstract: Digital tampons are disclosed which are capable of radially expanding into a non circular cross-sectional shape upon exposure to a wet environment, typically in use condition, so as to reduce bypass leakage. The inventions also relates to tampon blanks and a process of producing the tampons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2005
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Sybille Fuchs, Samantha Jane Price, Uwe Thomas Michael Horst Hirsch, Veronique Marie Josephine Kremer
  • Patent number: 6799074
    Abstract: In a microprobe system for medical applications particularly for use in neurophysiology and neurosurgery a target determining arrangement is provided which can be mounted on a patients head by means of an adjustable mounting device. An adapter is removably attached to the mounting device and carries a manipulator with a removable probe unit that can be moved by a drive unit which is electrically controllable according to spatial coordinates (x,y,z—respectively, R,&phgr;). The probe unit includes a guide tube for receiving an exchangeable microfiber electrode, which includes sensor areas at its pointed tip for the recording of brain activity signals. The signals can be stored with a PC-interface in a data acquisition unit, which is in communication with an output unit. The manipulator includes a microfiber electrode control unit, for example, an XYZ-slide with locking means as well as a base body for the attachment of the probe unit to the mounting device in a predetermined orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2004
    Assignee: Uwe Thomas Recording
    Inventors: Uwe Thomas, Dirk Hohl, Wilfried Gerber