Patents by Inventor Walter Schneider

Walter Schneider 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: 7849993
    Abstract: The invention relates to sheet material having an electrical circuit and to apparatuses and methods for processing said sheet material. The present invention describes sheet material having an electrical circuit as well as apparatuses and methods for processing same, which reduce the effort required for processing the sheet material and/or facilitate processing and/or improve it and/or make it more reliable. For this purpose, the sheet material has at least one electrical circuit, with energy and/or data being transmitted from the apparatus to the electrical circuit and/or from the electrical circuit to the apparatus and at least part of the transmitted data being used for processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Finkenzeller, Thomas Giering, Manfred Heim, Thomas Hildebrandt, Ralf Hobmeier, Lars Hoffmann, Norbert Holl, Wittich Kaule, Friedrich Kretschmar, Markus Krombholz, Ralf Liebler, Thorsten Pillo, Harald Reiner, Walter Schneider, Eckart Schroeder-Bergen, Martin Seysen, Dieter Stein, Alexander Steinkogler, Christian Voellmer, Bernd Wunderer, Fabiola Bellersheim, Marius Dichtl, Juergen Schuetzmann
  • Patent number: 7570361
    Abstract: The invention relates to a test method for the testing of the functional capability of a monitoring sensor which scans a protective field to be monitored using a scanner. In accordance with the invention, at least one contour test object and one field test object are provided outside the protective field to be monitored. A field set is defined having at least two scan fields, with the first scan field of the first field set comprising the protective field to be monitored and at least one contour test object and the second scan field of the first field set comprising at least the region of the field test object. In a first test sequence, the protective field to be monitored is scanned with the first field set, with a positive first output signal only being generated when the contour test object is detected in the expected position in the first scan field and with a negative second output signal being generated when the field test object is detected in the second scan field of the first field set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: Sick AG
    Inventors: Walter Schneider, Otto Görnemann
  • Publication number: 20090066076
    Abstract: A security document with a security element, wherein the security element includes at least partly a material that is optically changeable by an electric or magnetic field. In addition, a corresponding method for producing such a security document and a test method for testing such a security document are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2008
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Applicant: GIESECKE & DEVRIENT GMBH
    Inventor: Walter Schneider
  • Patent number: 7449212
    Abstract: A security document with a security element, wherein the security element includes at least partly a material that is optically changeable by an electric or magnetic field. In addition, a corresponding method for producing such a security document and a test method for testing such a security document are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventor: Walter Schneider
  • Publication number: 20080252895
    Abstract: The invention relates to a test method for the testing of the functional capability of a monitoring sensor which scans a protective field to be monitored using a scanner. In accordance with the invention, at least one contour test object and one field test object are provided outside the protective field to be monitored. A field set is defined having at least two scan fields, with the first scan field of the first field set comprising the protective field to be monitored and at least one contour test object and the second scan field of the first field set comprising at least the region of the field test object. In a first test sequence, the protective field to be monitored is scanned with the first field set, with a positive first output signal only being generated when the contour test object is detected in the expected position in the first scan field and with a negative second output signal being generated when the field test object is detected in the second scan field of the first field set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2008
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Applicant: SICK AG
    Inventors: Walter Schneider, Otto Gornemann
  • Patent number: 7207490
    Abstract: A bar code is integrated in the paper in the form of a watermark. The fields (6) which separate the information-conveying bars of the bar code from each other are formed as watermarks. The information-conveying bars can be formed as watermarks, but they do not have to. Their width results from the spacing of the separating fields (6). The separating fields (6) are more narrow than the information-conveying bars, as a result of which the total length of the bar code is kept short.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventor: Walter Schneider
  • Publication number: 20060195780
    Abstract: Creating and executing real-time psychological experiments with sub-millisecond time precision uses a Hierarchical Experiment Spreadsheet (HES) providing a hierarchical data structure and interface. The user adds/modifies experiment levels in a spreadsheet multilevel table representation. New objects and properties are added while maintaining the hierarchical structure of the experiment and prohibiting user corruption of the experiments hierarchical structure. A Time Event Queue Manager (TEQM) provides precision timing using event pre-release synchronization, compensating for timing errors produced by the personal computer operating system and enabling sub-millisecond time precision.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2006
    Publication date: August 31, 2006
    Applicant: Psychology Software Tools Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Zuccolotto, Leroy Basler, Christopher Neff, Walter Schneider
  • Publication number: 20060124554
    Abstract: Use of aqueous dispersions comprising at least one at least partially neutralized ethylene copolymer wax selected from among ethylene copolymer waxes which comprise, as comonomers in copolymerized form, (A) from 26.1 to 39% by weight of at least one ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid and (B) from 61 to 73.9% by weight of ethylene, ?and ethylene copolymer waxes which comprise, in copolymerized form, (A?) from 20.5 to 38.9% by weight of at least one ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid, (B?) from 60 to 79.4% by weight of ethylene and (C?) from 0.1 to 15% by weight of at least one ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic ester, as auxiliaries for wastewater treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2004
    Publication date: June 15, 2006
    Applicant: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Fechtenkotter, Andreas Deckers, Michael Ehle, Siegfried Gast, Wolfgang Kasel, Frank-Olaf Mahling, Wilhelm Weber, Walter Schneider
  • Patent number: 7056356
    Abstract: An apparatus and a process for crystallizing substances from solutions or dispersions containing these substances, in a crystallizer containing a classifying zone (3), comprise a) an inner and an outer circulation system (1; 2), the inner circulation system (1) being present in the crystallizer, the inlet of the outer circulation system (2) being connected to the inner circulation system (1) via the classifying zone (3), the outer circulation system, being present outside the crystallizer, the outlet of the outer circulation system (2) being connected to the inner circulation system (1) of the crystallizer, and a means for dissolving crystals being arranged in the outer circulation system (2), before its outlet, b) an inflow (4) for solution and/or dispersion, which inflow is present on the crystallizer or on the outer circulation system, and c) an outflow (5) for dispersions, which outflow is arranged on the crystallizer or on the outer circulation system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Mark Allen, Christoph Gahn, Christopher William Rieker, Heinz-Walter Schneider, Robert Wagner
  • Publication number: 20050283068
    Abstract: Critical needs for MRI patient instruction, testing, comfort, motion control, and speech communication are provided for better imaging which leads to more effective medical care. An MRI Digital Video Projection System is disclosed which provides better quality display to the patient to better inform, instruct, test, and comfort the patient plus the potential to stimulate the brain with microsecond onset times to better diagnose brain function. An MRI Motion Tracker and Patient Augmented Visual Feedback System enables monitoring patient body part motion, providing real time feedback to the patient and/or technician to substantially improve diagnostic yield of scanning sessions, particularly for children and mentally challenged individuals. An MR Forward Predictive Noise Canceling Microphone System removes the intense MRI acoustic noise improving patient communication, patient safety and enabling coding of speech output. These systems can be used individually but maximum benefit is from providing all three.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2005
    Publication date: December 22, 2005
    Applicant: Psychology Software Tools, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Zuccolotto, Walter Schneider, Leroy Basler
  • Publication number: 20050237576
    Abstract: A bar code is integrated in the paper in the form of a watermark. The fields (6) which separate the information-conveying bars of the bar code from each other are formed as watermarks. The information-conveying bars can be formed as watermarks, but they do not have to. Their width results from the spacing of the separating fields (6). The separating fields (6) are more narrow than the information-conveying bars, as a result of which the total length of the bar code is kept short.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2003
    Publication date: October 27, 2005
    Applicant: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventor: Walter Schneider
  • Publication number: 20050181160
    Abstract: A security document with a security element, wherein the security element includes at least partly a material that is optically changeable by an electric or magnetic field. In addition, a corresponding method for producing such a security document and a test method for testing such a security document are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2003
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Applicant: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventor: Walter Schneider
  • Publication number: 20050150740
    Abstract: The invention relates to sheet material having an electrical circuit and to apparatuses and methods for processing said sheet material. The present invention describes sheet material having an electrical circuit as well as apparatuses and methods for processing same, which reduce the effort required for processing the sheet material and/or facilitate processing and/or improve it and/or make it more reliable. For this purpose, the sheet material has at least one electrical circuit, with energy and/or data being transmitted from the apparatus to the electrical circuit and/or from the electrical circuit to the apparatus and at least part of the transmitted data being used for processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2002
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventors: Klaus Finkenzeller, Thomas Giering, Manfred Heim, Thomas Hildebrandt, Ralf Hobmeier, Lars Hoffmann, Norbert Holl, Wittich Kaule, Friedrich Kretschmar, Markus Krombholz, Ralf Liebler, Thorsten Pillo, Harald Reiner, Walter Schneider, Eckart Schroeder-Bergen, Martin Seysen, Dieter Stein, Alexander Steinkogler, Christian Voellmer, Bernd Wunderer, Fabiola Bellersheim, Marius Dichtl, Juergen Schuetzmann
  • Patent number: 6782282
    Abstract: The present invention concerns the improvement of the supercurrent carrying capabilities, i.e. the increase of critical current densities, of bicrystalline or polycrystalline superconductor structures, especially of high-Tc superconductors. By providing an appropriate predetermined dopant profile across the superconductor structure, in particular within or in the vicinity of the grain boundaries, the space-charge layers at the grain boundaries are reduced and thereby the current transport properties of the superconductor significantly improved. Simultaneously, the influence of magnetic fields on the critical current densities is significantly reduced, which in turn enhances the overall supercurrent carrying capabilities while keeping the supercurrent transport properties of the grains at good values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2004
    Inventors: Hartmut Ulrich Bielefeldt, Barbel Martha Gotz, German Hammerl, Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Hilgenkamp, Jochen Dieter Mannhart, Andreas Fritz Albert Schmehl, Christof Walter Schneider, Robert Ralf Schulz
  • Publication number: 20040147403
    Abstract: The present invention concerns the improvement of the supercurrent carrying capabilities, i.e. the increase of critical current densities, of bicrystalline or polycrystalline superconductor structures, especially of high-Tc superconductors. By providing an appropriate predetermined dopant profile across the superconductor structure, in particular within or in the vicinity of the grain boundaries, the space-charge layers at the grain boundaries are reduced and thereby the current transport properties of the superconductor significantly improved. Simultaneously, the influence of magnetic fields on the critical current densities is significantly reduced, which in turn enhances the overall supercurrent carrying capabilities while keeping the supercurrent transport properties of the grains at good values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2003
    Publication date: July 29, 2004
    Inventors: Hartmut Ulrich Bielefeldt, Barbel Martha Gotz, German Hammerl, Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Hilgenkamp, Jochen Dieter Mannhart, Andreas Fritz Albert Schmehl, Christof Walter Schneider, Robert Ralf Schulz
  • Patent number: 6752171
    Abstract: A drive for a control valve has a drive force unit, a yoke for connecting to a valve in a fixed manner, a drive spindle for transmitting the movement of the drive force unit to the valve and a sensor unit for detecting the position of the valve. The sensor unit includes a magnetic track with a reoccurring structure which is integrated into the drive spindle, a sensor which is connected to the yoke of the drive in the vicinity of the magnetic track, which is suitable for detecting the changing magnetic field lines and at least one permanent magnet in the area of the magnetic track and the sensor, whose magnetic field lines penetrate both the magnetic track and the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Assignee: Samson Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Lothar Kemmler, Stefan Kolbenschlag, Walter Schneider
  • Publication number: 20040110693
    Abstract: Composition for the treatment of diabetes mellitus, comprising at least one plant bulk material in combination with at least one alpha-glucosidase inhibitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2004
    Publication date: June 10, 2004
    Inventors: Friedrich Trepel, Walter Schneider
  • Patent number: 6699820
    Abstract: The present invention concerns the improvement of the supercurrent carrying capabilities, i.e. the increase of critical current densities, of bicrystalline or polycrystalline superconductor structures, especially of high-Tc superconductors. By providing an appropriate predetermined dopant profile across the superconductor structure, in particular within or in the vicinity of the grain boundaries, the space-charge layers at the grain boundaries are reduced and thereby the current transport properties of the superconductor significantly improved. Simultaneously, the influence of magnetic fields on the critical current densities is significantly reduced, which in turn enhances the overall supercurrent carrying capabilities while keeping the supercurrent transport properties of the grains at good values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Inventors: Hartmut Ulrich Bielefeldt, Barbel Martha Gotz, German Hammerl, Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Hilgenkamp, Jochen Dieter Mannhart, Andreas Fritz Albert Schmehl, Christof Walter Schneider, Robert Ralf Schulz
  • Publication number: 20030180202
    Abstract: An apparatus and a process for crystallizing substances from solutions or dispersions containing these substances, in a crystallizer containing a classifying zone (3), comprise
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2002
    Publication date: September 25, 2003
    Inventors: Peter Mark Ellen, Christoph Gahn, Christopher William Rieker, Heinz-Walter Schneider, Robert Wagner
  • Publication number: 20030164611
    Abstract: The invention relates to a security paper for producing documents of value, such as bank notes, certificates, etc., with at least one multilayer security element. The security element is disposed at least partly on the surface of the security paper and has at least one visually checkable optical effect and at least one integrated circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2003
    Publication date: September 4, 2003
    Inventors: Walter Schneider, Lars Hoffman, Martin Loessl Zahedi