Patents by Inventor Wilhelm Meier

Wilhelm Meier 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: 8672679
    Abstract: A dental tool includes a working head 3 rotatable about a rotational axis 1 and attached to a shaft 2, which working head is provided with cutting edges 4, 5. Cutting edges 4 of a first toothing are formed about a complete periphery of the working head 3, cutting edges 5 of a second toothing are formed additionally at sector-type partial regions of the working head 3, and sector-type regions are provided at a front face 6 of the working head 3, in which the cutting edges 4, 5 of the first and second toothing end alternatingly in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Gebr. Brasseler GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Friedrich Wilhelm Meier, Markus Niemeier
  • Publication number: 20130328535
    Abstract: The invention relates to a current output stage (100) comprising an input (IN), an output (OUT) for connecting to an input of a unit (200) to be supplied with current, a control stage (T1, T2, Z1), which sets the output current (Iout), and an energy supply stage (Uv;Uv,?Uv), which can provide energy for the output current (Iout). The current output stage (100) comprises a first transistor (T1), which controls the output current in a closed-loop in the passive operating mode, and the current output stage (100) contains a second transistor (T2; T2, T3), which controls the output current (Iout) in a closed-loop in the active operating mode, wherein the first transistor (T1) and the second transistor (T2; T2, T3) is controlled by a control stage OP1) in an open loop, and wherein in the active operating mode the energy supply stage (Uv;Uv,?Uv) is controlled in an open loop such that same provides energy for the output current (Iout).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2011
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Heinz-Wilhelm Meier
  • Publication number: 20130297350
    Abstract: A medical device and caretaking management system (10) includes a plurality of medical devices (14) that transmit equipment data and patient data. A central or distributed monitoring system (12) receives the equipment data and patient data from the plurality of medical devices, derives an acuity for each of the patients, and assigns caregivers and equipment based on the derived acuity for display on a display device (26).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
    Inventors: Brian David Gross, John Louis Barga, Martin Bufe, Elizabeth Zengo, Andreas Pirrung, Guenter Gegner, Wilhelm Meier
  • Publication number: 20130027411
    Abstract: A patient monitoring system includes a display that displays a plurality of sectors including one or more icons. A controller is configured to display patient data received from a patient monitoring system in a corresponding sector of the display. The controller programmed to determine patient status from the patient data and display the patient status as an icon on the display. The icon is color-coded with the severity or deviation from normal of the patient status. The icon can also include an arrow that indicates if the patient status is improving or deteriorating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
    Inventors: Sebastian HEBLER, Guenter GEGNER, Wilhelm MEIER, Gerhard TIVIG, Bernd Steffen Heiner GAERTNER
  • Publication number: 20120302420
    Abstract: What is proposed is a centrifugal droplet separator for separating liquid droplets out of a feed gas stream comprising them, with a vertical longitudinal axis and circular cross section, with a jacket (1) and with hoods (2) at the upper and lower ends of the jacket (1), with tangential supply (3) of the feed gas stream comprising liquid droplets at the jacket (1) and with an outlet stub (4) for the liquid separated out in the centrifugal droplet separator in the region of the lower hood (2), and with a gas outlet stub (7) for the gas stream cleaned in the centrifugal droplet separator in the region of the upper hood (2), wherein two, three or more inlet orifices (9) arranged symmetrically on the circumference of the upper hood (2) for tangential supply of cleaning liquid are provided in the same direction as the supply of the feed gas stream comprising liquid droplets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Jörg Halpap, Andreas Bode, Eberhard Hermann, Markus Linsenbühler, Bernd Sachweh, Michael Pilz, Michael Mertler, Matthias Wilhelm Meier
  • Publication number: 20120285322
    Abstract: What is proposed is an apparatus for separating liquid droplets out of a feed gas stream comprising them comprising a delay vessel (1) for preliminary separation of some of the liquid droplets out of the feed gas stream under the action of gravity, with an inlet line (2) for the feed gas stream into the delay vessel (1) and an outlet line (3) for the gas stream which has been depleted of liquid droplets and flows out of the delay vessel (1), and tangential supply thereof into a centrifugal droplet separator (4), the outlet line (3) being arranged in the upper region of the delay vessel (1) and being spaced apart from the inlet line (2) to such an extent that the delay time of the gas stream in the delay vessel (1) is at a maximum, and with an outlet line (5) for the liquid separated in the delay vessel (1) at the base thereof, and wherein the centrifugal droplet separator (4) used is an axially symmetric apparatus with a vertical longitudinal axis and circular cross section, with a jacket and hoods at the upp
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Joerg Halpap, Andreas Bode, Eberhard Herrmann, Markus Linsenbuehler, Bernd Sachweh, Michael Pilz, Michael Mertler, Matthias Wilhelm Meier
  • Publication number: 20120009543
    Abstract: A dental tool includes a working head 3 rotatable about a rotational axis 1 and attached to a shaft 2, which working head is provided with cutting edges 4, 5. Cutting edges 4 of a first toothing are formed about a complete periphery of the working head 3, cutting edges 5 of a second toothing are formed additionally at sector-type partial regions of the working head 3, and sector-type regions are provided at a front face 6 of the working head 3, in which the cutting edges 4, 5 of the first and second toothing end alternatingly in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: GEBR. BRASSELER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Friedrich Wilhelm MEIER, Markus NIEMEIER
  • Publication number: 20110268634
    Abstract: The invention relates to a monolithic support member comprising channels with walls separating the channels from each other and having a coating deposited thereon, the non-coated channels having a polygonal cross-section profile, wherein the mean thickness dC of the coating in a corner of said cross-section profile is smaller than or equal to the mean thickness dE of the coating on an edge of said cross-section profile plus 85 micrometer; and further relates to a method for the preparation of such coated monolithic support member, the method comprising (i) providing a suspension having a viscosity in the range of from 0.5 to 100 mPas and having a solid content in the range of from 1 to 40 wt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Applicants: BASF Corporation, BASF SE
    Inventors: Markus Linsenbühler, Bernd Sachweh, Saadallah Nemeh, Michel Deeba, Michael Mertler, Matthias Wilhelm Meier
  • Patent number: 7859427
    Abstract: Arrangement and method for electrically isolated transmission of direct-current and alternating-current signals. The signals can be transmitted in both directions via the same and only DC-isolated channel. The arrangement comprises a first transmit-and-receive system (1), a direct-current transmitter (4) in short-circuit mode, an operational amplifier arrangement (5), and a second transmit-and-receive system (2) with a message signal transmitter (9).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Joerg Blanke, Heinz-Wilhelm Meier
  • Publication number: 20090243765
    Abstract: Arrangement and method for electrically isolated transmission of direct-current and alternating-current signals. The signals can be transmitted in both directions via the same and only DC-isolated channel. The arrangement comprises a first transmit-and-receive system (1), a direct-current transmitter (4) in short-circuit mode, an operational amplifier arrangement (5), and a second transmit-and-receive system (2) with a message signal transmitter (9).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2007
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Applicant: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Joerg Blanke, Heinz-Wilhelm Meier
  • Patent number: 7391252
    Abstract: A circuit arrangement in which the temperature dependency of the short-circuit current and/or the influence of the output signal by the load current are at least partially avoided has first and second input connections, first and second output connections, a supply voltage connection as well as with a voltage-controlled voltage source, an output stage and a short-circuit protective circuit, whereby the output signal from an input voltage applied to input connections is generated via voltage-controlled voltage source and output stage. The circuit arrangement is characterized in that a voltage sequencing circuit and a shunting resistor connected in parallel to voltage sequencing circuit are part of the short-circuit protective circuit and in that a parallel circuit formed of the voltage sequencing circuit and a shunting resistor is connected to the second output connection and second input connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Assignee: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Heinz-Wilhelm Meier
  • Publication number: 20070166664
    Abstract: A dental cutter includes a cutter head adapted for attachment to a shaft, the head being provided with a plurality of cutting edges, the cutter head including two cross-cuts which are respectively formed helically at the cutter head, wherein the two cross-cuts extend with an opposite twist.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2007
    Publication date: July 19, 2007
    Inventors: Friedrich Wilhelm Meier, Josef Hecke
  • Patent number: 7149570
    Abstract: A system and a method for monitoring a physiological parameter of a patient providing a measurement-modulated acoustic signal (7) after/when a measurement value of the monitored physiological parameter exceeds an alarm limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Klaus Ellscheid, Wilhelm Meier, Harald Greiner, Jan Romeyn
  • Publication number: 20060250175
    Abstract: A circuit arrangement in which the temperature dependency of the short-circuit current and/or the influence of the output signal by the load current are at least partially avoided has first and second input connections, first and second output connections, a supply voltage connection as well as with a voltage-controlled voltage source, an output stage and a short-circuit protective circuit, whereby the output signal from an input voltage applied to input connections is generated via voltage-controlled voltage source and output stage. The circuit arrangement is characterized in that a voltage sequencing circuit and a shunting resistor connected in parallel to voltage sequencing circuit are part of the short-circuit protective circuit and in that a parallel circuit formed of the voltage sequencing circuit and a shunting resistor is connected to the second output connection and second input connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2005
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Applicant: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Heinz-Wilhelm Meier
  • Publication number: 20050229110
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of optimizing the presentation on a display screen of objects of a user interface which can be freely positioned and scaled by means of control elements. This is realized by means of a predetermined calculation rule in such a manner that the objects can be automatically varied between a still readable minimum size and a selected maximum size in dependence on the object contents, selected preferred settings and the available display resource on the display screen, and that the available display screen surface is optimally filled, possibly while eliminating less important details of the object contents and while changing the display mode of the object contents and/or the object as well as while avoiding mutual overlapping of the objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2003
    Publication date: October 13, 2005
    Inventors: Gunter Gegner, Harald Greiner, Wilhelm Meier, Uli Tessel
  • Publication number: 20040249296
    Abstract: A system and a method for monitoring a physiological parameter of a patient providing a measurement-modulated acoustic signal (7) after/when a measurement value of the monitored physiological parameter exceeds an alarm limit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2004
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Inventors: Klaus Ellscheid, Wilhelm Meier, Harald Greiner, Jan Romeyn
  • Patent number: 6731311
    Abstract: A patient monitoring system includes a plurality of patient monitors, each for monitoring the physiological condition of a local patient connected with respective patient monitor, whereby the patient monitors provide a data-communication with each other. Each patient monitor comprises a display adapted for displaying information representative of the physiological condition of the local patient. The display of at least one of the patient monitors comprises an overview area for displaying status information from one or more of the other patient monitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Martin Bufe, Wilhelm Meier
  • Publication number: 20010014769
    Abstract: Disclosed is a patient monitoring system with a plurality of patient monitors, each for monitoring the physiological condition of a local patient connected with respective patient monitor, whereby the patient monitors provide a data-communication with each other Each patient monitor comprises a display (300) adapted for displaying information representative of the physiological condition of the local patient. The display (300) of at least one of the patient monitors comprises an overview area (310) for displaying status information from one or more of the other patient monitors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2001
    Publication date: August 16, 2001
    Inventors: Martin Bufe, Wilhelm Meier
  • Patent number: 5262944
    Abstract: A centralized patient monitoring system includes a central station which receives patient information from bedside monitors. The patient information is presented on a video display screen and may include patient demographic information, physiological parameters and a waveform. The display screen is divided into sectors, with each sector containing information for one patient. When an alarm condition occurs at one of the bedside monitors, the alarm condition is transmitted to the central station and is displayed in the corresponding sector of the video display screen. In addition, the alarm condition is highlighted by changing the background in the alarming sector from its normal color, typically black, to a neutral color such as blue, which is easily distinguishable from the normal color and which does not obscure the patient information being displayed. The background of the sector is changed back to the normal color when the alarm is acknowledged by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1993
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Company
    Inventors: Steven J. Weisner, James M. Grady, Wilhelm Meier, Frank Weber
  • Patent number: 5189609
    Abstract: An input device, in particular for a medical monitoring system, comprises a keyboard, a screen and a control processor. The keyboard comprises various hardkeys enabling access to an object mode in which the user may enter an object to be manipulated. Once an object is selected, the device enters a task/action mode in which the user may define an action to be performed on the selected object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1993
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Company
    Inventors: Gerhard Tivig, Wilhelm Meier, Egon Pfeil