Patents by Inventor Wolf-Dietrich Linke

Wolf-Dietrich Linke 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).

  • Reactor plant and process for culturing phototropic microorganisms
    Patent number: 10344254
    Abstract: Reactor plant and process for culturing phototropic microorganisms with a reactor vessel and a photosynthetic module, which are connected with one another in a circulation circuit by a pump and can be controlled via a control unit, where in the circulation circuit or in the reactor vessel, a homogenizer is provided, where a light-intensity control of the photosynthetic module is provided, and where a bypass of the circulation circuit or of the reactor vessel with a filter device which is arranged externally of the reactor vessel for separating off extracellular products during the fermentation is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Sartorius AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Kahlert, Bernd-Ulrich Wilhelm, Wolf-Dietrich Linke
  • Bioreactor for culturing microorganisms
    Patent number: 7425441
    Abstract: A bioreactor for culturing microorganisms which has a reactor vessel, a plurality of gas-introduction tubes and a gas-introduction system for introducing gas into a culture medium in the gas-introduction tubes via injectors, wherein the gas-introduction tubes are connected by their respective lower end, in the vertical direction, to the reactor vessel and by their opposite upper end to the upper end of an upright vessel which is likewise connected by its lower end to the reactor vessel, and at the upper end of the upright vessel an expansion vessel is arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2008
    Assignee: Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH
    Inventors: Jürgen Broneske, Horst Franke, Otto Pulz, Heinz-Rüdiger Keitel, Wolf-Dietrich Linke, Bernd-Ulrich Wilhelm, Rainer Salzmann, Wolfgang Kröger, Mirko Riese
  • Reactor plant and process for culturing phototropic microorganisms
    Publication number: 20070231886
    Abstract: Reactor plant and process for culturing phototropic microorganisms with a reactor vessel and a photosynthetic module, which are connected with one another in a circulation circuit by a pump and can be controlled via a control unit, where in the circulation circuit or in the reactor vessel, a homogenizer is provided, where a light-intensity control of the photo-synthetic module is provided, and where a bypass of the circulation circuit or of the reactor vessel with a filter device which is arranged externally of the reactor vessel for separating off extracellular products during the fermentation is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2007
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Applicant: Sartorius AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Kahlert, Bernd-Ulrich Wilhelm, Wolf-Dietrich Linke
  • Bioreactor for culturing microorganisms
    Publication number: 20050255584
    Abstract: A bioreactor for culturing microorganisms which has a reactor vessel, a plurality of gas-introduction tubes and a gas-introduction system for introducing gas into a culture medium in the gas-introduction tubes via injectors, wherein the gas-introduction tubes are connected by their respective lower end, in the vertical direction, to the reactor vessel and by their opposite upper end to the upper end of an upright vessel which is likewise connected by its lower end to the reactor vessel, and at the upper end of the upright vessel an expansion vessel is arranged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2005
    Publication date: November 17, 2005
    Applicant: Sartorius AG
    Inventors: Jurgen Broneske, Horst Franke, Otto Pulz, Heinz-Rudiger Keitel, Wolf-Dietrich Linke, Bernd-Ulrich Wilhelm, Rainer Salzmann, Wolfgang Kroger, Mirko Riese