Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Muller
Wolfgang Muller 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).
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Publication number: 20230349197Abstract: A pull-out locking device for pull-out guides of drawers comprises bolt units which each have a base element and a movably mounted bolt part which can be moved by an actuation part which, when an associated pull-out rail is pulled out, is moved together with the pull-out rail starting from the closing position over at least part of the pull-out section, is provided. A cable-like element can be deflected by one of the bolt parts, wherein a deflection reserve is reduced. When a bolt part is moved to a first and to a second actuation position, a deflection reserve of the cable-like element is reduced by a first partial amount and a second partial amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2021Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventor: Wolfgang MÜLLER
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Publication number: 20230339014Abstract: A casting roller or belt for a revolving chill mould of a strip casting system for the manufacture of an aluminium alloy strip and a strip casting system for manufacturing an aluminium alloy strip comprising at least one revolving chill mould with a casting gap. A method for manufacturing an aluminium alloy strip by means of a strip casting system. The object of providing a casting roller or belt or a strip casting system, by means of which, adhesion to the casting roller or belt is avoided during strip casting and a low-segregation and crack-free aluminium alloy strip can be produced, in particular under industrial conditions, is achieved by a specific surface structure, in that the surface of the casting roller or belt has a roughness value Sa of more than 5 ?m and an average peak count RPc(0.5 ?m) of less than 42 cm?1.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2023Publication date: October 26, 2023Applicant: Speira GmbHInventors: Kai-Friedrich Karhausen, Mark Badowski, Wolfgang Müller, Dirk Gade
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Publication number: 20230279699Abstract: A pull-out locking device for drawers is provided. The device comprises bolt units associated with one of the pull-out guides, each of which bolt units comprises a bolt part that is mounted so as to be movable between a passive position and an actuation position, wherein the bolt parts interact with a cable-like element or with a push element. When the device is locked, a pull-out rail can be pulled out over a remaining portion, with a retaining spring being deformed. When the device is locked, a locking portion is at least at the end of the remaining portion in a locked position and rests against a locking surface that is moved together with the pull-out rail. When the device is released, the locking portion is at least at the end of the remaining portion in a released position.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2021Publication date: September 7, 2023Inventor: Wolfgang Müller
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Publication number: 20230272646Abstract: A door arrangement contains a door for a room with a door leaf, a wall portion of a wall structure laterally adjacent to the door, and a locking arrangement for the door. The locking arrangement includes a locking device in the door leaf with a blocking element, which can be moved in and contrary to a blocking direction in order to block or release the door, and a lock actuator in the wall portion with a first mechanical actuating element, which is unconnected to the blocking element in order to shift the blocking element, by mechanical contact pressure, from the movement position into the blocking position and vice versa. A control and information system contains the door arrangement, a control device for the lock actuator, a human/machine interface, and a communication interface for an authorized body different from the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2023Publication date: August 31, 2023Inventors: Björn Müller, Florian Zager-Rode, Wolfgang Müller
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Patent number: 11677129Abstract: A microwave circulator including an integrated circuit having a number of ports and a respective ring segment coupled to each port to allow microwave frequency signals to be transferred between the port and the respective ring segment. The circulator includes multiple respective ring segments arranged to define multiple parallel circulator rings and at least one superconducting tunnel junction interconnecting each pair of adjacent ring segments and/or a plurality of superconducting tunnel junctions interconnecting each pair of adjacent ring segments to form a circulator ring. The ring segments are configured so that when a bias is applied to the tunnel junctions, signals undergo a phase shift as they traverse the tunnel junctions between ring segments, thereby propagating signals to an adjacent port in a propagation direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2019Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLANDInventors: Thomas Michael Stace, Clemens Wolfgang Müller
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Patent number: 11673184Abstract: A strip casting system for aluminium and/or aluminium alloys comprising a casting furnace and a revolving chill mould having a casting gap. The revolving chill mould is designed as a roll pair, roller pair, caterpillar pair or belt pair. The strip casting system has an active means for transporting metal melt from the casting furnace to the casting gap and a casting region arranged in front of the casting gap. The casting region is delimited on one side by the revolving chill mould. A melt pool is formed in the casting region, from which metal melt flows or is drawn into the casting gap. The casting furnace is connected to the casting region by a pipe system with means for feeding the metal melt into the casting region, which can feed the metal melt to the casting region below the surface of the melt pool formed in the casting region.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Speira GmbHInventors: Kai-Friedrich Karhausen, Ralph Bock, Manfred Langen, Wolfgang Müller, Mark Badowski
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Publication number: 20220166120Abstract: A microwave circulator including an integrated circuit having a number of ports and a respective ring segment coupled to each port to allow microwave frequency signals to be transferred between the port and the respective ring segment. The circulator includes multiple respective ring segments arranged to define multiple parallel circulator ring and at least one superconducting tunnel junction interconnecting each pair of adjacent ring segments and/or a plurality of superconducting tunnel junctions interconnecting each pair of adjacent ring segments to form a circulator ring. The ring segments are configured so that when a bias is applied to the tunnel junctions, signals undergo a phase shift as they traverse the tunnel junctions between ring segments, thereby propagating signals to an adjacent port in a propagation direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2019Publication date: May 26, 2022Inventors: Thomas Michael STACE, Clemens Wolfgang MÜLLER
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Patent number: 11331655Abstract: A method for preparing a homogenous catalyst for the production of linear alpha olefins includes: preparing a first pre-catalyst solution comprising a modifier and an organoaluminum compound in a first solvent wherein the first pre-catalyst solution is reacted and stored in a first vessel for a period of time of 1 hour to 90 days; preparing a second pre-catalyst solution comprising a second solvent, a ligand, and a chromium containing compound, wherein the second pre-catalyst solution is stored in a second vessel for a period of time of 1 hour to 90 days; and after a period of time, adding the first pre-catalyst solution to a catalyst pre-formation unit; after the same period of time, adding the second pre-catalyst solution to the catalyst pre-formation unit; forming a homogenous catalyst by mixing the first pre-catalyst solution and the second pre-catalyst solution; adding the homogeneous catalyst to a reaction vessel, wherein the reaction vessel comprises an alpha olefin; and forming the linear alpha olefinType: GrantFiled: December 21, 2017Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V.Inventors: Abdullah Saad Al-Dughaither, Shahid Azam, Abdulmajeed Mohammed Al-Hamdan, Dafer Mubarak Alshahrani, Sebastiano Licciulli, Anina Wohl, Wolfgang Muller, Heinz Bolt, Andreas Meiswinkel, Tobias Meier, Ralf Noack
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Publication number: 20220118507Abstract: A strip casting system for aluminium and/or aluminium alloys comprising a casting furnace and a revolving chill mould having a casting gap. The revolving chill mould is designed as a roll pair, roller pair, caterpillar pair or belt pair. The strip casting system has an active means for transporting metal melt from the casting furnace to the casting gap and a casting region arranged in front of the casting gap. The casting region is delimited on one side by the revolving chill mould. A melt pool is formed in the casting region, from which metal melt flows or is drawn into the casting gap. The casting furnace is connected to the casting region by a pipe system with means for feeding the metal melt into the casting region, which can feed the metal melt to the casting region below the surface of the melt pool formed in the casting region.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2021Publication date: April 21, 2022Applicant: Speira GmbHInventors: Kai-Friedrich Karhausen, Ralph Bock, Manfred Langen, Wolfgang Müller, Mark Badowski
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Patent number: 11285469Abstract: A method for preparing a homogenous catalyst for use in preparing a linear alpha olefin includes: preparing a first pre-catalyst solution by mixing a chromium source and a ligand in a first solvent, wherein the first pre-catalyst solution is stored in a first vessel; preparing a second pre-catalyst solution by mixing an organoaluminum compound and a modifier in a second solvent, wherein the second pre-catalyst solution is stored in a second vessel; and simultaneously feeding the first pre-catalyst solution and the second pre-catalyst solution directly into a reaction vessel, wherein the reaction vessel includes a third solvent.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2017Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V.Inventors: Abdullah Saad Al-Dughaither, Shahid Azam, Abdulmajeed Mohammed Al-Hamdan, Dafer Mubarak Alshahrani, Sebastiano Licciulli, Andreas Meiswinkel, Heinz Bolt, Wolfgang Muller, Anina Wohl
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Patent number: 11225444Abstract: A method of column control includes: passing a feed stream and a make-up stream through a column; withdrawing an overhead fraction from the column; purging at least a portion of the overhead fraction; cooling at least a portion of the overhead fraction in a heat exchanger and passing it through a reflux drum; withdrawing a purge stream and a distillate stream from the reflux drum, wherein the distillate stream has a constant flow rate; recycling at least a portion of the distillate stream back to the column; and passing at least a portion of the distillate stream to a downstream process.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2017Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V.Inventors: Abdullah Saad Al-Dughaiter, Shahid Azam, Abdulmajeed Mohammed Al-Hamdan, Dafer Mubarak Alshahrani, Ralf Noack, Tobias Meier, Gabriel Waurick, Heinz Bolt, Andreas Meiswinkel, Wolfgang Müller, Anina Wohl, Hans-Jorge Zander
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Patent number: 11158923Abstract: A microwave connector assembly comprises a waveguide ferrule having a receiving end receiving a dielectric waveguide, a connecting end distal to the receiving end, and a locking member, and a ferrule socket at least partially receiving the waveguide ferrule in a ferrule receptacle. The ferrule socket engages in a locking connection with the locking member. The ferrule socket has a coding member engaging a complementary coding member of the waveguide ferrule only when the waveguide ferrule is positioned relative to the ferrule socket in a single predetermined angular position or in one of two predetermined angular positions that are rotated by 180° with respect to each other.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2019Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Christian Rusch, Carlos Almeida, Günther Mumper, Stefan Glaser, Rolf Jetter, Jörg Bieber, Martin Seifert, Wolfgang Müller, Andreas Engel, Nhu Lam Nguyen
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Patent number: 11041996Abstract: A wave conductor for electromagnetic waves, waveguide connector and communications link A wave conductor for electromagnetic waves, preferably a millimeter-wave wave conductor, in particular for a digital communication application, with a conductor core and a one conductor sheathing. The conductor sheathing surrounds the conductor core at least partially in the longitudinal direction and at least partially in the circumferential direction of the wave conductor. One longitudinal section of the wave conductor has cross-sections which deviate from a circle at the outside of the wave conductor and/or at the outside of the conductor sheathing. Further, a waveguide connector for electromagnetic waves, preferably millimeter-wave waveguide connectors, in particular flying or installable waveguide connectors for a wave conductor. The waveguide connector has a wave conductor plug-in recess in which a longitudinal section of the wave conductor is directly placeable.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2018Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignees: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH, Huber + Suhner AGInventors: Christian Rusch, Carlos Almeida, Gunther Mumper, Stefan Glaser, Rolf Jetter, Jorg Bieber, Martin Seifert, Andreas Engel, Wolfgang Muller, Lam Nyguyen Nhu, Ulf Hugel
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Publication number: 20210130265Abstract: A method of column control includes: passing a feed stream and a make-up stream through a column; withdrawing an overhead fraction from the column; purging at least a portion of the overhead fraction; cooling at least a portion of the overhead fraction in a heat exchanger and passing it through a reflux drum; withdrawing a purge stream and a distillate stream from the reflux drum, wherein the distillate stream has a constant flow rate; recycling at least a portion of the distillate stream back to the column; and passing at least a portion of the distillate stream to a downstream process.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2017Publication date: May 6, 2021Inventors: Abdullah Saad Al-Dughaiter, Shahid Azam, Abdulmajeed Mohammed Al-Hamdan, Dafer Mubarak Alshahrani, Ralf Noack, Tobias Meier, Gabriel Waurick, Heinz Bolt, Andreas Meiswinkel, Wolfgang Müller, Anina Wohl, Hans-Jorge Zander
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Patent number: 10994150Abstract: A radiation device is for the radiation of human skin, preferably the face of a user, in particular at least with radiation in the red light range, with a source of radiation and a filtering device for filtering the radiation emitted by the source of radiation. The filtering device is configured in such a way that the radiation device emits radiation in a wavelength range from 280 to 400 nm and beyond that radiation in a wavelength range of 600 to 700 nm, and that the radiation device emits at least zonally radiation in a wavelength range of a visible color shade of the visible light spectrum and filters further radiation of the visible light spectrum.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2018Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: WM BEAUTYSYSTEMS AG & Co. KGInventor: Wolfgang Müller
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Patent number: 10882926Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing a catalyst composition for the oligomerization of ethylene and a respective catalyst composition pre-formation unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2012Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: SABIC Global Technologies B.V.Inventors: Anina Wohl, Wolfgang Muller, Heinz Bolt, Andreas Meiswinkel, Uwe Rosenthal, Bernd Muller, Normen Peulecke, Christian Thaller, Marco Harff, Stephan Peitz, Fuad Mosa, Mohammed H. Al-Hazmi, Shahid Azam
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Patent number: 10758881Abstract: A method for processing an oligomerization product stream includes discharging the oligomerization product stream from an oligomerization reactor through a product outlet line, and heating the oligomerization product stream, heating a wall of the product outlet line, or both. The oligomerization product stream includes solvent, linear alpha olefins, a polymer byproduct, or a combination of at least one of the foregoing. The heating is to a temperature that is greater than the melting temperature of the polymer byproduct present in the oligomerization product stream.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2017Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignees: SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V., LINDE AGInventors: Abdullah Alqahtani, Shahid Azam, Anina Wöhl, Wolfgang Müller, Andreas Meiswinkel, Heinz Bölt, Ralf Noack, Andreas Metzner, Andre Porebski, Tobias Meier
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Publication number: 20200139334Abstract: A method of temperature control includes: passing a feed stream comprising ethylene through a reactor at a feed location; withdrawing an outlet steam comprising linear alpha olefins from the reactor; passing the outlet stream through a condensate vessel, wherein the outlet stream is split into a vapor fraction and a liquid fraction within the condensate vessel; withdrawing the vapor fraction from the condensate vessel and recycling it back to the feed stream; and withdrawing the liquid fraction from the condensate vessel and injecting it into the reactor at an injection location.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2017Publication date: May 7, 2020Inventors: Abdullah Saad Al-Dughaiter, Shahid Azam, Abdulmajeed Mohammed Al-Hamdan, Dafer Mubarak Alshahrani, Ralf Noack, Tobias Meier, Gabriel Waurick, Heinz Bolt, Anina Wohl, Wolfgang Müller, Andreas Meiswinkel, Hans-Jorg Zander
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Patent number: D953540Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2020Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: KARL STORZ SE & CO. KGInventors: Kay Behrendt, Alexander Sabo, Rainer Schairer, Wolfgang Müller-Beiter
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Patent number: D970780Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2016Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Stefan Behling, David Summerfield, David Nelson, James McGrath, Wolfgang Muller, Krzysztof Szymanski, Rafe Bertram, Lorenzo Poli, Bernd Richter, Robert Bridger, Jonathan P. Siegel, Vasco Agnoli, Casey Feeney