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).

  • Publication number: 20200115296
    Abstract: A method of producing linear alpha olefins includes: introducing a catalyst stream and a first solvent stream to a reactor, wherein the reactor comprises a distributor; introducing a second solvent stream above the distributor, wherein the catalyst stream, the first solvent stream, and the second solvent stream form a reaction solution; introducing a feed stream to the reactor; passing the feed stream through the distributor; and passing the feed stream through the reaction solution, producing an oligomerization reaction forming the linear alpha olefins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Dafer Mubarak Al-Shahrani, Shahid Azam, Hans-Jörg Zander, Wolfgang Muller, Anina Wohl, Andreas Meiswinkel, Ralf Noack, Tobias Meier, Harald Schmaderer
  • Publication number: 20200030626
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: WM BEAUTYSYSTEMS AG & Co. KG
    Inventor: Wolfgang Müller
  • Publication number: 20200028229
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicant: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Rusch, Carlos Almeida, Günther Mumper, Stefan Glaser, Rolf Jetter, Jörg Bieber, Martin Seifert, Wolfgang Müller, Andreas Engel, Nhu Lam Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20190351403
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Abdullah Saad Al-Dughaither, Shahid Azam, Abdulmajeed Mohammed Al-Hamdan, Dafer Mubarak Alshahrani, Sebastiano Licciulli, Andreas Meiswinkel, Heinz Bolt, Wolfgang Muller, Anina Wohl
  • Publication number: 20190322965
    Abstract: A process for flushing an oligomerization reactor is described, including flushing the oligomerization reactor with a flushing medium comprising C6 linear alpha olefins, C8 linear alpha olefins, C10 linear alpha olefins, or a combination including at least one of the foregoing, to provide a purge stream comprising the C6 linear alpha olefins, C8 linear alpha olefins, C10 linear alpha olefins, or a combination including at least one of the foregoing, and a polymer byproduct of an oligomerization reaction. A process for the oligomerization of an olefin is also described, wherein the process includes oligomerizing the olefin in the reactor to form a reaction product stream comprising linear alpha olefins, and subsequently flushing the oligomerization reactor according to the process disclosed herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Abdullah Alqahtani, Shahid Azam, Shehzada Khurram, Anina Wöhl, Wolfgang Müller, Andreas Meiswinkel, Heinz Bölt, Ralf Noack, Marco Harff, Gabriel Waurick, Tobias Meier
  • Publication number: 20190314798
    Abstract: 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 olefin
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    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
  • Patent number: 10421064
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a catalyst composition and a process for the oligomerization of ethylene to produce 1-hexene or 1-octene, wherein the catalyst composition comprises a chromium compound; an NPNPN ligand of the formula (R1) (R2)N—P(R3)—N(R4)—P(R5)—N(R6)(R7), wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6 and R7 are each independently hydrogen, halogen, amino, trimethylsilyl or C1-C20 hydrocarbyl, preferably straight-chain or branched C1-C10 alkyl, phenyl, C6-C20 aryl or C6-C20 alkyl-substituted phenyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V.
    Inventors: Mohammed H. Al-Hazmi, Abdullah Alqahtani, Uwe Rosenthal, Bernd H. Muller, Normen Peulecke, Marco Harff, Anina Wohl, Andreas Meiswinkel, Heinz Bolt, Wolfgang Muller
  • Patent number: 10413963
    Abstract: A ring rolling device includes a drive roller and a rotatable revolving drum, in which five mandrels are rotatably mounted. Ring blanks can be mounted around the mandrels. By rotating the revolver drum, the mandrels move towards and away from the drive roller. The revolver drum is arranged in relation to the drive roller such that by rotating the revolver drum a decreasing roll gap is formed between a mandrel approaching the drive roller and the drive roller, in which roll gap a ring blank mounted around the mandrel is rolled during the rotating of the revolver drum. The revolver drum has four rotatably mounted support rollers, said support rollers supporting the mandrel in the direction of the rotational axis of the revolving drum, such that, during the rolling process, the mandrel is located between the support rollers and the press element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Hatebur Umformmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Andreas Maritz, Wolfgang Müller, Pascal Stemmelin, Thomas Christoffel
  • Patent number: 10407359
    Abstract: A process for deactivation of an olefin oligomerization catalyst is described, including contacting a catalyst composition with a catalyst quenching medium to form a deactivated catalyst composition, and recovering excess catalyst quenching medium. The catalyst quenching medium includes an alcohol having at least 6 carbon atoms, an organic amine, an amino alcohol, or a combination comprising at least one of the foregoing. The catalyst quenching medium is present in a molar ratio of catalyst quenching medium to catalyst of at least 3:1. A process for the oligomerization of an olefin is also described, including feeding the olefin, a solvent, and a catalyst composition into a reactor, oligomerizing the olefin in the reactor to form a reaction product stream including linear alpha olefins, solvent, and the catalyst composition, and contacting the reaction product stream with a catalyst quenching medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V.
    Inventors: Abdullah Alqahtani, Anina Wöhl, Wolfgang Müller, Marco Harff, Heinz Bölt, Andreas Metzner, Ralf Noack, Lars-Erik Gärtner, Andreas Meiswinkel
  • Publication number: 20190105625
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Abdullah Alqahtani, Shahid Azam, Anina Wöhl, Wolfgang Müller, Andreas Meiswinkel, Heinz Bölt, Ralf Noack, Andreas Metzner, Andre Porebski, Tobias Meier
  • Publication number: 20190099113
    Abstract: Method for detecting a tilt fall or a risk of a tilt fall, proposed with the following steps: detecting a center of gravity position of a center of gravity of the human which represents an actual center of mass of the human or an approximation to it, detecting a position of a standing basis of the human or an approximation to it, detecting connection information regarding a spatial connection between the center of gravity and the standing basis, comprising the steps detecting an angular position of at least one lower leg of a leg to the associated thigh and the angular position of the same thigh to the torso and calculating a relative position of an ankle or at least a part of a foot or a footwear of the leg in relation to the center of gravity as connection information, wherein the angular positions between the lower leg and thigh as well as between thigh and torso as well as lengths of the lower leg and the thigh as well as a relative position between the hip joint of the leg and the torso are used, and der
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventors: Gunther Röder, Wolfgang Müller-Adam
  • Publication number: 20190025525
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Applicants: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH, Huber + Suhner AG
    Inventors: Christian Rusch, Carlos Almeida, Gunther Mumper, Stefan Glaser, Rolf Jetter, Jorg Bieber, Martin Seifert, Andreas Engel, Wolfgang Muller, Lam Nyguyen Nhu, Ulf Hugel
  • Patent number: 10112876
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the oligomerization of ethylene, comprising: a) oligomerization of ethylene in a reactor in the presence of solvent and catalyst; b) transferring reactor overhead effluent to an externally located cooling device and recycling condensed effluent into the reactor; c) transferring the reactor bottom effluent to a series of fractionation columns and, in the following order, i) optionally separating a C4 fraction, ii) separating a C6 fraction, iii) simultaneously separating C8 and C10 fractions and recycling thereof into the reactor , and iv) separating residues comprising ?C12 fractions, spent catalyst polymer material and quench media, from the process, wherein the solvent is separated in any of the steps i)-iv)and/or in an additional step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shahid Majeed Azam, Abduljelil Iliyas, Abdullah Mohammad Alqahtani, Shehzada Khurram, Anina Wöhl, Wolfgang Müller, Marco Harff, Andreas Meiswinkel, Heinz Bölt
  • Patent number: 10100433
    Abstract: A substrate holder having a base plate where a plurality of protruding poles is arranged, said poles spaced apart from one another by intermediate spaces. Alternatively or in addition, a plasma reactor for depositing diamond from the gas phase may be provided, the plasma reactor comprising such a substrate holder. A method for depositing diamond from the gas phase may be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V
    Inventors: Christoph E. Nebel, Wolfgang Müller-Sebert, Claudia Widmann, Nicola Heidrich, Christoph Schreyvogel
  • Publication number: 20180258009
    Abstract: A process for deactivation of an olefin oligomerization catalyst is described, including contacting a catalyst composition with a catalyst quenching medium to form a deactivated catalyst composition, and recovering excess catalyst quenching medium. The catalyst quenching medium includes an alcohol having at least 6 carbon atoms, an organic amine, an amino alcohol, or a combination comprising at least one of the foregoing. The catalyst quenching medium is present in a molar ratio of catalyst quenching medium to catalyst of at least 3:1. A process for the oligomerization of an olefin is also described, including feeding the olefin, a solvent, and a catalyst composition into a reactor, oligomerizing the olefin in the reactor to form a reaction product stream including linear alpha olefins, solvent, and the catalyst composition, and contacting the reaction product stream with a catalyst quenching medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Applicants: SABIC Global Technologies B.V., LINDE AG
    Inventors: Abdullah Alqahtani, Anina Wöhl, Wolfgang Müller, Marco Harff, Heinz Bölt, Andreas Metzner, Ralf Noack, Lars-Erik Gärtner, Andreas Meiswinkel
  • Patent number: 9945440
    Abstract: A device for damping the movement of a movably mounted component includes a first, mechanically acting braking device with at least one friction pair, wherein, in order to generate a braking force, a driven friction surface can be rotated about an axis of the first braking device relative to a secured friction surface resting thereon, and a second braking device which is coupled to the first braking device, wherein the friction surfaces of the friction pair, or of at least one of the friction pairs, are pressed against each other in response to a braking force exerted by the second braking device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: FULTERER Gesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Muller, Edwin Grubel
  • Patent number: 9896391
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing linear ?-olefins, wherein ethylene 1a is conducted into the oligomerization reactor 2 in the liquid phase. The oligomerization reactor 2 has a mechanical stirrer 2a in order to ensure optimal mixing of the liquid ethylene and of the catalyst in the liquid phase. From the top of the oligomerization reactor 2, vaporized ethylene is drawn off together with light ?-olefins and a small proportion of the organic solvent. The gas mixture drawn off from the top of the reactor 2 is condensed together with gaseous fresh ethylene 7 by means of heat exchanger 3 and separator 4. The liquid phase drawn off from the separator 4 is conducted by means of circulation pump 5a as liquid ethylene input 1a back into the oligomerization reactor 2. The liquid products of the oligomerization reaction are drawn off 8 laterally from the base of the reactor 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: LINDE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Karl Heinz Hofmann, Hans Jorg Zander, Anton Wellenhofer, Wolfgang Muller, Anina Wohl
  • Patent number: 9894994
    Abstract: A pull-out guide for pulling a pull-out furniture part out of a basic furniture structure, having at least a first and second guide rails, displaceable relative to one another in and counter to the pull-out direction. The first guide rail has a basic profile and at least one lateral-guidance unit retained on the basic profile and has a lateral-guidance part. The lateral-guidance part, which limits play of the second guide rail relative to the first guide rail in at least a transverse direction extending at right angles to the pull-out direction, interacts with a lateral-guidance surface of the second guide rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: FULTERER GESELLSCHAFT MBH
    Inventors: Karl Raid, Wolfgang Muller
  • Patent number: 9777789
    Abstract: A device for damping the movement of a movably mounted component comprises a braking device which has a driven damper surface that cooperates with a secured damper surface to enclose a gap in which a viscous damping medium is present that causes a braking force of the braking device when the driven damper surface is rotated with respect to the secured damper surface, the braking force depending on the rotational speed of the driven damper surface. The device also has an additional braking device and a coupling. In the closed state of the coupling, at least one additional damper surface of the additional braking device driven by the movement of the component about an axis of the auxiliary braking device is rotated relative to at least one secured additional damper surface about the axis of the additional braking device, the additional braking device exerting an additional braking force. In the opened state of the coupling, the additional braking device is inactive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: FULTERER Gesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Muller, Edwin Grubel
  • Patent number: 9777513
    Abstract: A device for blocking the pull-out movement of pull-out furniture parts including, for each of the pull-out furniture parts, a driver, a blocking unit which has a shiftable actuating, and a retraction spring and blocking rods which cooperate with the actuating parts, a respective actuating part that is shifted due to movement of the driver when the pull-out furniture part is pulled out and that displaces a blocking rod in a longitudinal axis direction, the blocking rods being blocked from any further axial displacement by a stop. Each of the blocking units has a pivotable catch arm that swivelable about a stationary pivot axis lying parallel to the longitudinal axes of the blocking rods and is loaded by the refraction spring, the catch arm being pivoted by the driver from an initial position to a final position when the pull-out furniture part is pulled out, thereby shifting the actuating part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: FULTERER Gesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Muller, Edwin Grubel