Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Schmidt

Wolfgang Schmidt 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: 20090286685
    Abstract: Between adjacent windings of a bifilar coil made of an HTS strip conductor in a resistive superconductive current limiter device, a spacer is provided which is transparent for a coolant. The spacer includes an electrically insulating support tape for sufficiently massive spacer elements attached thereon. The spacer elements are spaced and made of a material having high thermal conductivity. The spaces between the spacer elements form cooling channels for the coolant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2007
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Inventors: Hans-Peter Krämer, Wolfgang Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20090192096
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula I, in which R(1), R(2), R(3), R(4), R(5), R(6), R(7), R(8), R(30) and R(31) have the meanings indicated in the claims, are very particularly suitable as novel and antiarrythmic active compounds, in particular for the treatment and prophylaxis of atrial arrythmias, e.g. atrial fibrillation (AF), or atrial flutter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2009
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Applicant: SANOFI-AVENTIS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Joachim BRENDEL, Wolfgang SCHMIDT, Peter BELOW
  • Patent number: 7560147
    Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid-crystalline medium based on a mixture of polar compounds which comprises at least one compound of the formula I in which R11, R12, A1, A2, Z1, Z2, m and n have the meanings indicated in claim 1, and to the use thereof for an active-matrix display based on the ECB, PALC or IPS effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Melanie Klasen-Memmer, Matthias Bremer, Detlef Pauluth, Barbara Hornung, Wolfgang Schmidt, Rainer Wingen
  • Publication number: 20090172336
    Abstract: Memory allocation in a Broker system for managing the communication between a plurality of clients and a plurality of servers. The method may include allocating memory for a plurality of memory pools; and dividing each memory pool into memory blocks of a size which is specific to the type of a resource. The resource may be related to the communication managed by the Broker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2008
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Inventor: Wolfgang Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20090145981
    Abstract: The invention relates to a spray arm bearing (1) with a bearing element (2), for mounting a spray arm (20) and a flow-guide device (3), connected to the bearing element (2), whereby the bearing element (2) comprises a through opening for the passage of fluid. According to the invention, the base area (D2) of the flow-guide device (3) corresponds to the base area (D1) of the through opening or lies within the base area (D1) of the through opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2005
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Applicant: ELECTROLUX HOME PRODUCTS CORPORATION N.V.
    Inventors: Friedrich Mack, Wolfgang Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20090131446
    Abstract: Novel fused pyrazine compounds are disclosed that have a formula represented by the following: The compounds may be prepared as pharmaceutical compositions, and may be used for the prevention and treatment of a variety of conditions in mammals including humans, including by way of non-limiting example, inflammation, rheumatoid arthritis and others.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Inventors: Martin James Inglis Andrews, Mark Stuart Chambers, Wolfgang Schmidt, Gregory Louis Joseph Bar
  • Patent number: 7532095
    Abstract: An apparatus for remotely actuating a circuit breaker with two stable positions corresponding to a switch-on position and a switch-off position, has a drive mechanism with an electric motor. The apparatus further has first and second switches for switching the motor on and off, a transmission, a coupling mechanism for mechanically coupling the drive mechanism to the circuit breaker and a lever. The transmission can be positioned in two basic positions, and the lever is capable of being moved from a first end position into a second end position with the aid of the drive mechanism. The drive mechanism is configured such that, in the event of the lever being moved over manually from one end position into the other end position, one of the switches is actuated, with the result that the transmission is moved over from one basic position into the other basic position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Assignee: Ellenberger & Poensgen mbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Schmidt, Johann Kellermann
  • Publication number: 20090105242
    Abstract: Novel triazolopyridine compounds are disclosed that have a formula represented by the following: The compounds may be prepared as pharmaceutical compositions, and may be used for the prevention and treatment of a variety of conditions in mammals including humans, including by way of non-limiting example, ECM degradation, joint degradation and/or inflammation, and others.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Inventors: Paul John Edwards, Wolfgang Schmidt, Veronique Birault, Friedrich Erich Karl Kroll, Andrew Burritt, Xueliang Tao, Martin James Inglis Andrews, Sebastien Laurent Xavier Martina
  • Patent number: 7514582
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula I, in which R(1), R(2), R(3), R(4), R(5), R(6), R(7), R(8), R(30) and R(31) have the meanings indicated in the claims, are very particularly suitable as novel and antiarrythmic active compounds, in particular for the treatment and prophylaxis of atrial arrythmias, e.g. atrial fibrillation (AF), or atrial flutter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Brendel, Wolfgang Schmidt, Peter Below
  • Patent number: 7501411
    Abstract: Novel [1.2.4]triazolo[1,5-a]pyrazine compounds are disclosed that have a formula represented by the following: The compounds may be prepared as pharmaceutical compositions, and may be used for the prevention and treatment of a variety of conditions in mammals including humans, including by way of non-limiting example, pain, inflammation, and others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2009
    Assignee: Galapagos, NV
    Inventors: Martin James Inglis Andrews, Paul Edwards, Mark Stuart Chambers, Wolfgang Schmidt, Juha Andrew Clase, Gregory Bar, Kim Louise Hirst, Angus MacLeod
  • Publication number: 20090012078
    Abstract: Novel fused pyrazine compounds are disclosed that have a formula represented by the following: The compounds may be prepared as pharmaceutical compositions, and may be used for the prevention and treatment of a variety of conditions in mammals including humans, including by way of non-limiting example, inflammation, rheumatoid arthritis and others.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Inventors: Martin James Inglis Andrews, Mark Stuart Chambers, Wolfgang Schmidt, Giovanni Alessandro Tricarico, Gregory Louis Joseph Bar, Kim Louise Hirst, Olga Raquel Pinto Santos Oliveira Roussel, Juha Andrew Clase
  • Publication number: 20080305286
    Abstract: A process for producing a recording material printable with an ink jet printer and having a gel layer for that purpose comprises a) coating a support with a dispersion or solution of an organic gel former that is chemically crosslinkable by polycondensation or poly adduct formation, b) then effecting gel formation by polycondensation or poly adduct formation, and c) finally drying the gel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2006
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Applicants: Basf SE, Fel Sch jr. Foto- und Spez- papiere GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Volker Schadler, Chrystelle Egger, Roland Ettl, Wolfgang Schmidt, Frank Konietzni
  • Patent number: 7448929
    Abstract: Disclosed is a ship propulsion system comprising a synchronous machine (6) with an especially superconducting rotor winding that is to be subjected to intense cooling and a normally conducting stator winding (11) which is to be cooled. The stator winding (11) is disposed at least in part inside a support structure (14) encompassing a hollow cylindrical magnetically soft outer body (13) and web-type support teeth (21i) that extend in an axial and radial direction. A hollow cylindrical part (15a) of an exterior housing (15) encloses the outer body (13). In order to cool at least some areas of said housing part (15a), the stator winding (11) is thermally coupled to water as a cooling medium (K) via the support structure (14) and the housing part (15a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Norbert Huber, Jürgen Rieger, Wolfgang Schmidt, Bernd Wacker, Joachim Frauenhofer, Wolfgang Rzadki
  • Publication number: 20080193681
    Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid-crystalline medium based on a mixture of polar compounds which comprises at least one compound of the formula I in which R11, R12, A1, A2, Z1, Z2, m and n have the meanings indicated in claim 1, and to the use thereof for an active-matrix display based on the ECB, PALC or IPS effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2006
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Inventors: Melanie Klasen-Memmer, Matthias Bremer, Detlef Pauluth, Barbara Hornung, Wolfgang Schmidt, Rainer Wingen
  • Patent number: 7399505
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula (I) are described in which M1 is, for example, —CO—O— or a single bond A1 is, for example, 1,4-phenylene, R5 has the same possible definitions specified for R1, with the exception of -M1-A1-R5, but independently of the definition of R1 G1-G2 is CH2CH2, CH?CH, CF2CF2, CF?CF, CF?CH, CH?CF X1, X2, X3, X4, X5 are each independently H or F R1, Y1, Y2 are each independently a) H b) F where Y1, R1, (R1 and Y1) or (R1 and Y2) may also have the definitions c) and/or d), but only in each case not more than one of (R1 and Y1) and of (R1 and Y2) may have the definition d) c) is, for example, a straight-chain or branched alkyl radical having from 1 to 16 carbon atoms or a straight-chain or branched alkenyl radical having from 2 to 16 carbon atoms, d) -M1-A1-R5 with the following provisos: a) at least one of X1, X2, X3, X4, X5, G1-G2 is or contains F b1) when at least one of Y1 and X1 is F and/or G1-G2 contains F, it is possible for R1, X2, X3, X4 not to be F b2) when at least one of R1,
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2008
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Wingen, Barbara Hornung, Wolfgang Schmidt
  • Patent number: 7375986
    Abstract: A heating current used to inductively heat a metallic or magnetic work-piece is generated by an inverter supplied by a supply voltage. The inverter includes four switching elements arranged in an H-bridge circuit having two parallel longitudinal branches and a transverse branch. The switches are controlled so the heating current flows through the transverse branch. The diagonally opposed switching elements are switched from a conductive to a non-conductive state in a temporally staggered manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2008
    Assignee: Newfrey LLC
    Inventors: Klaus Schmitt, Wolfgang Schmidt, Heiko Scheffler
  • Patent number: 7371437
    Abstract: A liquid-crystalline medium based on a mixture of polar compounds having at least one compound of the formula I in which R11, R12 and have the meanings indicated in claim 1, is described. Also described is the use thereof for an active-matrix display based on the VA, ECB, PALC, FFS or IPS effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Melanie Klasen-Memmer, Matthias Bremer, Barbara Hornung, Wolfgang Schmidt, Rainer Wingen
  • Publication number: 20080108506
    Abstract: The resistive current-limiting device contains a strip-shaped superconductor having a conductive structure which is made of a metallic substrate strip, an insulating, oxidic buffer layer, a super-conductive layer made of a type AB2Cu3Ox oxidically high-Tc-super conductive material, an insulating buffer layer which is arranged therebetween, and a metal cover layer. At least one of the lateral edges of the conductive structure is mechanically deformed such that the cover layer and the substrate strip are arranged in electric contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2005
    Publication date: May 8, 2008
    Inventors: Hans-Peter Kraemer, Wolfgang Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20080108505
    Abstract: A strip-shaped superconductor has a conductor structure containing at least one metallic substrate strip, a layer made of oxidic high Tc superconducting material of the AB2Cu3OX type; an oxidic buffer layer, which is arranged therebetween and which has adapted crystalline dimensions, and; a normal-conductive top layer that is applied to the superconductive layer. The buffer layer should be formed so that a transition resistance of no greater than 10?3 ?cm2 is formed at least in partial areas between the superconductive layer and the substrate strip. For example, suitable materials are of the La—Mn—O or Sr—Ru—O or La—Ni—O or In—Sn—O type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2005
    Publication date: May 8, 2008
    Inventors: Hans-Peter Kramer, Wolfgang Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20080090818
    Abstract: Novel [1.2.4]triazolo[1,5-a]pyrazine compounds are disclosed that have a formula represented by the following: The compounds may be prepared as pharmaceutical compositions, and may be used for the prevention and treatment of a variety of conditions in mammals including humans, including by way of non-limiting example, pain, inflammation, and others.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2007
    Publication date: April 17, 2008
    Inventors: Martin James Andrews, Paul Edwards, Mark Chambers, Wolfgang Schmidt, Juha Clase, Gregory Bar, Kim Hirst, Angus MacLeod