Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Weinmann
Wolfgang Weinmann 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: 20240015486Abstract: A dental device system includes a dental device configured to transmit data via a narrowband network to a computing device that outputs a notification indicative of a device management operation. The dental device system includes a computing device and a dental device. The dental device includes a sensor configured to generate a signal indicative of a condition of the dental device and communication circuitry configured to receive the signal from the sensor and transmit data indicative of a health of the dental device via a narrowband network to the computing device. The computing device is configured to determine, based on the data indicative of the health of the dental device, the health of the dental device; determine, based on the health, a device management operation; and output a notification indicative of the device management operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2021Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Rudolf Schmid, Wolfgang Weinmann
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Patent number: 11738372Abstract: A system (1) for washing a 3D-printed object (4). The system (1) has a washing device (2) and a workpiece (3) that includes the 3D-printed object (4). The washing device (2) has a container (7) that forms a process chamber (8) for receiving a liquid cleaning agent (9), and the container (7) has an inlet (10) into the process chamber (8). The workpiece (3) further has a support structure (6) that supports the 3D-printed object (4) and a base (5) supporting the support structure (6). The base (5), in a mating relationship with the inlet (10), forms a restraint preventing the workpiece (3) from passing through the inlet (10) in a situation in which the workpiece (3) is placed with the 3D-printed object (4) located within the process chamber (8).Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2018Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANYInventors: Anja Friedrich, Michael Jahns, Malte Korten, Christian A. Richter, Bastian P. Kirchner, Gallus Schechner, Daniel D. Oberpertinger, Wolfgang Weinmann
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Publication number: 20200324479Abstract: A system (1) for washing a 3D-printed object (4). The system (1) has a washing device (2) and a workpiece (3) that includes the 3D-printed object (4). The washing device (2) has a container (7) that forms a process chamber (8) for receiving a liquid cleaning agent (9), and the container (7) has an inlet (10) into the process chamber (8). The workpiece (3) further has a support structure (6) that supports the 3D-printed object (4) and a base (5) supporting the support structure (6). The base (5), in a mating relationship with the inlet (10), forms a restraint preventing the workpiece (3) from passing through the inlet (10) in a situation in which the workpiece (3) is placed with the 3D-printed object (4) located within the process chamber (8).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2018Publication date: October 15, 2020Inventors: Anja Friedrich, Michael Jahns, Malte Korten, Christian A. Richter, Bastian P. Kirchner, Gallus Schechner, Daniel D. Oberpertinger, Wolfgang Weinmann
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Patent number: 9050332Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising at least one biologically active protease and at least one biologically active glycosidase wherein the proteases and the glycosidases are present in an activity ratio of from 1,000,000:1 to 1:1,000,000 and wherein the composition has a total enzyme activity of at least 2 U/ml. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a process of producing such enzyme comprising composition and to processes of removing caries. Moreover, the invention relates to the use of one or more enzyme comprising compositions for producing a treatment agent for removing caries.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2008Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Ingo Häberlein, Rainer Guggenberger, Wolfgang Weinmann, Oliver Kappler
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Patent number: 8921440Abstract: The invention relates to a radiation curable composition for taking a dental impression comprising (A) a cationically hardenable compound comprising at least one aziridine moiety, and (B) a radiation sensitive starter, the radiation sensitive starter comprising an onium salt, a ferrocenium salt, a combination or mixture thereof.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2011Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Wolfgang Weinmann, Joachim W. Zech, Wolf Steiger, Arne Thaler
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Publication number: 20130030076Abstract: The invention relates to a radiation curable composition for taking a dental impression comprising (A) a cationically hardenable compound comprising at least one aziridine moiety, and (B) a radiation sensitive starter, the radiation sensitive starter comprising an onium salt, a ferrocenium salt, a combination or mixture thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2011Publication date: January 31, 2013Applicant: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANYInventors: Wolfgang Weinmann, Joachim W. Zech, Wolf Steiger, Arne Thaler
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Patent number: 7537452Abstract: The invention features a photopolymerizable composition that comprises a cationically polymerizable resin, and a photoinitiator system comprising an iodonium salt, a visible light sensitizer, and one or more anthracene-based compounds as electron donors. Electron donor combinations used in the invention include multiple substituted anthracene compounds or a combination of at least one substituted anthracene compound with unsubstituted anthracene.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2007Date of Patent: May 26, 2009Assignees: Curators of the University of Missouri, 3M Innovative Properties Company 3M Center, 3M ESPE AGInventors: Joel D. Oxman, Karsten Dede, Craig A. Dykstra, Victoria A. Russell, Christoph Thalacker, Wolfgang Weinmann
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Publication number: 20080213196Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising at least one biologically active protease and at least one biologically active glycosidase wherein the proteases and the glycosidases are present in an activity ratio of from 1,000,000:1 to 1:1,000,000 and wherein the composition has a total enzyme activity of at least 2 U/ml. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a process of producing such enzyme comprising composition and to processes of removing caries. Moreover, the invention relates to the use of one or more enzyme comprising compositions for producing a treatment agent for removing caries.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2008Publication date: September 4, 2008Applicant: 3M ESPE AGInventors: Ingo Haberlein, Rainer Guggenberger, Wolfgang Weinmann, Oliver Kappler
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Publication number: 20070287764Abstract: The invention features a photopolymerizable composition that comprises a cationically polymerizable resin, and a photoinitiator system comprising an iodonium salt, a visible light sensitizer, and one or more anthracene-based compounds as electron donors. Electron donor combinations used in the invention include multiple substituted anthracene compounds or a combination of at least one substituted anthracene compound with unsubstituted anthracene.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2007Publication date: December 13, 2007Inventors: Joel Oxman, Karsten Dede, Craig Dykstra, Victoria Russell, Christoph Thalacker, Wolfgang Weinmann
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Patent number: 7262228Abstract: The invention features a photopolymerizable composition that comprises a cationically polymerizable resin, and a photoinitiator system comprising an iodonium salt, a visible light sensitizer, and one or more anthracene-based compounds as electron donors. Electron donor combinations used in the invention include multiple substituted anthracene compounds or a combination of at least one substituted anthracene compound with unsubstituted anthracene.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2003Date of Patent: August 28, 2007Assignees: Curators of the University of Missouri, 3M Innovative Properties Company, 3M ESPE AGInventors: Joel D. Oxman, Karsten Dede, Craig A. Dykstra, Victoria A. Russell, Christoph Thalacker, Wolfgang Weinmann
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Patent number: 7098259Abstract: The invention relates to a polymerizable dental material containing: (a) 3 to 80 wt. % of one or more cationically curable monomers; (b) 3 to 90 wt. % of one or more radio-opaque fillers; (c) 0.01 to 25 wt. % of initiators, retarders and/or accelerators, and; (d) 0 to 25 wt. % of auxiliary agents, whereby the cited percentages each refer to the total weight of the material. Filler (b) is produced by means of a melting method and is selected so that it has a refractive index of nD=1.49–1.54, so that the viscosity of the polymerizable dental material, after a period of at least 9 months during which it was stored at a temperature ranging from 20 to 25° C., has a value of +/?50 % of the initial value measured 24 hours after the polymerizable dental material was produced, and so that the polymerizable dental material has a reactivity of the type that, once polymerization is initiated, the amount of the maximum heat flux generated by the dental material equals at least 0.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2002Date of Patent: August 29, 2006Assignee: 3M ESPE AGInventors: Stefan Hoescheler, Wolfgang Weinmann, Andrea Stippschild, Susanne Wegner
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Patent number: 7097456Abstract: The invention relates to filling systems containing as component i) a sealing system which is capable of bonding to the tooth hard substance, as component ii) a filling material suitable for restorative dentistry, the filling system containing in addition a component iii) in component i) and/or component ii) which reduces the curing of the respective other component by disturbance of the curing mechanism only in the boundary layer between sealant and filling material such that the bonding between components i) and ii) is less than the bonding of component i) to the tooth hard substance.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2000Date of Patent: August 29, 2006Assignee: 3M ESPE AGInventors: Karsten Dede, Oliver Frey, Oswald Gasser, Rainer Guggenberger, Thomas Luchterhandt, Wolfgang Weinmann, Thomas Klettke
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Publication number: 20060115436Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising at least one biologically active protease and at least one biologically active glycosidase wherein the proteases and the glycosidases are present in an activity ratio of from 1,000,000:1 to 1:1,000,000 and wherein the composition has a total enzyme activity of at least 2 U/ml. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a process of producing such an enzyme comprising composition and to processes of removing caries. Moreover, the invention relates to the use of one or more enzyme comprising compositions for producing a treatment agent for removing caries.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2003Publication date: June 1, 2006Inventors: Ingo Haberlein, Rainer Guggenberger, Wolfgang Weinmann, Oliver Kappler
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Patent number: 6908953Abstract: The present invention is directed to polymerizable dental compositions containing (a) 3 to 80 wt. % of cycloaliphatic epoxides; b) 0 to 80 wt. % of an epoxide or a mixture of epoxides which are different from a); c) 3 to 85 wt. % of a filler material; d) 0.01 to 25 wt. % of initiators, inhibitors and/or accelerators; e) 0 to 25 wt. % of auxiliary agents, the individual percentages of which are in relation to the total weight. The new polymerizable agents are particularly suited as dental material.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2003Date of Patent: June 21, 2005Assignee: ESPE Dental AGInventors: Wolfgang Weinmann, Oswald Gasser, Rainer Guggenberger, Gunther Lechner, Wolfgang Soglowek, Joachim Zech
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Publication number: 20050113477Abstract: The invention features a photopolymerizable composition that comprises a cationically polymerizable resin, and a photoinitiator system comprising an iodonium salt, a visible light sensitizer, and one or more anthracene-based compounds as electron donors. Electron donor combinations used in the invention include multiple substituted anthracene compounds or a combination of at least one substituted anthracene compound with unsubstituted anthracene.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2003Publication date: May 26, 2005Inventors: Joel Oxman, Karsten Dede, Craig Dykstra, Victoria Russell, Christoph Thalacker, Wolfgang Weinmann
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Patent number: 6852795Abstract: The invention relates to monomers according to the formulae: as well as curable materials containing these monomers.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2001Date of Patent: February 8, 2005Assignee: 3M ESPE AGInventors: Peter Bissinger, Gunther Eckhardt, Wolfgang Weinmann
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Patent number: 6779656Abstract: The invention relates to polymerizable preparations which contain: (a) 3 to 80 wt. % of an epoxy or of a mixture of epoxies of general formula (I), whereby n and m, independent of one another, represent 0, 1, 2 or 3, and n+m ranges from 2 to 6, and whereby the molar mass of the epoxy or the average molar mass of the mixture of epoxies ranges from 250 to 1000 g/mol; (b) 0 to 80 wt. % of an epoxy or of a mixture of epoxies that differ from (a); (c) 3 to 85 wt. % of fillers; (d) 0.001 to 25 wt. % of initiators, retarders and/or accelerators, and; (e) 0 to 25 wt. % of auxiliary agents, whereby the specified percentages refer to the total weight of the preparation.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2002Date of Patent: August 24, 2004Assignee: 3M Espe AGInventors: Thomas Klettke, Wolfgang Weinmann
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Publication number: 20040024113Abstract: The invention relates to polymerizable compositions comprisingType: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2003Publication date: February 5, 2004Applicant: ESPE Dental AGInventors: Wolfgang Weinmann, Oswald Gasser, Rainer Guggenberger, Gunther Lechner, Wolfgang Soglowek, Joachim Zech
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Patent number: D910185Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2019Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Helmut Pauser, Marc Peuker, Martin Preininger, Moritz Werny, Philipp Refior, Wolfgang Weinmann
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Patent number: D966523Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2021Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMANYInventors: Helmut Pauser, Marc Peuker, Martin Preininger, Moritz Werny, Philipp Refior, Wolfgang Weinmann