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Andreas Schunk, Waldmohr DE

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110165008DEVICE FOR BRANCHING OFF A FLUIDIC PARTIAL FLOW - The invention relates to a device for branching a fluidic partial flow off a main flow by means of a hydraulic pump (07-07-2011
20120080363POSITIVE PRESSURE, CONDITIONED DRYING GAS, GRAVITY OPERATED, MOBILE, DEWATERING SYSTEM FOR HYDRAULIC, LUBRICATING AND PETROLEUM BASED FLUIDS - A high throughput, positive pressure, gravity operated dewatering system for hydraulic fluids, lubricating fluids, and petroleum based fluids comprises a gravity operated dewatering chamber receiving the industrial fluid and a source of positive pressure drying air coupled to the dewatering chamber.04-05-2012
20120118809FILTER APPARATUS - The invention relates to a filter apparatus (05-17-2012

Jurgen Schunk, Mainz DE

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090071360METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A PROCESSING MACHINE FOR SHEET MATERIAL - The invention relates to a method for controlling a machine processing sheet material. The processing machine has at least one printing or coating group and a cylinder that is coupled to a direct drive and is decoupled mechanically from a main drive acting on a gear train of a plurality of sheet transport cylinders and that can be driven in a given way at least relative to the sheet-guiding cylinders. The cylinder having an associated inking group with an inking group roller that can be driven by the main drive and gear train. Printing contact in a contact zone of the cylinder carrying the printing form with an adjacent rubber blanket cylinder is cancelled for cleaning. The inking group roller of the inking group is separated on a drive side from the sheet transport cylinders driven by the main drive and gear train. The inking group roller is coupled on the drive side to the cylinder carrying the printing form. The inking group roller is driven according to a cleaning program stored in a selection menu for an individual cleaning period at an individual rotational speed by the direct drive.03-19-2009

Matthias Schunk, Hartenstein DE

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090021243Inductive Speed Detector - Arrangement for inductive speed detection in which two planar coils are arranged offset at a given distance from a so-called pulse wheel and in the rotational direction of the pulse wheel, and are each part of an oscillator, the oscillator frequency of which is evaluated.01-22-2009

Matthias Schunk, Auerbach DE

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100117628SENSOR FOR THE DETERMINATION OF LOW (ZERO REVOLUTION) AND FAST REVOLUTIONS AS WELL AS FOR THE SIMULTANEOUS DETERMINATION OF DIRECTION OF ROTATION - A measurement of a lower and a higher speed of rotation is taking place via the inductive sensor. A sensor unit, which comprises a pulse generator, a transmitter side and a receiver side, is used for determining the speed of rotation, whereby the transmitter side comprises a transmitter inductor connected with an oscillator, and the receiver side comprises two receiving inductors. The signal, which is generated by the two receiver inductors and transmitted along each of the signal paths, is forwarded to two signal processing units. Through each of the two signal paths, for lower and higher speed of rotation, the processed signal is forwarded to a logic device.05-13-2010

Nikolaus W. Schunk, Maxhuette-Haidhof DE

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110026919HALF-DUPLEX, SINGLE-FIBER (S-F) OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER MODULE AND METHOD - A half-duplex, single-fiber (S-F) optical transceiver module is provided in which a light source, such as a laser diode or a light-emitting diode (LED), is mounted on an edge region of a photodiode to increase the amount of surface area of the photodiode that is available for absorbing light received in the optical transceiver module. The S-F optical transceiver module has a relatively simple optical coupling system for coupling light between an end face of an optical fiber and the photodiode and laser diode or LED with high optical coupling efficiency and reduced optical crosstalk.02-03-2011
201101167442-TO-1 PLASTIC OPTICAL FIBER (POF) OPTICAL COUPLER, A BI-DIRECTIONAL OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS LINK THAT EMPLOYS THE 2-TO-1 POF OPTICAL COUPLER, AND A METHOD FOR PERFORMING 2-TO-1 OPTICAL COUPLING - A 2-to-1 POF optical coupler, a bi-directional link that employs the coupler, and methods for performing 2-to-1 optical coupling are provided, wherein the 2-to-1 POF optical coupler is configured to provide a carefully-selected amount of cross-sectional overlap at the interface between the end face of a main POF or POF pigtail and the end face of the coupler. The amount of overlap is selected to ensure that optical coupling losses are reduced and optical efficiency is increased in both directions in a bi-directional optical communications links. Consequently, signal integrity is improved, limitations on link length are relaxed, and overall link performance is improved while, at the same time, overall link costs are reduced.05-19-2011
201102118322-TO-1 OPTICAL COUPLER THAT UTILIZES D-SHAPED PLASTIC OPTICAL FIBERS (POFs), A BI-DIRECTIONAL OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS LINK THAT EMPLOYS THE 2-TO-1 POF OPTICAL COUPLER, AND A METHOD - D-shaped POFs are used to form a 2-to-1 optical coupler. The D-shaped POFs are produced via an extrusion process that is relatively inexpensive to perform and that can be performed with relatively high manufacturing throughput. The D-shaped POFs are bonded together to form a coupler end face having a generally circular cross-sectional area. The coupler end face is interfaced with an end face of a main POF that is generally circular in cross-sectional shape. The resulting D-shaped 2-to-1 optical POF couplers have relatively low insertion loss and relatively high optical coupling efficiency.09-01-2011
20120007005OPTO-ISOLATOR THAT USES A NONTRANSPARENT HOLLOW TUBE AS THE OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE EXTENDING BETWEEN THE TRANSMITTER AND RECEIVER MODULES OF THE OPTO-ISOLATOR - In an opto-isolator, a nontransparent hollow tube having a smooth inner surface with mirror-like qualities is used as the optical waveguide for coupling optical signals between the transmitter module and the receiver module and for providing electrical transient isolation.01-12-2012
20120104240FIBER OPTIC TRANSCEIVER (FOT) MODULE HAVING A MOLDED COVER IN WHICH AN OPTICAL BEAM TRANSFORMER IS INTEGRALLY FORMED - An FOT module is provided that has a molded cover in which an optical beam transformer is integrally formed. The molded cover includes at least a nontransparent molded part that is secured to a mounting structure, such as a molded leadframe or a PCB, on which at least one active optical device is mounted. The material of which the nontransparent molded part is made has a CTE that matches, or nearly matches, the CTE of the body of the mounting structure. Consequently, exposure of the FOT module to temperature variations will not result in delaminations at the interface of the mounting structure and the nontransparent molded part.05-03-2012
20120183290SOURCE-MULTIPLEXED PULSE AMPLITUDE MODULATION (PAM) OPTICAL DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - An optical signal representing digital data is produced by an opto-electronic semiconductor device having a group of three or more opto-electronic light sources that emit optical signals in accordance with a pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) scheme. The optical signal can be transmitted through an optical fiber coupled to an assembly containing the opto-electronic semiconductor device.07-19-2012

Stephan Schunk, Heidelberg DE

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120302786PROCESS FOR PREPARING POLYISOCYANATES FROM BIOMASS - The present invention relates to a process for preparing polyisocyanates from natural raw material sources, in which a composition comprising low molecular weight aromatics which comprise at least one hydroxy group or at least one alkoxy group per molecule (oxyaromatics) is produced from a biomass material, these oxyaromatics are converted into the corresponding aromatic amines and, optionally after condensation with formaldehyde, reacted further with phosgene to give compounds comprising isocyanate groups.11-29-2012

Stephan Schunk, Heidelberg-Rohrbach DE

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20100305221METHOD FOR PRODUCING SYNTHESIS GAS - A process for preparing and converting synthesis gas, which has a plurality of different operating states which consist essentially of mutually alternating (i) daytime operation and (ii) nighttime operation, daytime operation (i) comprising principally dry reforming and steam reforming with supply of renewable energy, and nighttime operation (ii) comprising principally the partial oxidation of hydrocarbons, and the synthesis gas produced being used to produce products of value.12-02-2010
20110218359PREPARATION OF ETHYLENICALLY UNSATURATED CARBOXYLIC SALTS BY CARBOXYLATION OF ALKENES - A process for preparing an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal salt of an α,β-ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid, wherein a) an alkene, carbon dioxide and a carboxylation catalyst are converted to an alkene/carbon dioxide/carboxylation catalyst adduct, b) the adduct is decomposed to release the carboxylation catalyst with an auxiliary base to give the auxiliary base salt of the α,β-ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid, c) the auxiliary base salt of the α,β-ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid is reacted to release the auxiliary base with an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal base to give the alkali metal or alkaline earth metal salt of the α,β-ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid. Salts of α,β-ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acids, such as sodium acrylate in particular, are required in large amounts, for example, for production of water-absorbing resins.09-08-2011
20120029243CATALYST- AND LIGNIN-COMPRISING COMPOSITION AND ITS USE FOR PREPARING AN AROMATICS COMPOSITION - The present invention relates to a composition (“composite”) comprising lignin and at least one catalyst dispersed in the composition. The invention further provides a process for producing such a catalyst- and lignin-comprising composition and its use for preparing an aromatics composition.02-02-2012
20120071671CATALYST AND METHOD FOR PARTIALLY OXIDIZING HYDROCARBONS - The invention relates to a catalyst for partially oxidizing hydrocarbons in the gas phase, containing a multi-metal oxide of the general formula (I), AgaMObVcMdOe.f H2O (I), wherein M stands for at least one element selected from among Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, B, Al, Ga, In, Si, Sn, Pb, P, Sb, Bi, Y, Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta, Cr, W, Mn, Re, Fe, Ru, Os, Co, Rh, Ir, Ni, Pd, Pt, Cu, Au, Zn, Cd, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu, and U, a has a value of 0.5 to 1.5, b has a value of 0.5 to 1.5, c has a value of 0.5 to 1.5, a+b+c has the value 3, d has a value of less than 1, e means a number that is determined by the valence and frequency of the elements other than oxygen in the formula (I), f has a value of 0 to 20, which multi-metal oxide exists in a crystal structure, the X-ray powder diffractogram of which is characterized by diffraction reflections at a minimum of 5 lattice distances selected from among d=4.53, 3.38, 3.32, 3.23, 2.88, 2.57, 2.39, 2.26, 1.83, 1.77 AA (+−0.04 AA).03-22-2012

Patent applications by Stephan Schunk, Heidelberg-Rohrbach DE

Stephan Schunk, Aachen DE

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090111842SPIROCYCLIC CYCLOHEXANE COMPOUNDS WITH ANALGESIC ACTIVITY - Spirocyclic cyclohexane compounds corresponding to formula I04-30-2009

Stephan Andreas Schunk, Heidelberg DE

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090182165Process for the Preparation of Carbonylation Products - Process for preparing a carboxylic acid and/or ester thereof by carbonylating an alcohol and/or reactive derivative thereof with carbon monoxide in the presence of a silver loaded mordenite catalyst.07-16-2009
20100317888CARBONYLATION PROCESS WITH IN SITU REGENERATION OF MORDENITE CATALYST - A process for the carbonylation of dimethyl ether, dimethyl carbonate and/or methanol with carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the presence of a mordenite catalyst to produce at least one of acetic acid and methyl acetate in which process the mordenite catalyst is regenerated in-situ by contacting the catalyst with a regenerating gas comprising a molecular oxygen-containing gas and an inert diluent at a total pressure in the range 1 to 100 bar and wherein the partial pressure of the molecular oxygen-containing gas is such that the temperature of the catalyst is maintained within the range 225 to 325° C.12-16-2010

Patent applications by Stephan Andreas Schunk, Heidelberg DE

Stephen Andreas Schunk, Heidelberg DE

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100311567REGENERATION OF ZEOLITE CARBONYLATION CATALYSTS - A process for the in-situ regeneration of a zeolite catalyst in a carbonylation process for the production of at least one of methyl acetate and acetic acid by contacting methanol, dimethyl ethyl or dimethyl carbonate with carbon monoxide in the presence of a zeolite catalyst, ceasing contact of the catalyst with the reactant, regenerating the catalyst with a regenerating gas selected from hydrogen or a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide at a temperature in the range 250 to 600° C., terminating the hydrogen regenerating step and resuming contact of the catalyst with the reactant and carbon monoxide.12-09-2010