Patents by Inventor Frans VROMANS

Frans VROMANS 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).

  • Motion powered pet tracker system and method
    Patent number: 11737426
    Abstract: A pet tracking device, system and method using a kinetic motion energy generator to generate electrical energy that is used to power a pet tracking mechanism are provided. The pet tracking device may include a housing on a wearable item, such as a collar, attached to the pet or may be injected underneath the skin of the pet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Trupanion, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Adam Weinrauch, Sultan Jumayev, Frans Vromans
  • Micro-Power Generator Suitable for an Electronic Device, Electronic Device Comprising Such a Micro-Power Generator
    Publication number: 20230048694
    Abstract: Provided is a micro-power generator suitable for a wearable, portable or moving electronic device, including a rotor wheel including a multipole magnetic array of a circular design, such as a multipole magnetic ring or disc, which multipole magnetic array has an inner radius r3 and an outer radius r4, at least one stator which is a multipole metal stator including at least one stator coil having a plurality of windings for producing an electric voltage, and a base plate onto which the rotor wheel and the stator are mounted. The at least one stator is fixedly connected to the base plate. The rotor wheel is pivotally connected to the base plate by a pivoting mechanism which allows for a rotation of the rotor wheel about a pivot axis perpendicular to a first plane in which the rotor wheel extends, which pivot axis preferably has a concentric orientation to the rotor wheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Sultan Tahyrovich Jumayev, Wesley Peijnenburg, Maarten Adrianus Hubertus Hoedjes, Frans Vromans
  • MOTION POWERED PET TRACKER SYSTEM AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20210022318
    Abstract: A pet tracking device, system and method using a kinetic motion energy generator to generate electrical energy that is used to power a pet tracking mechanism are provided. The pet tracking device may include a housing on a wearable item, such as a collar, attached to the pet or may be injected underneath the skin of the pet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Steven Adam WEINRAUCH, Sultan JUMAYEV, Frans VROMANS
  • Motion powered pet tracker system and method
    Patent number: 10785957
    Abstract: A pet tracking device, system and method using a kinetic motion energy generator to generate electrical energy that is used to power a pet tracking mechanism are provided. The pet tracking device may include a housing on a wearable item, such as a collar, attached to the pet or may be injected underneath the skin of the pet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: TRUPANION, INC.
    Inventors: Steven Adam Weinrauch, Sultan Jumayev, Frans Vromans
  • Turbine flow meter, assembly, and method for measuring at least one flow characteristic
    Patent number: 10782163
    Abstract: An autonomous, low-power turbine flow meter and an assembly of at least one flow meter and at least one signal receiving device configured to receive signals, preferably in a wireless manner, produced and transmitted by the flow meter. The invention further relates to a method for measuring at least one flow characteristic, in particular the flow rate, of a fluid flowing through a flow meter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: KINETRON B.V.
    Inventors: Frans Vromans, Geert Maria Van Den Brekel, Joris Paul Lodewijk Jansen, Bernardus Johannes Meijer, Koen Jacob Weijand
  • TURBINE FLOW METER, ASSEMBLY, AND METHOD FOR MEASURING AT LEAST ONE FLOW CHARACTERISTIC
    Publication number: 20200088554
    Abstract: An autonomous, low-power turbine flow meter and an assembly of at least one flow meter and at least one signal receiving device configured to receive signals, preferably in a wireless manner, produced and transmitted by the flow meter. The invention further relates to a method for measuring at least one flow characteristic, in particular the flow rate, of a fluid flowing through a flow meter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Frans VROMANS, Geert Maria VAN DEN BREKEL, Joris Paul Lodewijk JANSEN, Bernardus Johannes MEIJER, Koen Jacob WEIJAND
  • MOTION POWERED PET TRACKER SYSTEM AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20190350169
    Abstract: A pet tracking device, system and method using a kinetic motion energy generator to generate electrical energy that is used to power a pet tracking mechanism are provided. The pet tracking device may include a housing on a wearable item, such as a collar, attached to the pet or may be injected underneath the skin of the pet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Steve WEINRAUCH, Sultan JUMAYEV, Frans VROMANS