Patents by Inventor Heiko BITZEL

Heiko BITZEL 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).

  • Patent number: 11850628
    Abstract: An apparatus for applying viscous material to workpieces has at least two material outlets. A needle valve is assigned to each material outlet, the valve needle of which being able to close the respective material outlet on a valve seat. Each valve needle is assigned a cylinder, in the piston chamber of which a piston is movable by pressure applied by a fluid, and which cylinder has a piston rod for impingement on the respective valve needle, the piston rod being connected to the piston, being guided out of the piston chamber on an end face facing the valve seats and extending longitudinally. The cylinders are arranged one behind the other longitudinally and the piston rod of at least one of the cylinders is guided in a sealed manner through the piston chamber of at least one further cylinder arranged closer on the valve seats.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: ATLAS COPCO IAS GMBH
    Inventor: Heiko Bitzel
  • Publication number: 20230026219
    Abstract: A device for applying viscous material to workpieces includes a rotary lance in a holder apparatus and rotatable about a longitudinally-extending rotation axis, the lance having at least one material outlet. A needle valve associated with each material outlet has a longitudinally-extending valve needle used to close each material outlet on a valve seat. Each valve needle has an associated cylinder with a plunger chamber in which a plunger is movable by pressure applied by a fluid, the valve needle being permanently connected to the plunger. A tappet is connected to each plunger, the tappet, at its upper end facing away from the at least one valve seat, being sealingly guided out of the associated plunger chamber. The rotary lance has a measuring element which can be acted upon by the tappet and moved longitudinally; and the holder apparatus has a sensor for determining the measuring element position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: Atlas Copco IAS GmbH
    Inventors: Heiko BITZEL, Bastian PRINZ
  • Publication number: 20220401989
    Abstract: An apparatus for applying viscous material to workpieces has at least two material outlets. A needle valve is assigned to each material outlet, the valve needle of which being able to close the respective material outlet on a valve seat. Each valve needle is assigned a cylinder, in the piston chamber of which a piston is movable by pressure applied by a fluid, and which cylinder has a piston rod for impingement on the respective valve needle, the piston rod being connected to the piston, being guided out of the piston chamber on an end face facing the valve seats and extending longitudinally. The cylinders are arranged one behind the other longitudinally and the piston rod of at least one of the cylinders is guided in a sealed manner through the piston chamber of at least one further cylinder arranged closer on the valve seats.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: Atlas Copco IAS GmbH
    Inventor: Heiko BITZEL
  • Publication number: 20220212209
    Abstract: An application nozzle for applying a viscous material to workpieces has a nozzle body, through which an application duct extends from a material inlet to a material outlet. The nozzle body has, in a first spatial direction, a width greater than a thickness in a second spatial direction perpendicular to the first direction. The application channel widens towards the outlet in the first direction. A nozzle holder has a main body and two clamping plates. A material feed duct extends through the main body, leading into the inlet at a feed opening. The clamping plates, bearing on opposite nozzle body side faces, fix the nozzle body releasably to the main body. The clamping plates are separate components fixed releasably to the main body and the nozzle body, and/or the nozzle body has two nozzle plates bearing flat against one another, with at least one duct portion between the nozzle plates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: Atlas Copco IAS GmbH
    Inventors: Heiko BITZEL, Sergej ECKSTEIN
  • Publication number: 20200086340
    Abstract: An application nozzle for applying viscous material to a workpiece includes a nozzle body which has a material inlet opening and material outlet openings which are arranged in at least one row in a material outlet face. An inlet channel extends in the nozzle body from the material inlet opening to at least one branch point. At each branch point, two distributor channels extend in the nozzle body in opposite directions from the inlet channel, wherein the distributor channels are each arranged over their entire length at a distance from the material outlet face, and at least one outlet channel extends in the nozzle body from each of the distributor channels in each case to one of the material outlet openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: Atlas Copco IAS GmbH
    Inventors: Sten MITTAG, Heiko BITZEL