Patents by Inventor Horst Linn
Horst Linn 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: 20200323050Abstract: The invention relates to a microwave oven for material to be heated, in particular food material (40). The microwave oven (10) has an oven housing (12), to the housing cover (14) of which a number of microwave radiation sources (18) is coupled by means of microwave coupling elements (16). The microwave coupling elements (16) protrude from the housing cover (14) and are distributed in the peripheral direction. At least one material holding device (22) for the material (40) is provided in the oven housing (12), which material holding device can be rotated about a central axis (26) by means of a drive device (24). The at least one material holding device (40) is formed by a rotary plate (28) for holding the material (40) in a defined, positionally accurate manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2016Publication date: October 8, 2020Applicant: CONEY International k.s.Inventors: Horst LINN, Ivan IMENOKHOYEV, Joachim KORNAUTH
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Patent number: 10473398Abstract: A modular furnace, in particular for the oxidative stabilization of a carbon fiber starting material comprising a cuboidal furnace chamber, on the upper face of which first deflecting rollers are arranged in a mutually spaced and parallel manner and on the lower face of which second deflecting rollers are arranged in a mutually spaced and parallel manner such that the carbon fiber starting material runs upwards and downwards in a laterally adjacent and slightly spaced manner so as to meander vertically in the area of the furnace chamber. A carbon fiber inlet locking device and a carbon fiber outlet locking device are provided on the upper face of the furnace chamber, and an air guiding device is connected to the furnace chamber. A supply air portion of the air guiding device is connected to a vertical air inlet side of the furnace chamber, and a discharge air portion of the air guiding device is fluidically connected to a furnace chamber vertical air outlet side opposite the vertical air inlet side.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2016Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: Ciariant International LtdInventors: Daniel Decker, Michael Wölki, Phillip Schwerdt, Horst Linn, Rudolf Linn, Jürgen Kunstmann
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Patent number: 10337125Abstract: A heating device for producing carbon fibers from a thread-shaped fiber starting material, wherein the heating device has a central tubular induction heating element through which the fiber starting material is moved. The tubular induction heating element is surrounded by thermal insulation. At least one mid- to high-frequency induction coil is provided outside the thermal insulation, and an inert gas flows through the central induction heating element, in particular, for carbonizing and/or graphitizing the fiber starting material. For energy optimization, a first and a second tube element is provided on the outer side of the thermal insulation. The elements are made of material that is transparent to the induction field of the mid- to high-frequency induction coil and are spaced apart from one another by an annular gap through which the inert gas flows.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2015Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignees: CLARIANT INTERNATIONAL LTD., LINN HIGH THERM GMBHInventors: Daniel Decker, Michael Woelki, Phillip Schwerdt, Horst Linn, Rudolf Linn, Juergen Kunstmann
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Publication number: 20180031321Abstract: A modular furnace, in particular for the oxidative stabilization of a carbon fiber starting material comprising a cuboidal furnace chamber, on the upper face of which first deflecting rollers are arranged in a mutually spaced and parallel manner and on the lower face of which second deflecting rollers are arranged in a mutually spaced and parallel manner such that the carbon fiber starting material runs upwards and downwards in a laterally adjacent and slightly spaced manner so as to meander vertically in the area of the furnace chamber. A carbon fiber inlet locking device and a carbon fiber outlet locking device are provided on the upper face of the furnace chamber, and an air guiding device is connected to the furnace chamber. A supply air portion of the air guiding device is connected to a vertical air inlet side of the furnace chamber, and a discharge air portion of the air guiding device is fluidically connected to a furnace chamber vertical air outlet side opposite the vertical air inlet side.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2016Publication date: February 1, 2018Applicants: CLARIANT INTERNATIONAL LTD., LINN HIGH THERM GMBHInventors: Daniel DECKER, Michael WÖLKI, Phillip SCHWERDT, Horst LINN, Rudolf LINN, Jürgen KUNSTMANN
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Publication number: 20170073846Abstract: A heating device for producing carbon fibers from a thread-shaped fiber starting material, wherein the heating device has a central tubular induction heating element through which the fiber starting material is moved. The tubular induction heating element is surrounded by thermal insulation. At least one mid- to high-frequency induction coil is provided outside the thermal insulation, and an inert gas flows through the central induction heating element, in particular, for carbonizing and/or graphitizing the fiber starting material. For energy optimization, a first and a second tube element is provided on the outer side of the thermal insulation. The elements are made of material that is transparent to the induction field of the mid- to high-frequency induction coil and are spaced apart from one another by an annular gap through which the inert gas flows.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2015Publication date: March 16, 2017Applicants: CLARIANT INTERNATIONAL LTD., Linn High Therm GmbHInventors: Daniel DECKER, Michael WOELKI, Phillip SCHWERDT, Horst LINN, Rudolf LINN, Juergen KUNSTMANN
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Patent number: 8093537Abstract: A process for the production of short cooking time rice is characterized by that hulled rice of at least 10% moisture content, if required in packaging suitable for ready cooking, is heat treated for 1 to 30 minutes continuously or interrupted by equal or alternating capacity microwave radiation, to reach maximum 130° C. An apparatus for the production of short cooking time rice has a microwave furnace with a tunnel made from a suitable material, wherein the rice packed into packages is movable within the tunnel by a conveyor. Regarding the easy and short process, a remarkable energy saving is possible.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2009Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignees: Linn High Therm GmbH, Alfoldi Malomipari RT.Inventors: Horst Linn, Andras Vass, Ivanne Pallai, Gyula Fazekas, Janos Kovacs, Istvan Edes
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Publication number: 20090206072Abstract: A process for the production of short cooking time rice is characterized by that hulled rice of at least 10% moisture content, if required in packaging suitable for ready cooking, is heat treated for 1 to 30 minutes continuously or interrupted by equal or alternating capacity microwave radiation, to reach maximum 130° C. An apparatus for the production of short cooking time rice comprises a microwave furnace with a tunnel made from a suitable material, wherein the rice packed into packages is movable within the tunnel by a conveyor. Regarding the easy and short process, a remarkable energy safing is possible.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2009Publication date: August 20, 2009Applicants: Linn High Therm GmbH, Alfoldi Malomipari Rt.Inventors: Horst Linn, Andras Vass, Ivanne Pallai, Gyula Fazekas, Janos Kovacs, Istvan Edes
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Publication number: 20050260307Abstract: A process for the production of short cooking time rice is characterized by that hulled rice of at least 10% moisture content, if required in packaging suitable for ready cooking, is heat treated for 1 to 30 minutes continuously or interrupted by equal or alternating capacity microwave radiation, to reach maximum 130° C. An apparatus for the production of short cooking time rice comprises a microwave furnace with a tunnel made from a suitable material, wherein the rice packed into packages is movable within the tunnel by a conveyor. Regarding the easy and short process, a remarkable energy safing is possible.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2003Publication date: November 24, 2005Inventors: Horst Linn, Andras Vass, Ivanne Pallai, Gyula Fazekas, Istvan Edes
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Patent number: 6649892Abstract: In a microwave oven system comprising at least one magnetron of a given operating frequency and a mains unit for the at least one magnetron, the at least one magnetron of a given operating frequency is replaceable by a magnetron of another operating frequency. The magnetrons of the different operating frequencies have at least approximately the same mechanical dimensions so that they can be easily replaced quickly. The mains unit can be used for the different magnetrons in unchanged form or in a form involving minor modifications, without any change in the electrical parameters or with a slight change therein, thereby affording interchangeability of the various magnetrons.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2002Date of Patent: November 18, 2003Assignee: Linn High Term GmbHInventors: Horst Linn, Juergen Suhm
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Publication number: 20030121914Abstract: In a microwave oven system comprising at least one magnetron of a given operating frequency and a mains unit for the at least one magnetron, the at least one magnetron of a given operating frequency is replaceable by a magnetron of another operating frequency. The magnetrons of the different operating frequencies have at least approximately the same mechanical dimensions so that they can be easily replaced quickly. The mains unit can be used for the different magnetrons in unchanged form or in a form involving minor modifications, without any change in the electrical parameters or with a slight change therein, thereby affording interchangeability of the various magnetrons.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2002Publication date: July 3, 2003Inventors: Horst Linn, Juergen Suhm
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Patent number: 6143376Abstract: A method for manufacturing coated short fibers, in which the short fibers are coated in a reactor with at least one coating agent. The method includes exposing a short fiber bundle having a coating or a plastic matrix to a high-frequency field which dissolves the coating or the plastic matrix. The fiber bundle is separated into individual fibers and are coated by chemical vapor deposition on all sides by at least one coating agent present in a gas phase. A combination of mechanical and microwave treatment is preferably provided to loosen the short fiber bundles.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 1999Date of Patent: November 7, 2000Assignees: DaimlerChrysler, Friedrich-Alexander-UniversitaetInventors: Horst Linn, Kolja Rebstock, Gerhard Emig, Helmut Gerhard, Nadejda Popovska, Volker Wunder
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Patent number: 6107614Abstract: A continuous microwave furnace (10) with furnace modules (12) is described, which modules, in a series of sequential placement, one after the other, form a heated zone. On the respective housing casing (14) is provided at least one microwave radiating source (30) located at a corresponding radiation window (31). In each respective furnace module (12) a sheet steel bottom (26) is furnished, this being adjustable as to height and is constructed with secondary radiating openings (28). In the continuous microwave furnace (10) is provided a transport apparatus (33), which is constructed of a conveyor belt or transport rollers. Air openings (35) can be supplied, neighboring the radiation window (31) of the respective microwave radiation source (30). The respective radiation source (30) is then combined with an air regulating apparatus (45).Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 1998Date of Patent: August 22, 2000Assignees: HED International Inc., Linn High ThermInventors: Horst Linn, Jurgen Suhm
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Patent number: 6080977Abstract: An apparatus for concentrating and solidifying a salt solution includes a vessel for containing the salt solution having an exposed surface, the vessel having a generally open upper portion, a cover for sealing the generally open upper portion of the vessel and having a generally hood shaped portion, the cover including at least one inlet conduit for admitting the salt solution to the vessel and a discharge conduit for vapor, and a magnetron for generating microwaves for heating the solution in the vessel. A microwave waveguide is disposed between the magnetron and the vessel and incorporates the cover, for directing microwaves from the magnetron into the vessel, the waveguide transitioning within the cover from the generally hood shaped portion into a horn having a variable cross-section and/or variable vertical spacing with respect to the vessel. This structure enables microwaves to be radiated directly onto the exposed surface of the salt solution in the vessel.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 1998Date of Patent: June 27, 2000Assignees: Nukem Nuklear GmbH, Linn High Term GmbHInventors: Klaus Wetteborn, Arnd Gutmann, Horst Linn, Jorg Worner, Wolfgang Theisen, Alfred Chrubasik, Egbert Brandau
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Patent number: 5847376Abstract: The present invention relates to an oven for heating an essentially liquid medium, especially a reactive casting material, flowing through the oven. The oven has an inlet into a channel for the medium to be heated, in which channel there is arranged a separate pipe through which the medium to be heated flows and in which it is heated by electromagnetic radiation. Several heating units are arranged along the channel, each of which comprises an electromagnetic radiator containing a waveguide. The waveguides guide the radiation to the channel through which the medium flows and which couples the radiation into that channel. The heating units are substantially decoupled from one another by means of a decoupling diaphragm that is provided in the channel and is arranged between two adjacent heating units or radiators essentially at right angles to the direction of flow. The pipe through which the medium flows passes through a passage in the decoupling diaphragm, thus also constituting a support for the pipe.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 1997Date of Patent: December 8, 1998Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals CorporationInventors: Mohamad Mallah, Horst Linn, Niklaus Saner, Peter Voirol
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Patent number: 5703343Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the manufacture of castings from an essentially liquid reactive medium as casting material which, above its gelation temperature, reacts to form a solid material. The liquid reactive medium is fed from a supply tank, in which the temperature of the casting material lies substantially below its gelation temperature. The liquid reactive medium is fed into a casting mould which has been heated to a temperature that lies above the gelation temperature of the casting material. The casting material is substantially preheated directly before it enters the casting mold to a temperature close to but below the gelation temperature of the casting material.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 1996Date of Patent: December 30, 1997Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals CorporationInventors: Mohamad Mallah, Horst Linn, Niklaus Saner, Peter Voirol
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Patent number: 4568809Abstract: There is disclosed an improved method of melting a charge blank of an electrically-conductive fusible material including the steps of positioning at least one substantially ring-shaped charge blank in a crucible wherein the charge blank has an outside transverse dimension and height of about 1.1 to 10 and 0.8 to 3, respectively, times an inside transverse dimension thereof, and thereafter subjecting the charge blank to the electromagnetic field of an induction coil.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 1984Date of Patent: February 4, 1986Assignee: Linn Elektronik GmbHInventor: Horst Linn
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Patent number: 4492572Abstract: A melting crucible for small amounts of material has a plurality of pouring openings for the discharge of material selectively from the crucible, or comprises a ring member which is connected to a lower crucible portion containing the material, and which has at least one pouring opening for selective discharge of material from the crucible portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 1982Date of Patent: January 8, 1985Assignee: Linn Elektronik GmbHInventor: Horst Linn