Patents by Inventor Kurt Marquardt

Kurt Marquardt 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: 9699868
    Abstract: In one example, a device includes a transformer configured to electrically isolate one or more components of the device from a communication bus, and a controller configured to receive and transmit data via the communication bus, wherein the controller is operable to communicate via a plurality of communication standards that include at least one analog unidirectional communication standard and at least one digital bidirectional communication standard, and wherein both the received data and the transmitted data pass through the transformer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies Austria AG
    Inventors: Andrea Morici, Kurt Marquardt
  • Publication number: 20160295673
    Abstract: In one example, a device includes a transformer configured to electrically isolate one or more components of the device from a communication bus, and a controller configured to receive and transmit data via the communication bus, wherein the controller is operable to communicate via a plurality of communication standards that include at least one analog unidirectional communication standard and at least one digital bidirectional communication standard, and wherein both the received data and the transmitted data pass through the transformer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Andrea Morici, Kurt Marquardt
  • Publication number: 20150296598
    Abstract: A driver for a lighting product includes a wireless interface circuit configured to be accessed wirelessly to store information relating to operation of the lighting product. A driving circuit is coupled to the wireless interface circuit. The driving circuit is configured to retrieve the stored information relating to the operation of the lighting product from the wireless interface circuit and drive the lighting product based on the retrieved information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventors: Josef Haid, Sergio Rossi, Kurt Marquardt
  • Patent number: 8892266
    Abstract: A load control arrangement includes a communication channel configured to transmit information. A controller unit is coupled to the communication channel and configured to at least one of send and receive information via the communication channel. A load control device is coupled to the communication channel, comprising a disconnect switch configured to be coupled to a power line. The load control device is further configured to determine a power consumption of a load connected to the power line. The load control device provides measurement data representing the determined power consumption via the communication channel to the controller unit. The load control device drives the disconnect switch depending on drive information received via the communication channel or depending on the determined power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies Austria AG
    Inventors: Sergio Rossi, Kurt Marquardt, Sandro Cerato
  • Patent number: 8543344
    Abstract: An electric power meter arrangement, includes a metrology unit configured to be coupled to a power line and to determine power consumption and provide measurement data representing the power consumption. A programmable control unit including a memory is configured to store software configured to run on the control unit. A security unit is configured to store at least one key and to validate that software stored in the memory of the programmable control unit is authorized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies Austria AG
    Inventors: Sergio Rossi, Kurt Marquardt, Sandro Cerato
  • Patent number: 8453565
    Abstract: A pressing station in a rotary press having a bearing component for a compression roll that can be adjusted vertically in height along a guide attached to the frame of the rotary press, a first adjustment drive fastened to the frame, which is coupled via an adjustment drive to the bearing component for height adjustment of the bearing component, wherein a shaft or axle for the compression roll or the bearing component or a part of these is coupled to a second adjustment drive in such a way that the compression roll can be adjusted in its height independently from the first adjustment drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Luedemann, Kurt Marquardt, Jan Naeve
  • Patent number: 8454868
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a method for testing multilayer tablets in a multiple rotary press, in which die holes of a circulating die plate are successively filled with tablet material of different layers in succeeding filling devices, and the tablet material is compressed one layer after the foregoing layer into pressed articles having n layers by means of synchronously circulating compression punches, and the pressed articles are subsequently ejected in an unloading station and taken out, in which in a testing procedure, pressed articles with m layers are taken out after the compression in a respective unloading station and are conveyed to a testing station, wherein applies 1<=m<=n, wherein before taking out the pressed articles, at least the m-th layer is compressed more strongly than during the normal manufacture of the multilayer tablets, wherein applies m<n.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Harald Roemer, Jan Naeve, Heinrich Behrmann, Kurt Marquardt
  • Publication number: 20130085622
    Abstract: A load control arrangement includes a communication channel configured to transmit information. A controller unit is coupled to the communication channel and configured to at least one of send and receive information via the communication channel. A load control device is coupled to the communication channel, comprising a disconnect switch configured to be coupled to a power line. The load control device is further configured to determine a power consumption of a load connected to the power line. The load control device provides measurement data representing the determined power consumption via the communication channel to the controller unit. The load control device drives the disconnect switch depending on drive information received via the communication channel or depending on the determined power consumption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Applicant: Infineon Technologies Austria AG
    Inventors: Sergio Rossi, Kurt Marquardt, Sandro Cerato
  • Patent number: 8337741
    Abstract: A method for operating a rotary press, comprising a rotor rotatably driven about a vertical axis that has a die-plate and upper and lower rams which, while being guided vertically in guides of the rotor, interact with holes of dies in the die-plate wherein at least one compression station is provided and has an upper and a lower pressing roller past which the presser rams run along and by which they are moved towards the die-bore for the purpose of compacting the material in the die-hole, wherein the upper and lower rams are lifted subsequent to the compression procedure, causing the lower ram to eject a compact from the die and the compact to be stripped by a stripper in the direction of a discharge chute, characterized in that while an compact ejection procedure is under way the upper ram stands upright on top of the compact and is lifted therewith and the stripper seizes the compact laterally while the upper ram is still standing upright on top of the compact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Harald Romer, Ulrich Zeuschner, Ingo Schmidt, Thorsten Ehrich, Kurt Marquardt
  • Publication number: 20120159641
    Abstract: An electric power meter arrangement, includes a metrology unit configured to be coupled to a power line and to determine power consumption and provide measurement data representing the power consumption. A programmable control unit including a memory is configured to store software configured to run on the control unit. A security unit is configured to store at least one key and to validate that software stored in the memory of the programmable control unit is authorized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Inventors: Sergio Rossi, Kurt Marquardt, Sandro Cerato
  • Publication number: 20100251909
    Abstract: A pressing station in a rotary press having a bearing component for a compression roll that can be adjusted vertically in height along a guide attached to the frame of the rotary press, a first adjustment drive fastened to the frame, which is coupled via an adjustment drive to the bearing component for height adjustment of the bearing component, wherein a shaft or axle for the compression roll or the bearing component or a part of these is coupled to a second adjustment drive in such a way that the compression roll can be adjusted in its height independently from the first adjustment drive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Applicant: Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Luedemann, Kurt Marquardt, Jan Naeve
  • Publication number: 20090152751
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a method for testing multilayer tablets in a multiple rotary press, in which die holes of a circulating die plate are successively filled with tablet material of different layers in succeeding filling devices, and the tablet material is compressed one layer after the foregoing layer into pressed articles having n layers by means of synchronously circulating compression punches, and the pressed articles are subsequently ejected in an unloading station and taken out, in which in a testing procedure, pressed articles with m layers are taken out after the compression in a respective unloading station and are conveyed to a testing station, wherein applies 1<=m<=n, wherein before taking out the pressed articles, at least the m-th layer is compressed more strongly than during the normal manufacture of the multilayer tablets, wherein applies m<n.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Applicant: Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Harald Roemer, Jan Naeve, Heinrich Behrmann, Kurt Marquardt
  • Patent number: 7374414
    Abstract: Rotary press with a rotor, rotatingly drivable around a vertical axis of rotation, which has a die plate with die bores and upper and lower punches guided in guidings, radial cams for the upper and lower punches, at least one compression station with upper and lower pressing roller, at least one filling equipment and at least one stripping device for pressed articles which are ejected from the die bores, characterized in that the rotor has an annular plane situated radially outside of the graduated circle for the die bores, which is concentric to the axis of rotation and is lowered with respect to the upper side of the die plate about a predetermined degree, first deflection portion direct the ejected pressed articles to the annular plane and second deflection portion direct the pressed articles from the annular plane towards the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2008
    Assignee: Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Harald Römer, Ulrich Zeuschner, Thorsten Ehrich, Kurt Marquardt
  • Publication number: 20060255506
    Abstract: A method for operating a rotary press, comprising a rotor rotatably driven about a vertical axis that has a die-plate and upper and lower rams which, while being guided vertically in guides of the rotor, interact with holes of dies in the die-plate wherein at least one compression station is provided and has an upper and a lower pressing roller past which the presser rams run along and by which they are moved towards the die-bore for the purpose of compacting the material in the die-hole, wherein the upper and lower rams are lifted subsequent to the compression procedure, causing the lower ram to eject a compact from the die and the compact to be stripped by a stripper in the direction of a discharge chute, characterized in that while an compact ejection procedure is under way the upper ram stands upright on top of the compact and is lifted therewith and the stripper seizes the compact laterally while the upper ram is still standing upright on top of the compact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2006
    Publication date: November 16, 2006
    Inventors: Harald Romer, Ulrich Zeuschner, Ingo Schmidt, Thorsten Ehrich, Kurt Marquardt
  • Publication number: 20060254438
    Abstract: Rotary press with a rotor, rotatingly drivable around a vertical axis of rotation, which has a die plate with die bores and upper and lower punches guided in guidings, radial cams for the upper and lower punches, at least one compression station with upper and lower pressing roller, at least one filling equipment and at least one stripping device for pressed articles which are ejected from the die bores, characterised in that the rotor has an annular plane situated radially outside of the graduated circle for the die bores, which is concentric to the axis of rotation and is lowered with respect to the upper side of the die plate about a predetermined degree, first deflection means are provided which direct the ejected pressed articles to the annular plane and second deflection means are provided which direct the pressed articles from the annular plane towards the outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2006
    Publication date: November 16, 2006
    Inventors: Harald Romer, Ulrich Zeuschner, Thorsten Ehrich, Kurt Marquardt
  • Patent number: 5953642
    Abstract: In a system for contactless power and data transmission, a transmitting or receiving station has at least one transmitting or receiving resonant circuit which is driven by an integrable control circuit. The integrated control circuit has a multiplicity of capacitors which can be switched in, in parallel with the resonant circuit. A device is provided for driving the switching device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1999
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martin Feldtkeller, Reinhard Greiderer, Kurt Marquardt, Jurgen Nolles, Robert Reiner
  • Patent number: 5248542
    Abstract: A sealing strip for a housing of a pelletizing machine has a one-piece sealing body with a central web with an upper side having two upper edges and a lower side having two lower edges, two sealing lips extending from the upper edges of the upper side of the central web at an angle relative to one another, and a clamping strip extending from a center of the lower side of the central web and provided with lateral webs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1993
    Assignee: Firma Wilhelm Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Jurgen Hinzpeter, Ulrich Zeuschner, Kurt Marquardt, Peter Luneburg, Hans-Joachim Pierags, Ulrich Arndt, Gunter Harten
  • Patent number: 5151280
    Abstract: A rotary pelletizing machine has a rotatable matrix disc, a plurality of vertically adjustable pressing rollers which control position of the upper and lower plungers, a drive for a height adjustment of the rollers, a housing accommodating the drive, and a bearing block supporting the pressing roller and releasably connected with the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1992
    Assignee: Firma Wilhelm Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Arndt, Peter Luneburg, Kurt Marquardt, Hans-Joachim Pierags, Ulrich Zeuschner
  • Patent number: 5148740
    Abstract: A rotary pelletizing machine comprises a rotatable matrix disc, a plurality of upper plungers and lower plungers guided in the matrix disc, and an element for holding the lower plungers from falling out during a dismounting of the matrix disc, the holding element including a braking ring arranged in the matrix disc and pressing radially against the lower plungers so as to hold the lower plungers from falling out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1992
    Assignee: Firma Wilhelm Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Arndt, Peter Luneburg, Kurt Marquardt, Hans-Joachim Pierags, Ulrich Zeuschner, Gunter Harten
  • Patent number: 5071336
    Abstract: A rotary pelleting machine comprises a housing, a drive shaft, a matrix disc connected with the drive shaft and guiding upper plungers and lower plungers, a unit for controlling position of the plungers during rotation of the matrix disc. The unit includes a cam ring provided for controlling the upper plungers. The cam ring is supported rotatably relative to the housing and the drive shaft. Also a unit for measuring a torque of the cam disc is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1991
    Assignee: Firma Wilhelm Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Jurgen Hinzpeter, Ulrich Zeuschner, Hans-Joachim Pierags, Kurt Marquardt, Ulrich Arndt, Gunter Harten