Patents by Inventor Ludger Schulte

Ludger Schulte 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: 10137478
    Abstract: A classifier for classifying granular feedstock has a rotary cage rotating about a rotor axis and an air-guiding system arranged around the rotary cage, wherein a classifying zone is formed between the rotary cage and the air-guiding system. In the classifying zone one or more baffles are arranged such that the torque acting on the rotary cage is increased—for the same rotational speed—by at least 20% with respect to an embodiment without baffles and/or the separation between the air-guiding system and the rotary cage is chosen such that the torque acting on the rotary cage is increased—for the same rotational speed—by at least 20% with respect to an embodiment wherein the separation of the air-guiding system is without influence on the torque of the rotary cage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: THYSSENKRUPP INDUSTRIAL SOLUTIONS AG
    Inventors: Olaf Hagemeier, Karsten Melies, Matthias Wuwer, Ludger Schulte
  • Publication number: 20160001327
    Abstract: Disclosed herein, a classifier for classifying granular feedstock has a rotary cage rotating about a rotor axis and an air-guiding system arranged around the rotary cage, wherein a classifying zone is formed between the rotary cage and the air-guiding system. In the classifying zone one or more baffles are arranged such that the torque acting on the rotary cage is increased—for the same rotational speed—by at least 20% with respect to an embodiment without baffles and/or the separation between the air-guiding system and the rotary cage is chosen such that the torque acting on the rotary cage is increased—for the same rotational speed—by at least 20% with respect to an embodiment wherein the separation of the air-guiding system is without influence on the torque of the rotary cage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Applicant: THYSSENKRUPP INDUSTRIAL SOLUTIONS AG
    Inventors: Olaf HAGEMEIER, Karsten MELIES, Matthias WUWER, Ludger SCHULTE
  • Patent number: 8735790
    Abstract: A microscope for examining an object includes a laser light source generating pulsed light so as to illuminate the object. A measuring system including a detector is adapted to detect detection light coming from the object and the measuring system generates a measurement signal based on the detection light. The microscope includes a programmable integrated circuit including a control element and at least one of a first delay element and a second delay element. The control element is configured to generate a first control signal adapted to control the detector and the measuring system. The control element is further configured to generate a second control signal adapted to control the laser light source. The first and second delay elements are configured to delay the first and second control signals, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Leica Microsystems CMS GmbH
    Inventors: Ludger Schulte, Bernd Widzgowski
  • Patent number: 7971815
    Abstract: A milling station and a method for grinding milling material using at least one coarse grinding circuit and at least one fine grinding circuit. The coarse grinding circuit includes a classifier and a material bed roller mill. The fine grinding circuit includes a tube mill with at least two grinding chambers, a central outlet, and a divider. In some instances, at least some of the milling material from the coarse grinding circuit is subdivided in the divider and delivered to the at least two grinding chambers of the fine grinding circuit while some of the milling material is jointly discharged from the at least two grinding chambers through the central outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Polysius AG
    Inventors: Ludger Schulte, Franz-Josef Zurhove, Donald A. Longhurst
  • Publication number: 20110149290
    Abstract: A microscope for examining an object includes a laser light source generating pulsed light so as to illuminate the object. A measuring system including a detector is adapted to detect detection light coming from the object and the measuring system generates a measurement signal based on the detection light. The microscope includes a programmable integrated circuit including a control element and at least one of a first delay element and a second delay element. The control element is configured to generate a first control signal adapted to control the detector and the measuring system. The control element is further configured to generate a second control signal adapted to control the laser light source. The first and second delay elements are configured to delay the first and second control signals, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2010
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: LEICA MICROSYSTEMS CMS GMBH
    Inventors: Ludger Schulte, Bernd Widzgowski
  • Publication number: 20090020636
    Abstract: The invention relates to a milling station and a method for grinding milling material by means of at least one coarse grinding circuit (1) and at least one fine grinding circuit (2). The coarse grinding circuit is provided with a classifier (10) and a material bed roller mill (11). The precrushed material of the material bed roller mill is fed to the classifier whose coarse material is redirected to the material bed roller mill and whose fine material is delivered to the fine grinding circuit. The fine grinding circuit encompasses a tube mill (20) with at least two grinding chambers (20a, 20b), a central outlet (20c), and a divider (21). At least some of the milling material of the coarse grinding circuit is subdivided in the divider and is delivered to the two grinding chambers while the milling material is jointly discharged from the two grinding chambers via the central outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2006
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Inventors: Ludger Schulte, Franz-Josef Zurhove, Donald A. Longhurst
  • Patent number: 7168645
    Abstract: A lifting wall for a tube mill which has a discharge means with lifting vanes in order to transport the material being ground to discharge openings by the rotary movement of the tube mill. The lifting vanes are disposed obliquely with respect to the radial direction so that the material being ground slides promptly to the center where it is discharged through the discharge openings still below the horizontal longitudinal central plane of the tube mill. The lifting vanes are substantially flat and bent like blades in a region of the discharge openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: Polysius AG
    Inventors: Gerhard Blatton, Hubert Grothaus, Ludger Schulte
  • Patent number: 7073737
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rotary tube mill and to a method of comminuting lumpy mill feed material, in which at least a first and a second grinding chamber as well as a co-rotating partition disposed between the grinding chambers are used. The material ground in the first grinding chamber is divided in the partition into first and second part-quantities of mill feed material, whereby at least a part of the second part-quantity of mill feed material proceeds into the second grinding chamber and at least the first part-quantity of the mill feed material is discharged separately from the tube mill.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: Polysius AG
    Inventors: Ludger Schulte, Frank Ungethüm, Robert Schnatz, Thomas Rüther, Ludwig Könning, Jens Reimers, Hubert Eickholt, Dirk Dilly, Heinz Alker, Reinhard Giesemann
  • Publication number: 20050029374
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rotary tube mill and to a method of comminuting lumpy mill feed material, in which at least a first and a second grinding chamber as well as a co-rotating partition disposed between the grinding chambers are used. The material ground in the first grinding chamber is divided in the partition into first and second part-quantities of mill feed material, whereby at least a part of the second part-quantity of mill feed material proceeds into the second grinding chamber and at least the first part-quantity of the mill feed material is discharged separately from the tube mill.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2002
    Publication date: February 10, 2005
    Inventors: Ludger Schulte, Frank Ungethum, Robert Schnatz, Thomas Ruther, Ludwig Konning, Jens Reimers, Hubert Eickholt, Dirk Dilly, Heinz Alker, Reinhard Giesemann
  • Publication number: 20030111567
    Abstract: The invention relates to a lifting wall for a tube mill which has a discharge means with lifting vanes in order to transport the material being ground to discharge openings by the rotary movement of the tube mill. The lifting vanes are disposed obliquely with respect to the radial direction so that the material being ground slides promptly to the centre where it is discharged through the discharge openings still below the horizontal longitudinal central plane of the tube mill.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2003
    Publication date: June 19, 2003
    Inventors: Blatton Gerhard, Hubert Grothaus, Ludger Schulte
  • Patent number: 5791490
    Abstract: The invention relates to a separator comprising a separator housing with an inlet spiral for separating air which opens tangentially into an annular separating chamber and is divided into a plurality of delivery channels which lie one above the other, as well as a basket-shaped separator rotor disposed centrally and with a vertical axis in the separator housing and a guide vane ring which surrounds the latter with a radial clearance. In order that this separator on the one hand has a high effectiveness of separation between oversize material and fine material and on the other hand facilitates a sufficiently broad grain size distribution of the fine material, the overall shape of the separator rotor is that of a cone which tapers downwards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1998
    Assignee: Krupp Polysius AG
    Inventors: Otto Heinemann, Ingo Engeln, Hubert Eickholt, Ludger Lohnherr, Michael von Seebach, Ludger Schulte