Patents by Inventor Manfred Volker
Manfred Volker 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: 20240009598Abstract: A filter apparatus connected a container, where the container includes a container neck and is filled with a filling material. The filter apparatus includes a filtrate riser tube in the container, which extends from the base region of the container to the container neck, a container connector head, which is fastened to the container neck and defines passages connected to a liquid inlet line and an inlet filter, and a connector unit with a sealing piston in the connector unit, which is arranged so as to be lowerable to connect the liquid inlet line to the filter material in the container and the filtrate riser tube to the filtrate outlet line.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Manfred Volker, Andre Schuhmacher, Thomas Reinhart
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Patent number: 11654396Abstract: The reverse osmosis system with at least one high pressure pump, which supplies untreated water to at least one module pipe, in which a membrane with a permeate collecting pipe is arranged, includes a permeate outlet of the at least one module pipe that is connected by means of a first conduit to a permeate tank, which is in communication by means of a further conduit, connected into which there is a permeate supply pump, with a loop feed line, to which a plurality of dialysis devices are connected and that branching off from the first conduit there is a bypass conduit, which discharges into the further conduit downstream of the permeate tank and the permeate supply pump.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: FIDICA GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Manfred Völker, Thomas Reinhart
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Patent number: 11207622Abstract: The filter system having a filter and a filter holder, wherein the filter is connected to an upper and a lower filter cap, wherein on the circumference of the filter caps a cross-sectionally T-shaped fixing aid is respectively mounted, having a laterally projecting transverse web, which are vertically aligned with each other, wherein on an outer side of the housing of the filter holder two filter fixings are mounted with grooves in which the transverse webs can be suspended, is characterized in that four hydraulic ports project laterally from the filter and/or the filter caps, which are vertically aligned with each other, and that the filter holder has four connection connectors, which can be advanced by an upper and a lower closure mechanism against spring force until they engage in an end position in which the connection connectors are tightly connected to the hydraulic connections.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2019Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Inventors: Manfred Völker, Cornelia Schmitt, Reinhart Thomas
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Publication number: 20210362093Abstract: The reverse osmosis system with at least one high pressure pump, which supplies untreated water to at least one module pipe, in which a membrane with a permeate collecting pipe is arranged, includes a permeate outlet of the at least one module pipe that is connected by means of a first conduit to a permeate tank, which is in communication by means of a further conduit, connected into which there is a permeate supply pump, with a loop feed line, to which a plurality of dialysis devices are connected and that branching off from the first conduit there is a bypass conduit, which discharges into the further conduit downstream of the permeate tank and the permeate supply pump.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2020Publication date: November 25, 2021Inventors: Manfred Völker, Thomas Reinhart
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Publication number: 20210331939Abstract: The water purification module includes a tubular receiving container with a base member and a removable lid with through bores, through which liquid to be purified may be supplied at the top into the interior of the receiving container. The water purification module also includes a tubular filter insert, which is removably suspended within the inner wall of the receiving container and is sealed with respect to the inner wall of the receiving container by an annular seal, and at least one extraction opening for purified liquid, which extends through the wall of the receiving container and/or the base member.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2021Publication date: October 28, 2021Inventor: Manfred VÖLKER
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Patent number: 11008233Abstract: A water treatment system, particularly pre-filtration unit of the water treatment system, comprising at least one chlorine sensor device, includes a salt-water treatment device which is connected to the chlorine sensor device, an electrolysis cell being disposed in the associated line, and thereafter a pump and a release valve.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2019Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Vivonic GmbHInventor: Manfred Volker
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Publication number: 20200078716Abstract: The filter system having a filter and a filter holder, wherein the filter is connected to an upper and a lower filter cap, wherein on the circumference of the filter caps a cross-sectionally T-shaped fixing aid is respectively mounted, having a laterally projecting transverse web, which are vertically aligned with each other, wherein on an outer side of the housing of the filter holder two filter fixings are mounted with grooves in which the transverse webs can be suspended, is characterized in that four hydraulic ports project laterally from the filter and/or the filter caps, which are vertically aligned with each other, and that the filter holder has four connection connectors, which can be advanced by an upper and a lower closure mechanism against spring force until they engage in an end position in which the connection connectors are tightly connected to the hydraulic connections.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2019Publication date: March 12, 2020Applicant: FIDICA GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Manfred Völker, Cornelia Schmitt, Reinhart Thomas
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Patent number: 10550017Abstract: The water treatment system, particularly pre-filtration unit of the water treatment system, comprising at least one chlorine sensor device, includes a salt-water treatment device which is connected to the chlorine sensor device, an electrolysis cell being disposed in the associated line, and thereafter a pump and a release valve.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2014Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: Vivonic GmbHInventor: Manfred Volker
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Publication number: 20190389747Abstract: A water treatment system, particularly pre-filtration unit of the water treatment system, comprising at least one chlorine sensor device, includes a salt-water treatment device which is connected to the chlorine sensor device, an electrolysis cell being disposed in the associated line, and thereafter a pump and a release valve.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2019Publication date: December 26, 2019Inventor: Manfred Volker
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Patent number: 10406489Abstract: A mixing unit for ready-to-use flushing solutions with a mixing chamber, with which conduits for ultrapure water and for concentrate communicate, in order to form a ready-to use flushing solution therein is characterized in that the concentrate is filled into a concentrate bag, which is provided with a concentrate bag connector, which is connectable to a connector on the mixing unit, that the connector on the mixing unit is covered by a pivotal concentrate valve in its closed state so that a sealed flushing space is defined around the connector and that a flushing liquid conduit communicates with the connector on the mixing unit so that flushing liquid is conveyable into the flushing space, which can completely clean the connector internally and externally.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2015Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Inventor: Manfred Volker
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Patent number: 10307715Abstract: The method of verifying an RO membrane of an RO installation is characterized in that the conductivity values of the supplied raw water and of the permeate and the amount of the raw water inflow and the concentrate outflow are continuously or cyclically measured and that the efficiency of the RO membrane, its retention rate and/or filtration efficiency are calculated from the measured values.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2015Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Inventor: Manfred Volker
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Patent number: 10246351Abstract: The device for producing ultrapure water according to the reverse osmosis principle with a reverse osmosis filter which is subdivided by the RO membrane into a primary chamber and a secondary chamber, with a primary circuit through which raw water is supplied to the primary chamber and concentrate is discharged therefrom, and with a secondary circuit for supplying permeate to at least one consumer, preferably to a dialysis device, is characterized in that a means for detecting organic and/or inorganic deposits is arranged in or on the primary circuit and/or the secondary circuit and is connected to an evaluation means.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2012Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: Vivonic GmbHInventor: Manfred Völker
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Patent number: 10159939Abstract: A method is provided for sanitizing a reverse osmosis system to supply high-purity permeate. Included in the method is supplying raw water to a feed tank and to a filter module using a raw-water inlet line having an inlet valve. A primary circuit is provided, and has a first pump connected to the filter module. A secondary circuit is provided, and has a second pump and a heater, both of which are connected to the filter module. The primary circuit is separated from the secondary circuit using a semipermeable membrane disposed in the filter module. The secondary circuit of the reverse osmosis system is cleaned or disinfected while the raw-water inlet line is in a disconnected state and the inlet valve is in a closed state using the second pump and the heater.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2015Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: Vivonic GmbHInventor: Manfred Volker
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Patent number: 10099179Abstract: A reverse osmosis system comprises a permeate collection tube which is connected at one end to a distribution system for permeate which comprises at least one device for cleaning and/or disinfection. The permeate collection tube, the cleaning and/or disinfection device and a circulation pump are arranged in a circulation circuit.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2012Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: Vivonic GmbHInventor: Manfred Volker
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Patent number: 10046988Abstract: The RO installation for producing ultrapure water, preferably for medicinal flushing solutions, with a raw water supply conduit, which leads to a feed tank, from which a conduit with a pump leads to the primary side of an RO membrane, from where a concentrate circulation conduit leads back to the feed tank, and with a permeate feed conduit and a first permeate circulation conduit, which either extends to a permeate return conduit, which leads to the feed tank, or communicates via a further permeate circulation conduit with the secondary side of the RO membrane, and with a filtrate outlet conduit is characterized in that the primary circuit including the feed tank, the conduit, the primary side of the RO membrane and the concentrate circulation conduit and the secondary circuit including the secondary side of the RO membrane, the first permeate circulation conduit and the further permeate circulation conduit may be flowed through by a disinfecting and cleaning agent independently of one another, wherein a disiType: GrantFiled: November 24, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Inventor: Manfred Volker
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Patent number: 9995658Abstract: The sampling point valve, with a valve body that is movable in a valve housing between a closed position and an open position of the sampling point valve, wherein the valve body has a sample fluid channel, characterized in that the valve body is made of a material with a high thermal conductivity coefficient, preferably metal, that a signal unit with an essentially pot-shaped housing part made of a material with a high thermal conductivity coefficient, preferably metal, is in contact with the valve body, and that the signal unit includes a signal button that can be advanced out of a housing by a shape memory spring device when this device is warmed.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2016Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Fidica GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Manfred Volker
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Patent number: 9962481Abstract: The transport carriage for flush solutions is characterized in that the flush solution is received in a flexible flush solution bag that is arranged in a rigid container, wherein a pressurized gas can be introduced into the flush solution bag or the rigid container.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2015Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Inventor: Manfred Volker
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Patent number: 9918621Abstract: The system for storing and applying flush solutions, preferably in the medical field such as for general and endoscopic operations, with a flush solution bag that is arranged in a rigid container, is characterized in that the rigid container has a swiveling lid with a connector receptacle, through which a bag connector is stuck, that can be mounted to the bag connector by means of a movable connector locking device and a holding slot arrangement, in that running through the bag connector is a filling line that is provided with a link connector that can be connected to a link connector of the mixing unit, in that the link connector of the mixing unit is covered by a swiveling concentrate flap in its closed state in such a manner that a tight flushing area is formed around the link connector, and in that a flush fluid line discharges into the link connector of the mixing unit in such a way that flushing fluid that can completely clean the link connector on the inside and outside can be conveyed into the flushinType: GrantFiled: November 24, 2015Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Inventor: Manfred Volker
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Patent number: 9862618Abstract: The water treatment system, particularly reverse-osmosis system, comprising a water line with a plurality of filter stages, is characterized in that before and after at least one filter stage a respective line branches off from the water line, which is provided with a valve adapted to be switched by a control device and leads to a pressure sensor device.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2013Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Vivonic GmbHInventor: Manfred Volker
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Patent number: 9737861Abstract: The mixing system for ready-to-use flush solutions is characterized by an RO system, a mixing unit that is connected to the RO system and that contains a mixing chamber, to which high-purity water can be fed from the RO system and flush solution concentrate can be fed from a concentrate source, and a flush solution link connector, wherein the RO system and the mixing unit form a filling station, a mobile flush solution container that contains a pressurized container that receives a flush solution bag that can be coupled to the flush solution link connector of the mixing unit, and a computer and control mechanism for all measurement and monitoring tasks during the local production of a flush solution, wherein the mobile flush solution container and the filling station are provided with sensors by means of which wireless communication is made possible between the mobile flush solution container and the filling station.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2015Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Inventor: Manfred Volker