Patents by Inventor Oliver Rupp

Oliver Rupp 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: 10960093
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a laboratory apparatus, comprising a UV radiation device which has at least one UV lamp to carry out a disinfection process, and a control device to control the UV lamp, wherein the control device is designed to specify a duration (t) during which the UV lamp is operated during the disinfection process. The control device is designed to specify the duration (t) using a control function stored in the control device as a function of the operating time (d) of the UV lamp, in such a manner that the duration (t) increases with increasing operating time (d). The present invention further relates to a method for operating such a laboratory apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Thermo Electron LED GmbH
    Inventors: David Scott Phillips, Oliver Rupp
  • Patent number: 10884438
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a safety workbench having a work space surrounded by a housing having a work opening located in the housing front side and adjustable with an adjustable front panel for admitting into the work space an air inlet flow, an exhaust blower and a circulating air blower for conveying an air flow in the safety workbench, which are designed such that a partial air flow drawn in by the exhaust blower is filtered through an exhaust air filter as exhaust air flow from the safety workbench and a partial air flow drawn in by the circulating air blower through a circulating air filter as downwardly directed circulating air flow into the work space, and a control device, a differential pressure sensor (16) and two pressure transducers connected thereto which are designed to measure a pressure at two different positions within the safety workbench d, wherein a first of the pressure transducers is arranged in the immediate vicinity of the fan blades on the low pressure side of the circulating
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Thermo Electron LED GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Schuck, Patrick Fanta, Gerd Ross, Oliver Rupp, Christoph Noll
  • Publication number: 20190377370
    Abstract: The invention relates to a safety workbench (1) having a work space (3) surrounded by a housing (2) having a work opening (6) located in the housing front side (4) and adjustable with an adjustable front panel (5) for admitting into the work space (3) an air inlet flow (7), an exhaust blower (8) and a circulating air blower (9) for conveying an air flow (10) in the safety workbench (1), which are designed such that a partial air flow drawn in by the exhaust blower (8) is filtered through an exhaust air filter (11) as exhaust air flow (12) from the safety workbench (1) and a partial air flow drawn in by the circulating air blower (9) through a circulating air filter (13) as downwardly directed circulating air flow (14) into the work space (3), and a control device (15), a differential pressure sensor (16) and two pressure transducers (17, 18) connected thereto which are designed to measure a pressure at two different positions within the safety workbench d, wherein a first of the pressure sensors (17) is arran
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: Gerhard Schuck, Patrick Fanta, Gerd Ross, Oliver Rupp, Christoph Noll
  • Publication number: 20190224351
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a laboratory apparatus, comprising a UV radiation device which has at least one UV lamp to carry out a disinfection process, and a control device to control the UV lamp, wherein the control device is designed to specify a duration (t) during which the UV lamp is operated during the disinfection process. The control device is designed to specify the duration (t) using a control function stored in the control device as a function of the operating time (d) of the UV lamp, in such a manner that the duration (t) increases with increasing operating time (d). The present invention further relates to a method for operating such a laboratory apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: David Scott Phillips, Oliver Rupp
  • Patent number: 10307802
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a safety workbench, in which, for the purpose of calibrating the safety workbench before beginning regular operation, a device control unit is implemented to cause measurement means to ascertain an actual measured value, which is representative of a flow velocity achieved at normal fan performance, an analysis unit is implemented to compare the actual measured value to a starting setpoint value and, in case of an established deviation, to correct a stored starting limiting value in accordance with the deviation, or means for controlling the fan are implemented to operate the fan at a fan performance corresponding to a stored starting limiting value, a device control unit is implemented to cause the measurement means to ascertain an actual limiting measured value which is representative of the flow velocity achieved at the set fan performance, and a storage unit is implemented to store the actual limiting measured value as the corrected limiting value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Thermo Electron LED GmbH
    Inventors: Gerd Ross, Heiko Reinhardt, Oliver Rupp, Stefan Brachtl, Hermann Stahl
  • Publication number: 20130052927
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a laboratory fume hood, especially a safety cabinet, comprising a working space which is enclosed by a housing and which is closable by an especially movable front window. It comprises a projection apparatus in order to project an image into the working space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: THERMO ELECTRON LED GMBH
    Inventors: Olaf Broemsen, Edmund Frickel, Christoph Noll, Oliver Rupp
  • Publication number: 20080318509
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a safety workbench, in which, for the purpose of calibrating the safety workbench before beginning regular operation, a device control unit is implemented to cause measurement means to ascertain an actual measured value, which is representative of a flow velocity achieved at normal fan performance, an analysis unit is implemented to compare the actual measured value to a starting setpoint value and, in case of an established deviation, to correct a stored starting limiting value in accordance with the deviation, or means for controlling the fan are implemented to operate the fan at a fan performance corresponding to a stored starting limiting value, a device control unit is implemented to cause the measurement means to ascertain an actual limiting measured value which is representative of the flow velocity achieved at the set fan performance, and a storage unit is implemented to store the actual limiting measured value as the corrected limiting value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventors: Gerd Ross, Heiko Reinhardt, Oliver Rupp, Stefan Brachtl, Hermann Stahl