Patents by Inventor Peter Franzén

Peter Franzén 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: 8727145
    Abstract: The object of the invention is to reduce the amount of investment required for the usage-optimized configuration and installation of large cranes. This object is achieved by a large mobile crane having an undercarriage, a drive unit (16), a revolving superstructure (18), one or more control stations (17), at least two jibs (3), at least one counter-jib (4), at least two lifting arrangements (22) and counterweights arranged separately or on the basic structure, characterized in that the load-bearing parts of the crane (3, 4, 20) and the mobility-specific parts (5, 6, 7) are of modular design and can be supplemented by exchangeable and/or supplementary parts, wherein the structural units (modules) used essentially correspond, or are similar, to existing standard-crane components, and an increase in load-bearing capacity can be achieved by arranging a number of these in the large crane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Terex Cranes Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Rüdiger Zollondz, Alfons Weckbecker, Fritz-Botho Köster, Günter Karp, Hans-Peter Franzen
  • Patent number: 8651229
    Abstract: Hearing protection devices are disclosed. One hearing protection device includes a first material, having sound attenuating characteristics, shaped to cover over an ear of a user; at least one aperture formed in the first material; and a second material positioned over the aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventor: Lars Peter Franzen
  • Publication number: 20130319788
    Abstract: Hearing protection devices are disclosed. One hearing protection device includes a first material, having sound attenuating characteristics, shaped to cover over an ear of a user; at least one aperture formed in the first material; and a second material positioned over the aperture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2012
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventor: Lars Peter Franzen
  • Publication number: 20130174524
    Abstract: Apparatus for centrifugal separation of solid and/or liquid particles from a flow of gas, wherein two or more rotors (12) provided with conical separation surface elements (16) are located in a surrounding stationary casing (14), which delimits a common chamber (15) for collecting particles separated in the rotors. Each rotor has a fan (26) rotating together therewith. The fans (26) of the rotors are located in a common fan housing (30) that is separate from and adjacent to the casing (14) defining the collection chamber (15).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Inventors: Claes Inge, Peter Franzén
  • Patent number: 8171920
    Abstract: Device for cleaning crankcase gases from an internal combustion engine by means of a centrifugal separator (14), comprising a housing (16) with a rotor (22), which is rotatably supported in the housing and has a plurality of tightly separated separating discs (20). The housing (16) has an interface surface, which is designed for direct mounting of the housing (16) over a corresponding opening in a valve cover of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: 3nineAB
    Inventors: Claes Inge, Peter Franzén, Torgny Lagerstedt, Johan Strömberg
  • Patent number: 8162160
    Abstract: A large mobile crane includes a revolving superstructure, a main boom hinged to the superstructure, and a derrick boom hinged to the superstructure. A modular counterweight system includes a traveling counterweight and a non-traveling counterweight connected to a crossbeam suspended from the distal end of the derrick boom so that the non-traveling counterweight is activated before the traveling counterweight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Terex Demag GmbH
    Inventors: Rüdiger Zollondz, Alfons Weckbecker, Fritz-Botho Köster, Günter Karp, Hans-Peter Franzen
  • Patent number: 8100160
    Abstract: A film transfer apparatus includes an application unit, a transfer unit downstream of the application unit, and at least one third unit for further processing a printing material with a transfer layer applied. In the prior art, if contact pressure is exerted on coated printing material again in a following nip, the adhesive layer under the transfer layer can be pressed out. A blanket can then be contaminated with adhesive, ink itself can be contaminated and parts of the transfer layer can be detached from the coated sheet. In order to avoid pressing out the adhesive, measured values in the transfer unit are compared with corresponding values in the third unit. At least one controlled variable in the units can then be readjusted on the basis of a difference, to at least reduce the quantity of adhesive squeezed out. A transfer method and a covering surface are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Peter Franzen, Nils Klockmann, Alexander Weber
  • Patent number: 8052779
    Abstract: A centrifugal separator device for concurrent separation of solid and/or liquid particles suspended in a gaseous media includes a rotor having a multiplicity of sedimentation members and which is mounted rotatably in a surrounding housing. An intake is provided for the gaseous medium to be cleaned, which leads to a central inlet shaft of the rotor. The housing has an outlet for cleaned gas, which has been freed of solid and/or liquid particles on passage through the sedimentation members in the rotor, and an outlet for the solid and/or liquid particles, which have been deposited on the sedimentation members and then transferred to a side wall of the housing by a centrifugal force. A nozzle is arranged upstream of the sedimentation members in order to supply a liquid to the sedimentation members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: 3Nine AB
    Inventors: Torgny Lagerstedt, Claes Inge, Peter Franzen, Olev Maehans, Martin Sandgren
  • Patent number: 8029601
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for the separation of particles from a flow of gas, where both large, heavy and small, light particles are separated off from the gas by the combined effect of an electrostatic attraction force and a centrifugal force in a centrifugal separator of the type that comprises a rotor that has a plurality of adjacent surface elements with intermediate gas flow gaps and that is mounted in such a way that it can rotate in a surrounding casing, which casing has an inlet for unclean gas and an outlet for clean gas and an outlet for separated-off particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: 3nine AB
    Inventors: Peter Franzén, Claes Inge, Torgny Lagerstedt
  • Patent number: 7914605
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for the separation of particles from a flow of gas, where both large, heavy and small, light particles are separated off from the gas by the combined effect of an electrostatic attraction force and a centrifugal force in a centrifugal separator of the type that comprises a rotor that has a plurality of adjacent surface elements with intermediate gas flow gaps and that is mounted in such a way that it can rotate in a surrounding casing, which casing has an inlet for unclean gas and an outlet for clean gas and an outlet for separated-off particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: 3nine AB
    Inventors: Peter Franzén, Claes Inge, Torgny Lagerstedt
  • Publication number: 20110000372
    Abstract: A centrifugal separator device for concurrent separation of solid and/or liquid particles suspended in a gaseous media includes a rotor having a multiplicity of sedimentation members and which is mounted rotatably in a surrounding housing. An intake is provided for the gaseous medium to be cleaned, which leads to a central inlet shaft of the rotor. The housing has an outlet for cleaned gas, which has been freed of solid and/or liquid particles on passage through the sedimentation members in the rotor, and an outlet for the solid and/or liquid particles, which have been deposited on the sedimentation members and then transferred to a side wall of the housing by a centrifugal force. A nozzle is arranged upstream of the sedimentation members in order to supply a liquid to the sedimentation members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Inventors: Torgny Lagerstedt, Claes Inge, Peter Franzen, Olev Maehans, Martin Sandgren
  • Patent number: 7766120
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a cap (11) intended for use as hearing protection and adapted to enclosed the external ear of a user, characterized by at least one vibration-damping weight element (18, 38a-b) of the cap (11), which weight element is arranged so as to at least partly block an audio mode of vibration that would have existed in the cap in the absence of said weight element (18, 38a-b). The invention also relates to a method of producing such a cap, and use of the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Sperian Hearing Protection, LLC
    Inventors: Fredrik Hansson, Peter Franzen, Per Hiselius
  • Patent number: 7749310
    Abstract: The invention relates to devices and methods for cleaning centrifugal separators for concurrent and countercurrent separation of solid and/or liquid particles suspended in gaseous media. The device comprises a rotor (12) which is provided with a multiplicity of sedimentation members (14) and which is mounted rotatably in a surrounding housing (20). In concurrent separation, a flushing nozzle (36) is arranged upstream of the sedimentation members (14) in order to supply a cleaning liquid for flushing the sedimentation members clean. In countercurrent separation, the flushing nozzle is arranged upstream and/or downstream of the sedimentation members in order to supply cleaning liquid from outside and/or from inside the rotor for flushing the sedimentation members clean.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: 3Nine AB
    Inventors: Torgny Lagerstedt, Claes Inge, Peter Franzen, Olev Maehans, Martin Sandgren
  • Patent number: 7731772
    Abstract: Rotor unit for a centrifuge for purifying flowing fluids, which rotor unit (12) comprises a plurality of disk elements (14) which are stacked concentrically one on another and provided with at least one centrally located fluid flow-through hole, where the disk elements (14) have lead-through openings by means of which the disk elements (14) are pushed onto a number of essentially axially elongate guide elements (16) distributed in the circumferential direction for guiding the disk elements in the circumferential direction and radially. The disk elements (14) are held together by a first and a second end element (18, 20) at the ends of the stack of disk elements. A central portion of at least some of the guide elements (16) are interconnected by means of a cross-stay construction (36) in order to prevent deflection of the rods owing to the centrifugal force during rotation of the rotor unit (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: 3Nine AB
    Inventors: Torgny Lagerstedt, Claes Inge, Peter Franzèn, Olev Maehans, Martin Sandgren
  • Patent number: 7722013
    Abstract: The invention relates to a combination double bottom hook block in which two pulley blocks (2, 3) each with a plurality of pulleys are connected to one another by means of a rocker (1), a load hook being mounted in a pivotable manner on the rocker. If use is made here of two lifting cables, each of these lifting cables is led over a pulley block (2, 3) and, in order to achieve the same loading capability if use is made of just one lifting cable, the latter is led, in addition, over a floating pulley (2) which is mounted between the two pulley blocks (2, 3), the two pulley blocks (2, 3) also being secured against tilting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Terex Demag GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Peter Franzen, Alfred Boes
  • Publication number: 20090289495
    Abstract: The object of the invention is to reduce the amount of investment required for the usage-optimized configuration and installation of large cranes. This object is achieved by a large mobile crane having an undercarriage, a drive unit (16), a revolving superstructure (18), one or more control stations (17), at least two jibs (3), at least one counter-jib (4), at least two lifting arrangements (22) and counterwvejghts arranged separately or on the basic structure, characterized in that the load-bearing parts of the crane (3, 4, 20) and the mobility-specific parts (5, 6, 7) are of modular design and can be supplemented by exchangeable and/or supplementary parts, wherein the structural units (modules) used essentially correspond, or are similar, to existing standard-crane components, and an increase in load-bearing capacity can be achieved by arranging a number of these in the large crane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2006
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Applicant: Terex-Demag GmbH & LG
    Inventors: Rüdiger Zollondz, Alfons Weckbecker, Fritz-Botho Köster, Günter Karp, Hans-Peter Franzen
  • Publication number: 20090266231
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for the separation of particles from a flow of gas, where both large, heavy and small, light particles can be separated off from the gas by means of the combined effect of an electrostatic attraction force and a centrifugal force in a centrifugal separator (10) of the type that comprises a rotor (14) that has a plurality of adjacent surface elements (16) with intermediate gas flow gaps (48) and that is mounted in such a way that it can rotate in a surrounding casing (12), which casing has an inlet (18) for unclean gas and an outlet (22) for clean gas and an outlet (24) for separated-of f particles. A charging unit (44) ionizes the particles upstream of the rotor (14). An electrical field is generated between adjacent surface elements (16) of the rotor in order to attract the ionized light particles towards a face of the surface elements by means of the electrostatic force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2006
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Inventors: Peter Franzen, Claes Inge, Torgny Lagerstedt
  • Publication number: 20090267039
    Abstract: The invention relates to a combination double bottom hook block in which two pulley blocks (2, 3) each with a plurality of pulleys are connected to one another by means of a rocker (1), a load hook being mounted in a pivotable manner on the rocker. If use is made here of two lifting cables, each of these lifting cables is led over a pulley block (2, 3) and, in order to achieve the same loading capability if use is made of just one lifting cable, the latter is led, in addition, over a floating pulley (2) which is mounted between the two pulley blocks (2, 3), the two pulley blocks (2, 3) also being secured against tilting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2006
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: Terex-Demag GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Hans-Peter Franzen, Alfred Boes
  • Publication number: 20090241920
    Abstract: Device for cleaning crankcase gases from an internal combustion engine by means of a centrifugal separator (14), comprising a housing (16) with a rotor (22), which is rotatably supported in the housing and has a plurality of tightly separated separating discs (20). The housing (16) has an interface surface, which is designed for direct mounting of the housing (16) over a corresponding opening in a valve cover of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2006
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Inventors: Claes Inge, Peter Franzen, Torgny Lagerstedt, Johan Stromberg
  • Publication number: 20090205772
    Abstract: A film transfer apparatus includes an application unit, a transfer unit downstream of the application unit, and at least one third unit for further processing a printing material with a transfer layer applied. In the prior art, if contact pressure is exerted on coated printing material again in a following nip, the adhesive layer under the transfer layer can be pressed out. A blanket can then be contaminated with adhesive, ink itself can be contaminated and parts of the transfer layer can be detached from the coated sheet. In order to avoid pressing out the adhesive, measured values in the transfer unit are compared with corresponding values in the third unit. At least one controlled variable in the units can then be readjusted on the basis of a difference, to at least reduce the quantity of adhesive squeezed out. A transfer method and a covering surface are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2009
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Applicant: HEIDELBERGER DRUCKMASCHINEN AG
    Inventors: Peter Franzen, Nils Klockmann, Alexander Weber