Patents by Inventor Thomas Hollriegl

Thomas Hollriegl 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: 11577444
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for processing containers and in particular for reshaping plastic preforms into plastic containers, including a transport device which transports the containers along a predetermined transport path, wherein this transport device has a movable support, on which a plurality of processing stations are arranged, which in each case are suitable and intended for processing the plastic preforms, with a clean room, which surrounds at least portions of the transport path of the plastic preforms and which is delimited by at least one wall relative to the environment. Further, the apparatus has at least one inspection device for inspecting the containers, wherein this inspection device has an image capturing device, wherein this image capturing device is arranged at least partially outside the clean room and monitors at least one region of the containers through at least one wall of the clean room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: KRONES AG
    Inventors: Thomas Höllriegl, Robert Schmitt, Günter Frankenberger, Andreas Eichenseher
  • Publication number: 20200238591
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for processing containers and in particular for reshaping plastic preforms into plastic containers, including a transport device which transports the containers along a predetermined transport path, wherein this transport device has a movable support, on which a plurality of processing stations are arranged, which in each case are suitable and intended for processing the plastic preforms, with a clean room, which surrounds at least portions of the transport path of the plastic preforms and which is delimited by at least one wall relative to the environment. Further, the apparatus has at least one inspection device for inspecting the containers, wherein this inspection device has an image capturing device, wherein this image capturing device is arranged at least partially outside the clean room and monitors at least one region of the containers through at least one wall of the clean room.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Thomas Höllriegl, Robert Schmitt, Günter Frankenberger, Andreas Eichenseher
  • Patent number: 10173382
    Abstract: A blow molding machine with a stationary and a rotating part, comprising a tempering device for tempering blow molds of the blow molding machine using a medium, and a respective method, characterized in that the tempering device is arranged within the blow molding machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Krones AG
    Inventors: Thomas Höllriegl, Andreas Brunner
  • Patent number: 9662828
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a tempering device of a blow-molding machine for tempering at least one blow mold member of a blow mold or a blow mold member carrier to a target temperature, with a device for receiving a temperature actual value of the blow mold member or the blow mold member carrier, where the temperature actual value is measured by a temperature measuring device in the blow mold member or the blow mold member carrier, devices for receiving a temperature target value of the blow mold member or the blow mold member carrier, analyzing the received temperature actual value and the received temperature target value, calculating a setting value for the tempering device from the received temperature actual value and the received temperature target value, and transmitting the setting value to the tempering device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: KRONES AG
    Inventors: Thomas Hollriegl, Andrea Brunner, Dieter Finger, Harald Effenberger, Andreas Eichenseher, Daniel Vogler
  • Publication number: 20140264990
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a tempering device of a blow-molding machine for tempering at least one blow mold member of a blow mold or a blow mold member carrier to a target temperature, with a device for receiving a temperature actual value of the blow mold member or the blow mold member carrier, where the temperature actual value is measured by a temperature measuring device in the blow mold member or the blow mold member carrier, devices for receiving a temperature target value of the blow mold member or the blow mold member carrier, analyzing the received temperature actual value and the received temperature target value, calculating a setting value for the tempering device from the received temperature actual value and the received temperature target value, and transmitting the setting value to the tempering device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: KRONES AG
    Inventors: Thomas Hollriegl, Andrea Brunner, Dieter Finger, Harald Effenberger, Andreas Eichenseher, Daniel Vogler
  • Patent number: 8641409
    Abstract: In a blow mold for manufacturing blow molded or stretch-blow molded containers with mold support parts movable relative to each other by a force-transmitting actuation mechanism for opening, closing and locking mold parts defining a mold cavity and mounted to the mold support parts, each mold support is an integrally formed composite component with areas of different materials, wherein at least one first area of a material in the mold support part predominantly is a force transmission element, while at least one second area of another material predominantly is a filling or enclosing or spacer element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Krones AG
    Inventors: Thomas Hollriegl, Thomas Albrecht, Kaj Fuehrer
  • Publication number: 20140021657
    Abstract: A blow molding machine with a stationary and a rotating part, comprising a tempering device for tempering blow molds of the blow molding machine using a medium, and a respective method, characterized in that the tempering device is arranged within the blow molding machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventors: Thomas Höllriegl, Andreas Brunner
  • Patent number: 8453419
    Abstract: A method for blow molding and filling sterile containers of preforms in a container treatment device containing a blow module, in which the preforms are transferred from a heating device to the blow module via transport devices, and the containers are transported to a filling machine and filled, where a sterilization treatment is performed each at the preforms and the containers, a main sterilization treatment is performed at the preforms between the heating device and the blow module, and only a subsequent sterilization treatment is performed at the containers on the transport path to the filling machine. Further, a device having a main sterilization module between the heating device and the blow module, and a subsequent sterilization module between the blow module and the filling machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Krones AG
    Inventors: Stefan Roithmeier, Christian Stoiber, Franz Braun, Michael Dahmen, Patrick Engelhard, Thomas Hollriegl, Roland Laumer, Jurgen Sollner, Michael Neubauer
  • Publication number: 20120052146
    Abstract: In a blow mold for manufacturing blow molded or stretch-blow molded containers with mold support parts movable relative to each other by a force-transmitting actuation mechanism for opening, closing and locking mold parts defining a mold cavity and mounted to the mold support parts, each mold support is an integrally formed composite component with areas of different materials, wherein at least one first area of a material in the mold support part predominantly is a force transmission element, while at least one second area of another material predominantly is a filling or enclosing or spacer element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2011
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: KRONES AG
    Inventors: Thomas Hollriegl, Thomas Albrecht, Kaj Fuehrer
  • Publication number: 20110061343
    Abstract: A method for blow molding and filling sterile containers of preforms in a container treatment device containing a blow module, in which the preforms are transferred from a heating device to the blow module via transport devices, and the containers are transported to a filling machine and filled, where a sterilization treatment is performed each at the preforms and the containers, a main sterilization treatment is performed at the preforms between the heating device and the blow module, and only a subsequent sterilization treatment is performed at the containers on the transport path to the filling machine. Further, a device having a main sterilization module between the heating device and the blow module, and a subsequent sterilization module between the blow module and the filling machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: KRONES AG
    Inventors: Stefan Roithmeier, Christian Stoiber, Franz Braun, Michael Dahmen, Patrick Engelhard, Thomas Hollriegl, Rolland Laumer, Jurgen Sollner, Michael Neubauer
  • Patent number: 7748518
    Abstract: A method and a device for transporting containers, which present a support ring or similar part, where the containers to be transported move through at least one transfer area, in which they are held by gripping elements alternately on different sides of the support ring, and the gripping elements present an identical direction of movement at least in the transfer area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Krones AG
    Inventors: Thomas Höllriegl, Bernhard Düzinger, Erwin Knieling, Heinrich Deyerl
  • Publication number: 20090000909
    Abstract: A method and a device for transporting containers, which present a support ring or similar part, where the containers to be transported move through at least one transfer area, in which they are held by gripping elements alternately on different sides of the support ring, and the gripping elements present an identical direction of movement at least in the transfer area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2005
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Applicant: KRONES AG
    Inventors: Thomas Hollriegl, Bernhard Duzinger, Erwin Knieling, Heinrich Deyerl