Patents by Inventor Thomas Riedl
Thomas Riedl 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: 20240022148Abstract: An axial flux machine and a method for installing an axial flux machine has at least two active parts in a motor housing, of which active parts a first active part is configured as a rotor having a number of permanent magnets and a second active part is configured as a stator having a number of electrical windings, wherein the rotor and the stator are arranged adjacent to each other and in a rotation-proof manner, in a transport configuration in a space-saving package, in particular a stack, formed by the magnetic attractive forces of the permanent magnets.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2021Publication date: January 18, 2024Applicant: Miba eMobility GmbHInventors: Dietmar ANDESSNER, Christian DORFBAUER, Philipp Lucas FRUEHWIRTH, Thomas RIEDL, Christian SANDNER, Gerold STETINA
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Patent number: 11264866Abstract: A pump arrangement includes an axial-flow machine and a drive to convey fluid mounted in a housing. The axial-flow machine is formed by at least one first rotor having permanent magnets, a shaft connected to the first rotor and a stator arrangement with stator teeth distributed concentrically around the shaft axis circumferentially and axially separated from the first rotor by an air gap. The stator teeth have axially-opposite end portions and a tooth core therebetween wound with at least one coil winding. The second end portion, turned away from the first rotor, of each stator tooth forms a tooth root joined to a back plate. The first rotor is an eccentric disk and on the side away from the stator arrangement has an eccentric cam, radially spaced from the shaft axis, and rotatably and torque-transmittingly connected to the drive. An axial-flow machine and a compressor includes the pump arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2018Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Miba Sinter Austria GmbHInventors: Gerold Stetina, Christian Sandner, Thomas Riedl, Dietmar Andessner
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Patent number: 11139899Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, by a receiver through a medium from a transmitter, signals over an acoustic channel, where the receiving over the acoustic channel utilizes a high center frequency and provides for a high data rate, and where the medium is a fluid or a semi-solid medium. The device can receive power from the transmitter over the acoustic channel. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2016Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of IllinoisInventors: Michael L. Oelze, Thomas Riedl, Andrew Singer
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Patent number: 10886796Abstract: A stator arrangement for an axial-flow machine includes a stator having stator teeth circumferentially distributed concentrically and axially separated from a rotor by an air gap. The stator teeth have two axially-opposite end portions and a tooth core therebetween. Each tooth core is wound with at least one coil winding. The first end portion facing the rotor forms a tooth tip having a tip cross-sectional area larger than the core cross-sectional area. The second end portion, turned away from the rotor, forms a tooth root, having a root cross-sectional area, which is joined to a reflux plate. The tooth tip of each stator tooth as well as the reflux plate respectively has at least one recess for at least one tooth securing device, and each stator tooth is securely joined by the at least one tooth securing device to the reflex plate in at least axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2018Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: Miba Sinter Austria GmbHInventors: Gerold Stetina, Christian Sandner, Thomas Riedl, Dietmar Andessner
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Patent number: 10633856Abstract: The invention relates to a dry construction system for making partition walls (1), suspended ceilings or the like, with a support structure (2), a cladding (3) arranged on at least one side of this, and an insulation layer (4), wherein the support structure (2) comprises a plurality of carrier profiles (22), to which at least one cladding (3) is secured, and wherein the carrier profiles (22) are formed from a sheet material and exhibit in cross-section a basic section and two limb sections arranged perpendicular thereto, and comprise an embossing with regularly distributed elevations and depressions. In this situation, the centre-to-centre distance between two adjacent elevations of the embossing on one side of the sheet material is less than six times the rated sheet thickness, and the base section is connected to the adjacent limb section in each case by a curved section with an outer radius which amounts to at least three times the rated sheet thickness.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2014Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Saint-Gobain Placo SASInventors: Herbert Leye, Jens Moller, Thomas Riedl
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Publication number: 20200028595Abstract: A system and method includes a receiver configured to receive a communication signal from a transmitter. A motion determining unit connected with the receiver is configured to provide information about a motion of the receiver relative to the transmitter. An adaptive equalizer is connected with the receiver, the adaptive equalizer is configured to use the information about the motion to undo effects of time variation in the communication signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2018Publication date: January 23, 2020Inventors: Thomas Riedl, Andrew Singer
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Publication number: 20190252930Abstract: A stator arrangement for an axial-flow machine includes a stator having stator teeth circumferentially distributed concentrically and axially separated from a rotor by an air gap. The stator teeth have two axially-opposite end portions and a tooth core therebetween. Each tooth core is wound with at least one coil winding. The first end portion facing the rotor forms a tooth tip having a tip cross-sectional area larger than the core cross-sectional area. The second end portion, turned away from the rotor, forms a tooth root, having a root cross-sectional area, which is joined to a reflux plate. The tooth tip of each stator tooth as well as the reflux plate respectively has at least one recess for at least one tooth securing device, and each stator tooth is securely joined by the at least one tooth securing device to the reflex plate in at least axial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2018Publication date: August 15, 2019Applicant: Miba Sinter Austria GmbHInventors: Gerold STETINA, Christian SANDNER, Thomas RIEDL, Dietmar ANDESSNER
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Publication number: 20190242393Abstract: A pump arrangement includes an axial-flow machine and a drive to convey fluid mounted in a housing. The axial-flow machine is formed by at least one first rotor having permanent magnets, a shaft connected to the first rotor and a stator arrangement with stator teeth distributed concentrically around the shaft axis circumferentially and axially separated from the first rotor by an air gap. The stator teeth have axially-opposite end portions and a tooth core therebetween wound with at least one coil winding. The second end portion, turned away from the first rotor, of each stator tooth forms a tooth root joined to a back plate. The first rotor is an eccentric disk and on the side away from the stator arrangement has an eccentric cam, radially spaced from the shaft axis, and rotatably and torque-transmittingly connected to the drive. An axial-flow machine and a compressor includes the pump arrangement.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2018Publication date: August 8, 2019Applicant: Miba Sinter Austria GmbHInventors: Gerold STETINA, Christian SANDNER, Thomas RIEDL, Dietmar ANDESSNER
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Publication number: 20180145770Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, by a receiver through a medium from a transmitter, signals over an acoustic channel, where the receiving over the acoustic channel utilizes a high center frequency and provides for a high data rate, and where the medium is a fluid or a semi-solid medium. The device can receive power from the transmitter over the acoustic channel. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2016Publication date: May 24, 2018Applicant: THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISInventors: Michael L. Oelze, Thomas Riedl, Andrew Singer
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Patent number: 9670930Abstract: The present invention relates to a construction machine with automatic fan rotational speed regulation. The construction machine includes at least one electric motor that is connected functionally to a respective fan and a control unit formed for the purpose of registering operation-specific data. The control unit is configured for the purpose of regulating, depending on the operation-specific data, an electric output of the respective electric motor in order to adjust a desired target fan rotational speed on the fan.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2012Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: JOSEPH VOGELE AGInventors: Tobias Noll, Ralf Weiser, Thomas Riedl
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Publication number: 20160369500Abstract: The invention relates to a dry construction system for making partition walls (1), suspended ceilings or the like, with a support structure (2), a cladding (3) arranged on at least one side of this, and an insulation layer (4), wherein the support structure (2) comprises a plurality of carrier profiles (22), to which at least one cladding (3) is secured, and wherein the carrier profiles (22) are formed from a sheet material and exhibit in cross-section a basic section and two limb sections arranged perpendicular thereto, and comprise an embossing with regularly distributed elevations and depressions. In this situation, the centre-to-centre distance between two adjacent elevations of the embossing on one side of the sheet material is less than six times the rated sheet thickness, and the base section is connected to the adjacent limb section in each case by a curved section with an outer radius which amounts to at least three times the rated sheet thickness.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2014Publication date: December 22, 2016Inventors: Herbert LEYE, Jens MOLLER, Thomas RIEDL
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Patent number: 9376954Abstract: The present invention describes a construction machine with a drive unit and with a cooling system that comprises a fan. The fan is connected to the drive unit by means of a controllable viscous coupling, whereby the viscous coupling can be adjusted in such a way that a required fan rotational speed is set on the output side. The invention furthermore describes a method for the automatic fan rotational speed regulation for a cooling system in a construction machine.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2012Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: JOSEPH VOGELE AGInventors: Tobias Noll, Ralf Weiser, Thomas Riedl
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Publication number: 20160050030Abstract: A system and method includes a receiver configured to receive a communication signal from a transmitter. A motion determining unit connected with the receiver is configured to provide information about a motion of the receiver relative to the transmitter. An adaptive equalizer is connected with the transmitter, the adaptive equalizer is configured to use the information about the motion to undo effects of time variation in the communication signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2015Publication date: February 18, 2016Inventors: Thomas Riedl, Andrew Singer
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Publication number: 20160002941Abstract: A swimming pool water filtration unit includes: a plurality of shallow-bed sand filter modules that receive water from a swimming pool and discharge filtered water simultaneously via a pool water return conduit common to all modules. A valve arrangement associated with the filter modules: (i) selectively but simultaneously switching on and off of all filtered water flow from the trays, which takes place through the return conduit common to all trays, to the pool water return coupling of the tank; and (ii) enable backwash water flow into the individual filter trays in selectable order, preferably through the common return conduit, and opens a conduit for backwash water to pass to waste in a switching state where water flow to the pool water return coupling is blocked.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2014Publication date: January 7, 2016Inventor: John Thomas Riedl
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Patent number: 8540094Abstract: A double-skinned inflatable bottle blank is manufactured by: (i) stacking two sheets of liquid impermeable, flexible foil material; (ii) blanking the sheets; (iii) bonding the two blanks along joining seams that follow contoured perimeter edges to define a double skinned blank which can be inflated through an inflation location; (iv) additionally bonding the two blanks at in a predetermined grid of seams to provide an upstanding peripheral wall with intersecting, inflatable stiffener structures; (v) folding the double skinned blank; and (vi) selectively bonding together portions of the joined perimeter edge of the double skinned blank to define a double-skinned, inflatable bottle blank with an internal cavity surrounded by a bottom wall, peripheral wall and top wall with a dispensing orifice, the inflatable stiffener structures between the seams providing an exoskeleton about the internal cavity when inflated.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2010Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Inventor: John Thomas Riedl
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Publication number: 20120305232Abstract: The present invention describes a construction machine with a drive unit and with a cooling system that comprises a fan. The fan is connected to the drive unit by means of a controllable viscous coupling, whereby the viscous coupling can be adjusted in such a way that a required fan rotational speed is set on the output side. The invention furthermore describes a method for the automatic fan rotational speed regulation for a cooling system in a construction machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2012Publication date: December 6, 2012Applicant: JOSEPH VOGELE AGInventors: Tobias Noll, Ralf Weiser, Thomas Riedl
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Patent number: 8259935Abstract: In a secure communication system, a first communication device includes a first list of numbers and a first number selector for periodically selecting a different number in the first list. The first communication device further includes a first encryption key generator for generating a first encryption key based on the selected number for generating an encrypted message. A second communication device includes a receiver for receiving the encrypted message, a second list of numbers identical to the first list of numbers, and a second number selector synchronized with the first number selector so as to select the same number as the first number selector, and a second encryption key generator for generating a second encryption key identical to the first encryption key. The second communication device decrypts the encrypted message using the second encryption key. An associated method for providing secure communication of a message between parties is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2007Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Inventor: John Thomas Riedl
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Publication number: 20120097634Abstract: The present invention concerns a double-skinned inflatable bottle blank and its method of manufacturing which comprises: (i) stacking two sheets of liquid impermeable, flexible foil material, preferably in coplanar arrangement; (ii) blanking the sheets to create respective, preferably shape-congruent blanks having each a contoured perimeter edge; (iii) bonding the two blanks along joining seams that follow the contoured perimeter edges, but for at one or more inflation locations, thereby to define a double skinned blank into which an inflating fluid can be introduced through the inflation location; (iv) additionally bonding the two blanks at a plurality of discrete stiffening seams which are arranged in a predetermined grid or pattern thereby defining a grid-work of intersecting, inflatable stiffener structures in at least such part of the double skinned blank which will provide an upstanding peripheral wall of the bottle when erected through inflation; (v) folding the double skinned blank; and (vi) selectiveType: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2010Publication date: April 26, 2012Inventor: John Thomas Riedl
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Publication number: 20090161866Abstract: A system for providing secure communication of a message between parties is provided. The system includes first and second communication devices. The first communication device includes a first list of numbers and a first number selector for periodically selecting a different number in the first list. The first communication device further includes a first encryption key generator for generating a first encryption key at a certain time. The first encryption key generator uses the number selected by the first number selector at a certain time to generate the first encryption key from the first list of numbers. The first communication device also includes an encryptor, for encrypting a message using the first encryption key, and a transmitter for transmitting the encrypted message. The second communication device includes a receiver for receiving the encrypted message and a second list of numbers, the second list of numbers being identical to the first list of numbers.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2007Publication date: June 25, 2009Inventor: John Thomas Riedl
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Patent number: 7530307Abstract: A cleaning system for cylinder surfaces of a printing machine, having a number of automated cleaning devices 1, 1?, 1? allocated to a one or more cylinders, each having a supply line 4, 4?, 4? for the supply of detergent 3, as well as a common feed pipe 5 for the supply lines 4, with at least one supply device being allocated to the feed pipe 5. The supply device includes a piston—cylinder unit 9 and the piston cylinder unit 9 and a detection unit 17, 18, 19 for controlling the piston stroke is provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2006Date of Patent: May 12, 2009Assignee: Baldwin Oxy-Dry GmbHInventors: Kjell Lundin, Thomas Riedl