Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Hasselmann

Wolfgang Hasselmann 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: 11141720
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an apparatus and a respective process, which can be used in the production of exhaust catalysts. In particular, the present apparatus is used in a process to supply the liquid coating slurry to substrates, like honeycomb monoliths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: UMICORE AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Hasselmann, Stéphane Masson
  • Publication number: 20210236976
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a coated wall-flow filter. The wall-flow filter is coated with a powder aerosol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: UMICORE AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Martin FOERSTER, Antje OLTERSDORF, Naina DEIBEL, Sascha ZOELLE, Jürgen KOCH, Manuel GENSCH, Wolfgang HASSELMANN
  • Publication number: 20200215522
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an apparatus and a respective process, which can be used in the production of exhaust catalysts. In particular, the present apparatus is used in a process to supply the liquid coating slurry to substrates, like honeycomb monoliths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicant: UMICORE AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang HASSELMANN, Stéphane MASSON
  • Patent number: 10533918
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a process, which can be used in the production of exhaust catalysts. In particular, the present process describes way of testing the leak-tightness of the coating equipment before a new coating campaign begins or during a running campaign.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: UMICORE AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Stéphane Masson, Joachim Geiser, Wolfgang Hasselmann
  • Publication number: 20170356823
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a process, which can be used in the production of exhaust catalysts. In particular, the present process describes way of testing the leak-tightness of the coating equipment before a new coating campaign begins or during a running campaign.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Applicant: UMICORE AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Stéphane MASSON, Joachim GEISER, Wolfgang HASSELMANN
  • Patent number: 9488087
    Abstract: The invention relates to a novel assembly for coating substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: UMICORE AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Bernd Mergner, Wolfgang Hasselmann, Dieter Detterbeck, Sigurd Adler
  • Patent number: 8834972
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process and an apparatus for coating a plurality of catalyst support bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Umicore AG & Co., KG
    Inventor: Wolfgang Hasselmann
  • Patent number: 8491966
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a process for coating ceramic honeycomb bodies with a catalyst suspension comprising catalyst components as solids and/or in dissolved form in a carrier liquid. Parallel flow channels run through the honeycomb bodies. The walls of the flow channels have an open pore structure. To coat the channel walls and in particular also the interior surfaces of the pores with the catalyst suspension, the entry and exit end faces of the vertically aligned honeycomb bodies are each brought into contact with a perforated mask, with the perforated masks being arranged so that the open regions of the perforated mask on the one end face are opposite the closed regions of the perforated mask on the other end face and vice versa. The catalyst suspension is then pumped or sucked from below into the honeycomb bodies until it exits at the upper end face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Umicore AG & Co. KG
    Inventor: Wolfgang Hasselmann
  • Patent number: 8476559
    Abstract: Tunnel kilns serve for the thermal treatment of products in a continuous operation within a production process. The tunnel kilns are usually made up of a number of identical kiln segments, each segment having a blower, heating elements for heating up the fresh air and a common exhaust air line. For the treatment of the products, they are made to pass by either on the suction side or the pressure side of the blower. To reduce the overall volume of such kilns and to save energy, it is proposed to arrange the blower inside the kiln in such a way that it produces a circulatory flow transversely to the direction of continuous transport and to transport the products to be dried through the circulatory flow parallel to one another in the direction of continuous transport both on the pressure side and on the suction side of the blower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Umicore AG & Co. KG
    Inventor: Wolfgang Hasselmann
  • Publication number: 20120315381
    Abstract: The invention relates to a novel assembly for coating substrates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: UMICORE AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Bernd Mergner, Wolfgang Hasselmann, Dieter Detterbeck, Sigurd Adler
  • Publication number: 20120177822
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process and an apparatus for coating a plurality of catalyst support bodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Inventor: Wolfgang Hasselmann
  • Publication number: 20100301033
    Abstract: Tunnel kilns serve for the thermal treatment of products in a continuous operation within a production process. The tunnel kilns are usually made up of a number of identical kiln segments, each segment having a blower, heating elements for heating up the fresh air and a common exhaust air line. For the treatment of the products, they are made to pass by either on the suction side or the pressure side of the blower. To reduce the overall volume of such kilns and to save energy, it is proposed to arrange the blower inside the kiln in such a way that it produces a circulatory flow transversely to the direction of continuous transport and to transport the products to be dried through the circulatory flow parallel to one another in the direction of continuous transport both on the pressure side and on the suction side of the blower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2008
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventor: Wolfgang Hasselmann
  • Publication number: 20100093527
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for coating ceramic honeycomb bodies with a catalyst suspension comprising catalyst components as solids and/or in dissolved form in a carrier liquid. Parallel flow channels run through the honeycomb bodies. The walls of the flow channels have an open pore structure. To coat the channel walls and in particular also the interior surfaces of the pores with the catalyst suspension, the entry and exit end faces of the vertically aligned honeycomb bodies are each brought into contact with a perforated mask, with the perforated masks being arranged so that the open regions of the perforated mask on the one end face are opposite the closed regions of the perforated mask on the other end face and vice versa. The catalyst suspension is then pumped or sucked from below into the honeycomb bodies until it exits at the upper end face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Inventor: Wolfgang Hasselmann
  • Publication number: 20080107806
    Abstract: Wall-flow filters can be reproducibly provided with a catalytically active coating by providing a defined quantity of a coating composition and sucking this coating composition through the openings of the entry passages into the filter body. The coating composition is sucked in by applying a subatmospheric pressure to the openings of the exit passages of the wall-flow filters. A different ratio of the coating quantities on the inner surfaces (pore surfaces) and outer surfaces (geometric surfaces of the passage walls) forms depending on the type of coating composition—suspension of fine-particle solids, colloidal solution or solution of soluble precursors of catalytically active components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2005
    Publication date: May 8, 2008
    Applicant: UMICORE AG & CO.KG
    Inventors: Bernd Mergner, Wolfgang Hasselmann
  • Patent number: 6149973
    Abstract: A process for the coating of the flow channels of a cylindrical, honeycomb form catalyst carrier with a dispersion coating through filling of the vertically oriented flow channels with a fill quantity of the coating dispersion through the bottom face of the catalyst carrier and subsequent downward emptying and clearance extraction of the flow channels, as well as drying and calcination of the catalyst carrier, by the following steps:a) filling of the flow channels with a fill quantity that is about 10% greater than the empty volume of the flow channels, so that the coating dispersion goes over the upper face of the catalyst carrier after completion of the filling cycle,b) removal of the excess coating dispersion at the top before emptying of the flow channels andc) emptying and clearance extraction of the flow channels through an extraction impulse, which is generated by connection of a vacuum tank with the bottom face of the catalyst carrier,whereby the time between the beginning of the fill cycle and the en
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2000
    Assignee: Degussa-Huls Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martin Foerster, Ewald Dittrich, Gerhard Birtigh, Walter Leibold, Bernd Mergner, Michael Hoffmann, Wolfgang Hasselmann, Robert Schafer