Patents Assigned to Enz Technik AG
  • Patent number: 11975367
    Abstract: In the case of a pipe cleaning and/or pipe inspection nozzle, an available camera module can be coupled to a plurality of pipe cleaning and/or pipe inspection nozzles in a simple and cost-efficient manner such that a secure reliable coupling of the electrical lines is attained. An extension sleeve is inserted, which includes a high-pressure line section having a sleeve loop contact. The sleeve loop contact is fastened in the extension sleeve with a sleeve insulator insert and runs so as to transition into an inner power/signal line within the extension sleeve all the way into an outlet section in the direction of the longitudinal axis. At least one outlet opening is recessed out of the outlet section, and the outlet section opens out into a coupling section, at which elements are provided so that the coupling section can be fastened to a camera adapter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Enz Technik AG
    Inventor: Christoph Lendi
  • Patent number: 11936965
    Abstract: Operational convenience is to be improved in an inspection nozzle or cleaning nozzle for operation with liquids under high pressure with a coupling section that can be connected to a high-pressure tube. A feed bore, a deflection chamber and at least one communicating bore are operatively connected to the coupling section. A camera recess running concentric to a longitudinal axis is arranged in a camera-receiving portion. A camera module is accommodated releasably connected to an encapsulated camera housing sealed water-tight. Optics and camera electronics are permanently incorporated in camera housing. Case manipulation of the camera module and the camera housing is unnecessary. This is realized in that within the camera housing, a contactless magnetically operable camera switch is arranged effectively connected to the camera electronics via a circuit board on one wall of the camera housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Enz Technik AG
    Inventor: Christoph Lendi
  • Patent number: 11906989
    Abstract: A procedure for cleaning a pipe or shaft with a cleaning nozzle operated with a cleaning liquid and having a camera module includes the following steps: recording a video during or after the cleaning; transmitting the video to a mobile device over a first distance; transmitting the video with collected corresponding position data of the cleaning location of the pipe or of the shaft to a memory, which is protected by a cleaning service provider and/or nozzle manufacturer, in a data cloud over a second distance; and making the protected memory in the data cloud of the cleaning service provider and/or nozzle manufacturer accessible by the customer commissioning the cleaning procedure. The recorded videos with stored road map are displayed on a screen, and each video with corresponding cleaning location can be accessed from the memory in the data cloud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Enz Technik AG
    Inventor: Christoph Lendi
  • Publication number: 20220377211
    Abstract: An inspection and/or cleaning nozzle for operation with liquids under high pressure includes a coupling section coupleable to a high-pressure tube and a camera recess running concentric to a longitudinal axis arranged in a camera-receiving portion. A camera module is accommodated releasably connected to an encapsulated water-tight camera housing. Optics and camera electronics are permanently incorporated in the camera housing such that the optics and camera electronics are protected in the interior of the camera housing and fogging of the optics is prevented. This is achieved in that a bore is made in the wall of camera housing running radially across the longitudinal axis direction, the opening of bore is sealed water-tight and air-tight with a membrane, so that the surface of membrane fully overlaps the opening of bore. This surface of the membrane is made correspondingly larger than bore and the membrane is formed multilayered from a laminate film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: Enz Technik AG
    Inventor: Christoph LENDI
  • Publication number: 20220377210
    Abstract: Operational convenience is to be improved in an inspection nozzle or cleaning nozzle for operation with liquids under high pressure with a coupling section that can be connected to a high-pressure tube. A feed bore, a deflection chamber and at least one communicating bore are operatively connected to the coupling section. A camera recess running concentric to a longitudinal axis is arranged in a camera-receiving portion. A camera module is accommodated releasably connected to an encapsulated camera housing sealed water-tight. Optics and camera electronics are permanently incorporated in camera housing. Case manipulation of the camera module and the camera housing is unnecessary. This is realized in that within the camera housing, a contactless magnetically operable camera switch is arranged effectively connected to the camera electronics via a circuit board on one wall of the camera housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: Enz Technik AG
    Inventor: Christoph LENDI
  • Publication number: 20220347707
    Abstract: Electrical interference signals are to be eliminated during operation and video quality improved in a metal extension sleeve incorporated in an internal space of a nozzle element of a pipe cleaning nozzle and/or inspection nozzle for contacting an electrical conductor via a camera adapter through the internal space of the nozzle element with a camera module fastened outside the nozzle element. The extension sleeve spans the length of the nozzle element and is releasably fastened form-fit and/or force-fit on the camera adapter and the at least one extension sleeve has coupling threads along the outer surface of the coupling section, with which the extension sleeve is tightened in the internal space of the nozzle element. The metal extension sleeve has an electrical insulation layer made of plastic on its outer surface spaced from the central longitudinal axis, which is applied fully to the entire outer surface without defects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: Enz Technik AG
    Inventor: Christoph Lendi
  • Patent number: 11441857
    Abstract: A cross-jet nozzle includes a rotor body, in which several channels are recessed or formed running from a nozzle tip in the direction of a stator body, in which at least two front jet nozzles are positioned in the rotor body through at least two front jet channels and oriented so that front jets of a pressurized medium emerging from the front jet channels intersect outside of the rotor body and the rotor body can be mounted to rotate around its longitudinal axis on the stator body, which can be connected to a high-pressure line connection, is introduced safely parallel into tubes by a drive unit of a lance device. The nozzle tip is provided with an outer surface so that the surface is configured convexly arched, dome-like and free of edges and the nozzle tip is formed mirror-symmetric with the longitudinal axis in profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Enz Technik AG
    Inventor: Christoph Lendi
  • Publication number: 20210387212
    Abstract: A rotor body is completely produced from metal by means of additive manufacturing methods or 3D printing, wherein the cross-jet nozzle duct is left out during the additive manufacturing layer by layer as a continuous edge-free curved opening in the form of an arc curved in relation to the longitudinal axis (L). A cleaning fluid can be transported from a feed duct of the rotor body up to a nozzle tip (D) and can be dispensed there from the cross jet nozzle outlet, and accordingly higher-energy cleaning fluid chats are to be able to be generated or an energy loss of the exiting cleaning fluid is to be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: Enz Technik AG
    Inventor: Christoph Lendi
  • Patent number: 11103901
    Abstract: An ultra-high pressure nozzle comprises a stator with a stator channel and a rotor with a rotor channel. A transition from the stator channel to the rotor channel is achieved by a seal, which comprises a rotor bearing hollow body with a rotor bearing channel crossing it in a longitudinal direction and a stator bearing hollow body with a stator bearing channel crossing it in a longitudinal direction. The rotor bearing hollow body is in a fixed location and protrudes into the rotor channel and the stator bearing hollow body is in a fixed location and protrudes into the stator channel. The rotor bearing hollow body and the stator bearing hollow body do not overlap each other. When the nozzle is mounted, the front surface of the rotor bearing hollow body rests in direct contact with a front surface of the stator bearing hollow body in a rotatable manner, thereby creating a seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: ENZ TECHNIK AG
    Inventor: Christoph Lendi
  • Publication number: 20210245207
    Abstract: In the case of a pipe cleaning and/or inspection nozzle, an available camera module can be coupled to a plurality of pipe cleaning and/or inspection nozzles in a simple and cost-efficient manner, and that a secure reliable coupling of the electrical lines is attained. An extension sleeve is inserted, which comprises a high-pressure line section comprising a sleeve loop contact. The sleeve loop contact is fastened in the extension sleeve with a sleeve insulator insert and runs so as to transition into an inner power/signal line within the extension sleeve all the way into an outlet section in the direction of the longitudinal axis. At least one outlet opening is recessed out of the outlet section, and the outlet section opens out into a coupling section, at which means are provided so that the coupling section can be fastened to a camera adapter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: Enz Technik AG
    Inventor: Christoph LENDI
  • Publication number: 20210191430
    Abstract: A procedure for cleaning a pipe or shaft with a cleaning nozzle operated with a cleaning liquid and having a camera module includes the following steps: recording a video during or after the cleaning; transmitting the video to a mobile device over a first distance; transmitting the video with collected corresponding position data of the cleaning location of the pipe or of the shaft to a memory, which is protected by a cleaning service provider and/or nozzle manufacturer, in a data cloud over a second distance; and making the protected memory in the data cloud of the cleaning service provider and/or nozzle manufacturer accessible by the customer commissioning the cleaning procedure. The recorded videos with stored road map are displayed on a screen, and each video with corresponding cleaning location can be accessed from the memory in the data cloud.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: Enz Technik AG
    Inventor: Christoph LENDI
  • Patent number: 10512953
    Abstract: A pressure medium-operated pipe cleaning device for streak-free cleaning of the pipe and duct wall and simultaneously a video recording of the entire cleaning process. The device includes a nozzle module and a camera module. The nozzle module includes a plurality of thrusters and a plurality of cleaning nozzles, and the camera module has at least one camera, an illuminating device, control electronics, a memory, a transmitter and an accumulator, so that the camera module can be controlled from outside by the control electronics. The nozzle module and camera module separately designed in terms of location and construction, and mounted on a carriage spaced linearly apart from each other in the direction of a longitudinal axis by a distance, wherein a stator part has the thrusters of the nozzle module and the camera module is rotationally and linearly immovably fastened to the carriage, while the rotor part on which the plurality of cleaning nozzles are arranged can be rotated around the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: ENZ TECHNIK AG
    Inventor: Christoph Lendi
  • Publication number: 20190314875
    Abstract: An ultra-high pressure nozzle comprises a stator with a stator channel and a rotor with a rotor channel. A transition from the stator channel to the rotor channel is achieved by a seal, which comprises a rotor bearing hollow body with a rotor bearing channel crossing it in a longitudinal direction and a stator bearing hollow body with a stator bearing channel crossing it in a longitudinal direction. The rotor bearing hollow body is in a fixed location and protrudes into the rotor channel and the stator bearing hollow body is in a fixed location and protrudes into the stator channel. The rotor bearing hollow body and the stator bearing hollow body do not overlap each other. When the nozzle is mounted, the front surface of the rotor bearing hollow body rests in direct contact with a front surface of the stator bearing hollow body in a rotatable manner, thereby creating a seal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: Enz Technik AG
    Inventor: Christoph LENDI
  • Publication number: 20190316857
    Abstract: A cross-jet nozzle includes a rotor body, in which several channels are recessed or formed running from a nozzle tip in the direction of a stator body, in which at least two front jet nozzles are positioned in the rotor body through at least two front jet channels and oriented so that front jets of a pressurized medium emerging from the front jet channels intersect outside of the rotor body and the rotor body can be mounted to rotate around its longitudinal axis on the stator body, which can be connected to a high-pressure line connection, is introduced safely parallel into tubes by a drive unit of a lance device. The nozzle tip is provided with an outer surface so that the surface is configured convexly arched, dome-like and free of edges and the nozzle tip is formed mirror-symmetric with the longitudinal axis in profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: Enz Technik AG
    Inventor: Christoph LENDI
  • Publication number: 20180015512
    Abstract: A pressure medium-operated pipe cleaning device for streak-free cleaning of the pipe and duct wall and simultaneously a video recording of the entire cleaning process. The device includes a nozzle module and a camera module. The nozzle module includes a plurality of thrusters and a plurality of cleaning nozzles, and the camera module has at least one camera, an illuminating device, control electronics, a memory, a transmitter and an accumulator, so that the camera module can be controlled from outside by the control electronics. The nozzle module and camera module separately designed in terms of location and construction, and mounted on a carriage spaced linearly apart from each other in the direction of a longitudinal axis by a distance, wherein a stator part has the thrusters of the nozzle module and the camera module is rotationally and linearly immovably fastened to the carriage, while the rotor part on which the plurality of cleaning nozzles are arranged can be rotated around the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: Enz Technik AG
    Inventor: Christoph Lendi
  • Publication number: 20160129458
    Abstract: The invention aims to achieve extended service lives in a multipart cleaning nozzle (1) comprising a stator part (2), on which a rotor part (3) can be supported and fixed stationarily, but rotatably about a longitudinal axis (L), by means of a head (4), wherein a brake system comprises a brake drum (20) on the stator part (2) and a plurality of permanent magnets fixed in magnet pockets (301) on the rotor part (3), and wherein the rotational speed of the rotor part (3) due to the effect of the pressure and recoil of a jet ejected from at least one outlet nozzle (310) arranged on the rotor part (3) can be reduced due to an interaction between the brake drum (20) and the plurality of permanent magnets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: ENZ TECHNIK AG
    Inventor: Christoph LENDI
  • Patent number: 5713093
    Abstract: A pipe-cleaning device with a cutting head (3) makes it possible to clean clogged pipelines completely, even those clogged with concrete, for example. The cutting head (3) works like a jack hammer as it rotates and is driven only by a pressurized medium, which also rinses the pipeline and carries off the debris. The cleaning device is moved forward automatically by hammer impulses produced by curved disks (12, 22), impulse compensation and the backflow of the pressurized medium in the pipeline, precisely according to its cutting capacity at the time. The cleaning device follows the course of the pipelines and cleans them without damaging them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1998
    Assignee: Enz Technik AG
    Inventor: Albert Enz