Patents Assigned to HYDAC Process Technology GmbH
  • Publication number: 20250128191
    Abstract: A filter device is disclosed comprising a filter which is used to clean a fluid flow of particulate contamination in a specifiable flow direction, having a fluid inlet for supplying an unfiltered medium flow, a fluid outlet for removing a filtrate flow, and a discharge opening for discharging a backflushing fluid produced while backflushing the filter against the specifiable flow direction using a backflushing device, wherein as the particulate contamination being cleaned out of the fluid flow by the filter increases, the differential pressure between the fluid inlet and the fluid outlet increases, characterised in that a valve device is arranged downstream of the discharge opening, viewed in the fluid flow direction, said valve device regulating the discharge rate of backflushing fluid as a function of the differential pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: HYDAC Process Technology GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Jürgen Lingen, Raphael Klein, Sebastian Hrin
  • Patent number: 12201933
    Abstract: A device for the treatment of fluid mixtures containing gases, such as in particular hydrogen, air, nitrogen or noble gases, and liquids, such as in particular ionic liquids, hydraulic oil or process liquids, having at least one separating stage (30) for separating the fluid mixture into a gas portion and a liquid portion, which, routed into a collection space (32), results in a float (44) rising, which, at a predeterminable liquid level in the collection space (32), actuates, without contact, a sensor device (42), which preferably actuates a discharge device for the purpose of draining the collection space (32), resulting in the lowering of the float (44), is characterized in that the outer circumference of the float (44) is guided axially displaceably along the inside of the housing wall (54) of the collection space (32), and in that the float (44) has at least one point of passage (50) for gas and/or liquid, which interconnects parts of the collection space (32) in a media-conveying manner, which parts are
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: HYDAC PROCESS TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Sergej Zeller, Michael Welker, Michael Grünbeck
  • Publication number: 20240382875
    Abstract: Filter apparatus, consisting of at least—a filter (14), which is divided into individual filter segments,—a cleaning device (19), which has, associated with each filter segment, a partial cleaning unit (20, 21, 22), which can be moved along the cleaning device and which cooperates with a removal device (23), and—a control device (40), which activates at least one partial cleaning unit for cleaning, whereas at least one further partial cleaning unit remains inactive during this cleaning, wherein the control device (40) has a coupling device, which in one position of the coupling device, connects the cleaning device (19) to the discharge device (23) for a common rotary movement and, in another position of the coupling device, separates them from one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: HYDAC Process Technology GmbH
    Inventor: Hans-Jürgen Lingen
  • Patent number: 12090430
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of producing a multilayer filter medium, including at least the production steps of providing a woven fabric layer (12) having passage points (24) for fluid, providing a nonwoven layer of a spunbonded nonwoven (18) and having additional passage points (28) for fluid, and joining the two superimposed layers (12, 18) along contact points (30) by melting the nonwoven layer (18) in such a way that while the additional passage points (28) enlarge, the molten spunbonded nonwoven material flows at least in part to the contact points (30) and then cumulatively curs there to produce firm connection points between the two layers (12, 18).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: HYDAC PROCESS TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Bernhard Schlichter, Martin Winter
  • Publication number: 20240252962
    Abstract: The invention relates to a filter apparatus, in particular in the form of a hollow cylinder (10) having a filter material (12), characterized in that a pre-filter (16) is mounted upstream of a surface filter (14) in the flow direction of a fluid stream to be cleaned from particulate contaminants, which pre-filter comprising a bulk material (18) for increasing the effective surface of the filter material (12), which bulk material is received between delimiting layers (20, 22) which are in each case provided with holes for fluids, the opening width of which is smaller than the diameter of a single grain (24) of the bulk material (18).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: HYDAC Process Technology GmbH
    Inventors: Bernhard Schlichter, Jörg Hermann Gerstner, Manfred Deutschmeyer, Dimitri Bugrov
  • Patent number: 11801463
    Abstract: A filter apparatus (10) has a plurality of filter elements (20) in a filter housing (12) having a filter inlet (50) for a fluid to be filtered and a filter outlet (52) for the filtered fluid. A pressure control device (42) has at least one control plate (58) located inside a connection chamber (14). The control plate laterally passes over individual upper element openings (54) of the filter element to be backwashed (20), in a predefinable sequence, covering the opening to an increasing degree and then exposing the opening again. A discharge opening (46) of the backwash device (44) is, at least in part, fluidically connected to a lower element opening (56) of the filter element (20) to be backwashed, as the pressure control device (42) moves towards the upper element opening (54).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: HYDAC PROCESS TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Ralf Wnuk, Thomas Boettcher
  • Patent number: 11607630
    Abstract: A filter device has a filter housing (1) with a fluid inlet (13) for raw fluid, with a fluid outlet (3) for filtrate and with at least one one-piece or multi-piece filter insert (5, 7) received in the filter housing (1). The filter insert can be cleaned using at least one back-flushing member (21) in counter-current to the filtration direction. This back-flushing member can, by a fluid-guiding driveshaft (23) of a rotary drive (35), be moved along the inner side (19) of the respective filter insert (5, 7) and has, at its end adjacent to this inner side (19), a gap-shaped passage opening (39) that extends parallel to the axis of rotation of the driveshaft (23) and that discharges into a flow space (41; 57; 67) fluidically connected to the driveshaft (23). The flow space at least partially continuously narrows in the direction of the driveshaft (23) in a first plane in which the passage opening (39) lies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: HYDAC PROCESS TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Bernhard Schlichter, Joerg Hermann Gerstner, Manfred Deutschmeyer
  • Patent number: 11484819
    Abstract: A filter device for fluids has a filter housing (1), in which element receptacles (31) for a plurality of filter elements (33) are provided. The filter medium (35) of the filter elements (33) separates in the filter housing (1) a dirt side (5) from a clean side (7). The filter housing (1) can be opened for inserting and removing the filter elements (33). For the filter elements (33), a support basket (19) is provided, which can be inserted into the filter housing (1) and removed from the filter housing (1) and to which the filter elements (33) can be detachably fixed. The filter elements (33) have, in addition to the filter medium (35) for particle filtration, an adsorption medium (36).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: HYDAC PROCESS TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Ralf Wnuk, Hans-Josef Schmidt, Pascal Eric Vitte
  • Patent number: 11458424
    Abstract: A filter device has a filter housing (1) having a fluid inlet (8) for unfiltered matter and having a fluid outlet (9) for filtrate, and has at least one one-piece or multi-part filter insert (15, 17) held in the filter housing (1). Filter insert (15, 17) can be cleaned using a backwash device (25) having at least one backwash element (31) in counter flow to the direction of filtration. The backwash element can be moved along the inside of the relevant filter insert (15, 17) by a fluid-conveying drive shaft (29) of a rotary drive (69, 71). The individual backwash element (31) has, at the end adjacent to this inside, at least one gap-shaped passage opening, which extends in parallel to the axis of rotation of the drive shaft (29) and which opens into a flow chamber connected to the drive shaft (29) in a fluid-conveying manner. At least one further backwash device (27) has a further backwash element (31). The fluid-conveying drive shaft (29) is divided into chambers (73, 75) separated from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: HYDAC PROCESS TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Bernhard Schlichter, Jörg Hermann Gerstner, Albert Kaints
  • Patent number: 11325056
    Abstract: A phase separation device has a device housing (2) accommodating at least one coalescer element (42). The device housing (2) has an inlet (38) for the supply of an emulsion, which flows through the respective coalescer element (42) for separation into at least two of its constituents, has an outlet (46) for a separated constituent, and has a further outlet (22, 64) for a further separated constituent having a lower density than the one constituent and floating on the separated constituent having a higher density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: HYDAC PROCESS TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Markus Olschok, Christian Schindler, Manuel Huber
  • Patent number: 11278826
    Abstract: A filter device has a filter housing (1) having a fluid inlet (11) for unfiltered matter, a fluid outlet (19) for filtered matter and at least one filter element (7, 9) of one or more parts accommodated in the filter housing (1). The filter element can be cleaned using at least one backwash element (21) in counter current to the direction of filtration. The backwash element can be moved by a fluid-conveying drive shaft (20) of a rotary drive at the inside (17) of the relevant filter element (7, 9). At the end adjacent to this inside (17), a gap-shaped passage opening is parallel to the axis of rotation (16) of the drive shaft (20) and opens into a flow chamber connected to the drive shaft (20) in a fluid-conveying manner. The distance between the backwash element (21) and the adjacent assignable filter element (7, 9) can be predetermined by an adjustment device (27; 47).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: HYDAC PROCESS TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Manfred Deutschmeyer, Albert Kaints
  • Patent number: 11266928
    Abstract: A filter device, in particular for lubricating oil filtration, includes at least two filter inserts (27), in each of which a filter material (43) is accommodated. The filter inserts are provided with fluid passage points (37, 39) and can be stacked on top of one another with the formation of a stack. A back-flushing device (55,57) is movably arranged along the inner side of the filter inserts (27). The individual filter inserts (27) are designed as identical parts at least with respect to their housings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: HYDAC PROCESS TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen Lingen, Stefan Klein, Raphael Klein, Markus Breinig
  • Patent number: 11235264
    Abstract: A filter device for cleaning particulate contaminants from a fluid flow, includes a plurality of filter elements (34, 60) accommodated in filter chambers (12, 14, 32) as components of a joint filter housing (10) and grouped around a backwash device (20) having a piston accumulator (56) for receiving a backwash fluid. In the storage housing (64) of the piston accumulator, a piston (57) is guided in a longitudinally movable manner, is controlled by a pressure medium, and passes on the backwash fluid stored in the storage housing (64) on to at least one filter element (60) to be backwashed for cleaning purposes via a backwash device (20). The backwash device also discharges the backwash fluid from the filter device. A specific filter element as a bypass filter element (34) is selected from the plurality of filter elements (34, 60), and exclusively removes particles after a changeover device (18) has been actuated, while the other filter elements (60) are excluded from this removal process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: HYDAC PROCESS TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Sebastian Hrin, Hans-Jürgen Lingen
  • Patent number: 11219847
    Abstract: A device for treating fluid, in particular a filter device, has first and second tubular elements (12), (14) forming an element assembly (10). One element (14) is accommodated in the other element (12) forming a flow chamber (33) between the two elements (12, 14), with a first element (12) arranged in the direction of the inflow side (29) of a fluid to be treated and a second element (14) arranged in the direction of the outflow side (31) of the treated fluid in the element assembly (10). During the fluid treatment, the flow is routed through both elements (12, 14) in succession from the direction of the inflow side (29) towards the outflow side (31). In a joint viewing direction (P), the first element (12) facing the inflow side (29) at least partially has a uniform or non-uniform contour and the second element (14) facing the outflow side (31) at least partially has a non-uniform or uniform contour.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: HYDAC PROCESS TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Markus Olschok, Ralf Wnuk, Christian Schindler, Maximilian Meiners
  • Patent number: 11058975
    Abstract: A filtering apparatus has filtering elements (11) in a filter housing (1), a filter inlet (7) and a filter outlet (9). During filtration, one of the filter elements (11) can be back-flushed by a back-flushing device (45, 49), having a pressure control device (19). The pressure control device has a hydraulic accumulator (19), with a fluid chamber (47) fillable during filtration with clean fluid and connectable for back-flushing via a back-flushing guide (45) to the clean side (29) of the filtering element (11) to be cleaned. For back-flushing, a further fluid chamber (48) of the hydraulic accumulator (19) is subjected to gas pressure. By resultant movement of a separator (59) of the hydraulic accumulator (19), the filling amount of the clean fluid is dispensed for the back-flushing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: HYDAC PROCESS TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Ralf Wnuk, Jörg Hermann Gerstner, Thomas Böttcher, Thomas Morawietz
  • Patent number: 11020692
    Abstract: A system for filtering fluids includes a primary filter (2) having at least one filter element that can be penetrated in one direction during the filtration process and can be penetrated in the opposite direction for a backflushing process. An aftertreatment device (36) is mounted downstream of the primary filter (2) for the backflushed quantities discharged by the primary filter to be processed and includes at least one filter chamber (11) that holds the backflushed quantities and that has a fluid inlet, a fluid outlet and at least one aftertreatment filter element (19). A control device (9) delivers one portion of the backflushed quantity at a time to the associated aftertreatment filter element (19).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: HYDAC PROCESS TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Markus Breinig, Sebastian Hrin, Hans-Juergen Lingen
  • Patent number: 10981092
    Abstract: The invention relates to a filter device, in particular for filtering lubrication, consisting of at least one filter insert (19), in which a respective filter material (27) is received and which is provided with fluid passage points (70) that are delimited by wall parts (63) of the filter insert (19) and with a backflush device (37, 49) that has at least one flush nozzle (49), said flush nozzle being movable along the interior of the respective pairable filter insert (19) by means of a hollow drive shaft (37).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: HYDAC PROCESS TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen Lingen, Stefan Klein, Raphael Klein, Sebastian Hrin
  • Patent number: 10905980
    Abstract: A filter device (10) includes a filter element (12) in a filter housing (14) with fluid connection points (16, 18) for the non-filtrate and filtrate. Fluid can be passed through the filter element in both directions for filtrating the non-filtrate or for backwashing for cleaning particle contaminations (72). A pressure control (36) generates a post-suctioning effect to improve the cleaning of the particle contaminations (72). The filter device (10) is designed as a one filter-element solution. In a predetermined exchange, the single filter element (12) for filtering can be used for backwashing or can be backwashed using the pressure control device (36). A hydraulic system (64) and a method for backwashing a filter element (12) of a filter device (10) is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: HYDAC PROCESS TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Markus Olschok, Christian Schindler, Seddik Lahbib
  • Patent number: 10561966
    Abstract: A device for treating fluid mixtures, which contain gases, such as hydrogen (H2), air, nitrogen (N2), or natural gases, and liquids, such as ionic liquids, hydraulic fluid, or process liquids, has a first separation stage (29) for separating the fluid mixture into a liquid fraction and a gas fraction contaminated with a remaining liquid fraction. From the gas fraction, the remaining liquid fraction is removed in at least one further separation stage (67).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: HYDAC PROCESS TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Bernard Schlichter, Stefan Schlachter, Sergej Zeller, Michael Welker
  • Patent number: 10029194
    Abstract: A filter device includes at least one filter housing (1) in which at least one filter element (21) is arranged. Inside the filter housing (1), the filter element separates a clean side (9) from an untreated side (13). On the clean side (9) of the filter housing (1) at least one storage unit (3) having at least one movable separating element (47) is connected. The separating element divides the storage unit (3) into two working chambers or pressure chambers (49) (43).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: HYDAC PROCESS TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Ralf Wnuk, Thomas Böttcher, Markus Olschok, Jörg Hermann Gerstner