Patents Assigned to Levitronix GmbH
  • Patent number: 11879466
    Abstract: An electromagnetic rotary drive includes a rotor and a stator. The rotor magnetically driven without contact about an axial direction, and magnetically levitated without contact with respect to the stator. The rotor actively magnetically levitated in a radial plane and passively magnetically stabilized in the axial direction against tilting. The stator has coil cores, each including a longitudinal limb extending in the axial direction and a transverse limb arranged in the radial plane. The transverse limb extends from the longitudinal limb and is bounded by an end face. A concentrated winding is arranged on each of the longitudinal limbs surrounding a respective longitudinal limb. The end faces have a first distance in the radial direction from a first portion and a second distance in the radial direction from a second portion, the second distance greater than the first distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: LEVITRONIX GMBH
    Inventors: Marcel Stettler, Thomas Schneeberger
  • Patent number: 11819813
    Abstract: A mixing apparatus for mixing or stirring substances includes a mixing tank for receiving the substances, a rotor arranged in the mixing tank with which a vane for mixing or stirring the substances can be driven to rotate about an axial direction, and a stator arranged outside the mixing tank and with which the rotor can be driven contactlessly magnetically to rotate about the axial direction in the operating state and is supported magnetically with respect to the stator. A bar extends in the axial direction and is rotationally fixed to the rotor, and a limiting element fixed with respect to the mixing tank cooperates with the bar, with the limiting element being configured such that the bar rotates with respect to the limiting element and with a tilt of the rotor being limited by a physical contact between the bar and the limiting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: LEVITRONIX GMBH
    Inventor: Reto Schöb
  • Patent number: 11619236
    Abstract: A pumping device includes a single-use device and a reusable device. The single-use device is to be inserted into the reusable device and includes two pump units in series, one behind the other. Each pump unit includes a rotor for a bearingless motor, and can be magnetically levitated and driven without contact for rotation about an axial direction. The reusable device includes a stator for each rotor which form an electromagnetic rotary drive for rotating the rotor about the axial direction. Each stator is a bearing and drive stator with which the rotor can be magnetically driven and levitated without contact with respect to the stator. An independent control device is provided for each stator, and can independently activate a respective stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: LEVITRONIX GMBH
    Inventors: Reto Schöb, Natale Barletta
  • Patent number: 11525718
    Abstract: An ultrasonic measuring device for the measurement of a flow of a fluid, includes a measuring tube, a first chamber and a second chamber. The measuring tube has a central axis, which defines a flow direction for the fluid; The first chamber has a first ultrasonic transducer arranged therein. The second chamber has a second ultrasonic transducer arranged therein. The measuring tube includes an inlet and an outlet for the fluid. The first ultrasonic transducer and the second ultrasonic transducer bound a rectilinear measuring section for the fluid, the first chamber and the second chamber being configured and arranged such that the fluid is capable of flowing around each of them. The first ultrasonic transducer and the second ultrasonic transducer are arranged such that the measuring section extends in the flow direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: LEVITRONIX GMBH
    Inventors: Guido Welsch, Maciej Bober, Jonathan Weber
  • Patent number: 11274952
    Abstract: An ultrasonic measuring includes a housing having a measuring channel and ultrasonic transducers. The housing is releasable attached to a pipe such that the measuring channel is capable of receiving the pipe and fixing the pipe with respect to the housing. The ultrasonic transducers emit and receive ultrasonic signals, and include first and second ultrasonic transducers. The first ultrasonic transducers define a first measuring section so as to be capable of exchanging ultrasonic signals, and the second ultrasonic transducers define a second measuring section so as to be capable of exchanging ultrasonic signals. The ultrasonic transducers are aligned such that the first and second measuring sections extend obliquely to a flow direction, and such that a measuring plane is defined by a center axis of the measuring channel and is different from a measuring plane defined by the center axis of the measuring channel and the second measuring section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: LEVITRONIX GMBH
    Inventors: Maciej Bober, Edgar Hoffmann
  • Publication number: 20220040651
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a mixing device having a stirring element that comprises: a container for receiving fluids and/or solids; and at least one rotatable stirring element for mixing the fluids and/or solids; wherein the stirring element comprises a first bearing element and a second bearing element which are arranged at or near opposite ends of the stirring element; wherein the first bearing element is mounted on a first face of the container and the second bearing element is mounted on an opposite second face of the container; wherein the first bearing element comprises at least one non-permanently magnetized element such that it can be moved in rotation by externally induced reluctance forces, and wherein the second bearing element is mounted in a contactless manner by externally induced magnetic forces. The invention also relates to a mixing device system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicants: Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH, Levitronix GmbH
    Inventors: Lars Böttcher, Marco Leupold, Simon Topp-Manske, Thomas Holenstein, Thomas Nussbaumer
  • Patent number: 11177719
    Abstract: An electromagnetic rotary drive includes a rotor, a stator and windings. The rotor includes a magnetically effective core. The rotor is contactlessly magnetically drivable about an axis of rotation and the rotor is contactlessly magnetically levitatable. The stator has coil cores, each with a longitudinal limb parallel with the axis and a transverse limb extending radially, the transverse limb being perpendicular to the axis. The windings generate an electromagnetic rotational field, each winding surrounding one longitudinal limb, such that the stator is free of permanent magnets. The rotor is ferromagnetic or ferrimagnetic with one preferential magnetic direction extending radially, and the core of the rotor has a magnetic resistance in the preferential magnetic direction, the magnetic resistance at most half as large as the magnetic resistance in a direction, which is perpendicular to the preferential magnetic direction and perpendicular to the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: LEVITRONIX GMBH
    Inventor: Thomas Holenstein
  • Patent number: 11070108
    Abstract: An electromagnetic rotary drive includes a ring-shaped magnetically effective core arranged around a stator and has a magnetic central plane. The stator is a bearing and a drive stator, with which, the rotor is contactlessly magnetically drivable about an axis of rotation, and with which the rotor is contactlessly magnetically levitatable with respect to the stator. The rotor actively magnetically levitated in a radial plane perpendicular to an axial direction, and passively magnetically stabilized in the axial direction and against tilting. The rotor includes a magnetically effective bearing ring arranged radially externally disposed and spaced from the magnetically effective core, and a bearing stator having a magnetically effective stator ring interacts with the bearing ring. The bearing stator is configured such that the stator ring passively magnetically stabilizes the rotor against tilting, and the bearing ring is connected to the magnetically effective core of the rotor via a connecting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: LEVITRONIX GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Nussbaumer, Thomas Holenstein
  • Patent number: 11047721
    Abstract: An ultrasonic measuring device for measuring a fluid flowing in a pipe includes a housing and transducers. The housing receives and fixes the pipe, so that the fluid can flow through a central recess in a flow direction. The ultrasonic transducers emit and receive ultrasonic signals. Two first ultrasonic transducers are arranged laterally on a first side of the central recess, and two second ultrasonic transducers are arranged on a second side of the central recess. The second side is opposed to the first side, so that the recess is located between the first and the second ultrasonic transducers, and the ultrasonic transducers are arranged and aligned so that one of the first ultrasonic transducers emits a first measuring signal to one of the second ultrasonic transducers obliquely to the flow direction and receive a second measuring signal emitted by the second ultrasonic transducer obliquely to the flow direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: LEVITRONIX GMBH
    Inventors: Reto Schöb, Natale Barletta
  • Patent number: 10920781
    Abstract: Disclosed is a rotary pump including a magnetic rotor arranged in a pump housing and having a magnetic rotor plane, which rotor is operatively connected to a drive for conveying a fluid. The drive is a bearingless motor having a stator configured as a bearing stator and drive stator and having a magnetic stator plane, wherein the stator bears a drive coil and a bearing coil lying in the stator plane and/or a drive bearing coil. The rotor is magnetically contactlessly journalled within the stator, wherein an axial height (H) of the rotor is smaller than or equal to half a diameter (D) of the rotor so that the rotor is passively magnetically stabilized by reluctance forces with respect to the magnetic stator plane both against axial displacement and against a tilt from an equilibrium position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Levitronix GmbH
    Inventor: Reto Schöb
  • Patent number: 10873241
    Abstract: An electromagnetic rotary drive includes a magnetically contactlessly drivable rotor free of coils, and a stator configured as a bearing and drive stator configured to drive the rotor magnetically and contactlessly about an axis of rotation. The rotor is capable of being supported magnetically contactlessly with respect to the stator in an operating state. The stator includes an upper stator part having a plurality of pronounced upper poles configured to carry upper windings and a lower stator part having a plurality of pronounced lower poles configured to carry lower windings. The upper stator part and the lower stator part are arranged spaced apart from one another with respect to an axial direction. A permanent magnet is disposed between the upper stator part and the lower stator part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: LEVITRONIX GMBH
    Inventors: Reto Schöb, Jörg Hugel, Thomas Holenstein
  • Patent number: 10780408
    Abstract: A mixing apparatus for mixing substances includes a single-use apparatus and a reusable apparatus. The single-use apparatus includes a flexible mixing tank configured to receive the at least two substances to be mixed, is plastic, and has a rotor arranged in the mixing tank. The rotor includes an impeller configured to mix the at least two substances, the impeller being magnetically contactlessly drivable and free of coils and permanent magnets. The reusable apparatus includes a support tank configured to receive the mixing tank and a stator configured to magnetically contactlessly drive the rotor about an axis of rotation in an operating state. The stator includes at least one permanent magnet configured to generate a permanent magnet flux and at least one winding configured to generate an electromagnetic flux, the permanent magnet flux and the electromagnetic flux together being capable of driving the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: LEVITRONIX GMBH
    Inventors: Reto Schöb, Jörg Hugel, Thomas Holenstein
  • Patent number: 10707734
    Abstract: An electromagnetic rotary drive includes a contactlessly magnetically drivable rotor that is coil-free and free of permanent magnets and that includes a magnetically effective core, and a stator by which the rotor is contactlessly magnetically drivable about a desired axis of rotation in the operating state. The stator has a plurality of coil cores of which each includes a bar-shaped longitudinal limb extending from a first end in a direction in parallel with the desired axis of rotation up to a second end, all the first ends being connected by a reflux of windings generate an electromagnetic rotational field of which each surrounds one of the longitudinal limbs. The coil cores include a plurality of permanent magnets by which a permanent magnetic pre-magnetization flux can be generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: LEVITRONIX GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Holenstein, Reto Schöb
  • Patent number: 10468277
    Abstract: The invention relates to a treatment apparatus (1) for treating a surface (21) of a body (2) with a first treatment medium (31) and a second treatment medium (32). In this respect, the treatment apparatus (1) includes a holding device (5) rotatable about an axis of rotation (4) for receiving and holding the body (2) and a rotary drive (6) rotationally fixedly coupled to the rotatable holding device (5) as well as a supply device (7) for supplying the first treatment medium (31) and the second treatment medium (32) to the surface (21) of the body (2) held in the holding device (5). The treatment apparatus includes a collection container (8) having a separation element (80) which separation element (80) divides the collection container (8) into a first chamber (81) and into a second chamber (82) such that the first treatment medium (31) can be collected in the first chamber (81) and the second treatment medium (32) can be collected separately in the second chamber (82).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Levitronix GmbH
    Inventor: Reto Schoeb
  • Patent number: 10389207
    Abstract: A rotational machine, designed as a bearing free motor, including a stator designed as a bearing and drive stator having a stator winding and a disc-shaped rotor stored magnetically contact free within the stator. An axial height (H) of the rotor is smaller than or equal to a half diameter (D) of the rotor and with the rotor being passively stabilized by reluctance forces with regard to the stator both against a displacement along a rotational axis (A) of the rotor and also against a tilting from an equilibrium position (G), and with the stator including a permanent magnet for the generation of a homopolar magnetic flux (H?). The rotor is a ring-like rotor rotatably arranged about a pole piece of the stator and the rotor includes a ferromagnetic material (FM) and no permanent magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: LEVITRONIX GMBH
    Inventor: Reto Schoeb
  • Patent number: 10248136
    Abstract: A flow regulator includes a first sensor determining a first actual value of a first flow parameter of the fluid, a pre-pressure regulator setting a predefinable pre-pressure at a pre-pressure outlet of the pre-pressure regulator, and a regulating pump. The fluid is capable of being supplied to the pre-pressure regulator at a plant pressure in an operating state via an inflow line and a pre-pressure inlet and capable of being conducted further to the regulating pump at the pre-pressure via a flow connection disposed between the pre-pressure outlet and the regulating pump, the pre-pressure outlet being connected to a high pressure connection of the regulating pump in a flow communicating manner via the flow connection such that the fluid is capable of being supplied from the pre-pressure regulator of the regulating pump and guided away from the regulating pump via a low pressure connection into an outflow line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: LEVITRONIX GMBH
    Inventors: Simon Stöckli, Andreas Kalapos, Patrick Zentner, Jürg Burkart
  • Patent number: 9835158
    Abstract: Disclosed is a rotary pump including a magnetic rotor arranged in a pump housing and having a magnetic rotor plane, which rotor is operatively connected to a drive for conveying a fluid. The drive is a bearingless motor having a stator configured as a bearing stator and drive stator and having a magnetic stator plane, wherein the stator bears a drive coil and a bearing coil lying in the stator plane and/or a drive bearing coil. The rotor is magnetically contactlessly journalled within the stator, wherein an axial height (H) of the rotor is smaller than or equal to half a diameter (D) of the rotor so that the rotor is passively magnetically stabilized by reluctance forces with respect to the magnetic stator plane both against axial displacement and against a tilt from an equilibrium position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Levitronix GmbH
    Inventor: Reto Schöb
  • Patent number: 9115725
    Abstract: A centrifugal pump is proposed having a pump housing (2) which has an inlet (21) and an outlet (22), a rotor (3) having a front side (31) facing the inlet (21) and a rear side (32) remote from the inlet (21), and wherein the rotor (3) has a first pump wheel (4) having first vanes (41) for the generation of a main flow from the inlet (21) to the outlet (22), wherein a second pump wheel (5) having second vanes (52) and having at least one relief bore (6) is provided at the rotor (3) for the generation of a recirculation flow which is directed from the rear side (32) of the rotor (3) through the at least one relief bore (6) and wherein a partition element (7), which separates the recirculation flow at least partly from the main flow in the region of the second pump wheel (5), is provided between the two pump wheels (4, 5). A method for the compensation of the axial thrust in a centrifugal pump is furthermore proposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: LEVITRONIX GMBH
    Inventors: Mario Haefliger, Pascal Boesch
  • Patent number: D1020806
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: LEVITRONIX GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Nussbaumer, Philipp Campos, Patrick Hinni
  • Patent number: D1023065
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: LEVITRONIX GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Nussbaumer, Philipp Campos, Patrick Hinni