Patents Assigned to ProMinent GmbH
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Patent number: 11022474Abstract: A measuring device for determining the filling level of a filling material in a container is simple and inexpensive to produce and allows largely continuous determination of the filling level of an unknown filling material in a container. The measuring device has at least three measuring sensors in mutually spaced relationship in a heightwise direction. A read-out device having at least three measuring inputs for reading out the measuring sensor signals is provided. Each measuring sensor signal depends on material properties of a filling material arranged adjacent to the respective measuring sensor. A calibration device which effects calculation of the filling level detected by a measuring sensor positioned neither right at the top nor right at the bottom in the heightwise direction, on the basis of the measuring sensor signal of the further upwardly arranged measuring sensor and/or the further downwardly arranged measuring sensor.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2017Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: ProMinent GmbHInventors: Jens Kaibel, Holger Bonicke, Klaus-Peter Bannas
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Publication number: 20210156372Abstract: The invention relates to a diaphragm pump comprising a diaphragm assembly and a diaphragm retrieval device comprising a tensile bar, said diaphragm assembly comprising a diaphragm and a diaphragm retaining device which secures said diaphragm, wherein the diaphragm assembly and the tensile bar are force-fittingly interconnected by means of a magnetic force of adhesion.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2019Publication date: May 27, 2021Applicant: ProMinent GmbHInventor: Martin Reinhard
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Publication number: 20210115911Abstract: The present invention relates to a diaphragm pump having a diaphragm assembly and a diaphragm return device comprising a tie rod, wherein the diaphragm assembly comprises a diaphragm and a diaphragm stop device fixing the diaphragm, wherein the diaphragm assembly and the tie rod are connected to each other with a force fit by means of a magnetic adhesive force fit, and wherein a first magnet for providing the magnetic adhesive force is arranged on or in the area of the tie rod, characterized in that the diaphragm stop element has a recess, into which the tie rod and/or the magnet connected to the tie rod is inserted, so that the diaphragm assembly is centred with respect to the tie rod.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2020Publication date: April 22, 2021Applicant: ProMinent GmbHInventor: Martin Reinhard
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Patent number: 10975860Abstract: The invention relates to a device for generating a pulsating hydraulic fluid pressure in a working chamber (1) filled with hydraulic fluid, comprising a driveable working piston (4) movably guided in a hollow working cylinder, wherein a working chamber (1) that is in fluid communication with the working piston (4) is provided, such that, by means of the movement of the working piston (4) within the hollow working cylinder, a pulsating hydraulic fluid pressure can be generated in the working chamber (1).Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2017Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: ProMinent GmbHInventors: Martin Reinhard, Jorg Maltry
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Patent number: 10677243Abstract: A displacement pump includes a delivery chamber, connected to a pressure connection and a suction connection. A displacement element determines the volume of the delivery chamber and can be moved back and forth between a first position, in which the delivery chamber has a smaller volume, and a second position, in which the delivery chamber has a larger volume. The pressure connection is connected to the delivery chamber by a pressure valve and the suction connection is connected to the delivery chamber by a suction valve. The displacement pump is easy and economical to produce and simultaneously reliably provides a degassing function, whereby downtimes can be reduced and the reliability of the delivery process can be increased. With the pressure valve closed, a backflow channel connects the delivery chamber and pressure connection, through which medium can enter the delivery chamber and/or gas can escape from the delivery chamber.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2013Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: ProMinent GmbHInventors: Alexander Bubb, Jens Kaibel, Tobias Völker
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Patent number: 10378530Abstract: The present invention concerns a diaphragm pump comprising a delivery chamber separated from a hydraulic chamber by way of a diaphragm, wherein the delivery chamber is respectively connected to a suction connection and a pressure connection and the hydraulic chamber which can be filled with a working fluid can be acted upon with a pulsating working fluid pressure and the diaphragm can be reciprocated between a pressure position in which the volume of the delivery chamber is smaller and a suction position in which the volume of the delivery chamber is larger.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2015Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: ProMinent GmbHInventors: Christian Arnold, Martin Reinhard, Roland Elgetz
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Patent number: 9964105Abstract: A diaphragm pump includes a pumping chamber, suction and pressure connections, a working chamber filled with a hydraulic fluid, a device for applying an oscillating pressure P1 to the hydraulic fluid, and a diaphragm separating the pumping chamber and the working chamber moveable between a pressure stroke position and a suction stroke position. A storage chamber accommodates hydraulic fluid at a pressure P2. The storage chamber and the working chamber are connected to each other by a valve having a closing part. The diaphragm cannot move too far beyond the pressure stroke position. The diaphragm is coupled to the closing part so that the valve is opened when the diaphragm moves from the pressure stroke position to a position that is farther from the suction stroke position than the pressure stroke position.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2014Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: ProMinent GmbHInventors: Martin Reinhard, Christian Arnold
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Patent number: 9328722Abstract: The present invention relates to a metering system for metering a liquid metering medium, with a suction line, which is filled with a metering medium at the liquid pressure ps, and a pressure line, which is filled with the metering medium at the liquid pressure wherein the suction line is connected to the pressure line by a metering member configured as a metering pump, with which metering medium can be conveyed from the suction line into the pressure line, wherein the metering pump has a conveying chamber, the volume of which can be changed with the aid of a movable displacement element in such a way that, in a first position of the displacement element, the conveying chamber has a minimum volume Vmin and, in a second position of the displacement element, the conveying chamber has a maximum volume Vmax, the conveying chamber being connected by a pressure valve to the pressure line and by a suction valve to the suction line, so, by an oscillating movement of the displacement element, metering medium can alterType: GrantFiled: July 25, 2013Date of Patent: May 3, 2016Assignee: ProMinent GmbHInventors: Jens Kaibel, Joachim Schall
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Patent number: 9182046Abstract: A pressure retention valve including a housing having an inlet passage and an outlet passage that can be connected together and a separating diaphragm subdividing the housing into two portions, wherein, in operation of the valve, a first portion conveys fluid and a second portion is fluid-free. The valve further includes a valve seat defining an end of the inlet passage, arranged in the fluid-conveying portion of the housing, and has a first sealing surface, a shut-off body which is arranged movably in the fluid-conveying portion of the housing and has a second sealing surface, and a spring element having a spring force, which is arranged in the fluid-free portion of the pressure retention valve.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2010Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: ProMinent GmbHInventors: Jana Rull, Alexander Bubb, Bernd Freissler
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Patent number: 9062670Abstract: A diaphragm machine including a drive unit for producing pulsating hydraulic fluid flows for driving the diaphragms, and a delivery unit for delivering a delivery medium and having pump chambers with volumes that can be varied by the movement of a respective diaphragm. Each pump chamber is connected by a pressure valve to a pressure line and by a suction valve to a suction line. The delivery unit includes at least two hydraulic bodies and a diaphragm body in which the pressure and suction lines are arranged. Each hydraulic body is connected to the drive unit, and formed between each hydraulic body and the diaphragm body is a cavity in which one of the diaphragms is arranged so that by production of the pulsating hydraulic fluid flows, the diaphragms are moved within the cavities and the delivery medium is periodically transferred from the suction line into the pressure line.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2010Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: ProMinent GmbHInventor: Horst Fritsch
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Publication number: 20150159639Abstract: The present invention relates to a metering system for metering a liquid metering medium, with a suction line, which is filled with a metering medium at the liquid pressure ps, and a pressure line, which is filled with the metering medium at the liquid pressure wherein the suction line is connected to the pressure line by a metering member configured as a metering pump, with which metering medium can be conveyed from the suction line into the pressure line, wherein the metering pump has a conveying chamber, the volume of which can be changed with the aid of a movable displacement element in such a way that, in a first position of the displacement element, the conveying chamber has a minimum volume Vmin and, in a second position of the displacement element, the conveying chamber has a maximum volume Vmax, the conveying chamber being connected by a pressure valve to the pressure line and by a suction valve to the suction line, so, by an oscillating movement of the displacement element, metering medium can alterType: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2013Publication date: June 11, 2015Applicant: ProMinent GmbHInventors: Jens Kaibel, Joachim Schall