Patents Assigned to Schenck Process Europe GmbH
  • Patent number: 12269697
    Abstract: A blow-through rotary valve is provided which has a modified geometry to reduce wear from pneumatic conveying of particulate and/or bulk material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Schenck Process Europe GmbH
    Inventor: Michal Chlebovec
  • Publication number: 20250011108
    Abstract: A pneumatic conveying system for conveying bulk material, the system comprising: an adjustable pneumatic gas flow connected to a pipeline, the pipeline being suitable for conveying bulk material; a measurement device for measuring the variability of particle velocity of a bulk material being conveyed through the pipeline; and a control apparatus, operatively connected to the adjustable pneumatic gas flow and the measurement device; wherein in use, the measurement device outputs the variability of velocity data to the control apparatus. The control apparatus analyses the variability of velocity data, and regulates the rate of the pneumatic gas flow based on the analysis of the variability of velocity data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: Schenck Process Europe GmbH
    Inventors: Michael BRADLEY, Richard ELLIS, Tong DENG, Amid KUMAR
  • Patent number: 12084298
    Abstract: A self-cleaning rotary assembly for use with a blow-through rotary valve, an improved blow-through rotary valve and a method of conveying material in a pneumatic pipeline employing an improved blow-through rotary valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Schenck Process Europe GmbH
    Inventor: Michal Chlebovec
  • Patent number: 12084099
    Abstract: A method for recognizing a rail vehicle wheel as well as an arrangement for recognizing a rail vehicle wheel. A specific detection pattern of the rail vehicle wheel to be identified is ascertained using rollover signal of a rail vehicle wheel to be identified, which is ascertained with the aid of a load measuring device arranged on a rail, the rollover signal describing a time characteristic of a rail load induced by the rail vehicle wheel to be identified on the rail equipped with the load measuring device during the rollover, and the specific detection pattern comprising one or multiple identification parameter(s)/characteristic value(s) ascertained using the rollover signal. The ascertained specific detection pattern of the rail vehicle wheel to be identified is compared with one or multiple predefined reference-specific detection pattern(s) of rail vehicle wheels, and the rail vehicle wheel to be identified is identified by the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Schenck Process Europe GmbH
    Inventors: Ralph Mueller, Viktor Rais
  • Publication number: 20240263990
    Abstract: A differential dosing scale and method for dosing liquid. An immersion container in which the liquid to be dosed is contained and/or can be received and/or out of which the liquid to be dosed can be discharged for the dosed removal of the liquid. An immersion tube is immersed into the immersion container for the dosed removal of the liquid to be dosed from the immersion container. A dosing via which the liquid to be dosed can be suctioned out of the immersion container via the immersion tube and can be discharged from the differential dosing scale. The differential dosing scale being designed structurally and/or in terms of control technology to maintain, in the immersion container, a liquid level of the liquid to be dosed at a constant predefined and/or predefinable level relative to the immersion tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: Schenck Process Europe GmbH
    Inventor: Peter SCHWEIZER
  • Publication number: 20240228175
    Abstract: A chain link for a plate link chain of a chain conveyor, having two disk-shaped side walls that are spaced apart from one another in parallel in a transverse direction of the chain link and fixedly connected to one another. The side walls each include a rabbet having a force transmission surface oriented essentially perpendicularly with respect to a longitudinal direction of the chain link, and the force transmission surface is designed and provided for the direct transmission of force to a conveyor plate of the chain conveyor. A kit comprising such a chain link and a conveyor plate, and a chain conveyor having a plurality of such kits are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2024
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: Schenck Process Europe GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas SCHUETZ, Stefan GOETZ
  • Publication number: 20240142284
    Abstract: A material feeding apparatus and method for providing a controlled feed of material. In particular, there is described a material feeding control apparatus and method comprising a feed rate measurement device capable of providing an online mass and/or volume flow measurement of material and a material sensing device capable of providing an online content (e.g. composition) measurement of the material. The material being fed may, for example, be any suitable bulk material including fuel for a combustion chamber (e.g. a furnace), mined materials such as iron ore and food in a food feeding system. A particular example of the present invention is the provision of a fuel feeding apparatus capable of providing substantially stable combustion in a combustion chamber (e.g. a furnace) which may be incorporated into a cement production line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Schenck Process Europe GmbH
    Inventors: Peter GROLL, Holger HACKSTEIN, Richard ELLIS, Randy MONAHAN, Lazlo IVAN
  • Publication number: 20240132291
    Abstract: A chain link for a plate link chain of a chain conveyor, having two disk-shaped side walls that are spaced apart from one another in parallel in a transverse direction of the chain link and fixedly connected to one another. The side walls each include a rabbet having a force transmission surface oriented essentially perpendicularly with respect to a longitudinal direction of the chain link, and the force transmission surface is designed and provided for the direct transmission of force to a conveyor plate of the chain conveyor. A kit comprising such a chain link and a conveyor plate, and a chain conveyor having a plurality of such kits are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2024
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Schenck Process Europe GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas SCHUETZ, Stefan GOETZ
  • Publication number: 20240118687
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program are provided for monitoring operation of a machine having a mechanical component. the method involves receiving sensor data comprising a time series of measurements of an operational parameter of the machine corresponding to a state variable and processing the time series of measurements for the state variable using a machine-learning model pre-trained to predict normal operational behaviour of the machine based on values of the state variable observed for a time period during normal operation of the machine. The standardized residual for the state variable is calculated across the time series based on a prediction of the pre-trained machine-learning model and any deviation from normal operation of the machine is identified based on values of the standardized residual.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Schenck Process Europe GmbH
    Inventors: Viktor RAIS, Holger HACKSTEIN
  • Publication number: 20240010435
    Abstract: A chain link for a plate-link chain of a chain conveyor having two substantially flat side walls, which are spaced apart from, and parallel to, each other in a transverse direction (x-direction) of the chain link and securely fastened together, and two force introduction components. Every force introduction component protrudes outwards in the transverse direction (x-direction) from its associated side wall for the purpose of fastening it to a conveyor belt of the chain conveyor and is a component that is separate from the side walls. The force introduction components are substantially flat and every force introduction component is interlockingly connected to its associated side wall. A plate-link chain having multiple chain links and a chain conveyor comprising a plate-link chain are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: Schenck Process Europe GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas SCHUETZ, Stefan GOETZ
  • Publication number: 20230400344
    Abstract: A weighing device and a weighing method, with central digital measured value correction. The weighing device is simulated on a central analytical unit including a digital function simulator of the weighing device. The digital function simulator of the weighing device is trained by a training device so that errors of measurement of the weighing device can be compensated. In this way, it is possible to obtain reliable and precise weighing results with weighing devices of little complexity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: Schenck Process Europe GmbH
    Inventor: Samuel BOUVRON
  • Patent number: 11739848
    Abstract: A valve with a valve upper plate defining an inlet, a valve body defining an outlet, and a fluid passage. A closure member is disposed in the fluid passage between the inlet and the outlet and has a convex sealing surface and is rotatable between a closed position in which the closure member extends across the fluid passage with the convex sealing surface oriented towards the inlet and an open position in which fluid is able to flow through the fluid passage from the inlet to the outlet. A resilient sealing ring, when the closure member is in the closed position, is moveable between a first configuration in which the sealing ring forms a seal around a circumference of the convex sealing surface and a second configuration in which the valve comprises a circumferential gap between the convex sealing surface and the sealing ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Schenck Process Europe GmbH
    Inventor: Michael Newton
  • Patent number: 11541489
    Abstract: A fastening system having a supporting strip, to which is fastened, outside the housing of the rotary feeder, a seal designed to seal the blade of the rotor in relation to the housing. The mounted unit of supporting strip and seal is inserted into a groove devised in the blade. This installation unit is then secured to the blade by means of securing screws. The seal can be made from a hard seal, especially steel, or a soft seal, especially rubberized textile, attached on the outside by a locating strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Schenck Process Europe GmbH
    Inventor: Michal Chlebovec
  • Publication number: 20220380147
    Abstract: A self-cleaning rotary assembly for use with a blow-through rotary valve, an improved blow-through rotary valve and a method of conveying material in a pneumatic pipeline employing an improved blow-through rotary valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: Schenck Process Europe GmbH
    Inventor: Michal CHLEBOVEC
  • Publication number: 20220373173
    Abstract: There is herein described an apparatus and method for feeding bulk material. More particularly, there is described an apparatus and method for feeding bulk material such as bulk solids which provides a constant and reliable feed of material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: Schenck Process Europe GmbH
    Inventor: Michal CHLEBOVEC
  • Publication number: 20220304168
    Abstract: A processing apparatus for controlling, measuring and/or regulating, comprising an appliance for installation for output and/or input, with an intermediate housing, a unit for display and/or operation, and a main board connected to the unit having a central computer unit, wherein the appliance for installation is provided for use in a device or for a device such as a weighing device, metering device, conveying device, screening device, grinding device, mixing device, filter device, status monitoring device and/or material analysis device, wherein the main board serves as an electronic platform regardless of use and has, for each use, a particular combination of interfaces to the device in question. Furthermore, the invention relates to a processing apparatus for controlling, measuring and/or regulating having such an appliance for installation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: Schenck Process Europe GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich RAUCHSCHWALBE, Bernd ALLENBERG, Dino BOHRMANN, Harald DITTRICH
  • Patent number: 11440742
    Abstract: A conveying and metering device with an endless apron belt that is movable by rollers on guide rails, wherein sections of the guide rail that are opposite one another are separated from the adjacent sections and, for determining the mass of the conveyed material, are supported on weighing devices that are connected to an electronic analysis device. Provision is made that the sections of the guide rail to be weighed, together with longitudinal members and transverse struts that are perpendicular to the longitudinal members, form a weighing frame, and this weighing frame is supported at each of its four corners on a separate weighing device, wherein an adjustable centering device is provided between the weighing frame and each of the weighing devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Schenck Process Europe GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Schuetz, Stefan Goetz
  • Patent number: 11378945
    Abstract: A method for operating a condition monitoring system of a vibrating machine in the form of a vibrating conveyor or a vibrating screen, it is provided that the condition monitoring system has at least one sensor designed for motion detection and/or acceleration detection, which is mounted on the vibrating machine. The sensor generates measurement data, which is further processed into characteristic values in a processing unit associated with the sensor. The characteristic values are stored as a data set or a plurality of data sets. The data sets and/or the data sets expanded to include metadata are transferred to a data storage and stored there. A knowledge base for an expert system is generated taking into account the information provided by the data sets and/or built on theoretical models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Schenck Process Europe GmbH
    Inventor: Jan Schaefer
  • Patent number: 11287300
    Abstract: A measuring device for measuring a mass flow rate of a material flow having a rotatably mounted, bladed measurement wheel for deflecting the material flow, a drive shaft for driving the measurement wheel, an output shaft rigidly connected to the measurement wheel, a bearing sleeve, surrounding at least part of the output shaft, for the rotatable mounting of the output shaft, a force-measuring apparatus, and a gearbox which has a first gearbox element and a second gearbox element, and an intermediate element for transmitting a torque from the first gearbox element to the second gearbox element. The measuring device has a rocker which is rigidly connected to the bearing sleeve and on which the intermediate element of the gearbox is mounted. The force-measuring apparatus is connected to the rocker, so that a force transmitted to the rocker can be measured by the force-measuring apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Schenck Process Europe GmbH
    Inventor: Jens Kahle
  • Patent number: 11274960
    Abstract: A conveyor and metering device having a continuous conveyor belt or conveyor band, sub-regions of this conveyor belt or conveyor band being mounted on weighing devices for determining the mass of the conveyed material, which are connected to an electronic evaluation device, the weighing devices generating a signal proportional to the load of the conveyor belt or conveyor band and transmitting it to the evaluation device, weighing devices are provided, each of which includes a bearing bracket, which is used to receive an attachment in a form-filling manner from the outside, preferably from above, through an opening in the frame of the conveyor and metering device during the operation of the conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Schenck Process Europe GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Schuetz