Patents by Inventor Andrea Franz
Andrea Franz has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20170271051Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the production of a cladding for elongated material (2), in particular a sheath for cable sets. In this method, an adhesive tape (3, 4) consisting of a carrier (4) and a first adhesive coating (3) which substantially fully covers the front side of the carrier (4) is combined with an adhesive-free carrier tape (5) such as to form a laminate (3, 4, 5). This is carried out such that the adhesive tape (3, 4) is applied to the carrier tape (5) with its first adhesive coating (3) in such a way that a first projection (U1) is defined along at least one of the two longitudinal edges of said adhesive tape. According to the invention, the carrier (4) of the adhesive tape (3, 4) is additionally provided with a further second adhesive coating (7) substantially in parts of its rear side.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2015Publication date: September 21, 2017Inventors: Andreas Franz HOHMANN, Timo LEERMANN, Kay RUHNAU, Peter RAMBUSCH
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Publication number: 20170001138Abstract: A filter element for filtering a fluid is provided with a filter bellows made of a filter medium folded along fold edges in a zigzag shape to form folds, wherein the folds extend between oppositely positioned end face edges of the filter bellows. The filter bellows defines a raw side and a clean side of the filter element, wherein a fluid to be filtered flows from the raw side to the clean side. The filter medium has faces that are flowed through by the fluid to be filtered. The filter medium is provided at least on one of the faces that are flowed through with beads extending transversely to the fold edges. In a proper operating state of the filter bellows, the beads effect a flow of at least a portion of the fluid to be filtered in a direction perpendicular to the fold edges.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2016Publication date: January 5, 2017Inventors: Johannes Grad, Margarete Drexler, Kathrin Lichtenwalter, Helmut Brenneis, Anton Kreiner, Marius Panzer, Florentin van Uffelen, Andreas Franz
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Patent number: 9388867Abstract: A brake dust collector for a motor vehicle for collecting brake dust of a vehicle wheel brake has a dust collecting device that has at least one filter element and at least one filter element receptacle. The at least one filter element is secured in the at least one filter element receptacle. The at least one filter element receptacle is a through opening in a wheel rim; an intermediate space defined between the wheel rim and non-rotating vehicle parts; or a combination thereof.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2013Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignee: MANN+HUMMEL GMBHInventors: Karl-Ernst Hummel, Nikolaus Moser, Michael Fasold, Bernhard Huurdeman, Markus Beylich, Andreas Beck, Andreas Franz, Andrew Glynn, Michael Geiger, Thomas Jessberger
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Patent number: 9333449Abstract: In a method for manufacturing a ceramic filter element for an exhaust gas filter of internal combustion engines, a combustible non-ceramic filter medium is shaped to a coil and impregnated with a ceramic slurry having a powder size distribution selected such that the ceramic filter element in the finished state has a desired porosity distribution that varies across the coil cross-section of the ceramic filter element.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2013Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: MANN+HUMMEL GMBHInventor: Andreas Franz
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Publication number: 20140332559Abstract: A dispenser has an actuation device (24) for dispensing components from an output device (31) which is connected to reservoirs (26, 27). The actuation device acts on the pumping devices (34, 35) indirectly via a dosing device and the dosing device is equipped with a setting device (23) which can be actuated to change the position of a transmission element (40) acting on the pumping devices for setting the quantity ratio of the components. Both the setting device and the actuation device can be rotated about a longitudinal axis (25) of the dispenser.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2011Publication date: November 13, 2014Applicant: AVENIDA GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Andreas Franz Christian Ritzenhoff, Manfred Bodenbender, Jörg Stock, Oliver Arnold, Charles Neuner
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Patent number: 8807399Abstract: The present invention relates to a dispenser having an actuation device (24) for dispensing components from an output device that is connected to reservoirs (26, 27), wherein the actuation device acts on the pumping devices (34, 35) indirectly via a dosing device, and the dosing device is equipped with a setting device (23) that can be actuated to change the position of a transmission element (40) acting on the pumping devices for setting the quantity ratio, wherein both the setting device and the actuation device can be rotated about a longitudinal axis of the dispenser.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2012Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: AVENIDA GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Andreas Franz Christian Ritzenhoff, Joerg Stock, Oliver Arnold, Charles Neuner, Manfred Bodenbender
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Publication number: 20140167331Abstract: In a method for manufacturing a ceramic filter element for an exhaust gas filter of internal combustion engines, a combustible non-ceramic filter medium is shaped to a coil and impregnated with a ceramic slurry having a powder size distribution selected such that the ceramic filter element in the finished state has a desired porosity distribution that varies across the coil cross-section of the ceramic filter element.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2013Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: MANN+HUMMEL GMBHInventor: Andreas Franz
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Patent number: 8668757Abstract: In a method for producing a ceramic filter element for an exhaust gas filter for an internal combustion engine or a catalyst support, a combustible non-ceramic support web is used and holes or recesses are introduced into the non-ceramic support web at defined locations.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2011Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignee: Mann+Hummel GmbHInventors: Andreas Franz, Jochen Linhart, Holger Findeisen, Kathrin Fischer, Sabine Otterbach, Kathrin Lichtenwalter
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Publication number: 20140054120Abstract: A brake dust collector for a motor vehicle for collecting brake dust of a vehicle wheel brake has a dust collecting device that has at least one filter element and at least one filter element receptacle. The at least one filter element is secured in the at least one filter element receptacle. The at least one filter element receptacle is a through opening in a wheel rim; an intermediate space defined between the wheel rim and non-rotating vehicle parts; or a combination thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2013Publication date: February 27, 2014Applicant: MANN+HUMMEL GMBHInventors: Karl-Ernst Hummel, Nikolaus Moser, Michael Fasold, Bernhard Huurdeman, Markus Beylich, Andreas Beck, Andreas Franz, Andrew Glynn, Michael Geiger, Thomas Jessberger
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Patent number: 8557009Abstract: A method of manufacturing a ceramic diesel particle filter (DPF) and a DPF manufactured by the method, the DPF having a ceramic filter body (1) including gas channels (18, 18?) with planar and porous filter segments (3), which are provided for the exhaust gas stream (2) to flow through them transversely to the face of the filter segments (3). The filter body (1) is formed by sintering at least one ceramic-impregnated fiber web (4) in a firing step under heat such that fibers (5) of the fiber material are burned off and the ceramic material (6) is sintered together to form the porous filter segment (3) between its two surfaces (7, 8). At least one fiber web (4) is corrugated to form the gas channels (18, 18?) and rolled up to form the filter body (1), and the cross section of at least a portion of the gas channels (18, 18?) changes from an inlet end (33) to a discharge end (34).Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2011Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignee: Mann+Hummel GmbHInventors: Karin Gerlach, Stefan Tudyka, Jochen Linhart, Andreas Franz
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Patent number: 8551272Abstract: The invention concerns a method for producing a ceramic filter body (1) for filtering an exhaust gas stream (2) of a diesel engine. The filter body (1) has planar and porous filter sections (3) that are designed to be passed by the exhaust gas flow (2) in a direction transverse to the face of the filter sections (3). A planar permeable fiber web (4, 4?), in particular of filter paper, is first impregnated with finely ground ceramic material (6) only across sections under formation of a non-impregnated section (12). The only partially ceramic-impregnated fiber web (4, 4?) is subsequently brought into the shape of a blank of the filter body (1) in such a way that the impregnated areas of the fiber web (4, 4?) assume the shape of the filter body (1).Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2007Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: Mann + Hummel GmbHInventors: Jochen Linhart, Andreas Franz
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Patent number: 8535848Abstract: The structured body intended for use for an anode (1) in fuel cells, includes a structure formed by macro-pores and an electrode material. The macro-pores form communicating spaces which are produced by using pore forming materials. The electrode material includes skeleton-like or net-like connected structures of particles which are connected by sintering and which form two reticular systems which interengage: a first reticular system made of ceramic material and a second reticular system which contains metals to effect an electrical conductivity. The electrode material has the properties so that, with a multiple change between oxidizing and reducing conditions, substantially no major property changes occur in the ceramic reticular system, and an oxidization or reduction of the metals occurs in the second reticular system.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2012Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Hexis AGInventors: Gilles Robert, Andreas Franz-Josef Kaiser, Emad Batawi
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Patent number: 8501002Abstract: The invention concerns a filter insert (1) that is provided as an exchangeable insert in a filter, in particular an oil filter, fuel filter or the like of an internal combustion engine. The filter comprises a filter housing (3) that can be separated along a separating plane (2) and the exchangeable filter insert (1) extending in an axial direction (18). Two housing parts (4, 5) of the filter housing (3) are sealed relative to one another along the separating plane (2) by means of a seal (6). The seal (6) is secured slidably and captively in the axial direction (18) on the filter insert (1).Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2007Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Mann + Hummel GmbHInventors: Kai Knickmann, Ralf Blum, Wolfgang Cedzich, Andreas Franz, Roland Hartmann, Herbert Jainek, Gunnar-Marcel Klein, Markus Kolczyk, Thomas Petschl, Steffen Ritter, Mathias Schuster, Birgit Herbst, Ralf Kaiser, Uwe Kaiser, Joachim Kegel, Hans-Günter Wächter
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Publication number: 20130082071Abstract: The present invention relates to a dispenser having an actuation device (24) for dispensing components from an output device that is connected to reservoirs (26, 27), wherein the actuation device acts on the pumping devices (34, 35) indirectly via a dosing device, and the dosing device is equipped with a setting device (23) that can be actuated to change the position of a transmission element (40) acting on the pumping devices for setting the quantity ratio, wherein both the setting device and the actuation device can be rotated about a longitudinal axis of the dispenser.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2012Publication date: April 4, 2013Applicant: AVENIDA GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Andreas Franz Christian Ritzenhoff, Joerg Stock, Oliver Arnold, Charles Neuner, Manfred Bodenbender
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Publication number: 20120141916Abstract: The structured body intended for use for an anode (1) in fuel cells, includes a structure formed by macro-pores and an electrode material. The macro-pores form communicating spaces which are produced by using pore forming materials. The electrode material includes skeleton-like or net-like connected structures of particles which are connected by sintering and which form two reticular systems which interengage: a first reticular system made of ceramic material and a second reticular system which contains metals to effect an electrical conductivity. The electrode material has the properties so that, with a multiple change between oxidizing and reducing conditions, substantially no major property changes occur in the ceramic reticular system, and an oxidization or reduction of the metals occurs in the second reticular system.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2012Publication date: June 7, 2012Applicant: Sulzer Hexis AGInventors: Gilles Robert, Andreas Franz-Josef Kaiser, Emad Batawi
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Patent number: 8156741Abstract: An exhaust gas turbocharger for an internal combustion engine has a compressor arranged in an intake tract of an internal combustion engine for precompression of air passing through the intake tract to the compressor. A switchable air guiding device is arranged upstream of the compressor, wherein the switchable air guiding device supplies an air flow to the compressor in at least two different ways. The air guiding device has at least two components, wherein the at least two components are substantially made from plastic material.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2008Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Mann + Hummel GmbHInventors: Dietmar Talmon-Gros, Bernhard Huurdeman, Andreas Franz, Peter Fledersbacher, Siegfried Sumser
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Patent number: 8114551Abstract: The structured body intended for use for an anode (1) in fuel cells, includes a structure formed by macro-pores and an electrode material. The macro-pores form communicating spaces which are produced by using pore forming materials. The electrode material includes skeleton-like or net-like connected structures of particles which are connected by sintering and which form two reticular systems which interengage: a first reticular system made of ceramic material and a second reticular system which contains metals to effect an electrical conductivity. The electrode material has the properties so that, with a multiple change between oxidizing and reducing conditions, substantially no major property changes occur in the ceramic reticular system, and an oxidization or reduction of the metals occurs in the second reticular system.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2003Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: Sulzer Hexis AGInventors: Gilles Robert, Andreas Franz-Josef Kaiser, Emad Batawi
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Publication number: 20110283670Abstract: In a method for producing a ceramic filter element for an exhaust gas filter for an internal combustion engine or a catalyst support, a combustible non-ceramic support web is used and holes or recesses are introduced into the non-ceramic support web at defined locations.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2011Publication date: November 24, 2011Applicant: MANN+HUMMEL GMBHInventors: Jochen Linhart, Holger Findeisen, Andreas Franz, Kathrin Fischer, Kathrin Lichtenwalter, Sabine Otterbach
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Publication number: 20110173939Abstract: A method of manufacturing a ceramic diesel particle filter (DPF) and a DPF manufactured by the method, the DPF having a ceramic filter body (1) including gas channels (18, 18?) with planar and porous filter segments (3), which are provided for the exhaust gas stream (2) to flow through them transversely to the face of the filter segments (3). The filter body (1) is formed by sintering at least one ceramic-impregnated fiber web (4) in a firing step under heat such that fibers (5) of the fiber material are burned off and the ceramic material (6) is sintered together to form the porous filter segment (3) between its two surfaces (7, 8). At least one fiber web (4) is corrugated to form the gas channels (18, 18?) and rolled up to form the filter body (1), and the cross section of at least a portion of the gas channels (18, 18?) changes from an inlet end (33) to a discharge end (34).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2011Publication date: July 21, 2011Applicant: MANN+HUMMEL GMBHInventors: Karin GERLACH, Stefan TUDYKA, Jochen LINHART, Andreas FRANZ
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Patent number: 7862639Abstract: An intake filter for an internal combustion engine for a motor vehicle including an unfiltered air intake region, a filter medium and a filtered air conduit, in which the unfiltered air intake region is arranged beneath the engine hood of the motor vehicle and is attached to the engine hood. The filter medium is tubular body which has a porosity that ensures a sufficient filtration of the intake air for the internal combustion engine.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2006Date of Patent: January 4, 2011Assignee: Mann + Hummel GmbHInventors: Nikolaus Moser, Andreas Franz, Birgit Schimpf, Joerg Hammerschick, Klaus Waltenberg, Emese Weissenbacher, Mathias Schuster, Wolfgang Cedzich, Heinz Buehl, Andreas Steuss, Juergen Werner, Harald Spaeth, Matthias Gradl, Michael Lechner, Hansjuergen Linde, Uwe Neumann