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).

  • Publication number: 20170271051
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventors: Andreas Franz HOHMANN, Timo LEERMANN, Kay RUHNAU, Peter RAMBUSCH
  • Publication number: 20170001138
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: Johannes Grad, Margarete Drexler, Kathrin Lichtenwalter, Helmut Brenneis, Anton Kreiner, Marius Panzer, Florentin van Uffelen, Andreas Franz
  • Patent number: 9388867
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: MANN+HUMMEL GMBH
    Inventors: Karl-Ernst Hummel, Nikolaus Moser, Michael Fasold, Bernhard Huurdeman, Markus Beylich, Andreas Beck, Andreas Franz, Andrew Glynn, Michael Geiger, Thomas Jessberger
  • Patent number: 9333449
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: MANN+HUMMEL GMBH
    Inventor: Andreas Franz
  • Publication number: 20140332559
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: AVENIDA GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Franz Christian Ritzenhoff, Manfred Bodenbender, Jörg Stock, Oliver Arnold, Charles Neuner
  • Patent number: 8807399
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: AVENIDA GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Franz Christian Ritzenhoff, Joerg Stock, Oliver Arnold, Charles Neuner, Manfred Bodenbender
  • Publication number: 20140167331
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: MANN+HUMMEL GMBH
    Inventor: Andreas Franz
  • Patent number: 8668757
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Mann+Hummel GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Franz, Jochen Linhart, Holger Findeisen, Kathrin Fischer, Sabine Otterbach, Kathrin Lichtenwalter
  • Publication number: 20140054120
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: MANN+HUMMEL GMBH
    Inventors: Karl-Ernst Hummel, Nikolaus Moser, Michael Fasold, Bernhard Huurdeman, Markus Beylich, Andreas Beck, Andreas Franz, Andrew Glynn, Michael Geiger, Thomas Jessberger
  • Patent number: 8557009
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Mann+Hummel GmbH
    Inventors: Karin Gerlach, Stefan Tudyka, Jochen Linhart, Andreas Franz
  • Patent number: 8551272
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Mann + Hummel GmbH
    Inventors: Jochen Linhart, Andreas Franz
  • Patent number: 8535848
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Hexis AG
    Inventors: Gilles Robert, Andreas Franz-Josef Kaiser, Emad Batawi
  • Patent number: 8501002
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Mann + Hummel GmbH
    Inventors: 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
  • Publication number: 20130082071
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Applicant: AVENIDA GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Franz Christian Ritzenhoff, Joerg Stock, Oliver Arnold, Charles Neuner, Manfred Bodenbender
  • Publication number: 20120141916
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2012
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: Sulzer Hexis AG
    Inventors: Gilles Robert, Andreas Franz-Josef Kaiser, Emad Batawi
  • Patent number: 8156741
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Mann + Hummel GmbH
    Inventors: Dietmar Talmon-Gros, Bernhard Huurdeman, Andreas Franz, Peter Fledersbacher, Siegfried Sumser
  • Patent number: 8114551
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Sulzer Hexis AG
    Inventors: Gilles Robert, Andreas Franz-Josef Kaiser, Emad Batawi
  • Publication number: 20110283670
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: MANN+HUMMEL GMBH
    Inventors: Jochen Linhart, Holger Findeisen, Andreas Franz, Kathrin Fischer, Kathrin Lichtenwalter, Sabine Otterbach
  • Publication number: 20110173939
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Applicant: MANN+HUMMEL GMBH
    Inventors: Karin GERLACH, Stefan TUDYKA, Jochen LINHART, Andreas FRANZ
  • Patent number: 7862639
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Mann + Hummel GmbH
    Inventors: 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