Patents by Inventor Andreas Franz
Andreas 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: 20100170842Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2007Publication date: July 8, 2010Applicant: 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-Guenter Waechter
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Patent number: 7713324Abstract: A filter composed of a filter medium (10) formed from a corrugated filter layer (11) and a flat filter sheet (12) which are interconnected by embossing points (15). This eliminates the need for an additional joining agent. Production of the filter is simplified because no additional materials are required to be supplied or cured.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2006Date of Patent: May 11, 2010Assignee: Mann + Hummel GmbHInventors: Jochen Linhart, Andreas Franz
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Publication number: 20100089518Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2007Publication date: April 15, 2010Applicant: MANN+HUMMEL GMBHInventors: Jochen Linhart, Andreas Franz
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Patent number: 7691524Abstract: Anode material for a fuel cell which is to be operated at a high temperature above 700° C.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2005Date of Patent: April 6, 2010Assignee: Hexis AGInventors: Gilles Robert, Andreas Franz-Josef Kaiser, Emad Batawi
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Publication number: 20100059982Abstract: Mud wings of the present invention include an enclosed space in which water diverters are disposed in positions and in orientations that cause water entering the enclosed space through the front panel of the mud wing to directionally drain to a predetermined exit port in the mud wing. In one embodiment, the exit port is located on the bottom portion of a thin sidewall of the mud wing that is designed to release water on the inboard side of the tire path, which prevents the water from being deposited into the path of any rearward tires.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2008Publication date: March 11, 2010Inventor: Andreas Franz Schubert
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Patent number: 7663771Abstract: A device is used for controlling an installation that is comprised of several units. A common control system, that is provided with a central data memory, in which current real values and/or set points are filed as process variables for several units, is allocated to several of these units. The data memory encompasses a storage area for the process variables. The data structure of this storage area can be configured even by using a set of data that describes the projected installation.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2003Date of Patent: February 16, 2010Assignee: Koenig & Bauer AktiengellschaftInventors: Andreas Franz Czotscher, Helmut Geiger, Stefan Anton Giesel, Thomas Hüller, Jürgen Herbert Mees, Armin Bernhard Rath, Mirko Theodor Roman Römling
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Publication number: 20100034981Abstract: 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 the coil is 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 across the coil cross-section of the ceramic filter element.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2009Publication date: February 11, 2010Applicant: MANN+HUMMEL GMBHInventor: Andreas Franz
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Patent number: 7638222Abstract: The porous, gas permeable layer substructure (5; 5a, 5b) for a thin, gas tight layer (89) can in particular be used as a functional component in high temperature fuel cells (8). This layer substructure has a smooth surface (50a) which is suitable for an application of the gas tight layer or a multi-layer system including the gas tight layer, with the application being carried out by means of a screen printing method or other coating methods. The smooth surface is formed by a compacted edge zone (50). The edge zone and a carrier structure (51) adjacent to this are made from sinterable particles of a uniform substance mixture. The porosity of the carrier structure is greater than 30 volume percent, preferably greater than 40 volume percent. The pore size of the edge zone is smaller than 10 ?m, preferably smaller than 3 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2002Date of Patent: December 29, 2009Assignee: Hexis AGInventors: Andreas Franz-Josef Kaiser, Kaspar Honegger, Emad Batawi
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Publication number: 20090139228Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2008Publication date: June 4, 2009Applicant: MANN+HUMMEL GMBHInventors: Dietmar Talmon-Gros, Bernhard Huurdeman, Andreas Franz, Peter Fledersbacher, Siegfried Sumser
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Publication number: 20080210618Abstract: A fuel filter has a housing having an intake and an outlet. A filter element is arranged in the housing such that a filtered area is separated seal-tightly from an unfiltered area. A flow passage is provided between the unfiltered area and the filtered area. A porous filter member closes off the flow passage, wherein the porous filter member is arranged seal-tightly on a wall arranged about the flow passage. The filter element has a filter medium and a geodetically upper and a geodetically lower terminal disks arranged at end faces of the filter medium. The filter medium is connected seal-tightly to the terminal disks. The flow passage is arranged in the geodetically upper terminal disk that forms the wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2006Publication date: September 4, 2008Applicant: MANN+HUMMEL GMBHInventors: Steffi Kiedaisch, Thorsten Schmid, Norbert Strassenberger, Chris Sturgess, Andreas Klinser, Andreas Franz, Holger Findeisen, Michael Micke, Andreas Steuss
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Publication number: 20080141638Abstract: A diesel particle filter having a ceramic filter body (1) made of a ceramic material (6) for filtering an exhaust gas stream (2) of a diesel engine. The filter body (1) has 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), particularly paper, under heat such that fibers (5) of the fiber material are burned off and the ceramic material (6) is sintered together to form the continuously porous and gas-permeable 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: November 27, 2007Publication date: June 19, 2008Applicant: Mann & Hummel GmbHInventors: Jochen Linhart, Karin Gerlach, Andreas Franz
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Publication number: 20070137157Abstract: A filter composed of a filter medium (10) formed from a corrugated filter layer (11) and a flat filter sheet (12) which are interconnected by embossing points (15). This eliminates the need for an additional joining agent. Production of the filter is simplified because no additional materials are required to be supplied or cured.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2006Publication date: June 21, 2007Applicant: Mann & Hummel GmbHInventors: Jochen Linhart, Andreas Franz
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Publication number: 20070131194Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2006Publication date: June 14, 2007Applicant: 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
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Patent number: 7223067Abstract: The flow machine is furnished with an abradable (10) made of a particle composite material. This so-called composite (1) contains granular core particles (2) of a ceramic material. The surfaces (20) of the granular core particles carry functional layers (22) which form an intermediate phase of the composite which is stable at a high operating temperature. The intermediate phase in this process has been produced in situ at least in part by a chemical reaction of a precursor material (22?) and material (21) of the granular core particles on the particle surfaces (20). Bonds (23) are formed between the granular core particles arranged in a porous composite by the intermediate phase. These bonds have a breaking characteristic for abradables.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2004Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: Sulzer Metco (US) Inc.Inventors: Scott Wilson, Andreas Franz-Josef Kaiser
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Publication number: 20060107835Abstract: A channel for conducting a gaseous medium, particularly an air conducting channel for an internal combustion engine, having at least one channel section that is produced in an extrusion blow molding process. The blow-molded channel section has adsorption particles on its inside walls, which are attached in an interlocked manner to the inside wall of the channel section in the blow molding process.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2005Publication date: May 25, 2006Applicant: Mann & Hummel GmbHInventors: Tanja Heilmann, Frank Pfeiffer, Alrun Spennemann, Andreas Franz
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Publication number: 20060083979Abstract: Anode material for a fuel cell which is to be operated at a high temperature above 700° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2005Publication date: April 20, 2006Applicant: Sulzer Hexis AGInventors: Gilles Robert, Andreas Franz-Josef Kaiser, Emad Batawi
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Patent number: 6853203Abstract: An oil quality measurement device for an oil circuit (1), which includes an oil condition sensor (2) and an analysis circuit (3). The oil condition sensor (2) is constructed as a capacitive or impedance spectroscopic sensor (4) and attached to the filter element (14) in such a way that, when the filter element (14) is replaced, the oil condition sensor (2) is also automatically replaced.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2003Date of Patent: February 8, 2005Assignee: Mann & Hummel GmbHInventors: Markus Beylich, Andreas Franz
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Patent number: 6734955Abstract: A device for measuring dispersion of a link between two switching nodes of an optical network comprises a phase measuring unit PMU for determining a first phase of a data signal traveling on a first wavelength &lgr;1, and a second phase of the same data signal traveling on a second wavelength &lgr;2, received consecutively over the link under measurement. A dispersion measurement controller controls operation of the phase measuring unit and characterizes the dispersion of the link at a wavelength of interest &lgr;=(&lgr;1+&lgr;2)/2, based on the first and second phases. The PMU includes a frame detector for determining a first and a second rotation signal indicative of the digital offset between the first and second test clocks with a respective frame start, and a phase detector for measuring the phase of these test clocks with respect to a static reference. The static reference is provided by the same data signal transmitted continuously over a reference wavelength.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2002Date of Patent: May 11, 2004Inventors: Mark Stephen Wight, Andreas Franz Ludwig Sizmann, Mei Du, Alan Glen Solheim
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Patent number: 6711524Abstract: A method and apparatus for monitoring service-intensive replaceable parts in an assembly in which information regarding a replaceable part (1), such as specifications, physical dimensions, physical properties, functions and/or other data for the replaceable part, is stored on a suitable memory component (5) in and/or on the replaceable part (1). The stored data is read with a reading device at a predetermined time or at predetermined time intervals and transmitted to an evaluation unit. The read data can be compared in the evaluation unit with preset data and, after evaluating the results of the comparison of the data, an appropriate change in the replaceable part or in the operation of the assembly may or may not be carried out.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2002Date of Patent: March 23, 2004Assignee: Filterwerk Mann & Hummel GmbHInventors: Michael Wolf, Christian Thalmann, Volker Pluecker, Torsten Oberdorfer, Klemens Dworatzek, Horst Escher, Andreas Franz, Andreas Pelz
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Publication number: 20040029170Abstract: A method for determining substrate and product concentration in liquid and/or gaseous media is disclosed. The analytes are removed by time-controlled diffusion of at least one analyte between the medium and a diffusion medium which is fed to the sampling regions through fluid conduits using at least one pump and semipermeable membranes. The diffusion medium is transported to at least one detector, while simultaneously new diffusion medium is fed from the sampling region and analyzed to determine the analyte concentration. The pump operates continuously and the diffusion medium is fed to the fluid conduits in alternation through a multivalve or multipath valve connected in series upstream from the sampling regions. The detector and the pump are additionally connected through a bypass conduit joined to the valve, and the detector is continuously fed diffusion medium through the fluid conduits and the bypass conduit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventors: Evelyn Wolfram, Matthias Arnold, Andreas Franz, Dirk Weuster-Botz, Christian Wandrey