Patents by Inventor Carsten Enderwitz

Carsten Enderwitz 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: 20240043310
    Abstract: An apparatus for the automated production of glass assemblies includes: a turning machine with at least two spindles, which are rotatable about a common axis of rotation and which each have a workpiece holder, wherein the workpiece holders are arranged opposite one another; one or more gas burners or lasers fixed on a first tool carriage which is movable in parallel and/or perpendicularly to the axis of rotation; one or more drives for driving a rotational movement of the spindles and a movement of the first tool carriage; a pressure module including a pump device at least one working cylinder for applying a pressure to an inner tube and/or to a space between the inner tube and an outer tube; and a control unit configured to control the burners or lasers, one or more drives, the first tool carriage and the pressure module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Carsten Enderwitz, Roland Zilly, Jens Voigtländer
  • Publication number: 20210139363
    Abstract: An apparatus for the automated production of glass assemblies comprises: a turning machine with at least two spindles which are rotatable about a common axis of rotation and which each have a workpiece holder, wherein the workpiece holders are arranged opposite one another; one or more gas burners or lasers fixed on a first tool carriage which is movable in parallel and/or perpendicularly to the axis of rotation; one or more drives for driving a rotational movement of the spindles and a movement of the first tool carriage; a pressure module including a pump device at least one working cylinder for applying a pressure to an inner tube and/or to a space between the inner tube and an outer tube; and a control unit configured to control the burners or lasers, one or more drives, the first tool carriage and the pressure module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Carsten Enderwitz, Roland Zilly, Jens Voigtländer
  • Patent number: 10723086
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the automated production of a workpiece having at least one diaphragm, including a workpiece for an electrochemical sensor, including providing a workpiece that has a wall with at least one continuous opening through the wall, wherein a diaphragm body is affixed in the at least one opening, such that the diaphragm body completely fills a cross-section of the opening, and processing the diaphragm body by means of a laser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Conducta GmbH+Co. KG
    Inventors: Michael Hanko, Thomas Wilhelm, Bert Blankenburg, Carsten Enderwitz, Jens Voigtländer
  • Publication number: 20190178833
    Abstract: A potentiometric sensor for determining pH, comprising a shaft tube and a glass membrane. The shaft tube and the glass membrane form a first chamber in which an inner electrolyte of the sensor and a discharge element of the sensor are positioned. The sensor also includes a reference element and a reference electrolyte outside the first chamber. The glass membrane and/or a transition region adjoining the glass membrane is produced by a generative process to form a connection between the shaft tube and the glass membrane of the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Carsten Enderwitz, Jens Voigtländer, Roland Zilly
  • Patent number: 9910006
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a glass assembly comprises the steps: lowering of a dip pipe that gas may flow through vertically to the surface of a glass melt; determining when the surface of the glass melt is encountered by the dip pipe end showing towards the glass melt by detecting an increase of the gas pressure found inside the dip pipe; continued lowering of the dip pipe until a predetermined depth of entry of the dip pipe end showing towards the glass melt is reached; obtaining a predetermined pressure inside the dip pipe while the dip pipe first stays at the given immersion depth for the given duration and after the predetermined duration is completed, is lifted with a given speed vertically to the surface of the glass melt, thus creating a gas bubble in the glass melt whose walls are attached to the end of the dip pipe; continued lifting of the dip pipe vertically to the surface of the glass melt until the gas bubble is separated from the glass melt, with the wall of the gas bubble remaining at the dip
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Conducta GmbH+Co. KG
    Inventors: Roland Zilly, Carsten Enderwitz, Torsten Zeidler, Ronny Kuhn
  • Publication number: 20170165869
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the automated production of a workpiece having at least one diaphragm, including a workpiece for an electrochemical sensor, including providing a workpiece that has a wall with at least one continuous opening through the wall, wherein a diaphragm body is affixed in the at least one opening, such that the diaphragm body completely fills a cross-section of the opening, and processing the diaphragm body by means of a laser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: Michael Hanko, Thomas Wilhelm, Bert Blankenburg, Carsten Enderwitz, Jens Voigtländer
  • Publication number: 20170057859
    Abstract: One aspect of the present disclosure relates to a method for the automated production of a glass body comprising a diaphragm for a potentiometric sensor. The method includes providing a glass assembly, which includes an outer tube and at least one inner tube running inside the outer tube, wherein the inner tube and the outer tube are arranged coaxially and wherein one end of the inner tube is substance-to-substance bonded to a tube wall of the outer tube; forming at least one aperture through the tube wall of the outer tube; introducing a porous diaphragm body into the aperture, the diaphragm body including a coating of glass in at least one section; and creating a substance-to-substance bond between the tube wall of the outer tube and at least the section of the diaphragm body comprising the coating of glass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: JENS VOIGTLÄNDER, NADINE FIEDLER, CARSTEN ENDERWITZ, SANDRA BLUME
  • Publication number: 20160176745
    Abstract: A method for the automated production of glass objects with a preset wall thickness, comprising: producing a series of glass objects, wherein each one of the glass objects of the series is produced by a process influenced by at least one process parameter; automatic measurement of an actual wall thickness of at least one of the glass objects and comparing the actual wall thickness with a preset target wall thickness; and automatic adjustment of at least one process parameter, based on the comparison of the actual wall thickness with the preset target thickness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Roland Zilly, Carsten Enderwitz, Tom Druding, Jens Bindrich
  • Publication number: 20160137541
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a glass assembly comprises the steps: lowering of a dip pipe that gas may flow through vertically to the surface of a glass melt; determining when the surface of the glass melt is encountered by the dip pipe end showing towards the glass melt by detecting an increase of the gas pressure found inside the dip pipe; continued lowering of the dip pipe until a predetermined depth of entry of the dip pipe end showing towards the glass melt is reached; obtaining a predetermined pressure inside the dip pipe while the dip pipe first stays at the given immersion depth for the given duration and after the predetermined duration is completed, is lifted with a given speed vertically to the surface of the glass melt, thus creating a gas bubble in the glass melt whose walls are attached to the end of the dip pipe; continued lifting of the dip pipe vertically to the surface of the glass melt until the gas bubble is separated from the glass melt, with the wall of the gas bubble remaining at the dip
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: Roland Zilly, Carsten Enderwitz, Torsten Zeidler, Ronny Kuhn