Patents by Inventor Christof Weigand

Christof Weigand 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).

  • Patent number: 12117092
    Abstract: Electropneumatic solenoid valve includes an electromagnetic actuator with an energizable coil and a solenoid armature movable relative to the coil, an air chamber with three air channels, and a valve member. The three air channels include first and second air channels and a control air channel. The valve member, in a first closed position, closes the first air channel and releases the second air channel and which, in a second closed position, closes the second air channel and releases the first air channel. The valve further includes a driver movable in a first and second actuating directions and that connects the valve member to the solenoid armature, a driver-pretensioning spring arranged between the driver and the solenoid armature, to provide a pretensioning force to the driver, and a restoring spring between the driver and the electromagnetic actuator to provide a restoring force to the driver against the driving direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Samson Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christof Weigand, Stefan Kolbenschlag
  • Publication number: 20220065362
    Abstract: Electropneumatic solenoid valve includes an electromagnetic actuator with an energizable coil and a solenoid armature movable relative to the coil, an air chamber with three air channels, and a valve member. The three air channels include first and second air channels and a control air channel. The valve member, in a first closed position, closes the first air channel and releases the second air channel and which, in a second closed position, closes the second air channel and releases the first air channel. The valve further includes a driver movable in a first and second actuating directions and that connects the valve member to the solenoid armature, a driver-pretensioning spring arranged between the driver and the solenoid armature, to provide a pretensioning force to the driver, and a restoring spring between the driver and the electromagnetic actuator to provide a restoring force to the driver against the driving direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: SAMSON AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Christof Weigand, Stefan Kolbenschlag
  • Patent number: 9903502
    Abstract: In a fluid-operated drive for a field device, the drive being designed to set a control valve of the field device, a fluidically operated basic drive is provided with a basic working chamber loaded fluidically and delimited by a basic drive housing part and by a basic actuating piston guided in the basic drive housing part. At least one supplementary drive is provided with a supplementary working chamber loaded fluidically and delimited by a supplementary drive housing part. The basic drive housing part and the supplementary drive housing part are displaceable in one another in accordance with a piston and chamber arrangement so that a volume of the supplementary chamber changes in the event of a relative movement of the drive housing parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSON AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Philipp Fuhr, Sebastian Krause, Christof Weigand
  • Publication number: 20160178083
    Abstract: In a fluid-operated drive for a field device, the drive being designed to set a control valve of the field device, a fluidically operated basic drive is provided with a basic working chamber loaded fluidically and delimited by a basic drive housing part and by a basic actuating piston guided in the basic drive housing part. At least one supplementary drive is provided with a supplementary working chamber loaded fluidically and delimited by a supplementary drive housing part. The basic drive housing part and the supplementary drive housing part are displaceable in one another in accordance with a piston and chamber arrangement so that a volume of the supplementary chamber changes in the event of a relative movement of the drive housing parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: Samson Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Philipp Fuhr, Sebastian Krause, Christof Weigand
  • Patent number: 9341062
    Abstract: In an electropneumatic field device for controlling a pneumatic actuator, an energy transducer is provided which converts pneumatic energy into electrical energy. The energy transducer has a working chamber with a pneumatic compressed air inlet via which a compressed air impulse is introduced, a reset chamber, a coil, an armature separating the working chamber and the reset chamber and guided for translational back and forth movement, and a permanent magnet so that electric energy is induced in the coil. The pneumatic compressed air inlet is configured such that the compressed air impulse leaving the compressed air inlet has an inflow direction angle into the working chamber which has an axial angular direction component which is parallel to a translational axial movement direction of the armature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSON AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Stefan Kolbenschlag, Christof Weigand
  • Publication number: 20140123846
    Abstract: In an electropneumatic field device for controlling a pneumatic actuator, an energy transducer is provided which converts pneumatic energy into electrical energy. The energy transducer has a working chamber with a pneumatic compressed air inlet via which a compressed air impulse is introduced, a reset chamber, a coil, an armature separating the working chamber and the reset chamber and guided for translational back and forth movement, and a permanent magnet so that electric energy is induced in the coil. The pneumatic compressed air inlet is configured such that the compressed air impulse leaving the compressed air inlet has an inflow direction angle into the working chamber which has an axial angular direction component which is parallel to a translational axial movement direction of the armature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Inventors: Stefan Kolbenschlag, Christof Weigand