Patents by Inventor Dennis Schmidt

Dennis Schmidt 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: 20240254918
    Abstract: Examples described herein provide an aircraft that includes an auxiliary power unit, a controller, and an identification module. The identification module includes a plurality of digital potentiometers to store information about the auxiliary power unit and readable by the controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Kamil Cakala, Dennis Schmidt
  • Patent number: 11760521
    Abstract: A method and a device for filling containers with products, in which the products are successively conveyed horizontally to a filling installation in which the products, while being combined to form individual product groups, are grouped, and an offered-up container, which is conveyed horizontally to the filling installation, is filled in a single track with one or a plurality of product groups, wherein the filled containers subsequently are in particular horizontally transported away. The method includes conveying the products in multiple tracks to the filling installation, grouping the products to form product groups, feeding the product groups in multiple tracks to a common revolving vertical conveyor of the filling installation, conveying the product groups to an ejection position from which the product groups are conveyed onward in a single track to an offered-up container, and filling the offered-up container with at least one of the product groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)
    Inventors: Dennis Schmidt, Andreas Prahm, Andreas Neufeld, Frank Sachs
  • Publication number: 20210394942
    Abstract: A method and a device for filling containers with products, in which the products are successively conveyed horizontally to a filling installation in which the products, while being combined to form individual product groups, are grouped, and an offered-up container, which is conveyed horizontally to the filling installation, is filled in a single track with one or a plurality of product groups, wherein the filled containers subsequently are in particular horizontally transported away. The method includes conveying the products in multiple tracks to the filling installation, grouping the products to form product groups, feeding the product groups in multiple tracks to a common revolving vertical conveyor of the filling installation, conveying the product groups to an ejection position from which the product groups are conveyed onward in a single track to an offered-up container, and filling the offered-up container with at least one of the product groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)
    Inventors: Dennis Schmidt, Andreas Prahm, Andreas Neufeld, Frank Sachs
  • Patent number: 10351280
    Abstract: A and device method for handling containers, in particular cardboard boxes, for groups of objects, in particular packages, in which the objects are inserted one after another into the container and are deposited there in an ordered formation, and in which the containers are held ready in each case by a handling device, in particular a cardboard box robot, for the insertion of the objects, and in each case several containers are held ready at the same time by the handling device so that they can be filled with objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)
    Inventors: Andreas Prahm, Dennis Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20160083129
    Abstract: A and device method for handling containers, in particular cardboard boxes, for groups of objects, in particular packages, in which the objects are inserted one after another into the container and are deposited there in an ordered formation, and in which the containers are held ready in each case by a handling device, in particular a cardboard box robot, for the insertion of the objects, and in each case several containers are held ready at the same time by the handling device so that they can be filled with objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Applicant: FOCKE & CO. (GMBH CO. KG)
    Inventors: Andreas Prahm, Dennis Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20070084214
    Abstract: A start system for a gas turbine engine delivers starter current according to a schedule selected according to measured rotational speed and oil temperature of the gas turbine engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2005
    Publication date: April 19, 2007
    Inventors: Dennis Schmidt, David Ripley, Lawrence Cogsdill
  • Publication number: 20070027655
    Abstract: A condition monitoring system for an aeronautical power system with an electronic data collection system that lets components of the aeronautical power system identify themselves over a single wire data bus and transfers identification data received over the single wire data bus to a health monitoring system for analysis of the aeronautical system components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2005
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventor: Dennis Schmidt
  • Patent number: 6696651
    Abstract: A lockout for circuit breakers provides a channel holding the circuit breaker toggle bar with a set screw that may be accessed only when an eye of the lockout is free of a padlock shackle. The eye is oriented vertically so that the padlock may be rotated to not interfere with adjacent circuit breakers being locked out or operated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: David Koopmeiners, Dennis Drake, Dennis Schmidt