Patents by Inventor Dirk Leutz

Dirk Leutz 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).

  • Heatable Flange
    Publication number: 20120301355
    Abstract: A method and device for sterilizing a flange connection including a sealing seat used for establishing a connection between product-bearing pipelines, and where the sealing seat of the flange connection is treated by thermal energy input from the not product-bearing side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: KRONES AG
    Inventors: Dirk Leutz, Matthias Weinzierl, Jörg Zacharias, Torsten Runge
  • SEALING WATER SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20120279591
    Abstract: A sealing water system for flushing a rotating mechanical seal includes a closed circuit. A supply pump is disposed in the closed circuit so as to act upon the rotating mechanical seal with sealing water. The closed circuit is configured to collect and recirculate the sealing water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2012
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: KRONES AG
    Inventor: Dirk Leutz
  • DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MIXING BEVERAGES
    Publication number: 20120012226
    Abstract: A device and method for the mixing of a beverage where, due to the fact that an aqueous mixed phase, in which the recipe constituents needed for mixing the beverage are contained and which has a higher water content than the prepared mixed beverage, is collected in a tank, the mixed phase can be added specifically to a beverage mixture of excess concentration in order to adjust the desired final concentration. The mixed phase preferably contains returned proportions of the prepared mixed beverage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2011
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Applicant: KRONES AG
    Inventors: Torsten Runge, Dirk Leutz, Matthias Weinzierl