Patents by Inventor Felix Mauchle

Felix Mauchle 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: 20130094912
    Abstract: A powder supplying device for a powder coating installation with at least one closed or closable powder container, which has a substantially cuboidal powder chamber for coating powder. In order to quickly change the powder, at least one cleaning compressed-air inlet to which a compressed air source can be connected in a cleaning operation of the powder coating installation for removing residual powder from the powder chamber, in order to introduce cleaning compressed air into the powder chamber, is provided in a side wall of the powder container. In addition, at least one residual powder outlet is provided, through which residual powder can be driven out from the powder chamber with the aid of the cleaning compressed air introduced into the powder chamber. The at least one cleaning compressed-air inlet has an inlet opening, which points in the same direction as the outlet opening of the residual powder outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS, INC.
    Inventors: Felix Mauchle, Norbert Honegger, Mark Steinemann, Hanspeter Michael
  • Patent number: 8333165
    Abstract: A powder spraycoating control system and its combination with a powder pump or with a powder spraycoating unit. The control system contains an controller programmed to alternatingly operate a powder spraycoating unit in turn containing an injector serving as the powder pump or a powder spraycoating unit containing a dense phase powder pump serving as the powder pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: ITW Gema GmbH
    Inventors: Felix Mauchle, Christian Marxer
  • Patent number: 8166908
    Abstract: Powder spraycoating equipment and powder supply system for same. The powder supply system comprises a closed or closable powder receptacle which is fitted with a cleaning fixture to remove residual powder from a powder chamber of the powder receptacle using compressed cleaning air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: ITW Gema GmbH
    Inventors: Felix Mauchle, Mark Steinemann
  • Publication number: 20120009046
    Abstract: A powder-bag emptying unit for powder spray coating facilities, comprises a bag-receiving hopper which is designed to receive a powder bag. The bag-receiving hopper is narrower at its bottom than at its top. The hopper wall keeps the powder bag dimensionally stable and in a fixed position in which a bag aperture is situated at the top end of the bag. The bag-receiving hopper is fitted at its lower end at the hopper center with a hopper opening which is open downward and permits coating powder to drop out of it. The bag-receiving hopper further is fitted with at least one vibrator to shake the bag-receiving hopper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: ILLINOIS GEMA AG
    Inventors: Felix Mauchle, Mark Steinemann, Hanspeter Vieli
  • Publication number: 20110162579
    Abstract: A coating powder feed method, coating powder feeding device, electrostatic powder spraycoating apparatus containing such a coating powder feeding device. The invention includes a dense phase powder pump fitted with at least one feed chamber. A control signal to create a partial vacuum in the feed chamber is generated no earlier than simultaneously with, preferably by a predetermined delay time after, a control signal opening a powder intake valve of the feed chamber, as a result of which the beginning of partial vacuum buildup in the feed chamber shall take place no earlier than simultaneously with the initial opening of the powder intake valve or by a defined time delay after the opening of the powder intake valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2008
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: ITW GEMA GMBH
    Inventors: Felix Mauchle, Christian Marxer, Hanspeter Vieli
  • Patent number: 7971551
    Abstract: A powder spray coating facility is automatically switched between a first operating mode in which only recovery powder is moved into an intermediate receptacle, and a second operating mode in which only fresh powder from a fresh powder unit is fed to the intermediate receptacle. Switching may be carried out from the second operating mode to a reserve powder operating mode when, following switching from the first operating mode to the second operating mode, an intermediate receptacle sensor continues to transmit a “powder needed” signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Felix Mauchle, Mark Steinemann
  • Publication number: 20100255975
    Abstract: A powder spraycoating facility's powder recovery unit comprising a cyclone separator to separate coating powder from an air-powder mixed flow. The cyclone separator comprises a cyclone section separating powder from the powder-air mixed flow and a supply bin in the form of a downward-projecting extension of the cyclone section, said unit further comprising a powder passage in said cyclone from the cyclone section into the supply bin, said passage being devoid of powder blocking elements while being powder-tight relative to the atmosphere.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2008
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Applicant: ITW GEMA AG
    Inventors: Felix Mauchle, Mark Steinnemann
  • Publication number: 20100243759
    Abstract: The invention relates to a powder feed apparatus of a powder spraycoating equipment, containing a dense phase powder pump fitted with at least one feed chamber, preferably two feed chambers, alternatingly discharging coating powder, each feed chamber having one powder intake valve at a powder intake to aspirate coating powder during a suction stage and one powder outlet valve at a powder outlet to discharge coating powder during a discharge stage; further control valves to operate the dense phase powder pump; further an electric control unit containing at least one computer controlling the dense phase powder pump by means of said control valves, characterized in that a dependence mode of the total open time (ttotal) of the powder intake valves is stored in the control unit and defines the dependence of the total open time (ttotal) on an adjustable nominal value (mp) adjusted by a powder adjusting element at the control unit and relating to the rate of powder to be conveyed to be conveyed by the dense phase po
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2008
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: ITW GEMA GMBH
    Inventors: Felix Mauchle, Christian Marxer
  • Publication number: 20100221421
    Abstract: A powder spraycoating method and powder spraycoating equipment. A dense phase powder pump is used. According to a predetermined conveying-air function in a control unit, different rates of compressed conveying air can be defined for different powder rates. In one predetermined total-air function in the control unit, the sum of total-air rate composed of the rate of compressed conveying air and of the rate of supplemental compressed air can be kept constant even if the rate of compressed conveying air changes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2008
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: ITW GEMA GMBH
    Inventors: Felix Mauchle, Christian Marxer, Hanspeter Vieli
  • Publication number: 20100212589
    Abstract: A powder spraycoating control system and its combination with a powder pump or with a powder spraycoating unit. The control system contains an controller programmed to alternatingly operate a powder spraycoating unit in turn containing an injector serving as the powder pump or a powder spraycoating unit containing a dense phase powder pump serving as the powder pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2008
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: ITW GEMA GMBH
    Inventors: Felix Mauchle, Christian Marxer
  • Publication number: 20100213281
    Abstract: A powder spraycoating equipment's powder feed apparatus containing a dense phase powder pump fitted with at least one, preferably two feed chambers each of which comprises at one chamber end a powder intake valve and at the opposite chamber end a powder outlet valve and further comprises at least one air exchange aperture to alternatingly apply compressed conveying air or a partial vacuum to the feed chamber, characterized by an integral structural block, by the feed chambers being constituted in the structural block, by all those first control valves that are connected in fluid communication to the minimum of one feed chamber for the purpose of applying compressed conveying air and a partial vacuum to it, being configured at the structural block and being directly connected, in fluid communication and by means of ducts constituted in the structural block, to the minimum of one feed chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2008
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: ITW GEMA GMBH
    Inventors: Felix Mauchle, Christian Marxer, Thomas Staub
  • Publication number: 20100071616
    Abstract: A coating powder filtration system containing a fluidizing unit to fluidize coating powder upstream of a powder outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2008
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Applicant: ITW GEMA AG
    Inventors: Felix MAUCHLE, Mark STEINEMANN, Silvano GELAIN
  • Publication number: 20100028090
    Abstract: Powder feed device of a powder spraycoating apparatus. A pump is configured in the powder path from a sieve to an intermediate receptacle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2008
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Applicant: ITW GEMA AG
    Inventors: Felix Mauchle, Mark Steinemann
  • Patent number: 7617998
    Abstract: A powder spraycoating gun and its gun housing. The spraygun housing is a plastic, integral body constituting a stock fitted with a powder discharge tube and a grip fitted with a powder intake tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2009
    Assignee: ITW Gema GmbH
    Inventors: Felix Mauchle, Hanspeter Michael, Marco Sanwald
  • Patent number: 7478763
    Abstract: A spray apparatus for coating material, in particular for coating powders, contains a spray outlet spraying the coating material, a shaping air outlet in the form of a plurality of holes shaping the spray jet and an ambient-air passage radially configured between the spray outlet and the holes to aspirate ambient air by means of the flow suction effect of the spray jet and/or of the shaping air flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2009
    Assignee: ITW Gema GmbH
    Inventors: Felix Mauchle, Hanspeter Vieli, Hanspeter Michael
  • Publication number: 20080257257
    Abstract: Powder spraycoating equipment and powder supply system for same. The powder supply system comprises a closed or closable powder receptacle which is fitted with a cleaning fixture to remove residual powder from a powder chamber of the powder receptacle using compressed cleaning air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2006
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Applicant: ITW GEMA GMBH
    Inventors: Felix Mauchle, Mark Steinemann
  • Publication number: 20080191067
    Abstract: A powder spraycoating gun and its gun housing. The spraygun housing is a plastic, integral body constituting a stock fitted with a powder discharge tube and a grip fitted with a powder intake tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2006
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Applicant: ITW GEMA AG
    Inventors: Felix Mauchle, Hanspeter Michael, Marco Sanwald
  • Publication number: 20080190366
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic spraycoating control device implementing spraycoating methods and containing at least one manually driven program selecting element to select programs from two different groups of programs, further containing a plurality of manually driven parameter setting elements and display units to automatically display the adjusted parameter references values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2006
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Applicant: ITW GEMA AG
    Inventors: Felix Mauchle, Christian Marxer
  • Patent number: D644714
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Felix Mauchle, Marco Sanwald
  • Patent number: D670786
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Felix Mauchle, Marco Sanwald