Patents by Inventor Franz Graf

Franz Graf 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: 7346448
    Abstract: A measuring and testing system for a test piece (1) with at least one operational fluid, particularly to test an internal combustion engine, is provided with at least one measuring arrangement connected to a space (2) of the test piece (1) containing operational fluid, and comprising a partial measuring arrangement (4, 5, 6) for the quantity parameter of the operational fluid and at least one additional partial measuring arrangement (6, 7) for at least one quality parameter for the characterization of the physical and/or chemical condition of the operational fluid, as well as a control and evaluation unit (6) connected to the measuring arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignee: AVL List GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Graf, Karol Schleifer, Klaus-Christoph Harms
  • Publication number: 20050216178
    Abstract: A measuring and testing system for a test piece (1) with at least one operational fluid, particularly to test an internal combustion engine, is provided with at least one measuring arrangement connected to a space (2) of the test piece (1) containing operational fluid, and comprising a partial measuring arrangement (4, 5, 6) for the quantity parameter of the operational fluid and at least one additional partial measuring arrangement (6, 7) for at least one quality parameter for the characterization of the physical and/or chemical condition of the operational fluid, as well as a control and evaluation unit (6) connected to the measuring arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2005
    Publication date: September 29, 2005
    Inventors: Franz Graf, Karol Schleifer, Klaus-Christoph Harms
  • Patent number: 6672343
    Abstract: An apparatus for delivering powder onto a plane surface (1) of a device for creating a three-dimensional part in a layer-by-layer fashion, in particular of a laser sintering machine, is provided. It comprises a covering means (3) which can be moved back and forth in a second direction perpendicular to said first direction by means of a drive between a lateral first position and a second position located on the opposite side. In at least one of the positions it can be filled with powder. In order to simplify the apparatus and improve its operation, the covering means (3) comprises a slit (6) extending across the entire width and open at its top and its bottom as well as smoothening elements (7, 8) at the ends opposite of the surface. A store container (9) is provided above the covering means (3), the volume of said store container at each location across the entire width being at least equal to the volume of the slit cavity located underneath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: EOS GmbH Optical Systems
    Inventors: Hans Perret, Berhard-Franz Graf, Ulli Christian Sagmeister
  • Patent number: 6463158
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for picking up sound waves with a separating body and at least two microphones arranged on the separating body. A pick-up which is particularly true to nature is achieved in such a way that the separating body consists of a reverberant material and is provided with a substantially wedge-shaped arrangement, with two separating surfaces which are inclined towards one another at an acute angle, and that the microphones are arranged at a low distance from the separating surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Assignees: Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, AVL List GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Graf, Martin Pflüger
  • Publication number: 20010043710
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for picking up sound waves with a separating body and at least two microphones arranged on the separating body. A pick-up which is particularly true to nature is achieved in such a way that the separating body consists of a reverberant material and is provided with a substantially wedge-shaped arrangement, with two separating surfaces which are inclined towards one another at an acute angle, and that the microphones are arranged at a low distance from the separating surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2001
    Publication date: November 22, 2001
    Inventors: Franz Graf, Martin Pfluger
  • Patent number: 5695646
    Abstract: In connection with processes for conditioning soft water (pH less than/equal to 6) to become drinking water, it is necessary to supply hardening agents in order to raise the carbonate-dissolving pH value into the neutral range. Subsequently the turbid materials are flocculated out and the flocculation products are filtered off. Finally, the calcite equilibrium must be set by means of a renewed addition of a hardening agent. This process is simplified by means of the invention in that the calcite equilibrium by means of the supply of highly pure lime water is only set after filtering off the flocculation products. In the flocculation stage, highly pure lime water is also preferably employed for setting the flocculation pH value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 9, 1997
    Assignee: Passavant-Werke AG
    Inventor: Franz Graf
  • Patent number: 5220800
    Abstract: In an NMR magnet system for generating a highly homogeneous magnetic field of high field strength, with at least one superconducting magnet coil which is arranged in a first chamber of a cryostat in supercooled liquid helium at a temperature of less than 4.2K, with the cryostat having at least one further chamber containing liquid helium that is essentially at atmospheric pressure with a temperature of approximately 4.2K, the first chamber is connected to the further chamber in such a way that the supercooled liquid helium located in the first chamber is also essentially at atmospheric pressure. A refrigerator with which the liquid helium can be cooled to a temperature T<<4.2K, especially to T.apprxeq.1.8-2.3K, is provided in the first chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1993
    Assignees: Bruker Analytische Messtechnik GmbH, Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang H. Muller, Gerhard Roth, Wolfgang Stautner, Peter Turowski, Wolfgang Lehmann, Franz Graf
  • Patent number: 5075520
    Abstract: A contact member for electrical switching devices, in particular contactors, having a linear power supply conductor and an arc runner disposed at a distance from the contact face of the linear power supply conductor. The arc runner has a U-shaped design having an unattached end which receives the electric arc. The unattached end is in the same plane as the contact face of the power supply conductor. The U-shaped portions of the arc runner are displaced in parallel and laterally away from the contact face of the linear power supply conductor. The attached end of the U-shaped arc runner is sued to secure the arc runner. For this purpose, a groove is introduced into a block-shaped power supply conductor. A segment, joined to the attached end of the arc runner, is inserted into this groove for securing purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 24, 1991
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Manfred Mueller, Franz Graf
  • Patent number: 5033275
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of pile ware on a warp knitting machine wherein, the formation of pile on the front and rear of the goods is respectively achieved by a pile thread system. For the formation of a pile free allocation the threads of at least one pile thread system can in accordance with the pattern, be so individually controlled that upon a signal they can be laid about a first or a second needle. This may be achieved by means of a jacquard bar whose needles are individually steerable in accordance with the demands of the pattern by a jacquard arrangement. In this manner it is possible to obtain a desired patterning using a pile thread system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1991
    Assignee: Karl Mayer Textilmaschinenfabrik GmbH
    Inventors: Joachem Fischer, Gerhard Bergmann, Franz Graf
  • Patent number: 4315816
    Abstract: An arcuate shaped magnetic system is housed in a fixed cryostat within a rotating drum. A slurry containing magnetizable particles is charged into an operating area defined by the magnetic system at the lower part of the drum and magnetic particles adhering to the drum are removed as the drum rotates the same to a discharge location. The cryostat has an outer wall which conforms to the shape of the drum and houses a sector-shaped refrigeration tank. The refrigeration tank has an arcuate wall section conforming to the shapes of the cryostat wall and the drum and is positioned in close proximity to the outer cryostat wall only in the operating area in order to minimize inward heat transfer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1982
    Assignee: Klockner-Humboldt-Deutz AG
    Inventors: Guenter Ries, Klaus-Peter Juengst, Siegfried Foerster, Franz Graf, Wolfgang Lehmann, Karl-Heinz Unkelbach, Gottfried Dueren
  • Patent number: 4272365
    Abstract: A magnetic separator, in particular a drum separator, includes a magnetic system having a plurality of magnets. Each of the magnets produces an open field directed toward a separation zone which, in a drum separator, extends axially of the drum outside of the surface of the drum. The magnets may include conductive coils, preferably superconducting coils, which are traversed in the same direction by current and which include an iron-free core. The average center-to-center spacing of the coils is a maximum of 25 times the spacing between the coils and the separating zone and is preferably in the range of 15:1 to 10:1. The coils are elliptical and have major and minor axes which decrease from the outermost coil winding to the innermost coil winding, with the distances between the windings being greater along the major axes than along the minor axes.This is a continuation of application Ser. No. 843,737, filed Oct. 19, 1977, now abandoned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1981
    Assignee: Klockner-Humboldt-Deutz AG
    Inventors: Guenter Ries, Klaus-Peter Juengst, Siegfried Foerster, Franz Graf, Wolfgang Lehmann, Karl-Heinz Unkelbach, Gottfried Duren