Patents by Inventor Hans KROES
Hans KROES 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).
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Patent number: 11590690Abstract: A printer unit (100) for a 3D-printing apparatus. The printer unit comprises a printer head (105) comprising a nozzle (110) arranged to deposit printing material from the printer unit, a pressure sensor (120) configured to sense a pressure exerted on the printer head from the printing material, and a control unit (130) coupled to the pressure sensor. The control unit is configured to control the speed of the printer head based on a transfer function from the pressure sensed by the pressure sensor to a desired speed of the printer head, in order to maintain a constant deposition of the amount of printing material per length unit of deposited printing material.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2018Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.Inventors: Hans Kroes, Hendrik Jan Kettelarij, Peter Tjin Sjoe Kong Tsang
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Patent number: 11569760Abstract: A triboelectric energy generator (1) comprises a first generating element (8) and a second generating element (10). The first generating element comprises a first triboelectric material (9) and the second generating element comprises a second triboelectric material (13). Movement of the second generation element relative to the first generation element results in an output voltage, as a consequence of the triboelectric effect. A stopper (7) is configured to restrict rotation of the second generating element, so that the second generating element may only rotate through a desired angle.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2016Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: Hans Kroes, Lutz Christian Gerhardt, Mark Thomas Johnson
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Publication number: 20220274321Abstract: A printer head (200, 300, 400) for a 3D-printing apparatus, comprising a nozzle (210, 310, 450) arranged to deposit one or more adjacently arranged filaments of printing material to form at least one layer of an object to be produced. The nozzle comprises at least one exterior surface (220) configured to be brought into abutting contact with a peripheral edge (280) of the at least one layer, and configured to be guided along the peripheral edge of the at least one layer and on a predetermined distance into the at least one layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2022Publication date: September 1, 2022Inventors: PETER TJIN SJOE KONG TSANG, COEN THEODORUS HUBERTUS FRANSISCUS LIEDENBAUM, HENDRIK JAN KETTELARIJ, HANS KROES
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Patent number: 11370163Abstract: A printer head (200, 300, 400) for a 3D-printing apparatus, comprising a nozzle (210, 310, 450) arranged to deposit one or more adjacently arranged filaments of printing material to form at least one layer of an object to be produced. The nozzle comprises at least one exterior surface (220) configured to be brought into abutting contact with a peripheral edge (280) of the at least one layer, and configured to be guided along the peripheral edge of the at least one layer and on a predetermined distance into the at least one layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2017Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.Inventors: Peter Tjin Sjoe Kong Tsang, Coen Theodorus Hubertus Fransiscus Liedenbaum, Hendrik Jan Kettelarij, Hans Kroes
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Patent number: 11273597Abstract: A printer unit (100) for a 3D-printing apparatus for deposition of a printing material, as well as a method of 3D printing, is provided. The printer unit comprises a printer head (105) comprising a nozzle (110). The printer head is resiliently suspended in the printer unit in a vertical direction by at least one resilient means (120), allowing a vertical movement of the printer head during deposition of the printing material. The suspended printer head in its equilibrium is positionable above the underlying material at a vertical distance (?z1) before deposition. During deposition of printing material, the at least one resilient means is configured to become biased by a vertical force (F3) on the nozzle from the printing material on the underlying material, such that the printer head moves from its equilibrium into a position at a desired vertical distance (?z1) from the underlying material.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2018Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.Inventors: Hendrik Jan Kettelarij, Peter Tjin Sjoe Kong Tsang, Hans Kroes
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Patent number: 11264920Abstract: The invention provides an energy generation system comprising a generator having charged mutually rotating plate elements, and comprising an integrated drive mechanism for precisely controlling a separation distance between the plates. The drive mechanism provides a separation which varies as a function of the speed of rotation, hence assimilating separation control within the natural operation of the device. Embodiments provide plates comprising self-generating bearings, both hydrodynamic gas and fluid bearings and centrifugal regulator solid bearings, the bearings providing a supporting force between the plates of a magnitude which increases as the rotational speed of the plates increases. Methods of energy generation are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2020Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: Steven Ernest Franklin, Lutz Christian Gerhardt, Willem Potze, Hans Kroes, Mark Thomas Johnson
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Publication number: 20210211070Abstract: A triboelectric energy generator (1) comprises a first generating element (8) and a second generating element (10). The first generating element comprises a first triboelectric material (9) and the second generating element comprises a second triboelectric material (13). Movement of the second generation element relative to the first generation element results in an output voltage, as a consequence of the triboelectric effect. A stopper (7) is configured to restrict rotation of the second generating element, so that the second generating element may only rotate through a desired angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2016Publication date: July 8, 2021Inventors: Hans KROES, Lutz Christian GERHARDT, Mark Thomas JOHNSON
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Patent number: 10958192Abstract: An energy conversion system comprises a generator which generates electrical power in response to movement, wherein the generator comprises first and second elements which generate energy in an energy generation mode. In some examples, these can be brought into and out of contact with each other by a drive mechanism so that the energy conversion system has an (e.g.) intermittent charging mode in which the first and second 5 elements are brought into contact by the drive mechanism and an energy generation mode in which the first and second elements are out of contact. The relative speed, the spacing between, or the relative orientations or positions of the first and second elements are controlled during the energy generation mode to decrease the variation in output power or voltage of the generator. This system controls the physical positions or the motion of the 10 elements of the generator during the energy generation mode in order to implement a more constant power or voltage generation.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2016Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: Neil Francis Joye, Mark Thomas Johnson, Hans Kroes, Lutz Christian Gerhardt, Michiel van Lierop
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Patent number: 10932541Abstract: A device for treating skin includes a skin treatment member, a skin contacting surface, a mounting member for mounting the skin treatment member and the skin contacting surface, and a friction controlling device to control friction between the skin contacting surface and skin to be treated, in at least one controlled friction area of the skin contacting surface when the skin contacting surface is moved over the skin. The friction controlling device introduces a slip motion of the controlled friction area relative to the mounting member in a direction corresponding to a local direction of extension of the skin contacting surface. The device also includes a sensor for detecting a first parameter related to an amount of friction between the skin contacting surface and the skin during use, and the friction controlling device controls a second parameter of the slip motion in dependence on a value of the first parameter.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2015Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Steven Ernest Franklin, Cornelis Petrus Hendriks, Lutz Christian Gerhardt, Hans Kroes, Daan Anton Van Den Ende
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Patent number: 10924036Abstract: The invention provides a power generation device comprising at least two generating arrangements, each adapted to generate a voltage output through the relative motion of two differently charged generating elements, the generating elements having some separation distance (which may be zero or non-zero). The arrangements are co-operatively configured in such a way that the separation distances between their respective elements are reciprocally related: an increase in one leads to a related decrease in the other. By combining these two signal outputs, a single voltage, current or power output may be provided in a self-regulating manner by the device whose amplitude is substantially independent of any changes or variations in the separation distance between elements of either of the two arrangements.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2016Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: Lutz Christian Gerhardt, Alan James Davie, Mark Thomas Johnson, Hans Kroes, Neil Francis Joye
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Patent number: 10873274Abstract: The invention provides an energy generation system comprising a generator having charged mutually rotating plate elements, and comprising an integrated drive mechanism for precisely controlling a separation distance between the plates. The drive mechanism provides a separation which varies as a function of the speed of rotation, hence assimilating separation control within the natural operation of the device. Embodiments provide plates comprising self-generating bearings, both hydrodynamic gas and fluid bearings and centrifugal regulator solid bearings, the bearings providing a supporting force between the plates of a magnitude which increases as the rotational speed of the plates increases. Methods of energy generation are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2016Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: Steven Ernest Franklin, Lutz Christian Gerhardt, Willem Potze, Hans Kroes, Mark Thomas Johnson
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Publication number: 20200358372Abstract: The invention provides an energy generation system comprising a generator having charged mutually rotating plate elements, and comprising an integrated drive mechanism for precisely controlling a separation distance between the plates. The drive mechanism provides a separation which varies as a function of the speed of rotation, hence assimilating separation control within the natural operation of the device. Embodiments provide plates comprising self-generating bearings, both hydrodynamic gas and fluid bearings and centrifugal regulator solid bearings, the bearings providing a supporting force between the plates of a magnitude which increases as the rotational speed of the plates increases. Methods of energy generation are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2020Publication date: November 12, 2020Inventors: STEVEN ERNEST FRANKLIN, LUTZ CHRISTIAN GERHARDT, WILLEM POTZE, HANS KROES, MARK THOMAS JOHNSON
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Patent number: 10734920Abstract: The invention provides a device for generating electrical currents of a particular desired waveform through the combining of a plurality of different frequency output currents generated by plurality of power generating arrangements. The power generating arrangements each comprise at least first and second sets of generating elements, configured to hold a relative charge and to be moveable with respect to one another in order to generate an electrical output current of a particular frequency.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2016Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: Kumar Arulandu, Michiel Van Lierop, Lutz Christian Gerhardt, Mark Thomas Johnson, Hans Kroes, Neil Francis Joye
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Publication number: 20200238680Abstract: A printer unit (100) for a 3D-printing apparatus. The printer unit comprises a printer head (105) comprising a nozzle (110) arranged to deposit printing material from the printer unit, a pressure sensor (120) configured to sense a pressure exerted on the printer head from the printing material, and a control unit (130) coupled to the pressure sensor. The control unit is configured to control the speed of the printer head based on a transfer function from the pressure sensed by the pressure sensor to a desired speed of the printer head, in order to maintain a constant deposition of the amount of printing material per length unit of deposited printing material.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2018Publication date: July 30, 2020Inventors: HANS KROES, HENDRIK JAN KETTELARIJ, PETER TJIN SJOE KONG TSANG
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Publication number: 20200061911Abstract: A printer unit (100) for a 3D-printing apparatus for deposition of a printing material, as well as a method of 3D printing, is provided. The printer unit comprises a printer head (105) comprising a nozzle (110). The printer head is resiliently suspended in the printer unit in a vertical direction by at least one resilient means (120), allowing a vertical movement of the printer head during deposition of the printing material. The suspended printer head in its equilibrium is positionable above the underlying material at a vertical distance (?z1) before deposition. During deposition of printing material, the at least one resilient means is configured to become biased by a vertical force (F3) on the nozzle from the printing material on the underlying material, such that the printer head moves from its equilibrium into a position at a desired vertical distance (?z1) from the underlying material.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2018Publication date: February 27, 2020Inventors: HENDRIK JAN KETTELARIJ, PETER TJIN SJOE KONG TSANG, HANS KROES
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Publication number: 20190263053Abstract: A printer head (200, 300, 400) for a 3D-printing apparatus, comprising a nozzle (210, 310, 450) arranged to deposit one or more adjacently arranged filaments of printing material to form at least one layer of an object to be produced. The nozzle comprises at least one exterior surface (220) configured to be brought into abutting contact with a peripheral edge (280) of the at least one layer, and configured to be guided along the peripheral edge of the at least one layer and on a predetermined distance into the at least one layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2017Publication date: August 29, 2019Inventors: Peter Tjin Sjoe Kong TSANG, Coen Theodorus Hubertus Fransiscus LIEDENBAUM, Hendrik Jan KETTELARIJ, Hans KROES
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Publication number: 20190058419Abstract: The invention provides a power generation device comprising at least two generating arrangements, each adapted to generate a voltage output through the relative motion of two differently charged generating elements, the generating elements having some separation distance (which may be zero or non-zero). The arrangements are co-operatively configured in such a way that the separation distances between their respective elements are reciprocally related: an increase in one leads to a related decrease in the other. By combining these two signal outputs, a single voltage, current or power output may be provided in a self-regulating manner by the device whose amplitude is substantially independent of any changes or variations in the separation distance between elements of either of the two arrangements.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2016Publication date: February 21, 2019Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: LUTZ CHRISTIAN GERHARDT, ALAN JAMES DAVIE, MARK THOMAS JOHNSON, HANS KROES, NEIL FRANCIS JOYE
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Publication number: 20180287512Abstract: An energy conversion system comprises a generator which generates electrical power in response to movement, wherein the generator comprises first and second elements which generate energy in an energy generation mode. In some examples, these can be brought into and out of contact with each other by a drive mechanism so that the energy conversion system has an (e.g.) intermittent charging mode in which the first and second 5 elements are brought into contact by the drive mechanism and an energy generation mode in which the first and second elements are out of contact. The relative speed, the spacing between, or the relative orientations or positions of the first and second elements are controlled during the energy generation mode to decrease the variation in output power or voltage of the generator. This system controls the physical positions or the motion of the 10 elements of the generator during the energy generation mode in order to implement a more constant power or voltage generation.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2016Publication date: October 4, 2018Inventors: Neil Francis Joye, Mark Thomas Johnson, Hans Kroes, Lutz Christian Gerhardt, Michiel van Lierop
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Publication number: 20180191274Abstract: The invention provides a device for generating electrical currents of a particular desired waveform through the combining of a plurality of different frequency output currents generated by plurality of power generating arrangements. The power generating arrangements each comprise at least first and second sets of generating elements, configured to hold a relative charge and to be moveable with respect to one another in order to generate an electrical output current of a particular frequency.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2016Publication date: July 5, 2018Inventors: KUMAR ARULANDU, MICHIEL VAN LIEROP, LUTZ CHRISTIAN GERHARDT, MARK THOMAS JOHNSON, HANS KROES, NEIL FRANCIS JOYE
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Publication number: 20180115258Abstract: The invention provides an energy generation system comprising a generator having charged mutually rotating plate elements, and comprising an integrated drive mechanism for precisely controlling a separation distance between the plates. The drive mechanism provides a separation which varies as a function of the speed of rotation, hence assimilating separation control within the natural operation of the device. Embodiments provide plates comprising self-generating bearings, both hydrodynamic gas and fluid bearings and centrifugal regulator solid bearings, the bearings providing a supporting force between the plates of a magnitude which increases as the rotational speed of the plates increases. Methods of energy generation are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2016Publication date: April 26, 2018Inventors: Steven Ernest Franklin, Lutz Christian Gerhardt, Willem Potze, Hans Kroes, Mark Thomas Johnson