Patents by Inventor Harry Krumma

Harry Krumma 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: 11951224
    Abstract: The disclosure relates in particular to an apparatus for disinfecting at least one room, in particular for one or more persons, preferably a dwelling space or treatment room, for example a treatment room in a building, in particular a sickroom, a patient room and/or an operating theatre, by means of an atomiser. Specifically, the apparatus is characterised in that the atomiser includes a rotatable bell cup for atomising a disinfectant into the room. The disclosure relates to an associated method and furthermore to the use of a bell cup for atomising a disinfectant in a room for, in particular, one or more persons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Dürr Systems AG
    Inventors: Patrick Häussermann, Bernhard Seiz, Kevin Preuss, Harry Krumma, Michael Baumann, Mark E. Dion
  • Publication number: 20240024901
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a spray-off body, in particular a bell cup, for a rotary atomizer for applying a coating agent to a component, in particular for applying a paint to a motor vehicle body component. The spray-off body according to the disclosure is characterized by at least one balancing mass for the automatic passive balancing of the spray-off body, the balancing mass being movably arranged in the spray-off body in order to enable the automatic passive balancing of the spray-off body in a supercritical speed range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Bernhard Seiz, Michael Baumann, Harry Krumma, Frank Herre, Hans-Jürgen Nolte, Christoph Heckeler, Andreas Bushbeck
  • Publication number: 20240017281
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a coating device having a plurality of components which are susceptible to malfunctions, a vibration sensor for detecting mechanical vibrations in the coating device and for converting them into a vibration signal which can be evaluated by control technology, and having an evaluation unit for evaluating the vibration signal from the vibration sensor and for diagnosing an operating malfunction in one of the components of the coating device which are susceptible to malfunctions as a function of the vibration signal. The disclosure provides that the evaluation unit diagnoses various operational malfunctions of various malfunction-prone components of the coating device by evaluating the vibration signal of the vibration sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Bernhard Seiz, Harry Krumma, Hans-Jürgen Nolte, Christoph Heckeler
  • Patent number: 11511313
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an operating method for a coating system, in particular for a painting system, for coating components (2), in particular motor vehicle body components (2), having the following steps: conveying, by means of a conveying device (3), the components (2) to be coated in a conveying direction through a coating booth (1), coating the components (2) in the coating booth (1) with a coating product by means of an application device (17-19) which applies a spray jet of the coating product, a portion of the applied coating product being deposited on the components (2) to be coated while another portion of the applied coating product floats into the interior of the coating booth (1) as an excess coating product mist (21), and reducing the excess coating product mist (21) from the interior of the booth by means in addition to or other than the downwardly directed air flow generated by a filter ceiling. In addition, the disclosure includes a correspondingly designed coating system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: DÜRR SYSTEMS AG
    Inventors: Harry Krumma, Benjamin Wöhr, Frank Herre, Detlev Hannig, Alexander Meissner, Andreas Federmann, Pascal Spathelf, Michael Lauer, Robert Baumeister, Martin Weidle
  • Publication number: 20210260233
    Abstract: The disclosure relates in particular to an apparatus for disinfecting at least one room, in particular for one or more persons, preferably a dwelling space or treatment room, for example a treatment room in a building, in particular a sickroom, a patient room and/or an operating theatre, by means of an atomiser. Specifically, the apparatus is characterised in that the atomiser includes a rotatable bell cup for atomising a disinfectant into the room. The disclosure relates to an associated method and furthermore to the use of a bell cup for atomising a disinfectant in a room for, in particular, one or more persons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Patrick Häussermann, Bernhard Seiz, Kevin Preuss, Harry Krumma, Michael Baumann, Mark E. Dion
  • Publication number: 20200122180
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an operating method for a coating system, in particular for a painting system, for coating components (2), in particular motor vehicle body components (2), having the following steps: conveying, by means of a conveying device (3), the components (2) to be coated in a conveying direction through a coating booth (1), coating the components (2) in the coating booth (1) with a coating product by means of an application device (17-19) which applies a spray jet of the coating product, a portion of the applied coating product being deposited on the components (2) to be coated while another portion of the applied coating product floats into the interior of the coating booth (1) as an excess coating product mist (21), and reducing the excess coating product mist (21) from the interior of the booth by means in addition to or other than the downwardly directed air flow generated by a filter ceiling. In addition, the disclosure includes a correspondingly designed coating system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Harry Krumma, Benjamin Wöhr, Frank Herre, Detlev Hannig, Alexander Meissner, Andreas Federmann, Pascal Spathelf, Michael Lauer, Robert Baumeister, Martin Weidle
  • Patent number: 10493472
    Abstract: A rotary atomizer turbine is provided, the turbine including a turbine wheel with multiple turbine blades, a blade duct containing the turbine blades and being delimited radially by a duct wall, a braking air nozzle, a driving air nozzle and an outlet region at the outlet of the driving air nozzle. The outlet region is delimited at the outside by the duct wall of the blade duct and at the inside by the turbine blade respectively passing through it. The blade duct is delimited radially at the inside opposite the braking air nozzle by a stationary flow barrier. Furthermore, the outlet region of the individual driving air nozzles is a divergent cross-sectional region which widens in the flow direction and rotates with that turbine blade passing the driving air nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: DÜRR SYSTEMS AG
    Inventors: Josip Kutnjak, Harry Krumma, Timo Beyl, Bernhard Seiz
  • Patent number: 10478847
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an operating method for a coating system, in particular for a painting system, for coating components (2), in particular motor vehicle body components (2), having the following steps: conveying, by means of a conveying device (3), the components (2) to be coated in a conveying direction through a coating booth (1), coating the components (2) in the coating booth (1) with a coating product by means of an application device (17-19) which applies a spray jet of the coating product, a portion of the applied coating product being deposited on the components (2) to be coated while another portion of the applied coating product floats into the interior of the coating booth (1) as an excess coating product mist (21), and reducing the excess coating product mist (21) from the interior of the booth by means in addition to or other than the downwardly directed air flow generated by a filter ceiling. In addition, the disclosure includes a correspondingly designed coating system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: DÜRR SYSTEMS AG
    Inventors: Harry Krumma, Benjamin Wöhr, Frank Herre, Detlev Hannig, Alexander Meissner, Andreas Federmann, Pascal Spathelf, Michael Lauer, Robert Baumeister, Martin Weidle
  • Publication number: 20180147591
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an operating method for a coating system, in particular for a painting system, for coating components (2), in particular motor vehicle body components (2), having the following steps: conveying, by means of a conveying device (3), the components (2) to be coated in a conveying direction through a coating booth (1), coating the components (2) in the coating booth (1) with a coating product by means of an application device (17-19) which applies a spray jet of the coating product, a portion of the applied coating product being deposited on the components (2) to be coated while another portion of the applied coating product floats into the interior of the coating booth (1) as an excess coating product mist (21), and reducing the excess coating product mist (21) from the interior of the booth by means in addition to or other than the downwardly directed air flow generated by a filter ceiling. In addition, the disclosure includes a correspondingly designed coating system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: Harry Krumma, Benjamin Wöhr, Frank Herre, Detlev Hannig, Alexander Meissner, Andreas Federmann, Pascal Spathelf, Michael Lauer, Robert Baumeister, Martin Weidle
  • Publication number: 20170368561
    Abstract: A rotary atomizer turbine is provided, the turbine including a turbine wheel with multiple turbine blades, a blade duct containing the turbine blades and being delimited radially by a duct wall, a braking air nozzle, a driving air nozzle and an outlet region at the outlet of the driving air nozzle. The outlet region is delimited at the outside by the duct wall of the blade duct and at the inside by the turbine blade respectively passing through it. The blade duct is delimited radially at the inside opposite the braking air nozzle by a stationary flow barrier. Furthermore, the outlet region of the individual driving air nozzles is a divergent cross-sectional region which widens in the flow direction and rotates with that turbine blade passing the driving air nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Josip Kutnjak, Harry Krumma, Timo Beyl, Bernhard Seiz
  • Patent number: 9604232
    Abstract: A turbine rotor, e.g., for a drive turbine of a rotary atomizer, is disclosed having a rotatably supported turbine shaft with the potential for mounting an atomizer wheel, and having at least one drive turbine wheel having a plurality of turbine blades. The turbine blades of the drive turbine wheel may be impinged on during operation by a drive fluid in order to drive the turbine rotor. The drive turbine wheel may be designed for the drive fluid to axially impinge on the turbine blades. A complete drive turbine having such a turbine rotor is also disclosed, as well as a complete rotary atomizer and individual exemplary components of the drive turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Duerr Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Baumann, Frank Herre, Marcus Frey, Bernhard Seiz, Harry Krumma, Timo Beyl, Jürg Schiffmann, Stephan Scholl
  • Patent number: 9126211
    Abstract: A rotary atomizer is disclosed, comprising an atomizer bell and a shaft carrying the same. The rotary atomizer may further include a retainer between the atomizer bell and the shaft, said retainer preventing, e.g., by the action of a centrifugal force, the atomizer bell from detaching itself from the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Durr Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Bernhard Seiz, Frank Herre, Michael Baumann, Harry Krumma, Hans-Jurgen Nolte, Manfred Michelfelder, Rainer Melcher, Timo Beyl, Stephan Scholl
  • Patent number: 8864049
    Abstract: A rotary sprayer for a coating apparatus is disclosed. An exemplary rotary sprayer may include a spraying body configured to be mounted on a drive shaft of a drive motor for rotation with the drive shaft. The spraying body may further include a detachable mounting device for coaxial connection of the spraying body to the drive shaft. The detachable mounting device may include a spraying body thread that mates with a driveshaft thread defined by the drive shaft, and a plurality of elastic tabs configured to abut a corresponding cavity defined by the driveshaft, such that rotation of the spraying body increases an abutment force between the elastic tabs and the corresponding cavity of the driveshaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Durr Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Jurgen Nolte, Harry Krumma, Frank Herre, Michael Baumann, Marcus Frey, Rainer Melcher, Eberhard Streisel, Bernhard Seiz, Peter Marquardt
  • Patent number: 8840050
    Abstract: For grounding or electrically charging the shaft of an electrostatic rotary atomizer working with external or direct charging, there are opposing, annular or spiral-shaped sharp edges in the outer surface of a part of the shaft and in the inner surface of a stationary bearing part at the desired potential, which have different, preferably opposite, thread directions, so that the edges intersect each other at points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Durr Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Baumann, Frank Herre, Hans J. Nolte, Harry Krumma, Stefano Giuliano, Björn Lind
  • Patent number: 8794541
    Abstract: A rotary sprayer for a coating apparatus is disclosed. An exemplary rotary sprayer may include a spraying body configured to be mounted on a drive shaft of a drive motor for rotation with the drive shaft. The spraying body may further include a detachable mounting device for coaxial connection of the spraying body to the drive shaft. The detachable mounting device may include a spraying body thread that mates with a driveshaft thread defined by the drive shaft, and a plurality of elastic tabs configured to abut a corresponding cavity defined by the driveshaft, such that rotation of the spraying body increases an abutment force between the elastic tabs and the corresponding cavity of the driveshaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Durr Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Jurgen Nolte, Harry Krumma, Frank Herre, Michael Baumann, Marcus Frey, Rainer Melcher, Eberhard Streisel, Bernhard Seiz, Peter Marquardt
  • Patent number: 8642131
    Abstract: A deflecting air ring includes a plurality of deflecting air nozzles for discharging a deflecting air jet onto a spray jet of a vaporizer in order to shape the spray jet. The deflecting air nozzles are configured such that the deflecting air jet is substantially laminar within a first region, while the deflecting air nozzles also generate turbulence in a second region situated downstream of the first region of the deflecting air jet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Durr Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Jürgen Nolte, Peter Marquardt, Harald Gummlich, Andreas Fischer, Harry Krumma, Jürgen Berkowitsch
  • Publication number: 20130266734
    Abstract: A deflecting air ring includes a plurality of deflecting air nozzles for discharging a deflecting air jet onto a spray jet of a vaporizer in order to shape the spray jet. The deflecting air nozzles are configured such that the deflecting air jet is substantially laminar within a first region, while the deflecting air nozzles also generate turbulence in a second region situated downstream of the first region of the deflecting air jet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Inventors: Hans-Jürgen Nolte, Peter Marquardt, Harald Gummlich, Andreas Fischer, Harry Krumma, Jürgen Berkowitsch
  • Patent number: 8485125
    Abstract: A transformer arrangement is disclosed for an electrostatic sprayer or in an adjacent moving element of a coating machine. A transformer provides a galvanic isolation between the line arrangement provided for supplying power to the sprayer arrangement, and consumers at high voltage in the sprayer or possibly in the robot arm. This isolation may be provided with an isolating transformer which has a sufficient isolation distance or other isolation device between the primary and secondary circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Dürr Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Baumann, Frank Herre, Juergen Haas, Harry Krumma, Hans-Jurgen Nolte, Marcus Frey, Bernhard Seiz, Herbert Martin, Erwin Bieber, Torsten Block
  • Patent number: D873874
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: DÜRR SYSTEMS AG
    Inventors: Michael Baumann, Frank Herre, Marcus Frey, Bernhard Seiz, Harry Krumma, Timo Beyl, Jürg Schiffmann, Stephan Scholl
  • Patent number: D903733
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Dürr Systems AG
    Inventors: Michael Baumann, Frank Herre, Marcus Frey, Bernhard Seiz, Harry Krumma, Timo Beyl, Jürg Schiffmann, Stephan Scholl