Patents by Inventor Helmut Buss

Helmut Buss 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: 11191284
    Abstract: Controlling and/or treating heat-sensitive liquid food products ensures improved control of a filling level in an infuser container. Therefore, a constant dwell time of the product to be heated is reached in the event of product-fouling in the centrifugal pump. The pump is designed such that one part of a volume flow of the product, transported by an impeller wheel, regularly rinses the impeller wheel and the areas of a pump chamber that are directly adjacent to the impeller wheel. A reduction in the volume flow of the centrifugal pump is then counteracted by increasing the initial rotational speed if the reduction is simultaneously associated with a drop in temperature of the product. The increase of the initial rotational speed is carried according to the drop in temperature of the product and/or an increase in the temperature of the steam to constantly maintain at least the temperature of the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: GEA TDS GmbH
    Inventors: Uwe Schwenzow, Ludger Tacke, Hubert Assing, Helmut Buss, Ludger Leiwering
  • Patent number: 11191283
    Abstract: A method for treating liquid food products after direct heating comprises a first cooling of the liquid food product occurring on a floor of the infuser vessel up to an outlet opening. A second cooling of the liquid food product occurs in a tubular section connecting directly to the outlet opening. A third cooling of the liquid food product occurs in a housing cover of a pump housing of a centrifugal pump. At least one flushing operation of the pump housing and of an impeller via a rear impeller gap is performed, wherein the at least flushing operation occurs via a front impeller gap located between the housing cover and the impeller. Volume flows of the at least one flushing operation are greater than equalization flows within the pump housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: GEA TDS GmbH
    Inventors: Hubert Assing, Helmut Buss, Uwe Schwenzow, Roland Stange, Ludger Tacke, Dietrich Zimmermann
  • Publication number: 20200146305
    Abstract: Controlling and/or treating heat-sensitive liquid food products ensures improved control of a filling level in an infuser container. Therefore, a constant dwell time of the product to be heated is reached in the event of product-fouling in the centrifugal pump. The pump is designed such that one part of a volume flow of the product, transported by an impeller wheel, regularly rinses the impeller wheel and the areas of a pump chamber that are directly adjacent to the impeller wheel. A reduction in the volume flow of the centrifugal pump is then counteracted by increasing the initial rotational speed if the reduction is simultaneously associated with a drop in temperature of the product. The increase of the initial rotational speed is carried according to the drop in temperature of the product and/or an increase in the temperature of the steam to constantly maintain at least the temperature of the product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Uwe Schwenzow, Ludger Tacke, Hubert Assing, Helmut Buss, Ludger Leiwering
  • Publication number: 20190350232
    Abstract: A method for treating liquid food products after direct heating comprises a first cooling of the liquid food product occurring on a floor of the infuser vessel up to an outlet opening. A second cooling of the liquid food product occurs in a tubular section connecting directly to the outlet opening. A third cooling of the liquid food product occurs in a housing cover of a pump housing of a centrifugal pump. At least one flushing operation of the pump housing and of an impeller via a rear impeller gap is performed, wherein the at least flushing operation occurs via a front impeller gap located between the housing cover and the impeller. Volume flows of the at least one flushing operation are greater than equalization flows within the pump housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: GEA TDS GmbH
    Inventors: Hubert Assing, Helmut Buss, Uwe Schwenzow, Roland Stange, Ludger Tacke, Dietrich Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 9936725
    Abstract: A metering device with a product conduit section, through which a base product forcibly flows, with at least one storage container for an additive, which is connected with an associated metering point respectively via a removal conduit, which is arranged on or respectively in the product conduit section, with a mechanism for forcibly conveying the additive, with quantity-based capturing of the base product and of the additive, with sterile steam and with a control device assigned to the metering device. The metering point is provided within a metering valve, which forms a product chamber, into which the product conduit section opens and from which it exits, an initial chamber and a partial chamber as well as a receiver of an end section and of a terminal side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: GEA TDS GmbH
    Inventors: Hubert Assing, Andreas Schmied, Uwe Schwenzow, Helmut Buss, Franz Tasler
  • Publication number: 20170006903
    Abstract: metering device with a product conduit section, through which a base product forcibly flows, with at least one storage container for an additive, which is connected with an associated metering point respectively via a removal conduit, which is arranged on or respectively in the product conduit section, with a mechanism for forcibly conveying the additive, with quantity-based capturing of the base product and of the additive, with sterile steam and with a control device assigned to the metering device. The metering point is provided within a metering valve, which forms a product chamber, into which the product conduit section opens and from which it exits, an initial chamber and a partial chamber as well as a receiver of an end section and of a terminal side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: GEA TDS GmbH
    Inventors: Hubert ASSING, Andreas SCHMIED, Uwe SCHWENZOW, Helmut BUSS, Franz TASLER
  • Patent number: 9491964
    Abstract: A method for the aseptic measured delivery of a liquid additive (Z) into a forced flow of a base product (P), wherein the additive (Z) is removed from a storage container (18) under aseptic conditions by means of a removal conduit (18a) and is fed via an end section (E) of the removal conduit (18a) to the base product (P), which flows through a product chamber (RP) and a metering device and valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: GEA TDS GmbH
    Inventors: Hubert Assing, Andreas Schmied, Uwe Schwenzow, Helmut Buss, Franz Tasler
  • Publication number: 20150140183
    Abstract: A method for the aseptic measured delivery of a liquid additive (Z) into a forced flow of a base product (P), wherein the additive (Z) is removed from a storage container (18) under aseptic conditions by means of a removal conduit (18a) and is fed via an end section (E) of the removal conduit (18a) to the base product (P), which flows through a product chamber (RP) and a metering device and valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: GEA TDS GmBH
    Inventors: Hubert Assing, Andreas Schmied, Uwe Schwenzow, Helmut Buss, Franz Tasler
  • Patent number: 6155074
    Abstract: Special air handling system for bivalent air-conditioning of a room or building with an airstream system (Primary Air System) that exhibits an Exhaust Airstream directed towards the environment of the room and a Supply Airstream directed into the room that consists of or composes of the return air from the room and/or the outside air and with a Convective and/or Radiation System (Secondary Air-Conditioning System) with a Convective and/or Radiation Unit and a Heat Exchanger Unit located inside the room or building to be air-conditioned, through which a carrier medium flows. The Heat Exchanger Unit or an Evaporator/Condenser System that is connected with the Heat Exchanger Unit via Pipes containing refrigerant is located inside the Exhaust Airstream of the Primary Air System.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2000
    Assignee: Hansa Ventilatoren-und Maschinenbau Neumann GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Heinz-W. Jung, Helmut Buss, Manfred Stellamans