Patents by Inventor Herbert Guenther

Herbert Guenther 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: 11027468
    Abstract: A manifold device for an injection-molding nozzle for an injection-molding tool has a main manifold channel for an injection-molding compound, which main manifold channel extends from an inlet opening into the manifold device as far as at least two transfer openings, and at least two manifold channels for the injection-molding compound, which manifold channels each extend from a transfer opening to an outlet opening and are each fluidically connected by a transfer opening to the main manifold channel. Also disclosed are an injection-molding nozzle with such a manifold device and an injection-molding tool with such an injection-molding nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Inventors: Herbert Günther, Siegrid Sommer, Torsten Schnell
  • Patent number: 10766177
    Abstract: Disclosed is a guide bushing for the guiding and sealing of a closing needle of a needle valve nozzle of an injection moulding apparatus, the guide bushing having a main part and a fastening element, wherein the main part has a through-opening for the closing needle, wherein the through-opening comprises at least one guiding portion, which encloses the closing needle with slight movement play, wherein the through-opening comprises at least two expansion portions, whose diameter in each case is larger than that of the at least one guiding portion. The guide bushing moreover comprises a fastening element, which is securable to the main part, wherein a seal element is arranged between the fastening element and the main part, bearing against the entire circumference of a closing needle inserted into the through-opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: GÜNTHER Heisskanaltechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert Günther, Siegrid Sommer, Torsten Schnell
  • Patent number: 10525624
    Abstract: A heating element for flow channel heating or for heating a mould impression and an injection-moulding nozzle incorporating the heating element are disclosed. The heating element has a carrier element which carries a heating conductor with first and second connection pins, and a connection device with an electrical connection cable with first and second conductors. The first and second connection pins end in an insulator. The insulator is arranged at least in certain portions in a receiving sleeve of the connection device, and the receiving sleeve points with a first end in the direction of the carrier element, is fixed with the first end on the carrier element and fixes the insulator in relation to the carrier element. A first crimping sleeve is fixed on the first connection pin and the first conductor, and a second crimping sleeve is fixed on the second connection pin and the second conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: GÜNTHER HEISSKANALTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Herbert Günther, Siegrid Sommer, Torsten Schnell, Ralf Drössler, Marco Kwiatkowski
  • Publication number: 20180370104
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a deflecting device, for deflecting a melt flow in a distributing plate of an injection molding machine, with a base body, wherein a deflecting channel is arranged inside the base body. In order to create an improved solution for diverting the melt flow in a hot runner manifold, the base body can have a separating surface which divides the base body into a first body half and a second body half, wherein the first body half and the second body half can be joined together firmly. The disclosure furthermore relates to a method for producing the deflecting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: Herbert GÜNTHER, Siegrid SOMMER, Torsten SCHNELL
  • Publication number: 20180370103
    Abstract: A manifold device for an injection-molding nozzle for an injection-molding tool has a main manifold channel for an injection-molding compound, which main manifold channel extends from an inlet opening into the manifold device as far as at least two transfer openings, and at least two manifold channels for the injection-molding compound, which manifold channels each extend from a transfer opening to an outlet opening and are each fluidically connected by a transfer opening to the main manifold channel. Also disclosed are an injection-molding nozzle with such a manifold device and an injection-molding tool with such an injection-molding nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: Herbert GÜNTHER, Siegrid SOMMER, Torsten SCHNELL
  • Publication number: 20180326632
    Abstract: Disclosed is an insert for an injection molding nozzle, with an insert body, in which at least one flow channel is formed with an inlet opening and an outlet opening, wherein the insert body comprises a neck section, for joining to the injection molding nozzle, an end section, for inserting into a mold cavity of a mold insert. Furthermore, the insert body has a flange projecting radially with respect to the end section, having a stopping surface facing the outlet opening and a surface facing the inlet opening. It is proposed that the neck section has at least one seal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: Herbert GÜNTHER, Siegrid SOMMER, Torsten SCHNELL
  • Publication number: 20180290361
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an insert for use in an injection molding nozzle, with an insert body at least made from a high thermal conductivity material, in which at least one flow channel is formed with an inlet opening and an outlet opening, wherein the insert body comprises a neck section, for joining to the injection molding nozzle, an end section, for inserting into a mold cavity of a mold insert, and a flange with a stopping surface projecting radially with respect to the end section, wherein the stopping surface is formed on a surface of the radially projecting flange facing the outlet opening. According to the disclosure, the stopping surface and the end section have at least partly an outer coating made of a second material with a low thermal conductivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2018
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Inventors: Herbert GÜNTHER, Siegrid SOMMER, Torsten SCHNELL
  • Patent number: 9958338
    Abstract: The invention relates to a thermocouple for sensing the temperature at a measurement point, comprising a first conductor that has a first end and a first terminal, and a second conductor that has a second end and a second terminal. The first end of the first conductor and the second end of the second conductor are in electric contact with one another at the measurement point, while the first terminal of the first conductor and the second terminal of the second conductor can each be connected to a terminal line. The first conductor and the second conductor are applied to a substrate using thick-film technology, the first end of the first conductor and the second end of the second conductor overlapping in at least some sections at the measurement point. A hot runner nozzle has a heater and a thermocouple according to the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: GUENTHER Heisskanaltechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert Guenther, Siegrid Sommer, Stefan Sommer, Frédéric Zimmermann
  • Publication number: 20170291337
    Abstract: Disclosed is a guide bushing for the guiding and sealing of a closing needle of a needle valve nozzle of an injection moulding apparatus, the guide bushing having a main part and a fastening element, wherein the main part has a through-opening for the closing needle, wherein the through-opening comprises at least one guiding portion, which encloses the closing needle with slight movement play, wherein the through-opening comprises at least two expansion portions, whose diameter in each case is larger than that of the at least one guiding portion. The guide bushing moreover comprises a fastening element, which is securable to the main part, wherein a seal element is arranged between the fastening element and the main part, bearing against the entire circumference of a closing needle inserted into the through-opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Herbert GÜNTHER, Siegrid SOMMER, Torsten SCHNELL
  • Publication number: 20170173831
    Abstract: An insert for an injection-moulding nozzle, having an insert body which has a rear end and a front end and in which at least one flow duct is formed between the rear end and the front end. In this case, the insert body has a first part for arranging the insert on or in the injection-moulding nozzle and a second part for arranging on or in a mould insert. The first part is manufactured from a first material and extends from the rear end of the insert body to a contact surface. The second part is manufactured from a material different from the first material and extends from the contact surface to the front end of the insert body. Furthermore, the first part and the second part are connected firmly together at and/or along the contact surface. Also disclosed, an injection-moulding nozzle can include the insert.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Herbert GÜNTHER, Siegrid SOMMER, Torsten SCHNELL
  • Publication number: 20170036383
    Abstract: A heating element for flow channel heating or for heating a mould impression and an injection-moulding nozzle incorporating the heating element are disclosed. The heating element has a carrier element which carries a heating conductor with first and second connection pins, and a connection device with an electrical connection cable with first and second conductors. The first and second connection pins end in an insulator. The insulator is arranged at least in certain portions in a receiving sleeve of the connection device, and the receiving sleeve points with a first end in the direction of the carrier element, is fixed with the first end on the carrier element and fixes the insulator in relation to the carrier element. A first crimping sleeve is fixed on the first connection pin and the first conductor, and a second crimping sleeve is fixed on the second connection pin and the second conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventors: Herbert GÜNTHER, Siegrid SOMMER, Torsten SCHNELL, Ralf DRÖSSLER, Marco KWIATKOWSKI
  • Patent number: 9180616
    Abstract: A component part for an injection molding tool comprises a distributor that includes the first distributor plate, with a top side and underside. The component part has at least two material pipes that are aligned crosswise in relation to the underside of the first distributor plate and connected on the underside to the first distributor plate. Each material pipe has a flow channel configured therein, with feed channels configured in the first distributor plate being open on the underside into the flow channels of the material pipes. The feed channels on the top side of the first distributor plate are configured as open and the first distributor plate is monolithically formed together with the material pipes. An injection molding tool can be used with the component part and a method of making the component part is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: GÜNTHER Heisskanaltechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert Guenther, Siegrid Sommer, Torsten Schnell
  • Publication number: 20150054199
    Abstract: Heated mould cavities of injection-moulding dies require long heating and cooling phases, with the result that the production unit numbers are low, the unit costs are high and the degree of efficiency is low as a result of the energy for temperature control. It is therefore a problem of the invention to eliminate or to reduce these disadvantages. According to the invention, this is solved by virtue of the fact that a die insert for delimiting, at least in sections, a mould cavity which is configured in a moulding plate of an injection-moulding die for producing components from a flowable material is provided with a main body which has a shaping front side for the mould cavity and a rear side which lies opposite the shaping front side, wherein the main body carries a layer heating means on the shaping front side thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2013
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Herbert Guenther, Torsten Schnell, Siegrid Sommer, Frederic Zimmermann
  • Publication number: 20140334524
    Abstract: The invention relates to a thermocouple for sensing the temperature at a measurement point, comprising a first conductor that has a first end and a first terminal, and a second conductor that has a second end and a second terminal. The first end of the first conductor and the second end of the second conductor are in electric contact with one another at the measurement point, while the first terminal of the first conductor and the second terminal of the second conductor can each be connected to a terminal line. The first conductor and the second conductor are applied to a substrate using thick-film technology, the first end of the first conductor and the second end of the second conductor overlapping in at least some sections at the measurement point. A hot runner nozzle has a heater and a thermocouple according to the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: GUENTHER Heisskanaltechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert Guenther, Siegrid Sommer, Stefan Sommer, Frédéric Zimmermann
  • Publication number: 20140284399
    Abstract: It is the object of the present invention to improve as to how heat is introduced into the tip of an injection molding nozzle. To this end, the invention provides an injection molding nozzle comprising a material pipe that forms a flow channel with an inlet opening and an outlet opening, as well as a heating device that is thermally coupled to the material pipe, and the material pipe includes two pipe sections that are connected to each other at a coupling location, and wherein the inlet opening is disposed on the first pipe section and the outlet opening is disposed on the second pipe section, and wherein the second pipe section is made of a material of higher thermal conductivity than the first pipe section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: GUENTHER HEISSKANALTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Herbert GÜNTHER, Siegrid SOMMER, Torsten SCHNELL
  • Publication number: 20140287087
    Abstract: A component part for an injection molding tool comprises a distributor that includes the first distributor plate, with a top side and underside. The component part has at least two material pipes that are aligned crosswise in relation to the underside of the first distributor plate and connected on the underside to the first distributor plate. Each material pipe has a flow channel configured therein, with feed channels configured in the first distributor plate being open on the underside into the flow channels of the material pipes. The feed channels on the top side of the first distributor plate are configured as open and the first distributor plate is monolithically formed together with the material pipes. An injection molding tool can be used with the component part and a method of making the component part is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: GUENTHER Heisskanaltechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert GUENTHER, Siegrid Sommer, Torsten Schnell
  • Publication number: 20130087950
    Abstract: An injection-molding equipment includes at least two cavities and at least one needle valve nozzle, each fitted with one needle, per cavity. The needles are displaceable by an electromagnetic drive into an open and a closed position to respectively release and close a gate aperture subtended in the particular related cavity. Each electromagnetic drive has at least one electromagnet with each sealing needle axially held in place in the open and in the closed position by at least one permanent magnet. A control unit generates individual power pulses of which the duration is defined and saved in said control unit. An electromagnet of an electromagnetic drive is fed a power pulse and generates an electromagnetic field to displace the sealing needle from its closed into its open position and vice-versa, with the power pulses for at least two electromagnetic drives being transmitted in time-staggered manner to the drives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: GUNTHER Heisskanaltechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert GÜNTHER, Siegrid SOMMER, Torsten SCHNELL
  • Patent number: 8246342
    Abstract: An injection molding nozzle (10) for injection molding equipment and comprising a nozzle casing (14) subtending a longitudinal axis (L) fitted with at least one flow duct (18) for a fluid processing material, further comprising at least one nozzle tip (24) discharging the fluid processing material out of the nozzle casing (14), the minimum of one nozzle tip (24) running transversely to the longitudinal axis (L) of the nozzle casing (14), the minimum of one nozzle tip (24) being integral with the nozzle casing (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: GUNTHER Heisskanaltechnik
    Inventors: Herbert Günther, Siegrid Sommer, Torsten Schnell
  • Patent number: 8137097
    Abstract: A connection system (36) implementing an electric junction between a heater (22), in particular a heater (22) for a hot runner nozzle (10) and at least one hookup conductor (32) linked to a power source, comprises a hookup body (38, 60, 70) which is made of an electrically non-conducting material and which is fitted with at least one passage (46) to receive at least one hookup conductor (32). Said passage (46) is specified to end in a side face (40) of the hookup body (38, 609, 70). Also the hookup conductor (38, 60, 70) is affixable to and/or on the substrate in a manner that in the specified state, the hookup conductors (32) passing through the minimum of one passage (46) shall make contact by their free ends with the heater (22).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: GÜNTHER Heisskanaltechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert Günther, Siegrid Sommer, Frédéric Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 8066505
    Abstract: An injection molding nozzle comprises a material feed pipe subtending a flow duct communicating flow-wise with at least one nozzle tip. Each tip points transversely to axial direction A of the nozzle and is held by a manifold. The manifold is pluggable/insertable into the material feed pipe and includes a neck and a base. A manifold duct system is subtended in the manifold. A main duct extending the flow duct is in the neck and the base comprises a deflection site and at least one manifold duct. The manifold duct runs radially to axial direction A. The nozzle tip is affixed in a seating unit fitted with a central recess. Radial boreholes running transversely to axial direction A fit into the seating unit and receive plugged-in nozzle tips. The central recess receives the base, the nozzle tip being secured by the base to and in the seating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Günther Heisskanaltechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert Günther, Siegrid Sommer, Torsten Schnell