Patents by Inventor Holger Köbrich

Holger Köbrich 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).

  • Publication number: 20230107249
    Abstract: A heating device comprises a tubular carrier with an outside and an inside, an insulating layer on the outside of the carrier, heating conductors, conductor tracks, and contact fields on the insulating layer, and a connection device for an electrical connection of the heating device, wherein the connection device has a plurality of metallic contact feet. The connection device is attached at the contact fields with the contact feet and is electrically connected thereto. Additional electrical insulation is arranged between the connection device and the outside of the carrier. This can be, for example, one of several individual insulating layers that together form the entire insulating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Matthias Mandl, Michael Tafferner, Volker Block, Manuel Schmieder, Holger Koebrich, Roland Muehlnikel, Alfred Suss, Sebastian Eigl
  • Publication number: 20220386420
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heating device having a flat expanded support and at least one heating conductor assembly thereon which is electrically connected by means of two connection contacts. The heating conductor assembly has a plurality of heating conductors which are connected together at connection points and are wired as a whole so as to form parallel and series circuits between the connection contacts. The plurality of heating conductors are advantageously designed as a lattice, wherein every set of four heating conductors forms a closed mesh, and four heating conductors are connected together at the connection points. The heating conductor assembly is applied onto the support with a film construction in a film method, advantageously a thick-film method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Matthias Mandl, Michael Tafferner, Thomas Hauk, Manuel Schmieder, Holger Koebrich, Roland Muehlnikel, Alfred Suss, Sebastian Eigl, Henry Zipplies, Volker Block
  • Publication number: 20170347399
    Abstract: A heating device including a support and at least one heating element group on the support has at least one heating element on the support and two connection contacts for the heating element group. The two connection contacts are electrically disconnected from one another and make electrical contact with the single heating element or all of the heating elements of the heating element group for connection to a current supply or as a power connection. An effective width of all of the heating elements within a common heating element group is greater than an effective length of the single heating element or all of the heating elements of this common heating element group between the two connection contacts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Roland Muehlnikel, Wolfgang Thimm, Volker Block, Holger Koebrich, Manuel Schmieder, Matthias Mandl, Michael Tafferner
  • Patent number: 9816527
    Abstract: A pump for a dishwasher is configured as an impeller pump having a central water inflow to a rotating impeller for conveying the water in the radial direction out of the impeller into a pump chamber which surrounds the impeller in a ring-like manner and has a heated pump chamber wall on its outer side. Here, the pump has an outlet in the end region of the pump chamber at an axial spacing from the impeller. Heating elements which have a decreasing power output with regard to the area power output in the axial direction of the pump toward the outlet are arranged on the pump chamber wall. An input of energy into the pump chamber can thus be varied and in the process adapted depending on a turbulent or laminar flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: E.G.O. Elektro-Geraetebau GmbH
    Inventors: Holger Koebrich, Tobias Albert, Volker Block
  • Publication number: 20170181226
    Abstract: A heating device has a support and a sheet-like electrical conductor, which is arranged on the support and runs between a first terminal and a second terminal, the at least one heating conductor including carbon-based material as heating conductor material. A heating conductor thickness between the electrical terminals may at least partially vary and not be constant for the adaptation of a local heating output. In addition, the heating conductor may be either rectangular and short or in the form of a circular ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Roland Muehlnikel, Volker Block, Holger Koebrich, Manuel Schmieder, Bernd Robin, Matthias Mandl, Alfred Suss, Michael Tafferner, Sebastian Eigl
  • Publication number: 20170086257
    Abstract: A heating device for heating water has a carrier to which at least one heating element is applied, the heating element having one or more heating conductors which are connected one behind the other. The heating device has a flat dielectric layer which substantially covers the heating conductors or the heating element. An electrically conductive connection area is in each case provided on both sides of the dielectric layer with the same coverage. At least one of the connection areas is connected to a controller for evaluating a leakage current as current flows through the dielectric layer, and the heating element is connected to measuring means for monitoring a heating conductor current through the heating element. Both the leakage current and the heating conductor current are monitored over time and faults can be identified if there are conspicuous changes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: Roland Muehlnikel, Volker Block, Holger Koebrich, Manuel Schmieder, Bernd Robin, Matthias Mandl, Alfred Suss, Michael Tafferner, Sebastian Eigl
  • Publication number: 20160316516
    Abstract: A heating device for evaporating liquids for an electric cooking appliance, having a container for the liquid, which container is higher than it is wide, wherein heating elements are distributed over the surface area of the outside of a lateral container wall and a plurality of temperature sensors are provided. There are at least three separate and separately operable heating circuits, wherein each heating circuit has at least one heating element. The plurality of temperature sensors are provided in the form of two types, wherein a first type are discrete components which are mounted on the outside of the container wall, and wherein a second type is fitted in the form of a surface-area coating to the outer face of the container wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: Holger Koebrich, Roland Muehlnikel, Michael Tafferner, Manuel Schmieder, Bernd Robin, Matthias Mandl, Alfred Suss, Sebastian Eigl
  • Patent number: 9437951
    Abstract: A plug connector has a housing and a plurality of metallic plug connections in the housing together with a plurality of contact feet which project from the bottom face of the housing in order to make electrical contact and be mechanically fixed to a support of a heating apparatus which is electrically connected to the plug connector. A contact foot has a U-shaped foot end with two limbs and with a cutout in-between, an upper limb merging with the contact foot, and a lower limb being provided on that side which faces away from the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: E.G.O. ELEKTRO-GERAETEBAU GMBH
    Inventors: Holger Koebrich, Uwe Koegel
  • Publication number: 20160036152
    Abstract: A plug connector has a housing and a plurality of metallic plug connections in the housing together with a plurality of contact feet which project from the bottom face of the housing in order to make electrical contact and be mechanically fixed to a support of a heating apparatus which is electrically connected to the plug connector. A contact foot has a U-shaped foot end with two limbs and with a cutout in-between, an upper limb merging with the contact foot, and a lower limb being provided on that side which faces away from the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2015
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventors: Holger Koebrich, Uwe Koegel
  • Patent number: 9196990
    Abstract: A plug connector has a housing and a plurality of metallic plug connections in the housing together with a plurality of contact feet which project from the bottom face of the housing in order to make electrical contact and be mechanically fixed to a support of a heating apparatus which is electrically connected to the plug connector. A contact foot has a U-shaped foot end with two limbs and with a cutout in-between, an upper limb merging with the contact foot, and a lower limb being provided on that side which faces away from the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: E.G.O. Elektro-Geraetebau GmbH
    Inventors: Holger Koebrich, Uwe Koegel
  • Publication number: 20150086325
    Abstract: A pump for a dishwasher is configured as an impeller pump having a central water inflow to a rotating impeller for conveying the water in the radial direction out of the impeller into a pump chamber which surrounds the impeller in a ring-like manner and has a heated pump chamber wall on its outer side. Here, the pump has an outlet in the end region of the pump chamber at an axial spacing from the impeller. Heating elements which have a decreasing power output with regard to the area power output in the axial direction of the pump toward the outlet are arranged on the pump chamber wall. An input of energy into the pump chamber can thus be varied and in the process adapted depending on a turbulent or laminar flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: E.G.O. Elektro-Geraetebau GmbH
    Inventors: Holger Koebrich, Tobias Albert, Volker Block
  • Publication number: 20140154930
    Abstract: A plug connector has a housing and a plurality of metallic plug connections in the housing together with a plurality of contact feet which project from the bottom face of the housing in order to make electrical contact and be mechanically fixed to a support of a heating apparatus which is electrically connected to the plug connector. A contact foot has a U-shaped foot end with two limbs and with a cutout in-between, an upper limb merging with the contact foot, and a lower limb being provided on that side which faces away from the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: E.G.O. Elektro-Geraetebau GmbH
    Inventors: Holger Koebrich, Uwe Koegel
  • Publication number: 20140029928
    Abstract: A heating device for heating a liquid in the through-flow comprises a carrier with heating conductors thereon and at least two surface mounted device (SMD) temperature sensors. A first temperature sensor is arranged closed to the heating conductor at a distance of less than twice the heating conductor width. A second temperature sensor has a greater distance to the heating conductor than the first temperature sensor, preferably more than twice the distance of the first temperature sensor to the heating conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: E.G.O. Elektro-Geraetebau GmbH
    Inventors: Holger Koebrich, Roland Muehlnikel
  • Patent number: 7522868
    Abstract: A developer unit having a toner reservoir and a toner application device. The toner application device applies toner to a developer and the developer can be brought into a planar contact with an OPC (photo conductor drum). In order to improve the transfer of toner in the contact area between the OPC and the developer, the developer has a developer strip that is placed, in the contact area, in some areas of the surface of the OPC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Bernd Schultheis, Holger Köbrich, Dieter Jung
  • Patent number: 7123868
    Abstract: An electrophotographic printing device including a toner-developer unit, a lighting device, a developer drum, a photoconductor, a transfer unit and an earthed charging device. The substrate to be printed is placed on a transport device and moved along the transfer unit and the toner image of the transfer unit is transmitted to the substrate. A clear, sharp and shadow-free printed image is obtained by arranging the substrate on a non-earthed, electrically conductive layer which is insulated relative to the earthed transport device by an insulator extending along the charging device that is located above the substrate and the measurement of substrate that is to be printed and that is oriented in the direction of transport. The charging device can be charged at a potential, exciting voltage UF, of between 1 to 10 kV, more particularly 1.5 to 4 kV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Bernd Schultheis, Holger Köbrich, Rainer Solbach, Hans-Jürgen Hommes, Dieter Jung
  • Patent number: 7064483
    Abstract: The invention provides a process for producing an improved organic light-emitting diode (1) with a structured luminous area and a substrate (2), which comprises the steps of: applying a first conductive electrode layer (5), applying a resistive layer (7) having at least one structure (17), applying at least one layer (11) which includes an organic, electroluminescent material, and applying a second conductive electrode layer (13), wherein the surface of the structure (17), in particular in its edge region (27), adopts an angle which remains less than 90° with respect to the surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2006
    Assignee: Schott Glas
    Inventors: Clemens Ottermann, Bernd Schultheis, Holger Köbrich, Dirk Hertel, Ruth Effenberger, Klaus Michael Hammerl
  • Patent number: 5977522
    Abstract: In order to provide a mounting device for light guides which is pre-mountable on a heating element or on a cooking surface and which can be equipped with the light guides in a simple way, several receptacles (20) for the light guide ends are arranged beside each other on a common receptacle support (1). The receptacle support (1) can itself be formed as an attaching element or can be provided with at least one attaching element. The receptacles are sleeves (24) under tension or crimped sockets in which the light guide ends are inserted and gripped under tension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1999
    Assignee: Schott Glaswerke
    Inventors: Thomas Henrich, Thomas Weingaertner, Juergen Meinl, Holger Koebrich, Stefan Hubert, Bernd Schultheis