Patents by Inventor Holger Mueller

Holger Mueller 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: 11279605
    Abstract: A rotary cleaning nozzle for cleaning surfaces of a beverage bottling installation using a fluid, comprising a nozzle assembly which has a feed duct for the fluid, and a nozzle head which is mounted rotatably on the nozzle assembly and has at least one nozzle outlet opening from which, during operation, fluid flowing through the feed duct and the nozzle head emerges in the form of a cleaning jet. The rotary cleaning nozzle furthermore comprises an electrical generator for the induction of electrical energy by way of rotation of the nozzle head, and a control unit for indicating a rotation of the nozzle head in dependence on the induced electrical energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: KRONES AG
    Inventors: Juergen Soellner, Matthias Stubenhofer, Holger Mueller
  • Patent number: 11143168
    Abstract: Disclosed is a rotor blade inspection device having a maintenance chamber through which a rotor blade can pass vertically, wherein the floor opening and a roof opening, through which the rotor blade can pass, are arranged in the chamber floor and in the chamber roof of the maintenance chamber, characterized in that the maintenance chamber is arranged on a supporting frame, and in that the bracing frame can be supported on a tower of a wind turbine, and in that the chamber floor and the chamber roof of the maintenance chamber are respectively designed as a diaphragm system in order to minimize a gap between the floor opening or roof opening and the rotor blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: WP SYSTEMS GMBH
    Inventors: Holger Müller, Jan Boesner, Robert Höfner, Ole Renner, Michael Zavesky
  • Publication number: 20210286187
    Abstract: The invention relates to an optical viewing system and a method of aligning an eyepiece image and an image of a camera that is part of an optical viewing system, which enables both the observation of an optical image with one eye and the capturing of the optical image with the camera. The optical viewing system comprises an optical device, an eyepiece with field diaphragm, a beam splitter, and a camera with image capturing level. According to the method, an image mask is adjusted to the eyepiece image for the camera image of the camera as follows: The eyepiece is illuminated from its side facing away from the optical device, and light passes through the eyepiece to the beam splitter so that the light is partially reflected from the first semi-reflective surface to the second semi-reflective surface and from the second semi-reflective surface to the camera, resulting in the camera capturing an image of the field diaphragm of the eyepiece as a light spot on the image capturing level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventor: Holger Müller
  • Patent number: 11084068
    Abstract: A device for cleaning a plant part that is to be cleaned in a beverage filling plant, including a medium inflow for supplying a cleaning medium to the plant part that is to be cleaned, and having a medium return flow for removing the used cleaning medium from the plant part that is to be cleaned is described. A heating unit is provided for heating the cleaning medium in the medium inflow, and a recuperator is provided for transferring heat energy from the cleaning medium that is removed via the medium return flow to the cleaning medium that is to be supplied to the heating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: KRONES AG
    Inventors: Juergen Soellner, Holger Mueller
  • Patent number: 11014799
    Abstract: A device for filling a container with a sterilized filling product, preferably for filling a beverage container with a sterilized beverage in a beverage bottling installation, comprising a sterilization device for sterilizing the filling product, a sterile tank for buffered receiving of the filling product sterilized in the sterilization device, and a filling device which has a filling valve for the filling of the container to be filled, wherein the filling valve is a proportional valve for controlling and/or regulating the filling-product flow of the filling product into the container to be filled, and the proportional valve is connected in a buffer-free manner to the sterile tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: KRONES AG
    Inventors: Holger Mueller, Juergen Soellner, Sebastian Baumgartner, Josef Doblinger
  • Patent number: 11005395
    Abstract: The invention relates to a circuit for selectively actuating drive elements (1, 2), which are operated on direct current, in a motor vehicle by means of half-bridges (4, 5). According to the invention, the circuit is designed for selectively actuating eight drive elements (1, 2) for locking and, respectively, unlocking four doors of the motor vehicle from the outside and/or from the inside. The circuit contains nine half-bridges (4, 5), wherein the outputs of eight of the nine half-bridges (4) are each connected to a first pole of one of the eight drive elements (1, 2) and the output of the ninth half-bridge (5) is connected to all second poles of the eight drive elements (1, 2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Lukas Preusser, Holger Mueller, Ahmet Cinar, Denney Vellaramkalayil
  • Patent number: 10914477
    Abstract: A device for providing clean air in a beverage filling plant is described. The device includes an inflow channel with at least one filter for pretreating the air sucked in via a supply-air feed. The inflow channel is adjoined by a first outflow channel with at least one filter for treating the air pretreated in the inflow channel for feeding into a filling cleanroom of the beverage filling plant. The inflow channel is adjoined by a second outflow channel for treating the air pretreated in the inflow channel for feeding into a blowing cleanroom for the blow-molding of plastic containers. A dehumidifying device for dehumidifying the pretreated air is arranged in the second outflow channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: KRONES AG
    Inventors: Franz Braun, Holger Mueller, Juergen Soellner, Max Brikmann
  • Publication number: 20200346910
    Abstract: A device for treating containers, for example, for filling and closing containers in filling plants is described. The device includes an isolator chamber in which the treatment of the containers takes place, and an outlet disposed beneath the isolator chamber for discharging fluids, wherein the outlet has a housing for receiving ejected containers and a suction device for extracting gases from the isolator chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Inventors: Juergen SOELLNER, Franz BRAUN, Holger MUELLER, Bruno LANDLER
  • Patent number: 10767055
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a mineral matter powder preparation by wet process without acrylic additive or other grinding aid additives and to the use of said mineral matter after an optional hydrophobic treatment. Said mineral material having superior dispersing properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Omya International AG
    Inventors: Pierre Blanchard, Jean-Pierre Elgoyhen, Beat Karth, Holger Müller, Jürgen Spehn, Martin Brunner, Pascal Gonnon, Michael Tinkl
  • Patent number: 10759643
    Abstract: A device for treating containers, for example, for filling and closing containers in filling plants is described. The device includes an isolator chamber in which the treatment of the containers takes place, and an outlet disposed beneath the isolator chamber for discharging fluids, wherein the outlet has a housing for receiving ejected containers and a suction device for extracting gases from the isolator chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: KRONES AG
    Inventors: Juergen Soellner, Franz Braun, Holger Mueller, Bruno Landler
  • Publication number: 20200270113
    Abstract: A device for producing filled containers has a transport device which is configured for transporting containers which are filled with a liquid and are closed by a closure. Furthermore, the apparatus has a penetration device which is configured for producing an opening in at least one region of the closure and/or of the container, and an application device, which applies a flowable and in particular gaseous medium to the interior of the container through this opening (or feeds the gaseous medium to this interior). Furthermore apparatus has a closing device which closes the opening again.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Tobias STAEBER, Johannes KUGLER, Holger MUELLER, Gabriel SEIBOLD, Sascha BAUER, Ludovic LAINE, Lisa HERTEL, Aurelie BOERMANN, Stefan PIANA, Stephanie WUNDERLICH, Ute BEDOE, Wolfgang SCHOENBERGER
  • Publication number: 20200270111
    Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing filled containers includes a transport unit that is suitable and designed for transporting containers that are filled with a liquid and are closed with a closure cap. The apparatus includes a penetration unit that is suitable and designed for generating an opening in at least an area of the closure cap and/or of the container, and an application unit that applies a flowable and in particular gaseous medium onto an internal space of the container through this opening (or feeds gaseous medium into this intern space). Further the apparatus includes a closing unit that re-closes the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Gabriel SEIBOLD, Lisa HERTEL, Tobias STAEBER, Aurelie BOERMANN, Holger MUELLER, Sascha BAUER, Stefan PIANA, Stephanie WUNDERLICH, Ute BEDOE, Wolfgang SCHOENBERGER, Ludovic LAINE, Johannes KUGLER, Daniel Vogler
  • Publication number: 20200274361
    Abstract: A frequency stabilization arrangement for a power transmission grid has a modular multi-level converter with a first terminal for electrical connection to a power transmission grid, and an electrical resistor unit with a second terminal for electrical connection to the power transmission grid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: CHRISTOPH ARMSCHAT, HOLGER MUELLER, ERVIN SPAHIC
  • Publication number: 20200270112
    Abstract: An apparatus for producing filled containers has a transport device which is suitable and intended for transporting containers which are filled with a liquid and are closed by a closure. Furthermore, the apparatus has a penetration device which is suitable and intended for producing an opening in at least one region of the closure and/or of the container, and an application device, which applies a flowable and in particular gaseous medium to the interior of the container through this opening (or feeds the gaseous medium to this interior). Furthermore, the apparatus has a closing device which closes the opening again.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Sascha BAUER, Stefan PIANA, Tobias STAEBER, Ludovic LAINE, Lisa HERTEL, Stephanie WUNDERLICH, Ute BEDOE, Aurelie BOERMANN, Gabriel SEIBOLD, Johannes KUGLER, Holger MUELLER, Wolfgang SCHOENBERGER
  • Publication number: 20200215739
    Abstract: Apparatus for producing containers, and in particular beverage containers, having a heating device configured to heat plastic parisons, having at least one first transport device, which transports the plastic parisons along a predetermined transport path, a sterilization device configured to sterilize the plastic parisons, and a forming device arranged downstream of the sterilization device, as seen in a transporting direction of the plastic parisons, and configured to form the plastic parisons into plastic containers by the application of a free-flowing medium, wherein said forming device has a transport chamber within which the plastic parisons are transported. The apparatus has an application device configured to apply a free-flowing sterilization medium, at least temporarily, to the transport chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: Holger MUELLER, Florian GELTINGER, Juergen SOELLNER
  • Publication number: 20200198215
    Abstract: An apparatus for forming plastic preforms into plastic containers, with a movable carrier on which at least one forming station is arranged for forming the plastic preforms, wherein the forming station is transported along a predefined transport path, and wherein the apparatus has a clean room inside which the plastic preforms are formed, wherein this clean room is isolated from a non-sterile environment by at least one wall, with a sterilisation device for sterilising the plastic preforms and/or plastic containers, which device acts upon the plastic preforms and/or plastic containers to be sterilised with a flowable sterilisation medium for their sterilisation. According to the invention, the apparatus comprises an ejection device for ejecting containers from the clean room, and this ejection device has a lock chamber from which the ejected containers can be removed, wherein this lock chamber can be acted upon with an atmosphere containing a sterilisation medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Holger Mueller, Juergen Soellner
  • Publication number: 20200180929
    Abstract: A device for filling a fill product into a container to be filled in a beverage bottling plant. The device includes a fill product reservoir for storing the fill product, a fill product channel, and a filling member in fluid communication with the fill product reservoir via the fill product channel. The filling member is configured to introduce the fill product into the container to be filled and the filling member communicates via media channels to provide media flows for two or more functions: flushing the container with a flushing gas, pre-pressurizing the container before it is filled, returning gas displaced during the filling of the container, relieving a gas overpressure in the container, and circulating a hot fill product through the filling member for controlling a temperature. A single media channel of the media channels is configured to provide the media flows for at least two of the functions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Josef DOBLINGER, Holger MUELLER, Franz BRAUN, Christian GEBAUER, Angela GRUENWALD, Bruno LANDLER, Sebastian PASSBERGER
  • Publication number: 20200122991
    Abstract: A rotary cleaning nozzle for cleaning surfaces of a beverage bottling installation using a fluid, comprising a nozzle assembly which has a feed duct for the fluid, and a nozzle head which is mounted rotatably on the nozzle assembly and has at least one nozzle outlet opening from which, during operation, fluid flowing through the feed duct and the nozzle head emerges in the form of a cleaning jet. The rotary cleaning nozzle furthermore comprises an electrical generator for the induction of electrical energy by way of rotation of the nozzle head, and a control unit for indicating a rotation of the nozzle head in dependence on the induced electrical energy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Juergen SOELLNER, Matthias STUBENHOFER, Holger MUELLER
  • Patent number: 10626002
    Abstract: A method for filling a container to be filled with a filling product includes accommodating a container to be filled in a treatment chamber, sealing a filling device to the container, rinsing the container with a rinsing gas introduced into the container through a rinsing gas channel, filling the container with the filling product, pre-pressurizing the treatment chamber with a pressurization gas through a pressurization gas channel, removing the filling device from the container, closing the container with a container closure, relieving the pre-pressurization pressure in the treatment chamber, and removing the container from the treatment chamber. The pre-pressurization pressure that is present in the treatment chamber is at least in part relieved into the rinsing gas channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: KRONES AG
    Inventors: Florian Habersetzer, Josef Knott, Christian Stoiber, Holger Mueller
  • Publication number: 20200114031
    Abstract: A device for treating system components and/or packaging means in a filling product filling system, comprising a vaporization device for providing a treatment gas flow containing vaporized hydrogen peroxide, further comprising a treatment nozzle for applying the treatment gas flow to the system components to be treated and/or the packaging means to be treated, wherein a sensor is provided for measuring the hydrogen peroxide concentration in the treatment gas flow exiting the treatment nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Gertrud SOELLNER-WEIN, Juergen SOELLNER, Holger MUELLER