Patents by Inventor Jan Hofmann

Jan Hofmann 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: 20230383750
    Abstract: A vacuum pump includes a fan including a rotational speed to be controlled to cool the vacuum pump, a temperature sensor, and a control device that regulates the rotational speed of the fan in dependence on a power consumption of a drive of the vacuum pump and on a temperature measured by the temperature sensor. Another vacuum pump includes an electrically driven fan, an air guide hood, and a conductor that leads from the fan to a supply connection for the fan. The conductor is connected to the supply connection via an electrical connector. The connector is separated from an air flow path, defined by the air guide hood, by a partition wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: PFEIFFER VACUUM GMBH
    Inventors: Michael WILLIG, Jan HOFMANN, Jonas BECKER, Gernot BERNHARDT, Verena WANGORSCH, Stefan KALLENBORN, Wolfgang SOEHNGEN, Heiko SCHAEFER, Erhard HARAPAT, Lars PAULI
  • Patent number: 11773849
    Abstract: The invention relates to a scroll pump comprising a pressure sensor integrated into the scroll pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: PFEIFFER VACUUM GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Willig, Jan Hofmann, Jonas Becker, Gernot Bernhardt, Verena Wangorsch, Stefan Kallenborn, Wolfgang Soehngen, Heiko Schaefer, Erhard Harapat, Lars Pauli
  • Publication number: 20230032071
    Abstract: A drive device for a protective hood of a machine includes a counterweight, a pulling means connecting the protective hood to the counterweight, a motor, and a freewheel. The freewheel connects the motor to the pulling means and is arranged to block when a weight force of the protective hood is greater than a weight force of the counterweight. The freewheel may be a linear freewheel or the freewheel may operate between two rotatable elements. The freewheel may be a frictionally locking freewheel or a positive locking freewheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Julius Janssen, Klaus Sattler, Jan Hofmann
  • Patent number: 11078916
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a vacuum pump, in particular to a turbomolecular pump, having at least one pump stage and having a pressure determination unit for determining a pressure present at a suction side of the vacuum pump, said pump comprising a measurement device, with a measurement tap of the measurement device being provided in the region of the pump stage or downstream of the pump stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Pfeiffer Vacuum GmbH
    Inventors: Jan Hofmann, Florian Schneider
  • Publication number: 20210102536
    Abstract: The invention relates to a scroll pump comprising a pressure sensor integrated into the scroll pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: Michael WILLIG, Jan HOFMANN, Jonas BECKER, Gernot BERNHARDT, Verena WANGORSCH, Stefan KALLENBORN, Wolfgang SOEHNGEN, Heiko SCHAEFER, Erhard HARAPAT, Lars PAULI
  • Patent number: 10527483
    Abstract: A system (1) dispenses dosages of a powdery substance. It has a robotic handler (2), a weighing module (8) with a weighing pan (9), at least one storage rack (4) for holding a plurality of dispensing heads (3) and at least one storage rack (6) for holding a plurality of vials (5), a dosage dispenser unit (11) with a dispensing head receiver (12), a vial handling tool (17) and a dispensing head handling tool (18), a tool-docking station (19) for the handling tools, and a controller terminal unit (20). Different weighing pan adapters (15) adapt the weighing pan to different shapes and sizes of vials. Relative to a vertical working orientation, tlower portions of the weighing pan adapters are identical, to fit the weighing pan, but upper portions are different, to accommodate different shapes and sizes of vials. A station (16) is provided for storing the weighing pan adapters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: METTLER-TOLEDO GMBH
    Inventors: Michalis Meyer, Daniel Keller, Jan Hofmann, René Weber
  • Publication number: 20190040866
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a vacuum pump, in particular to a turbomolecular pump, having at least one pump stage and having a pressure determination unit for determining a pressure present at a suction side of the vacuum pump, said pump comprising a measurement device, with a measurement tap of the measurement device being provided in the region of the pump stage or downstream of the pump stage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Jan Hofmann, Florian Schneider
  • Publication number: 20180149512
    Abstract: A system (1) dispenses dosages of a powdery substance. It has a robotic handler (2), a weighing module (8) with a weighing pan (9), at least one storage rack (4) for holding a plurality of dispensing heads (3) and at least one storage rack (6) for holding a plurality of vials (5), a dosage dispenser unit (11) with a dispensing head receiver (12), a vial handling tool (17) and a dispensing head handling tool (18), a tool-docking station (19) for the handling tools, and a controller terminal unit (20). Different weighing pan adapters (15) adapt the weighing pan to different shapes and sizes of vials. Relative to a vertical working orientation, tlower portions of the weighing pan adapaters are identical, to fit the weighing pan, but upper portions are different, to accommodate different shapes and sizes of vials. A station (16) is provided for storing the weighing pan adapters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: Michalis Meyer, Daniel Keller, Jan Hofmann, René Weber
  • Patent number: 9909592
    Abstract: A vacuum pump has a working space, a bearing space, a dividing wall arranged between the working space and the bearing space and at least one rotor shaft which extends through the dividing wall and which forms a gap with the dividing wall and having a blocking device for blocking between the working space and the bearing space. The blocking device is formed by a Siegbahn pump stage which is configured for providing a pump action passing through the gap between the working space and the bearing space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: PFEIFFER VACUUM GMBH
    Inventors: Jan Hofmann, Mirko Mekota
  • Patent number: 9869319
    Abstract: A vacuum pump includes a pump inlet, a pump outlet, a rotor rotatable about an axis of rotation, at least one process gas pump stage for conveying a process gas present at the pump inlet from the pump inlet to the pump outlet, a motor space, and a drive motor which is arranged in the motor space, is configured for rotationally driving the rotor and which has a motor stator, wherein at least one gas path is provided for the process gas from the pump inlet to the pump outlet which leads through the motor space and which leads at least sectionally along the motor stator or through the motor stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Pfeiffer Vacuum GmbH
    Inventors: Mirko Mekota, Jan Hofmann, Uwe Leib, Michael Schill, Bernhard Koch
  • Patent number: 9784284
    Abstract: A stator element for a Holweck pump stage has a base shape of substantially cylinder jacket shape or a kit of parts for a stator element for a Holweck pump stage which has a base shape of a substantially cylinder jacket shape, wherein the stator element or the kit of parts comprises a plurality of stator parts which are separate from one another, which are assembled to form the stator element or can be assembled to form the stator element. A vacuum pump having a Holweck pump stage as well as to a method of manufacturing a stator element for a Holweck pump stage or of manufacturing a kit of parts for a stator element for a Holweck pump stage are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: PFEIFFER VACCUM GMBH
    Inventors: Jan Hofmann, Mirko Mekota
  • Patent number: 9422937
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vacuum pump having at least one molecular pump stage, in particular a Holweck stage, which includes a rotor member which forms the pump-active surface of the molecular pump stage and having at least one side channel pump stage which is arranged downstream of the molecular pump stage and which includes a plurality of rotor elements, wherein the rotor elements of the side channel pump stage are supported by the rotor member of the molecular pump stage. The invention further relates to a vacuum pump having at least one molecular pump stage, in particular a Holweck stage, and having at least one side channel pump stage which is arranged downstream of the molecular pump stage and which includes a plurality of rotor elements, wherein the side channel pump stage is arranged between a pump inlet and the molecular pump stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Pleiffer Vacuum GmbH
    Inventors: Aleksandr Shirinov, Tobias Stoll, Michael Schweighoefer, Jan Hofmann
  • Publication number: 20150064033
    Abstract: A vacuum pump includes a housing having an axial inlet a pumping unit including a stator, a rotor rotatably supported in the stator, and a drive for driving the rotor. At least one housing part which has at least one outlet, is placed on the housing in an axial direction and is connected with the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Tobias Stoll, Michael Schweighoefer, Robert Watz, Jan Hofmann
  • Publication number: 20150030475
    Abstract: A vacuum pump includes a pump inlet, a pump outlet, a rotor rotatable about an axis of rotation, at least one process gas pump stage for conveying a process gas present at the pump inlet from the pump inlet to the pump outlet, a motor space, and a drive motor which is arranged in the motor space, is configured for rotationally driving the rotor and which has a motor stator, wherein at least one gas path is provided for the process gas from the pump inlet to the pump outlet which leads through the motor space and which leads at least sectionally along the motor stator or through the motor stator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Mirko Mekota, Jan Hofmann, Uwe Leib, Michael Schill, Bernhard Koch
  • Publication number: 20150016958
    Abstract: A vacuum pump has a working space, a bearing space, a dividing wall arranged between the working space and the bearing space and at least one rotor shaft which extends through the dividing wall and which forms a gap with the dividing wall and having a blocking device for blocking between the working space and the bearing space. The blocking device is formed by a Siegbahn pump stage which is configured for providing a pump action passing through the gap between the working space and the bearing space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Jan Hofmann, Mirko Mekota
  • Publication number: 20140314554
    Abstract: A stator element for a Holweck pump stage has a base shape of substantially cylinder jacket shape or a kit of parts for a stator element for a Holweck pump stage which has a base shape of a substantially cylinder jacket shape, wherein the stator element or the kit of parts comprises a plurality of stator parts which are separate from one another, which are assembled to form the stator element or can be assembled to form the stator element. A vacuum pump having a Holweck pump stage as well as to a method of manufacturing a stator element for a Holweck pump stage or of manufacturing a kit of parts for a stator element for a Holweck pump stage are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: Pfeiffer Vacuum GmbH
    Inventors: Jan Hofmann, Mirko Mekota
  • Publication number: 20130259711
    Abstract: A pumping system for evacuating gas from a plurality of chambers, includes at least one turbomolecular pump, at least two fore-vacuum pumps, at least one connection conduit extending between the at least two fore-vacuum pumps. and at least one transverse constriction for at least one of reducing and regulating gas flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: Pfeiffer Vaccum GmbH
    Inventors: Thorsten BURGGRAF, Jan HOFMANN, Tobias STOLL
  • Publication number: 20090269157
    Abstract: The invention relates to anchors for fixing an article (2) to a substrate (3). In order to improve such an anchor (4) in respect of its capacity to absorb transverse force in the event of earthquakes, the invention proposes that the anchor (4) have a conversion device (14) such that movement of an article (2) fixed with the anchor (4) relative to the substrate (3) and transverse to the longitudinal axis of the anchor (4) results predominantly in an increase in the axially acting pre-tensioning force of the anchor (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2007
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Inventors: Hannes Spieth, Peter Schillinger, Jan Hofmann