Patents by Inventor Manfred Battefeld

Manfred Battefeld 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: 20090095070
    Abstract: The invention relates to a sedimentation plant comprising a sedimentation basin (12), a cleaner beam (18) and an ultrasonic sludge level probe (30) which is suspended in the sedimentation basin (12). The cleaner beam (18) collides with the sludge level probe (30) in a regular manner ensuring that the sludge level probe (30) is displaced from the vertical spatial position and that the distance measuring values supplied thereby are no longer required for evaluating the height (h) of the sludge level (40). A positional sensor (34) is associated with the ultrasonic measuring head (32), which determines the spatial position of the ultrasonic measuring head (32). As a result, an error position of the ultrasonic measuring head (32) can be determined and the distance measuring values supplied by the ultrasonic measuring head (32) when in the error position are suppressed when the height (h) of the sludge level (40) is determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2007
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Applicant: HACH LANGE GMBH
    Inventors: Manfred Battefeld, Andreas Jonak, Lothar Heidemanns, Axel Leyer, Michael Schuster
  • Publication number: 20060027464
    Abstract: Gas-selective electrodes in liquid analyzing devices have a characteristic K with a linear portion L and a non-linear portion NL. In the non-linear portion NL, the characteristic can only be estimated so that these determinations of the concentration are rather inexact. According to the present method, the electrode is rinsed with an acid and the zero point voltage at the electrode is determined during the rinsing. Using the zero point voltage UN thus quickly obtained, the non-linear portion NL of the characteristic K can be determined with high precision so that even low concentrations c can be determined with great accuracy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2005
    Publication date: February 9, 2006
    Inventors: Manfred Battefeld, Klaus Bittner, Andreas Golitz, Markus Hahn, Michael Kussmann, Aurelia Stellmach-Hanulok