Patents by Inventor Marc-Daniel Stegen

Marc-Daniel Stegen 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: 11060620
    Abstract: A valve for free-flowing media, such as a glue valve, with a valve housing, and with a closure member, such as a valve tappet, which is movable in the valve housing by means of an electromagnet and which bears with a closure piece on a valve seat in the closed position of the valve and which sits at least partially in a continuous interior of a one-piece coil carrier on which the windings of a coil of the electromagnet are wound, and having two terminal receivers for a dosing unit and a valve lift adjustment unit with an elongate abutment part which is arranged at least in part in the interior of the coil carrier and which limits a movement of the closure member in the direction of the valve lift adjustment unit, with the valve lift adjustment unit being is secured on the coil carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)
    Inventors: Jan-Christian Walter, Marc-Daniel Stegen
  • Publication number: 20200124183
    Abstract: A valve for free-flowing media, such as a glue valve, with a valve housing, and with a closure member, such as a valve tappet, which is movable in the valve housing by means of an electromagnet and which bears with a closure piece on a valve seat in the closed position of the valve and which sits at least partially in a continuous interior of a one-piece coil carrier on which the windings of a coil of the electromagnet are wound, and having two terminal receivers for a dosing unit and a valve lift adjustment unit with an elongate abutment part which is arranged at least in part in the interior of the coil carrier and which limits a movement of the closure member in the direction of the valve lift adjustment unit, with the valve lift adjustment unit being is secured on the coil carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Applicant: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)
    Inventors: Jan-Christian Walter, Marc-Daniel Stegen
  • Patent number: 10550944
    Abstract: A valve for free-flowing media, in particular a glue valve, with a valve housing, and with a closure member, in particular a valve tappet, which is movable in the valve housing by means of an electromagnet and which bears with a closure piece on a valve seat in the closed position of the valve and which sits at least partially in an in particular continuous interior of a preferably one-piece coil carrier on which the windings of a coil of the electromagnet are wound, and with a valve lift adjustment unit with an elongate abutment part which is arranged at least in part in the interior of the coil carrier and which limits a movement of the closure member in the direction of the valve lift adjustment unit, with the valve lift adjustment unit being is secured on the coil carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)
    Inventors: Jan-Christian Walter, Marc-Daniel Stegen
  • Patent number: 10035167
    Abstract: A valve arrangement for applying fluid media, in particular glue, to surfaces, comprising a plurality of individual modules detachably connected to form a row, wherein in the row and between the adjacent individual modules is respectively formed a dividing plane, in which the respectively adjacent individual modules bear one against another, and at least one dividing plane is assigned a heating member for warming the valve arrangement, preferably a plurality of or all dividing planes are respectively assigned a heating member, which is seated in appropriate, mutually opposing receptacles, arranged to both sides of the dividing plane, of the two adjacent individual modules, and cooperates in such a way with those walls of the individual modules which delimit the receptacles that relative movements of the two individual modules in at least one spatial direction are limited or prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)
    Inventors: Jan-Christian Walter, Marc-Daniel Stegen, Nils Neuhaus
  • Patent number: 9988164
    Abstract: A device and a method for manufacturing an item of packaging for a group (27) of smokable articles (11), in particular cigarettes, having a wrapping, preferably an inner wrapping, of, in particular, a thin packaging material, such as paper, tinfoil or the like, in which a material web (31) of the packaging material is severed into individual blanks (10) and in which the article groups (27) to be wrapped are in each case wrapped with the individual blanks (10). Flavoring and/or aromatic portions (42) for the smokable articles are applied to the packaging-material web (31), which flavoring and/or aromatic portions (42), after application, are at least in regions reduced in their height by a processing means, preferably in that they are spread flat and/or pressed flat by the processing means (47).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)
    Inventors: Stefan Harms, Marc-Daniel Stegen, Jan Riepenhusen
  • Publication number: 20170350514
    Abstract: A valve for free-flowing media, in particular a glue valve, with a valve housing, and with a closure member, in particular a valve tappet, which is movable in the valve housing by means of an electromagnet and which bears with a closure piece on a valve seat in the closed position of the valve and which sits at least partially in an in particular continuous interior of a preferably one-piece coil carrier on which the windings of a coil of the electromagnet are wound, and with a valve lift adjustment unit with an elongate abutment part which is arranged at least in part in the interior of the coil carrier and which limits a movement of the closure member in the direction of the valve lift adjustment unit, with the valve lift adjustment unit being is secured on the coil carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)
    Inventors: Jan-Christian Walter, Marc-Daniel Stegen
  • Publication number: 20160332185
    Abstract: A valve arrangement for applying fluid media, in particular glue, to surfaces, comprising a plurality of individual modules detachably connected to form a row, wherein in the row and between the adjacent individual modules is respectively formed a dividing plane, in which the respectively adjacent individual modules bear one against another, and at least one dividing plane is assigned a heating member for warming the valve arrangement, preferably a plurality of or all dividing planes are respectively assigned a heating member, which is seated in appropriate, mutually opposing receptacles, arranged to both sides of the dividing plane, of the two adjacent individual modules, and cooperates in such a way with those walls of the individual modules which delimit the receptacles that relative movements of the two individual modules in at least one spatial direction are limited or prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)
    Inventors: Jan-Christian Walter, Marc-Daniel Stegen, Nils Neuhaus
  • Patent number: 9375747
    Abstract: The valve, in particular glue valve, consists of a valve housing (10) and of a plug unit (11) fitted thereto. The two parts are assembled separately, with connecting clips (41, 42) being connected to the plug unit (11) and, when the plug unit (11) is fitted onto the valve housing (10), being connected to the latter, namely to the coil core (15), via clamping members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)
    Inventors: Nils Neuhaus, Marc-Daniel Stegen, Reinhard Hoppe
  • Publication number: 20150053876
    Abstract: The valve, in particular glue valve, consists of a valve housing (10) and of a plug unit (11) fitted thereto. The two parts are assembled separately, with connecting clips (41, 42) being connected to the plug unit (11) and, when the plug unit (11) is fitted onto the valve housing (10), being connected to the latter, namely to the coil core (15), via clamping members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Applicant: Focke & Co. (GbmH & Co. KG)
    Inventors: Nils Neuhaus, Marc-Daniel Stegen, Reinhard Hoppe
  • Patent number: 8948898
    Abstract: A method for operating a gluing system (10) for gluing blanks for producing and/or packaging cigarettes or other smokable objects, in which the blanks are conveyed along glue valves (11) of the gluing system (10), in which case, in order to control and/or regulate the glue valves (11), a superordinate master controller (13) respectively transmits values of at least one control and/or regulation parameter to individual controllers (15) which are assigned to the glue valves (11), are subordinate to the master controller (13) and are each connected to the superordinate master controller (13) via a suitable data connection, the subordinate controller (15) using said values to control and/or regulate the glue valve (11) assigned to it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)
    Inventors: Ralf Barkmann, Wolfgang Rohwedder, Marc-Daniel Stegen
  • Publication number: 20140311096
    Abstract: A device and a method for manufacturing an item of packaging for a group (27) of smokable articles (11), in particular cigarettes, having a wrapping, preferably an inner wrapping, of, in particular, a thin packaging material, such as paper, tinfoil or the like, in which a material web (31) of the packaging material is severed into individual blanks (10) and in which the article groups (27) to be wrapped are in each case wrapped with the individual blanks (10). Flavoring and/or aromatic portions (42) for the smokable articles are applied to the packaging-material web (31), which flavoring and/or aromatic portions (42), after application, are at least in regions reduced in their height by a processing means, preferably in that they are spread flat and/or pressed flat by the processing means (47).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2012
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)
    Inventors: Stefan Harms, Marc-Daniel Stegen, Jan Riepenhusen
  • Patent number: 8833732
    Abstract: A valve for processing glue or other media, the valve having magnets, in particular permanent magnets, that are used for actuating a closure member (16). Two individual magnets (22, 23) located opposite one another are provided, at least in a region which is in contact with the medium or glue, with a protective layer or covering (34), which is preferably designed as a cap and consists of titanium, other metal or plastics material, in order to protect the magnets (22, 23) against the effects of the medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)
    Inventors: Neudeck Heiko, Sylvia Rose, Jan Schnakenberg, Marc-Daniel Stegen
  • Publication number: 20120313019
    Abstract: A valve for processing glue or other media, the valve having magnets, in particular permanent magnets, that are used for actuating a closure member (16). Two individual magnets (22, 23) located opposite one another are provided, at least in a region which is in contact with the medium or glue, with a protective layer or covering (34), which is preferably designed as a cap and consists of titanium, other metal or plastics material, in order to protect the magnets (22, 23) against the effects of the medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2010
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Inventors: Heiko Neudeck, Sylvia Rose, Jan Schnakenberg, Marc-Daniel Stegen
  • Publication number: 20120095588
    Abstract: A method for operating a gluing system (10) for gluing blanks for producing and/or packaging cigarettes or other smokable objects, in which the blanks are conveyed along glue valves (11) of the gluing system (10), in which case, in order to control and/or regulate the glue valves (11), a superordinate master controller (13) respectively transmits values of at least one control and/or regulation parameter to individual controllers (15) which are assigned to the glue valves (11), are subordinate to the master controller (13) and are each connected to the superordinate master controller (13) via a suitable data connection, the subordinate controller (15) using said values to control and/or regulate the glue valve (11) assigned to it.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co.KG)
    Inventors: Ralf Barkmann, Wolfgang Rohwedder, Marc-Daniel Stegen