Patents by Inventor Mario Rieger

Mario Rieger 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: 8262788
    Abstract: An air filter housing (10) for at least one compact air filter element (20) has at least one filter chamber (1) that at the ends has at least one hose connector socket (2, 3), respectively. The compact air filter element (20) is insertable chamber into the filter chamber between the hose connector sockets (2, 3) with sealing of the cross-section of the filter. At least one resonator chamber element (5, 6) is attached to the air filter housing (10) and is connected with the filter chamber (1) by at least one air-conducting channel (7, 8, 9) or slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Mann + Hummel GmbH
    Inventors: Mario Rieger, Werner Blossey
  • Publication number: 20120198803
    Abstract: A filter device has a compact filter made of a filter material that is wound spirally. A star filter that is made of a filter material that has folds arranged in a star shape surrounds the compact filter. The filter device has a cylindrical shape. A fluid to be filtered passes the compact filter in an axial direction and the star filter in a radial direction. The filter device is exchangeable and is mounted in a filter housing such that the compact filter and the star filter have a common raw side and a common clean side that are separated from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: MANN+HUMMEL GMBH
    Inventors: Yassine Maaradji, Jens Hähn, Jan Karl Zink, Joachim Stinzendõrfer, Stefan Becker, Karlheinz Münkel, Michael Wolf, Werner Blossey, Mario Rieger, Ralf Poh, Josef Rohrmeier, Thomas Sieber, Andreas Pelz, Rolf Sanders, Manfred Winter
  • Patent number: 8206483
    Abstract: A compact filter element (10, 10?, 10?) is provided with knock protection to protect the filter element against damage, such as may be incurred by tapping or hitting the filter against a hard surface. The filter element includes a filter body (1) having of a wound filter medium and configured for axial flow through its end faces (2). At least at one end face (2) of the filter body (1) a protective collar (3, 3?, 3?) is provided which surrounds an outer circumference and projects past the end face (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Mann+Hummel GmbH
    Inventor: Mario Rieger
  • Patent number: 8206480
    Abstract: In an air filter unit (10) comprising at least one main air filter (1) and an auxiliary air filter (2) that is connected by an air conduit (3) to the main air filter (1) and has at least one auxiliary filter element, the auxiliary filter element is formed, at the unfiltered air side of the main air filter (1), by an at least partially porous wall of the air conduit (3) closed off at the intake side. In the reverse case, when installing at the filtered air side, the auxiliary filter element is arranged within the air conduit connected to the main air filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Mann+Hummel GmbH
    Inventor: Mario Rieger
  • Patent number: 8182570
    Abstract: In a compact air filter element (10) having a filter body (11) consisting of a coiled filter medium, through which filter body flow can pass through axially through its end sides (11.1), and which filter body (11) has at least one ring sealing element (15) extending along the periphery of the filter body (11), the filter body (11) is inserted into a hood element (12) and tightly seals to this. The hood element (12) covers one of the end sides (11.1) and grasps the outer periphery of the filter body (11) over the whole of the periphery in a grasping area close to the end side, wherein the grasping area of the hood element (12) ends in an outer edge having a ring edge surface (14.1) on or at which at least one ring sealing element (15) for placing against a sealing flange (22) of a housing pot element (20) is arranged. The reverse arrangement having the ring seal assigned to the housing pot element which presses on the hood element is also possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Mann + Hummel GmbH
    Inventor: Mario Rieger
  • Patent number: 8163057
    Abstract: In an air filter housing (100) for an air filter element (2) with at least one housing bottom part (10) into which the air filter element (2) can be inserted completely or with a substantial portion of its length and a cover element (20) to be connected to the housing bottom part (10), on the housing bottom part (10) and on the cover element (20) at least one connector socket (14, 15) for connection to a hose conduit is provided, respectively. The connector socket for the side of the air filter element facing the cover element (20) is designed as a deflecting connector socket (14) that extends at least partially outside of the cross-sectional area covered by the air filter element (2) and that is connected to the housing bottom part (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Mann + Hummelll GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Blossey, Mario Rieger, Lorenz Eilert
  • Publication number: 20110259199
    Abstract: The intake air filter (10) according to the invention is for cleaning intake air for internal combustion engines, in particular in vehicles. To this end, the intake air filter (10) comprises an openable housing (11) with an inlet (16) and an outlet (17). Disposed between the inlet (16) and the outlet (17) is a filter element (18). In order to check, when the housing (11) is closed, whether a correct filter element (18) has been properly installed, a filter element identification device is provided, which, designed as a dome (28), corresponds to an additional opening (29) in the housing (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: MANN+HUMMEL GMBH
    Inventors: Werner Blossey, Mario Rieger
  • Publication number: 20110247582
    Abstract: The intake air filter according to the invention is for cleaning intake air for internal combustion engines, in particular in vehicles. To this end, the intake air filter comprises an openable housing (10) with an inlet (14) and an outlet (15). Disposed between the inlet (14) and the outlet (15) is an annular, closed main filter element (17) and an annular, closed secondary element (31). The secondary element (31) is connected to the outlet (15), whereby no contamination can pass through to the outlet (15) when the main filter element (17) is replaced. A centering device (29, 30, 40, 41, 42) is provided on the end face opposite the outlet (15) between the secondary element (31) and the main filter element (17), said centering device being used to fix the position of the secondary element (31) within the main filter element (17). This prevents relative movements between the main filter element (17) and the secondary element (31).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: MANN+HUMMEL GMBH
    Inventors: Werner Blossey, Mario Rieger, Joachim Schuldt
  • Patent number: 7938872
    Abstract: The invention concerns a separating device for separating particles (4) from a gas stream (2) in which the gas stream (2) by means of a guiding device is caused to rotate and the liquid or solid particles (4) to be separated are removable by a particle outlet. The separating device (1) is comprised of a cylindrical housing pipe (5) with a guiding device (3) and an immersion pipe (6) arranged in alignment with the flow direction of the gas stream (2) in the housing pipe (5) which immersion pipe is provided on the exterior with a spiral (7) for a directed removal of the particles (4) separated by rotation to a housing opening (8) and with a central outlet (9) for the purified gas stream (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Mann + Hummel GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Blossey, Torsten Fritzsching, Mario Rieger, Bernhard Klotz
  • Patent number: 7892307
    Abstract: A compact filter has a filter housing and a compact filter element that is arranged in the filter housing, wherein the filter element is exchangeable. The compact filter element has a filter body having a longitudinal axis. The compact filter element has an unfiltered air side and a filtered air side. A baffle element is arranged at the unfiltered air side of the compact filter element. The baffle element is removable together with the filter element from the filter housing and has at least one baffle surface that is slanted relative to the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Mann + Hummel GmbH
    Inventors: Juergen Freisinger, Mario Rieger
  • Patent number: 7789926
    Abstract: In a filter housing (100) for at least one axial flow filter element (70) capable of receiving axial flow between its end faces and having at least one continuous sealing collar on its outer circumference which can be pressed against a sealing flange (17) on the housing, a plurality of filter elements (70) can be inserted side by side into cutouts (19) of a common clamping frame element (30). Each of the sealing collars rests on the clamping frame element (30) which is plane parallel to the at least one sealing flange (17) and displaceable toward the sealing flange (17) by a clamping device (50).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Mann + Hummel GmbH
    Inventors: Mario Rieger, Werner Blossey, Lorenz Eilert
  • Publication number: 20100139633
    Abstract: The invention concerns a separating device for separating particles (4) from a gas stream (2) in which the gas stream (2) by means of a guiding device is caused to rotate and the liquid or solid particles (4) to be separated are removable by a particle outlet. The separating device (1) is comprised of a cylindrical housing pipe (5) with a guiding device (3) and an immersion pipe (6) arranged in alignment with the flow direction of the gas stream (2) in the housing pipe (5) which immersion pipe is provided on the exterior with a spiral (7) for a directed removal of the particles (4) separated by rotation to a housing opening (8) and with a central outlet (9) for the purified gas stream (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2007
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: MANN+HUMMEL GMBH
    Inventors: Werner Blossey, Mario Rieger, Torsten Fritzsching, Bernard Klotz
  • Patent number: 7708796
    Abstract: A filter element (1), which is formed particularly of a flat element wrapped into a compact body and which along its outer circumference has at least one continuous main sealing ring (2) disposed adjacent an end face (4) on the intake side, is provided with an additional emergency sealing collar (3) which encloses the filter body and is disposed near the end face (5) on the outlet side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Mann+Hummel GmbH
    Inventors: Mario Rieger, Werner Blossey
  • Publication number: 20100043638
    Abstract: In an air filter unit (10) comprising at least one main air filter (1) and an auxiliary air filter (2) that is connected by an air conduit (3) to the main air filter (1) and has at least one auxiliary filter element, the auxiliary filter element is formed, at the unfiltered air side of the main air filter (1), by an at least partially porous wall of the air conduit (3) closed off at the intake side. In the reverse case, when installing at the filtered air side, the auxiliary filter element is arranged within the air conduit connected to the main air filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2007
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: MANN+HUMMEL GMBH
    Inventor: Mario Rieger
  • Publication number: 20100024371
    Abstract: In a compact air filter element (10) having a filter body (11) consisting of a coiled filter medium, through which filter body flow can pass through axially through its end sides (11.1), and which filter body (11) has at least one ring sealing element (15) extending along the periphery of the filter body (11), the filter body (11) is inserted into a hood element (12) and tightly seals to this. The hood element (12) covers one of the end sides (11.1) and grasps the outer periphery of the filter body (11) over the whole of the periphery in a grasping area close to the end side, wherein the grasping area of the hood element (12) ends in an outer edge having a ring edge surface (14.1) on or at which at least one ring sealing element (15) for placing against a sealing flange (22) of a housing pot element (20)is arranged. The reverse arrangement having the ring seal assigned to the housing pot element which presses on the hood element is also possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2007
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Applicant: MANN+HUMMEL GMBH
    Inventor: Mario Rieger
  • Patent number: 7645313
    Abstract: A filter element (1) wound from a plurality of filter layers in which the circumferential contour (5, 5?) of a cross-sectional area (4) of the filter element (1) has at least one circumferential contour section (5?) undercutting the envelope contour (6, 6?) of the cross-sectional filter element area (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2010
    Assignee: Mann & Hummel GmbH
    Inventors: Johannes Lampert, Andreas Pelz, Josef Rohrmeier, Thomas Sieber, Mario Rieger
  • Publication number: 20090320420
    Abstract: An air filter housing (10) for at least one compact air filter element (20) has at least one filter chamber (1) that at the ends has at least one hose connector socket (2, 3), respectively. The compact air filter element (20) is insertable chamber into the filter chamber between the hose connector sockets (2, 3) with sealing of the cross-section of the filter. At least one resonator chamber element (5, 6) is attached to the air filter housing (10) and is connected with the filter chamber (1) by at least one air-conducting channel (7, 8, 9) or slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2007
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: MANN+HUMMEL GMBH
    Inventors: Mario Rieger, Werner Blossey
  • Publication number: 20090320686
    Abstract: In an air filter housing (100) for an air filter element (2) with at least one housing bottom part (10) into which the air filter element (2) can be inserted completely or with a substantial portion of its length and a cover element (20) to be connected to the housing bottom part (10), on the housing bottom part (10) and on the cover element (20) at least one connector socket (14, 15) for connection to a hose conduit is provided, respectively. The connector socket for the side of the air filter element facing the cover element (20) is designed as a deflecting connector socket (14) that extends at least partially outside of the cross-sectional area covered by the air filter element (2) and that is connected to the housing bottom part (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2007
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: MANN+HUMMEL GMBH
    Inventors: Werner Blossey, Mario Rieger, Lorenz Eilert
  • Publication number: 20090205302
    Abstract: A compact filter element (10, 10?, 10?) is provided with knock protection to protect the filter element against damage, such as may be incurred by tapping or hitting the filter against a hard surface. The filter element includes a filter body (1) having of a wound filter medium and configured for axial flow through its end faces (2). At least at one end face (2) of the filter body (1) a protective collar (3, 3?, 3?) is provided which surrounds an outer circumference and projects past the end face (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2007
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Applicant: MANN+HUMMEL GMBH
    Inventor: Mario Rieger
  • Publication number: 20090188220
    Abstract: A compact filter has a filter housing and a compact filter element that is arranged in the filter housing, wherein the filter element is exchangeable. The compact filter element has a filter body having a longitudinal axis. The compact filter element has an unfiltered air side and a filtered air side. A baffle element is arranged at the unfiltered air side of the compact filter element. The baffle element is removable together with the filter element from the filter housing and has at least one baffle surface that is slanted relative to the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2008
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Applicant: MANN+HUMMEL GMBH
    Inventors: Juergen Freisinger, Mario Rieger