Patents by Inventor Markus Spring

Markus Spring 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: 20210041302
    Abstract: A method for producing a metal plate having at least one embedded temperature sensor and to a metal plate produced by the method. The metal plate is produced from a plurality of layers or plate bodies, which are diffusion-connected to each other by thermal pretreatment and subsequent rolling. A sheathed thermocouple is rolled, as the temperature sensor, into the metal plate during the production of the metal plate, or a protective tube made of metal is rolled into the metal plate, into which protective tube a sheathed thermocouple can be inserted after the metal plate has been processed further to form a cooking vessel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Applicant: Alinox AG
    Inventor: Markus SPRING
  • Patent number: 10362638
    Abstract: A description is given of a process for producing a metal plate having at least one embedded heating element and of the metal plate produced by the process. The heating element is arranged between two plate bodies, and the heating element is embedded in the plate bodies by rolling with material displacement. The adjacent sides of the plate bodies have a layer of aluminum or an aluminum alloy. After a heat pre-treatment at the re-crystallization temperature of the aluminum or the aluminum alloy, the plate bodies are pressed against one another to bring about a reduction in thickness, with which the plate bodies form a diffusion bond with one another and are integrally bonded to one another over the entire surface area thereof to form the metal plate to be produced. The process produces a metal plate as a whole with better thermal conductivity and a broader spectrum of use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: ALINOX AG
    Inventors: Norbert Hoffstaedter, Markus Spring
  • Patent number: 8651364
    Abstract: A strip-shaped or plate-shaped composite metal object and a method for the production thereof. The composite metal object has at least two layers of the same metal. The layers have been brought by a heat pretreatment to a temperature such that a mutual diffusion bond has resulted through subsequent pressing of the layers against one another, while reducing the thickness by 5 to 25% and preferably 8 to 15%. A layer, which on the side thereof facing an adjacent layer has strip-shaped recesses, which are closed by the adjacent layer to form channels when the layers are pressed together, is used as one of the layers. The channels in the composite metal object allow the inclusion of additional elements before processed further to form an implement. The channels remain extensively preserved during the production and further processing of the composite model object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Eisfink Max Maier GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Norbert Hoffstaedter, Markus Spring
  • Publication number: 20130186885
    Abstract: A description is given of a process for producing a metal plate having at least one embedded heating element and of the metal plate produced by the process. The heating element is arranged between two plate bodies, and the heating element is embedded in the plate bodies by rolling with material displacement. The adjacent sides of the plate bodies have a layer of aluminium or an aluminium alloy. After a heat pre-treatment at the re-crystallisation temperature of the aluminium or the aluminium alloy, the plate bodies are pressed against one another to bring about a reduction in thickness, with which the plate bodies form a diffusion bond with one another and are integrally bonded to one another over the entire surface area thereof to form the metal plate to be produced. The process produces a metal plate as a whole with better thermal conductivity and a broader spectrum of use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2011
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Inventors: Norbert Hoffstaedter, Markus Spring
  • Publication number: 20100297463
    Abstract: A strip-shaped or plate-shaped composite metal object and a method for the production thereof. The composite metal object has at least two layers of the same metal. The layers have been brought by a heat pretreatment to a temperature such that a mutual diffusion bond has resulted through subsequent pressing of the layers against one another, while reducing the thickness by 5 to 25% and preferably 8 to 15%. A layer, which on the side thereof facing an adjacent layer has strip-shaped recesses, which are closed by the adjacent layer to form channels when the layers are pressed together, is used as one of the layers. The channels in the composite metal object allow the inclusion of additional elements before processed further to form an implement. The channels remain extensively preserved during the production and further processing of the composite model object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2008
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicant: EISFINK MAX MAIER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Norbert Hoffstaedter, Markus Spring
  • Patent number: 7335428
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cooking vessel comprising a base made of a multilayer material and a side wall, the said multilayer material comprising, in succession from the outside of the vessel to the inside of the vessel: an outer part, having a thickness eE, consisting of a layer of a ferromagnetic Nickel based alloy having a Curie temperature of between 30 and 350° C. and a thermal expansion coefficient of greater than or equal to 6.5.10?6 K?1, and a core, having a thickness ec, comprising at least one layer selected among aluminium, aluminium alloy and copper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2008
    Assignees: Imphy Alloys, Alinox AG
    Inventors: Hervé Fraisse, Yves Grosbety, Thierry Waeckerle, Markus Spring, Norbert Hoffstaedter
  • Publication number: 20070292706
    Abstract: The invention relates to a plate-shaped composite material of several metal layers (1, 2, 3) for producing cookware suitable for induction stoves by deep drawing, wherein the composite material comprises two metallic outer layers (1, 2) and at least one metallic core layer (3) arranged between the outer layers (1, 2), wherein at least one of the two outer layers (1) is formed of aluminum or an aluminum alloy and the core layer (3) adjacent to this outer layer is formed of a ferromagnetic metal or a ferromagnetic metal alloy. The composite material composed in such a way can be coated on the outer layer which consists of aluminum or an aluminum alloy in a simple and cost efficient way. By this it becomes possible to produce high-quality cookware suitable for induction stoves with a desired coating at low cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2004
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Inventors: Markus Spring, Norbert Hoffstaedter
  • Publication number: 20050064219
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cooking vessel comprising a base made of a multilayer material and a side wall, the said multilayer material comprising, in succession from the outside of the vessel to the inside of the vessel: an outer part, having a thickness eE, consisting of a layer of a ferromagnetic Nickel based alloy having a Curie temperature of between 30 and 350° C. and a thermal expansion coefficient of greater than or equal to 6.5.10?6 K?1, and a core, having a thickness ec, comprising at least one layer selected among aluminium, aluminium alloy and copper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2001
    Publication date: March 24, 2005
    Inventors: Herve Fraisse, Yves Grosbety, Thierry Waeckerle, Markus Spring, Norbert Hoffstaedter
  • Patent number: 5952112
    Abstract: The composite article includes a core layer of an aluminium alloy. This core layer is arranged between two outer layer portions which are structured as mere images of each other relative to the core layer. Such an outer layer portion may include a layer of pure aluminium arranged on the core layer followed by a layer of carbon steel and finally a layer of an austenitic high-grade steel forming the outermost layer. This composite article has an excellent heat conducting property and is easily magnetizable. The arrangement of the individual layers does not lead to difficulties such as detaching of layers, rupturing of layers or the forming of waves during a cold deforming, drawing etc. of the composite article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1999
    Assignee: Clad Lizenz Ag
    Inventor: Markus Spring
  • Patent number: 4380992
    Abstract: A burner for a small portable stove, especially for a flambe or flaming stove, comprises a burner lower portion equipped with a fuel container, a burner upper portion having a central flame opening and an extinguishing cover for the flame opening. The burner upper portion which is constructed as a cover can be controllably raised with respect to the burner lower portion in order to form an air inlet gap which extends completely about the burner. Between the burner lower portion and the burner upper portion there are provided at least three run-on inclined elements or ramps, so that by movement, such as displacement or rotation of the upper portion with respect to the lower portion, it is possible to alter the height of the air inlet gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1980
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1983
    Assignee: Spring AG, Metallwarenfabrik
    Inventor: Markus Spring