Patents by Inventor Matthias BALKA

Matthias BALKA 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: 11311919
    Abstract: A method cleans surfaces in an internal volume of an aircraft component through which a medium flows. The method includes: connecting the internal volume to be cleaned to a steam generator; generating a cleaning steam having a predetermined vapour pressure and temperature by the steam generator; applying the cleaning steam to the surfaces to be cleaned in the internal volume; maintaining the vapour pressure and the temperature within the internal volume for the duration of a predetermined condensation time; generating a pressure drop in the internal volume of the aircraft component, in order to vaporise the portion of the cleaning steam that condensed during the condensation time; and removing the cleaning steam from the internal volume via a discharge device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: LUFTHANSA TECHNIK AG
    Inventor: Matthias Balka
  • Publication number: 20200171553
    Abstract: A method cleans surfaces in an internal volume of an aircraft component through which a medium flows. The method includes: connecting the internal volume to be cleaned to a steam generator; generating a cleaning steam having a predetermined vapour pressure and temperature by the steam generator; applying the cleaning steam to the surfaces to be cleaned in the internal volume; maintaining the vapour pressure and the temperature within the internal volume for the duration of a predetermined condensation time; generating a pressure drop in the internal volume of the aircraft component, in order to vaporise the portion of the cleaning steam that condensed during the condensation time; and removing the cleaning steam from the internal volume via a discharge device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventor: Matthias Balka
  • Patent number: 10288687
    Abstract: Method for testing a temperature-compensated, pressure-gradient-controlled pressure switch, which is pneumatically associated with a primary pressure chamber and comprises a secondary pressure chamber for temperature compensation, wherein, by using at least one temperature-control apparatus between the primary pressure chamber and the secondary pressure chamber, a temperature gradient is set which is sufficiently great to produce a pressure gradient between the primary pressure chamber and the secondary pressure chamber that corresponds at least to the triggering pressure gradient of the pressure switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: LUFTHANSA TECHNIK AG
    Inventor: Matthias Balka
  • Publication number: 20170115354
    Abstract: Method for testing a temperature-compensated, pressure-gradient-controlled pressure switch, which is pneumatically associated with a primary pressure chamber and comprises a secondary pressure chamber for temperature compensation, wherein, by using at least one temperature-control apparatus between the primary pressure chamber and the secondary pressure chamber, a temperature gradient is set which is sufficiently great to produce a pressure gradient between the primary pressure chamber and the secondary pressure chamber that corresponds at least to the triggering pressure gradient of the pressure switch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventor: Matthias BALKA