Patents by Inventor Michael Renz

Michael Renz 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: 12589417
    Abstract: A pressure washer has a connection for a source of liquid; a high pressure pump; a main line by way of which liquid via the high pressure pump is conveyable from the connection to a spray opening of the main line; and a supplemental pump for adding an additive to the liquid. The pressure washer is conceived in such a way that the additive by way of the supplemental pump is able to be fed to the main line upstream of the high pressure pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2026
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Simon Trinkle, Michael Renz, Christopher Tost
  • Patent number: 12589416
    Abstract: A pressure washer includes a main line through which, via a high-pressure pump, liquid can be conveyed to a spray opening, and a main valve. The main valve, when in a closed state, prevents liquid from flowing through the main line and, when in an open state, allows liquid to flow through the main line. The main valve is switchable between open and closed via an operator-controlled element. The main line has a suction chamber between the connection and the pump and a pressure chamber between the pump and the spray opening. The pressure chamber is fluidically connected to the suction chamber via a bypass line. A free cross-sectional area of the bypass line is settable via a bypass valve in the bypass line for regulating pressure in the pressure chamber. The bypass valve is adjustable via the operator-controlled element for setting the free cross-sectional area of the bypass line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2026
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Simon Trinkle, Christopher Tost, Richard Fresow, Lukas Zuercher, Michael Renz
  • Publication number: 20250289037
    Abstract: A spraying device for a pressure cleaning device (1) includes a base body (10), a spraying head (20) with a spraying opening (21) through which cleaning fluid can be sprayed, a lance (30) which can be arranged between the base body (10) and the spraying head (20), a base connection device (40) by which the lance (30) can be detachably connected to the base body (10) and a head connection device (50) by which the lance (30) can be detachably connected to the spraying head (20). The cleaning fluid can be conveyed from the base body (10), in particular through the lance (30), to the spraying opening (21). The base connection device (40) can be detached with a base detachment force. The head connection device (50) can be detached with a head detachment force. The base detachment force and the head detachment force are of different magnitude.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2025
    Publication date: September 18, 2025
    Applicant: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Yannic Müller, Michael Renz, Mario Häfele
  • Publication number: 20250289015
    Abstract: A hand-held high-pressure cleaning device includes a housing. The housing has a housing outer wall. A pump for generating high pressure in a cleaning fluid and a motor for driving the pump are arranged in the housing. The high-pressure cleaning device includes a display element visible from outside the housing in the region of the housing outer wall. The display element can be illuminated by a light source arranged in the housing. An electronics module having an electronics housing is arranged in the housing. A control unit is arranged in the electronics housing. The light source is arranged on the electronics module. A channel for guiding light from the light source to the display element is arranged between the electronics module and the display element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2025
    Publication date: September 18, 2025
    Applicant: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Michael Renz, Mario Häfele
  • Publication number: 20250161995
    Abstract: A pressure washer includes a port for a liquid source, a high-pressure pump, a main line, through which liquid can be conveyed from the port to a spray opening of the main line by the high-pressure pump, a control element for setting a pressure value for the pressure in the main line, and a pressure regulator, which adjusts the pressure in the main line according to the pressure value set by the control element. The control element is continuously adjustable along a travel path. Each position of the control element sets a specific pressure value. The pressure washer has a selector element for selecting at least two different characteristic curves, each with a different relationship between positions of the control element and pressure values. By selecting a characteristic curve using the selector element, the assignment of the position of the control element to the pressure value can be changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2024
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Applicant: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Simon Trinkle, Christopher Tost, Michael Renz
  • Publication number: 20250041837
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing g-C3N4/metal composite nanoflakes comprising the following steps: (A) providing a starting material comprising or consisting of FePO4, urea and polyacrylnitrile, wherein the starting material is in the form of a powder having particles having an average particle size of less than 100 nm, (b) dispersing the starting material in a solvent, wherein the solvent is water, (c) removing the solvent to form a premix containing the starting material, (d) heating the premix and pyrolyzing the premix at a pyrolyzing temperature between 200° C. and 700° C., preferably between 400° C. and 600° C. to form a bulk g-C3N4 metal composite material, (e) treating the bulk g-C3N4 metal composite material with ultrasound to form g-C3N4 metal composite material nanoflakes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Merkur SMAJLAJ, Michael RENZ
  • Publication number: 20250041887
    Abstract: A pressure washer includes a motor for a high-pressure pump, a battery pack to supply the motor with energy, a battery compartment for the battery pack and a housing. The battery compartment has an insertion opening through which the battery pack can be inserted into the battery compartment. The battery compartment has a base body. The pressure washer has a protective element for protecting the battery compartment from liquid, which is arranged radially outside the base body of the battery compartment and has a protective surface. The battery compartment has a projection which projects radially beyond the base body of the battery compartment. The protective surface points in an insertion direction. The pressure washer has at least one angular sector around the insertion axis in which the protective element axially overlaps the projection such that the projection lies in front of the protective surface with respect to the insertion direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Christian Krauer, Alexander Kiebler, Michael Renz
  • Publication number: 20240207902
    Abstract: A pressure washer has a connection for a source of liquid; a high pressure pump; a main line by way of which liquid via the high pressure pump is conveyable from the connection to a spray opening of the main line; and a supplemental pump for adding an additive to the liquid. The pressure washer is conceived in such a way that the additive by way of the supplemental pump is able to be fed to the main line upstream of the high pressure pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventors: Simon Trinkle, Michael Renz, Christopher Tost
  • Publication number: 20230381829
    Abstract: A pressure washer includes a main line through which, via a high-pressure pump, liquid can be conveyed to a spray opening, and a main valve. The main valve, when in a closed state, prevents liquid from flowing through the main line and, when in an open state, allows liquid to flow through the main line. The main valve is switchable between open and closed via an operator-controlled element. The main line has a suction chamber between the connection and the pump and a pressure chamber between the pump and the spray opening. The pressure chamber is fluidically connected to the suction chamber via a bypass line. A free cross-sectional area of the bypass line is settable via a bypass valve in the bypass line for regulating pressure in the pressure chamber. The bypass valve is adjustable via the operator-controlled element for setting the free cross-sectional area of the bypass line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Simon Trinkle, Christopher Tost, Richard Fresow, Lukas Zuercher, Michael Renz
  • Publication number: 20230001457
    Abstract: A high-pressure cleaning appliance includes a connection for a liquid source, a delivery pump, a motor for driving the delivery pump, a delivery line through which liquid can be delivered from the connection to a spraying-out opening of the delivery line via the delivery pump, and a valve which is arranged in the delivery line. The motor has two operating states. The two operating states include an off state and an on state. The valve has two valve states, wherein the two valve states include a closed state and an open state. In the closed state, the valve prevents a flow of liquid through the delivery line. In the open state, the valve allows a flow of liquid through the delivery line. The high-pressure cleaning appliance is structurally configured in such a way that the adjustment of the operating state of the motor is possible only if the valve is in the open state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Christopher Tost, Lukas Zuercher, Michael Renz, Simon Trinkle, Richard Fresow
  • Publication number: 20220314336
    Abstract: The adjustment head is intended for use in the working space of a CNC machine which has a base station set up and intended for the exchange of information with a measuring probe or bore measuring mandrel, which base station is connected to a control of the CNC machine, and comprises a first function module and a second function module, wherein the first function module is divided into a power supply module and a data transmission module, wherein the second function module comprises a machining module for receiving at least one tool, wherein the machining module comprises a tool adjustment device for adjustment the tool in a radial and/or an axial direction and/or in an angular orientation of the tool based on specifications of the control, and wherein the power supply module supplies components of the adjustment head, including the data transmission module and the tool adjustment device, with electrical power, and wherein the data transmission module is arranged and intended for exchanging information concern
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Gregor MAIER, Christian HARSCHER, Thomas VUJICA, Michael RENZ, Martin Boos
  • Patent number: 9840677
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a biofuel from an aqueous mixture of carbonized biomass obtained by means of a method for the hydrothermal carbonization of biomass, characterized in that it comprises: (a) grinding the aqueous mixture of carbonized biomass until a maximum size of less than 500 micrometers of the particles contained in the mixture is obtained; (b) applying a method for the physical separation of inorganic substances; and (c) reducing the moisture content until a water content of between 25 and 55 wt. % is reached. The invention also relates to the biofuel obtained by said method, and to the use thereof in various applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: INGELIA, S.L.
    Inventors: Martin Hitzl, Michael Renz, Avelino Corma Canos
  • Patent number: 9556384
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for extracting biochemical products obtained from a process of hydrothermal carbonization of biomass, which includes feeding an aqueous mixture of biomass from a preheating tube for the aqueous mixture of biomass to a vertical reactor with a predetermined level of floatation and an area for accumulation of steam and gases in the upper part thereof, wherein said method for extracting biochemical products is characterized in that it includes (a) heating the aqueous mixture of biomass to, or above, evaporation temperature in said vertical reactor and/or in a previous stage of preheating the aqueous mixture of biomass, increasing the generation of stream and/or gases at the predetermined flotation level of the vertical reactor, (b) extracting the steam and/or gases generated in the previous stage and accumulated in the upper part of the vertical reactor, and (c) cooling the gases and/or condensing the steam extracted in the previous stage at different levels of temperature and pr
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: INGELIA, S.L.
    Inventors: Martin Hitzl, Michael Renz, Avelino Corma Canos
  • Patent number: 9416068
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing liquid fuel having a high alkane content and a low oxygenized compound content, said method comprising at least: a first step of treating 2-methylfuran with a catalyst and water in reaction conditions in order to form a mixture of products with at least ten carbon atoms; and a second step of catalytic hydrogenation and dehydration of the product or the mixture obtained in step 1, using suitable hydrogenation and dehydration catalysts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignees: CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS (CSIC), UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA
    Inventors: Avelino Corma Canos, Michael Renz, Olalla De La Torre Alfaro
  • Patent number: 9199955
    Abstract: The present invention describes a procedure for the production of liquid fuel having a content high in alkanes and low in oxygenated compounds, comprising as a minimum: a first step of alkylation of 2-methylfuran (commonly denominated Sylvan) with a furan alcohol 2 having the formula: (2), wherein R1 is H or an aliphatic or aromatic or heteroaromatic moiety, R2 is H or an aliphatic or aromatic or heteroaromatic moiety, and R3 is H, hydroxymethyl or an aliphatic or aromatic or heteroaromatic moiety, in the presence of a catalyst, a second step of hydrogenation and dehydration of the compound obtained in step 1 in the presence of hydrogen, utilizing suitable hydrogenation and dehydration catalysts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignees: CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS (CSIC), UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA (UPV)
    Inventors: Avelino Corma Canós, Michael Renz, Olalla De La Torre Alfaro
  • Patent number: 9143020
    Abstract: An electric drive motor for a work apparatus includes a stator having two stator poles which are at a distance from one another in the circumferential direction and have respective field windings. The motor has a rotor which rotates between the stator poles and the rotor shaft of the rotor drives a fan wheel. The cooling-air flow generated by the fan wheel enters the stator, flows therethrough and is discharged therefrom. For effective cooling, a pole intermediate space is provided between the stator poles; and, for the cooling-air flow, this space is filled by a non-magnetic guide body to provide a cooling duct delimited by the guide body and the field windings. The guide body is fastened to a support at one stator end and is inserted axially into the stator at the other end thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Michael Renz, Alexander Haas, Adolf Juergen Neumann, Markus Maier
  • Publication number: 20150240175
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a biofuel from an aqueous mixture of carbonised biomass obtained by means of a method for the hydrothermal carbonisation of biomass, characterised in that it comprises: (a) grinding the aqueous mixture of carbonised biomass until a maximum size of less than 500 micrometres of the particles contained in the mixture is obtained; (b) applying a method for the physical separation of inorganic substances; and (c) reducing the moisture content until a water content of between 25 and 55 wt. % is reached. The invention also relates to the biofuel obtained by said method, and to the use thereof in various applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: Martin Hitzl, Michael Renz, Avelino Corma Canos
  • Publication number: 20140142353
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for extracting biochemical products obtained from a process of hydrothermal carbonization of biomass, which includes feeding an aqueous mixture of biomass from a preheating tube for the aqueous mixture of biomass to a vertical reactor with a predetermined level of floatation and an area for accumulation of steam and gases in the upper part thereof, wherein said method for extracting biochemical products is characterized in that it includes (a) heating the aqueous mixture of biomass to, or above, evaporation temperature in said vertical reactor and/or in a previous stage of preheating the aqueous mixture of biomass, increasing the generation of stream and/or gases at the predetermined flotation level of the vertical reactor, (b) extracting the steam and/or gases generated in the previous stage and accumulated in the upper part of the vertical reactor, and (c) cooling the gases and/or condensing the steam extracted in the previous stage at different levels of temperature and pr
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Inventors: Martin Hitzl, Michael Renz, Avelino Corma Canos
  • Publication number: 20140028126
    Abstract: An electric drive motor for a work apparatus includes a stator having two stator poles which are at a distance from one another in the circumferential direction and have respective field windings. The motor has a rotor which rotates between the stator poles and the rotor shaft of the rotor drives a fan wheel. The cooling-air flow generated by the fan wheel enters the stator, flows therethrough and is discharged therefrom. For effective cooling, a pole intermediate space is provided between the stator poles; and, for the cooling-air flow, this space is filled by a non-magnetic guide body to provide a cooling duct delimited by the guide body and the field windings. The guide body is fastened to a support at one stator end and is inserted axially into the stator at the other end thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Michael Renz, Alexander Haas, Adolf Juergen Neumann, Markus Maier
  • Patent number: 8633338
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a process for the production of myrtanal from ?-pinene epoxide that comprises at least of putting this epoxide in contact with a microporous and crystalline catalyst with pores of a diameter of at least 0.52 nm with an empirical formula for the calcinated and dehydrated form of Hw(MwTixSnyZrzSi1-w-x-y-z)O2 where M is at least a metal with valence+3 selected from Al, B, Ga, Fe, Cr and combinations of these; w is a molar fraction of M with a value of between 0 and 2(x+y+z); x is a molar fraction of titanium and has a value of between 0 and 0.06; y is a molar fraction of tin and has a value of between 0 and 0.06; z is a molar fraction of zirconium and has a value of between 0 and 0.06; and where at least one of the three values “x”, “y” or “z” is different from zero. In the present invention, the microporous and crystalline catalyst preferably has pores of at least 0.52 nm and has a crystalline structure with an X-ray diffractogram of a zeolite beta.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignees: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV)
    Inventors: Avelino Corma Canós, Michael Renz, Olalla De La Torre Alfaro