Patents by Inventor Michael Spitzer

Michael Spitzer 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: 20250106043
    Abstract: A computer implemented method is provided. A number of processor units identify a number of certificates for a device within a network to obtain a file path for each certificate. The number of processor units perform an internal scan of the device to obtain a port number for each active port associated with network protocol on the device. The number of processor units identify a certificate chain associated with each port number based on the network protocol for the device. The number of processor units compare content for each certificate from the number of certificates to the certificate chains for the device to generate a number of matches. The number of processor units generate a data structure including the file path of the certificate for each port on the device based on the number of matches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Billy Lee Grier, Joseph Michael Spitzer, Christopher M. Wood
  • Publication number: 20240410088
    Abstract: A textile machine that can comprise a first negative pressure point for producing a thread, a second negative pressure point for sucking in the thread and a negative pressure system which can be designed and arranged to be brought into a fluidic connection with the first negative pressure point. Alternatively, the first negative pressure system can be designed and arranged to be in a fluidic connection with the first negative pressure point. The textile machine can comprise a second negative pressure system that can be brought into a fluidic connection with the second negative pressure point. Alternatively, the second negative pressure system can be designed and arranged to be in fluidic connection with the second negative pressure point. A connection between the first negative pressure system and the second negative pressure system is designed such that the connection can be selectively established or interrupted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicant: Saurer Spinning Solutions GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Detlef Schelter, Lothar Uedinger, Sebastian Thomas, Michael Spitzer
  • Publication number: 20240336453
    Abstract: A thread traversing device for a winding device of a textile machine producing cross-wound bobbins including a thread guide housing having a thread guide, and a traversing device to reversibly traverse along a direction of axis of the cross-wound bobbin to be produced. At least one vacuum system comprising at least one fluid guide is provided, wherein the thread guide housing is designed and wherein the traversing device is associated with the thread guide housing so as to, in a work station of the textile machine, reversibly traverse the thread guide along a direction of the axis of rotation of the cross-wound bobbin to be produced, and wherein the thread guide housing can be brought into fluidic communication with the fluid guide in order to apply a vacuum to the thread guide housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2024
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Applicant: Saurer Spinning Solutions GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Michael Spitzer
  • Patent number: 12006181
    Abstract: A textile machine for producing cross-wound packages, which has a plurality of workstations on the two longitudinal sides of the machine and is equipped with a tube magazine arranged at an end of the machine, the tube magazine having a plurality of empty-tube transport rows, driven by electric motor and loaded with empty tubes of different yarn lots. In order to avoid the fixed division of the empty-tube transport rows that hitherto was defined by the construction of the tube magazine and thus to avoid limited variations in the yarn lot management, the invention provides for the empty-tube transport rows to be equipped with electric drives, which are connected to a control unit of the textile machine, the machine control system being designed in such a way that different lot management programs are set by software.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Saurer Spinning Solutions GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Eduard Prediger, Michael Spitzer, Heiko Toepke, Jonathan Sprecher, Philipp Schiffers, Wolfgang Doerner, Harald Wassen
  • Patent number: 11873185
    Abstract: A textile machine producing cross-wound packages with a plurality of identical workstations which are arranged in the area of the longitudinal sides of the textile machine and each of which has a winding device, and equipped with a tube supply device which includes a central tube magazine and at least one tube conveyor belt installed in the area of the longitudinal sides of the machine, in which case a cross-wound package can be removed, if necessary, from the winding device of the relevant workstation on the textile machine producing cross-wound packages and can be transferred to a cross-wound package transport device running the length of the machine, and an empty tube provided on the tube conveyor belt of the tube supply device can be inserted by means of a tube gripper into the winding device of the relevant workstation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Saurer Spinning Solutions GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Philipp Schiffers, Eduard Prediger, Harald Wassen, Michael Spitzer, Dirk Brakensiek, Jonathan Sprecher
  • Publication number: 20230417221
    Abstract: A textile machine comprising a plurality of workstations for processing fibres and/or threads; at least one unit through which air flows, located centrally and/or at the individual workstations; and an energy recovery device. In order to provide a textile machine having an energy recovery device which has high energy efficiency, the energy recovery device has a rotational element which: can be fluidically connected to a supply air line and/or exhaust air line of the unit; can be driven by an air flow; and is connected to a generator for electricity generation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Michael SPITZER, Sebastian THOMAS
  • Publication number: 20230332338
    Abstract: A method of power control for a textile machine with simultaneously operated workstations and with at least one power supply unit for jointly powering the workstations, a power control unit and a spinning machine. The method enables rapid run-up of the textile machine and minimise delays and downtimes. The method comprises steps that initially involve determining the required electrical power output of each of the workstations, then determining the simultaneously executable operations on the basis of the determined required power and a maximum power output of the power supply unit. Optimised operating data of the several workstations powered jointly by a power supply unit can be obtained in order to make the best possible use of the maximum power output of a power supply unit, wherein the required electrical power output and/or the simultaneously executable operations are determined, and/or optimised operating data is obtained taking into consideration current batch data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Michael SPITZER, Robert GEISLER
  • Patent number: 11649135
    Abstract: A textile machine for producing cross-wound packages, the machine being equipped with a plurality of workstations arranged next to one another on both longitudinal sides of the machine and having a cross-wound package transport apparatus. The cross-wound package transport apparatus has a first transport device, arranged between the two rows of workstations for conveying cross-wound packages, and a handling apparatus for moving cross-wound packages from the first transport device to the second transport device. The handling apparatus is arranged between the end regions of the first transport device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Saurer Spinning Solutions GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Dirk Brakensiek, Robert Geisler, Wolfgang Doerner, Bodo Hansen, Tai Mac, Erwin Peters, Eduard Prediger, Philipp Schiffers, Michael Spitzer, Jonathan Sprecher, Heiko Toepke, Lothar Winzen
  • Patent number: 11643757
    Abstract: A method for optimizing the operation of a spinning machine with regard to quality and productivity is provided. An apparatus, comprising a control device and the spinning machine is provided. A yarn having specified yarn properties is produced, a quality parameter of the yarn is sensed during the spinning operation, a parameter for setting the production speed is specified, the quality parameter and the parameter for setting the production speed are evaluated, and the production speed is set in dependence on a target variable, the target variable comprising the quality parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Saurer Spinning Solutions GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Patrick Werheit, Jörg von Livonius, Philipp Schiffers, Anna Turowski, Jürgen Hüls, Jan Märtin, Michael Spitzer
  • Patent number: 11180341
    Abstract: A textile machine for producing cross-wound packages, comprising a plurality of workstations, each of which has at least one pneumatic consumer, and comprising a suction system which has at least one vacuum source to which the pneumatic consumers of the workstations are connected via a machine-length vacuum duct arranged in the region of the central axis between two rows of workstations. In order to modify such a textile machine producing cross-wound packages in such a way that it is ensured that the required minimum spinning vacuum is always available at all workstations of the textile machine during spinning operation, according to the invention the textile machine producing cross-wound packages has, in addition to the vacuum duct, a machine-length bypass duct which is also installed in the region of the central axis and is arranged above chain ducts for service units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Saurer Spinning Solutions GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Dirk Brakensiek, Elisabeth Klaczynski, Tai Mac, Erwin Peters, Eduard Prediger, Philipp Schiffers, Michael Spitzer, Detlef Schelter, Heiko Toepke, Lothar Winzen, Lothar Uedinger, Harald Wilhelm Wassen
  • Patent number: 11174105
    Abstract: A tube storage and transport device for a textile machine producing cross-wound packages, which has a plurality of similar workstations arranged side-by-side on both longitudinal machine sides, having a central tube magazine and two empty-tube conveyor belts arranged in the region of the longitudinal machine sides is provided. To improve the known tube storage and transport devices, and in particular to optimize the clock times that can be achieved during the empty-tube delivery, the tube magazine has at least two elevator units, that the elevator units have stacked and vertically displaceable holders for empty tubes, that the holders are designed for the empty tubes to be set down in a manner oriented the longitudinal direction of the machine, and that each of the elevator units is connected to one of the empty-tube conveyor belts and is designed in such a way that empty tubes are removed from the elevator units from the longitudinal machine side and transferred onto the empty-tube conveyor belts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: SAURER SPINNING SOLUTIONS GmbH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Eduard Prediger, Erwin Peters, Lothar Winzen, Bodo Hansen, Lothar Uedinger, Robert Geisler, Heiko Toepke, Dirk Brakensiek, Jonathan Sprecher, Philipp Schiffers, Michael Spitzer
  • Publication number: 20210300717
    Abstract: A textile machine producing cross-wound packages with a plurality of identical workstations which are arranged in the area of the longitudinal sides of the textile machine and each of which has a winding device, and equipped with a tube supply device which includes a central tube magazine and at least one tube conveyor belt installed in the area of the longitudinal sides of the machine, in which case a cross-wound package can be removed, if necessary, from the winding device of the relevant workstation on the textile machine producing cross-wound packages and can be transferred to a cross-wound package transport device running the length of the machine, and an empty tube provided on the tube conveyor belt of the tube supply device can be inserted by means of a tube gripper into the winding device of the relevant workstation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Philipp SCHIFFERS, Eduard PREDIGER, Harald WASSEN, Michael SPITZER, Dirk BRAKENSIEK, Jonathan SPRECHER
  • Patent number: 11066271
    Abstract: A method for operating a textile machine with several identical workstations which each have a basic requirement for negative pressure for regular production operation and an additional requirement for negative pressure following an interruption to production at the workstation, and with a vacuum system with limited suction force to exert the negative pressure on the workstations. A minimum negative pressure (pmin) is set and the number workstations simultaneously supplied with additional negative pressure is limited so that the minimum negative pressure (pmin) is always met. In accordance with the invention, a sub-negative pressure (psub) is specified which is below the minimum negative pressure (pmin) and, if a specified event occurs, the number of workstations simultaneously supplied with additional negative pressure is temporarily limited so that the sub-negative pressure (psub) is always met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Saurer Spinning Solutions GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Bert Schloemer, Dirk Brakensiek, Detlef Schelter, Michael Spitzer
  • Publication number: 20200399792
    Abstract: A method for optimizing the operation of a spinning machine with regard to quality and productivity is provided. An apparatus, comprising a control device and the spinning machine is provided. According to the invention, a yarn having specified yarn properties is produced, a quality parameter of the yarn is sensed during the spinning operation, a parameter for setting the production speed is specified, the quality parameter and the parameter for setting the production speed are evaluated, and the production speed is set in dependence on a target variable, the target variable comprising the quality parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Patrick Werheit, Jörg von Livonius, Philipp Schiffers, Anna Turowski, Jürgen Hüls, Jan Märtin, Michael Spitzer
  • Publication number: 20200331701
    Abstract: A tube storage and transport device for a textile machine producing cross-wound packages, which has a plurality of similar workstations arranged side-by-side on both longitudinal machine sides, having a central tube magazine and two empty-tube conveyor belts arranged in the region of the longitudinal machine sides is provided. To improve the known tube storage and transport devices, and in particular to optimize the clock times that can be achieved during the empty-tube delivery, the tube magazine has at least two elevator units, that the elevator units have stacked and vertically displaceable holders for empty tubes, that the holders are designed for the empty tubes to be set down in a manner oriented the longitudinal direction of the machine, and that each of the elevator units is connected to one of the empty-tube conveyor belts and is designed in such a way that empty tubes are removed from the elevator units from the longitudinal machine side and transferred onto the empty-tube conveyor belts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Eduard Prediger, Erwin Peters, Lothar Winzen, Bodo Hansen, Lothar Uedinger, Robert Geisler, Heiko Toepke, Dirk Brakensiek, Jonathan Sprecher, Philipp Schiffers, Michael Spitzer, I
  • Publication number: 20200331721
    Abstract: A textile machine for producing cross-wound packages, which has a plurality of workstations on the two longitudinal sides of the machine and is equipped with a tube magazine arranged at an end of the machine, the tube magazine having a plurality of empty-tube transport rows, driven by electric motor and loaded with empty tubes of different yarn lots. In order to avoid the fixed division of the empty-tube transport rows that hitherto was defined by the construction of the tube magazine and thus to avoid limited variations in the yarn lot management, the invention provides for the empty-tube transport rows to be equipped with electric drives, which are connected to a control unit of the textile machine, the machine control system being designed in such a way that different lot management programs are set by software.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Eduard Prediger, Michael Spitzer, Heiko Toepke, Jonathan Sprecher, Philipp Schiffers, Wolfgang Doerner, Harald Wassen
  • Publication number: 20200189860
    Abstract: A textile machine for producing cross-wound packages, the machine being equipped with a plurality of workstations arranged next to one another on both longitudinal sides of the machine and having a cross-wound package transport apparatus. The cross-wound package transport apparatus has a first transport device, arranged between the two rows of workstations for conveying cross-wound packages, and a handling apparatus for moving cross-wound packages from the first transport device to the second transport device. The handling apparatus is arranged between the end regions of the first transport device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Dirk Brakensiek, Robert Geisler, Wolfgang Doerner, Bodo Hansen, Tai Mac, Erwin Peters, Eduard Prediger, Philipp Schiffers, Michael Spitzer, Jonathan Sprecher, Heiko Toepke, Lothar Winzen
  • Publication number: 20200180900
    Abstract: A textile machine for producing cross-wound packages, comprising a plurality of workstations, each of which has at least one pneumatic consumer, and comprising a suction system which has at least one vacuum source to which the pneumatic consumers of the workstations are connected via a machine-length vacuum duct arranged in the region of the central axis between two rows of workstations. In order to modify such a textile machine producing cross-wound packages in such a way that it is ensured that the required minimum spinning vacuum is always available at all workstations of the textile machine during spinning operation, according to the invention the textile machine producing cross-wound packages has, in addition to the vacuum duct, a machine-length bypass duct which is also installed in the region of the central axis and is arranged above chain ducts for service units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Dirk Brakensiek, Elisabeth Klaczynski, Tai Mac, Erwin Peters, Eduard Prediger, Philipp Schiffers, Michael Spitzer, Detlef Schelter, Heiko Toepke, Lothar Winzen, Lothar Uedinger, Harald Wilhelm Wassen
  • Publication number: 20190233980
    Abstract: A method for operating a textile machine with several identical workstations which each have a basic requirement for negative pressure for regular production operation and an additional requirement for negative pressure following an interruption to production at the workstation, and with a vacuum system with limited suction force to exert the negative pressure on the workstations. A minimum negative pressure (pmin) is set and the number workstations simultaneously supplied with additional negative pressure is limited so that the minimum negative pressure (pmin) is always met. In accordance with the invention, a sub-negative pressure (psub) is specified which is below the minimum negative pressure (pmin) and, if a specified event occurs, the number of workstations simultaneously supplied with additional negative pressure is temporarily limited so that the sub-negative pressure (psub) is always met.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Bert Schloemer, Dirk Brakensiek, Detlef Schelter, Michael Spitzer
  • Patent number: 9103053
    Abstract: A method for operating an open-end rotor spinning machine having a plurality of workstations, usually a large number, each including a spinning device with a rotor housing, to which negative pressure can be applied, in which a spinning rotor (23) revolves at a high rotational speed, to produce a yarn, as well as a winding device to produce a cross-wound bobbin (18), wherein the connection of the workstations to a central negative pressure supply can be selectively switched off. The application of negative pressure to the rotor housing is limited to the spinning devices which are producing yarn as well as the spinning devices which are repiecing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Saurer Germany GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jurgen Meyer, Maximilian Preutenborbeck, Michael Spitzer, Heinz-Georg Wassenhoven