Patents by Inventor Michael Tafferner

Michael Tafferner 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: 20230422352
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a heating device having a carrier and at least one heating conductor applied thereto has the steps: provision of a carrier having a heating conductor side, wherein the carrier consists of aluminum, generation of an anodized layer on the heating conductor side, wherein the anodized layer is applied directly to the carrier and/or its heating conductor side, application of the at least one heating conductor above the anodized layer in a thick-film method. Advantageously, the anodized layer can be manufactured as a hard anodized layer. An additional insulation layer and/or a thickening layer can also be applied to the anodized layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Wolfgang Thimm, Patrick Kilian, Michael Tafferner
  • Patent number: 11698084
    Abstract: A pump of a dishwasher has an integrated heating element, a pump chamber with an inlet and an outlet, a pump rotor inside the pump chamber and a drive motor, wherein the heating element and a temperature sensor are provided on a wall of the pump chamber. For measuring a calcification of the pump chamber it is filled with water and then the pump rotor rotates for mixing the water in the pump chamber without transporting water out of the pump chamber. The temperature of the water in the pump chamber is measured with the temperature sensor as a starting temperature, and then the heating element is activated to heat the water in the pump chamber while the temperature of the water in the pump chamber is measured. Then the heating element is deactivated and the maximum temperature of the water during the heating duration or directly afterwards is determined. A temperature relation between the maximum temperature and the starting temperature of the water is calculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: E.G.O. ELEKTRO-GERAETEBAU GMBH
    Inventors: Manuel Schmieder, Volker Block, Hannes Kuemmerle, Kay Schmidt, Michael Tafferner, Henry Zipplies
  • Publication number: 20230107249
    Abstract: A heating device comprises a tubular carrier with an outside and an inside, an insulating layer on the outside of the carrier, heating conductors, conductor tracks, and contact fields on the insulating layer, and a connection device for an electrical connection of the heating device, wherein the connection device has a plurality of metallic contact feet. The connection device is attached at the contact fields with the contact feet and is electrically connected thereto. Additional electrical insulation is arranged between the connection device and the outside of the carrier. This can be, for example, one of several individual insulating layers that together form the entire insulating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Matthias Mandl, Michael Tafferner, Volker Block, Manuel Schmieder, Holger Koebrich, Roland Muehlnikel, Alfred Suss, Sebastian Eigl
  • Publication number: 20220386420
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heating device having a flat expanded support and at least one heating conductor assembly thereon which is electrically connected by means of two connection contacts. The heating conductor assembly has a plurality of heating conductors which are connected together at connection points and are wired as a whole so as to form parallel and series circuits between the connection contacts. The plurality of heating conductors are advantageously designed as a lattice, wherein every set of four heating conductors forms a closed mesh, and four heating conductors are connected together at the connection points. The heating conductor assembly is applied onto the support with a film construction in a film method, advantageously a thick-film method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Matthias Mandl, Michael Tafferner, Thomas Hauk, Manuel Schmieder, Holger Koebrich, Roland Muehlnikel, Alfred Suss, Sebastian Eigl, Henry Zipplies, Volker Block
  • Publication number: 20210396599
    Abstract: A heating device comprising a temperature measuring device has a sheet-like carrier, at least one heating conductor on said sheet-like carrier, an elongate electrode on the sheet-like carrier and a layer structure on the carrier with an insulation layer between the heating conductor and the electrode. A measuring apparatus for detecting local high temperatures at the heating device is connected to the electrode and to the heating conductor. Said measuring apparatus detects a temperature-dependent leakage current through the insulation layer between the heating conductor and the electrode and evaluates this as a measure of a local change in temperature at the heating device. The electrode consists of a material with a temperature dependence of its electrical resistance of between 0.0005/° C. and 0.01/° C. in a temperature range of between 0° C. and 200° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Hannes Kuemmerle, Kay Schmidt, Manuel Schmieder, Michael Tafferner, Henry Zipplies
  • Publication number: 20210332830
    Abstract: A pump of a dishwasher has an integrated heating element, a pump chamber with an inlet and an outlet, a pump rotor inside the pump chamber and a drive motor, wherein the heating element and a temperature sensor are provided on a wall of the pump chamber. For measuring a calcification of the pump chamber it is filled with water and then the pump rotor rotates for mixing the water in the pump chamber without transporting water out of the pump chamber. The temperature of the water in the pump chamber is measured with the temperature sensor as a starting temperature, and then the heating element is activated to heat the water in the pump chamber while the temperature of the water in the pump chamber is measured. Then the heating element is deactivated and the maximum temperature of the water during the heating duration or directly afterwards is determined. A temperature relation between the maximum temperature and the starting temperature of the water is calculated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Manuel Schmieder, Volker Block, Hannes Kuemmerle, Kay Schmidt, Michael Tafferner, Henry Zipplies
  • Publication number: 20210059460
    Abstract: An evaporator device for water, which is intended to produce steam for, for example, a steam cooking device, has a container which is closed apart from a water inlet and a steam outlet, and has heating elements on the outside of the container. An inner body is arranged inside the container and is, everywhere on its outer surface, which faces toward the heating element, spaced apart from the inner side of the container. Said inner body is permeable to steam and water and consists of a non-solid material or of a porous material or of a fabric material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Tobias Albert, Volker Block, Sebastian Eigl, Roland Muehlnikel, Konrad Schoenemann, Michael Tafferner
  • Patent number: 10798786
    Abstract: A cooking appliance has a cooking plate for the direct preparation of food products thereon and has a heating device thereunder, wherein the heating device runs parallel to the cooking plate and bears at least partially against the bottom side of the cooking plate. The heating device has a flat carrier disc running parallel to the cooking plate, on the bottom side and top side of which carrier disc there are arranged in each case heating means which in each case substantially cover the carrier disc. Both heating means have in each case a multiplicity of heating conductors to cover the bottom side and top side of the carrier disc. The carrier disc may be composed of micanite, and the heating conductors may be thick-film heating conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: E.G.O. Elektro-Geraetebau GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Roth, Volker Block, Matthias Mandl, Michael Tafferner
  • Publication number: 20200113368
    Abstract: An evaporator device for water, which is intended to produce steam for, for example, a steam cooking device, has a container which is closed apart from a water inlet and a steam outlet, and has heating elements on the outside of the container. An inner body is arranged inside the container and is, everywhere on its outer surface, which faces toward the heating element, spaced apart from the inner side of the container. Said inner body is permeable to steam and water and consists of a non-solid material or of a porous material or of a fabric material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Tobias Albert, Volker Block, Sebastian Eigl, Roland Muehlnikel, Konrad Schoenemann, Michael Tafferner
  • Publication number: 20190364619
    Abstract: In a method for the production of a heating device, comprising a support that is curved along one direction and at least one flat thick film heating element disposed thereon, the support and/or the heating device itself are processed from a tube, in particular a circular-cylindrical tube. For that purpose a tube wall is severed in one direction which does not exclusively have a peripheral direction component so that the support is not a circumferential tube. The thick film heating element can be applied before or after the severing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Konrad Schoenemann, Volker Block, Michael Tafferner, Tobias Albert, Kay Schmidt, Alfred Suss, Roland Muehlnikel, Daniel Fuchs
  • Publication number: 20180153341
    Abstract: A cooking appliance has a cooking plate for the direct preparation of food products thereon and has a heating device thereunder, wherein the heating device runs parallel to the cooking plate and bears at least partially against the bottom side of the cooking plate. The heating device has a flat carrier disc running parallel to the cooking plate, on the bottom side and top side of which carrier disc there are arranged in each case heating means which in each case substantially cover the carrier disc. Both heating means have in each case a multiplicity of heating conductors to cover the bottom side and top side of the carrier disc. The carrier disc may be composed of micanite, and the heating conductors may be thick-film heating conductors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Inventors: Martin Roth, Volker Block, Matthias Mandl, Michael Tafferner
  • Publication number: 20170347399
    Abstract: A heating device including a support and at least one heating element group on the support has at least one heating element on the support and two connection contacts for the heating element group. The two connection contacts are electrically disconnected from one another and make electrical contact with the single heating element or all of the heating elements of the heating element group for connection to a current supply or as a power connection. An effective width of all of the heating elements within a common heating element group is greater than an effective length of the single heating element or all of the heating elements of this common heating element group between the two connection contacts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Roland Muehlnikel, Wolfgang Thimm, Volker Block, Holger Koebrich, Manuel Schmieder, Matthias Mandl, Michael Tafferner
  • Publication number: 20170181226
    Abstract: A heating device has a support and a sheet-like electrical conductor, which is arranged on the support and runs between a first terminal and a second terminal, the at least one heating conductor including carbon-based material as heating conductor material. A heating conductor thickness between the electrical terminals may at least partially vary and not be constant for the adaptation of a local heating output. In addition, the heating conductor may be either rectangular and short or in the form of a circular ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Roland Muehlnikel, Volker Block, Holger Koebrich, Manuel Schmieder, Bernd Robin, Matthias Mandl, Alfred Suss, Michael Tafferner, Sebastian Eigl
  • Publication number: 20170086257
    Abstract: A heating device for heating water has a carrier to which at least one heating element is applied, the heating element having one or more heating conductors which are connected one behind the other. The heating device has a flat dielectric layer which substantially covers the heating conductors or the heating element. An electrically conductive connection area is in each case provided on both sides of the dielectric layer with the same coverage. At least one of the connection areas is connected to a controller for evaluating a leakage current as current flows through the dielectric layer, and the heating element is connected to measuring means for monitoring a heating conductor current through the heating element. Both the leakage current and the heating conductor current are monitored over time and faults can be identified if there are conspicuous changes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: Roland Muehlnikel, Volker Block, Holger Koebrich, Manuel Schmieder, Bernd Robin, Matthias Mandl, Alfred Suss, Michael Tafferner, Sebastian Eigl
  • Publication number: 20160316516
    Abstract: A heating device for evaporating liquids for an electric cooking appliance, having a container for the liquid, which container is higher than it is wide, wherein heating elements are distributed over the surface area of the outside of a lateral container wall and a plurality of temperature sensors are provided. There are at least three separate and separately operable heating circuits, wherein each heating circuit has at least one heating element. The plurality of temperature sensors are provided in the form of two types, wherein a first type are discrete components which are mounted on the outside of the container wall, and wherein a second type is fitted in the form of a surface-area coating to the outer face of the container wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: Holger Koebrich, Roland Muehlnikel, Michael Tafferner, Manuel Schmieder, Bernd Robin, Matthias Mandl, Alfred Suss, Sebastian Eigl
  • Publication number: 20060191899
    Abstract: An over temperature protection device can be applied to a support surface having a heat conductor. The heat conductor has an interruption forming a gap, on the top of which a tin-based protection element is prefixed by an adhesive. In one embodiment, the ends of the protection element project beyond the heat conductor and are electrically contacted to the heat conductor by a silver/polymer paste.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2006
    Publication date: August 31, 2006
    Applicant: E.G.O. Elektro-Geraetebau GmbH
    Inventor: Michael Tafferner
  • Patent number: 5969232
    Abstract: The invention relates to a catalytic layer system on a resistive gas sensor, especially on a resistive gas sensor layer on a titanate base, with at least one first layer and a second layer lying over the first layer, where, according to the invention, the first layer exhibits a catalytically active substance whose volume percentage in the layer ranges from 20 to 80%. In addition, the first layer contains a titanate that corresponds to at least one titanate of the underlying gas sensor layer. This attribute guarantees favorable adhesion between the layers. Furthermore, an oxide mixture that contributes to the improved mechanical stability of the layer system is provided in the second layer instead of the catalytically active substance. To manufacture the catalytic layer system, the individual layers are applied to the sensor in a screen printing process, which allows for a rational method of production and the precise dosing and distribution of the individual layer components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1999
    Assignee: Heraeus Electro-Nite International N.V.
    Inventors: Ulrich Schonauer, Michael Tafferner
  • Patent number: 5880406
    Abstract: The invention relates to a protective coating on at least one electrical conductor and/or semiconductor, especially an electric sensor, in which a porous first protective coating is applied directly to the surface of the electrical conductor and/or semiconductor and a gas-tight second protective coating is applied at least to regions of the first protective coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1999
    Assignee: Heraeus Electro-Nite International N.V.
    Inventors: Peter Gerstel, Ulrich Schonauer, Michael Tafferner
  • Patent number: 5730543
    Abstract: An electrically conductive connection is made between a metal connector and a metal layer applied and bonded by sintering to a ceramic substrate comprising glass and/or vitreous ceramic in small quantities. An adhesion-promoting layer having a glass and/or vitreous ceramic and metal particles is applied and bonded by fusion to the ceramic substrate. The metal layer with the sintered bond is then applied to the ceramic substrate and the connector is welded to the metal layer by laser welding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1998
    Assignee: Roth-Technik GmbH & Co. Forschung Fur Automobil-Und Umwelttechnik
    Inventors: Ulrich Schonauer, Michael Tafferner, Hagen Fischer