Patents by Inventor Mirko Loehn

Mirko Loehn 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: 20210404025
    Abstract: The invention relates to a continuous method for obtaining a crystalline monosaccharide, comprising: continuous crystallization of the monosaccharide in a main crystallizer (10), wherein crystallization by evaporation and/or crystallization by cooling is carried out continuously on a crystal suspension in the main crystallizer in order to allow crystals of the monosaccharide to grow in the crystal suspension; separation of crystals of the monosaccharide out of the crystal suspension to obtain crystalline monosaccharide; continuous formation of a mass of crystallization magma for the main crystallizer (10) in a cascade, wherein the cascade comprises at least one first stage (13) and a final stage (15) connected in series and each stage comprises at least one pre-crystallizer (13A, 15A), wherein, in the at least one pre-crystallizer (13A) of the first stage (13), a solution is seeded with monosaccharide by means of monosaccharide seed crystals in order to obtain a pre-crystallization magma, and a mass of crysta
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Mirko Löhn, Holger Fersterra
  • Patent number: 9351609
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for centrifuging at least one food product having at least one conveyance means (7, 7a, 7b) and at least one centrifuge element (9a, 9b) having an interior space (15a, 15b) to receive the food product and being adapted to be spun around a first rotational axis, wherein the food product is conveyable into the internal space via the conveyance means, wherein the conveyance means is at least partly insertable into and extricable out of the interior space, as well as a method for centrifuging at least one food product using said device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Florigo International B. V.
    Inventors: Mirko Loehn, Erik Van Loon
  • Publication number: 20140212560
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for centrifuging at least one food product comprising at least one conveyance means (7, 7a, 7b) and at least one centrifuge element (9a, 9b) having an interior space (15a, 15b) to receive the food product and being adapted to be spun around a first rotational axis, wherein the food product is conveyable into the internal space via the conveyance means, wherein the conveyance means is at least partly insertable into and extricable out of the interior space, as well as a method for centrifuging at least one food product, especially utilizing an inventive device, wherein the food product is conveyed to at least one centrifuge element, having an interior space to receive the food product and being adapted to be spun around a first rotational axis, by at least one conveyance means, wherein furthermore the food product is conveyed to and/or from the centrifuge element such that it is transferred to the conveyance means, transferred from one element of the conveyance means to anothe
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Inventors: Mirko Loehn, Erik Van Loon
  • Publication number: 20120167779
    Abstract: A method is described wherein products, such as potato chips, vegetables, fruits, nuts or the like are fried in at least two stages. In the first stage the products are fried at a temperature between 90-190° C., where after the products are being transported to the second stage. In the second stage the products are subjected to frying under reduced pressure at 25-150 mbar at a temperature between 100-145° C. In the second stage evaporation is improved and maintained at a high level, because under said reduced vacuum conditions the evaporation temperature drops considerably and consequently the evaporation out of the products continues. This reduces the quantity of fatty and oily frying substance that is taken up in this stage by the product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: BMA NEDERLAND B.V.
    Inventors: Mirko Löhn, Erik Van Loon
  • Patent number: 8182852
    Abstract: A method is described wherein products, such as potato chips, vegetables, fruits, nuts or the like are fried in at least two stages. In the first stage the products are fried at a temperature between 90-190° C., where after the products are being transported to the second stage. In the second stage the products are subjected to frying under reduced pressure at 25-150 mbar at a temperature between 100-145° C. In the second stage evaporation is improved and maintained at a high level, because under said reduced vacuum conditions the evaporation temperature drops considerably and consequently the evaporation out of the products continues. This reduces the quantity of fatty and oily frying substance that is taken up in this stage by the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: BMA Nederland B.V.
    Inventors: Mirko Löhn, Erik Van Loon
  • Publication number: 20090304878
    Abstract: A method is described wherein products, such as potato chips, vegetables, fruits, nuts or the like are fried in at least two stages. In the first stage the products are fried at a temperature between 90-190° C., where after the products are being transported to the second stage. In the second stage the products are subjected to frying under reduced pressure at 25-150 mbar at a temperature between 100-145° C. In the second stage evaporation is improved and maintained at a high level, because under said reduced vacuum conditions the evaporation temperature drops considerably and consequently the evaporation out of the products continues. This reduces the quantity of fatty and oily frying substance that is taken up in this stage by the product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2006
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Applicant: BMA NEDERLAND B.V.
    Inventors: Mirko Loehn, Erik Van Loon