Patents by Inventor Peter Hoppe
Peter Hoppe 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).
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Patent number: 10133546Abstract: Techniques for receiving a voice command from a user and, in response, providing audible content to the user using a first device and providing visual content for the user using a second device. In some instances, the first device includes a microphone for generating audio signals that include user speech, as well as a speaker for outputting audible content in response to identified voice commands from the speech. However, the first device might not include a display for displaying graphical content. As such, the first device may be configured to identify devices that include displays and that are proximate to the first device. The first device may then instruct one or more of these other devices to output visual content associated with a user's voice command.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Gregory Michael Hart, Scott Ian Blanksteen, John Daniel Thimsen, Allan Timothy Lindsay, Robert David Owen, Charles Peter Hoppe
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Patent number: 10041627Abstract: An automatic lubrication device includes a lubricant container configured to receive a lubricant, a lubricant delivery device for delivering the lubricant, a pump configured to pump the lubricant from the lubricant container to the lubricant delivery device, a drive configured to drive the pumping device, the drive being coupled to the pump via a force-transmission device, an internal control device for controlling the drive, and a control panel configured to enter control commands for the internal control device as an interface for an operator. Components of the automatic lubrication device that include potential electrical or non-electrical ignition sources each include at least one suitable type of protection, which makes the potential ignition sources ineffective, so that a potential fire- or explosion-risk emanating from the automatic lubrication device is eliminated when the automatic lubrication device is used in a fire- and/or explosion-endangered environment.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2016Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: SKF LUBRICATION SYSTEMS GERMANY GmbHInventors: Thjunjoto, Peter Hoppe, Antonio Manhica, Holger Schmidt
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Patent number: 10029262Abstract: A method of fragmenting and/or weakening of material is provided that utilizes high voltage discharges. The material is together with a process liquid introduced into a process area, in which two electrodes face each other at a distance, and is arranged therein in such a manner that the area between the two electrodes is filled with the material and process liquid. Between the two electrodes high voltage discharges are generated for fragmenting or weakening of the material. During the fragmenting or weakening, respectively, of the material, process liquid is discharged from the process area and process liquid is fed into the process area. The process liquid which is fed has a lower electrical conductivity than the process liquid which is discharged.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2011Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: selFrag AGInventors: Reinhard Muller-Siebert, Heiko Feitkenhauer, Alexander Weh, Fabrice Monti Di Sopra, Peter Hoppe, Josef Singer, Harald Giese, Klaus Leber
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Patent number: 9733116Abstract: A fill-level measurement apparatus for measuring a fill level of a fluid in a container includes a housing having a first end and a second end and first and second substantially identical thin capacitive sensors mounted on a carrier plate in the housing. The carrier plate includes a circuit board and a microcontroller is mounted on the circuit board. The first sensor is mounted in the housing at a first distance from the first end with a surface portion in contact with a first inner wall portion of the housing, and the second sensor is mounted in the housing between the first sensor and the second end of the housing with a clearance of 0.5 to 10 centimeters from a second inner wall portion of the housing, and the first sensor and the second sensor are configured to communicate with the microcontroller.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2014Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: SKF LUBRICATION SYSTEMS GERMANY GMBhInventors: Peter Hoppe, Juergen Kreutzkaemper, Holger Schmidt
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Publication number: 20160377226Abstract: An automatic lubrication device includes a lubricant container configured to receive a lubricant, a lubricant delivery device for delivering the lubricant, a pump configured to pump the lubricant from the lubricant container to the lubricant delivery device, a drive configured to drive the pumping device, the drive being coupled to the pump via a force-transmission device, an internal control device for controlling the drive, and a control panel configured to enter control commands for the internal control device as an interface for an operator. Components of the automatic lubrication device that include potential electrical or non-electrical ignition sources each include at least one suitable type of protection, which makes the potential ignition sources ineffective, so that a potential fire- or explosion-risk emanating from the automatic lubrication device is eliminated when the automatic lubrication device is used in a fire- and/or explosion-endangered environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2016Publication date: December 29, 2016Applicant: SKF Lubrication Systems Germany GmbHInventors: Thjunjoto, Peter Hoppe, Antonio Manhica, Holger Schmidt
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Publication number: 20160146656Abstract: A fill-level measurement apparatus for measuring a fill level of a fluid in a container includes a housing having a first end and a second end and first and second substantially identical thin capacitive sensors mounted on a carrier plate in the housing. The carrier plate includes a circuit board and a microcontroller is mounted on the circuit board. The first sensor is mounted in the housing at a first distance from the first end with a surface portion in contact with a first inner wall portion of the housing, and the second sensor is mounted in the housing between the first sensor and the second end of the housing with a clearance of 0.5 to 10 centimeters from a second inner wall portion of the housing, and the first sensor and the second sensor are configured to communicate with the microcontroller.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2014Publication date: May 26, 2016Applicant: SKF Lubrication Systems Germany GmbHInventors: Peter Hoppe, Juergen Kreutzkaemper, Holger Schmidt
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Publication number: 20150069153Abstract: The invention concerns a method of fragmenting and/or weakening of material by means of high voltage discharges. The material is together with a process liquid introduced into a process area, in which two electrodes face each other at a distance, and is arranged therein in such a manner that the area between the two electrodes is filled with material and process liquid. Between the two electrodes high voltage discharges are generated for fragmenting or weakening, respectively, of the material. According to the invention, during the fragmenting or weakening, respectively, of the material, process liquid is discharged from the process area and process liquid is fed into the process area. The process liquid which is fed has a lower electrical conductivity than the process liquid which is discharged.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2011Publication date: March 12, 2015Applicant: selFrag AGInventors: Helena Ahlqvist Jeanneret, Reinhard Muller-Siebert, Heiko Feitkenhauer, Alexander Weh, Fabrice Monti Di Sopra, Peter Hoppe, Josef Singer, Harald Giese, Klaus Leber
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Patent number: 8498371Abstract: In a head-end process for the reprocessing of reactor core material with embedded fuel particles, reactor core material is arranged in a reactor containing a fluid. The reactor comprises a voltage discharge installation in the fluid. Voltage discharges are applied through the fluid for fragmenting the fuel particles into fragmentation products and the fragmentation products are segregated.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2006Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: The European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom), Represented by the European CommissionInventors: Michael A. Fütterer, Peter Hoppe, Josef Singer, Bluhm Hansjoachim
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Patent number: 8138952Abstract: The invention relates to a sample holder having an insulation body (10; 50) and a first electrode (3; 33) and a second electrode (4; 34), wherein the first electrode (3; 33) and the second electrode (4; 34) project into the sample container (2; 32), the first electrode (3; 33) and the second electrode (4; 34) are connected to each other via the insulation body (10; 50), the sample container (2; 32) is filled with a dielectric liquid (5; 35), and the first electrode (3; 33) is assigned to a gas collection chamber (6; 36). The invention further relates to an assembly for the electrodynamic fragmentation of samples (38), having such a sample container (2; 32), a process container (22; 41), and means (24, 27; 39, 39.1, 39.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2007Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: selFrag AGInventors: Reinhard Müller-Siebert, Christoph Anliker, Peter Hoppe, Josef Singer
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Patent number: 7677486Abstract: The assembly of an electrodynamic fractionating unit, for the fragmentation, milling or suspension of a brittle, mineral process material is disclosed. The energy store including the output switch/spark gap thereof, the electrodes including the supply line and the reaction vessel are each arranged at least within the protection of the electrically necessary insulating separation of regions of differing electrical potential, completely enclosed in a volume of the encapsulation, having electrically-conducting walls. The wall thickness of the encapsulation is at least equivalent to the penetration depth, corresponding to the lowest components of the Fourier spectrum of the pulsed electromagnetic field. The electrode at reference potential is connected to the ground side of the energy store through the encapsulation wall. The electrode at high voltage is connected by the shortest path to the output switch on the energy store.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2004Date of Patent: March 16, 2010Assignee: Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbHInventors: Peter Hoppé, Harald Giese
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Publication number: 20100025240Abstract: The invention relates to a sample holder having an insulation body (10; 50) and a first electrode (3; 33) and a second electrode (4; 34), wherein the first electrode (3; 33) and the second electrode (4; 34) project into the sample container (2; 32), the first electrode (3; 33) and the second electrode (4; 34) are connected to each other via the insulation body (10; 50), the sample container (2; 32) is filled with a dielectric liquid (5; 35), and the first electrode (3; 33) is assigned to a gas collection chamber (6; 36). The invention further relates to an assembly for the electrodynamic fragmentation of samples (38), having such a sample container (2; 32), a process container (22; 41), and means (24, 27; 39, 39.1, 39.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2007Publication date: February 4, 2010Applicant: selFrag AGInventors: Reinhard Müller-Siebert, Christoph Anliker, Peter Hoppe, Josef Singer
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Publication number: 20080159464Abstract: In a head-end process for the reprocessing of reactor core material with embedded fuel particles, reactor core material is arranged in a reactor containing a fluid. The reactor comprises a voltage discharge installation in the fluid. Voltage discharges are applied through the fluid for fragmenting the fuel particles into fragmentation products and the fragmentation products are segregated.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2006Publication date: July 3, 2008Applicants: FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM KARLSRUHE GMBH, The European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom), represented by The European CommisionInventors: Michael A. Futterer, Peter Hoppe, Josef Singer, Bluhm Hansjoachim
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Publication number: 20070187539Abstract: The assembly of an electrodynamic fractionating unit, for the fragmentation, milling or suspension of a brittle, mineral process material is disclosed. The energy store including the output switch/spark gap thereof, the electrodes including the supply line and the reaction vessel are each arranged at least within the protection of the electrically necessary insulating separation of regions of differing electrical potential, completely enclosed in a volume of the encapsulation, having electrically-conducting walls. The wall thickness of the encapsulation is at least equivalent to the penetration depth, corresponding to the lowest components of the Fourier spectrum of the pulsed electromagnetic field. The electrode at reference potential is connected to the ground side of the energy store through the encapsulation wall. The electrode at high voltage is connected by the shortest path to the output switch on the energy store.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2004Publication date: August 16, 2007Applicant: Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbHInventors: Peter Hoppe, Harald Giese
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Patent number: 7246761Abstract: In a process reactor and a method for the electro-dynamic fragmentation of lumpy mineral materials by pulsed high voltage discharges, including a reaction chamber with a funnel-like bottom having a central outlet, an axially movable high-voltage electrode extending from the top into the reaction chamber and having a front end disposed opposite the central outlet where another electrode which is at an electric reference potential is disposed, the outlet converges into a tailback tube below which a transport unit for the controlled removal of the processed fragmented material sinking down through the tailback tube is disposed, a material supply arrangement extends to an opening in the wall of the reaction chamber and a material flow blocking structure is disposed in the reaction in front of the material inlet opening for controlling the material admission to, and the fill level in, the reaction chamber.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2006Date of Patent: July 24, 2007Assignee: Forschungszentrum KarlsruheInventors: Peter Hoppe, Josef Singer, Harald Giese, Peter Stemmermann, Uwe Schweike, Wolfram Edinger
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Publication number: 20060163392Abstract: In a process reactor and a method for the electro-dynamic fragmentation of lumpy mineral materials by pulsed high voltage discharges, including a reaction chamber with a funnel-like bottom having a central outlet, an axially movable high-voltage electrode extending from the top into the reaction chamber and having a front end disposed opposite the central outlet where another electrode which is at an electric reference potential is disposed, the outlet converges into a tailback tube below which a transport unit for the controlled removal of the processed fragmented material sinking down through the tailback tube is disposed, a material supply arrangement extends to an opening in the wall of the reaction chamber and a material flow blocking structure is disposed in the reaction in front of the material inlet opening for controlling the material admission to, and the fill level in, the reaction chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2006Publication date: July 27, 2006Inventors: Peter Hoppe, Josef Singer, Harald Giese, Peter Stemmermann, Uwe Schweike, Wolfram Edinger
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Patent number: 5123232Abstract: An upright immersion tube (92) is movable back and forth in its longitudinal direction between a takeover position in which a bushy plant (10) can be introduced into the immersion tube (92) and an immersed position in which the immersion tube is plunged through a spreader tube (40) into the vicinity of the bottom of a bag (12) which is being held open. The immersion tube (92) has a rear semi-tubular portion (96) with a hinged flap which is open in the takeover position but adapted to be moved into a closing position as the immersion tube (92) moves into the immersed position and, in said closing position, supplements the rear portion (96) so as to form a closed tube section. The spreader tube (40) has the profile contour of a ship's hull and engages between projecting bag edge zones (16) of a film web forming the bags (12) and being movable stepwise in the longitudinal direction of this contour.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 1990Date of Patent: June 23, 1992Assignee: W. Kordes' Sohne Rosenschulen GmbH & Co KGInventors: Bernd Helms, Reiner Peters, Peter Hoppe
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Patent number: 5113633Abstract: At least one binder means (40,42) for tying together projecting parts (T,W) of the plants (p) each held in a retainer (30) and at least one cutter means (44,46) for shortening projecting parts (T,W) of the plants (P) are arranged beside a conveyor (12) which comprises retainers (30) for a plant (P) each. Each retainer (30) includes at least one upwardly open fork (26,28) into which a plant (P) can be put and at least one bow (64) to press down the plant (P). Each bow (64) is pivotable about a transverse axis, is biased by a spring (73) in the sense of an opening movement, and is adapted to be locked in various closing positions by a ratchet mechanism (66,68). In a starting range of the conveyor (12) there is an actuating member (74) which acts on a control member (72) at each bow (64) so as to pivot it in closing direction. In a final range of the conveyor (12) there is a control member (80) for release of the ratchet mechanism (66,68).Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 1990Date of Patent: May 19, 1992Assignee: W. Kordes' Sohne Rosenschulen GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Bernd Helms, Reiner Peters, Peter Hoppe
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Patent number: 4099280Abstract: Marginal zone-reinforced foam moulding, especially for hulls, are produced in situ technique by coating the inner surface of a mould with a viscous, hardenable adhesive or gel-coat; placing a fiber-reinforcing insert into this layer while it is still viscous; laying an airtight flexible film on this insert and sealing it off outside its dimensions; subsequently removing the air present between the mould and the film under suction and simultaneously pressing the reinforcing insert into the layer of adhesive or gel-coat; removing the film; closing the mould; introducing a liquid, expandable reaction mixture into the mould cavity; and removing the foam moulding from the mould on completion of foaming.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 1974Date of Patent: July 11, 1978Assignee: Bayer AktiengesellschaftInventors: Peter Hoppe, Helmut Leyer, Johann Muller
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Patent number: 3940524Abstract: An article such as a structural member composed of a core of foamed material having bonded thereto for strengthening thereof, a laminate made up of an outer skin and a reinforcing insert. The reinforcing insert comprises at least one mat-loose fiber sheet combination with the mat disposed adjacent the skin and the loose fiber sheet disposed adjacent the foamed core. The material forming the skin penetrates from the skin, at least partially through the insert to an outer portion of the foamed core, and at least through the outermost mat so that the outermost mat is completely embedded in the material forming the skin.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 1974Date of Patent: February 24, 1976Assignee: Bayer AktiengesellschaftInventors: Peter Hoppe, Gustav Drouven, Helmut Leyer, Johann Muller