Patents by Inventor Peter Kloft

Peter Kloft 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: 12644473
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a hydraulic accumulator, in particular a diaphragm accumulator, comprising an accumulator housing and a separating element which is arranged therein and separates two media chambers from each other. The accumulator housing has at least one fluid connection point which opens into an adjacent media chamber and has a connection body with a fluid passage point that is connected to the accumulator housing via a welding seam. The connection body has an annular outer circumferential surface on the connection region facing the accumulator housing, and when the end face of the connection body is placed on the accumulator housing, the connection body forms a transition point, along which the welding seam runs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2026
    Assignee: HYDAC TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Peter Kloft, Torsten Kusserow
  • Publication number: 20260092610
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for producing at least one part of a hydraulic accumulator, comprising at least the following: providing an accumulator housing part that has at least one fluid connection point, providing a connection element with a fluid passage that has a material agglomeration on its one free end face, placing the material agglomeration against the accumulator housing part such that the fluid connection in the accumulator housing part comes into fluidic connection with the fluid passage of the connection element, melting the material agglomeration by means of a welding method, joining the connection element and accumulator housing part under a predefinable pressing force and a predefinable path and allowing the resulting weld connection to cool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Publication date: April 2, 2026
    Applicant: Hydac Technology GmbH
    Inventor: Peter Kloft
  • Patent number: 12553430
    Abstract: Disclosed is a conveying device for fluids with an inlet and an outlet and a conveying part which is connected therebetween and can be actuated by a drive part, wherein the conveying part has a fluid-tight media-separating device with a variable chamber volume, which becomes connected in a fluid-conducting manner via its receiving chamber to the inlet or the outlet, and which, by means of the drive part, receives fluid via the inlet as part of an intake stroke, increasing the chamber volume, and discharges the received fluid via the outlet as part of a discharge stroke, reducing the size of said chamber volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2026
    Assignee: HYDAC TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Hahmann, Frank Bauer, Peter Kloft
  • Publication number: 20250389283
    Abstract: Separator and hydraulic accumulator having such a separator. A separator, in particular for a hydraulic accumulator, such as a bellows accumulator, which is produced by a 3D printing process, consisting of one single diaphragm, which, when viewed in cross section, is deflected in an arcuate shape to form a multitude of bellows pleats at deflection points, which delimit the bellows pleats on the outside and the inside, and in that, to obtain an isotensoid or essentially isotensoid stress profile in the diaphragm, the notional extensions of the diaphragm surfaces adjacent to each deflection point form an acute angle with each other, at least in an initial state, wherein the individual diaphragm surface between deflection points, which are located in opposite radially inner and outer wall areas of the diaphragm, has a course that undulates axially.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2025
    Publication date: December 25, 2025
    Applicant: Hydac Technology GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Kloft, Torsten Kusserow
  • Publication number: 20250347350
    Abstract: A safety device is disclosed, consisting of a screw body with a screw head, which is connected to the screw body in one piece and forms a rotary-drive part, and with a thread, which is connected to the screw head in one piece and forms a securing part, and also with a rupture device, which is arranged in a channel of the screw body, wherein a sight glass is accommodated entirely within the channel of the screw body, together with the rupture device, and forms an inspecting device for assessing the state of the rupture device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Publication date: November 13, 2025
    Applicant: Hydac Technology GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Kloft, Torsten Kusserow, Jens Holger Köhne
  • Publication number: 20250305520
    Abstract: Disclosed is a bellows accumulator in which a folding bellows, which serves as a movable separating element between a first media side and a second media side, has at its bellows end, a closure body which media-tightly closes of the interior of the folding bellows and, at its other bellows end, is immovably fixed relative to a storage housing. The accumulator has a valve device which, when the pressure on a liquid side drops, moves to a closed position, thereby preventing liquid from continuing to flow out of the storage housing. The closing process for the valve device is controlled using an energy store, which is arranged between the valve device and the closure body of the folding bellows in such a way that a specifiable quantity of liquid remains in the storage housing in any case, the quantity of liquid supporting the folding bellows in an expanded position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Publication date: October 2, 2025
    Applicant: Hydac Technology GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Kloft, Torsten Kusserow, Jens Holger Köhne
  • Patent number: 12404879
    Abstract: Separator and hydraulic accumulator having such a separator. A separator, in particular for a hydraulic accumulator, such as a bellows accumulator, which is produced by a 3D printing process, consisting of one single diaphragm, which, when viewed in cross section, is deflected in an arcuate shape to form a multitude of bellows pleats at deflection points, which delimit the bellows pleats on the outside and the inside, and in that, to obtain an isotensoid or essentially isotensoid stress profile in the diaphragm, the notional extensions of the diaphragm surfaces adjacent to each deflection point form an acute angle with each other, at least in an initial state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2025
    Assignee: HYDAC TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Peter Kloft, Torsten Kusserow
  • Publication number: 20250224065
    Abstract: Disclosed is an expansion device having an expansion housing, which has a separating membrane, which separates the expansion housing into two media chambers, of which one media chamber can be filed with liquid via a liquid connection in the expansion housing, characterised in that the other media chamber is permanently connected to the environment via at least one opening in the expansion housing, even during operation of the device, in such a way that ambient pressure prevails in the other media chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Publication date: July 10, 2025
    Applicant: Hydac Technology GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Kloft, Jens Holger Köhne, Lars Müller-Tönnissen
  • Publication number: 20250223979
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a piston accumulator comprising an accumulator housing and a separator piston which is longitudinally moveably arranged therein and separates two media chambers from one another within the accumulator housing, wherein the accumulator housing is elastically formed in a sandwich-type structure from individual, partially differing layers in such a way that, with the influence of at least one external force, it allows for a curvature as a whole, starting from a starting state, and it returns to the starting state with the removal of the respective force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Publication date: July 10, 2025
    Applicant: Hydac Technology GmbH
    Inventor: Peter Kloft
  • Publication number: 20250198427
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a piston accumulator comprising an accumulator housing and a separator piston which is longitudinally moveably guided therein and separates two media chambers from one another inside the accumulator housing, in particular separating a media chamber with a working gas from another media chamber with a fluid, such as hydraulic oil, wherein the separator piston has two piston parts which are formed as discs with the same outer diameter and which are securely connected to one another and held at a distance from one another via an elastically flexible piston rod, which, with the influence of at least one external force, allows for a curvature as a whole, starting from a starting state, and returns to the starting state with the removal of the respective force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: Hydac Technology GmbH
    Inventor: Peter Kloft
  • Patent number: 12331760
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an hydraulic accumulator, in particular a diaphragm accumulator, having an accumulator housing and a separating element disposed therein, which separates two media spaces from each other, wherein a weld seam is formed by a laser or electron beam welding process without any filler materials, in that at least a part of the wall parts delimiting the transition point are melted to form the weld seam, which closes off the transition point towards the surroundings, in a manner that is free of protrusions with respect to an outer circumferential surface of a connection element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: HYDAC TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Peter Kloft, Torsten Kusserow, Norbert Lange, Norbert Weber, Armin Kort
  • Publication number: 20250129801
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a hydraulic accumulator comprising an accumulator housing and a separating element which is arranged therein in a longitudinally movable manner and which separates two media chambers within the accumulator housing, in particular a chamber with a working gas, such as nitrogen gas, from another chamber with a liquid, such as hydraulic oil, and a bursting device for reducing an inadmissibly high pressure in the accumulator housing, wherein the bursting device is arranged in the separating element, and when the bursting device bursts, a media-conducting connection between the two media chambers is released via the separating element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: Hydac Technology GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Kloft, Torsten Kusserow, Jens Holger Köhne
  • Publication number: 20250129802
    Abstract: Pressure accumulator with an accumulator housing (10), in which a movable separating element (16) separates a medium space (12), preferably filled with a working gas, from a fluid space (14) in a fluid-tight manner, wherein a monitoring device (28) is provided and gives a visually perceptible indication when there is a fault that impairs the sealing effect of the separating element (16), the monitoring device having a viewing window through which it is possible to observe an indicator which is in connection with the medium space (12) and the optical property of which perceptibly changes when it is wetted with the fluid, characterized in that the monitoring device (28) has a screw plug, which can be screwed with its external thread into an assigned internal thread of the accumulator housing (10) and which has the viewing window and the indicator and also a fluid-permeable shutting-off device, which forms in the screw plug a receiving space partly delimited by the viewing window and intended for receiving the i
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: Hydac Technology GmbH
    Inventor: Peter Kloft
  • Publication number: 20240344510
    Abstract: Conveying device, in particular in the form of a compressor, consisting of at least one housing (10) and a partition element which is arranged movably in the housing (10) and separates two fluid regions (14, 16) in the housing (10) from each other, wherein the partition element is formed of a partition bellows (18) with individual bellows folds (20), wherein a mechanical actuation device for controlling a movement of the partition bellows (18) is provided, and wherein the heat generated by means of the actuation device via the movement of the partition bellows (18) can be at least partially removed from the housing (10) by means of a cooling device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: Hydac Technology GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Bauer, Peter Kloft
  • Publication number: 20240318669
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an hydraulic accumulator, in particular a diaphragm accumulator, having an accumulator housing and a separating element disposed therein, which separates two media spaces from each other, wherein a weld seam is formed by a laser or electron beam welding process without any filler materials, in that at least a part of the wall parts delimiting the transition point are melted to form the weld seam, which closes off the transition point towards the surroundings, in a manner that is free of protrusions with respect to an outer circumferential surface of a connection element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: Hydac Technology GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Kloft, Torsten Kusserow
  • Publication number: 20240280118
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hydraulic accumulator having an accumulator housing (10) which is closed at least on a free end side by a cover part which is able to be fixed in the accumulator housing (10) via a threaded section, characterized in that, as part of the threaded section on the accumulator housing (10), an internal thread in the form of a round thread (26) is present, the individual thread flanks (28) of which enclose, in a notional extension, a flank angle (a) of 60° with one another, and in that the radius (R1) of the rounded portion is larger in the head-side region (30) than the radius (R1) in the root-side region (32) of the round thread (26).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: Hydac Technology GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Kloft, Torsten Kusserow
  • Publication number: 20240271639
    Abstract: Separator and hydraulic accumulator having such a separator. A separator, in particular for a hydraulic accumulator, such as a bellows accumulator, which is produced by a 3D printing process, consisting of one single diaphragm, which, when viewed in cross section, is deflected in an arcuate shape to form a multitude of bellows pleats at deflection points, which delimit the bellows pleats on the outside and the inside, and in that, to obtain an isotensoid or essentially isotensoid stress profile in the diaphragm, the notional extensions of the diaphragm surfaces adjacent to each deflection point form an acute angle with each other, at least in an initial state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Applicant: Hydac Technology GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Kloft, Torsten Kusserow
  • Publication number: 20240200542
    Abstract: Disclosed is a conveying device for fluids with an inlet and an outlet and a conveying part which is connected therebetween and can be actuated by a drive part, wherein the conveying part has a fluid-tight media-separating device with a variable chamber volume, which becomes connected in a fluid-conducting manner via its receiving chamber to the inlet or the outlet, and which, by means of the drive part, receives fluid via the inlet as part of an intake stroke, increasing the chamber volume, and discharges the received fluid via the outlet as part of a discharge stroke, reducing the size of said chamber volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: Hydac Technology GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Hahmann, Frank Bauer, Peter Kloft
  • Publication number: 20240110580
    Abstract: 2. A hydraulic accumulator, in particular a piston accumulator, comprising a separation element (16) which is movably arranged in an accumulator housing (10) and which separates two media chambers (24, 26) from each other, and comprising a distance measuring device for monitoring the position of the separation element (16), is characterized in that the distance measuring device is in the form of a radar device (32) that includes a transmitter (42) emitting a primary signal which upon at least partial reflection off the separation element (16), generates a secondary signal which, upon reception by a receiver (46), allows a position of the separation element (16) in the accumulator housing (10) to be determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: Hydac Technology GmbH
    Inventor: Peter Kloft
  • Publication number: 20240035490
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a hydraulic accumulator, in particular a diaphragm accumulator, comprising an accumulator housing and a separating element which is arranged therein and separates two media chambers from each other. The accumulator housing has at least one fluid connection point which opens into an adjacent media chamber and has a connection body with a fluid passage point that is connected to the accumulator housing via a welding seam. The connection body has an annular outer circumferential surface on the connection region facing the accumulator housing, and when the end face of the connection body is placed on the accumulator housing, the connection body forms a transition point, along which the welding seam runs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Hydac Technology GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Kloft, Torsten Kusserow