Patents by Inventor Rainer Otminghaus

Rainer Otminghaus 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).

  • Pore burner and cooking appliance containing at least one pore burner
    Publication number: 20060035189
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a pore burner, especially for cooking appliances, including a housing provided with at least one inlet for a gas/air mixture as a fuel and/or at least one inlet for air and/or at least one inlet for gas and/or at least one outlet for air and/or gas and/or waste gases. The housing includes at least one dimensionally stable, porous molded body formed of sintered metallic powder and/or pressed metallic wire mesh, on the surface of which and/or in the pore spaces of which are reaction zones for the flame development for forming a surface burner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2003
    Publication date: February 16, 2006
    Applicant: Rational AG
    Inventors: Karlheinz Berstecher, Franz Koch, Manfred Lichtenstern, Rainer Otminghaus, Stefan Rusche
  • Combustion system, a method of adapting the performance of the combustion system and a cooking device utilizing the combustion system
    Patent number: 6547554
    Abstract: A combustion system and a method for adapting the combustion system to utilize a first fuel when the system has been designed for a second fuel. The method and system provide inlets for adding air to lower the quality of the first fuel to the quality of the second fuel or inlets for adding a third fuel of a higher quality than the second fuel to raise the quality of the first fuel to the level of the quality of the second fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2003
    Assignee: Rational Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rudolf Koegl, Manfred Lichtenstern, Roland Hegmann, Simon Pattermann, Franz Koch, Jaroslav Klouda, Rainer Otminghaus
  • Combustion system, a method of adapting the performance of the combustion system and a cooking device utilizing the combustion system
    Publication number: 20020115030
    Abstract: A combustion system and a method for adapting the combustion system to utilize a first fuel when the system has been designed for a second fuel. The method and system provide inlets for adding air to lower the quality of the first fuel to the quality of the second fuel or inlets for adding a third fuel of a higher quality than the second fuel to raise the quality of the first fuel to the level of the quality of the second fuel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2001
    Publication date: August 22, 2002
    Inventors: Rudolf Koegl, Manfred Lichtenstern, Roland Hegmann, Simon Pattermann, Franz Koch, Jaroslav Klouda, Rainer Otminghaus, Elfriede Kogl nee Brunner, Sabin Kogl, Stephanie Kogl