Patents by Inventor Ralph Herrmann

Ralph Herrmann 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: 20220404107
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heat exchanger (10) of an adsorption machine, comprising—at least two heat transport pipes (15) and/or heat transport pipe sections, which are arranged at a distance (A) with respect to one another in such a way as to form at least one interspace, which is designed as a steam flow duct (18), —and pipe attachments (20) connected to the heat transport pipes (15) and/or heat transport pipe sections. According to the invention, the pipe attachments (20) are arranged in the interspace and designed as a substrate for a directly applied, binder-free active material coating (25), wherein the heat transfer grid (50) consisting of the coated pipe attachments (20) together with the heat transport pipes (15) and/or heat transport pipe sections has a steam-side outer surface of 500-3600 m2/m3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Rainer Pischel, Ralph Herrmann, Walter Mittelbach
  • Patent number: 11441823
    Abstract: The invention relates to an adsorption heat pump, having an adsorber device, comprising a solid adsorbent, an evaporator, a condenser or an evaporator/condenser and an operating medium in an operating circuit, wherein the operating circuit has a gaseous half-circuit between the evaporator, the adsorber device and the condenser or the evaporator/condenser and the adsorber device, in which gaseous half-circuit the operating medium is gaseous, and a liquid half-circuit which is configured between the evaporator and the condenser and in which the operating medium is liquid, wherein the liquid half-circuit contains a liquid functional medium which can be mixed with the operating medium and lowers the vapor pressure of the operating medium, with a vapor pressure at 25° C. of below 0.2 mbar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: FAHRENHEIT GMBH
    Inventors: Ralph Herrmann, Walter Mittelbach
  • Publication number: 20210167440
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling the temperature of a battery assembly, wherein the battery assembly is thermally coupled to an integrated sorption heat storage means. In a desorption phase of the sorption heat storage means, a heating of the sorption material occurs with a desorption of a fluid during a heat output of the battery assembly during an electrical discharging and/or electrical charging. A condensation of the fluid desorbed from the sorption material occurs in a condenser with a heat sink. An independent heating of the battery can be carried out with a resorption of the fluid in the sorption material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Walter Mittelbach, Ralph Herrmann
  • Publication number: 20200287255
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling the temperature of a battery arrangement made up of at least one battery cell by means of a cyclically operated adsorption heat pump, consisting of an adsorber and a phase converter with a working medium circulated between the adsorber and the phase converter, wherein the at least one battery cell is brought into thermal contact with an adsorbent of the adsorber and the temperature of the battery cell is controlled in that the battery arrangement picks up adsorption heat and gives off desorption heat, wherein the heat released in the phase converter during a condensation process of the working medium and the heat picked up during an evaporation process of the working medium is dissipated to the environment and supplied from the latter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Ralph Herrmann, Walter Mittelbach, Charles Peurois
  • Patent number: 10541357
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for cyclical operation of a thermoelectric cell arrangement by periodically changing the temperature of the thermoelectric cell arrangement, wherein the thermoelectric cell arrangement is thermally coupled to a cyclically operated absorption heat pump. The following method steps are carried out cyclically: thermally coupling the thermoelectric cell arrangement during a cooling phase to a cold side of the absorption heat pump, thermally coupling the thermoelectric cell arrangement during a heating phase to a hot side of the absorption heat pump. The invention also relates to a harvester device for generating electrical energy by means of a thermoelectric cell arrangement, wherein the thermoelectric cell arrangement is thermally coupled to an absorption heat pump, wherein the thermal coupling makes it possible to effect, in time with the working cycle of the absorption heat pump, a temperature change in the thermoelectric cell arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: FAHRENHEIT GMBH
    Inventor: Ralph Herrmann
  • Publication number: 20190113258
    Abstract: The invention relates to an adsorption heat pump, having an adsorber device, comprising a solid adsorbent, an evaporator, a condenser or an evaporator/condenser and an operating medium in an operating circuit, wherein the operating circuit has a gaseous half-circuit between the evaporator, the adsorber device and the condenser or the evaporator/condenser and the adsorber device, in which gaseous half-circuit the operating medium is gaseous, and a liquid half-circuit which is configured between the evaporator and the condenser and in which the operating medium is liquid, wherein the liquid half-circuit contains a liquid functional medium which can be mixed with the operating medium and lowers the vapor pressure of the operating medium, with a vapor pressure at 25° C. of below 0.2 mbar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Ralph Herrmann, Walter Mittelbach
  • Publication number: 20180371616
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of forming an aluminosilicate zeolite layer on an aluminium-containing metallic substrate composed of metallic aluminium or an aluminium alloy which is introduced into an alkalized aqueous reaction dispersion in which silicon and optionally aluminium are present as network-forming elements, where, irrespective of whether or not aluminium is present in the aqueous reaction dispersion, the molar ratio between the aluminium in the aqueous reaction dispersion and the sum total of the network-forming elements present in the aqueous reaction dispersion is below 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: Ralph Herrmann, Wilhelm Schwieger, Rajesh Kumar Chandra
  • Publication number: 20170365762
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for cyclical operation of a thermoelectric cell arrangement by periodically changing the temperature of the thermoelectric cell arrangement, wherein the thermoelectric cell arrangement is thermally coupled to a cyclically operated absorption heat pump. The following method steps are carried out cyclically: thermally coupling the thermoelectric cell arrangement during a cooling phase to a cold side of the absorption heat pump, thermally coupling the thermoelectric cell arrangement during a heating phase to a hot side of the absorption heat pump. The invention also relates to a harvester device for generating electrical energy by means of a thermoelectric cell arrangement, wherein the thermoelectric cell arrangement is thermally coupled to an absorption heat pump, wherein the thermal coupling makes it possible to effect, in time with the working cycle of the absorption heat pump, a temperature change in the thermoelectric cell arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventor: Ralph Herrmann
  • Patent number: 9259909
    Abstract: The invention relates to a functional composite material consisting of a support (1) and a functional surface material (2). The composite material is characterized in that the support has a structured boundary layer (3) with a lower boundary (4), an upper boundary (5) a cross-linking depth (d) between the lower and upper boundaries and a substance boundary (6) that alternates between the upper and lower boundaries on the surface facing the functional surface material. The substance boundary (6) is designed in particular as a continuous sequence of surface molded sections (7) of the support with spaces (8) therebetween, each molded section having a height (h) that equals the cross-linking depth and at least one molded section and at least one space (8) lie within a horizontal width (b) corresponding to a multiple of the cross-linking depth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: SorTech AG
    Inventors: Walter Mittelbach, Ralph Herrmann, Jürgen Bauer
  • Patent number: 9175396
    Abstract: An aluminum-containing substrate is described that comprises at least one superficially applied microporous layer of an aluminum phosphate zeolite (ALPO) as well as other layers. Said aluminum-containing substrate is characterized in that the microporous layer of the aluminum phosphate zeolite represents a primer coating on which a microporous or mesoporous secondary material is located which differs from the material of the primer coating. Said aluminum-containing substrate is produced in a particularly advantageous manner according to a method in which 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: SorTech AG
    Inventors: Jürgen Bauer, Ralph Herrmann, Wilhelm Schwieger, Abhijeet Avhale
  • Patent number: 9169563
    Abstract: A method is described for forming an aluminosilicate-zeolite layer on an aluminum-containing substrate by in situ direct crystallization. Aluminum-rich aluminosilicate-zeolite coatings on aluminum-containing metal substrates obtained by this method are advantageous, for example, in sorption-based fields of application, such as heterogeneous catalysis, in separation and cleaning processes, in sorption heat pumps, in conjunction with immobilized catalysts and in microreaction technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Sortech AG
    Inventors: Ralph Herrmann, Wilhelm Schwieger, Jurgen Bauer
  • Publication number: 20120108415
    Abstract: A method is described for forming an aluminosilicate-zeolite layer on an aluminium-containing substrate which is transferred into an aqueous reaction dispersion containing silicon and optionally aluminium as network-forming elements, wherein, irrespective of whether or not aluminium is present in the aqueous reaction dispersion, the molar ratio of the aluminium in the aqueous reaction dispersion, optionally 0, to the sum of the designated network-forming elements contained in the aqueous reaction dispersion ranges between 0 and about 0.4, the aqueous reaction dispersion containing the aluminium-containing substrate is heated, and aluminium is extracted from the aluminium-containing substrate for the aluminosilicate-zeolite formation process, and the layer of an aluminosilicate-zeolite is formed on the aluminium-containing substrate by in situ direct crystallization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: SORTECH AG
    Inventors: Ralph Herrmann, Wilhelm Schwieger, Jurgen Bauer
  • Patent number: 8053032
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for production of a zeolite layer on a substrate containing metal, comprising the following method steps: production of an aqueous suspension, comprising several components, one component comprises at least one cross-linking element from the third, fourth or fifth main group of the periodic table, the substrate containing metal comprises at least one of the cross-linking elements, introduction of the substrate containing metal to the aqueous suspension, heating the aqueous suspension and the substrate containing the metal present therein for the in-situ crystallisation of a zeolite layer on the substrate containing metal, whereby the cross-linking elements in the substrate containing metal are extracted and included in the zeolite layer, a cross-linking element present in the suspension for formation of the zeolite layer is present at a concentration so low that a crystallisation in the suspension is largely or completely avoided and said element is principally provided by th
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: SorTech AG
    Inventors: Wilhelm Schwieger, Selvam Thangaraj, Franziska Scheffler, Ralph Herrmann, Marthala Reddy, Walter Mittelbach, Jürgen Bauer, Ferdinand Schmidt, Hans-Martin Hennig
  • Publication number: 20110183836
    Abstract: An aluminum-containing substrate is described that comprises at least one superficially applied microporous layer of an aluminum phosphate zeolite (ALPO) as well as other layers. Said aluminum-containing substrate is characterized in that the microporous layer of the aluminum phosphate zeolite represents a primer coating on which a microporous or mesoporous secondary material is located which differs from the material of the primer coating. Said aluminum-containing substrate is produced in a particularly advantageous manner according to a method in which 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2009
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Inventors: Jürgen Bauer, Ralph Herrmann, Wilhelm Schwieger, Abhijeet Avhale
  • Publication number: 20110027506
    Abstract: The invention relates to a functional composite material consisting of a support (1) and a functional surface material (2). The composite material is characterised in that the support has a structured boundary layer (3) with a lower boundary (4), an upper boundary (5) a cross-linking depth (d) between the lower and upper boundaries and a substance boundary (6) that alternates between the upper and lower boundaries on the surface facing the functional surface material. The substance boundary (6) is designed in particular as a continuous sequence of surface moulded sections (7) of the support with spaces (8) therebetween, each moulded section having a height (h) that equals the cross-linking depth and at least one moulded section and at least one space (8) lie within a horizontal width (b) corresponding to a multiple of the cross-linking depth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2008
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Inventors: Walter Mittelbach, Ralph Herrmann, Jürgen Bauer