Patents by Inventor Reinhard Albrich

Reinhard Albrich 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: 7823511
    Abstract: An installation conveys individuals by way of a transporting device along a track located above the ground and borne by supports. The installation further has a base station, an apparatus for conveying the transporting device from the base station to a top station, and a running rail for the transporting device which starts from the top station and runs predominantly downward. The running rail extends along curves and loops from the top station to the base station. Provided in the region of the base station, in which the boarding location for the passengers is located, is a conveying tower configured with an upward-conveying apparatus for the transporting device. Located in a region of the top station is a transfer location at which the transporting device occupied by passengers is transferred from the upward-conveying apparatus to the running rail, along which they descend to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Innova Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Lins, Reinhard Albrich
  • Publication number: 20080229967
    Abstract: An installation conveys individuals by way of a transporting device along a track located above the ground and borne by supports. The installation further has a base station, an apparatus for conveying the transporting device from the base station to a top station, and a running rail for the transporting device which starts from the top station and runs predominantly downward. The running rail extends along curves and loops from the top station to the base station. Provided in the region of the base station, in which the boarding location for the passengers is located, is a conveying tower configured with an upward-conveying apparatus for the transporting device. Located in a region of the top station is a transfer location at which the transporting device occupied by passengers is transferred from the upward-conveying apparatus to the running rail, along which they descend to the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2007
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Applicant: INNOVA PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Stephan Lins, Reinhard Albrich
  • Patent number: 7114451
    Abstract: An apparatus monitors the locking of the safety bar of the chairs of an aerial cableway system. A first sensor determines the occupancy of the chairs and a second sensor determines the locking of the safety bar. The sensor output signals from these two sensors are led to a control device, which is enabled to switch the chairlift system off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2006
    Assignee: Innova Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Reinhard Albrich, Christoph Hinteregger
  • Patent number: 6691624
    Abstract: A chair for a cableway system is provided with a closure bar, which can be pivoted into a closed position about a axis running transversely to the direction of travel of the chair. The chair is preferably provided with a number of footrests which correspond to the seats. In a front region of each of the at least one seat there is provided a cam device or protrusion or the like which is coupled in terms of movement to the closure bar. When the closure bar is pivoted into its closed position, the cam device is adjusted to project upwardly centrally at the seat, that is, between the thighs of a person sitting on the respective seat of the chair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignee: Innova Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Reinhard Albrich
  • Publication number: 20040003751
    Abstract: An apparatus monitors the locking of the safety bar of the chairs of an aerial cableway system. A first sensor determines the occupancy of the chairs and a second sensor determines the locking of the safety bar. The sensor output signals from these two sensors are led to a control device, which is enabled to switch the chairlift system off.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2003
    Publication date: January 8, 2004
    Inventors: Reinhard Albrich, Christoph Hinteregger
  • Patent number: 6644207
    Abstract: Installation for carrying persons down from a mountain station into a valley station along a guide rail which is born by supports or the like at a distance above the ground. Individual sections of the guide rail are connected to one another in an articulated and longitudinally non-displaceable manner, and the guide rail is fastened on at least some of the supports in each case via a link that can be pivoted about a more or less vertical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2003
    Assignee: Innova Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Reinhard Albrich
  • Publication number: 20030136298
    Abstract: A chair for a cableway system is provided with a closure bar, which can be pivoted into a closed position about a axis running transversely to the direction of travel of the chair. The chair is preferably provided with a number of footrests which correspond to the seats. In a front region of each of the at least one seat there is provided a cam device or protrusion or the like which is coupled in terms of movement to the closure bar. When the closure bar is pivoted into its closed position, the cam device is adjusted to project upwardly centrally at the seat, that is, between the thighs of a person sitting on the respective seat of the chair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2002
    Publication date: July 24, 2003
    Inventor: Reinhard Albrich
  • Patent number: 6571716
    Abstract: Persons can be carried downhill from a mountain station to a valley station. A guide rail is fastened on a supporting cable at a distance above the ground. The guide rail is formed of a multiplicity of sub-rails and carriages with a chair, a cabin, or the like can be displaced along the rail. The sub-rails are connected to one another such that they can be displaced in the longitudinal direction of the guide rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2003
    Assignee: Innova Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Reinhard Albrich
  • Patent number: 6550392
    Abstract: The installation enables the downhill transportation of passengers from a higher station to a lower station along a rail. Cars that are guided along the rail are equipped with the first of two interacting elements of an electromagnetic braking device, in particular with one or more permanent magnets, and the guide rail being equipped with the second elements, in particular braking strips made from an electrically conductive nonmagnetizable material, such as copper or aluminum, which interact with said first elements of the braking device. Each car is equipped with one or more first elements with an operating brake that is adjustable as a function of its load, and with one or more first elements of a safety brake that is activatable during downhill travel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2003
    Assignee: Innova Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Reinhard Albrich
  • Publication number: 20020124763
    Abstract: Persons can be carried downhill from a mountain station to a valley station. A guide rail is fastened on a supporting cable at a distance above the ground. The guide rail is formed of a multiplicity of sub-rails and carriages with a chair, a cabin, or the like can be displaced along the rail. The sub-rails are connected to one another such that they can be displaced in the longitudinal direction of the guide rail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2002
    Publication date: September 12, 2002
    Inventor: Reinhard Albrich
  • Publication number: 20020124762
    Abstract: Installation for carrying persons down from a mountain station into a valley station along a guide rail which is borne by supports or the like at a distance above the ground. Individual sections of the guide rail are connected to one another in an articulated and longitudinally non-displaceable manner, and the guide rail is fastened on at least some of the supports in each case via a link that can be pivoted about a more or less vertical axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2002
    Publication date: September 12, 2002
    Inventor: Reinhard Albrich
  • Publication number: 20020108528
    Abstract: The installation enables the downhill transportation of passengers from a higher station to a lower station along a rail. Cars that are guided along the rail are equipped with the first of two interacting elements of an electromagnetic braking device, in particular with one or more permanent magnets, and the guide rail being equipped with the second elements, in particular braking strips made from an electrically conductive nonmagnetizable material, such as copper or aluminum, which interact with said first elements of the braking device. Each car is equipped with one or more first elements with an operating brake that is adjustable as a function of its load, and with one or more first elements of a safety brake that is activatable during downhill travel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2002
    Publication date: August 15, 2002
    Inventor: Reinhard Albrich
  • Patent number: 6427601
    Abstract: The installation conveys persons from a valley station to a mountain station and for carries individuals from the mountain station to the valley station via carriages that are guided along a track formed by a running rail. The installation has a cableway system with a haulage cable and transport assemblies that can be coupled thereto and are intended for persons and for conveying devices that convey the carriages from the valley station to the mountain station. The haulage cable is guided over cable-deflecting pulleys in the valley station and in the mountain station. Guide rails are provided in the valley station and in the mountain station along which the conveying devices and transport assemblies, uncoupled from the haulage cable, are guided around the cable-deflecting pulleys with conveying wheels. Bypass rails are connected to the guide rails via diverters both in the valley station and in the mountain station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2002
    Assignee: Innova Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Reinhard Albrich
  • Patent number: 6429554
    Abstract: An electric motor having a stationary annular stator with wound stator poles and a rotatably mounted rotor having annularly distributed permanent magnets or electromagnets of alternate polarity, wherein the stator is composed of a plurality of separate stator segments with their own, preferably three-phase current connections, wherein each stator segment is fed by way of the respective current connections from its own frequency converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2002
    Assignee: Innova Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Reinhard Albrich, Elmar Fuchs
  • Patent number: 6360669
    Abstract: The installation for moving persons from a mountain station to a valley station has a supporting cable which is guided via supporting pylons or the like. Carriages, to which there are attached transport assemblies, can be displaced along the supporting cable. Each transport assembly accommodates at least one person. The transport assembly may be a cabin, a chair, a supporting harness, or the like. A supporting and guide rail is fastened on the supporting cable and the carriage can be displaced along the supporting and guide rail from the mountain station into the valley station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2002
    Assignee: Innova Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Reinhard Albrich
  • Patent number: 6356202
    Abstract: A circuit is described for monitoring the faultless state and/or for detecting the faulty state of a cable railway or chairlift system, with a plurality of monitoring and detection devices (1) and with at least one control and evaluation unit (2), the monitoring and detection devices (1) being series-connected to one another and to the control and evaluation unit (2) and having the potential to be interrogated with respect to their state, especially with respect to their operating state. To be able to meet safety requirements which are as high as possible and at the same time to require only a small installation space, each monitoring and detection device (1) has several different influence areas (3) and several signal outputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2002
    Assignees: i f m electronic GmbH, Doppelmayr Seilbahn-Produktionsgesellschaft m.b.H
    Inventors: Reinhard Albrich, Karl Herrmann, Jean-Luc Lamarche, Manfred Strobel
  • Publication number: 20020007758
    Abstract: The installation conveys persons from a valley station to a mountain station and for carries individuals from the mountain station to the valley station via carriages that are guided along a track formed by a running rail. The installation has a cableway system with a haulage cable and transport assemblies that can be coupled thereto and are intended for persons and for conveying devices that convey the carriages from the valley station to the mountain station. The haulage cable is guided over cable-deflecting pulleys in the valley station and in the mountain station. Guide rails are provided in the valley station and in the mountain station along which the conveying devices and transport assemblies, uncoupled from the haulage cable, are guided around the cable-deflecting pulleys with conveying wheels. Bypass rails are connected to the guide rails via diverters both in the valley station and in the mountain station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2001
    Publication date: January 24, 2002
    Inventor: Reinhard Albrich