Patents by Inventor Robert Sekler

Robert Sekler 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: 9876218
    Abstract: A device that intermittently coats a moving surface with a paste containing electrochemically active particles including a nozzle having a slot-shaped delivery opening, a paste reservoir from which paste being supplied to the delivery opening via a transport channel, a rotary valve having a rotatably mounted control axle that enables the paste supply to the delivery opening in a first switching position and, in a second switching position, blocks the transport channel and disconnects a section of the transport channel extending as far as the delivery opening from the paste supply, and a reduced pressure source in communicating connection with the rotatably mounted control axle via a reduced pressure channel, wherein the rotatably mounted control axle comprises a passage via which the paste reservoir is in communicating connection with the delivery opening in the first switching position and via which the delivery opening is in communicating connection with the reduced pressure source in the second switching p
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: VW-VM Forschungsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Huth, Robert Sekler
  • Patent number: 9713814
    Abstract: A switchable slot valve for a coating plant controls delivery of a pasty coating material. The switchable slot valve has a valve bore incorporated in a valve main body and is aligned in a valve extent direction, and a valve control rod is rotatable to switch between a throughput position and a closed position and is mounted in the valve bore by bearing faces is disposed. To mitigate disruptions by coating material which has made its way into a bearing gap between the valve bore and the bearing faces, depression regions are provided in the region of which the respective outer circumferential part-face does not bear on the inner circumferential face of the valve bore, on the outer circumferential part-faces between the slot-shaped duct inlet and the slot-shaped duct outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: VW-VM Forschungsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Huth, Robert Sekler
  • Patent number: 9533325
    Abstract: A switchable slot valve for a coating plant controls delivery of a pasty coating material. The switchable slot valve has a valve bore incorporated in a valve main body and is aligned in a valve extent direction, and a valve control rod is rotatable to switch between a throughput position and a closed position and is mounted in the valve bore by bearing faces. To mitigate disruptions by coating material which has made its way into a bearing gap between the valve bore and the bearing faces at least one receiving space is incorporated in an inner circumferential face of the valve bore between the supply duct and the nozzle duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: VW-VM Forschungsgesellschaft mbH & Co, KG
    Inventors: Andreas Huth, Robert Sekler
  • Publication number: 20160293933
    Abstract: A method of intermittently coating a moving surface with paste containing electrochemically active particles by a nozzle having a slot-shaped delivery opening includes supplying paste to the delivery opening from a paste reservoir via a transport channel and regulating paste supply to the delivery opening with a rotatably mounted control axle which enables the paste supply to the delivery opening in a first switching position and, in a second switching position, blocks the transport channel and disconnects a section of the transport channel extending as far as the delivery opening from the paste supply, wherein the rotatably mounted control axle includes a passage via which the paste reservoir is in communicating connection with the delivery opening in the first switching position and the disconnected section of the transport channel is in communicating connection with the reduced pressure source in the second switching position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Andreas Huth, Robert Sekler
  • Patent number: 9391312
    Abstract: A method of intermittently coating a moving surface with paste containing electrochemically active particles by a nozzle having a slot-shaped delivery opening includes supplying paste to the delivery opening from a paste reservoir via a transport channel and regulating paste supply to the delivery opening with a rotatably mounted control axle which enables the paste supply to the delivery opening in a first switching position and, in a second switching position, blocks the transport channel and disconnects a section of the transport channel extending as far as the delivery opening from the paste supply, wherein the rotatably mounted control axle comprises a passage via which the paste reservoir is in communicating connection with the delivery opening in the first switching position and the disconnected section of the transport channel is in communicating connection with the reduced pressure source in the second switching position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: VW-VM Forschungsgellschaft mbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Huth, Robert Sekler
  • Patent number: 9373865
    Abstract: A method produces electrode windings, in which method a strip- or ribbon-like anode and a strip- or ribbon-like cathode are provided and flat collector lugs are formed on at least one longitudinal side of the anode and of the cathode at varying distances and/or contours are cut into the longitudinal sides of the electrodes. The anode and the cathode are wound up together with a strip- or ribbon-like separator to form a winding with the sequence anode/separator/cathode. The method is distinguished, in particular, in that the process of forming collector lugs and/or of cutting contours and the process of winding up overlap with respect to time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: VW-VM Forschungsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Konrad Holl, Markus Pompetzki, Robert Sekler, Heiner Stelzig, Stefan Stock
  • Publication number: 20150246366
    Abstract: A switchable slot valve for a coating plant controls delivery of a pasty coating material. The switchable slot valve has a valve bore incorporated in a valve main body and is aligned in a valve extent direction, and a valve control rod is rotatable to switch between a throughput position and a closed position and is mounted in the valve bore by bearing faces is disposed. To mitigate disruptions by coating material which has made its way into a bearing gap between the valve bore and the bearing faces, depression regions are provided in the region of which the respective outer circumferential part-face does not bear on the inner circumferential face of the valve bore, on the outer circumferential part-faces between the slot-shaped duct inlet and the slot-shaped duct outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2013
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: VOLKSWAGEN VARTA Microbattery Forschungsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG,
    Inventors: Andreas Huth, Robert Sekler
  • Publication number: 20150238998
    Abstract: A switchable slot valve for a coating plant controls delivery of a pasty coating material. The switchable slot valve has a valve bore incorporated in a valve main body and is aligned in a valve extent direction, and a valve control rod is rotatable to switch between a throughput position and a closed position and is mounted in the valve bore by bearing faces. To mitigate disruptions by coating material which has made its way into a bearing gap between the valve bore and the bearing faces at least one receiving space is incorporated in an inner circumferential face of the valve bore between the supply duct and the nozzle duct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2013
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: VOLKSWAGEN VARTA Microbattery Forschungsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Huth, Robert Sekler
  • Publication number: 20140227431
    Abstract: A method of intermittently coating a moving surface with paste containing electrochemically active particles by a nozzle having a slot-shaped delivery opening includes supplying paste to the delivery opening from a paste reservoir via a transport channel and regulating paste supply to the delivery opening with a rotatably mounted control axle which enables the paste supply to the delivery opening in a first switching position and, in a second switching position, blocks the transport channel and disconnects a section of the transport channel extending as far as the delivery opening from the paste supply, wherein the rotatably mounted control axle comprises a passage via which the paste reservoir is in communicating connection with the delivery opening in the first switching position and the disconnected section of the transport channel is in communicating connection with the reduced pressure source in the second switching position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: VOLKSWAGEN VARTA Microbattery Forschungsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Huth, Robert Sekler
  • Publication number: 20140053383
    Abstract: A method produces electrode windings, in which method a strip- or ribbon-like anode and a strip- or ribbon-like cathode are provided and flat collector lugs are formed on at least one longitudinal side of the anode and of the cathode at varying distances and/or contours are cut into the longitudinal sides of the electrodes. The anode and the cathode are wound up together with a strip- or ribbon-like separator to form a winding with the sequence anode/separator/cathode. The method is distinguished, in particular, in that the process of forming collector lugs and/or of cutting contours and the process of winding up overlap with respect to time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: VOLKSWAGEN VARTA Microbattery Forschungsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Konrad Holl, Markus Pompetzki, Robert Sekler, Heiner Stelzig, Stefan Stock