Patents by Inventor Stefan Elmer

Stefan Elmer 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: 11255355
    Abstract: An electronic valve controller for an open-loop and closed-loop control of a valve island includes four or eight valve disks having pneumatic valves configured to perform a motion task. Applications for the open-loop and closed-loop control of the valve island can be loaded onto the electronic valve controller. The invention further relates to a valve assembly, which is controlled in an open-loop and closed-loop manner by an electronic valve controller, to a corresponding method, and to a system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Festo SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Matthias Doll, Rüdiger Neumann, Stefan Elmer, Peter Hofmann, Bernd Schneider
  • Patent number: 11143213
    Abstract: An electronic execution unit controls and regulates a pneumatic valve assembly for a pneumatic movement. An application for controlling and regulating a valve assembly is or can be loaded so that it can be carried out on the electronic execution unit to carry out the pneumatic movement on the pneumatic valve assembly. An electronic valve controller for the open-loop control and closed-loop control of a valve assembly has at least one pneumatic valve for a pneumatic movement task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Festo SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Matthias Doll, Rüdiger Neumann, Stefan Elmer, Peter Hofmann, Bernd Schneider, Michael Link
  • Patent number: 10550957
    Abstract: A control device for a process valve unit which includes a valve drive and a valve fitting, wherein the control device has a control unit which is configured to receive a control signal from a superordinate control via a communication interface which is provided in the field level, and to control the valve drive in accordance with the control signal, wherein the control device further has a local bus interface and the control unit is constructed to communicate with one or more devices of the field level via the local bus interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: FESTO AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ulrich Schmidt, Jan Reich, Christian Kohler, Andreas Siebel, Stefan Elmer
  • Publication number: 20190093681
    Abstract: An electronic execution unit controls and regulates a pneumatic valve assembly for a pneumatic movement. An application for controlling and regulating a valve assembly is or can be loaded so that it can be carried out on the electronic execution unit to carry out the pneumatic movement on the pneumatic valve assembly. An electronic valve controller for the open-loop control and closed-loop control of a valve assembly has at least one pneumatic valve for a pneumatic movement task.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Matthias Doll, Rüdiger Neumann, Stefan Elmer, Peter Hofmann, Bernd Schneider, Michael Link
  • Publication number: 20180245608
    Abstract: An electronic valve controller for an open-loop and closed-loop control of a valve island includes four or eight valve disks having pneumatic valves configured to perform a motion task. Applications for the open-loop and closed-loop control of the valve island can be loaded onto the electronic valve controller. The invention further relates to a valve assembly, which is controlled in an open-loop and closed-loop manner by an electronic valve controller, to a corresponding method, and to a system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Matthias Doll, Rüdiger Neumann, Stefan Elmer, Peter Hofmann, Bernd Schneider
  • Publication number: 20170307102
    Abstract: A control device for a process valve unit which includes a valve drive and a valve fitting, wherein the control device has a control unit which is configured to receive a control signal from a superordinate control via a communication interface which is provided in the field level, and to control the valve drive in accordance with the control signal, wherein the control device further has a local bus interface and the control unit is constructed to communicate with one or more devices of the field level via the local bus interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventors: Ulrich Schmidt, Jan Reich, Christian Kohler, Andreas Siebel, Stefan Elmer
  • Publication number: 20120152381
    Abstract: A modular checking system for fluidic control devices has a display and/or operating unit which includes an inductive interface. The display and/or operating unit is adapted to be detachably connected to a fluidic control device in such a relative position to the latter that the inductive interface is coupled to a corresponding interface of the control device. Encoded signals can be transmitted via the inductive interfaces, the signals containing both information and energy from the control device to the display and/or operating unit for operating the latter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Inventors: Michael Ungerer, Florian Krämer, Tina Brinzing, Christof Jacob, Marcus Keinath, Markus Feinauer, Stefan Elmer, Peter Hofmann
  • Patent number: 5551156
    Abstract: A revolving blade skinning device is provided with a pair of housing shells, a drive motor mounted within the housing shells, a blade support mounted to the housing shells, a blade mounted on the blade support for rotation relative to the housing shells, and a gear drive situated in the housing shells and connected to the motor and the blade support. The gear drive includes a drive wheel driven by the drive motor and a belt situated between the drive wheel and the blade support. The belt imparts motion from the drive wheel to the blade support. The axis of rotation of the drive motor lies in the plane defined by the blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1996
    Assignee: Schmid & Wezel GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Stefan Elmer
  • Patent number: 5445561
    Abstract: A revolving blade skinning device and blade is described, in which a revolving blade is rotatably arranged between two covers, and wherein the revolving blade is embodied such that cutting edge areas with constant cutting edge radii alternate with notches. In accordance with the present invention it is provided that the notches are embodied V-shaped and as cutting edges, that they respectively take up an angle of 10.degree. to 20.degree. and the cutting edge areas respectively an angle of 25.degree. to 35.degree., and that furthermore the revolving blade projects past the covers in such a way, that in the process the cutting edge radius of the revolving blade is maximally greater by 1.5 mm than the covers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1995
    Assignee: Schmid & Wezel GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Stefan Elmer
  • Patent number: 4597132
    Abstract: A band saw wherein one of the pulleys for an endless band-like blade is movable toward and away from the other pulley to relax the tension upon or to tension the blade. The one pulley is permanently biased away from the other pulley by a relatively weak spring whose bias can be overcome by hand to facilitate the removal of a blade or the application of a fresh blade. In addition, the one pulley is normally biased away from the other pulley with a pronounced force by a package of dished springs whose bias upon the one pulley can be interrupted by a single-acting cylinder and piston unit whose piston is installed between the dished springs and a reciprocable carriage for the one pulley. The dished springs react against a support for the pulleys and bear against the piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 1, 1986
    Assignee: Schmid & Wezel
    Inventors: Stefan Elmer, Erich Forberger
  • Patent number: 4480699
    Abstract: The invention relates to a compressed-air screwdriver including a tool spindle, displacable against the action of a spring; an automatic shutoff having a valve for the motor, which upon attaining a predetermined torque is turned off and a device whose actuation, after the automatic shutoff, permits the motor to be put back into operation so that a screw can be further tightened or loosened with increased torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1979
    Date of Patent: November 6, 1984
    Assignee: Firma Schmid & Wezel
    Inventor: Stefan Elmer
  • Patent number: 4114270
    Abstract: A butcher's meat saw has a housing from which extends a flat guide plate having an edge along which is slidable a blade reciprocated by an eccentric-type drive mechanism within the housing. Either the edge of the guide or the edge of the blade is formed with a groove and the other edge fits in this groove. One of these edges is furthermore formed with laterally opened notches so as to facilitate cleaning of the saw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1978
    Assignee: Schmid & Wezel
    Inventors: Rottger Jansen-Herfeld, Stefan Elmer