Patents by Inventor Stefan Heinz

Stefan Heinz 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: 20210245419
    Abstract: Method for bending a plastic pipe including arranging a bending portion of a plastic pipe in a heating zone of a heater and performing contactless local heating of the bending portion, wherein the heater is adapted to provide a first predetermined temperature difference between a neutral zone of the bending portion and a compression zone of the bending portion and a second predetermined temperature difference between the neutral zone and the compression zone, of the bending area and an expansion zone of the bending area, introducing bending forces on holding regions arranged on the plastic pipe at a distance from the bending area and/or introducing bending forces on the bending area for deforming the plastic pipe into a deformation position and cooling the plastic pipe in the deformation position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventor: Stefan Heinz
  • Publication number: 20210089011
    Abstract: The invention relates to an industrial process controller comprising at least three field devices coupled to one another by means of a data link, with the field devices controlling and/or monitoring an industrial process, wherein the field devices are configured to store a block chain, wherein the block chain comprises a plurality of blocks, and wherein the blocks store use data. The process controller is characterized in that the field devices are configured to delete one or more blocks from the block chain and to adapt the block chain to the change caused by the deletion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: Schneider Electric Industries SAS
    Inventors: Stefan Heinz EMMERT, Maximilian Eugen STAHL
  • Patent number: 10855128
    Abstract: Described is a method for producing a stator, in particular for electric motors. In a first step, a plurality of flexible electrical conductors are combined to form a conductor bundle. In a second step, two end regions of the conductor bundle are pressed in such a way that a central region of the conductor bundle formed between the two end regions remains flexible. Also described is a corresponding stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Inventors: Johannes Lange, Tobias Engelhardt, Stefan Schmitz, Axel Heitmann, Jan Nägelkrämer, Stefan Oechslen, Daniel Knoblauch, Wolfgang Thaler, Stefan Heinz
  • Patent number: 10654460
    Abstract: A novel, particularly rationally designed, modular parking brake actuator for an electric drum brake system. An axle A1 from the motor, including a screw gear pinion coupled in a rotationally fixed manner, and an axle of the spindle arrangement, including a screw gear which is coupled in a rotationally fixed manner to the drive nut, define under a deflection of 90° a single wheel gearbox stage of the parking brake actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO. OHG
    Inventors: Thomas Winkler, Jürgen Balz, Marco Froschauer, Jürgen Bauer, Patrick Walter, Stefan Heinz, Philipp Merkel, Pejman Bijanzadeh
  • Publication number: 20180345937
    Abstract: A novel, particularly rationally designed, modular parking brake actuator for an electric drum brake system. An axle A1 from the motor, including a screw gear pinion coupled in a rotationally fixed manner, and an axle A2 of the spindle arrangement, including a screw gear which is coupled in a rotationally fixed manner to the drive nut, define under a deflection of 90° a single wheel gearbox stage of the parking brake actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Thomas Winkler, Jürgen Balz, Marco Froschauer, Jürgen Bauer, Patrick Walter, Stefan Heinz, Philipp Merkel, Pejman Bijanzadeh
  • Publication number: 20180175690
    Abstract: Described is a method for producing a stator, in particular for electric motors. In a first step, a plurality of flexible electrical conductors are combined to form a conductor bundle. In a second step, two end regions of the conductor bundle are pressed in such a way that a central region of the conductor bundle formed between the two end regions remains flexible. Also described is a corresponding stator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Johannes Lange, Tobias Engelhardt, Stefan Schmitz, Axel Heitmann, Jan Nägelkrämer, Stefan Oechslen, Daniel Knoblauch, Wolfgang Thaler, Stefan Heinz
  • Patent number: 8636902
    Abstract: The invention relates to an oil filter arrangement having a housing comprising a receiving space for a filter element, wherein a discharge opening is provided at the bottom of the receiving space and a discharge valve is provided in the discharge opening wherein the discharge valve comprises a valve body, which is movable between a closing position and an opening position in a displaceable manner and is moved to the locking position by a first spring element when the filter element is inserted, wherein the first spring element is disposed on the valve body on the side of the valve body facing away from the discharge opening and is configured as a compound spring having a flat, bent metal band. The metal band acts against the filter element or against an end disk of the filter element when the filter element is inserted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Inventors: Peter Jungmann, Benjamin Diehl, Stefan Heinz
  • Publication number: 20130323721
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for carrying out genotoxicity tests of chemical, biological and physical active substances or agents with the aid of cell culture systems of proliferating physiologically active liver cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2011
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: MEDICYTE GMBH
    Inventors: Adrianus J.C.M. Braspenning, Stefan Heinz, Astrid Nörenberg, Nicola Hewitt, Jan-Heiner Küpper
  • Patent number: 8307957
    Abstract: A disk brake for a vehicle having a bracket which is fixed with respect to the vehicle and on which brake linings and at least one brake caliper are mounted so as to be movable in an axial direction is disclosed. The bracket and the brake caliper engage around at least one brake disk, and the brake caliper includes a housing limb with at least one actuating device, a further housing limb with at least one housing finger, and a housing bridge. A spring arrangement which generates an elastic preload between the brake caliper and the bracket is provided in such a way that the preload is aligned substantially perpendicular to a movement direction of the brake caliper. The spring arrangement comprises a spring element and a protective panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Stefan Heinz, Christoph Sander, Uwe Bach, Ralf Sundheim, Roberto Stoka
  • Patent number: 8282821
    Abstract: An oil filter assembly (10) has a receiving chamber (18) that can be closed by a cover element (14) and a spring-loaded supporting tube (22) that is fixed in the receiving chamber and is designed to receive a filter element (20) that can be radially traversed by oil. The supporting tube (22) is axially displaceable between an operating position and a drain position in such a way that, in the operating position when the receiving chamber is closed by the cover element (14), the tube closes a drain opening (42). When the receiving chamber is open in the drain position, the tube releases the drain opening. The supporting tube is mounted to rotate through a rotational angle that is limited by two rotational stops (41, 43) in the housing and the cover element has follower sections (66, 68, 70) that co-operate with the supporting tube and/or filter element to rotate the supporting tube through the rotational angle when the cover element is screwed on and/or unscrewed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Joma-Polytec Kunststofftechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Jan Maier, Friedhelm Pfitzer, Alexander Maute, Stefan Heinz, Peter Jungmann, Matthias Knoell
  • Patent number: 8276718
    Abstract: A disk brake having a brake disk, a brake caliper including a bracket, a caliper housing and a brake lining. The bracket and the caliper housing engage axially around the brake disk, with the caliper housing and the brake lining movable in an axial direction. The caliper housing has outer housing limb comprising two housing fingers which run substantially in a radial direction and which span a limb window situated between them and which is open in the direction of the rotational axis, with the housing fingers having one end section facing the rotational axis. A protective screen covers end sections of the housing fingers and conceals a section of the limb window that faces the rotational axis, with an outer dimension of the protective screen in a circumferential direction such that a transition between the protective screen and the housing fingers is substantially stepless in an axial projection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Uwe Bach, Stefan Heinz, Peter Bogenschütz, Ahmed Sefo
  • Patent number: 7842183
    Abstract: An oil filter assembly (10) comprises a housing (12) that has a holding space for a filter element (20), which can be placed inside the housing and through which oil can radially flow, an oil inlet, an oil outlet, and a supporting tube (22), which supports the filter element. A guide (62) for a compensating body of the outlet valve is provided on a part that is separate from the housing (12). The compensating body (58) serves to compensate for axial tolerances of the housing and/or of the filter element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Joma-Polytec Kunststofftechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Heinz, Friedhelm Pfitzer, Peter Jungmann, Alexander Maute
  • Publication number: 20100282658
    Abstract: The invention relates to an oil filter arrangement having a housing comprising a receiving space for a filter element, wherein a discharge opening is provided at the bottom of the receiving space and a discharge valve is provided in the discharge opening wherein the discharge valve comprises a valve body, which is movable between a closing position and an opening position in a displaceable manner and is moved to the locking position by a first spring element when the filter element is inserted, wherein the first spring element is disposed on the valve body on the side of the valve body facing away from the discharge opening and is configured as a compound spring having a flat, bent metal band. The metal band acts against the filter element or against an end disk of the filter element when the filter element is inserted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2010
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Applicant: Joma-Polytec Kunststofftechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Jungmann, Benjamin Diehl, Stefan Heinz
  • Publication number: 20100163350
    Abstract: A disk brake having a brake disk, a brake caliper including a bracket, a caliper housing and a brake lining. The bracket and the caliper housing engage axially around the brake disk, with the caliper housing and the brake lining movable in an axial direction. The caliper housing has outer housing limb comprising two housing fingers which run substantially in a radial direction and which span a limb window situated between them and which is open in the direction of the rotational axis, with the housing fingers having one end section facing the rotational axis. A protective screen covers end sections of the housing fingers and conceals a section of the limb window that faces the rotational axis, with an outer dimension of the protective screen in a circumferential direction such that a transition between the protective screen and the housing fingers is substantially stepless in an axial projection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2007
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Uwe Bach, Stefan Heinz, Peter Bogenschütz, Ahmed Sefo
  • Publication number: 20100006493
    Abstract: An oil filter assembly (10) has a receiving chamber (18) that can be closed by a cover element (14) and a spring-loaded supporting tube (22) that is fixed in the receiving chamber and is designed to receive a filter element (20) that can be radially traversed by oil. The supporting tube (22) is axially displaceable between an operating position and a drain position in such a way that, in the operating position when the receiving chamber is closed by the cover element (14), the tube closes a drain opening (42). When the receiving chamber is open in the drain position, the tube releases the drain opening. The supporting tube is mounted to rotate through a rotational angle that is limited by two rotational stops (41, 43) in the housing and the cover element has follower sections (66, 68, 70) that co-operate with the supporting tube and/or filter element to rotate the supporting tube through the rotational angle when the cover element is screwed on and/or unscrewed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2007
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Inventors: Jan Maier, Friedhelm Pfitzer, Alexander Maute, Stefan Heinz, Peter Jungmann, Mathias Knoell
  • Publication number: 20090223889
    Abstract: An oil filter assembly (10) comprises a housing (12) that has a holding space for a filter element (20), which can be placed inside the housing and through which oil can radially flow, an oil inlet, an oil outlet, and a supporting tube (22), which supports the filter element. A guide (62) for a compensating body of the outlet valve is provided on a part that is separate from the housing (12). The compensating body (58) serves to compensate for axial tolerances of the housing and/or of the filter element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2006
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Inventors: Stefan Heinz, Friedhelm Pfitzer, Peter Jungmann, Alexander Maute
  • Publication number: 20090152056
    Abstract: A disk brake for a vehicle having a bracket which is fixed with respect to the vehicle and on which brake linings and at least one brake caliper are mounted so as to be movable in an axial direction is disclosed. The bracket and the brake caliper engage around at least one brake disk, and the brake caliper includes a housing limb with at least one actuating device, a further housing limb with at least one housing finger, and a housing bridge. A spring arrangement which generates an elastic preload between the brake caliper and the bracket is provided in such a way that the preload is aligned substantially perpendicular to a movement direction of the brake caliper. The spring arrangement comprises a spring element and a protective panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2007
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Inventors: Stefan Heinz, Christoph Sander, Uwe Bach, Ralf Sundheim, Roberto Stoka
  • Publication number: 20080169233
    Abstract: An oil filter assembly with a housing which comprises a receiving chamber for a filter element can be inserted into the housing and through which oil can flow in a radial direction, and with a housing lid that closes the receiving chamber, wherein a pure oil or unfiltered oil opening that is surrounded by a pipe socket, and a channel chamber extending in the longitudinal direction of the receiving chamber are provided at the bottom of the receiving chamber. A drainage plate is provided in the bottom area of the receiving chamber, which is disposed on the pipe socket such that it can be axially displaced to at least a certain degree and has a closing means, wherein at least one pressure spring is disposed between the drainage plate and the bottom such that in the operating position when the housing is closed and the filter element is inserted, the drainage plate is loaded by the filter element against the spring force and the closing means closes a drainage opening of the channel chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2007
    Publication date: July 17, 2008
    Applicant: Joma-Polytec Kunststofftechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Friedhelm Pfitzer, Peter Jungmann, Stefan Heinz, Alexander Maute
  • Patent number: 7213688
    Abstract: A disc brake for a motor vehicle having at least two axially stationary friction rings being connected to a rotatable hub. The disc brake comprises several brake pads cooperating with the associated friction rings during a braking operation. A favorable structural overall design of the disc brake is achieved by a brake caliper straddling all friction rings and the associated brake pads and including a first actuating device in a brake caliper portion that extends axially beside the friction rings, and a second actuating device that is arranged between two friction rings and acting axially on both sides. Said actuating device acts on the brake pads arranged between two friction rings and is arranged so as to be displaceable relative to the brake caliper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Uwe Hendrich, Rolf Weiler, Jürgen Bauer, Stefan Heinz, Nándor Csöri
  • Publication number: 20060049005
    Abstract: A disc brake for a motor vehicle having at least two axially stationary friction rings being connected to a rotatable hub. The disc brake comprises several brake pads cooperating with the associated friction rings during a braking operation. A favorable structural overall design of the disc brake is achieved by a brake caliper straddling all friction rings and the associated brake pads and including a first actuating device in a brake caliper portion that extends axially beside the friction rings, and a second actuating device that is arranged between two friction rings and acting axially on both sides. Said actuating device acts on the brake pads arranged between two friction rings and is arranged so as to be displaceable relative to the brake caliper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2003
    Publication date: March 9, 2006
    Inventors: Uwe Hendrich, Rolf Weiler, Jurgen Bauer, Stefan Heinz, Nandor Csori