Patents by Inventor Stefan Linn

Stefan Linn 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: 10902228
    Abstract: A system for accepting or rejecting a container containing a meat batch comprises a reader and a controller cooperating to effect the acceptance or the rejection of the meat batch. The reader is configured to interrogate a machine readable tag attached to the container to retrieve information stored thereon into the controller which is configured to respond to the information retrieved by the reader to access batch information comprising at least information indicative of a fat content of the meat batch, to compare the batch information with a criterion of a recipe related to a target fat content to determine a suitability of the meat batch for inclusion in a mix meeting the recipe, and to generate a control signal dependent the determination usable to effect acceptance or rejection of the meat batch as appropriate to the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Foss Analytical A/S
    Inventor: Stefan Linn
  • Publication number: 20190370510
    Abstract: A system for accepting or rejecting a container containing a meat batch comprises a reader and a controller cooperating to effect the acceptance or the rejection of the meat batch. The reader is configured to interrogate a machine readable tag attached to the container to retrieve information stored thereon into the controller which is configured to respond to the information retrieved by the reader to access batch information comprising at least information indicative of a fat content of the meat batch, to compare the batch information with a criterion of a recipe related to a target fat content to determine a suitability of the meat batch for inclusion in a mix meeting the recipe, and to generate a control signal dependent the determination usable to effect acceptance or rejection of the meat batch as appropriate to the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: Foss Analytical A/S
    Inventor: Stefan LINN
  • Patent number: 10265918
    Abstract: A method for making a carcass for a pneumatic vehicle tire includes building up a carcass free from sidewalls with an inner liner, a single-ply or multi-ply carcass inlay and bead cores, at a carcass station on a carcass building drum, while creating ply turnups. The carcass produced without sidewalls is transferred to a transfer device. The carcass is kept on the transfer device while applying sidewalls to the carcass. The carcass is retained on the transfer device while transferring the carcass provided with the sidewalls to a shaping machine where the carcass is shaped into a toroidal shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Claudia Thomfohrde, Sebastian Reitmann, Stefan Linne, Ewald Kneussel, Christian Moeller
  • Patent number: 10259182
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a method for making a vehicle tire having a tire carcass defining an axial center, a first and a second tire bead, a tire belt and a tread. The carcass is completed on a carcass drum wherein the carcass drum is free of sidewalls. The tire carcass is removed from the carcass drum and moved to a transfer position for arranging sidewalls. The sidewalls are arranged on sidewall drums on sides of the carcass. The sidewall drums are moved in axial direction toward the axial center of the tire carcass. The sidewall drums with the sidewalls are expanded and connected to the tire carcass. Thereafter, the sidewall drums are collapsed and moved outward and the tire carcass is released for further transport. The carcass and the attached sidewalls are transferred to a shaping drum where the tire carcass with the sidewalls is shaped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Linne, Sebastian Reitmann
  • Patent number: 9854817
    Abstract: A meat processing device comprises a meat processing unit and an external X-ray meat analyzer provided with a housing formed with an inlet connectable with an outlet of the processing unit. The housing provides complete shielding of personnel from X-rays except towards the inlet and is movable relative to the processing unit to a first position for analysis at which the unit outlet is collocated with the inlet and at which the processing unit completes the shielding of personnel from X-rays towards the inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Foss Analytical A/S
    Inventors: Maja Kirstine Elsoee, Hans Larsen, Stefan Linn, Allan Kjaergaard Jensen
  • Patent number: 9782943
    Abstract: A method for making a vehicle tire in which a tire carcass is expanded radially on a shaping drum, wherein the sidewalls arranged on the tire carcass are turned up by inflatable shaping bladders. This involves moving two pusher bells, which are arranged to the sides of the tire carcass, in the direction of the center of the blank, wherein the pusher bells are respectively mounted on a movable first and second carriage and are respectively moved in the axial direction by a first and second drive by way of a coupling, wherein the pusher bells are pressed laterally against the shaping bladders. When disequilibrium of forces on the two sides of the shaping bladders is set, the pressing positions of the two pusher bells are balanced, the two drives being arranged on a freely mounted third carriage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Linne, Sebastian Reitmann, Martin Gerighausen
  • Publication number: 20160236434
    Abstract: A method for making a vehicle tire in which a tire carcass is expanded radially on shaping drum, wherein the sidewalls arranged on the tire carcass are turned up by inflatable shaping bladders. This involves moving two pusher bells, which are arranged to the sides of the tire carcass, in the direction of the center of the blank, wherein the pusher bells are respectively mounted on a movable first and second carriage and are respectively moved in the axial direction by a first and second drive by way of a coupling, wherein the pusher bells are pressed laterally against the shaping bladders. When disequilibrium of forces on the two sides of the shaping bladders is set, the pressing positions of the two pusher bells are balanced, the two drives being arranged on a freely mounted third carriage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventors: Stefan Linne, Sebastian Reitmann, Martin Gerighausen
  • Publication number: 20160081360
    Abstract: A meat processing device comprises a meat processing unit and an external X-ray meat analyser provided with a housing formed with an inlet connectable with an outlet of the processing unit. The housing provides complete shielding of personnel from X-rays except towards the inlet and is movable relative to the processing unit to a first position for analysis at which the unit outlet is collocated with the inlet and at which the processing unit completes the shielding of personnel from X-rays towards the inlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2013
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: Maja Kirstine ELSOEE, Hans LARSEN, Stefan LINN, Allan KJAERGAARD JENSEN
  • Publication number: 20160031175
    Abstract: A method for making a carcass for a pneumatic vehicle tire includes building up a carcass free from sidewalls with an inner liner, a single-ply or multi-ply carcass inlay and bead cores, at a carcass station on a carcass building drum, while creating ply turnups. The carcass produced without sidewalls is transferred to a transfer device. The carcass is kept on the transfer device while applying sidewalls to the carcass. The carcass is retained on the transfer device while transferring the carcass provided with the sidewalls to a shaping machine where the carcass is shaped into a toroidal shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2015
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventors: Claudia Thomfohrde, Sebastian Reitmann, Stefan Linne, Ewald Kneussel, Christian Moeller
  • Publication number: 20160031174
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a method for making a vehicle tire having a tire carcass defining an axial center, a first and a second tire bead, a tire belt and a tread. The carcass is completed on a carcass drum wherein the carcass drum is free of sidewalls. The tire carcass is removed from the carcass drum and moved to a transfer position for arranging sidewalls. The sidewalls are arranged on sidewall drums on sides of the carcass. The sidewall drums are moved in axial direction toward the axial center of the tire carcass. The sidewall drums with the sidewalls are expanded and connected to the tire carcass. Thereafter, the sidewall drums are collapsed and moved outward and the tire carcass is released for further transport. The carcass and the attached sidewalls are transferred to a shaping drum where the tire carcass with the sidewalls is shaped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventors: Stefan Linne, Sebastian Reitmann
  • Publication number: 20140069572
    Abstract: A method for making a vehicle tire includes winding a carcass ply onto a carcass drum, wherein the carcass drum includes a device for setting tire cores and a mechanism for folding the carcass ply over a tire core; finishing the tire carcass; removing the tire carcass from the carcass drum; moving the tire carcass over a cambering drum; carrying out a core clamping with segments of the cambering drum with the tire sidewalls clamped with the tire carcass in the region of the tire bead at the cambering drum via core clamping; moving the carcass transfer unit away from the cambering unit; cambering the tire carcass with the tire sidewalls which are on both sides, wherein the tire sidewalls are turned up laterally on the tire carcass by a turning-up device and the tire carcass is combined with the coaxially arranged belt-tread packet; and, finishing the green tire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Gerighausen, Patrick Elsen, Ewald Kneussel, Stefan Linne, Henrik Wende, Claudia Thomfohrde
  • Patent number: 7967717
    Abstract: A device for the variable driving of a hollow shaft and an inner shaft or spindle that is supported on the latter and lies inside it, is particularly suited for moving component parts of a tire building machine, using driving devices. The hollow shaft is coupled to the inner shaft or spindle by way of a planetary gear mechanism or a harmonic-drive gear mechanism, which is respectively constructed as a differential-speed gear mechanism. The hollow shaft and the shaft or spindle are made to run synchronously by way of a single driving device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Continental Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Stefan Linne
  • Patent number: 7837816
    Abstract: A method for building a radial tire on a tire-building machine that has an expandable carcass drum with a cylindrical external circumference and two bellows supports with inflatable bellows. A tire inner liner and a carcass ply have projections and project beyond the edges of the carcass drum are laid and spliced on the carcass drum. The bead cores with core profiles are positioned and the projections of the carcass ply are turned up around the outsides of the bead cores by the inflation of the bellows. Expandable bellows supports are provided that are expanded for the placing and splicing of tire components so that the external surfaces of the bellows together with the external surface of the expanded carcass drum form at least essentially a uniform cylindrical load-bearing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Continental Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Stefan Linne, Karl-Heinz Pawlick
  • Patent number: 7699952
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for positioning bead cores during a building of a radial tire carcass in a tire-building machine. The method includes positioning first and second bead cores on respective first and second core-centering devices, on a first side of a carcass drum and centering the first and second bead cores. Further, the method includes grasping, with a second core-setting device, the second bead core and transporting the second core-setting device and the second bead core to a second side of the carcass drum. Additionally, the method includes grasping, with a first core-setting device, the first bead core; and setting the first and second bead cores onto the tire carcass by the first and second core-setting devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Continental Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Stefan Linne, Karl-Heinz Pawlik
  • Patent number: 7607597
    Abstract: The invention relates to a meat processing machine which is used for mincing, filling, degassing and/or mixing fresh and/or frozen meat. Said machine also comprises a fat analysing device (7, 8) for determining the fat content in said meat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Inventors: Stefan Linn, Willi Eschenröder, Dieter Evers
  • Publication number: 20090239702
    Abstract: A device for the variable driving of a hollow shaft and an inner shaft or spindle that is supported on the latter and lies inside it, is particularly suited for moving component parts of a tire building machine, using driving devices. The hollow shaft is coupled to the inner shaft or spindle by way of a planetary gear mechanism or a harmonic-drive gear mechanism, which is respectively constructed as a differential-speed gear mechanism. The hollow shaft and the shaft or spindle are made to run synchronously by way of a single driving device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2009
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: CONTINENTAL AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Stefan Linne
  • Publication number: 20090080607
    Abstract: Meat processing device having at least one comminution unit for comminution and/or mixing of fresh and/or frozen meat and having at least one transport means (2) on which the meat can be transported and which is arranged, in the direction of processing, downstream of the comminution unit (1), which has a fat analysis device (3) for determining the fat content, the density in the meat and/or the BEFFE (connective tissue protein free meat protein), and also process for fat analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2006
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Inventors: Hartmut Hoffmann, Stefan Linn
  • Publication number: 20080190562
    Abstract: A transportation and production system is used in building tire blanks having at least one carcass ply, an inner layer, sidewalls, two bead cores with core profiles, a belt assembly with at least two belt plies and a tread. Drums can be positioned on transportation devices and moved along at least one continuous transportation path, having stations to be delivered to for building tire components. Selected building stations have at least two respective stations that can be traveled to alternately.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2008
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Applicant: CONTINENTAL AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Jens Winkler, Jens Ludwig, Stefan Linne, Claudia Thomfohrde
  • Publication number: 20080190548
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for positioning bead cores during a building of a radial tire carcass in a tire-building machine. The method includes positioning first and second bead cores on respective first and second core-centering devices, on a first side of a carcass drum and centering the first and second bead cores. Further, the method includes grasping, with a second core-setting device, the second bead core and transporting the second core-setting device and the second bead core to a second side of the carcass drum. Additionally, the method includes grasping, with a first core-setting device, the first bead core; and setting the first and second bead cores onto the tire carcass by the first and second core-setting devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2005
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Applicant: CONTINENTAL AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Stefan Linne, Karl-Heinz Pawlik
  • Publication number: 20070261780
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for building a radial tire on a tire-building machine that has an expandable carcass drum (9) with a cylindrical external circumference and two bellows supports (10) with inflatable bellows (11), whereby a tire inner liner (1) and a carcass ply (2) having projections and projecting beyond the edges of the carcass drum (9) are laid and spliced on the carcass drum (9), subsequently bead cores (3) with core profiles (4) are positioned and the projections of the carcass ply (2) are turned up around the outsides of the bead cores (3) by the inflation of the bellows (11). Expandable bellows supports (10) are provided that are expanded for the placing and splicing of tire components so that the external surfaces of the bellows (11) together with the external surface of the expanded carcass drum (9) form at least essentially a uniform cylindrical load-bearing surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2005
    Publication date: November 15, 2007
    Applicant: CONTINENTAL AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Stefan Linne, Karl-Heinz Pawlik