Patents by Inventor Stephan Franz

Stephan Franz 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: 10863413
    Abstract: Equipment for the wireless operation of IO-link devices in an IO-link communication network, including an IO-link master connected to a fieldbus a wire-bonded communication network and at least one wirelessly communicating IO-link device, has a wire-bonded IO-link device serving as a wireless IO-link device interface for the wireless communication with the at least one wirelessly communicating IO-link device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Balluff GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Franz, Matthias Beyer, Markus Rentschler
  • Publication number: 20190327662
    Abstract: Equipment for the wireless operation of IO-link devices in an IO-link communication network, including an IO-link master connected to a fieldbus a wire-bonded communication network and at least one wirelessly communicating IO-link device, has a wire-bonded IO-link device serving as a wireless IO-link device interface for the wireless communication with the at least one wirelessly communicating IO-link device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Applicant: Balluff GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan FRANZ, Matthias BEYER, Markus RENTSCHLER
  • Publication number: 20190225778
    Abstract: This invention relates to a tire with high performance tread of rubber composition for promoting tread durability and traction. For such purpose, a tread rubber composition is provided which contains a high Tg solvent solution polymerization prepared styrene/butadiene elastomer (SSBR) together with precipitated silica reinforcement and traction resin. The invention includes extension of the uncured high Tg SSBR by triglyceride vegetable oil instead of petroleum based oil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Marc Weydert, Jerome Joel Daniel Delville, Mathias Meyer, Stephan Franz Westermann, Marie-Laure Stephanie Milan
  • Patent number: 10089271
    Abstract: A field bus system includes at least one bus module designed as a master module with at least one connecting device for connection to a network and with at least one port for connecting a parameterizable IO link device. The field bus system uses a data storage device which is designed as an IO link device and which can be connected to the at least one port for connecting an IO link device and in which all parameters of the IO link devices connected to the master module are stored and can be read by the master module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Balluff GmbH
    Inventors: Albert Feinaeugle, Stephan Langer, Stephan Franz
  • Patent number: 9697164
    Abstract: In a method and a control device for the operation of a transmission system for an IO link, wherein at least one cable-free transition between an IO link master and at least one IO link device is provided, and wherein the IO link device provides a minimal cycle time for a communication cycle, it is particularly provided that the minimal cycle time provided by the IO link device is increased in such a manner that a temporal delay caused by the cable-free transition is added to the minimal cycle time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Balluff GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Beyer, Stephan Franz
  • Publication number: 20150331827
    Abstract: In a method and a control device for the operation of a transmission system for an IO link, wherein at least one cable-free transition between an IO link master and at least one IO link device is provided, and wherein the IO link device provides a minimal cycle time for a communication cycle, it is particularly provided that the minimal cycle time provided by the IO link device is increased in such a manner that a temporal delay caused by the cable-free transition is added to the minimal cycle time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Applicant: Balluff GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias BEYER, Stephan FRANZ
  • Publication number: 20150143008
    Abstract: A field bus system includes at least one bus module designed as a master module with at least one connecting device for connection to a network and with at least one port for connecting a parameterizable IO link device. The field bus system uses a data storage device which is designed as an IO link device and which can be connected to the at least one port for connecting an IO link device and in which all parameters of the IO link devices connected to the master module are stored and can be read by the master module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: Balluff GmbH
    Inventors: Albert Feinaeugle, Stephan Langer, Stephan Franz
  • Patent number: 8616525
    Abstract: The invention relates to a valve for separating product media in pipes of a product-carrying system. The valve comprises a valve housing and a valve body arranged in a valve housing interior. The valve has a drive element which is movable in the axial direction, is connected to the valve body and is intended for moving the valve body. The valve further comprises a sealing diaphragm for sealing a valve housing interior on the drive side. The sealing diaphragm has a radially extending diaphragm body with a radially inner opening through which the drive element reaches. The diaphragm body has a radially outer edge region and a radially inner edge region which surrounds the radially inner opening. The radially outer edge region is clamped radially and the radially inner edge region is clamped axially. The sealing diaphragm is manufactured from a dimensionally stable material which is thermally resistant up to at least approximately 130° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Südmo Holding GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Franz, Frank Neuhauser
  • Patent number: 7891376
    Abstract: A double seat valve includes a flow barrier element arranged between first and second closing elements. The flow barrier element shadows a first sealing element and/or a first closing element seat of the first closing element which is in a closed position, when the second closing element is lifted and when a cleaning medium is applied to a leakage space, the flow barrier element preventing the cleaning medium from flowing directly against the first sealing element and/or the first closing element seat. The flow barrier element also shadows a second sealing element and/or a second closing element seat of the second closing element which is in a closed position, when the first closing element is lifted and when a cleaning medium is applied to the leakage space, the flow barrier element preventing the cleaning medium from flowing directly against the second sealing element and/or the second closing element seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Südmo Holding GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Neuhauser, Stephan Franz, Wolfgang Neumeyer, Stephan Thomaschki
  • Publication number: 20100096578
    Abstract: The invention relates to a valve for separating product media in pipes of a product-carrying system. The valve comprises a valve housing and a valve body arranged in a valve housing interior. The valve has a drive element which is movable in the axial direction, is connected to the valve body and is intended for moving the valve body. The valve further comprises a sealing diaphragm for sealing a valve housing interior on the drive side. The sealing diaphragm has a radially extending diaphragm body with a radially inner opening through which the drive element reaches. The diaphragm body has a radially outer edge region and a radially inner edge region which surrounds the radially inner opening. The radially outer edge region is clamped radially and the radially inner edge region is clamped axially. The sealing diaphragm is manufactured from a dimensionally stable material which is thermally resistant up to at least approximately 130° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2009
    Publication date: April 22, 2010
    Inventors: Stephan Franz, Frank Neuhauser
  • Publication number: 20090065077
    Abstract: A double seat valve for separating media includes a valve housing which has connectors for a first pipeline and a second pipeline, a first closing element and a first closing element seat which is assigned to the latter, where the first closing element is in seal-forming abutment, in its closed position, with the first closing element seat via at least one sealing element, and a second closing element which is spaced apart axially from the first closing element, and a second closing element seat which is assigned to the second closing element, where the second closing element is, in its closed position, in seal-forming abutment with the second closing element seat via at least one sealing element, where the two closing elements can be lifted independently of one another from their respective closing element seat, and where a leakage space is provided between the two closing elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2008
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Inventors: Frank Neuhauser, Stephan Franz, Wolfgang Neumeyer, Stephan Thomaschki
  • Publication number: 20080283618
    Abstract: A contactless transmission system comprises a carrier substrate, an antenna on the carrier substrate, a semiconductor chip and a connecting means on the carrier substrate. In this case, the antenna and the semiconductor chip are fitted to the connecting means such that an electric current flow can take place between the antenna and the semiconductor chip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG
    Inventors: Frank PUESCHNER, Stephan Franz JANKA
  • Patent number: 6848487
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire having a rubber component comprised of (A) 100 parts by weight (phr) of a rubber containing olefinic unsaturation; (B) from 0 to 100 phr of a filler selected from carbon black and silica; and (C) from 5 to 50 phr of a starch/plasticizer composite and a rubber gel selected from the group consisting of polybutadiene gel, styrene butadiene gel, acrylonitrile-butadiene gel, chloroprene gel, natural rubber gel, and mixtures thereof, wherein the weight ratio of starch/composite to rubber gel is from about 10:1 to about 1:10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2005
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Marc Weydert, Georges Marcel Victor Thielen, Stephan Franz Westermann, Filomeno Gennaro Corvasce
  • Patent number: 6807994
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire having a rubber component where the rubber in said component is comprised of (A) from 10 to 75 phr of a rubber gel selected from the group consisting of polybutadiene gel, styrene butadiene gel, acrylonitrile-butadiene gel, chloroprene gel, natural rubber gel, and mixtures thereof; (B) from 1 to 25 phr of syndiotactic 1,2-polybutadiene; and (C) a rubber containing olefinic unsaturation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Stephan Franz Westermann, Georges Marcel Victor Thielen, Ghislain Adolphe Leon Thise
  • Publication number: 20040122134
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire having a rubber component comprised of
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2002
    Publication date: June 24, 2004
    Inventors: Marc Weydert, Georges Marcel Victor Thielen, Stephan Franz Westermann, Filomeno Gennaro Corvasce
  • Patent number: 6716925
    Abstract: A tire with a rubber containing component compound of, based on 100 parts by weight (phr) of rubber, (A) from 10 to 90 phr of a terpolymer rubber having pendant hydroxyl groups; and (B) from 10 to 90 phr of a rubber containing a nitrile moiety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Georges Marcel Victor Thielen, Stephan Franz Westermann, Claude Charles Jacoby, Christian Kaes
  • Publication number: 20030125468
    Abstract: A tire with a rubber containing component compound of, based on 100 parts by weight (phr) of rubber,
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2002
    Publication date: July 3, 2003
    Inventors: Georges Marcel Victor Thielen, Stephan Franz Westermann, Claude Charles Jacoby, Christian Kaes
  • Publication number: 20020170642
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire having a rubber component where the rubber in said component is comprised of
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2002
    Publication date: November 21, 2002
    Inventors: Stephan Franz Westermann, Georges Marcel Victor Thielen, Ghislain Adolphe Leon Thise