Patents by Inventor Stephan Wald

Stephan Wald 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: 11899424
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for checking a time-discrete signal value of a sensor for freedom from errors, wherein the signal value of the sensor is converted into a first measured value and a second measured value by two different evaluating devices of an electronic system, wherein the first and second measured values are transmitted to a control system by the electronic system, and the control system calculates a first control signal from the first measured value and, in parallel thereto, a second control signal from the second measured value, wherein the control system comprises a comparator which compares the first control signal and second control signal to verify the identity thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: ebm-papst Landshut GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Kutschbach, Franz Riedmueller, Stephan Wald, Markus Weingart, Anton Berghammer, Robert Goldner, Erich Greiner, Volker Kleine
  • Publication number: 20230324044
    Abstract: A gas control valve (1) has a central module (40), a control module (20) and a sensor module (30). Gas can flows through the central module (40) from a valve inlet (41) to a valve outlet (42). The control module (20) is directly on the central module (40) and controls a flow of the gas through the central module (40). A throttle element (23) is fluidically arranged between the valve inlet (41) and the valve outlet (42). The sensor module (30) is arranged directly on the central module (40) and has at least one sensor (31, 32) in operative connection with the gas flowing through the central module (40) through a gas inlet (44) fluidically arranged between the throttle element (23) and the valve outlet (42). In order to control the pressure, it detects a pressure difference between the gas flowing through the central module (40) and air having a reference pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Martin HERTREITER, Enno Jan VROLIJK, Stephan WALD, Markus WEINGART, Bernhard SIMON, Alexander SCHNURR, Plamen GEORGI
  • Patent number: 11287130
    Abstract: A method for regulating a gas mixture formed from a gas and a fuel gas in a fuel gas-operated heating appliance, wherein the gas mixture is created by providing and mixing a gas quantity by way of a first control element and a fuel gas quantity by way of a second control element, wherein a microthermal gas sensor and a gas mixture sensor are used and sensor signals are relayed to a controller, and wherein upon change in the detected sensor signal [of the] gas sensor the newly detected sensor signal of the gas sensor is compared to reference values which have been measured in the laboratory and saved in a table of values in the controller and from this a target value of the sensor signal of the gas mixture sensor is determined without a mixture ratio of the gas mixture composed of fuel gas and gas being changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: ebm-papst Landshut GmbH
    Inventors: Hartmut Henrich, Stephan Wald, Jens Hermann
  • Publication number: 20200409332
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for checking a time-discrete signal value of a sensor for freedom from errors, wherein the signal value of the sensor is converted into a first measured value and a second measured value by two different evaluating devices of an electronic system, wherein the first and second measured values are transmitted to a control system by the electronic system, and the control system calculates a first control signal from the first measured value and, in parallel thereto, a second control signal from the second measured value, wherein the control system comprises a comparator which compares the first control signal and second control signal to verify the identity thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Frank KUTSCHBACH, Franz RIEDMUELLER, Stephan WALD, Markus WEINGART, Anton BERGHAMMER, Robert GOLDNER, Erich GREINER, Volker KLEINE
  • Publication number: 20200232643
    Abstract: A method for regulating a gas mixture formed from a gas and a fuel gas in a fuel gas-operated heating appliance, wherein the gas mixture is created by providing and mixing a gas quantity by way of a first control element and a fuel gas quantity by way of a second control element, wherein a microthermal gas sensor and a gas mixture sensor are used and sensor signals are relayed to a controller, and wherein upon change in the detected sensor signal [of the] gas sensor the newly detected sensor signal of the gas sensor is compared to reference values which have been measured in the laboratory and saved in a table of values in the controller and from this a target value of the sensor signal of the gas mixture sensor is determined without a mixture ratio of the gas mixture composed of fuel gas and gas being changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Hartmut Henrich, Stephan Wald, Jens Hermann