Patents by Inventor Sven Meerkamp

Sven Meerkamp 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).

  • System for activating a rotor drive of an open-end rotor spinning machine
    Patent number: 7752831
    Abstract: A system for activating a rotor drive (31) of an open-end rotor spinning machine (30), having an open-end rotor spinning machine (30) with a plurality of workstations (33), each having a rotor drive (31) with a control unit (4), which comprises at least one communication interface (18, 19) for connecting to a workstation control unit (35), and external means for substitute activation of the individual rotor drives (31) and for reading signals representing operating state data of the rotor drive from the individual control units (4) of the rotor drives (31) by means of at least one communication interface (18, 19) of the control units (4) for adjustment and checking purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Nour-Eddine Balboul, Sven Meerkamp
  • System for activating a rotor drive of an open-end rotor spinning machine
    Publication number: 20090049819
    Abstract: A system for activating a rotor drive (31) of an open-end rotor spinning machine (30), having an open-end rotor spinning machine (30) with a plurality of workstations (33), each having a rotor drive (31) with a control unit (4), which comprises at least one communication interface (18, 19) for connecting to a workstation control unit (35), and external means for substitute activation of the individual rotor drives (31) and for reading signals representing operating state data of the rotor drive from the individual control units (4) of the rotor drives (31) by means of at least one communication interface (18, 19) of the control units (4) for adjustment and checking purposes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2008
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Nour-Eddine Balboul, Sven Meerkamp