Patents by Inventor Thomas Henke

Thomas Henke 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: 20250091079
    Abstract: The invention relates to a paint mist separation device (10) for attaching to or in front of a filter module and/or separation module (12) which comprises, for example, at least one central face (14) as well as side faces (16, 18) laterally adjoining the central face (14) in each case, and which is attachable to the respective filter module and/or separation module (12) via the ends of the side faces (16, 18).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Thomas BÖING, Daniel HENKE
  • Patent number: 10166413
    Abstract: Embodiments include a system for controlled release of a descent line that can include a shaft secured to a first end of a descent line. Embodiments can include a magnet cradle housing fixedly coupled with the shaft, a first magnet retained by the magnet cradle housing, a coil assembly secured in magnetic proximity to the magnet assembly to generate an electric current by magnetic interaction with the magnet when the shaft is rotated. Embodiments can include a braking assembly powered by the magnet and coil assembly such that the decent of a user is slowed to a safe rate of speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: BAILOUT SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventors: Michael A. Ragsdale, Troy S. Owens, Patrick Thomas Henke
  • Publication number: 20180296860
    Abstract: A personal escape device includes a main housing, a shaft, a magnet housing, and a plurality of magnets. The shaft is rotatably coupled with the main housing and is rotatable about a rotational axis. The magnet housing is positioned in the main housing and is coupled with the shaft such that the magnet housing rotates together with the shaft. The plurality of magnets is coupled with the magnet housing such that the plurality of magnets rotates together with the magnet housing. The stator assembly is coupled with the main housing and surrounds the magnet housing. The stator assembly and the magnet housing are radially spaced from each other to define an air gap therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Inventors: Benjamin T. Krupp, Michael Allen Ragsdale, Patrick Thomas Henke, James R. Hendershot, Troy S. Owens
  • Patent number: 10022570
    Abstract: A personal escape device includes a main housing, a shaft, a magnet housing, and a plurality of magnets. The shaft is rotatably coupled with the main housing and is rotatable about a rotational axis. The magnet housing is positioned in the main housing and is coupled with the shaft such that the magnet housing rotates together with the shaft. The plurality of magnets is coupled with the magnet housing such that the plurality of magnets rotates together with the magnet housing. The stator assembly is coupled with the main housing and surrounds the magnet housing. The stator assembly and the magnet housing are radially spaced from each other to define an air gap therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Bailout, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin T. Krupp, Michael Allen Ragsdale, Patrick Thomas Henke, James R. Hendershot, Troy S. Owens
  • Publication number: 20170333735
    Abstract: A personal escape device includes a main housing, a shaft, a magnet housing, and a plurality of magnets. The shaft is rotatably coupled with the main housing and is rotatable about a rotational axis. The magnet housing is positioned in the main housing and is coupled with the shaft such that the magnet housing rotates together with the shaft. The plurality of magnets is coupled with the magnet housing such that the plurality of magnets rotates together with the magnet housing. The stator assembly is coupled with the main housing and surrounds the magnet housing. The stator assembly and the magnet housing are radially spaced from each other to define an air gap therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Benjamin T. Krupp, Michael Allen Ragsdale, Patrick Thomas Henke, James R. Hendershot, Troy S. Owens
  • Patent number: 9080584
    Abstract: A pneumatic cylinder having end position damping of the cylinder piston is controlled by means of a vent path and a control valve, the control valve comprises a control piston, the control side of which is pressurized by a pneumatic pressure which exists in a control chamber. The movement of the control piston into its closing position is pneumatically controlled by the increasing pressure in the damping chamber during the beginning of the damping. No additional components or controls are to be provided, so that the control of the end position damping occurs exclusively by the pressure conditions prevailing at the time when the damping begins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: PARKER-HANNIFIN MANUFACTURING GERMANY GMBH KG
    Inventors: Axel Fröschle, Peter Rohatschek, Thomas Henke, Rainer Schweizer, Alexander Buchhauser
  • Patent number: 8760017
    Abstract: Electric machine, in particular an electric motor, which comprises a motor support, a stator, a rotor, a fan arranged at the face end of said motor and an electronics casing disposed adjacent to the motor support for electronic components to be arranged in wherein a face-end wall of the motor support which is assigned to the fan is provided with an axial opening such that an air stream discharged from the motor support is by means of said fan deflected toward the electronics casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Hanning Elektro-Werke GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Henke, Stefan Rosenau, Hans Teuber, Werner Hangmann
  • Patent number: 8461735
    Abstract: The invention relates to a body of revolution, in particular for a centrifugal, which comprises a rotator, an electric motor with a stator and a rotor wherein said latter is fixed to the rotator for rotational movement therewith, a support to which the stator of the electric motor is attached and a bearing unit for rotational arrangement of the rotor around an axis of rotation which comprises at least one bearing adapted to coact with an electromagnetic stabilizer unit in such a way that disturbing forces and/or disturbing vibrations of the rotator are counteracted and/or compensated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Hanning Elektro-Werke GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ralf de la Haye, Thomas Henke, Andreas Levermann, Wolfgang Amrhein, Siegfried Silber, Herbert Grabner
  • Publication number: 20130001031
    Abstract: A pneumatic cylinder having end position damping of the cylinder piston is controlled by means of a vent path and a control valve, the control valve comprises a control piston, the control side of which is pressurized by a pneumatic pressure which exists in a control chamber. The movement of the control piston into its closing position is pneumatically controlled by the increasing pressure in the damping chamber during the beginning of the damping. No additional components or controls are to be provided, so that the control of the end position damping occurs exclusively by the pressure conditions prevailing at the time when the damping begins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: Parker Hannifin Manufacturing Germany Gmbh & Co. KG
    Inventors: Axel Fröschle, Peter Rohatschek, Thomas Henke, Rainer Schweizer, Alexander Buchhauser
  • Publication number: 20120001505
    Abstract: Electric machine, in particular an electric motor, which comprises a motor support, a stator, a rotor, a fan arranged at the face end of said motor and an electronics casing disposed adjacent to the motor support for electronic components to be arranged in wherein a face-end wall of the motor support which is assigned to the fan is provided with an axial opening such that an air stream discharged from the motor support is by means of said fan deflected toward the electronics casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2011
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: HANNING ELEKTRO-WERKE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Henke, Stefan Rosenau, Hans Teuber, Werner Hangmann
  • Publication number: 20100213777
    Abstract: The invention relates to a body of revolution, in particular for a centrifugal, which comprises a rotator, an electric motor with a stator and a rotor wherein said latter is fixed to the rotator for rotational movement therewith, a support to which the stator of the electric motor is attached and a bearing unit for rotational arrangement of the rotor around an axis of rotation which comprises at least one bearing adapted to coact with an electromagnetic stabilizer unit in such a way that disturbing forces and/or disturbing vibrations of the rotator are counteracted and/or compensated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: Hanning Elektro-Werke GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ralf de la Haye, Thomas Henke, Andreas Levermann, Wolfgang Amrhein, Siegfried Silber, Herbert Grabner
  • Publication number: 20100216620
    Abstract: The invention relates to a centrifuge, in particular a laboratory centrifuge, with a centrifuge rotor to hold material and with an electric motor, exhibiting a stator, a rotor that is associated with the stator and a fastening means for the localization of the electric motor at a stationary support and for a torque proof connection of the rotor with the centrifuge rotor, in which the centrifuge rotor features a recess on a face side that is facing the electric motor, in which the recess of the centrifuge rotor is designed such, that the electric motor can be at least partially positioned in said recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: Hanning Elektro-Werke GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ralf DE LA HAYE, Thomas HENKE, Andreas LEVERMANN, Wolfgang AMRHEIN, Siegfried SILBER, Herbert GRABNER
  • Publication number: 20090153094
    Abstract: The invention relates to a drive for simmering apparatus comprising an electric motor and a power converter arrangement which arrangement includes a rectifier unit, an intermediate circuit unit, an inverter unit and an electronic control unit wherein the inverter unit, the electronic control unit and the electric motor are combined into one common module that is arranged separate from a power input module comprising g the rectifier unit and the intermediate circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Applicant: Hanning Elektro-Werke GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Thomas HENKE
  • Patent number: 7115850
    Abstract: A sensor device is provided for generating an electrical output signal in dependence on the position of a light source in relation to the sensor device. The sensor device has a three-dimensional switch carrier with several adjacent faces oriented in different directions, on which faces at least two sensors are arranged. On the two sides of a central face, there is arranged in each case a face, with an infrared light (IR) photodetector in each case, oriented at an angle to the central face, whereby the faces on which the IR photodetectors are arranged are not directly adjacent to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2006
    Assignee: Hella KGaA Hueck & Co.
    Inventors: Thomas Niemann, Thomas Henke, Carsten Heilenkötter
  • Publication number: 20050045802
    Abstract: A sensor device is provided for generating an electrical output signal in dependence on the position of a light source in relation to the sensor device. The sensor device has a three-dimensional switch carrier with several adjacent faces oriented in different directions, on which faces at least two sensors are arranged. On the two sides of a central face, there is arranged in each case a face, with an infrared light (IR) photodetector in each case, oriented at an angle to the central face, whereby the faces on which the IR photodetectors are arranged are not directly adjacent to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2004
    Publication date: March 3, 2005
    Inventors: Thomas Niemann, Thomas Henke, Carsten Heilenkotter
  • Publication number: 20040108475
    Abstract: A sensor device for determining the intensity of incident light is provided. The sensor device includes a characteristic element, through which light striking the sensor device can pass depending on the direction from which light strikes the sensor device; a light-sensitive sensor element, which can detect the light having passed through the orientation characteristic element; and an absorption element, which can absorb the light striking the sensor device and/or the light having passed through the orientation characteristic element in such a way that the amount of light striking the light-sensitive sensor element does not exceed a predetermined value, whereby the absorption element is a reflective surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2003
    Publication date: June 10, 2004
    Inventors: Thomas Niemann, Carsten Heilenkoetter, Thomas Henke