Patents by Inventor Thomas Lanzl
Thomas Lanzl 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).
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Patent number: 12173958Abstract: A refrigerating unit including a compartment, a glass door, and a heating arrangement installed in a base profile of the compartment. The refrigerating unit including an elongated gasket profile having a proximal part and a distal part, wherein the proximal part includes a flexible element configured to allow the distal part to be displaced towards the base profile upon closing the glass door. The distal part includes a hollow part with a first side of the hollow part connected to the proximal part and a second side of the hollow part directed towards the glass door. The heating arrangement further includes a heat-conducting material enclosed by the hollow part and arranged with an outer side surface of the heat-conducting material abutting the second side of the hollow part, and a heating element enclosed by the hollow part and arranged for conductive heating of the heat-conducting conductive material.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2021Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: REHAU-BEHR A/SInventor: Thomas Lanzl
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Patent number: 11982117Abstract: A hinge assembly for a door, the hinge assembly including a hinge pin arranged to be fixed to the door at one end and having a pin connector part at an opposite second end. A rotation damper connected to a damper connector part arranged to cooperate with the pin connector part for transferring torque around an axis of rotation between the damper connector part and the pin connector part throughout an opening angle of the door, such that a rotational movement of the damper connector part about the axis of rotation in at least a first rotational direction is dampened by the rotation damper. The pin connector part and the damper connection part allow an initial closing angle of rotation of the door before the damper acts on the rotation of the hinge pin, the initial closing angle being at least 2°.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: REHAU-BEHR A/SInventor: Thomas Lanzl
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Publication number: 20240044455Abstract: A pressure tank for storing gas, for mounting in a gas-operated vehicle. The pressure tank has a rotationally symmetrical, elongate shape which is cylindrical in the central region and is closed at both ends by curved polar caps, and a wall which surrounds a hollow space for storing the gas. At each of the polar caps, the pressure tank has a metallic connection piece, a so-called boss. The wall has a reinforcing layer made from fiber-reinforced plastic and an inner liner for sealing purposes. For sealing purposes, a bush is connected to the boss. A pressure ring and a spring element are configured in such a way that the spring element is supported on the bush and presses the pressure ring against the liner and, as a result, presses the liner in a region against the boss.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2021Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Mark Bleischwitz, Thomas Lanzl, Jürgen Brühler, Gordej Klein
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Patent number: 11700956Abstract: A glass door for a refrigerating unit and to such refrigerating unit, wherein the glass door includes a glass pane, a handle assembly including a transparent base part bonded at an adhesion surface to an outer glass surface of the glass pane, and a handle part made in a transparent material, preferably Polymethylmethacrylat (PMMA). The handle assembly further includes a mounting connection for mounting the handle part to the base part, wherein the mounting connection is provided by the one or more protrusions of the handle part and by one or more recess(es) in the base part or one or more recess(es) provided between the base part and the outer glass surface.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: REHAU-BEHR A/SInventors: Søren Lobdrup Olesen, Jesper Grauballe Rasmussen, Thomas Lanzl
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Publication number: 20230086468Abstract: A refrigerating unit including a compartment, a glass door, and a heating arrangement installed in a base profile of the compartment. The refrigerating unit including an elongated gasket profile having a proximal part and a distal part, wherein the proximal part includes a flexible element configured to allow the distal part to be displaced towards the base profile upon closing the glass door. The distal part includes a hollow part with a first side of the hollow part connected to the proximal part and a second side of the hollow part directed towards the glass door. The heating arrangement further includes a heat-conducting material enclosed by the hollow part and arranged with an outer side surface of the heat-conducting material abutting the second side of the hollow part, and a heating element enclosed by the hollow part and arranged for conductive heating of the heat-conducting material.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2021Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: REHAU-BEHR A/SInventor: Thomas LANZL
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Publication number: 20230091630Abstract: A hinge assembly for a door, the hinge assembly including a hinge pin arranged to be fixed to the door at one end and having a pin connector part at an opposite second end. A rotation damper connected to a damper connector part arranged to cooperate with the pin connector part for transferring torque around an axis of rotation between the damper connector part and the pin connector part throughout an opening angle of the door, such that a rotational movement of the damper connector part about the axis of rotation in at least a first rotational direction is dampened by the rotation damper. The pin connector part and the damper connection part allow an initial closing angle of rotation of the door before the damper acts on the rotation of the hinge pin, the initial closing angle being at least 2°.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2021Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: REHAU-BEHR A/SInventor: Thomas LANZL
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Publication number: 20230092607Abstract: A glass door for a refrigerating unit and to such refrigerating unit, wherein the glass door includes a glass pane, a handle assembly including a transparent base part bonded at an adhesion surface to an outer glass surface of the glass pane, and a handle part made in a transparent material, preferably Polymethylmethacrylat (PMMA). The handle assembly further includes a mounting connection for mounting the handle part to the base part, wherein the mounting connection is provided by the one or more protrusions of the handle part and by one or more recess(es) in the base part or one or more recess(es) provided between the base part and the outer glass surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2021Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: REHAU-BEHR A/SInventors: Søren Lobdrup OLESEN, Jesper Grauballe RASMUSSEN, Thomas LANZL
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Publication number: 20210276284Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a pressure accumulator (1), in particular for accumulating hydrogen in motor vehicles, wherein first of all an inner liner (3) of the pressure reservoir (1) is produced, preferably by means of a plastic blow molding process, wherein subsequently the inner liner (3) is provided, preferably braided, on the outside with a multi-ply reinforcing layer (9) including reinforcement fibers (8), and wherein the reinforcing layer (9) is then impregnated with a resin, preferably an epoxy resin, which, after curing, fixes the position of the reinforcement fibers (8) in the reinforcing layer (9). According to the invention the impregnation takes place from the contact region (K) of the outer surface of the inner liner (3) with the reinforcing layer (9) to the outer region of the reinforcing layer (9).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2017Publication date: September 9, 2021Inventors: Thomas Lanzl, Peter Stadthalter, Stefan Spörl, Stefan Horn, Markus Friederich, Patrick Simeth, Rico Schippan, Dominik Linster, Kevin Wild
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Publication number: 20190120435Abstract: The present invention relates to a pressure tank arrangement for storing and discharging compressed liquid fuels and to a method for producing a pressure tank arrangement of this type. Here, force transmission elements of the pressure tank arrangement are arranged in such a way that they utilize the available installation space for pressure tank arrangements of this type in an optimum manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2016Publication date: April 25, 2019Inventors: Thomas LANZL, Franz HOFMANN, Andreas GRUHL
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Publication number: 20180292047Abstract: The present invention relates to a pressure container for storing gases or liquids under pressures above 200 bar, comprising an elongate storage element having at least one rotationally symmetrical, preferably conical and/or cylindrical, central portion, a plurality (N) or number (N) of individual layers (n=1 to N) which each have at least one braided or wound reinforcing fibre, preferably at least two braided or wound reinforcing fibres, wherein the individual layers (n=1 to N) lie over one another in a local sequence along a perpendicular (S) to the axis of rotation of the central portion, and wherein an inner starting layer (n=1) surrounds a hollow body arranged within the storage element or forms said hollow body, and wherein an end layer (n=N) arranged above the starting layer (n=1) is provided, and wherein the reinforcing fibre or the reinforcing fibres in each of the individual layers (n=1 to N) has or have a layer-dependent fibre angle ?n relative to the axis of rotation projected into the respectiveType: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2016Publication date: October 11, 2018Inventors: Thomas LANZL, Kevin WILD, Andreas GRUHL
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Patent number: 9956712Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a pressure accumulator (1), in particular for storing hydrogen in motor vehicles. First, a pressure accumulator liner (3) which has at least one pole cap (2, 2?) is produced preferably by means of a plastic blow molding method, and the outside of the liner (3) is then provided, preferably braided, with a multi-ply reinforcing layer (9), which has reinforcing fibers (8). According to the invention, a fiber supply cap (10, 10?) is applied on the pole cap (2, 2?) prior to applying the reinforcing fibers (8), the outer surface of the fiber supply cap being spaced from the pole region (21, 21?) of the pole cap (2, 2?).Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2014Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: REHAU AG+COInventors: Thomas Lanzl, Franz Hofmann, Markus Friederich, Marina Feist, Andreas Gruhl
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Patent number: 9816668Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for the storage and delivery of liquid and/or gaseous media under pressure, having a media container (1) of a plastics material, preferably of polyamide, receiving the medium, at least one valve connection element (2), connected to the media container (1), and at least one valve element (3, 3a, 3b), connectable to the valve connection element (2), wherein the media container (1) has a collar (4), which is molded on in one piece and protrudes from the media container (1) and has a collar outer wall (5) and a collar inner wall (6).Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2014Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: REHAU AG + CO.Inventors: Thomas Lanzl, Franz Hofmann
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Patent number: 9694407Abstract: A machine for cooling and truing cast components made from cast material, and includes a construction for holding cast components and a holder to supply cooling liquids. A method to treat a cast component after removal of the cast component from the casting mold, the cast component being loaded immediately with a cooling liquid in a water spray.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2014Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: MAGNA BDW TECHNOLOGIES GMBHInventors: Christian Herrmann, Martin Kern, Jürgen Lange, Thomas Lanzl, Helmut Meindl
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Publication number: 20170165894Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a pressure accumulator (1), in particular for storing hydrogen in motor vehicles. First, a pressure accumulator liner (3) which has at least one pole cap (2, 2?) is produced preferably by means of a plastic blow molding method, and the outside of the liner (3) is then provided, preferably braided, with a multi-ply reinforcing layer (9), which has reinforcing fibers (8). According to the invention, a fiber supply cap (10, 10?) is applied on the pole cap (2, 2?) prior to applying the reinforcing fibers (8), the outer surface of the fiber supply cap being spaced from the pole region (21, 21?) of the pole cap (2, 2?).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2014Publication date: June 15, 2017Inventors: Thomas LANZL, Franz HOFMANN, Markus FRIEDERICH, Marina FEIST, Andreas GRUHL
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Publication number: 20150362130Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for the storage and delivery of liquid and/or gaseous media under pressure, having a media container (1) of a plastics material, preferably of polyamide, receiving the medium, at least one valve connection element (2), connected to the media container (1), and at least one valve element (3, 3a, 3b), connectable to the valve connection element (2), wherein the media container (1) has a collar (4), which is moulded on in one piece and protrudes from the media container (1) and has a collar outer wall (5) and a collar inner wall (6).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2014Publication date: December 17, 2015Inventors: THOMAS LANZL, FRANZ HOFMANN
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Publication number: 20150052964Abstract: A machine for cooling and truing cast components made from cast material, and includes a construction for holding cast components and a holder to supply cooling liquids. A method to treat a cast component after removal of the cast component from the casting mould, the cast component being loaded immediately with a cooling liquid in a water spray.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2014Publication date: February 26, 2015Inventors: Christian HERRMANN, Martin KERN, Jürgen LANGE, Thomas LANZL, Helmut MEINDL
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Publication number: 20130025730Abstract: The present invention relates to a domestic service pipe system which comprises the following components: solid plastic pipes, composite plastic pipes and/or composite metal/plastic pipes as line pipes (3, 3?, 3?); threadless shaped parts of temperature-resistant plastic and/or stainless steel; and threaded shaped parts (1, 1?) of stainless steel. Moreover, the present invention relates to the use of such a domestic service pipe system as a line and connection system in a drinking water installation, in a sprinkler system, in radiator connections, in a concrete core temperature control system and in a panel heating and/or panel cooling system.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2011Publication date: January 31, 2013Inventors: Bernd Röder, Thomas Lanzl, Frank Pohlmann
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Publication number: 20130008090Abstract: A closure arrangement (1) is provided for an opening (2) of a cabinet, a refrigerator, a building or the like, having at least one closure element (4) which is guided in a moveable manner, in particular in or on at least one guide element (3), over the opening (2). At least one free end of the closure element (4) and/or one free end of the guide element (3) are operatively connected to one another by means of a magnetic attraction force, provided by at least one a magnet (5).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2011Publication date: January 10, 2013Inventors: Thomas Lanzl, Frank Pohlmann
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Publication number: 20090007587Abstract: A freezer door subassembly has a glass door and a door post against which the glass door bears in the closed position via a flexible seal. The glass door has a laminated assembly. The latter is held on its vertical edge section, which is adjacent to the door post in the closed position, by a frame profile. The flexible seal is arranged between the frame profile and the door post. The frame profile has a plastic profile base body which is coated on its visible sides by a decorative layer. The result is a freezer door subassembly which is improved in terms of freedom from condensation.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2006Publication date: January 8, 2009Inventors: Thomas Lanzl, Andreas Waschke, Leopold Baumgartner