Patents by Inventor Timo Kuehnert

Timo Kuehnert 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: 20240398665
    Abstract: The capsule filling machine includes a turntable with capsule segments, at least one insertion station and at least one filling station. The capsule filling machine further includes at least one test container and a container weighing station with a weighing cell for weighing the test container. In a regular operating mode, capsule lower parts are inserted into a respective capsule receptacle of a segment lower part in the insertion station, and a product is filled in a filling station. In a testing mode, a test container is placed on a capsule receptacle, after which the test container in the segment lower part is moved to the at least one filling station and filled there with the product. The filled test container is then moved to the container weighing station and weighed there via the weighing cell. A method is for operating such a capsule filling machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Timo Kuehnert, Florian Huhnen
  • Patent number: 10596070
    Abstract: A device is for ejecting at least one capsule from a capsule holder. The capsule holder has at least two capsule receptacles for, in each case, one capsule. The device comprises: at least two ejectors, each of the ejectors being configured to eject a respective one of the capsules from the corresponding one of the receptacles; a drive unit configured to actuate the at least two ejectors independently of each other in an ejection direction and in an opposite return direction; the drive unit having a pneumatic actuating cylinder for each ejector; the pneumatic actuating cylinders being individually actuatable as a drive for respective ones of the at least two ejectors; a limiter element which is provided jointly for a plurality of the at least two ejectors and which has a cyclical lifting drive; and, each ejector being assigned a stop acting in the return direction for the limiter element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Harro Hoefliger Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Reiner Wurst, Timo Kuehnert
  • Publication number: 20180271750
    Abstract: A device for ejecting at least one capsule from a capsule holder. The capsule holder has at least two capsule receptacles for, in each case, one capsule. The device comprises: at least two ejectors, each of the ejectors being configured to eject a respective one of the capsules from the corresponding one of the receptacles; a drive unit configured to actuate the at least two ejectors independently of each other in an ejection direction and in an opposite return direction; the drive unit having a pneumatic actuating cylinder for each ejector; the pneumatic actuating cylinders being individually actuatable as a drive for respective ones of the at least two ejectors; a limiter element which is provided jointly for a plurality of the at least two ejectors and which has a cyclical lifting drive; and, each ejector being assigned a stop acting in the return direction for the limiter element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Reiner Wurst, Timo Kuehnert