Patents by Inventor Tobias Albert
Tobias Albert 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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Publication number: 20200113368Abstract: An evaporator device for water, which is intended to produce steam for, for example, a steam cooking device, has a container which is closed apart from a water inlet and a steam outlet, and has heating elements on the outside of the container. An inner body is arranged inside the container and is, everywhere on its outer surface, which faces toward the heating element, spaced apart from the inner side of the container. Said inner body is permeable to steam and water and consists of a non-solid material or of a porous material or of a fabric material.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2019Publication date: April 16, 2020Inventors: Tobias Albert, Volker Block, Sebastian Eigl, Roland Muehlnikel, Konrad Schoenemann, Michael Tafferner
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Publication number: 20200051578Abstract: A downscaled version of an audio decoding procedure may more effectively and/or at improved compliance maintenance be achieved if the synthesis window used for downscaled audio decoding is a downsampled version of a reference synthesis window involved in the non-downscaled audio decoding procedure by downsampling by the downsampling factor by which the downsampled sampling rate and the original sampling rate deviate, and downsampled using a segmental interpolation in segments of 1/4 of the frame length.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2019Publication date: February 13, 2020Inventors: Markus SCHNELL, Manfred LUTZKY, Eleni FOTOPOULOU, Konstantin SCHMIDT, Conrad BENNDORF, Adrian TOMASEK, Tobias ALBERT, Timon SEIDL
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Publication number: 20190364619Abstract: In a method for the production of a heating device, comprising a support that is curved along one direction and at least one flat thick film heating element disposed thereon, the support and/or the heating device itself are processed from a tube, in particular a circular-cylindrical tube. For that purpose a tube wall is severed in one direction which does not exclusively have a peripheral direction component so that the support is not a circumferential tube. The thick film heating element can be applied before or after the severing.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2019Publication date: November 28, 2019Inventors: Konrad Schoenemann, Volker Block, Michael Tafferner, Tobias Albert, Kay Schmidt, Alfred Suss, Roland Muehlnikel, Daniel Fuchs
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Patent number: 10431230Abstract: A downscaled version of an audio decoding procedure may more effectively and/or at improved compliance maintenance be achieved if the synthesis window used for downscaled audio decoding is a downsampled version of a reference synthesis window involved in the non-downscaled audio decoding procedure by downsampling by the downsampling factor by which the downsampled sampling rate and the original sampling rate deviate, and downsampled using a segmental interpolation in segments of ¼ of the frame length.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2017Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung de angewandten forschung e.V.Inventors: Markus Schnell, Manfred Lutzky, Eleni Fotopoulou, Konstantin Schmidt, Conrad Benndorf, Adrian Tomasek, Tobias Albert, Timon Seidl
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Publication number: 20190203725Abstract: An impeller pump has a pump chamber with an inlet and an outlet, and an impeller in the pump chamber. An auxiliary outlet out of the pump chamber together with an auxiliary outlet flap is provided, the auxiliary outlet flap having a closed position and at least one open position and being rotatable or movable between the positions. In the closed position, the auxiliary outlet flap closes off the auxiliary outlet and, in each of the open positions, the auxiliary outlet flap at least partially opens the auxiliary outlet. The auxiliary outlet flap has an actuator and is subjected to force loading by the actuator, such that the auxiliary outlet flap is moved automatically from the closed position into one of the open positions if the auxiliary outlet flap is free from fluid flow in a direction of rotation of the impeller.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2018Publication date: July 4, 2019Inventor: Tobias Albert
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Patent number: 10260505Abstract: A pump for delivering fluid has a pump housing and a pump chamber having a pump chamber cover and a pump chamber base in said pump housing, an inlet and an outlet. In the pump chamber, an impeller rotates on a rotor shaft which is connected to a drive motor. The inlet is arranged in the pump chamber cover and the outlet is arranged below the impeller in the axial direction of the pump at that end region of the pump chamber which is remote from the inlet close to the outlet. The distance from the inlet to the outlet with the impeller therebetween can correspond approximately to the diameter of the pump chamber.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2014Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: E.G.O. ELEKTRO-GERÄTEBAU GMBHInventors: Volker Block, Uwe Kögel, Stefanie Roth, Tobias Albert
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Publication number: 20190086075Abstract: A steam generator for a steam cooking appliance having a cooking chamber has steam-generating means, a water supply to the steam-generating means, a cyclone separator for steam generated by the steam-generating means, and a steam outlet from the cyclone separator to the cooking chamber of the steam cooking appliance. The cyclone separator forms an integrated structural unit with the steam-generating means, with a direct entry of steam from the steam-generating means into the cyclone separator and with a direct exit of separated-off water from it into the steam-generating means. The integrated structural unit yields advantages in the production and assembly of the steam generator and installation of the steam cooking appliance as a whole.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventor: Tobias Albert
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Publication number: 20180366133Abstract: A downscaled version of an audio decoding procedure may more effectively and/or at improved compliance maintenance be achieved if the synthesis window used for downscaled audio decoding is a downsampled version of a reference synthesis window involved in the non-downscaled audio decoding procedure by downsampling by the downsampling factor by which the downsampled sampling rate and the original sampling rate deviate, and downsampled using a segmental interpolation in segments of 1/4 of the frame length.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2017Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventors: Markus SCHNELL, Manfred LUTZKY, Eleni FOTOPOULOU, Konstantin SCHMIDT, Conrad BENNDORF, Adrian TOMASEK, Tobias ALBERT, Timon SEIDL
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Publication number: 20180028013Abstract: An evaporator device for water for installation in a steamer has a water tank having an encircling outer wall and an encircling inner wall, wherein a heating device is provided on the outer wall. The inner wall extends within the outer wall and with a clearance relative thereto, wherein a water zone is formed between the outer wall and the inner wall. A pump is arranged within the inner wall in order to pump water from a water reservoir into the water zone. A steam outlet emerges upwards from the water zone and leads into the steamer.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2017Publication date: February 1, 2018Inventors: Konrad Schoenemann, Tobias Albert
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Patent number: 9816527Abstract: A pump for a dishwasher is configured as an impeller pump having a central water inflow to a rotating impeller for conveying the water in the radial direction out of the impeller into a pump chamber which surrounds the impeller in a ring-like manner and has a heated pump chamber wall on its outer side. Here, the pump has an outlet in the end region of the pump chamber at an axial spacing from the impeller. Heating elements which have a decreasing power output with regard to the area power output in the axial direction of the pump toward the outlet are arranged on the pump chamber wall. An input of energy into the pump chamber can thus be varied and in the process adapted depending on a turbulent or laminar flow.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2013Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: E.G.O. Elektro-Geraetebau GmbHInventors: Holger Koebrich, Tobias Albert, Volker Block
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Patent number: 9771950Abstract: An impeller pump has a pump casing including a pump chamber and an inlet and an outlet thereon and an impeller therein, and including a heating device for heating the conveyed medium, which heating device forms an external wall of the pump chamber. The pump chamber extends annularly around the impeller and away from the pump chamber floor, wherein the outlet leads off on a region of the pump chamber which, viewed in the axial direction of the impeller pump, is pointing away from the pump chamber floor. The cross-sectional area of the pump chamber decreases in the axial direction of the longitudinal center axis of the impeller pump away from the pump chamber floor toward the outlet by virtue of an obliquely inwardly inclined external wall.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2014Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: E.G.O Elektro-Geraetebau GmbHInventors: Joern Friedrichs, Tobias Albert, Volker Block
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Patent number: 9470242Abstract: An impeller radial pump includes a pump chamber with a central suction and with a pump chamber outlet, wherein an impeller is provided in the pump chamber. Radially outside of the impeller, a circular ring shaped and circumferential pump chamber ring section is provided as a part of the pump chamber, wherein the pump chamber ring section essentially has an extension along the axial direction of the pump from the impeller against the suction direction. The pump chamber ring section has a varying width and is configured to be narrower in a compression region in the circulation direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2013Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: E.G.O. Elektro-Geraetebau GmbHInventors: Tobias Albert, Uwe Koegel
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Patent number: 9388822Abstract: A guide ring for a heated impeller pump for dish washers may include a base body in the type of a circumferential ring having a central longitudinal axis and which is configured for arrangement in a pump chamber of the impeller pump. At least one blade may be arranged on a radial outer surface of the base body, which protrudes outwards and which extends longitudinally along the base body over at least a part of the periphery thereof and which has a pitch in relation to the central longitudinal axis. At least on one side of the blade, a protrusion or a thickening may be provided on the outer edge thereof. The latter can form a channel configured to remove air bubbles from the pump chamber.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2013Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignee: E.G.O. Elektro-Gerätebau GmbHInventors: Stefanie Roth, Tobias Albert
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Publication number: 20160169230Abstract: A pump for delivering fluid has a pump housing and a pump chamber having a pump chamber cover and a pump chamber base in said pump housing, an inlet and an outlet. In the pump chamber, an impeller rotates on a rotor shaft which is connected to a drive motor. The inlet is arranged in the pump chamber cover and the outlet is arranged below the impeller in the axial direction of the pump at that end region of the pump chamber which is remote from the inlet close to the outlet. The distance from the inlet to the outlet with the impeller therebetween can correspond approximately to the diameter of the pump chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2014Publication date: June 16, 2016Inventors: Volker Block, Uwe Kogel, Stefanie Roth, Tobias Albert
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Patent number: 9011091Abstract: A flow-guiding device for an impeller radial pump is arranged radially outside the impeller and extends in a ring-shaped manner with a circumferential carrier ring on which several guide blades are arranged. These latter are formed so as to be resilient in such a manner that when there is a small fluid flow a blade angle points more in the radial direction at an angle of approximately 70° with respect to the longitudinal center axis of the pump. When there is strong fluid flow, the angle becomes smaller and the guide blades bend in a resilient manner at least in regions such that they stand at a smaller angle of between 30° and 40° with respect to the longitudinal center axis of the pump. The fluid is conveyed better in the pump chamber in this way.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2012Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: E.G.O. Elektro-Gerätebau GmbHInventors: Wolfgang Weber, Tobias Albert
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Patent number: 9011095Abstract: A latching device for a pump housing for production of a releasable latched connection between two housing parts has, on a first housing part, an elongate latching hook comprising a latching protrusion on the upper side and introduction chamfers on the upper side and on the underside. A latching opening is provided in the second housing part and comprises a latching tongue defining the latching opening outwardly, the latching protrusion abutting this latching tongue. An introduction web is arranged on the underside of the latching opening and comprises an introduction chamfer for the latching hook. Two securing tongues engage laterally in the latching opening and protrude via a free tongue end into the path of the latching hook when said latching hook is inserted into the latching opening. They prevent an undesired automatic release of the latched connection caused by movement of the latching hook in a downwards direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2012Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: E. G. O. Elektro-Gerätebau GmbHInventors: Daniel Parker, Uwe Koegel, Wolfgang Weber, Tobias Albert
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Publication number: 20150086325Abstract: A pump for a dishwasher is configured as an impeller pump having a central water inflow to a rotating impeller for conveying the water in the radial direction out of the impeller into a pump chamber which surrounds the impeller in a ring-like manner and has a heated pump chamber wall on its outer side. Here, the pump has an outlet in the end region of the pump chamber at an axial spacing from the impeller. Heating elements which have a decreasing power output with regard to the area power output in the axial direction of the pump toward the outlet are arranged on the pump chamber wall. An input of energy into the pump chamber can thus be varied and in the process adapted depending on a turbulent or laminar flow.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2013Publication date: March 26, 2015Applicant: E.G.O. Elektro-Geraetebau GmbHInventors: Holger Koebrich, Tobias Albert, Volker Block
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Patent number: 8899918Abstract: A pump for a dishwasher has an impeller for conveying fluid, wherein it is formed as a centrifugal pump with the fluid to be conveyed being sucked-in in a central axial manner and flowing out in a radial manner. The impeller extends on a bottom surface above a pump base, wherein several fixed flow directing blades are arranged radially outside the impeller, said flow directing blades extending in a helicoidal manner with the pitch extending in the rotational direction of the impeller away from the pump base. At least one flow directing blade extends as far as up to the bottom surface of the impeller for picking up a circulating funnel or tube produced of fluid with air bubbles therein.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2012Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: E.G.O. Elektro-Gerätebau GmbHInventors: Wolfgang Weber, Tobias Albert
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Publication number: 20140216077Abstract: A heat-pump apparatus for heating purposes has a collector circuit for a heat source with a collector pump for a collector fluid, also has a refrigerant circuit with an evaporator and a condenser for a refrigerant in the refrigerant circuit and with a compressor and a pressure-relief valve, and additionally has a heating circuit with a heating pump for a heating fluid, with heating means for heating purposes. At least the collector pump and/or the heating pump are/is designed in the form of a pump with a heatable pump chamber for heating the fluid delivered by the pump.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: E.G.O. Elektro-Geraetebau GmbHInventors: Tobias Albert, Stefanie Roth, Uwe Koegel
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Publication number: 20140193247Abstract: An impeller pump has a pump casing including a pump chamber and an inlet and an outlet thereon and an impeller therein, and including a heating device for heating the conveyed medium, which heating device forms an external wall of the pump chamber. The pump chamber extends annularly around the impeller and away from the pump chamber floor, wherein the outlet leads off on a region of the pump chamber which, viewed in the axial direction of the impeller pump, is pointing away from the pump chamber floor. The cross-sectional area of the pump chamber decreases in the axial direction of the longitudinal center axis of the impeller pump away from the pump chamber floor toward the outlet by virtue of an obliquely inwardly inclined external wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2014Publication date: July 10, 2014Applicant: E.G.O Elektro-Geraetebau GmbHInventors: Joern Friedrichs, Tobias Albert, Volker Block