Patents by Inventor Torsten Klein

Torsten Klein 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: 20240286962
    Abstract: A method for producing carbonized or graphitized molding parts is particularly simple to implement and also allows producing complex molding parts without mechanical post-processing. This is achieved by the production of a pourable liquid polymer mixture which is as homogenized as possible, consisting of a carbon granulate, pitch, soot or graphite powder and polyacrylnitrile dissolved in a solvent, filling the liquid polymer mixture into a casting mold and immersing the filled casting mold in water over a predetermined period of time until the polymer mixture is sufficiently cured and dimensionally stable, and subsequent breaking of the casting mold and stabilizing the prefabricated cured molding part by uniform heating up in a furnace in air at a predefined temperature for stabilizing and degassing volatile constituents, and performing a high-temperature treatment for carbonizing or graphitizing the molding part in a furnace under protective gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: Nippon Kornmeyer Carbon Group GmbH
    Inventors: Torsten KORNMEYER, David KLEIN
  • Publication number: 20240286961
    Abstract: A process for 3D printing articles made of carbon or graphite includes producing a flowable polymeric mixture from a UV permeable and polymerizable polymer or cellulose and a UV crosslinkable resin, admixing the polymeric mixture with sugar and/or cellulose until the mixture has a consistency such that it can be filled into a 3D printer and processed thereby, homogenizing the mixture at room temperature or elevated temperature, filling a 3D printer with the mixture, layerwise printing a shaped article with simultaneous exposure to UV radiation for layerwise crosslinking of the UV crosslinkable resin, cleaning the shaped article, introducing the UV precured shaped article into a furnace and stabilizing the UV precured shaped article in air at a predetermined stabilizing temperature until all volatile constituents have outgassed from the prefabricated shaped article and subsequently high temperature treating the shaped article for carbonization or graphitization in a furnace under protective gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: Nippon Kornmeyer Carbon Group GmbH
    Inventors: Torsten KORNMEYER, David KLEIN, Michael GERADS
  • Patent number: 11927188
    Abstract: A gerotor device for a pump apparatus is disclosed. The gerotor device includes at least two gerotor stages that respectively include an inner rotor rotating during operation about an inner axis with teeth projecting radially outside, and an outer rotor rotating during operation about an outer axis radially offset relative to the inner axis with radially inner open tooth gaps, in which the teeth of the inner rotor engage. A rotor body rotating during operation about a rotor axis includes radially open tooth gaps of a first gerotor stage of the at least two gerotor stages and teeth projecting radially outside of a second gerotor stage of the at least two gerotor stages. The tooth gaps of the at least two gerotor stages are fluidically sealed at least one of against one another and relative to a surrounding area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Mahle International GmbH
    Inventors: Holger Conrad, Torsten Klein
  • Publication number: 20230287884
    Abstract: A gerotor device for a pump apparatus is disclosed. The gerotor device includes at least two gerotor stages that respectively include an inner rotor rotating during operation about an inner axis with teeth projecting radially outside, and an outer rotor rotating during operation about an outer axis radially offset relative to the inner axis with radially inner open tooth gaps, in which the teeth of the inner rotor engage. A rotor body rotating during operation about a rotor axis includes radially open tooth gaps of a first gerotor stage of the at least two gerotor stages and teeth projecting radially outside of a second gerotor stage of the at least two gerotor stages. The tooth gaps of the at least two gerotor stages are fluidically sealed at least one of against one another and relative to a surrounding area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Holger Conrad, Torsten Klein
  • Publication number: 20230121868
    Abstract: The invention relates to a technology for transversely and longitudinally guiding reversing of a commercial vehicle (100)during controlled parking and/or manoeuvring of the commercial vehicle (100) as a following vehicle in accordance with a leading vehicle (200) in the surroundings of the commercial vehicle (100). The commercial vehicle (100) comprises at least one sensor (102)and/or at least one data interface (104) for sensing data of the surroundings of the commercial vehicle (100), the sensed surroundings containing the commercial vehicle (100) and/or the leading vehicle (200). Alternatively or in addition, the commercial vehicle(100)comprises at least one data interface (104)for sensing a control instruction for transverse and longitudinal guidance from the leading vehicle (200)in the surroundings of the commercial vehicle (100).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Fabian Kuttenreich, Torsten KLEIN, Andreas ZIMMERMANN
  • Patent number: 11387709
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cooling module including an axial fan for vehicles, in particular for electric vehicles, which is characterized in that a cooling module casing encloses the axial fan and a flow deflection region and a cooling airflow enters the cooling module through an intake plane and leaves the cooling module through an outflow plane, wherein the intake plane and the outflow plane are aligned at an angle alpha in relation to one another and the angle alpha as the inclination of the intake plane in relation to the outflow plane is formed greater than or equal to 55° and the cooling module casing has a rear wall, wherein the rear wall is arranged at an angle beta of at most 90° in relation to the outflow plane, so that a flow deflection region is formed in the cooling module casing between the intake plane and the outflow plane and the rear wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: HANON SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Torsten Klein, Susanne Reimche-Nuding, Ján Gregu{hacek over (s)} Kollár
  • Patent number: 11365780
    Abstract: A spacer (1) for vibration-damped fastening of a mounting part (2) to a carrier part (3), wherein the spacer has a base body (4) with a first flange region (5) and a second flange region (6) which is opposite viewed in the longitudinal direction (L) of the base body and with a passage (7) in which a fastener (8) which is connected to the carrier part, can be received at least sectionally. The base body has an at least two-part design with a first body part (9) and at least a further, second body part (10), wherein the body parts can be detachable connected to one another to create the base body and wherein, in the connected state, a gap region (11) is provided between the first and second flange region, by which the border of a fastening hole (18) configured in the mounting part can be received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Florian Düll, Albert Sbongk, Torsten Klein
  • Publication number: 20200355238
    Abstract: A spacer (1) for vibration-damped fastening of a mounting part (2) to a carrier part (3), wherein the spacer has a base body (4) with a first flange region (5) and a second flange region (6) which is opposite viewed in the longitudinal direction (L) of the base body and with a passage (7) in which a fastener (8) which is connected to the carrier part, can be received at least sectionally. The base body has an at least two-part design with a first body part (9) and at least a further, second body part (10), wherein the body parts can be detachable connected to one another to create the base body and wherein, in the connected state, a gap region (11) is provided between the first and second flange region, by which the border of a fastening hole (18) configured in the mounting part can be received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Florian DÜLL, Albert SBONGK, Torsten KLEIN
  • Patent number: 10696130
    Abstract: A heating and air conditioning system for a motor vehicle including a housing having an air outlet, a heating heat exchanger disposed inside the housing with a warm air path to heat air flowing therethrough, a warm air duct having a warm air intake opening and a warm air duct discharge opening disposed downstream of the heating heat exchanger channeling a partial flow of warm air from the warm air path to the air outlet, and a mode control damper rotatable about a rotational axis and connected downstream of the warm air duct in terms of flow, wherein the air outlet may be selectively opened completely or partially, and in a closed state may be partially or completely closed. The mode control damper functions simultaneously as the control damper for controlling the volume of air exiting the warm air duct discharge opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: HANON SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Torsten Klein, Detlef Handwerk, Antonio Marques Ferreira, Ralph Wiesmann
  • Patent number: 10603977
    Abstract: Air conditioning system for multi-zone air conditioning of a motor vehicle interior comprising a casing with a mixing chamber and several zone outlets outgoing from mixing chamber, in which an evaporator and at least one heat exchanger are disposed such that main air flow from evaporator through at least one heat exchanger into zone outlets is linear and at least two bypass channels, each comprising a louver, in order to circumvent at least one heat exchanger connect a region downstream of evaporator and a region downstream of at least one heat exchanger, wherein the first bypass channel, as a mixing bypass channel, opens out into mixing chamber and the second bypass channel, as a stratification bypass channel, opens out into a zone outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Hanon Systems
    Inventors: Gerald Richter, Torsten Klein, Thomas Ehlers
  • Publication number: 20200014282
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cooling module including an axial fan for vehicles, in particular for electric vehicles, which is characterized in that a cooling module casing encloses the axial fan and a flow deflection region and a cooling airflow enters the cooling module through an intake plane and leaves the cooling module through an outflow plane, wherein the intake plane and the outflow plane are aligned at an angle alpha in relation to one another and the angle alpha as the inclination of the intake plane in relation to the outflow plane is formed greater than or equal to 55° and the cooling module casing has a rear wall, wherein the rear wall is arranged at an angle beta of at most 90° in relation to the outflow plane, so that a flow deflection region is formed in the cooling module casing between the intake plane and the outflow plane and the rear wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Torsten Klein, Susanne Reimche-Nuding, Ján Gregus Kollár
  • Patent number: 10350962
    Abstract: An arrangement for the air distribution of an air conditioning system (1) of a motor vehicle. The air conditioning system (1) is configured with a housing (2) with at least two flow paths (6, 7), which empty into a mixing chamber (8), and at least one air outlet (3a, 3b, 3c) as well as an air flap (10, 11, 12) which can open and close the at least one air outlet (3a, 3b, 3c). The arrangement has a device (18) for air mixing with at least one air resistance element (21), which is supported so that it can turn about an axis of rotation (20) and which extends in the direction of the axis of rotation (20). The air resistance element (21) is configured with at least one flow through opening, so that depending on the position of the device (18) a cross section of at least one flow path (6, 7) of the housing (2) can be changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: HANON SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Ralph Wiesmann, Torsten Klein, Antonio Marques Ferreira
  • Patent number: 10308094
    Abstract: A heating and air conditioning device includes a warm air path that leads through a heat exchanger to a mixing chamber and to outlets of the heating and air conditioning device, and a cold air path that leads from the evaporator to the mixing chamber and the outlets of the heating and air conditioning device. A warm air duct is located at an end of the warm air path and an entrance to the mixing chamber. A cold air duct is located at the end of the cold air path and the entrance to the mixing chamber. One or more openings are formed on one of a side wall of the warm air duct and a side wall of the cold air duct so that air can flow from the cold air path into the warm air duct and from the warm air path into the cold air duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: HANON SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Christoph Capellmann, Torsten Klein, Detlef Handwerk, Evzi Duka, Raymond Ambs, Johannes Stausberg
  • Patent number: 10232679
    Abstract: The invention relates to an air deflector device for an air conditioning system in a motor vehicle. The air deflector device has at least one closure element and at least one air mixing element. The closure element and the air mixing element have a common rotational axis in the air deflector device. The closure element extends in the direction of the rotational axis across the entire depth of a cross-section of a flow passage to be closed off in the air conditioning system, and comprises retaining elements. The air mixing element, which extends in the direction of the rotational axis, is embodied according to the invention with cross-flow openings, so that a cross-section of at least one flow passage of the air conditioning system can be adjusted based on the position of the air deflector device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: HANON SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Ralph Wiesmann, Torsten Klein, Antonio Marques
  • Patent number: 10017031
    Abstract: The invention concerns an air conditioning system for conditioning the air of a passenger compartment of a motor vehicle including a housing with a first flow channel and a second flow channel for conducting air and a refrigerant circuit with an evaporator and a condenser. The evaporator is arranged in the first flow channel and the condenser in the second flow channel. The air conditioning system is designed for cooling and heating the passenger compartment and for a reheat operation. The setting of the operating mode is done only via the controlling of air guidance mechanisms. One of the heat exchangers evaporator or condenser is arranged with a part of the heat transfer surface in both the first and the second flow channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: HANON SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Torsten Klein, Roberto Della Rovere, Marc Graaf, Gerald Richter, Felix Girmscheid
  • Publication number: 20180029437
    Abstract: Air conditioning system for multi-zone air conditioning of a motor vehicle interior comprising a casing with a mixing chamber and several zone outlets outgoing from mixing chamber, in which an evaporator and at least one heat exchanger are disposed such that main air flow from evaporator through at least one heat exchanger into zone outlets is linear and at least two bypass channels, each comprising a louver, in order to circumvent at least one heat exchanger connect a region downstream of evaporator and a region downstream of at least one heat exchanger, wherein the first bypass channel, as a mixing bypass channel, opens out into mixing chamber and the second bypass channel, as a stratification bypass channel, opens out into a zone outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventors: Gerald Richter, Torsten Klein, Thomas Ehlers
  • Patent number: 9822887
    Abstract: A device for expansion of coolant having a housing with a flow channel. A ball-shaped valve element arranged to be integrated inside the housing. The valve element is mounted so that it can turn about an axis of rotation and is configured with a through channel. The through channel of the valve element is configured with an entry opening and an exit opening and arranged so that the flow cross section of the through channel decreases from the entry opening to the exit opening in the direction of flow of the coolant. At the exit of the through channel the least flow cross section is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: HANON SYSTEMS
    Inventor: Torsten Klein
  • Publication number: 20170174043
    Abstract: A heating and air conditioning system for a motor vehicle including a housing having an air outlet, a heating heat exchanger disposed inside the housing with a warm air path to heat air flowing therethrough, a warm air duct having a warm air intake opening and a warm air duct discharge opening disposed downstream of the heating heat exchanger channeling a partial flow of warm air from the warm air path to the air outlet, and a mode control damper rotatable about a rotational axis and connected downstream of the warm air duct in terms of flow, wherein the air outlet may be selectively opened completely or partially, and in a closed state may be partially or completely closed. The mode control damper functions simultaneously as the control damper for controlling the volume of air exiting the warm air duct discharge opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Torsten Klein, Detlef Handwerk, Antonio Marques Ferreira, Ralph Wiesmann
  • Publication number: 20160361969
    Abstract: An arrangement for the air distribution of an air conditioning system (1) of a motor vehicle. The air conditioning system (1) is configured with a housing (2) with at least two flow paths (6, 7), which empty into a mixing chamber (8), and at least one air outlet (3a, 3b, 3c) as well as an air flap (10, 11, 12) which can open and close the at least one air outlet (3a, 3b, 3c). The arrangement has a device (18) for air mixing with at least one air resistance element (21), which is supported so that it can turn about an axis of rotation (20) and which extends in the direction of the axis of rotation (20).The air resistance element (21) is configured with at least one flow through opening, so that depending on the position of the device (18) a cross section of at least one flow path (6, 7) of the housing (2) can be changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Inventors: Ralph Wiesmann, Torsten Klein, Antonio Marques Ferreira
  • Publication number: 20150343877
    Abstract: A heating and air conditioning device includes a warm air path that leads through a heat exchanger to a mixing chamber and to outlets of the heating and air conditioning device, and a cold air path that leads from the evaporator to the mixing chamber and the outlets of the heating and air conditioning device. A warm air duct is located at an end of the warm air path and an entrance to the mixing chamber. A cold air duct is located at the end of the cold air path and the entrance to the mixing chamber. One or more openings are formed on one of a side wall of the warm air duct and a side wall of the cold air duct so that air can flow from the cold air path into the warm air duct and from the warm air path into the cold air duct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Christoph Capellmann, Torsten Klein, Detlef Handwerk, Evzi Duka, Raymond Ambs, Johannes Stausberg