Patents by Inventor Torsten TRÜMPER

Torsten TRÜMPER 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: 20250242915
    Abstract: A water tank, including: a dry ice compartment arranged inside the tank to be brought in contact with water to be cooled inside the tank. The compartment is provided with a hole for discharging evaporated gas from the compartment into a space that is closer to a top wall of the tank than a bottom wall of the tank. A side wall of the tank connects the top and the bottom walls of the tank, and extends above the water volume within the tank. A water outlet extends from the bottom wall of the tank. An aircraft cabin trolley, an aircraft galley and an aircraft with such a water tank are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2025
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Inventors: Torsten TRÜMPER, Moritz RAPPOLD
  • Publication number: 20250242914
    Abstract: An aircraft cabin trolley, including: a body with a top, a bottom, a front and a rear, wherein a door for accessing the inside of the trolley is provided at the front, which is the operator side of the trolley; an electrical cooling unit, including a compressor, an evaporator and a condenser, configured to actively cool the inside of the trolley; and a power transfer unit configured to transfer electrical power from a power source outside the trolley to the cooling unit. An aircraft galley arrangement including the aircraft cabin trolley, wherein the power transfer unit is configured to dock with a galley power transfer unit on a galley wall. An aircraft with at least one of the aforementioned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2025
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Inventors: Torsten TRÜMPER, Christopher DALLMANN
  • Publication number: 20250002150
    Abstract: A passive cooling unit for cooling food, preferably food received in a storage container, comprises a casing insulating an interior from an environment surrounding the casing, the casing having an air inlet and outlet and comprising within its interior a dry ice receiving space and an airflow channel for guiding air to be cooled. The airflow channel is arranged in airflow communication with the air inlet and outlet. The unit further comprises an electrically operated airflow device which creates an airflow through the airflow channel, and a thermal electrical generator for generating electrical power. The thermal electrical generator arranged in the casing in thermal contact with the airflow channel and the dry ice receiving space. The at least one electrically operated airflow device receives power generated by the thermal electrical generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: Torsten TRÜMPER, Ekkehard LOHSE, Nils NÖRENBERG
  • Publication number: 20240328698
    Abstract: A thermal control system and transport container with a thermal control system for transporting a payload. The thermal control system comprises a case, and an intermediate floor dividing an interior space of the case in a first section and a second section. The thermal control system further comprises a first air passage arranged in the case and fluidly connecting the first section with an exterior environment of the case. The intermediate floor comprises a phase-change material and is configured to allow air to pass through the intermediate floor and to exchange heat with the phase-change material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventors: Torsten TRÜMPER, Lucas BEYER
  • Patent number: 12076672
    Abstract: A system for providing a pressurized liquid, having a reservoir for the liquid, which has a discharge and a feed, having a pump, having a first valve, having a separate filter chamber, having an inlet and at least one outlet, and a compressible, closed buffer body. The pump is between the discharge of the reservoir and the filter chamber and configured to increase pressure of the liquid within the filter chamber, the first valve between the feed of the reservoir and the filter chamber and configured to open in the direction of the reservoir upon attainment or exceedance of a minimum pressure of the liquid in the filter chamber. The buffer body is in the filter chamber such that it can be surrounded by liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Jana Caspari, Torsten Trümper, Christopher Warsch
  • Patent number: 11873752
    Abstract: An expansion tank system for a liquid cooling system includes a first chamber for receiving a coolant, a second chamber for pressurized gas, a first gas conveying device for conveying gas from the first to the second chamber, a second gas conveying device for conveying gas from the second to the first chamber, a first pressure sensor in fluid communication with the first chamber, and a control unit connected to the first gas conveying device, the second gas conveying device and the first pressure sensor for controlling the second conveying device to selectively convey gas from the second to the first chamber if a pressure measured through the first pressure sensor is below a predefined first threshold value, and for controlling the first conveying device to convey gas from the first to the second chamber if a pressure measured through the first pressure sensor is above a second threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Torsten Trümper, Ekkehard Lohse
  • Publication number: 20230374932
    Abstract: An expansion tank system for a liquid cooling system includes a first chamber for receiving a coolant, a second chamber for pressurized gas, a first gas conveying device for conveying gas from the first to the second chamber, a second gas conveying device for conveying gas from the second to the first chamber, a first pressure sensor in fluid communication with the first chamber, and a control unit connected to the first gas conveying device, the second gas conveying device and the first pressure sensor for controlling the second conveying device to selectively convey gas from the second to the first chamber if a pressure measured through the first pressure sensor is below a predefined first threshold value, and for controlling the first conveying device to convey gas from the first to the second chamber if a pressure measured through the first pressure sensor is above a second threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Torsten Trümper, Ekkehard Lohse
  • Publication number: 20220241706
    Abstract: A system for providing a pressurized liquid, having a reservoir for the liquid, which has a discharge and a feed, having a pump, having a first valve, having a separate filter chamber, having an inlet and at least one outlet, and a compressible, closed buffer body. The pump is between the discharge of the reservoir and the filter chamber and configured to increase pressure of the liquid within the filter chamber, the first valve between the feed of the reservoir and the filter chamber and configured to open in the direction of the reservoir upon attainment or exceedance of a minimum pressure of the liquid in the filter chamber. The buffer body is in the filter chamber such that it can be surrounded by liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Jana Caspari, Torsten Trümper, Christopher Warsch
  • Patent number: 11111021
    Abstract: A temperature regulating system for at least one galley compartment for an in-flight kitchen which is intended for installing in a transport apparatus or vehicle, especially in an aircraft, includes a controllable cooling and heating element, which is designed for selectively cooling or heating a specified section of the cooling and heating element, and a heat-insulating partitioning wall, which at least partially adjoins an encompassing side edge of the cooling and heating element and encloses the specified section of the cooling and heating element. The heat-insulating partitioning wall is designed for separating an interior space of the galley compartment from an interior of a section of a fluid duct which extends in the in-flight kitchen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Torsten Trümper, Ekkehard Lohse, Christian Schaarschmidt
  • Patent number: 10386136
    Abstract: A supply system with a plurality of consumers, which can be supplied with a minimum volumetric flow by the supply system to ensure their operational function, wherein the supply system exhibits a network of lines with a plurality of lines, which are each hooked up to the consumers, and a pump connected to the lines for generating a volumetric flow of supply fluid in the lines, wherein the supply system incorporates a network of lines in which consumers are fluidically connected in parallel in relation to the pump arrangement, and wherein each consumer has allocated to it at least one flow control valve functionally placed upstream from the respective consumer in the cooling circulation as viewed from the position of the pump in the direction of flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Torsten Trümper
  • Publication number: 20180201374
    Abstract: A temperature regulating system for at least one galley compartment for an in-flight kitchen which is intended for installing in a transport apparatus or vehicle, especially in an aircraft, includes a controllable cooling and heating element, which is designed for selectively cooling or heating a specified section of the cooling and heating element, and a heat-insulating partitioning wall, which at least partially adjoins an encompassing side edge of the cooling and heating element and encloses the specified section of the cooling and heating element. The heat-insulating partitioning wall is designed for separating an interior space of the galley compartment from an interior of a section of a fluid duct which extends in the in-flight kitchen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Inventors: Torsten Trümper, Ekkehard Lohse, Christian Schaarschmidt
  • Patent number: 9903672
    Abstract: In a method for operating an aircraft cooling system a cooling medium is guided through a cooling circuit, which is connected to a refrigerating machine and to at least one cooling station associated with a cooling energy consumer, to supply cooling medium cooled by the refrigerating to the cooling station. A temperature of the cooling medium upstream of the cooling station and a temperature of the cooling medium downstream of the cooling station are detected. The mass flow of cooling medium supplied to the cooling station is controlled in dependence on a thermal output of the cooling energy consumer and in dependence on a difference between the temperature of the cooling medium upstream of the cooling station and the temperature of the cooling medium downstream of the cooling station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Torsten Trümper, Ahmet Kayihan Kiryaman
  • Patent number: 9676483
    Abstract: A chiller for an aircraft galley that is sized to be disposed in a compartment for housing beverage carts, the chiller comprising a vapor cycle refrigeration system with a liquid cooled condenser located within the housing and a liquid cooling unit located within the housing. Further, the vapor cycle refrigeration system and the liquid cooling unit have a combined footprint that is less than a footprint of a food and beverage cart within the housing, such that the space occupied by the chiller displaces no more than one beverage cart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: B/E Aerospace, Inc.
    Inventors: William J. Godecker, Qiao Lu, Torsten Trumper
  • Patent number: 9332671
    Abstract: A cooling unit in a transport unit includes power electronics; a heat exchanger for thermally coupling a cooling agent of a central cooling system of the transport unit with air of the cooling unit to cool one or more generating devices; and a heat pipe for heat dissipation of the power electronics. At a first portion of the heat pipe, at least some of a working agent is in the liquid phase and, at a second portion of the heat pipe, at least some of the working agent is in the gas phase. In the first portion of the heat pipe, heat from the power electronics is absorbed by evaporating the working agent in the liquid phase. In the second portion of the heat pipe, heat is released to the cooling agent by condensing the working agent in the gas phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Jens Schult, Torsten Trümper
  • Publication number: 20140008037
    Abstract: A supply system with a plurality of consumers, which can be supplied with a minimum volumetric flow by the supply system to ensure their operational function, wherein the supply system exhibits a network of lines with a plurality of lines, which are each hooked up to the consumers, and a pump connected to the lines for generating a volumetric flow of supply fluid in the lines, wherein the supply system incorporates a network of lines in which consumers are fluidically connected in parallel in relation to the pump arrangement, and wherein each consumer has allocated to it at least one flow control valve functionally placed upstream from the respective consumer in the cooling circulation as viewed from the position of the pump in the direction of flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Inventor: Torsten Trümper
  • Publication number: 20130319650
    Abstract: In a method for operating an aircraft cooling system a cooling medium is guided through a cooling circuit, which is connected to a refrigerating machine and to at least one cooling station associated with a cooling energy consumer, to supply cooling medium cooled by the refrigerating to the cooling station. A temperature of the cooling medium upstream of the cooling station and a temperature of the cooling medium downstream of the cooling station are detected. The mass flow of cooling medium supplied to the cooling station is controlled in dependence on a thermal output of the cooling energy consumer and in dependence on a difference between the temperature of the cooling medium upstream of the cooling station and the temperature of the cooling medium downstream of the cooling station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Torsten Trümper, Ahmet Kayihan Kiryaman
  • Publication number: 20130292102
    Abstract: A cooling arrangement suitable for use in an aircraft includes a cooling energy consumer having a housing which is provided with a cooling fluid inlet for supplying a cooling fluid to the housing and a cooling fluid outlet for discharging the cooling fluid from the housing. The cooling energy consumer is received within a compartment. The compartment is provided with a cooling air inlet for supplying cooling air to the compartment and a cooling air outlet for discharging the cooling air from the compartment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Inventors: Torsten TRÜMPER, Jens Schult