Patents by Inventor Wilhelm Lutzer

Wilhelm Lutzer 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: 20230286654
    Abstract: A wastewater tank arrangement for an aircraft, including a wastewater tank and a drain pipe having a first end and an opposite second end, the drain pipe fastened with its first end to the wastewater tank and having a second end for connection to a service panel in the aircraft structure. Providing a wastewater tank arrangement can effectively compensate tolerances between the wastewater tank and the service panel, and can effectively compensate installation and manufacturing tolerances during the course of the initial installation, in that the wastewater tank arrangement has a tolerance compensation device configured to connect the second end of the drain pipe to the service panel and compensate tolerances between the second end of the drain pipe and the service panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Wilhelm LUTZER, Ulrich RIEGER, Eberhard GUMBERT, Carsten OHLFEST, Holger BRILSKY, Gerke POPKEN
  • Patent number: 11691734
    Abstract: A wastewater tank arrangement for an aircraft, including a wastewater tank and a drain pipe having a first end and an opposite second end, the drain pipe fastened with its first end to the wastewater tank and having a second end for connection to a service panel in the aircraft structure. Providing a wastewater tank arrangement can effectively compensate tolerances between the wastewater tank and the service panel, and can effectively compensate installation and manufacturing tolerances during the course of the initial installation, in that the wastewater tank arrangement has a tolerance compensation device configured to connect the second end of the drain pipe to the service panel and compensate tolerances between the second end of the drain pipe and the service panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Wilhelm Lutzer, Ulrich Rieger, Eberhard Gumbert, Carsten Ohlfest, Holger Brilsky, Gerke Popken
  • Patent number: 11472554
    Abstract: An aircraft cabin assembly is depicted and described having a cabin wall, which surrounds a cabin interior space and has a wall surface facing the cabin interior space, and having a light source, which is provided in order to emit light onto the wall surface. The problem of providing an aircraft cabin assembly which, irrespective of the light outside of the aircraft cabin assembly, as effectively as possible gives a passenger in the cabin interior space the impression that the cabin interior space is larger than it actually is, is solved in that the wall surface has a holographic image of an object and in that the light source is designed to emit the kind of light onto the wall surface that allows the holographic image to be seen as a three-dimensional image of the object which is the subject of the holographic image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Wilhelm Lutzer
  • Publication number: 20210300564
    Abstract: A wastewater tank arrangement for an aircraft, including a wastewater tank and a drain pipe having a first end and an opposite second end, the drain pipe fastened with its first end to the wastewater tank and having a second end for connection to a service panel in the aircraft structure. Providing a wastewater tank arrangement can effectively compensate tolerances between the wastewater tank and the service panel, and can effectively compensate installation and manufacturing tolerances during the course of the initial installation, in that the wastewater tank arrangement has a tolerance compensation device configured to connect the second end of the drain pipe to the service panel and compensate tolerances between the second end of the drain pipe and the service panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Wilhelm LUTZER, Ulrich RIEGER, Eberhard GUMBERT, Carsten OHLFEST, Holger BRILSKY, Gerke POPKEN
  • Patent number: 10899098
    Abstract: A system for compacting waste includes a trolley and a cabin monument. The trolley or the cabin monument has a compacting device. The compacting device includes a cover with a bellows that is arranged on the lower face of the cover and is designed to be movable between a folded-together position, in which the bellows interior has a first volume, and an unfolded position, in which the bellows interior has an enlarged second volume. By suctioning fluid from a container interior formed in the trolley by means of a first cover channel arranged in the cover of the trolley, the bellows can be moved into the unfolded position such that the bellows protrudes far enough into the container interior that the waste container and/or waste in the waste container is compacted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Inventors: Wilhelm Lutzer, Matthias Reiss, Oliver Kiehne, Marc Spille, Michael Kempa
  • Patent number: 10843430
    Abstract: A system includes a vehicle monument, a hose with a fluid line, and an adapter with a triggering unit and a housing, which has a fluid connection. The fluid connection couples to a fluid mating connection, wherein the monument has a fluid main valve and a control unit for controlling the fluid main valve, an inlet of the fluid main valve couples to a fluid suction source, and a first end of the hose connects to the monument such that a first end of the fluid line is coupled to a first outlet of the fluid main valve. A second end of the hose is connected to the adapter such that a second end of the fluid line is coupled to the fluid connection, and the control unit controls the fluid main valve based on a triggering signal from the triggering unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Wilhelm Lutzer, Matthias Reiss, Oliver Kiehne, Marc Spille, Michael Kempa
  • Publication number: 20200166027
    Abstract: A pressure intensifier, arrangement in an aircraft or spacecraft including a device driveable by a driving pressure difference, aircraft or spacecraft, and method. A pressure intensifier has a motor part with motor-part-side fluid inlet and motor-part-side fluid outlet and a pump part with pump-part-side fluid inlet and pump-part-side fluid outlet. The pressure intensifier, as a positive-displacement machine with at least one rotatable rotor, is driveable by a motor-part-side fluid flow from the motor-part-side fluid inlet to the motor-part-side fluid outlet for conveying pump-part-side fluid flow from the pump-part-side fluid inlet to the pump-part-side fluid outlet. An arrangement in an aircraft or spacecraft includes a device driveable by a driving pressure difference and includes a vacuum booster. An aircraft or spacecraft has a pressure intensifier of the type and/or an arrangement of the type, and a method is disclosed for operating a device in an aircraft or spacecraft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Wilhelm LUTZER, Holger CZOPKA
  • Patent number: 10577107
    Abstract: A system for suctioning fluid is disclosed. In a cabin monument, a vacuum source and a vacuum interface unit is provided. At least one flexible hose provides a connection to the vacuum interface unit, having at least one first fluid line having a connection element. The end connection element connects to a unit to be evacuated. The vacuum interface unit includes an adapter for connection to the at least one fluid line, and a trigger unit. At least one valve unit and a control unit for controlling the at least one valve unit reside in the cabin monument. The control unit controls the valve unit at least indirectly based on a trigger signal generated by the trigger unit. Thus, a flexible positioning of a unit to be evacuated for waste compaction is possible. The disclosure also relates to a vehicle, in particular an aircraft, having such a suctioning system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Marc Spille, Matthias Reiss, Wilhelm Lutzer, Oliver Kiehne, Michael Kempa, Norbert Kaufeld
  • Patent number: 10479505
    Abstract: A fluid-disposing system for a galley sink includes: a galley sink for a galley cabin monument, a self-regulating valve, a control unit, a sensor, and a signal connection between the sensor and the control unit. The valve input is connected to a fluid line, connected to a drainage opening of the galley sink. The valve is arranged underneath the drainage opening, such that fluid from the galley sink can flow through the associated drainage opening into the fluid line. The valve output is designed to be couplable with a source of negative pressure. The valve is designed to automatically open at a predetermined amount M1 of fluid in the fluid line, such that fluid can flow out of the fluid line, and to automatically close at a predetermined amount M2 of fluid in the fluid line, such that the predetermined amount M2 of fluid remains in the fluid line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Wilhelm Lutzer, Matthias Reiss, Oliver Kiehne, Michael Kempa, Marc Spille, Holger Czopka
  • Publication number: 20190061297
    Abstract: A system includes a vehicle monument, a hose with a fluid line, and an adapter with a triggering unit and a housing, which has a fluid connection. The fluid connection couples to a fluid mating connection, wherein the monument has a fluid main valve and a control unit for controlling the fluid main valve, an inlet of the fluid main valve couples to a fluid suction source, and a first end of the hose connects to the monument such that a first end of the fluid line is coupled to a first outlet of the fluid main valve. A second end of the hose is connected to the adapter such that a second end of the fluid line is coupled to the fluid connection, and the control unit controls the fluid main valve based on a triggering signal from the triggering unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Wilhelm LUTZER, Matthias REISS, Oliver KIEHNE, Marc SPILLE, Michael KEMPA
  • Publication number: 20190047242
    Abstract: A system for compacting waste includes a trolley and a cabin monument. The trolley or the cabin monument has a compacting device. The compacting device includes a cover with a bellows that is arranged on the lower face of the cover and is designed to be movable between a folded-together position, in which the bellows interior has a first volume, and an unfolded position, in which the bellows interior has an enlarged second volume. By suctioning fluid from a container interior formed in the trolley by means of a first cover channel arranged in the cover of the trolley, the bellows can be moved into the unfolded position such that the bellows protrudes far enough into the container interior that the waste container and/or waste in the waste container is compacted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Inventors: Wilhelm LUTZER, Matthias REISS, Oliver KIEHNE, Marc SPILLE, Michael KEMPA
  • Publication number: 20180134391
    Abstract: A system for suctioning fluid is disclosed. In a cabin monument, a vacuum source and a vacuum interface unit is provided. At least one flexible hose provides a connection to the vacuum interface unit, having at least one first fluid line having a connection element. The end connection element connects to a unit to be evacuated. The vacuum interface unit includes an adapter for connection to the at least one fluid line, and a trigger unit. At least one valve unit and a control unit for controlling the at least one valve unit reside in the cabin monument. The control unit controls the valve unit at least indirectly based on a trigger signal generated by the trigger unit. Thus, a flexible positioning of a unit to be evacuated for waste compaction is possible. The disclosure also relates to a vehicle, in particular an aircraft, having such a suctioning system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Inventors: Marc SPILLE, Matthias REISS, Wilhelm LUTZER, Oliver KIEHNE, Michael KEMPA, Norbert KAUFELD
  • Publication number: 20170320577
    Abstract: A fluid-disposing system for a galley sink includes: a galley sink for a galley cabin monument, a self-regulating valve, a control unit, a sensor, and a signal connection between the sensor and the control unit. The valve input is connected to a fluid line, connected to a drainage opening of the galley sink. The valve is arranged underneath the drainage opening, such that fluid from the galley sink can flow through the associated drainage opening into the fluid line. The valve output is designed to be couplable with a source of negative pressure. The valve is designed to automatically open at a predetermined amount M1 of fluid in the fluid line, such that fluid can flow out of the fluid line, and to automatically close at a predetermined amount M2 of fluid in the fluid line, such that the predetermined amount M2 of fluid remains in the fluid line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Wilhelm Lutzer, Matthias Reiss, Oliver Kiehne, Michael Kempa, Marc Spille, Holger Czopka
  • Publication number: 20170246976
    Abstract: A trolley for collecting waste products in a vehicle includes: a trolley housing with an upper housing opening to a housing interior of the trolley housing and a waste enclosure suspended in the housing interior and provided with an upper enclosure opening, and a fluid receiving container with an upper container opening and arranged in or laterally on the trolley housing. The enclosure opening and the housing opening are arranged relative to one another in such a way that waste products can be introduced through the housing opening and the enclosure opening. The fluid receiving container includes a container suction port, by which a fluidic connection can be produced to extract a fluid from the bottom of an interior of the fluid receiving container. A cabin monument with such a fluid receiving container, as well as to a system with the trolley and the cabin monument are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Applicant: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Wilhelm Lutzer, Matthias Reiss, Oliver Kiehne, Marc Spille
  • Publication number: 20170101183
    Abstract: An aircraft cabin assembly is depicted and described having a cabin wall, which surrounds a cabin interior space and has a wall surface facing the cabin interior space, and having a light source, which is provided in order to emit light onto the wall surface. The problem of providing an aircraft cabin assembly which, irrespective of the light outside of the aircraft cabin assembly, as effectively as possible gives a passenger in the cabin interior space the impression that the cabin interior space is larger than it actually is, is solved in that the wall surface has a holographic image of an object and in that the light source is designed to emit the kind of light onto the wall surface that allows the holographic image to be seen as a three-dimensional image of the object which is the subject of the holographic image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventor: Wilhelm Lutzer
  • Patent number: 9599263
    Abstract: A movable coupling for a pipeline, which can be applied in aviation and aerospace. The coupling includes a dip pipe, a counter piece and a displaceable component. The counter piece has a passage, into which the dip pipe is inserted. The counter piece has a holder extending from the passage. The component includes a clearance that the dip pipe extends through. A portion of the displaceable component is received in the holder so the displaceable component can be displaced relative to the counter piece in a direction not parallel to the longitudinal axis of the dip pipe. When the dip pipe moves relative to the counter piece, the displaceable component is tight against the dip pipe and also against the counter piece. A tank arrangement includes a tank with a pipeline connected to the tank and including a movable coupling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Wilhelm Lutzer
  • Patent number: 8894009
    Abstract: A separation device is provided for a vacuum toilet system of an aircraft, which makes possible a significantly simpler type of cleaning, which can be done more quickly, of a profile separator. The movably held combination of a wiping device and the profile separator can carry out a relative movement. As a result of mechanical contact between the wiping device and the profile separator the deposits are removed from the profile separator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Wilhelm Lutzer
  • Patent number: 8820362
    Abstract: A water-transporting line includes an integrated heater system for protection against frost and the appropriate connection, attachment and control elements. A self-heating water conduit segment is provided that has an integrated heating device, which device encloses the outer surface of the water conduit segment. The various segments may be connected mechanically and electrically using corresponding connecting elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Karsten Roederer, Wilhelm Lutzer, Claus Hoffjann
  • Patent number: 8806946
    Abstract: A system is provided for the detection of deposits in a fluid line that includes, but is not limited to a measuring body, and ultrasonic transducer and an ultrasonic receiver and at least one evaluation unit connected to the ultrasonic transducer and the ultrasonic receiver. The ultrasonic transducer transmits an ultrasonic signal and the ultrasonic receiver receives response signals generated by reflections in the fluid line. From known geometric changes in shape of the fluid line, resulting response signals are finally filtered out of the response signal sequence and from the remaining response signals relating to the deposits, the distances can be calculated between the ultrasonic transducer and the deposits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Flister, Wilhelm Lutzer
  • Patent number: 8631947
    Abstract: A preferred embodiment of the invention relates to a cyclone separator for a vacuum toilet system, with a casing; an input-side swirl generator, whose input openings impart a swirl to the inflowing fluid; a separating wall arranged in the casing, which encloses the fluid stream in the cyclone separator ring-like and whose interior cross section tapers downstream; and a collection tank in the casing for receiving and accumulating constituents separated out of the fluid. In addition, the invention relates to a wastewater tank and vacuum toilet system having such a cyclone separator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Wilhelm Lutzer