Patents by Inventor Wolfgang LAST

Wolfgang LAST 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: 20240342669
    Abstract: An agitator device has at least one intermediate bearing which is configured for supporting an agitation shaft within an agitation tank and which has a first bearing element and a second bearing element which, in an operation state, is rotatable relative to the first bearing element around a bearing axis and is in contact with the first bearing element, wherein at least one of the bearing elements has polycrystalline diamond.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: Benjamin MULTNER, Wolfgang LAST
  • Publication number: 20230364565
    Abstract: A stirring element device, in particular for stirring fluidized beds and/or solid matter mixtures and/or highly viscous suspensions, comprises at least one helical stirrer, which is rotatable around a rotation axis and has at least one winding that runs around the rotation axis, wherein the helical stirrer comprises a base body, which has in at least one cross-sectional view an at least section-wise oval, in particular circle-shaped, outer contour.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2021
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Hans-Jürgen WEISS, Benjamin MULTNER, Wolfgang KELLER, Wolfgang LAST
  • Publication number: 20230241572
    Abstract: A stirring device, in particular a reactor stirring device, comprises a radiation unit which is configured for irradiating a medium. wherein the stirring device comprises a guide tube unit which is configured for separating two opposing flows of the medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2021
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Wolfgang LAST, Marco KÖNIG, Konstantin EPP, Josef WAGNER, Alexander PESCHL
  • Publication number: 20230142096
    Abstract: A method in which a medium viscous to highly viscous fluid and/or a medium viscous to highly viscous suspension are/is mixed by means of an agitator device that is driven by a drive shaft, wherein the fluid and/or the suspension are/is brought into a multi-dimensional flow by means of a close-clearance stirring blade (14) of the agitator device, and a flow resistance is minimized along a shaft direction in a shaft proximity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Tobias KNOBLOCH, Marco KÖNIG, Wolfgang LAST, Benjamin MULTNER, Benedict KOHM, Klaus GEZORK
  • Patent number: 11623185
    Abstract: A stirrer device, especially for the mixing of a fluid with at least one other fluid, includes at least one fluid dispersing unit able to turn about an axis of rotation, having at least one exit opening for at least one fluid discharge, and the stirrer device has at least one optimization unit, which in at least one operating state increases at least a differential pressure at the exit opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: EKATO Rühr-und Mischtechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Last, Dennis Bird
  • Patent number: 11305246
    Abstract: An agitator device, in particular a non-close-clearance agitator device, in particular with respect to a vessel wall, in particular for mixing low-viscosity to medium-viscosity media, having at least one agitation shaft and having at least one outer agitation blade which is held on the agitation shaft and which in at least one section is implemented so as to be arm-shaped. The agitator device has an inner agitation blade which conjointly with the outer agitation blade implements at least one van-type conveying unit which is at least configured for conveying a medium in at least one direction parallel with the agitation shaft and in particular in at least one further direction perpendicular to the agitation shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: EKATO Rühr- und Mischtechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Nienhaus, Daniel Stangier, Thorsten Grebe, Wolfgang Last, Nicole Rohn
  • Publication number: 20200238231
    Abstract: A stirrer device, especially for the mixing of a fluid with at least one other fluid, includes at least one fluid dispersing unit able to turn about an axis of rotation, having at least one exit opening for at least one fluid discharge, and the stirrer device has at least one optimization unit, which in at least one operating state increases at least a differential pressure at the exit opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Wolfgang LAST, Dennis BIRD
  • Publication number: 20190176107
    Abstract: An agitator device, in particular a non-close-clearance agitator device, in particular with respect to a vessel wall, in particular for mixing low-viscosity to medium-viscosity media, having at least one agitation shaft and having at least one outer agitation blade which is held on the agitation shaft and which in at least one section is implemented so as to be arm-shaped. The agitator device has an inner agitation blade which conjointly with the outer agitation blade implements at least one van-type conveying unit which is at least configured for conveying a medium in at least one direction parallel with the agitation shaft and in particular in at least one further direction perpendicular to the agitation shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Bernd NIENHAUS, Daniel STANGIER, Thorsten GREBE, Wolfgang LAST, Nicole ROHN