Patents by Inventor Apostolos Konstantinidis

Apostolos Konstantinidis 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: 20100274374
    Abstract: The invention refers to a system and method for the creation, modification, storage, exchange and sharing of detailed design and production of reinforcement for buildings. The system and method according to the invention incorporates a data administration system, which offers the user of the invention the ability to create the detailed designs of the reinforcement and to use the reinforcement data for a variety of reasons, such as the calculation of the volume of the material needed, the selection of reinforcement, the control of CNC machines for the production of the reinforcement etc., in an error free process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2006
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Inventor: Apostolos Konstantinidis
  • Patent number: 7421827
    Abstract: The present invention refers to stirrups and ties for structural members. Such stirrups and ties are used in all the structural members like columns, beams, slabs, footings, piles, chainages, lintels etc. The invention refers also to a method of reinforcement of structural members and to the structural members themselves. According to the invention the stirrup or tie consists of a load-bearing element for the fixing of the longitudinal rebars and for the undertaking of the tensile forces which develop during the loading of the structural members. The load bearing element consists of at least one cell of closed shape so that the flow of the tensile stresses developed in the cross section is closed and the stresses are not diffused to the concrete. The load bearing element of the stirrup or tie in accordance to the invention has a continuous cross section and thus there are no free ends as in the known stirrups. In this way anchoring of the stirrups or ties is completely avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2008
    Inventor: Apostolos Konstantinidis
  • Publication number: 20060050381
    Abstract: The invention discloses a method and a system used for stereoscopically representing a subject. According to the invention, the method records and captures the subject from two different points of view, and generates an image, which is in turn decomposed to two images and then sent to the dual output of a personal computer's graphic card.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2002
    Publication date: March 9, 2006
    Inventor: Apostolos Konstantinidis
  • Patent number: 6293071
    Abstract: The present invention refers to stirrups for reinforcement of load bearing structural elements, and in particular for reinforcing concrete load bearing building elements, such as columns, shear walls, beams, slabs, footings, lintels, piles. The invention refers also to a method for reinforcing structural elements as well as to these elements. A stirrup for reinforcing load bearing elements according to the invention consists of a plurality of consecutive windings (7a, 7b) disposed along the longitudinal direction of the stirrup, so that the stirrup has a spiral form, whereby the windings of the stirrup form a plurality of discrete cages (5a, 5b) to house the main reinforcement bars (1a, 1b) of the load bearing element. The stirrups may be used for the reinforcement of load bearing elements of various cross sections such as orthogonal, T-shaped, L-shaped, Z-shaped etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2001
    Inventor: Apostolos Konstantinidis