Patents by Inventor Christian Noll

Christian Noll 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: 20240044439
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for locating a mobile device in a conduit system by means of a radar system, said radar system comprising a base station and a transponder attached to the device, and the signals being modulated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventor: Christian NOLL
  • Publication number: 20230194037
    Abstract: The invention relates to a clearing device for the rehabilitation of a pipeline, especially for clearing a branching-off in a pipeline system rehabilitated by means of a tubular liner, comprising at least one clearing device, which is movably mounted by at least one degree of freedom, and a slope sensor located on the clearing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventor: Christian NOLL
  • Patent number: 11466806
    Abstract: The invention relates to: a device for curing resin-soaked lining sleeves with energy-rich radiation, comprising at least one radiation source for generating energy-rich radiation for curing a lining sleeve, at least one camera for capturing an image sequence of an environment of the device, and at least one input device, in particular provided separately from the device, wherein a capturing region and/or a display region of the camera is/can be adjusted by a user by means of the input device, and wherein an adjustment of the capturing region of the camera occurs via a movement of at least one part of the camera and/or occurs by means of an electronic image-processing device, which is designed and configured to adjust at least one camera parameter in accordance with an adjusted display region; and a use for a device of this type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: SML VERWALTUNGS GMBH
    Inventors: Herbert Wind, Christian Noll
  • Publication number: 20220214000
    Abstract: A system is disclosed for locating a device (15) in a ducting system comprising a conduit (100) and a shaft (140) arranged next to or above the conduit (100), the system comprising a base station (12) of a radar system (10) with a transmitter (22) and a receiver (19) and a signal source (21) for a clock signal (1) that can be sent by means of the transmitter (22) of the base station (12), the system also comprising a transponder (14), which is arranged on a mobile device (15) and is designed and configured to receive and to modulate the clock signal (1) and to send the modulated clock signal (1) back to the receiver (19) of the base station (1) as a locating signal. A fastening means (150) is also included and is fastened in the shaft, the fastening means (150) comprising a boom (160) extending in front of an opening region of the conduit (100), and the transmitter (22) and the receiver (19) being arranged on the boom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventor: Christian NOLL
  • Patent number: 11287075
    Abstract: A device for renovating damaged line walls proximate the connection of an auxiliary line to a main line, includes a movable support element, wherein a cover element and an expandable element are arranged on the support element. The expandable element can be positioned in the auxiliary line in or through a first recess in the cover element, and can lie against the wall of the auxiliary line to form a shell. The cover element has a second recess for introducing a curable viscous renovation compound from a storage device into space between the shell and the main and auxiliary line walls by a transport element. A heating device can be integrated into the cover element, the storage device, and/or the transport element proximate the second recess and/or operatively connected to the cover element, the storage device, and/or the transport element in the region of the second recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Inventor: Christian Noll
  • Publication number: 20220010913
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for renovating damaged pipe walls in the region of the connection of a secondary pipe to a main pipe, comprising the following steps, in particular in this sequence: a) providing an apparatus comprising a mobile carrier element, wherein a covering element which is variable in terms of outer diameter and an expandable expansion body are arranged on the carrier element; b) moving the carrier element to the region to be renovated, which comprises the main pipe and the secondary pipe; c) expanding the covering element until it lies against the inner wall of the main pipe, wherein the expansion body, before and/or at least intermittently during the expansion thereof, is arranged in a first recess of the covering element; d) expanding the expansion body, such that the expansion body, when expanded, lies against the wall of the secondary pipe such that the covering element and the expansion body together form a shuttering; e) positioning a transport means for a renovation
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: SML VERWALTUNGS GMBH
    Inventor: CHRISTIAN NOLL
  • Publication number: 20210148501
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for rehabilitating damaged pipe walls in the region of the connection of a secondary pipe to a main pipe, comprising a mobile carrier element, wherein a covering element and an expandable expansion body are arranged on the carrier element, and wherein the expandable expansion body when not expanded is positioned or is positionable at least in sections in a or by means of a first recess in the covering element in the secondary pipe and, when expanded, lies against the wall of the secondary pipe such that the covering element and the expansion body together form a shuttering, and wherein the covering element has a second recess through which a viscous, curable rehabilitation compound can be introduced by means of a transport means from a storage device into the space between the shuttering and the walls of the main and secondary pipes adjacent to the shuttering, wherein the apparatus comprises a heating device which is integrated in the covering element, in the stor
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventor: Christian Noll
  • Publication number: 20210148502
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for rehabilitating damaged pipe walls in the region of the connection of a secondary pipe to a main pipe, comprising a mobile carrier element, wherein a covering element and an expandable expansion body are arranged on the carrier element, and wherein the expandable expansion body when not expanded is positioned or is positionable at least in sections in a or by means of a first recess in the covering element in the secondary pipe and, when expanded, lies against the wall of the secondary pipe such that the covering element and the expansion body together form a shuttering, and wherein the covering element has a second recess through which a viscous, curable rehabilitation compound can be introduced by means of a transport means from a storage device into the space between the shuttering and the walls of the main and secondary pipes adjacent to the shuttering, wherein the rehabilitation compound comprises two components in the form of a resin and a hardening agent
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventor: Christian Noll
  • Patent number: 10989349
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for curing resin-impregnated lining tubes using high-energy radiation, comprising at least two radiation sources for generating high-energy radiation, wherein the device has a front end, a rear end, two oppositely situated side ends, a top end, and a bottom end, wherein a length of the device from the front end to the rear end is smaller in a transport state than in an operating state. At least one element of the device is foldably, displaceably, rotatably, and/or movably supported, and at least one first radiation source is situated farther from at least one additional radiation source in the operating state than in the transport state. The device includes a fastening point on which a tensile force can act, in particular in the longitudinal direction of the device in order to transfer the device from the transport state into the operating state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: SML VERWALTUNGS GMBH
    Inventors: Herbert Wind, Christian Noll
  • Patent number: 10808877
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a lining hose with at least one seamless tubular inner foil and at least one curable layer comprising at least one fiber ribbon impregnated with a curable resin for the renovation of pressurized fluid carrying pipe systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: SML Verwaltungs GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Reichel, Christian Noll
  • Patent number: 10761324
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for uncovering a branch of a pipe system that is renovated with a lining tube, comprising the following steps, in particular in this sequence: a) providing an uncovering device in the renovated pipe and arranging the uncovering device in front of the branch to be uncovered; b) virtually representing for a user the branch that is concealed by the lining tube; and c) uncovering the branch by the user by means of the uncovering device, based on the virtual representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: PIPETRONICS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Christian Noll, Herbert Wind
  • Patent number: 10730230
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for rehabilitating lines, in particular sewers, shafts or the like, a curing device being activated or having been activated for curing the curable and/or curing ply, and an advancement of the curing device in the lining sleeve and in particular the power output of the curing device being controlled in an open-loop or closed-loop manner in dependence on the temperature sensed by the temperature measuring device on the outer side of the curable ply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: SML Verwaltungs GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert Wind, Christian Noll, Stefan Reichel
  • Publication number: 20200240569
    Abstract: The invention relates to: a device for curing resin-soaked lining sleeves with energy-rich radiation, comprising at least one radiation source for generating energy-rich radiation for curing a lining sleeve, at least one camera for capturing an image sequence of an environment of the device, and at least one input device, in particular provided separately from the device, wherein a capturing region and/or a display region of the camera is/can be adjusted by a user by means of the input device, and wherein an adjustment of the capturing region of the camera occurs via a movement of at least one part of the camera and/or occurs by means of an electronic image-processing device, which is designed and configured to adjust at least one camera parameter in accordance with an adjusted display region; and a use for a device of this type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Herbert Wind, Christian Noll
  • Publication number: 20190118460
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for curing a lining sleeve comprising a curing device with a radiation source, a lining sleeve with a curable ply and an outer film arranged around the curable ply, a measuring device, which is arranged between the curable ply and the outer film and/or on or at a distance outwardly from the outer side of the curable ply, the measuring device being designed and set up to sense a measured value representative of the curing of the curable ply, and also an open-loop or closed-loop control device, which is designed and set up to control the advancement of the curing device in the lining sleeve and/or the power output of the radiation source of the curing device in an open-loop or closed-loop manner in dependence on the measured values sensed by the measuring device on the outer side of the curable ply.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Herbert WIND, Christian NOLL, Stefan REICHEL
  • Publication number: 20190120416
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a lining tube for renovating fluid-conducting pipe systems, wherein the lining tube comprises at least one thermally and/or radiation curable layer and at least one machine-readable data tag, wherein the at least one data tag comprises at least one individual technical specification for the lining tube, which can be processed by a data processing device in order to provide parameters for a curing apparatus, in particular for controlling or regulating a curing process of the lining tube and/or a pulling device, in particular for controlling or regulating pulling in the lining tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Herbert Wind, Christian Noll
  • Publication number: 20190118459
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for rehabilitating lines, in particular sewers, shafts or the like, a curing device being activated or having been activated for curing the curable and/or curing ply, and an advancement of the curing device in the lining sleeve and in particular the power output of the curing device being controlled in an open-loop or closed-loop manner in dependence on the temperature sensed by the temperature measuring device on the outer side of the curable ply.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Herbert WIND, Christian NOLL, Stefan REICHEL
  • Publication number: 20190107715
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for uncovering a branch of a pipe system that is renovated with a lining tube, comprising the following steps, in particular in this sequence: a) providing an uncovering device in the renovated pipe and arranging the uncovering device in front of the branch to be uncovered; b) virtually representing for a user the branch that is concealed by the lining tube; and c) uncovering the branch by the user by means of the uncovering device, based on the virtual representation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Christian Noll, Herbert Wind
  • Publication number: 20190101238
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for curing resin-impregnated lining tubes using high-energy radiation, comprising at least two radiation sources for generating high-energy radiation, wherein the device has a front end, a rear end, two oppositely situated side ends, a top end, and a bottom end, wherein a length of the device from the front end to the rear end is smaller in a transport state than in an operating state. At least one element of the device is foldably, displaceably, rotatably, and/or movably supported, and at least one first radiation source is situated farther from at least one additional radiation source in the operating state than in the transport state. The device includes a fastening point on which a tensile force can act, in particular in the longitudinal direction of the device in order to transfer the device from the transport state into the operating state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Applicant: SML Verwaltungs GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert Wind, Christian Noll
  • Publication number: 20190102955
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for automatically uncovering a branch of a pipe system that is renovated with a lining tube, comprising the following steps, in particular in this sequence: a) providing an uncovering device, including a data processing unit, in the renovated pipe and arranging the uncovering device in front of the branch to be uncovered; b) inputting by means of an input unit a geometric shape to be uncovered; c) uncovering the branch by means of automatic milling, controlled by the data processing unit, of sections of the lining tube along the input geometric shape, using an uncovering unit of the uncovering device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventors: Herbert Wind, Christian Noll
  • Publication number: 20190016021
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for curing resin-impregnated tubular liners by means of high-energy radiation, comprising at least two radiation sources for producing high-energy radiation, wherein the apparatus has a front end, a rear end opposite the front end, two opposite side ends, an upper end and a lower end opposite the upper end, wherein a length of the apparatus, measured from the front end to the rear end, a width of the apparatus, measured from a side end to the opposite side end, and/or a height of the apparatus, measured from the lower into the upper end, is smaller in a transport state than in an operating state, in that at least one element of the apparatus is mounted such that the element can be folded out, displaced, rotated, and/or moved, and wherein at least one further radiation source is arranged to be spaced further apart from at least one further radiation source when in the operating state than in the transport state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2016
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: Christian NOLL, Herbert WIND