Patents by Inventor Heiko Pintz

Heiko Pintz 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: 20230228899
    Abstract: A system detects properties of a material layer or an embedded component of a structure or its sub-structure. The system includes a detection layer which has reflective regions reflecting electromagnetic radiation and which is designed to be embedded into a structure or its sub-structure, and a detection device which is designed to output electromagnetic radiation in the direction of the detection layer and to receive electromagnetic radiation reflected by the reflective regions of the detection layer, wherein fibers reflecting electromagnetic radiation are arranged in the reflection regions of the detection layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: HUESKER SYNTHETIC GMBH
    Inventors: Hartmut HANGEN, Heiko PINTZ
  • Patent number: 7279436
    Abstract: A wide-meshed grid fabric, in particular a geogrid, in which warp thread bundles composed of multiple warp threads and weft thread bundles composed of multiple weft threads intersect and surround meshes or lattice openings. To give the grid fabric, which may also be a scrim, a greater volume, whereby, among other things, improved reinforcement of the soil may be achieved, individual threads of a thread bundle in a mesh are longer than other threads of the same thread bundle, the longer threads running in a wave pattern and forming at least one open loop or bulge per mesh; the open loop or bulge may protrude upward and/or downward from the plane of the grid fabric. A plastic coating may stiffen the grid fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2007
    Assignee: Huesker Synthetic GmbH
    Inventor: Heiko Pintz
  • Patent number: 6918412
    Abstract: Grid mat with warp thread strands running at regular intervals lengthwise or in the warp direction and weft thread strands running at regular intervals crosswise or in the weft direction connected to the warp thread strands at the points of intersection with the warp thread strands by raschel knitting, stitching, interweaving, adhesion or welding. The edge areas of grid mats placed next to each other are laid on top of one another and connected by threading elements such as rods or cord. The threading elements are inserted through the links of the mesh in the edge area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: Huesker Synthetic GmbH
    Inventors: Heiko Pintz, Jürgen Kassner
  • Publication number: 20040266291
    Abstract: A wide-meshed grid fabric, in particular a geogrid, in which warp thread bundles composed of multiple warp threads and weft thread bundles composed of multiple weft threads intersect and surround meshes or lattice openings. To give the grid fabric, which may also be a scrim, a greater volume, whereby, among other things, improved reinforcement of the soil may be achieved, individual threads of a thread bundle in a mesh are longer than other threads of the same thread bundle, the longer threads running in a wave pattern and forming at least one open loop or bulge per mesh; the open loop or bulge may protrude upward and/or downward from the plane of the grid fabric. A plastic coating may stiffen the grid fabric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2004
    Publication date: December 30, 2004
    Inventor: Heiko Pintz
  • Patent number: 6818571
    Abstract: The invention relatrs to a wide-meshed fabric (1) treated with bonding agents. The inventive mesh is made up of bundles (4) consisting of several warop threads (3) and bundloes (6) consisting of several weft threads (5) surrounding the inner meshes (7). The warp threads (3) are interwoven with the weft threads (5) at intersection points (5) of the bundles (4) of warp threads and bundles (6) of weft threads (5) running at right-angles to each other. In order to firmly secure the warp threads and the weft threads, the bundles (4) of warp threads are divided into a first group (4′) of warp threads and a second group (4″) of warp threads and the first group of warp threads crosses over the second group of warp threads threads belonging to the same bundle (4) of warp threads for each mesh (7) thereby forming a half-twist. Similarly, the warp threads (3) of both groups (4′, 4″) of warp threads are interwoven with the weft threads (5), running substantially parallel to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2004
    Assignee: Huesker Synthetic GmbH
    Inventors: Heiko Pintz, Hermann Bült
  • Patent number: 6780798
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wide-meshed, textile lattice to provide reinforcement for bitumen-bonded layers, in particular of road surfacing, which is coated with a bonding compound having an affinity for bitumen and essentially consisting of two sets of parallel, load-bearing threads (1, 2), whereby one set of threads (1) extends in the longitudinal direction of the lattice and the other set of threads extends in the direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the lattice and the threads (1, 2) are of glass fibres or chemical fibres such as polymer fibres or polycondensate fibres. In order to develop a reinforcing lattice for bitumen-bonded layers which provides a better bond with a pre-prepared formation than the known lattices, the over-crossed threads (1, 2) are secured to a thin fleece (3) by Raschel-locking, whereby the binding Raschel-locking threads (5) surround the longitudinally extending threads (1) of the lattice and secure the threads (2) extending transversely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2004
    Assignee: Huesker Synthetic GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Jürgen Kassner, Heiko Pintz, Ulrich Von Fransecky
  • Publication number: 20030017771
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wide-meshed, textile lattice to provide reinforcement for bitumen-bonded layers, in particular of road surfacing, which is coated with a bonding compound having an affinity for bitumen and essentially consisting of two sets of parallel, load-bearing threads (1, 2), whereby one set of threads (1) extends in the longitudinal direction of the lattice and the other set of threads extends in the direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the lattice and the threads (1, 2) are of glass fibres or chemical fibres such as polymer fibres or polycondensate fibres.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2002
    Publication date: January 23, 2003
    Inventors: Jurgen Kassner, Heiko Pintz, Ulrich Von Fransecky
  • Patent number: 6503853
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wide-meshed, textile lattice to provide reinforcement for bitumen-bonded layers, in particular of road surfacing, which is coated with a bonding compound having an affinity for bitumen and essentially consisting of two sets of parallel, load-bearing threads (1, 2), whereby one set of threads (1) extends in the longitudinal direction of the lattice and the other set of threads extends in the direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the lattice and the threads (1, 2) are of glass fibres or chemical fibres such as polymer fibres or polycondensate fibres. In order to develop a reinforcing lattice for bitumen-bonded layers which provides a better bond with a pre-prepared formation than the known lattices, the over-crossed threads (1, 2) are secured to a thin fleece (3) by Raschel-locking, whereby the binding Raschel-locking threads (5) surround the longitudinally extending threads (1) of the lattice and secure the threads (2) extending transversely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2003
    Assignee: Huesker Synthetic GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Jürgen Kassner, Heiko Pintz, Ulrich Von Fransecky
  • Publication number: 20020153053
    Abstract: Grid mat with warp thread strands running at regular intervals lengthwise or in the warp direction and weft thread strands running at regular intervals crosswise or in the weft direction connected to the warp thread strands at the points of intersection with the warp thread strands by raschel knitting, stitching, interweaving, adhesion or welding. The edge areas of grid mats placed next to each other are laid on top of one another and connected by threading elements such as rods or cord. The threading elements are inserted through the links of the mesh in the edge area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2002
    Publication date: October 24, 2002
    Applicant: Huesker Synthetic GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Heiko Pintz, Jurgen Kassner