Patents by Inventor Helmut Bergman

Helmut Bergman 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).

  • Continuous spherical truss construction
    Patent number: 4719726
    Abstract: My invention relates to a tetrahedral-octahedral truss construction system for shell framework of icosahedral-spherical, and/or part-spherical structures, which are based on the regular icosahedron. The system is represented by a central nucleus and by a sequentially ordered infinite set of ever-increasing, space-filling truss layer shells, which are constructed from triangular units of equal size, equal angular values and identical proportions. Icosahedral-spherical truss shells can be constructed of single, double and multiple layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1988
    Inventor: Helmut Bergman
  • Extended space enclosing structure
    Patent number: 4364207
    Abstract: A space enclosing structure, the underlying shape of which is a portion of a polyhedron comprised of a regular arrangement of regular pentagons, equilateral triangles, rhombi, right angled parallelograms and rhomboids. The structure permits the use of square and/or rectangular standardized prefabricated square or rectangular building units such as doors, windows, solar panels, etc., without any alteration of the basic shape of the structure, as such prefabricated units may be used to replace any of the square or rectangular faces of the polyhedron. Each face other than a right angled parallelogram is abutted on each side by a right angled parallelogram. Each right angled parallelogram is abutted on two opposite sides by rhomboids and/or rhombi and on the other two sides by a pentagon and a triangle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1982
    Inventor: Helmut Bergman
  • Space enclosing structure
    Patent number: 4258513
    Abstract: A space enclosing structure, the underlying shape of which is a portion of a polyhedron comprised of a regular arrangement of regular pentagons, equilateral triangles, right angled parallelograms and rhombi. The structure permits the use of square or rectangular standardized prefabricated square or rectangular building units, such as doors, windows, solar panels, etc., without any alteration of the basic shape of the structure, as such prefabricated units may be used to replace any of the square or rectangular faces of the polyhedron. Each face other than a right angled parallelogram is abutted on each side by a right angled parallelogram. Each right angled parallelogram is abutted on two opposite sides by rhombi and on the other two sides by a pentagon and a triangle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1979
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1981
    Inventor: Helmut Bergman