Patents by Inventor Helmut Wiehn

Helmut Wiehn 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: 20240102248
    Abstract: The claimed invention relates to an improved method for imparting fire-retardancy on wood- and cellulose-based materials that can be employed in the production of furniture and in interior building construction, e.g. wood-based materials and panels, such as lumber (timber) and engineered wood, such as plywood, densified wood, fiberboard (e.g. medium-density fiberboard (MDF) or high-density fiberboard (HDF)), particle board (PB), oriented strand board (OSB), laminated timber, parallel strand lumber (PSL), laminated strand lumber (LSL) and oriented strand lumber (OSL), glued laminated timber (glulam), and laminated veneer lumber (LVL), as well as materials used in decorative interior finishing, such as decorative panels prepared from compact boards (CB) or compact laminates (CL).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Helmut WIEHN, Pieter DAESELEIRE, Manfred RIEPERTINGER, Andreas HERZOG
  • Publication number: 20240034888
    Abstract: The claimed invention relates to an aqueous fire-retardant composition. It also relates to an improved method for imparting fire-retardancy on wood- and cellulose-based materials that are to be employed in the production of furniture and in interior building construction, e.g. wood-based materials and panels, such as lumber (timber) and engineered wood, such as plywood, densified wood, fiberboard (e.g. medium-density fiberboard (MDF) or high-density fiberboard (HDF)), particle board (PB), oriented strand board (OSB), laminated timber, parallel strand lumber (PSL), laminated strand lumber (LSL) and oriented strand lumber (OSL), glued laminated timber (glulam), and laminated veneer lumber (LVL), as well as materials used in decorative interior finishing, such as decorative panels prepared from compact boards (CB) or compact laminates (CL).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Helmut WIEHN, Pieter DAESELEIRE
  • Publication number: 20230227726
    Abstract: The current invention concerns a fire retardant composition for use in wood composite panels, either comprising a fire retardant agent or an intumescent formulation, whereby the pH of a 10% aqueous solution of said composition lies between 3.5 and 8.5. The present invention also provides for a specific use of the composition in fire retardant wood composite panels, the respective method for producing those panels, as well as the resulting wood composite panels themselves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Helmut Wiehn, Barbora Deppe, Herman Meynaerts, Pieter Daeseleire
  • Publication number: 20230227725
    Abstract: The current invention concerns a fire retardant composition for use in wood composite panels, either comprising a fire retardant agent or an intumescent formulation, whereby the pH of a 10% aqueous solution of said composition lies between 3.5 and 8.5. The present invention also provides for a specific use of the composition in fire retardant wood composite panels, the respective method for producing those panels, as well as the resulting wood composite panels themselves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Helmut Wiehn, Barbora Deppe, Herman Meynaerts, Pieter Daeseleire
  • Patent number: 11613703
    Abstract: The current invention concerns a fire retardant composition for use in wood composite panels, either comprising a fire retardant agent or an intumescent formulation, whereby the pH of a 10% aqueous solution of said composition lies between 3.5 and 8.5. The present invention also provides for a specific use of the composition in fire retardant wood composite panels, the respective method for producing those panels, as well as the resulting wood composite panels themselves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: ECOCHEM INTERNATIONAL NV
    Inventors: Helmut Wiehn, Barbora Deppe, Herman Meynaerts, Pieter Daeseleire
  • Publication number: 20190330531
    Abstract: The current invention concerns a fire retardant composition for use in wood composite panels, either comprising a fire retardant agent or an intumescent formulation, whereby the pH of a 10% aqueous solution of said composition lies between 3.5 and 8.5. The present invention also provides for a specific use of the composition in fire retardant wood composite panels, the respective method for producing those panels, as well as the resulting wood composite panels themselves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2018
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Helmut WIEHN, Barbora DEPPE, Herman MEYNAERTS, Pieter DAESELEIRE
  • Patent number: 8642184
    Abstract: Fire-resistant OSB (oriented strand board) material consisting of a middle layer and two outer layers, wherein the layers primarily consist of bonded wood flakes. There are one or more fire-retardant agents in the middle layer and one or both outer layers, and the nature and/or the concentrations of them in the middle layer are different from the nature and/or the concentrations of them in one or both outer layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Ecochem International, Naamloze Vennootschap
    Inventors: Helmut Wiehn, Pieter Daeseleire, Herman Meynaerts
  • Publication number: 20120251817
    Abstract: Fire-resistant OSB (oriented strand board) material consisting of a middle layer and two outer layers, wherein the layers primarily consist of bonded wood flakes. There are one or more fire-retardant agents in the middle layer and one or both outer layers, and the nature and/or the concentrations of them in the middle layer are different from the nature and/or the concentrations of them in one or both outer layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Inventors: Helmut WIEHN, Pieter DAESELEIRE, Herman MEYNAERTS
  • Patent number: 5418282
    Abstract: In the manufacture of synthetic foams and also especially in that of timber materials using urea-formaldehyde condensate binders, the mol ratio between urea and formaldehyde is decisive for the resultant final rigidity and the presence of free gaseous formaldehyde. In order, with a favourable mol ratio, to reduce the quantity of gaseous formaldehyde remaining in the timber material and at the same time to obtain effective fire resistance in both synthetic foams and timber materials adhesively secured with isocyanate, the invention proposes a combination of effective substances to be added to the initial raw materials as a granulate with a grain size of 80 to 1,500 my.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1995
    Assignee: BHF-Chemie Brandhemmende Fullstoffe GmbH
    Inventor: Helmut Wiehn
  • Patent number: 5054435
    Abstract: A furnace, especially a fluidized furnace with a combustion chamber (1) that gas flows up through and that has a gas outlet provided with a second flue (2) and a precipitator (10) for separating solids from the flue gas. The solids end of the precipitator communicates with the second flue, which accommodates a layer (12) of solid matter. The bottom of the second flue communicates by way of a solids-reintroduction line (14) with the combustion chamber. The second flue is a solids cooler and the precipitator is also a filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1991
    Assignee: Deutsche Babcock Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Helmut Wiehn, Heiko Rehwinkel, Horst Mollenhoff, Hans-Joachim Meier
  • Patent number: 4575332
    Abstract: To allow liquid and/or gaseous fuels to be burned with decreased NO.sub.x formation, the combustion air is fed in at axial intervals one after the other. The percentage of primary air is higher than that of secondary air. The injector effect of the primary air draws flue gas out of the firebox and supplies it to a flame-initiation point between the primary-air and secondary-air feeds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1986
    Assignee: Deutsche Babcock Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rolf Oppenberg, Helmut Wiehn
  • Patent number: 4465021
    Abstract: A steam generator in which a main boiler is provided and at least one fluidized bed furnace is connected with the main boiler and is operated independently of the furnace of the main boiler. The fluidized bed furnace is connected with the main boiler underneath the boiler funnel. The tubes of the boiler funnel are partially fanned out and form flue gas passages, through which the flue gas of the fluidized bed furnace flows into the combustion chamber of the main boiler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 14, 1984
    Assignee: Deutsche Babcock Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Robert Richter, Helmut Wiehn, Horst Lichtenberger