Patents by Inventor Joachim Berner

Joachim Berner 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).

  • Patent number: 11105600
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for setting up a network comprising a plurality of electronic detonators and a control unit, which are in connection with each other via a bus system, wherein each of the detonators comprises a communication module which is in connection with the bus system, for a communication between the detonator and the control unit via the bus system and wherein, as a part of the setting up of the network, the detonators are identified by the control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Austin Star Detonator Company
    Inventors: Joachim Berner, Eduardo Salvador Martinez Regil
  • Patent number: 6087935
    Abstract: A smoke screen device for rooms includes a container to hold a smoke fluid that produces smoke when vaporized, a heating device for heating and vaporizing the smoke fluid, and an opening in the container that allows the smoke to be given off into the open. The heating device is a pyrotechnic heating cartridge having a heating agent, a pyrotechnic detonating agent, and a casing that encloses the heating agent and detonating agent. Heat produced during combustion of the heating agent is given off onto the smoke fluid through a wall of the casing. A pressure cartridge including a compression agent and a pyrotechnic detonating device is provided in the container to support propulsion of the smoke produced. The pyrotechnic detonating device may be electrically ignitable via an electrical cable coupled to an energy supply and sensory mechanism which themselves are connected to an alarm, so that when tripped, the alarm causes the detonating device to be ignited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2000
    Assignee: Innovative Pyrotechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Berner, Ulrich Frick
  • Patent number: 5097648
    Abstract: A bag evacuating and closing apparatus having two opposing jaws which face ends that move toward one another. The jaws encompass a top closure of a bag package to be sealed. The jaws have hollow spaces open toward one another which are surrounded by frames with sealing jaws disposed in the hollow spaces; the hollow spaces form a chamber that receives the top closure of the bag package. A sealing rib protrudes from one face end of the two frames and is interrupted in a middle region of the frame part at which the closure fold protrudes between the jaws. In this region, suction openings are disposed in the frame parts of both jaws; these suction openings pull two walls of the top closure tightly against the frame parts. After the top closure of the bag package has been tightly encompassed, air is extracted from the bag package by a vacuum, and subsequently, the top closure of the package is tightly sealed by the sealing jaws which form a sealing seam to close the upper end of the bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1992
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Berner, Norbert Buchner, Klaus Domke, Manfred Reichert, Herbert Stotkiewitz