Patents by Inventor Nicolas Quick

Nicolas Quick 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: 11383481
    Abstract: A laminate is made by first making by melt-blowing or spunbonding of multicomponent, thermoplastic, and endless filaments a first nonwoven layer lying generally in a plane and having a predetermined shrinkage capacity or potential parallel to the plane and making of thermoplastic and endless filaments a second nonwoven layer also lying generally in a respective plane and having a shrinkage capacity or potential that is smaller than that of the first nonwoven layer. The two layers are directly juxtaposed flatly on each other, and the directly juxtaposed first and second layer are bonded together only at bonded regions while leaving an array of unbonded regions distributed over a surface of the two bonded-together nonwoven layers. Then only the first nonwoven layer is shrunk so that the second layer bunches in the unbonded regions and is there raised transverse to a plane of the bonded-together layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignees: REIFENHAEUSER GMBH & CO. KG MASCHINENFABRIK, PFNONWOVENS HOLDING S.R.O
    Inventors: Sebastian Sommer, Michael Maas, Claudio Cinquemani, Markus Jansen, Nicolas Quick
  • Patent number: 10711109
    Abstract: A semifinished product for making a composite fiber molded part is made by first spinning from a row of orifices of a spinning nozzle low-melting fibers of a thermoplastic. These low-melting fibers are then combined into a laminated semifinished product with high-melting reinforcement fibers of the same thermoplastic but having a melting temperature higher than the melting temperature of the low-melting fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: REIFENHAUSER GMBH & CO. KG MASCHINENFABRIK
    Inventors: Claudio Cinquemani, Michael Nitschke, Nicolas Quick, Armin Tobay
  • Publication number: 20190330429
    Abstract: A semifinished product for making a composite fiber molded part is made by first spinning from a row of orifices of a spinning nozzle low-melting fibers of a thermoplastic. These low-melting fibers are then combined into a laminated semifinished product with high-melting reinforcement fibers of the same thermoplastic but having a melting temperature higher than the melting temperature of the low-melting fibers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Claudio CINQUEMANI, Michael NITSCHKE, Nicolas QUICK, Armin TOBAY
  • Patent number: 10392483
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a semi-finished product for producing a composite molded part (7), in particular a composite fiber molded part, wherein a higher-melting reinforcement material (8), in particular higher-melting reinforcement fibers are combined with lower-melting fibers (10) made of thermoplastic into a laminate (4), wherein the lower-melting fibers are spun and after spinning are combined at a fiber temperature TF with the higher-melting reinforcement material, in particular with higher-melting reinforcement fibers, into the laminate forming the semi-finished product. The fiber temperature TF lies in a temperature range between a temperature of 25° C. below the heat distortion temperature TW to 55° C. above the heat distortion temperature TW of the thermoplastic of the lower-melting fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: REIFENHAEUSER GMBH & CO. KG MASCHINENFABRIK
    Inventors: Claudio Cinquemani, Michael Nitschke, Nicolas Quick, Armin Tobay
  • Publication number: 20170203539
    Abstract: A laminate is made by first making by melt-blowing or spunbonding of multicomponent, thermoplastic, and endless filaments a first nonwoven layer lying generally in a plane and having a predetermined shrinkage capacity or potential parallel to the plane and making of thermoplastic and endless filaments a second nonwoven layer also lying generally in a respective plane and having a shrinkage capacity or potential that is smaller than that of the first nonwoven layer. The two layers are directly juxtaposed flatly on each other, and the directly juxtaposed first and second layer are bonded together only at bonded regions while leaving an array of unbonded regions distributed over a surface of the two bonded-together nonwoven layers. Then only the first nonwoven layer is shrunk so that the second layer bunches in the unbonded regions and is there raised transverse to a plane of the bonded-together layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Inventors: Sebastian SOMMER, Michael MAAS, Claudio CINQUEMANI, Markus JANSEN, Nicolas QUICK
  • Publication number: 20150225518
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a semi-finished product for producing a composite molded part (7), in particular a composite fiber molded part, wherein a higher-melting reinforcement material (8), in particular higher-melting reinforcement fibers are combined with lower-melting fibers (10) made of thermoplastic into a laminate (4), wherein the lower-melting fibers are spun and after spinning are combined at a fiber temperature TF with the higher-melting reinforcement material, in particular with higher-melting reinforcement fibers, into the laminate forming the semi-finished product. The fiber temperature TF lies in a temperature range between a temperature of 25° C. below the heat distortion temperature TW to 55° C. above the heat distortion temperature TW of the thermoplastic of the lower-melting fibers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Inventors: Claudio Cinquemani, Michael Nitschke, Nicolas Quick, Armin Tobay