Patents by Inventor Alessandro D'Apice

Alessandro D'Apice 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: 20250136263
    Abstract: An air directing arrangement for controlling flow of air at a compartment outlet of a fuselage of a rotorcraft. The air directing arrangement comprises a continuous surface that covers the compartment outlet outside the fuselage and forms a flow channel for directing an air flow at the compartment outlet; a first flow-through opening that is formed at a first position of the flow channel, wherein the first flow-through opening forms an air inlet area; and a second flow-through opening that is formed at a second position of the flow channel, wherein the second flow-through opening is arranged downstream of the first flow-through opening in the predetermined flow direction, and wherein the second flow-through opening forms an air outlet area; wherein the air inlet area is smaller than the air outlet area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: AIRBUS HELICOPTERS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Alessandro D'ALASCIO, Thomas KNEISCH
  • Patent number: 12286329
    Abstract: A landing door of an elevator system includes a door leaf that is equipped with an integrated operating and/or display panel. In the event of a fire, a printed circuit board of the operating and/or display panel is removed from the door leaf by activation of an ejection device comprising intumescent material and being positioned in the door leaf.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventors: Christoph Liebetrau, Alessandro D'Apice
  • Publication number: 20250128914
    Abstract: An apparatus for an elevator installation includes a blocking mechanism and a measuring mechanism, wherein the blocking mechanism is adapted to connect a counterweight and/or a car of the elevator installation to a rail system of the elevator installation, and wherein the measuring mechanism is adapted to map a force transferred from the counterweight and/or car into the rail system as a force value for checking a balance of the elevator installation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Inventors: Romeo Lo Jacono, Gilles Trottman, Alessandro D'Apice, Amit Pratihar
  • Patent number: 12280985
    Abstract: A drive system for an elevator installation includes a drive and a drive suspension for fastening the drive to a support element of the elevator installation. The drive suspension has a rotary joint for tiltably mounting the drive on the support element and an adjustment device for setting a tilt of the drive about the rotary joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventors: Romeo Lo Jacono, Alessandro D'Apice
  • Patent number: 12258240
    Abstract: A method for assembling a hollow rail for guiding an elevator car and/or a counterweight of an elevator installation includes: arranging a first and second hollow rail parts at different heights in an elevator shaft; aligning the first rail part relative to the second rail part by an alignment piece so that the first and second rail parts extend along a common longitudinal axis, wherein the alignment piece protrudes partially into an open end of the first rail part and partially into an open end of the second rail part; fastening one clamping element to each of the first and second rail parts; and applying a force to the clamping elements in opposite directions parallel to the common longitudinal axis to bring together the first and second rail parts, wherein the alignment piece is pressed into the open end of the first and/or the second rail part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventors: Erich Butler, Romeo Lo Jacono, Alessandro D'Apice, Serge Strebel, Peter Mori
  • Publication number: 20250051138
    Abstract: A method for assembling a hollow rail for guiding an elevator car and/or a counterweight of an elevator installation includes: arranging a first and second hollow rail parts at different heights in an elevator shaft; aligning the first rail part relative to the second rail part by an alignment piece so that the first and second rail parts extend along a common longitudinal axis, wherein the alignment piece protrudes partially into an open end of the first rail part and partially into an open end of the second rail part; fastening one clamping element to each of the first and second rail parts; and applying a force to the clamping elements in opposite directions parallel to the common longitudinal axis to bring together the first and second rail parts, wherein the alignment piece is pressed into the open end of the first and/or the second rail part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Erich Butler, Romeo Lo Jacono, Alessandro D'Apice, Serge Strebel, Peter Mori
  • Patent number: 12180039
    Abstract: A sliding guide shoe for guiding a counterweight includes a single-piece guide element made of a plastic material. The guide element has an engagement element that extends in the longitudinal direction and can be brought into interlocking engagement in a cutout formed in a yoke of a counterweight frame. The guide element further includes a collar engaging around the cutout and forming a stop for positionally securing the guide element, the collar adjoining the engagement element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventors: Romeo Lo Jacono, Alessandro D'Apice
  • Patent number: 12162727
    Abstract: A safety brake for a traveling body in an elevator system brakes against a brake rail oriented in a traveling direction. The safety brake includes a housing with a catch element and a brake pad attached to the housing opposite one another. The catch element is mounted on the housing such that an application movement of the catch element relative to the housing is possible, and the application movement reduces an opening width between the brake pad and the catch element. At least the catch element or the brake pad has a notch for fitting around a protrusion of a brake rail during braking. The opening width corresponds to at least twice the depth of the notch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventors: Erich Butler, Alessandro D'Apice, Romeo Lo Jacono
  • Patent number: 12122643
    Abstract: A positioning aid positions a nut on a guide rail of an elevator system, the guide rail being formed as a hollow rail, the hollow rail having a plurality of elongated holes arranged one behind the other in the longitudinal direction of the hollow rail in order to be fastened to a guide rail holder. The positioning aid includes an elongate fastening portion to which at least one nut is fastened and which is dimensioned such that it can be passed through one of the elongated holes together with the at least one nut and moved within the hollow rail. The positioning aid also includes a holding portion for holding the fastening portion, the holding portion being fastened to one end of the fastening portion and being configured to be wider than the elongated hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventors: Alessandro D'Apice, Romeo Lo Jacono, Peter Möri, Andreas Urben
  • Publication number: 20240286871
    Abstract: A landing door of an elevator system includes a door leaf that is equipped with an integrated operating and/or display panel. In the event of a fire, a printed circuit board of the operating and/or display panel is removed from the door leaf by activation of an ejection device comprising intumescent material and being positioned in the door leaf.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventors: Christoph Liebetrau, Alessandro D'Apice
  • Publication number: 20240286872
    Abstract: An elevator has an elevator car that is guided on two mutually opposite guide rails in an elevator shaft. The guide rails each contain a U-shaped guide channel with a frontal guide surface and two lateral guide surfaces. Roller guide shoes are provided for guiding the elevator car. Each of the roller guide shoes has two rollers mounted on a common axle so as to rotate freely about an axis of rotation for guiding along the frontal guide surface of the U-shaped guide channel and a guide roller received between the two lateral guide surfaces of the U-shaped guide channel for lateral guidance. Covers are arranged upstream of the two rollers for covering the respective rollers, wherein the covers form an emergency guide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventors: Romeo Lo Jacono, Volker Zapf, Alessandro D'Apice
  • Publication number: 20240253947
    Abstract: A drive system for an elevator installation includes a drive and a drive suspension for fastening the drive to a support element of the elevator installation. The drive suspension has a rotary joint for tiltably mounting the drive on the support element and an adjustment device for setting a tilt of the drive about the rotary joint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Romeo Lo Jacono, Alessandro D’Apice
  • Publication number: 20240101886
    Abstract: Method for inhibiting the swelling and/or the dispersion of shales during the treatment of subterranean shale formations comprising the steps of: a) providing a subterranean treatment fluid comprising from 0.001 to 10% by weight of a polyester obtained by reacting a dicarboxylic acid having from 2 to 8 carbon atoms with a specific alkoxylated diamine; b) introducing said treatment fluid into a wellbore at a pressure sufficient to treat the subterranean shale formations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: LAMBERTI SPA
    Inventors: Laura VIGANÒ, Lorenzo GIARDINI, Letizia PRIVITERA, Luigi MERLI, Daniele CROSTA, Pierangelo PIROVANO, Alessandro D'ALOIA, Cristina PICCO
  • Publication number: 20240034596
    Abstract: An elevator system has an installation bracket fixed in an aligned manner in a region of a door-side shaft wall of an elevator shaft, wherein guide rails for guiding an elevator car arranged in the elevator shaft are fixed on the installation bracket. The installation bracket is fixed exclusively by at least one floor fixing section, wherein the at least one floor fixing section is fixed on a horizontal surface of the floor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Alessandro D'Apice, Romeo Lo Jacono
  • Publication number: 20240034597
    Abstract: A sliding guide shoe for guiding a counterweight includes a single-piece guide element made of a plastic material. The guide element has an engagement element that extends in the longitudinal direction and can be brought into interlocking engagement in a cutout formed in a yoke of a counterweight frame. The guide element further includes a collar engaging around the cutout and forming a stop for positionally securing the guide element, the collar adjoining the engagement element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Romeo Lo Jacono, Alessandro D'Apice
  • Patent number: 11884510
    Abstract: A drive system for an elevator installation includes a drive and a drive suspension for fastening the drive to a support element of the elevator installation. The drive suspension includes a rotary joint for tiltably mounting the drive on the support element and an adjustment device for setting a tilt of the drive about the rotary joint. The support element can be a guide rail wherein the drive system is arranged in an upper end region of the elevator installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventors: Alessandro D Apice, Luciano Guarnuto, Romeo Lo Jacono, Urs Polin, Dominik Schmitt, Eric Wang
  • Publication number: 20230356978
    Abstract: A safety brake for a traveling body in an elevator system brakes against a brake rail oriented in a traveling direction. The safety brake includes a housing with a catch element and a brake pad attached to the housing opposite one another. The catch element is mounted on the housing such that an application movement of the catch element relative to the housing is possible, and the application movement reduces an opening width between the brake pad and the catch element. At least the catch element or the brake pad has a notch for fitting around a protrusion of a brake rail during braking. The opening width corresponds to at least twice the depth of the notch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Erich Butler, Alessandro D'Apice, Romeo Lo Jacono
  • Patent number: 11638313
    Abstract: A method and system for automatically coupling Bluetooth devices is disclosed. In some embodiments, the method includes identifying a plurality of Bluetooth devices within a predefined discoverable range of a computing device; identifying one or more current applications running on the computing device; determining a plurality of connection parameters associated with the computing device; assigning a confidence score to each of the plurality of Bluetooth devices based on a rule engine; iteratively generating a priority list by arranging the plurality of Bluetooth devices in an order of connection preference based on assigned confidence scores; coupling at least one Bluetooth device from the plurality of Bluetooth devices with the computing device based on the priority list generated iteratively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: HCL Technologies Italy S.p.A.
    Inventors: Maria Teresa Caira, Filippo Sorino, Pasquale Peluso, Alessandro D'Angeli, Valentina Fusco, Giuseppe Longobardi
  • Publication number: 20230113785
    Abstract: A positioning aid positions a nut on a guide rail of an elevator system, the guide rail being formed as a hollow rail, the hollow rail having a plurality of elongated holes arranged one behind the other in the longitudinal direction of the hollow rail in order to be fastened to a guide rail holder. The positioning aid includes an elongate fastening portion to which at least one nut is fastened and which is dimensioned such that it can be passed through one of the elongated holes together with the at least one nut and moved within the hollow rail. The positioning aid also includes a holding portion for holding the fastening portion, the holding portion being fastened to one end of the fastening portion and being configured to be wider than the elongated hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: ALESSANDRO D'APICE, ROMEO LO JACONO, PETER MÖRI, ANDREAS URBEN
  • Publication number: 20230030658
    Abstract: A ready-to-use emulsified food formulation containing a vegetable in a finely divided form, vegetable oil, water, and an oleaginous seed in a finely divided form and, present in an amount of between 0.1% and 15% by weight, is disclosed. The emulsified food formulation is free of thickeners, emulsifiers and stabilizers and is obtained by homogenization carried out at a pressure greater than or equal to 10000 kPa. The emulsified food formulation is characterized by having a modal diameter of the particles contained therein of greater than or equal to 300 ?m and by containing a vegetable fiber in a finely divided form having a fiber content of greater than (70)% w/w and a water binding capacity of greater than 5 g water/g dry matter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: BARILLA G. E R. FRATELLI S.P.A.
    Inventors: Fabrizio CASSOTTA, Vincenzo DE TATA, Alessandro D'ALESSANDRO