Patents by Inventor Claudia Weigel

Claudia Weigel 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).

  • Exhaust gas treatment component
    Patent number: 7918914
    Abstract: In an exhaust gas treatment component with a ceramic body for the purification of exhaust gases and a method for making such a component, the ceramic body is disposed in a sheet metal housing consisting of a housing base from which housing sections extend which are hinged to the housing base by webs and which form together a tubular slotted housing part surrounding the ceramic body, the housing sections being tiltable outwardly about the webs for facilitating insertion of the ceramic body into the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: MTU Friedrichshafen, GmbH
    Inventors: Hans Sudmanns, Claudia Weigel, Guido Schaffner, Dirk Bergmann
  • Exhaust gas treatment component
    Publication number: 20090178379
    Abstract: In an exhaust gas treatment component with a ceramic body for the purification of exhaust gases and a method for making such a component, the ceramic body is disposed in a sheet metal housing consisting of a housing base from which housing sections extend which are hinged to the housing base by webs and which form together a tubular slotted housing part surrounding the ceramic body, the housing sections being tiltable outwardly about the webs for facilitating insertion of the ceramic body into the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Inventors: Hans Sudmanns, Claudia Weigel, Guido Schaffner, Dirk Bergmann