Patents by Inventor Domin Diels

Domin Diels 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: 11454337
    Abstract: The invention relates to a profile made from a polymer material comprising a linear low-density polyethylene and a very low-density polyethylene having a specific range of flexural modulus, and to a flexible hose made from said profile. It is part of the invention that the profile wall thickness of the flexible hose is reduced while a sufficient and efficacious value for the flex life is maintained and while a sufficiently high memory is maintained, when compared to the common wall thickness of current hoses, such that the hose of the invention has a reduced weight while the durability and fatigue resistance of the hose is maintained at a sufficiently high value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Plastiflex Group
    Inventor: Domin Diels
  • Publication number: 20210054951
    Abstract: The invention relates to a profile made from a polymer material comprising a linear low-density polyethylene and a very low-density polyethylene having a specific range of flexural modulus, and to a flexible hose made from said profile. It is part of the invention that the profile wall thickness of the flexible hose is reduced while a sufficient and efficacious value for the flex life is maintained and while a sufficiently high memory is maintained, when compared to the common wall thickness of current hoses, such that the hose of the invention has a reduced weight while the durability and fatigue resistance of the hose is maintained at a sufficiently high value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: Plastiflex Group
    Inventor: Domin Diels
  • Patent number: 9230712
    Abstract: Flexible plastic hose comprising a flexible wall made out of a plurality of laterally connected windings of a helically wound profile, wherein the windings of the profile are attached to each other by means of a weld, wherein the profile comprises a web part with predetermined properties for providing flexibility to the hose, and wherein the profile ends on both sides in an upright part. The weld is located between the upright part of the adjacent windings and together with these upright parts forms a helical reinforcement rib on the flexible wall of the hose with predetermined properties for providing hub strength to the hose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: PLASTIFLEX GROUP
    Inventors: Domin Diels, Marnix Kerkhofs
  • Patent number: 8915266
    Abstract: A flexible stretch hose with a wall which comprises a spirally wound profile (1; 11; 21) in a plastic material. Consecutive windings of the profile are secured to each other by means of a weld. The profile comprises, in cross-section, at least one bottom section (2; 12) and at least one rib section (4; 14; 24), wherein the rib section of the profile, relative to the bottom section, also forms a protrusion of the wall of the hose which gives the hose a predetermined hub strength. The profile comprises an unfoldable section (5; 15; 25) provided in order to be unfolded under the influence of a tensile; force in the axial direction of the hose, thereby allowing an extension of the hose, wherein the unfoldable section comprises at least two profile sections lying loosely against each other, which sections are interconnected at one end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Plastiflex Group
    Inventor: Domin Diels
  • Patent number: 8820364
    Abstract: Flexible hose a corrugated wall of which an outer surface comprises a multitude of consecutive protrusions (1) and grooves (2) and of which an inner surface comprises a multitude of internal protrusions (4) and grooves (3), a multitude of barriers for closing off each of the multitude of internal and/or external grooves (2), each of the multitude of barriers comprising a first closing leg (10, 12) of a first profile part and a second closing leg (11, 13) of a second profile part, the second closing leg being directed to the first closing leg, the first and second closing legs having a complementary shape provided to form a substantially smooth inner and/or outer surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Plastiflex Group
    Inventor: Domin Diels
  • Publication number: 20140076605
    Abstract: Flexible plastic hose comprising a flexible wall made out of a plurality of laterally connected windings of a helically wound profile, wherein the windings of the profile are attached to each other by means of a weld, wherein the profile comprises a web part with predetermined properties for providing flexibility to the hose, and wherein the profile ends on both sides in an upright part. The weld is located between the upright part of the adjacent windings and together with these upright parts forms a helical reinforcement rib on the flexible wall of the hose with predetermined properties for providing hub strength to the hose.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: PLASTIFLEX GROUP
    Inventors: Domin Diels, Marnix Kerkhofs
  • Publication number: 20130068334
    Abstract: A flexible stretch hose with a wall which comprises a spirally wound profile (1; 11; 21) in a plastic material. Consecutive windings of the profile are secured to each other by means of a weld. The profile comprises, in cross-section, at least one bottom section (2; 12) and at least one rib section (4; 14; 24), wherein the rib section of the profile, relative to the bottom section, also forms a protrusion of the wall of the hose which gives the hose a predetermined hub strength. The profile comprises an unfoldable section (5; 15; 25) provided in order to be unfolded under the influence of a tensile; force in the axial direction of the hose, thereby allowing an extension of the hose, wherein the unfoldable section comprises at least two profile sections lying loosely against each other, which sections are interconnected at one end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: PLASTIFLEX GROUP
    Inventor: Domin Diels
  • Publication number: 20120018023
    Abstract: Flexible hose comprising a corrugated wall of which an outer surface comprises a multitude of consecutive protrusions (1) and grooves (2) and of which an inner surface comprises a multitude of internal protrusions (4) and grooves (3), comprising a multitude of barriers for closing off each of the multitude of internal and/or external grooves (2), each of the multitude of barriers comprising a first closing leg (10, 12) of a first profile part and a second closing leg (11, 13) of a second profile part, the second closing leg being directed to the first closing leg, the first and second closing legs having a complementary shape provided to form a substantially smooth inner and/or outer surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2010
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: PLASTIFLEX GROUP
    Inventor: Domin Diels
  • Publication number: 20110056581
    Abstract: The invention relates to a construction industry pipe for use in the construction industry, such as for example a drain pipe or a central vacuum cleaner pipe or the like, comprising a tubular body having a substantially non-collapsible outer wall comprising rigid sections alternating with corrugated flexible sections. The invention further relates to a method for manufacturing such a pipe, which involves the technique of blow/vacuum moulding, and a method for installing a conduit system comprising such a pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2008
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Applicant: PLASTIFLEX BELGIUM
    Inventors: Domin Diels, Johny Van Den Bulcke
  • Patent number: 6394143
    Abstract: A flexible hose (1) with a corrugated wall (2), comprising an internal surface (3) with projections (4, 5) and recesses (6, 7), said hose (1) being obtained by moulding a plastic material, wherein each internal projection (4, 5) comprises a substantially flat and smooth top face (8, 9). Each top face (8, 9) has a first width (W1) and each internal recess has a second width (W2). The ratio between first width and second width (W1/W2) is preferably larger than or equal to 2.2. The hose may comprise a hollow longitudinal protuberance or score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Assignee: Plastiflex Belgium
    Inventors: Domin Diels, Eric Dillen