Patents by Inventor Ernesto Schümperli

Ernesto Schümperli 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: 6605168
    Abstract: A method for fastening a flat strip lamella (10) to the surface of a building component (12). According to the inventive method, the face (14) of the flat strip lamella (10) is pressed against the surface of the building using an adhesive coating (16) consisting of a reaction resin applied in a paste-like consistency (16) and hardened to form an adhesive joint. The flat strip lamella (10) comprises a plurality of carbon fibers which are embedded in a binder matrix (28) and placed parallel to each other in a longitudinal direction. In order to increase the speed at which the adhesive coating hardens, the invention provides that an electrical current flows through least one part of the carbon fibers (26), heating the flat strip lamella (10) which in turn heats the adhesive coating (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2003
    Assignee: Sika Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Alexander Bleibler, Ernesto Schümperli, Werner Steiner
  • Patent number: 6511727
    Abstract: Flat strip lamella for reinforcing weight-carrying or weight-transferring building components. It has a composite structure consisting of a plurality of pliant or loose-flex supporting fibers (26) aligned parallel to each other, and a binding matrix (28) which connects the supporting fibers to each other so that they are shear-resistant, and is fastenable by means of an adhesive (16) by its broad side to the surface of the building component (12) that is to be reinforced. So that the flat strip lamella, to which the binding matrix gives rigid elastic form, can also be bent over corner edges of a building component (12), the invention proposes that the binding matrix (28) be removed, in at least an intermediary area (30), by uncovering the supporting fibers (26), and that the uncovered supporting fibers be subjected to a liquid or pasty thermosetting plastic, in order to stabilize the bent-over condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2003
    Assignee: Sika AG, vormals Kaspar Winkler & Co.
    Inventors: Alexander Bleibler, Ernesto Schümperli, Werner Steiner