Patents by Inventor Hanno Kass

Hanno Kass 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: 7244381
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for blow forming a container (1) from a parison (2) made of plastic. After heating, said container is preformed by a gas injected into the container (1, 2) at a low pressure of 5 bar and by expanding the inner volume of said container. The final shape of the container can then be achieved by igniting an inflammable gas injected into the container, whereby the combustion generates a higher blowing pressure, or by injecting an additional gas with a higher blowing pressure of approximately 40 bar into the container after pre-blowing. The invention aims at improving known blow forming methods in such a way that a barrier layer impervious to gases, aromatic substances or the like is produced on the inner side of the container without having to use big machines. To this end, a precursor gas is added to and mixed with the inflammable gas, the mixture is then ignited and a coating is formed on the inner surface of the container by the combustion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.
    Inventors: Dominique Chatard, Heinrich Grunwald, Wilhelm Lothar, Hanno Käss
  • Publication number: 20060110483
    Abstract: Apparatus for producing plastic containers by stretch blowing including a rotatable rotor and at least one distributor block connected to the rotor. The distributor block has a mixing chamber that can be directly connected to an internal space of a preform so that a combustion chamber is formed from the mixing chamber and the internal space of the preform. A feed device is provided for feeding an explosive fluid into the combustion chamber and a firing device is provided for firing the explosive fluid in the combustion chamber. Of importance is that the distributor block can be connected directly to a preform or to a formed container. The apparatus is desirably a round rotor machine with a rotatable carousel for receiving a plurality of distributor blocks having a mixing chamber that can be directly connected to an internal space of a preform. The distributor blocks are desirably arranged in such a way that they can be rotated together with the carousel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2003
    Publication date: May 25, 2006
    Inventors: Volker Damerow, Heinrich Gruenwald, Jens Fuchs, Hanno Kass, Lothar Wilhelm, Hans Kindinger, Eberhard Sendobry, Rudiger Wlach
  • Publication number: 20040089967
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for blow forming a container (1) from a parison (2) made of plastic. After heating, said container is preformed by a gas injected into the container (1, 2) at a low pressure of 5 bar and by expanding the inner volume of said container. The final shape of the container can then be achieved by igniting an inflammable gas injected into the container, whereby the combustion generates a higher blowing pressure, or by injecting an additional gas with a higher blowing pressure of approximately 40 bar into the container after pre-blowing. The invention aims at improving known blow forming methods in such a way that a barrier layer impervious to gases, aromatic substances or the like is produced on the inner side of the container without having to use big machines. To this end, a precursor gas is added to and mixed with the inflammable gas, the mixture is then ignited and a coating is formed on the inner surface of the container by the combustion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2003
    Publication date: May 13, 2004
    Inventors: Dominique Chatard, Heinrich Grunwald, Wilhelm Lothar, Hanno Kass
  • Publication number: 20030051666
    Abstract: A device for coupling microwave energy into a treatment chamber (3) which is arranged in a hollow body (2), whereby said treatment chamber is a plasma CVD coating chamber for coating the inner wall of a hollow body (2). The inventive device comprises a microwave source, a microwave coupling device (10) and a microwave conductor (1,9). A gas supply tube (13) can be inserted into said hollow body (2) in such a way that a process gas can be activated into a plasma state by the coupled microwave energy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2002
    Publication date: March 20, 2003
    Inventors: Rodney Moore, Hanno Kass, Wolf Essers