Patents by Inventor Helmut Bruns

Helmut Bruns 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: 12604793
    Abstract: The invention relates to a distributor for granular material, having a distributor head, which is designed to divide up an air-material main flow supplied through a main conveying line to the distributor head into a plurality of air-material individual flows, and at least one return device, which comprises a movable deflecting element, which is designed, in a delivery position, to supply an air-material individual flow flowing into an inflow region of the return device to a delivery region, connected to a delivery line, of the return device and, in a shut-off position, to direct an air-material individual flow flowing into the inflow region of the return device via a return line of the return device to a return region, connected to the main conveying line, of the return device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2026
    Assignee: Amazonen-Werke H. Dreyer SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ingo Asche, Jan Flucke, Thomas Wien, Helmut Bruns
  • Publication number: 20230109764
    Abstract: The invention relates to a distributor (10) for granular material, having a distributor head (14), which is designed to divide up an air-material main flow supplied through a main conveying line (12) to the distributor head (14) into a plurality of air-material individual flows, and at least one return device (16), which comprises a movable deflecting element (36), which is designed, in a delivery position, to supply an air-material individual flow flowing into an inflow region (26) of the return device (16) to a delivery region (28), connected to a delivery line (18), of the return device (16) and, in a shut-off position, to direct an air-material individual flow flowing into the inflow region (26) of the return device (16) via a return line (30) of the return device (16) to a return region (32), connected to the main conveying line (12), of the return device (16).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Ingo ASCHE, Jan FLUCKE, Thomas WIEN, Helmut BRUNS
  • Patent number: 4705546
    Abstract: Fuel collecting Ti container for use in conjuntion with a surface tension fuel tank of a space vehicle is constructed as a flat cylindrical-tubular element having an open end with a chamfered edge; a Ti clamping ring is mounted to the open end of the container and has a matingly chamfered internal shoulder; the clamping ring is electron beam welded to the container in an area defining a gap between an axial end of the clamping ring and an outer shoulder portion of the container tube; and a sieve covering the open end of the container is clamped in between the chamfered shoulder and the chamfered edge; the chamfers are about 20 degrees and shoulder and edge end in rounded beads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1987
    Assignee: Erno Raunfahrttechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Bruns, Artur Freiheit, Arnold Kolley