Patents by Inventor Helmut Gerber

Helmut Gerber 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: 6467819
    Abstract: A method is provided for rotationally attaching a connection fitting with an opposing surface by screwing the fitting into the opposing surface by threads on an outer surface of the fitting body. The connection fitting is formed by at least one seal manufactured together with the fitting body in an injection molding process to form a multi-component plastic part in which the fitting body is made of a hard plastic component and the seal is made of a soft plastic component, wherein the components are of a kind which do not adhere to one another. The seal is secured in an axial direction on the fitting body in a form-fit manner, but during the rotational attachment step the seal is rotatable relative to the fitting body in a peripheral direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2002
    Assignee: Anton Hummel Verwaltungs GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Seifert, Rolf Steiner, Helmut Gerber, Jürgen Adolf
  • Publication number: 20020053800
    Abstract: A connection fitting (1), for example a blind plug, valve body, pipe connection piece or the like, with a fitting body (2, 8) and a seal (4) has the form of a multi-component plastic part, in which the two plastic components are plastics that are incompatible with each other, so that the seal (4) can rotate relative to the fitting body (2), in particular when the seal contacts an uneven or fissured opposing surface by which it could be damaged if it continued to be turned when tightening or screwing in the connection fitting (1) relative to this opposing surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2000
    Publication date: May 9, 2002
    Inventors: Rainer Seifert, Rolf Steiner, Helmut Gerber, Jurgen Adolf
  • Patent number: 6013307
    Abstract: In order to prevent or at least render difficult the copying of colored printed security papers, for example banknotes, the printing inks used for printing are so formulated that copies made using customary color copiers produce a markedly different color impression and can therefore easily be identified as being forgeries. This is achieved by using for the formulation of the printing inks dyes (pigments) that are as different as possible from the dyes (toners) customarily used in conventional color copiers. The choice of the dyes for the formulation of the printing inks is especially such that there is the greatest possible degree of metamerism between the printing ink in question and the match of the relevant master color using the dyes of the color copier. Preferably non-amorphous or anisotropic black dyes and effect dyes, especially fluorescent effect dyes, are co-used for the formulation of the printing inks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2000
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Hanspeter Hauser, Werner Helmut Gerber, Abul Iqbal, Pierre Maurer