Patents by Inventor Herbert WIND

Herbert WIND 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: 11466806
    Abstract: The invention relates to: a device for curing resin-soaked lining sleeves with energy-rich radiation, comprising at least one radiation source for generating energy-rich radiation for curing a lining sleeve, at least one camera for capturing an image sequence of an environment of the device, and at least one input device, in particular provided separately from the device, wherein a capturing region and/or a display region of the camera is/can be adjusted by a user by means of the input device, and wherein an adjustment of the capturing region of the camera occurs via a movement of at least one part of the camera and/or occurs by means of an electronic image-processing device, which is designed and configured to adjust at least one camera parameter in accordance with an adjusted display region; and a use for a device of this type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: SML VERWALTUNGS GMBH
    Inventors: Herbert Wind, Christian Noll
  • Patent number: 11117309
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for hardening resin-impregnated lining tubes with high-energy radiation, comprising at least one radiation source for producing high-energy radiation and at least one power control device for regulating the electrical power output at the at least one radiation source, at least one nominal parameter representing the desired electrical power output of the power control device being adjustable or adjusted, and the actual power received from the at least one radiation source being measured by means of a measuring device and permanently compared with the nominal parameter, wherein in the event of falling short of the nominal parameter, the power control device increases the power output, and in the event of the nominal parameter being exceeded, the power output is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: SML VERWALTUNGS GMBH
    Inventor: Herbert Wind
  • Patent number: 10989349
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for curing resin-impregnated lining tubes using high-energy radiation, comprising at least two radiation sources for generating high-energy radiation, wherein the device has a front end, a rear end, two oppositely situated side ends, a top end, and a bottom end, wherein a length of the device from the front end to the rear end is smaller in a transport state than in an operating state. At least one element of the device is foldably, displaceably, rotatably, and/or movably supported, and at least one first radiation source is situated farther from at least one additional radiation source in the operating state than in the transport state. The device includes a fastening point on which a tensile force can act, in particular in the longitudinal direction of the device in order to transfer the device from the transport state into the operating state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: SML VERWALTUNGS GMBH
    Inventors: Herbert Wind, Christian Noll
  • Patent number: 10761324
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for uncovering a branch of a pipe system that is renovated with a lining tube, comprising the following steps, in particular in this sequence: a) providing an uncovering device in the renovated pipe and arranging the uncovering device in front of the branch to be uncovered; b) virtually representing for a user the branch that is concealed by the lining tube; and c) uncovering the branch by the user by means of the uncovering device, based on the virtual representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: PIPETRONICS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Christian Noll, Herbert Wind
  • Patent number: 10730230
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for rehabilitating lines, in particular sewers, shafts or the like, a curing device being activated or having been activated for curing the curable and/or curing ply, and an advancement of the curing device in the lining sleeve and in particular the power output of the curing device being controlled in an open-loop or closed-loop manner in dependence on the temperature sensed by the temperature measuring device on the outer side of the curable ply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: SML Verwaltungs GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert Wind, Christian Noll, Stefan Reichel
  • Publication number: 20200240569
    Abstract: The invention relates to: a device for curing resin-soaked lining sleeves with energy-rich radiation, comprising at least one radiation source for generating energy-rich radiation for curing a lining sleeve, at least one camera for capturing an image sequence of an environment of the device, and at least one input device, in particular provided separately from the device, wherein a capturing region and/or a display region of the camera is/can be adjusted by a user by means of the input device, and wherein an adjustment of the capturing region of the camera occurs via a movement of at least one part of the camera and/or occurs by means of an electronic image-processing device, which is designed and configured to adjust at least one camera parameter in accordance with an adjusted display region; and a use for a device of this type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Herbert Wind, Christian Noll
  • Publication number: 20200016818
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for hardening resin-impregnated lining tubes with high-energy radiation, comprising at least one radiation source for producing high-energy radiation and at least one power control device for regulating the electrical power output at the at least one radiation source, at least one nominal parameter representing the desired electrical power output of the power control device being adjustable or adjusted, and the actual power received from the at least one radiation source being measured by means of a measuring device and permanently compared with the nominal parameter, wherein in the event of falling short of the nominal parameter, the power control device increases the power output, and in the event of the nominal parameter being exceeded, the power output is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventor: Herbert WIND
  • Publication number: 20190118459
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for rehabilitating lines, in particular sewers, shafts or the like, a curing device being activated or having been activated for curing the curable and/or curing ply, and an advancement of the curing device in the lining sleeve and in particular the power output of the curing device being controlled in an open-loop or closed-loop manner in dependence on the temperature sensed by the temperature measuring device on the outer side of the curable ply.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Herbert WIND, Christian NOLL, Stefan REICHEL
  • Publication number: 20190118460
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for curing a lining sleeve comprising a curing device with a radiation source, a lining sleeve with a curable ply and an outer film arranged around the curable ply, a measuring device, which is arranged between the curable ply and the outer film and/or on or at a distance outwardly from the outer side of the curable ply, the measuring device being designed and set up to sense a measured value representative of the curing of the curable ply, and also an open-loop or closed-loop control device, which is designed and set up to control the advancement of the curing device in the lining sleeve and/or the power output of the radiation source of the curing device in an open-loop or closed-loop manner in dependence on the measured values sensed by the measuring device on the outer side of the curable ply.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Herbert WIND, Christian NOLL, Stefan REICHEL
  • Publication number: 20190120416
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a lining tube for renovating fluid-conducting pipe systems, wherein the lining tube comprises at least one thermally and/or radiation curable layer and at least one machine-readable data tag, wherein the at least one data tag comprises at least one individual technical specification for the lining tube, which can be processed by a data processing device in order to provide parameters for a curing apparatus, in particular for controlling or regulating a curing process of the lining tube and/or a pulling device, in particular for controlling or regulating pulling in the lining tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Herbert Wind, Christian Noll
  • Publication number: 20190107715
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for uncovering a branch of a pipe system that is renovated with a lining tube, comprising the following steps, in particular in this sequence: a) providing an uncovering device in the renovated pipe and arranging the uncovering device in front of the branch to be uncovered; b) virtually representing for a user the branch that is concealed by the lining tube; and c) uncovering the branch by the user by means of the uncovering device, based on the virtual representation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Christian Noll, Herbert Wind
  • Publication number: 20190102955
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for automatically uncovering a branch of a pipe system that is renovated with a lining tube, comprising the following steps, in particular in this sequence: a) providing an uncovering device, including a data processing unit, in the renovated pipe and arranging the uncovering device in front of the branch to be uncovered; b) inputting by means of an input unit a geometric shape to be uncovered; c) uncovering the branch by means of automatic milling, controlled by the data processing unit, of sections of the lining tube along the input geometric shape, using an uncovering unit of the uncovering device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventors: Herbert Wind, Christian Noll
  • Publication number: 20190101238
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for curing resin-impregnated lining tubes using high-energy radiation, comprising at least two radiation sources for generating high-energy radiation, wherein the device has a front end, a rear end, two oppositely situated side ends, a top end, and a bottom end, wherein a length of the device from the front end to the rear end is smaller in a transport state than in an operating state. At least one element of the device is foldably, displaceably, rotatably, and/or movably supported, and at least one first radiation source is situated farther from at least one additional radiation source in the operating state than in the transport state. The device includes a fastening point on which a tensile force can act, in particular in the longitudinal direction of the device in order to transfer the device from the transport state into the operating state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Applicant: SML Verwaltungs GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert Wind, Christian Noll
  • Patent number: 10203062
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a closing mechanism for closing one opening end of a lining tube, comprising at least two separate or separable ring segment shaped elements which are or can be connected to one another by means of at least one connection element and which jointly form or can form a hollow cylinder, wherein the hollow cylinder, in particular in sections, can be or is closed with at least one closing element, an application of a device according to the present invention, an arrangement of a mechanism according to the present invention and a lining tube as well as a method for closing one opening of a lining tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: SML VERWALTUNGS GMBH
    Inventor: Herbert Wind
  • Publication number: 20190016021
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for curing resin-impregnated tubular liners by means of high-energy radiation, comprising at least two radiation sources for producing high-energy radiation, wherein the apparatus has a front end, a rear end opposite the front end, two opposite side ends, an upper end and a lower end opposite the upper end, wherein a length of the apparatus, measured from the front end to the rear end, a width of the apparatus, measured from a side end to the opposite side end, and/or a height of the apparatus, measured from the lower into the upper end, is smaller in a transport state than in an operating state, in that at least one element of the apparatus is mounted such that the element can be folded out, displaced, rotated, and/or moved, and wherein at least one further radiation source is arranged to be spaced further apart from at least one further radiation source when in the operating state than in the transport state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2016
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: Christian NOLL, Herbert WIND
  • Publication number: 20170059077
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a closing mechanism for closing one opening end of a lining tube, comprising at least two separate or separable ring segment shaped elements which are or can be connected to one another by means of at least one connection element and which jointly form or can form a hollow cylinder, wherein the hollow cylinder, in particular in sections, can be or is closed with at least one closing element, an application of a device according to the present invention, an arrangement of a mechanism according to the present invention and a lining tube as well as a method for closing one opening of a lining tube
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventor: Herbert WIND