Patents by Inventor Joachim Fiedrich

Joachim Fiedrich 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).

  • Publication number: 20150047807
    Abstract: A system for installing tubing of hydronic thermal control systems in the walls, including ceilings, of buildings allows for the stable incorporation of the tubing in the walls while ensuring good thermal conductivity between the tubing and the building's room. The system features a wall including a hydronic thermal management system. The wall comprises a vertically-extending wall support structure, tubing panels secured to the wall support structure, the panels being constructed from wood material, tubing in the tubing panels for carrying a heat transfer fluid, and drywall panels secured over the tubing panels. A filling material is applied between the tubing and the drywall panels. Also a high thermally conductive layer, such as aluminum foil, is used between the filling material and the drywall panels or between the filling material and the tubing panels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Inventor: Joachim Fiedrich
  • Patent number: 8898997
    Abstract: A system for installing tubing of hydronic thermal control systems in the walls, including ceilings, of buildings. It allows for the stable incorporation of the tubing in the walls while ensuring good thermal conductivity between the tubing and the building's room. The system features a wall including a hydronic thermal management system. The wall comprises a vertically-extending wall support structure, tubing panels secured to the wall support structure, the panels being constructed from wood material, tubing in the tubing panels for carrying a heat transfer fluid, and drywall panels secured over the tubing panels. A filling material is applied between the tubing and the drywall panels. Also a high thermally conductive layer, such as aluminum foil, is used between the filling material and the drywall panels or between the filling material and the tubing panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Inventor: Joachim Fiedrich
  • Patent number: 8650832
    Abstract: A system for installing tubing of hydronic thermal control systems in the walls of buildings. It allows for the stable incorporation of the tubing in the walls while ensuring good thermal conductivity between the tubing and the building's room. The system features a wall including a hydronic thermal management system. The wall comprises a vertically-extending wall support structure, tubing panels secured to the wall support structure, the panels being constructed from wood material, tubing in the tubing panels for carrying a heat transfer fluid, and drywall panels secured over the tubing panels. A filling material is applied between the tubing and the drywall panels. Also a high thermally conductive layer, such as aluminum foil, is used between the filling material and the drywall panels or between the filling material and the tubing panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Inventor: Joachim Fiedrich
  • Publication number: 20130255912
    Abstract: A system for installing tubing of hydronic thermal control systems in the walls, including ceilings, of buildings. It allows for the stable incorporation of the tubing in the walls while ensuring good thermal conductivity between the tubing and the building's room. The system features a wall including a hydronic thermal management system. The wall comprises a vertically-extending wall support structure, tubing panels secured to the wall support structure, the panels being constructed from wood material, tubing in the tubing panels for carrying a heat transfer fluid, and drywall panels secured over the tubing panels. A filling material is applied between the tubing and the drywall panels. Also a high thermally conductive layer, such as aluminum foil, is used between the filling material and the drywall panels or between the filling material and the tubing panels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2012
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Inventor: Joachim Fiedrich
  • Patent number: 8028742
    Abstract: Modular panels for radiant thermal conditioning systems have special purpose bus tracks for routing tubing. Specifically, these tracks enable the routing of tubing, and specifically tubing from multiple circuits, in-plane, in the floor, ceiling, or walls. Specifically, multiple laterally extending tracks are provided for handling multiple circuits. A modular panel enables the interconnection between tubing held in bus tracks and the arcuate return tracks that are used for the tubing direction changes that are needed for creating serpentine paths of the tubing loops.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Inventor: Joachim Fiedrich
  • Publication number: 20110232883
    Abstract: A system for installing tubing of hydronic thermal control systems in the walls of buildings. It allows for the stable incorporation of the tubing in the walls while ensuring good thermal conductivity between the tubing and the building's room. The system features a wall including a hydronic thermal management system. The wall comprises a vertically-extending wall support structure, tubing panels secured to the wall support structure, the panels being constructed from wood material, tubing in the tubing panels for carrying a heat transfer fluid, and drywall panels secured over the tubing panels. A filling material is applied between the tubing and the drywall panels. Also a high thermally conductive layer, such as aluminum foil, is used between the filling material and the drywall panels or between the filling material and the tubing panels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2010
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Inventor: Joachim Fiedrich
  • Publication number: 20060144578
    Abstract: Modular panels for radiant thermal conditioning systems have special purpose bus tracks for routing tubing. Specifically, these tracks enable the routing of tubing, and specifically tubing from multiple circuits, in-plane, in the floor, ceiling, or walls. Specifically, multiple laterally extending tracks are provided for handling multiple circuits. A modular panel enables the interconnection between tubing held in bus tracks and the arcuate return tracks that are used for the tubing direction changes that are needed for creating serpentine paths of the tubing loops.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2006
    Publication date: July 6, 2006
    Inventor: Joachim Fiedrich
  • Publication number: 20040040693
    Abstract: In a hydronic heating system including a heating element that is a length of tubing that conducts water mounted in a wall, floor or ceiling of an area heated by the system against a radiating metal sheet, the method of providing the radiating metal sheet including the steps of: forming a unitary sheet of metal by bending and folding it longitudinally to provide a first protuberance of double thickness and bending and folding it longitudinally to provide a second protuberance of double thickness, the protuberances being evenly spaced apart providing a longitudinal metal slot for holding the tubing, the rest of the metal sheet providing radiation surfaces that extend away from the protuberances in a common plane, whereby the protuberances are substantially perpendicular to the common plane, and the metal slot accommodates the insertion therein of the tubing from one side of the sheet so that the tubing is held therein in intimate thermal contact with the sheet metal, whereby the sheet is heated by conduction of
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2002
    Publication date: March 4, 2004
    Inventor: Joachim Fiedrich
  • Publication number: 20040026525
    Abstract: A method of providing hydronic radiant heating and/or cooling to a room that is framed by wall studs and ceiling rafters, comprising the steps of: providing a sheet of gypsum or cement wallboard with a length of tubing embedded in said gypsum or cement material of said wallboard, attaching the sheet of gypsum or cement wallboard with length of tubing embedded therein to the wall studs or ceiling rafters of the room, abutting conventional wallboard of the same thickness and connecting a supply of warm or cool water to the tubing for feeding water through the tubing, so that heated water so fed through the tubing heats the gypsum or cement material in the wallboard, which heats the room, or cooled water so fed through the tubing cools the gypsum or cement material in the wallboard, which cools the room.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2003
    Publication date: February 12, 2004
    Inventor: Joachim Fiedrich
  • Patent number: 6330980
    Abstract: In a hydronic heating system including a heating element that is a length of tubing that conducts water and is against a radiating metal plate, all mounted in a floor, wall or ceiling, the element being held by two spaced apart providing an elongated space for holding the tubing adjacent the plate, the metal plate is in two separate pieces that are attached to an edges of the spaced apart boards and combine when they abut each other at installation to provide a metal groove into which the tubing is inserted and held snugly with a substantial part of the tubing in direct intimate thermal contact with the metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2001
    Inventor: Joachim Fiedrich
  • Patent number: 6299071
    Abstract: In a hydronic heating system having a boiler hot supply water line and boiler return water line, a main hot supply water circulation loop from the boiler supply water line to the boiler return water line and one or more satellite stations in series along the main loop, for a satellite station: a satellite injection water connection and a satellite return water connection along the main loop; a satellite distribution station including one or more satellite heating loops; a satellite supply header and satellite return header at opposite ends of the satellite heating loops; a satellite station pump having an input and an output for pumping satellite water from the satellite return header to the satellite supply header so that satellite water flows through the satellite heating loop(s); a satellite injection water line from the satellite injection connection to the satellite pump input; a satellite return water line from the satellite pump output to the satellite return connection along the main loop; and a therm
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2001
    Assignee: Stadler Viega, LLC
    Inventor: Joachim Fiedrich
  • Patent number: 6270016
    Abstract: In a hydronic radiant heating and/or cooling system modular panels each of a metal plate or sheet on a board or boards providing a slot into which tubing is inserted and held against the plate in intimate thermal contact therewith, so that the plate is heated/cooled by conduction of heat between the water in the tubing and the plate, the improvement in which two or more of said panels are hinged together, side by side or end to end to provide a hinged set of panels so that two or more of sets of hinged panels unfolded at their hinges and arranged side by side on a floor, wall or ceiling provide elongated spaces into which said tubing is inserted and held against said radiation plate a finished floor, wall or ceiling covering can be installed thereon and said system operated to heat or cool said room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2001
    Inventor: Joachim Fiedrich
  • Patent number: 6220523
    Abstract: In radiant floor, wall and/or ceiling hydronic heating and/or cooling systems using metal radiation plates that are heated or cooled by attached tubing that is fed hot or cold water, where the system includes a plurality of aligned modular heating and/or cooling panels attached to the floor, wall and ceiling, each panel containing a metal radiation plate and each holds a length of the same tubing, the tubing being inserted into an accommodation in the panel and held therein in intimate thermal contact with the plate, and the assembly of panels with tubing inserted is covered with a finished floor, wall or ceiling and then hot water for heating or cold water for cooling is fed to the tubing, a thermal barrier is provided between the panels and the finished floor, wall or ceiling to: diminish or eliminate “hot spots” in the surface of the finished flooring, wall covering and ceiling covering during heating and “cold spots” during cooling; avoid condensation during cooling; and improve pe
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Inventor: Joachim Fiedrich
  • Patent number: 6182903
    Abstract: In a hydronic radiant heating and/or cooling system modular panels each of a metal plate or sheet on a board or boards providing a slot into which tubing is inserted and held against the plate in intimate thermal contact therewith, so that the plate is heated/cooled by conduction of heat between the water in the tubing and the plate, the improvement in which two or more of said panels are hinged together, side by side to provide a hinged set of panels so that two or more of sets of hinged panels unfolded at their hinges and arranged end to end on a floor, wall or ceiling provide elongated spaces into which said tubing is inserted and held against said radiation plate a finished floor, wall or ceiling covering can be installed thereon and said system operated to heat or cool said room, the improvement wherein the panels of a set are arranged in a regular staggered relationship so that such sets unfolded and arranged end to end abutting each other interlock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2001
    Inventor: Joachim Fiedrich
  • Patent number: 6152377
    Abstract: A hydronic heating system having a source of hot supply water and a reservoir of cooler return water and one or more heating loops that include a heating element that is a length of tubing that conducts water from the supply to the return and the length of tubing is mounted in a wall or a floor of an area heated by the system by RFH or RWH, respectively, in a room includes: a highly thermally conductive plate having a radiating surface mounted in the area floor or wall, adjacent a surface thereof; a plate support of relatively low thermal conductivity material providing an elongated space for holding the length of tubing adjacent the plate; the elongated space being defined by two parallel sides provided by the plate support, a third elongated side provided by the plate and an elongated open side; the side provided by the plate being substantially wider than the open side; the tubing is inserted into the space through the open side thereof; and a compliant filler of relatively higher thermal conductivity mate
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2000
    Inventor: Joachim Fiedrich
  • Patent number: 6009612
    Abstract: A technique of attaching a thermally conductive metal plate or sheet to a flat surface of wood holders in a process of fabricating modular unit radiation panels for mounting in a floor or a wall of a room of a building heated by a hydronic heating system that pumps hot water through tubing that is held by said modular units for RFH or RWH, respectively, wherein the modular unit is an assembly of the thermally conductive metal plate or sheet having length, width and thickness and the wood holders are two fiat wood boards evenly spaced apart to provide a slot in which said tubing is inserted and held against said metal plate or sheet, using a tool having a base and a point so configured that, the tool point thrust into the modular unit through the metal plate or sheet into the holder makes a hole in the holder and cuts a tab of the metal from the sheet that is embedded into the hole, the free end of the tab being wider than the end thereof attached to the metal plate or sheet and the free end of the tab being w
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2000
    Inventors: Joachim Fiedrich, Robert Lagace
  • Patent number: 5979781
    Abstract: A hydronic heating system having a source of hot supply water and a reservoir of cooler return water, a supply water line from the source, a return water line to the reservoir and a multitude of heating loops through which water flows to deliver heat, including: a main distribution station having a supply header, main heating loops, and a return header with a pump compelling circulation within the main station so that heat from the source flows to the main heating loops; and one or more satellite distribution stations, each with a supply header feeding water to satellite heating loops, and a satellite return header and pump compelling circulation within the satellite station; and a satellite injection water line and return water line for circulating some hot water from the main station to each satellite station so that heat from said main station flows to each satellite station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Assignee: Stadler Corporation
    Inventor: Joachim Fiedrich
  • Patent number: 5957378
    Abstract: A hydronic heating system that has a boiler supplying hot supply water, a reservoir of cooler return water, a supply water line, a return water line and one or more heating loops through which water flows from the supply line to the return line, the heating loop including a heating element that is a length of tubing that conducts water from the supply to the return and is mounted in a wall or a floor of an area heated by said system by RFH or RWH has: a thermally conductive plate mounted in the area floor or wall, adjacent a surface thereof and means for holding the length of tubing in intimate thermal contact with the plate, so that the plate is heated by conduction of heat from the tubing and the plate has a radiating surface that radiates heat to the area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1999
    Inventor: Joachim Fiedrich
  • Patent number: 5931381
    Abstract: In radiant floor, wall and/or ceiling hydronic heating and/or cooling systems using metal radiation plates that are heated or cooled by attached tubing that is fed hot or cold water, where the system includes a plurality of aligned modular heating and/or cooling panels attached to the floor, wall and ceiling, each panel containing a metal radiation plate and each holds a length of the same tubing, the tubing being inserted into an accommodation in the panel and held therein in intimate thermal contact with the plate, and the assembly of panels with tubing inserted is covered with a finished floor, wall or ceiling and then hot water for heating or cold water for cooling is fed to the tubing, a thermal barrier is provided between the panels and the finished floor, wall or ceiling to: diminish or eliminate "hot spots" in the surface of the finished flooring, wall covering and ceiling covering during heating and "cold spots" during cooling; avoid condensation during cooling; and improve performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1999
    Inventor: Joachim Fiedrich
  • Patent number: 5871151
    Abstract: A hydronic radiant heater bed warmer (RBW) is mounted in the support structure beneath the top surface of a conventional bed that has a mattress on springs supported by the bed support structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1999
    Inventor: Joachim Fiedrich