Patents by Inventor Johan Saelens

Johan Saelens 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).

  • Process for continuously manufacturing a porous laminate
    Patent number: 5679441
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a porous laminate includes continuously passing a laminate preform having a metal wire mesh and a metal non-woven fiber web superposed on the wire mesh between rotating pressure rollers having differing electrical potentials. The fibers of the non-woven web are sintered together at mutual points of contact and to the mesh by passing an electrical current cross-sectionally through the laminate preform in a zone of contact with the rollers, thereby forming the porous laminate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 21, 1997
    Assignee: N.V. Bekaert S.A.
    Inventors: Johan Saelens, Roger De Bruyne, Ronny Losfeld