Patents by Inventor Josef Birk

Josef Birk 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: 4691695
    Abstract: In an apparatus for medical treatments, examinations or tests comprising a hamber connectible to a vacuum source and having at its one end side a passage aperture with a flexible sealing member, the chamber is formed of a foldable bellow provided with a support structure adapted to be dismantled. In axial direction of the bellow, the support structure contains a plurality of substantially parallel-mounted peripheral members backing up peripherally the bellow and being mobile relative to each other, as well as mobile longitudinal stiffening elements secured to the peripheral members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1987
    Assignee: Deutsche Forschungs- und Versuchsanstalt fur Luft- und Raumfart e.V.
    Inventors: Josef Birk, Friedhelm Baisch, Heinz J. Borger