Patents by Inventor Klaus Jansen

Klaus Jansen 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: 11446886
    Abstract: Plastic profiles are produced by a pultrusion method. For this, a mold is moved periodically relative to the stationary plastic profile and said profile is held by a holding means and transported away. In particular, the starting and the stopping of the method are problematical, since a tensile stress must be applied, by which both “slack” fibers and “rigid” profiles can be drawn through the mold. The invention creates a method and a device for simple and reliable manufacture of plastic profiles. For this, it is provided that at least one cross section of a receiving space of the at least one holding means is changed along a longitudinal axis of the holding means in order to grasp a reinforcement and/or the plastic profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Thomas GmbH + Co. Technik + Innovation KG
    Inventor: Klaus Jansen
  • Patent number: 11273612
    Abstract: A method and a device for fault-free production of individually curved plastic profiles. This is achieved in that the mold and the holding means are moved in opposite directions on the plastic profile, wherein the plastic profile is moved alternately by the mold and the holding means in a production direction with different movement patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Thomas GmbH + Co. Technik + Innovation KG
    Inventor: Klaus Jansen
  • Publication number: 20210275393
    Abstract: A rest for a mattress support system and which serves for sensory training of a person, and a method for sensory training of a person. This rest has a multiplicity of actuatable micro-stimulating elements for producing sensory stimuli. These elements are assigned to the rest. Using a control device, the person can actuate the micro-stimulating elements during the training. Moreover, this control device serves to generate a feedback signal in response to the sensory stimuli.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicant: Thomas GmbH + Co. Technik + Innovation KG
    Inventor: Klaus Jansen
  • Publication number: 20200180242
    Abstract: Plastic profiles are produced by a pultrusion method. For this, a mold is moved periodically relative to the stationary plastic profile and said profile is held by a holding means and transported away. In particular, the starting and the stopping of the method are problematical, since a tensile stress must be applied, by which both “slack” fibers and “rigid” profiles can be drawn through the mold. The invention creates a method and a device for simple and reliable manufacture of plastic profiles. For this, it is provided that at least one cross section of a receiving space of the at least one holding means is changed along a longitudinal axis of the holding means in order to grasp a reinforcement and/or the plastic profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: Thomas GmbH + Co. Technik + Innovation KG
    Inventor: Klaus Jansen
  • Patent number: 10456998
    Abstract: Straight plastic profiles from a plastics material and a continuous reinforcement are predominantly produced continuously in a strand, usually by the pultrusion method. As the plastic profile is pulled through a mold, only straight plastic profiles are formed in known pultrusion methods. In the production of plastic profiles using semi-finished products or complex fibrous constructions, congestion of the fibrous constructions or of the semi-finished products, and thus solidification of the material, may arise when entering the mold, such that the process has to be stopped. A method and a device for the simple production of individually molded plastic profiles is provided in that the mold is formed from at least two mold parts that in relation to the cross section of the plastic profile are split and are moved in a temporally offset manner counter to a production direction of the plastic profile along a portion of the plastic profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Thomas GmbH + Co. Technik + Innovation KG
    Inventor: Klaus Jansen
  • Publication number: 20190240931
    Abstract: A method and a device for fault-free production of individually curved plastic profiles. This is achieved in that the mold and the holding means are moved in opposite directions on the plastic profile, wherein the plastic profile is moved alternately by the mold and the holding means in a production direction with different movement patterns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Applicant: Thomas GmbH + Co. Technik + Innovation KG
    Inventor: Klaus Jansen
  • Patent number: 10052829
    Abstract: A core (14) which is typically held in front of the mold (13) is required for producing hollow plastic objects (10). This does not allow for a transverse reinforcement (11) which is formed from a prefabricated reinforcement tube to be pulled over the core (14). A method and device is provided for the core (14) to be held behind the mold (14) when viewed in the production direction (17). In this case, the front end (15) of the core (14), which is located in front of the mold (13), remains free, such that a transverse reinforcement (11) that has been formed from a prefabricated reinforcement tube can be pulled over the free front end (15) of the core (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Thomas GmbH + Co. Technik + Innovation KG
    Inventor: Klaus Jansen
  • Patent number: 9770846
    Abstract: A method for producing an object or component, which is at least partially formed from plastic, by supplying energy for solidifying the plastic of the object or component to the plastic to be solidified by at least one energy conductor, such as an optical fiber, in the component to be produced, and the solidification of the plastic can be accelerated by the direct energy introduction into the object or component to be produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Thomas GmbH + Co. Technik + Innovation KG
    Inventor: Klaus Jansen
  • Publication number: 20170232692
    Abstract: Straight plastic profiles from a plastics material and a continuous reinforcement are predominantly produced continuously in a strand, usually by the pultrusion method. As the plastic profile is pulled through a mold, only straight plastic profiles are formed in known pultrusion methods. In the production of plastic profiles using semi-finished products or complex fibrous constructions, congestion of the fibrous constructions or of the semi-finished products, and thus solidification of the material, may arise when entering the mold, such that the process has to be stopped. A method and a device for the simple production of individually molded plastic profiles is provided in that the mold is formed from at least two mold parts that in relation to the cross section of the plastic profile are split and are moved in a temporally offset manner counter to a production direction of the plastic profile along a portion of the plastic profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: Thomas GmbH + Co. Technik + Innovation KG
    Inventor: Klaus Jansen
  • Publication number: 20170173851
    Abstract: In the pultrusion of reinforced plastic profiles in strand form, the strands of the reinforcement are brought together in a positioning device and subsequently embedded in the plastic. The pulling of the strands of the reinforcement through the positioning device leads to an unwanted contraction and uncontrolled positioning of the reinforcement in the plastic profile. The invention envisages forming the positioning device by multiple successive positioning means, of which at least some positioning means can be periodically moved forward in the direction of production and also moved back counter to the direction of production. As a result, there is an alternating tensioning and compression of individual regions of the reinforcement. This makes exact positioning of the reinforcement in the plastic profile possible and prevents contraction of the reinforcement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: Thomas GmbH + Co. Technik + Innovation KG
    Inventor: Klaus Jansen
  • Patent number: 9630360
    Abstract: In the pultrusion of reinforced plastic profiles in strand form, the strands of the reinforcement are brought together in a positioning device and subsequently embedded in the plastic. The pulling of the strands of the reinforcement through the positioning device leads to an unwanted contraction and uncontrolled positioning of the reinforcement in the plastic profile. The invention envisages forming the positioning device by multiple successive positioning means, of which at least some positioning means can be periodically moved forward in the direction of production and also moved back counter to the direction of production. As a result, there is an alternating tensioning and compression of individual regions of the reinforcement. This makes exact positioning of the reinforcement in the plastic profile possible and prevents contraction of the reinforcement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Thomas GmbH+Co. Technik+Innovation KG
    Inventor: Klaus Jansen
  • Publication number: 20160339604
    Abstract: A method and device in which at least part of a mold is moved periodically relative to the stationary thin-walled plastic profile and the thin-walled plastic profile is held by at least one holding means or gripper, which comprises a core and an outer holding part, whilst the mold is moved along the thin-walled plastic profile, which is stationary relative to said mold. Plastic material objects, in particular plastic profiles, are produced predominantly in a strand, preferably using the pultrusion method. In this case, the plastic profile is pulled through a mold. As a result of the plastic profile being pulled through the mold by a take-off device, it is only possible to form plastic profiles which withstand the force or the pressing pressure of the take-off device. Consequently, only plastic profiles which comprise sufficient wall thicknesses have been producible up to now.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: THOMAS GMBH + CO. TECHNIK + INNOVATION KG
    Inventor: Klaus Jansen
  • Patent number: 9393741
    Abstract: Plastics articles with continuous reinforcement strands are normally produced by pultrusion. Pultrusion methods are known for producing straight or curved plastics profiles. It has not hitherto been possible for reinforced plastics articles of more complex form to be produced by pultrusion methods. The invention provides a pultrusion method in which a part of a curved plastics article serves, together with a mold (15), for the pultrusion of a reinforced plastics article. In this way, it is possible for complex plastics articles, for example a plastics pipe (10), to be produced by pultrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Thomas GmbH + Co. Technik + Innovation KG
    Inventor: Klaus Jansen
  • Publication number: 20150137421
    Abstract: A core (14) which is typically held in front of the mold (13) is required for producing hollow plastic objects (10). This does not allow for a transverse reinforcement (11) which is formed from a prefabricated reinforcement tube to be pulled over the core (14). A method and device is provided for the core (14) to be held behind the mold (14) when viewed in the production direction (17). In this case, the front end (15) of the core (14), which is located in front of the mold (13), remains free, such that a transverse reinforcement (11) that has been formed from a prefabricated reinforcement tube can be pulled over the free front end (15) of the core (14).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: Thomas GmbH + Co. Technik + Innovation KG
    Inventor: Klaus Jansen
  • Publication number: 20140284843
    Abstract: Plastics articles with continuous reinforcement strands are normally produced by pultrusion. Pultrusion methods are known for producing straight or curved plastics profiles. It has not hitherto been possible for reinforced plastics articles of more complex form to be produced by pultrusion methods. The invention provides a pultrusion method in which a part of a curved plastics article serves, together with a mold (15), for the pultrusion of a reinforced plastics article. In this way, it is possible for complex plastics articles, for example a plastics pipe (10), to be produced by pultrusion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: Thomas GmbH + Co. Technik + Innovation KG
    Inventor: Klaus Jansen
  • Patent number: 8745783
    Abstract: A supporting spring system for furniture for sleeping, sitting or reclining, having a plurality of elongated, resilient carrier profiles that have a longitudinal axis and that run parallel to each other, form a common plane, and preferably are mounted on a frame or on longitudinal members. The carrier profiles have at least one reinforcement that is spaced apart from the longitudinal axis, and the profiles can be rotated about the longitudinal axis or an axis parallel thereto in order to change their flexural stiffness against a force in the direction perpendicular to the common plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Thomas Beteiligungs- und Vermogens- GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Klaus Jansen
  • Publication number: 20140117581
    Abstract: In the pultrusion of reinforced plastic profiles in strand form, the strands of the reinforcement are brought together in a positioning device and subsequently embedded in the plastic. The pulling of the strands of the reinforcement through the positioning device leads to an unwanted contraction and uncontrolled positioning of the reinforcement in the plastic profile. The invention envisages forming the positioning device by multiple successive positioning means, of which at least some positioning means can be periodically moved forward in the direction of production and also moved back counter to the direction of production. As a result, there is an alternating tensioning and compression of individual regions of the reinforcement. This makes exact positioning of the reinforcement in the plastic profile possible and prevents contraction of the reinforcement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: Thomas GmbH + Co. Technik + Innovation KG
    Inventor: Klaus Jansen
  • Publication number: 20140031458
    Abstract: During the production of reinforced and non-reinforced components (45) made of plastic, the plastic must be solidified after the molding. For this purpose, energy must be supplied to the component (45) to be produced. This has heretofore been performed by heating the mold (47) for producing the component (45). The energy introduction into the component (45) to be produced is thus limited, which results in long solidification times of the plastic, above all in the case of larger and more voluminous components (45). The invention provides supplying the energy for solidifying the plastic of the component (45) to the plastic to be solidified by at least one optical fiber (51) in the component (45) to be produced. The solidification of the plastic can be accelerated by the direct energy introduction into the component (45) to be produced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2011
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Inventor: Klaus Jansen
  • Publication number: 20120168997
    Abstract: A supporting spring system for furniture for sleeping, sitting or reclining, having a plurality of elongated, resilient carrier profiles that have a longitudinal axis and that run parallel to each other, form a common plane, and preferably are mounted on a frame or on longitudinal members. The carrier profiles have at least one reinforcement that is spaced apart from the longitudinal axis, and the profiles can be rotated about the longitudinal axis or an axis parallel thereto in order to change their flexural stiffness against a force in the direction perpendicular to the common plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2010
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: Thomas Beteiligungs-und Vermogens-GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Klaus Jansen
  • Publication number: 20120066834
    Abstract: A bed with a flexible supporting spring system without a frame. The flexible supporting spring system is supported by a supporting frame or directly by the bedstead. The flexible supporting spring system can be rolled and therefore can easily be transported. Above all, however, the flexible supporting spring system can be used for different beds and can be adapted individually to different sleeping cultures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: Thomas Beteilingungs-und Vermogens GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Klaus Jansen