Patents by Inventor Martin Craig Helmus

Martin Craig Helmus 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: 7513086
    Abstract: The fan filter mounting frame is useful in installation of equipment in a cell of suspension grid systems when the equipment is passed through and is placed in a corner of the cell. The equipment is supported partially directly by the grid and partially indirectly by the grid through an adapting frame insert. The frame insert is connected between the equipment and the suspension grid system and may have two legs that meet at an apex, a first leg extending along a first grid rail and a second leg extending along an adjacent second grid rail. Each of the two legs also extends between its respective rail and the equipment, supporting the equipment on the respective suspension grid rails. Thus, the grid system may be in its design position or condition prior to and during placement and replacement of the equipment without disruption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Mod-Tec, LLC
    Inventor: Martin Craig Helmus
  • Patent number: 5687527
    Abstract: Suspended ceiling structure for cleanroom comprising a pressurized plenum, the lower face thereof is defined by filter plates supported by a metallic structure having the shape of an horizontal grid, comprising extrusions (P1, P2, P3) crossing at a right angle, said extrusions (P1, P2, P3) having upper channels associated in such a manner that they form a continuous channel around each mesh of the grid and they form a support for a filter plate (13, 13'), said channels (15, 15') being filled with a material in which dips a peripheral support (14, 14') for said filter plate (13, 13') to assure the sealing between the plenum and the volume beneath the ceiling structure, characterized in that each extrusion (P1, P2, P3) comprises at least one horizontal lateral groove (3), upon its full length and having the shape of a slide (2) having at each end housings (4) provided to cooperate with fixation means (5, 6, 7) of a perpendicular extrusion, said fixation means (5, 6, 7,) cooperating also with said slide (2) faci
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1997
    Assignee: Clestra Cleanroom (S.A.)
    Inventors: Jean-Luc Bikard, Martin Craig Helmus