Patents by Inventor Nicholas Hoppe

Nicholas Hoppe 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: 20240042806
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle tire (1), having a tread face (3), the tread face (3) having at least one new tire marking (4, 7, 8) of a surface (5) which is at least partially higher than the surrounded surface of the tread face (3). The invention also relates to a method for producing a vehicle tire (1) with at least one new tire marking (4, 7, 8), in particular a described vehicle tire (1), the vehicle tire (1) being produced in a tire heating mold (2), the tire heating mold (2) having at least one at least partially engraved negative of a new tire marking (10, 13, 14) in the region of the tread face (3). The invention further relates to a tire heating mold (2) for a described method for producing a vehicle tire (1) having at least one new tire marking (4, 7, 8), in particular a described vehicle tire (1), wherein the tire heating mold (2) has an engraved negative of a new tire marking (10, 13, 14) in the region of the tread face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Nicholas Hoppe, Jürgen Dzick
  • Publication number: 20240034013
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vulcanization mold for pneumatic vehicle tires with cast mold segments (1) forming a tread of a pneumatic vehicle tire, which at least have ribs (5, 6) for forming grooves in the tread and sipes (11) for forming incisions in the tread. The invention was based on the object of creating a vulcanization mold of the type described at the outset which, while retaining the inexpensive casting method for the mold segments, enables tread profiles to be formed with grooves and incisions, with the incisions being able to have chamfers in the transition to adjacent blocks in the tread profile and in which the manufacturing limitations described are minimized. This object is achieved in that the elements (5, 6, 11) for producing grooves and incisions are at least partially subsequently introduced into the mold segments (1) after the mold segments (1) have been cast.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Nicholas Hoppe, Jürgen Dzick
  • Publication number: 20230241682
    Abstract: A method for producing a mold segment component of a vulcanizing mold for a pneumatic vehicle tire for forming at least one profile block or a region structured in a block-like manner of an altogether curved tread, with a tread outer surface, which mold segment component is built up by means of an additive process, such as selective laser melting, by layer-by-layer planar application and melting of a metal powder on a planar building plate (10) together with a bottom part (7b) and mold elements, such as lamellae (4) and/or microlamellae (11) and/or ribs and/or regions of ribs, wherein mold elements delimit or run around mutually adjacent mold area elements (12) of the bottom part (7b) which have outer surfaces (12a) forming a region of the tread outer surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Nicholas Hoppe, Jürgen Dzick, Bert Voelker
  • Publication number: 20230227538
    Abstract: Antibodies, including single-domain antibodies, that bind to SARS-CoV2 virus and methods of treatment using single-do-main antibodies that bind to SARS-CoV2 virus are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Peter Walter, Aashish Manglik, Michael SCHOOF, Bryan FAUST, Nicholas HOPPE, Reuben SAUNDERS, Christian BILLESBOELLE
  • Publication number: 20230064330
    Abstract: A method for producing a mold segment of a vulcanizing mold for a pneumatic vehicle tire for forming the profiling of a tread, having a metallic base part (6) with a mold side with ribs (3) which form channels encircling or delimiting profile elements. A rib skeleton (8) consisting of ribs (8?), the arrangement and the profile of which at least partially corresponds to the arrangement and the profile of ribs (3) forming channels, is milled from the base part (6), inserts (7) with peripheral frame parts (7b) are built up by means of an additive method, the inserts (7) being inserted into the rib skeleton (8) and the frame parts (7b) completing the ribs (8?) of the rib skeleton (8) to form the ribs (3) forming the channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Jürgen Dzick, Nicholas Hoppe, Bert Voelker