Patents by Inventor Norbert Nicolai
Norbert Nicolai 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).
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Publication number: 20230228018Abstract: A method for the production of a continuous nonwoven fabric from fiber mixtures of carrier fibers and binding fibers, comprising the steps: a. Feeding fibers; b. Breaking up, combing and opening out the fibers; c. Mixing the fibers; d. Sucking the fibers between two opposing airpermeable conveyor belts running at identical speed, such that the air is sucked from the outside in the front section of the conveyor belts in such a way that the air flow is always sucked through the deposited nonwoven fabric by air extraction at different times and different locations across the width and parallel to the conveyor belts and the fibers are thereby positioned perpendicular to the surface of the conveyor belts; e. Thermally solidifying the nonwoven fabric created by heating with hot air or shortwave radiation and cooling. Also a nonwoven fabric production apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2021Publication date: July 20, 2023Inventors: Wonku Lee, Norbert Nicolai
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Patent number: 11577671Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing an absorbing sound insulation motor vehicle trim element having a four-layered structure made from a first foam layer, a second foam layer, a non-woven foam layer and a non-woven fabric layer. The invention further relates to an absorbing sound insulation motor vehicle trim element.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2017Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Adler Pelzer Holding GMBHInventors: Volkmar Schulze, Helmut Becker, Volker Kursch, Maurizio Tarello, Norbert Nicolai
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Patent number: 11285689Abstract: The present invention includes a multi-layer acoustic and/or reinforcing non-woven fabric.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2017Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Adler Pelzer Holding GMBHInventors: Volkmar Schulze, Norbert Nicolai, Herbert Vollmert, Ctirad Zikmund, Marco Schneider, Reimund Piatkowski
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Patent number: 10800352Abstract: The invention relates to an acoustic component contoured in a planar manner or three-dimensionally shaped, namely a firewall of a motor vehicle, and use of said component, said component comprising at least one sound-absorbing material and possibly at least one carrier material, wherein the sound-absorbing material is completely or partially covered by a flow layer at least on a planar side or in a composite of layers, wherein the flow layer has nanofibers.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2016Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: Adler Pelzer Holding GMBHInventors: Norbert Nicolai, Volkmar Schulze, Marco Schneider, Rod Morris-Kirby
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Publication number: 20200023793Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing an absorbing sound insulation motor vehicle trim element having a four-layered structure made from a first foam layer, a second foam layer, a non-woven foam layer and a non-woven fabric layer. The invention further relates to an absorbing sound insulation motor vehicle trim element.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2017Publication date: January 23, 2020Inventors: Volkmar SCHULZE, Helmut BECKER, Volker KURSCH, Maurizio TARELLO, Norbert NICOLAI
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Patent number: 10322551Abstract: A 3-dimensional high-strength fiber composite component having isotropic fiber distribution, comprising 25 to 70 wt % of high-strength, high-modulus fibers, up to 5 wt % of binding fibers, and 25 to 70 wt % of thermosetting or thermoplastic matrix. The invention further relates to a method for producing same, comprising the following steps: preparing the fibers by opening the fibers by releasing the fibers from fiber bundles, bales, or textile structures; sucking and/or blowing the opened fibers onto a three-dimensional, air-permeable tool half having the contour of this side of the component in an interactively controlled manner; pre-solidifying the obtained fiber molding in the flock box; transferring the fiber molding onto a pressing tool in the form of the contour of the air-permeable tool half of the component; bringing into contact with at least one liquid plastic; and solidifying the fiber molding by pressing in order to form a component.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2016Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: Adler Pelzer Holding GMBHInventors: Norbert Nicolai, Reimund Piatkowski, Lino Mondino, Heinrich Grimm, Volkmar Schulze
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Publication number: 20190061311Abstract: The present invention includes a multi-layer acoustic and/or reinforcing non-woven fabric.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2017Publication date: February 28, 2019Inventors: Volkmar SCHULZE, Norbert NICOLAI, Herbert VOLLMERT, Ctirad ZIKMUND, Marco SCHNEIDER, Reimund PIATKOWSKI
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Publication number: 20190009447Abstract: The invention relates to a film production method for producing a thermally deformable plastic film having an at least two-color design, comprising the following steps: extruding a first plastic to form a molten plastic melt and dispensing the plastic melt of the first plastic in a planar manner in a first thickness by means of an extruder nozzle/slit nozzle; applying a second, scatterable and/or free-flowing plastic in a defined, planar manner in a defined pattern design with a pattern template onto the plastic melt consisting of the first plastic, and calendaring/sizing the thickness of the plastic melt and simultaneously at least partially pressing the second plastic applied in a planar manner in the pattern design into the first plastic by means of a calendar assembly, cooling the melt to form a solid plastic film.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2016Publication date: January 10, 2019Inventors: Norbert NICOLAI, André WUTZLER, Volkmar SCHULZE, Hannes BLOMBERG, Gabriele TOCCHI
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Publication number: 20180297539Abstract: The invention relates to an acoustic component contoured in a planar manner or three-dimensionally shaped, namely a firewall of a motor vehicle, and use of said component, said component comprising at least one sound-absorbing material and possibly at least one carrier material, wherein the sound-absorbing material is completely or partially covered by a flow layer at least on a planar side or in a composite of layers, wherein the flow layer has nanofibers.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2016Publication date: October 18, 2018Applicant: HP PELZER HOLDING GMBHInventors: Norbert NICOLAI, Volkmar SCHULZE, Marco SCHNEIDER, Rod MORRIS-KIRBY
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Patent number: 9975283Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing at least two-layer components and correspondingly produced components per se as absorptive lining in the interior and/or boot or for floor coverings of motor vehicles, comprising a top material and an absorber.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2013Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: HP Pelzer Holding GMBHInventors: Norbert Nicolai, Reimund Piatkowski, Hartmut Renken, Klaus Krömer, Volkmar Schulze
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Publication number: 20170348921Abstract: A 3-dimensional high-strength fiber composite component having isotropic fiber distribution, comprising 25 to 70 wt % of high-strength, high-modulus fibers, up to 5 wt % of binding fibers, and 25 to 70 wt % of thermosetting or thermoplastic matrix. The invention further relates to a method for producing same, comprising the following steps: preparing the fibers by opening the fibers by releasing the fibers from fiber bundles, bales, or textile structures; sucking and/or blowing the opened fibers onto a three-dimensional, air-permeable tool half having the contour of this side of the component in an interactively controlled manner; pre-solidifying the obtained fiber molding in the flock box; transferring the fiber molding onto a pressing tool in the form of the contour of the air-permeable tool half of the component; bringing into contact with at least one liquid plastic; and solidifying the fiber molding by pressing in order to form a component.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2016Publication date: December 7, 2017Applicant: HP PELZER HOLDING GMBHInventors: Norbert NICOLAI, Reimund PIATKOWSKI, Lino Mondino, Heinrich GRIMM, Volkmar SCHULZE
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Patent number: 9702141Abstract: The invention concerns a multilayered perforated sound absorber (1) with a microperforated plastics film (4) and a thermally deformable absorber (3) which is a foam layer, a fabric or a fibrous non-woven layer. The invention further concerns a method for producing a corresponding sound absorber.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2013Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: HP Pelzer Holding GMBHInventors: Norbert Nicolai, Rod Morris-Kirby, Marco Schneider, Uwe Kaiser, Reimund Piatkowski, Volkmar Schulze
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Publication number: 20160207241Abstract: The invention concerns a compounder-injection-molding unit, wherein a continuously operating compounder is coupled to a discontinuously operating screw injection-molding machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2014Publication date: July 21, 2016Applicant: HP PELZER HOLDING GMBHInventors: Joerg GERIGK, Tariq OWEIMREEN, Volkmar SCHULZE, Thomas KARCZ, Thomas BUCKI, Norbert NICOLAI
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Publication number: 20160108511Abstract: A method for spray-coating substrate surfaces, in which (a) a thermoplastically processable material is molten and thus liquefied in an extruder in a first step; (b) the molten material is pressurized by means of a carrier gas or vapor; (c) a mixture formed from said molten material and said carrier gas or vapor is pressed through one or more nozzles, optionally supplying a spraying gas having a temperature at least as high as the melt temperature to the spraying jet in the region of the discharge opening of the nozzle; and (d) the obtained spray jet with the molten material is directed onto the substrate surface, wherein the material impinges in drops in a flowable state onto the substrate surface, forms a continuous coating on the substrate surface, and subsequently solidifies.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2014Publication date: April 21, 2016Applicant: HP PELZER HOLDING GMBHInventors: Norbert Nicolai, Volkmar Schulze, Thomas Karcz, Sergej Kohlert, Joachim Meyke, Holger Schaarschmidt, Toni Nippe, Christian Urban
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Publication number: 20150298369Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing at least two-layer components and correspondingly produced components per se as absorptive lining in the interior and/or boot or for floor coverings of motor vehicles, comprising a top material and an absorber.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2013Publication date: October 22, 2015Applicant: HP Pelzer Holding GmbHInventors: Norbert NICOLAI, Reimund PIATKOWSKI, Hartmut RENKEN, Klaus KRÖMER, Volkmar SCHULZE
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Publication number: 20150267401Abstract: The invention concerns a multilayered perforated sound absorber (1) with a microperforated plastics film (4) and a thermally deformable absorber (3) which is a foam layer, a fabric or a fibrous non-woven layer. The invention further concerns a method for producing a corresponding sound absorber.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2013Publication date: September 24, 2015Applicant: HP PELZER HOLDING GMBHInventors: Norbert Nicolai, Rod Morris-Kirby, Marco Schneider, Uwe Kaiser, Reimund Piatkowski, Volkmar Schulze
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Publication number: 20150118437Abstract: The invention relates to a motor vehicle part material structure for sound insulation for the motor vehicle interior and motor vehicle trunk, namely floor mats floor coverings, and trunk linings, that makes it possible to industrially implement complete reprocessing of the entire composite, in particular the fiber material. The motor vehicle part has a PIT fiber layer, an optional substrate layer made of PET and/or COPET, an optional PET adhesive layer, a PET adhesive layer, a layer made of PET fiber nonwoven & brie or woven fabric, and an insulating layer made of PET/COPET.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2013Publication date: April 30, 2015Inventors: Volkmar Schulze, Norbert Nicolai, André Feole, Fabrizio Fornasa, Federica Filotto
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Patent number: 8950548Abstract: The invention relates to a broadband sound absorber (1) which comprises a sound-absorbing filler material between two microperforated film webs (2) which are contiguous on their edges, said filler material optionally containing heavy fillers. The broadband sound absorber (1) achieves excellent acoustic insulation and has microperforations (4) all over or only in sections, said filler material optionally containing heavy fillers (mass density) and one or both microperforated film webs (2) having the same thickness across their surface or thickened portions (3, 5) of the same or a different material in some sections.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2011Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: HP Pelzer Holding GmbHInventors: Marco Schneider, Dirk Jaeger, Volker Kursch, Edmund Sumann, Norbert Nicolai, Volkmar Schulze
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Publication number: 20130153331Abstract: The invention relates to a broadband sound absorber (1) which comprises a sound-absorbing filler material between two microperforated film webs (2) which are contiguous on their edges, said filler material optionally containing heavy fillers. The broadband sound absorber (1) achieving excellent acoustic insulation comprises a sound-absorbing filler material between two film webs (2) which are contiguous on their edges and have microperforations (4) all over or only in sections, said filler material optionally containing heavy fillers (mass density) and one or both microperforated film webs (2) having the same thickness across their surface or thickened portions (3, 5) of the same or a different material in some sections.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2011Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicant: HP Pelzer Holding GmbHInventors: Marco Schneider, Dirk Jaeger, Volker Kursch, Edmund Sumann, Norbert Nicolai, Volkmar Schulze
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Publication number: 20110083792Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a velour rug, comprising the following steps: a) needling of a nonwoven/mali nonwoven on a bristle strip using a needling machine, in the process of which a pile nonwoven/carrier nonwoven is pulled into and partially back out of the bristle strip such that the fibers of the pile nonwoven/carrier nonwoven are located in the plane of the bristle strip, b) separating the nonwoven from the bristle strip by means of a roller brush, c) brushing the pile side prior to cutting the loops, characterized in that, in order to increase the fiber density and enhance the pile stability, an additional nonwoven/mali nonwoven, especially a pile nonwoven/carrier nonwoven, is placed onto the reverse of the nonwoven/mali nonwoven, especially between a first and second needling unit, between steps a) and b).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2009Publication date: April 14, 2011Applicant: ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT FUER AKUSTIK (EFA) MIT BESCHRAENKTER HAFTUNGInventors: Herbert Vollmert, Gabl Brade-Scholz, Norbert Nicolai, Volkmar Schulze, Johannes Jurk, Guenter Liebner