Patents by Inventor Peter Hermans

Peter Hermans 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: 20160074778
    Abstract: A method and means are described for rapidly evacuating trapped air from the top of a top-loaded liquid filter housing. An air vent means is provided that prevents complete sealing between a bypass valve and a sealing surface on an endcap of a replaceable filter element. The air vent means enables the rapid evacuation of trapped air in the top of the housing chamber, but permits only a negligible flow rate of liquid, for example oil, through the air vent means once air is evacuated due to high viscosity ratio of liquid, such as oil, versus air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2014
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Applicant: Cummins Filtration IP, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Herman, Jeffrey B. Sharp
  • Publication number: 20150272361
    Abstract: A vessel has an inner flap and an outer flap that fold across a base of the vessel to form a cover. The inner flap includes a dam tab along the outer edge of the inner flap. When the inner flap is folded down, the free edge of this tab contacts the wall of the vessel and bends upward forming a “folded edge” dam. This folded edge dam can either be one segment or be made of two or more segments divided by one or more V-shaped cuts to allow each segment to fold down and fit together seamlessly. A restrictive channel is formed by the outer and inner flaps together with the “folded edge” dam, which is present in-between the outer and inner flaps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Peter Herman, Robert J. D'Amato
  • Publication number: 20150021382
    Abstract: A vessel composed of a sheet of flexible material, cut, rolled, and affixed to form a frusto-conically shaped base region. The sheet when rolled including an upper region having two opposing flaps, each flap delineated from a remaining portion of the sheet by a path along which the sheet is scored, so that the flaps, when folded along their respective paths, define a single elevated drinking portion having a spout formed between an extension of the base region and at least one of the two flaps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventor: Peter Herman
  • Patent number: 8864016
    Abstract: A vessel composed of a sheet of flexible material, cut, rolled, and affixed to form a frusto-conically shaped base region. The sheet when rolled including an upper region having two opposing flaps, each flap delineated from a remaining portion of the sheet by a path along which the sheet is scored, so that the flaps, when folded along their respective paths, define a single elevated drinking portion having a spout formed between an extension of the base region and at least one of the two flaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Compleat LLC
    Inventor: Peter Herman
  • Publication number: 20130299567
    Abstract: A vessel composed of a sheet of flexible material, cut, rolled, and affixed to form a frusto-conically shaped base region. The sheet when rolled including an upper region having two opposing flaps, each flap delineated from a remaining portion of the sheet by a path along which the sheet is scored, so that the flaps, when folded along their respective paths, define a single elevated drinking portion having a spout formed between an extension of the base region and at least one of the two flaps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Inventor: Peter Herman
  • Patent number: 8505807
    Abstract: A vessel composed of a sheet of flexible material, cut, rolled, and affixed to form a frusto-conically shaped base region. The sheet when rolled including an upper region having two opposing flaps, each flap delineated from a remaining portion of the sheet by a path along which the sheet is scored, so that the flaps, when folded along their respective paths, define a single elevated drinking portion having a spout formed between an extension of the base region and at least one of the two flaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Compleat LLC
    Inventor: Peter Herman
  • Publication number: 20100314434
    Abstract: A vessel composed of a sheet of flexible material, cut, rolled, and affixed to form a frusto-conically shaped base region. The sheet when rolled including an upper region having two opposing flaps, each flap delineated from a remaining portion of the sheet by a path along which the sheet is scored, so that the flaps, when folded along their respective paths, define a single elevated drinking portion having a spout formed between an extension of the base region and at least one of the two flaps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Inventor: Peter Herman
  • Publication number: 20090046350
    Abstract: A Fabry-Perot cavity comprised of three-dimensional photonic crystal structures is disclosed. The self-assembly of purified and highly monodispersed microspheres is one approach to the successful operation of the device for creating highly ordered colloidal crystal coatings of high structural and optical quality. Such colloidal crystal film mirrors offer high reflection with low losses in the spectral window of the photonic band gap that permit Fabry-Perot resonators to be constructed with high resolving power, for example, greater than 1000 or sharp fringes that are spectrally narrower than 1.0 nm. The three-dimensional photonic crystals that constitute the Fabry-Perot invention are not restricted to any one fabrication method, and may include self-assembly of colloids, layer-by-layer lithographic construction, inversion, and laser holography.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2008
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Inventors: Peter Herman, Jianzhao Li, Vladimir Kitaev
  • Publication number: 20070082003
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of biology, more specifically to the field of immunology and microbiology. The invention further relates to the field of vaccines against microbial infections and especially bacterial vaccines, in particular to pneumococcal vaccines. More in particular, the invention relates to means and methods to identify, select and isolate a vaccine component for passive and/or active immunisation against a microorganism that can be killed by opsonophagocytic cells. The invention relates to a method to identify an opsonophagocytosis inducing antigen as a vaccine component for immunisation against a microorganism. The invention describes three pneumococcal proteins SlrA, IgAl proteinase, and PsaA, and their use as a vaccine component with or without PpmA. The invention also discloses the use of antibodies against said proteins for passive immunization and diagnosis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2004
    Publication date: April 12, 2007
    Inventors: Cornelis Leenhouts, Ronald de Groot, Peter Hermans
  • Publication number: 20070062887
    Abstract: A coalescer is provided minimizing trade-offs among high removal efficiency, low pressure drop, long service life, and small size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2006
    Publication date: March 22, 2007
    Inventors: Brian Schwandt, Barry Verdegan, Roger Zoch, Jeffrey Fedorowicz, Kurt Badeau, Robert Muse, Peter Herman
  • Publication number: 20060285561
    Abstract: Various embodiments described herein relate to a laser source for producing a pulsed laser beam comprising a plurality of ultrashort optical pulses having a variable repetition rate. In one embodiment, the laser source comprises a fiber oscillator, which outputs optical pulses and a pulse stretcher disposed to receive the optical pulses. The optical pulses have an optical pulse width. The pulse stretcher has dispersion that increases the optical pulse width yielding stretched optical pulses. The laser source further comprises a fiber amplifier disposed to receive the stretched optical pulses. The fiber optical amplifier has gain so as to amplify the stretched optical pulses. The laser source includes an automatically adjustable grating compressor having dispersion that reduces the optical pulse width. The grating compressor automatically adjusts this dispersion for different repetition rates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2006
    Publication date: December 21, 2006
    Inventors: Lawrence Shah, Shane Eaton, Peter Herman
  • Publication number: 20060240965
    Abstract: A centrifuge for the separation of particulate matter from a volume of fluid includes an outer housing, a rotational member extending through the outer housing, and a rotor assembled onto the rotational member for rotation relative to the rotational member and relative to the housing. The centrifuge is constructed and arranged to enable self-driven rotation by the exit flow of fluid through jet nozzle openings defined by the rotor. The rotational member includes a fluid passageway and an exit opening for delivering fluid to the rotor. The rotor includes a divider plate that separates the interior of the rotor into a collection chamber and a separate jet zone. The collection chamber has a single fluid entry location defined by the divider plate for processing a single batch of fluid at a time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2005
    Publication date: October 26, 2006
    Inventors: Peter Herman, Hendrik Amirkhanian
  • Publication number: 20060229185
    Abstract: A centrifuge includes a housing that defines a fluid inlet port to supply fluid to the centrifuge and an axle cavity fluidly coupled to the fluid inlet port. A bearing is received in the axle cavity. A check valve is disposed in the axle cavity to minimize tampering, and the check valve is configured to control flow of the fluid from the inlet port. A rotor is configured to separate particulate matter from the fluid. The rotor includes an axle rotatably received in the bearing, and the axle defines a fluid passage to supply the fluid to the rotor. The check valve is normally biased towards a closed position where the flow of the fluid is shutoff. The axle is configured to open the check valve when the axle is received in the bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2005
    Publication date: October 12, 2006
    Inventor: Peter Herman
  • Publication number: 20060180537
    Abstract: A pressure gradient dosing system is provided for a fluid supply system. A flow passage has first and second pressure zones having a pressure gradient therebetween. An additive reservoir in an additive delivery system responds to the pressure gradient to release additive to the flow passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2005
    Publication date: August 17, 2006
    Inventors: Ted Loftis, David Brisk, Barry Verdegan, Harold Martin, Peter Herman, Ismail Bagci, Abby True-Dahl
  • Publication number: 20060086649
    Abstract: A fuel water separator system includes a fuel tank for storing fuel and a fuel water separator fluidly coupled to the fuel tank for separating water from the fuel. A fuel pump has a suction side that is fluidly coupled to the fuel water separator for pumping fuel from the fuel water separator. The fuel pump has a high pressure side where the fuel has a higher pressure than at the suction side. A water pump, such as a venturi or a jet pump, is fluidly coupled between the fuel water separator and the fuel tank for pumping the water from the fuel water separator into the fuel tank. The water pump is fluidly coupled to the high pressure side of the fuel pump to receive the fuel at the higher pressure to drive the water pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2004
    Publication date: April 27, 2006
    Inventors: Mark Wieczorek, Peter Herman, Ricky England, Jean-Yves Picard, Benoit Le Roux, Jean-Luc Guichaoua
  • Publication number: 20060059875
    Abstract: An inertial gas-liquid impactor separator has a variable flow actuator for varying cumulative gas-liquid flow through acceleration nozzle structure in response to a given parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2004
    Publication date: March 23, 2006
    Inventors: Gerard Malgorn, Jean-Luc Guichaoua, Peter Herman, Brian Schwandt, Christopher Holm
  • Publication number: 20050270633
    Abstract: A Fabry-Perot cavity comprised of three-dimensional photonic crystal structures is disclosed. The self-assembly of purified and highly monodispersed microspheres is one approach to the successful operation of the device for creating highly ordered colloidal crystal coatings of high structural and optical quality. Such colloidal crystal film mirrors offer high reflection with low losses in the spectral window of the photonic band gap that permit Fabry-Perot resonators to be constructed with high resolving power, for example, greater than 1000 or sharp fringes that are spectrally narrower than 1.0 nm. The three-dimensional photonic crystals that constitute the Fabry-Perot invention are not restricted to any one fabrication method, and may include self-assembly of colloids, layer-by-layer lithographic construction, inversion, and laser holography.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2005
    Publication date: December 8, 2005
    Inventors: Peter Herman, Jianzhao Li, Vladimir Kitaev
  • Publication number: 20050178706
    Abstract: A disposable, spin-on fluid filter for mounting to a fluid-directing head includes a molded housing having a closed base and a sidewall defining a hollow cavity. Filtering media is positioned within the hollow cavity and a nutplate is joined to the housing so as to enclose the filtering media. The nutplate includes a plurality of inlet flow openings and a lobed sleeve extending into the filtering media. An endplate is joined to the filtering media including a flange portion and a sleeve portion. The fluid filter includes an elastomeric valve having a first portion positioned between the flange portion and the inlet flow openings and a second portion positioned between the sleeve portion and the lobed sleeve. The valve provides an anti-drain back capability and in cooperation with the lobed sleeve provides a filtering media by-pass capability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2004
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventors: Ismail Bagci, Kevin South, Gregory Hoverson, Byron Pardue, Peter Herman, Chris Schoonover, Patrick Galecki
  • Publication number: 20050167351
    Abstract: The present invention provides a filter assembly containing a filter element and a container as a depot for a liquid additive. The container can include an inlet and an outlet, which are configured to allow a liquid to flow into the container mix with the contained additive and then flow out into the system. It has been observed that a liquid flowing through a filter assembly exhibits a pressure gradient within the filter. Consequently, the inlets and outlets to the container can be positioned to take advantage of the pressure gradient to enhance the addition of the additive to the liquid in the filter assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventors: Peter Herman, Harold Martin, Ismail Bagci, Abby True-Dahl, Scott Towsley, Zemin Jiang
  • Patent number: D657950
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Inventor: Peter Herman