Patents by Inventor Peter Näpfel

Peter Näpfel 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: 20230349637
    Abstract: The invention relates to a treatment tunnel, to a production system, and to a treatment module (100) for a treatment tunnel (200) which has treatment modules (100) following one another in the longitudinal direction (L), the treatment module comprising an inner housing (102), which has at least one surface element (104, 105, 106, 107, 108) composed of prefabricated cassettes (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17). The surface element (104, 105, 106, 107, 108) is divided, in the longitudinal direction, into a pitch corresponding to at least one cassette width (90, 92).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Jose Joaquin HERRERA DE LA TORRE, Volker PEINDL, Peter NÄPFEL, Wilfried MÜNSTERMANN
  • Patent number: 8732980
    Abstract: In order to provide a drier module for a drier for a coating plant, in particular for a coating plant for vehicle bodies, wherein the drier comprises a drier working space for receiving the objects to be dried, which space is bounded by a drier floor, a drier ceiling and lateral boundary walls, which reduces the transport costs for transporting the drier components from the production site to the erection site, it is proposed that the drier module comprise at least one section of a lateral boundary wall of the drier working space and one section of the drier floor and/or one section of the drier ceiling, wherein the drier floor section and/or the drier ceiling section are/is connected to the boundary wall section so as to be pivotable relative to the boundary wall section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Dürr Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Napfel, Helmuth Zurich, Andreas Gerber
  • Publication number: 20130269203
    Abstract: A kit for a dryer portion of a dryer is provided, by means of which a dryer portion of the dryer can be transported in a particularly space-saving manner to an assembly site of the dryer and can be assembled from particularly few parts, wherein the kit comprises at least two components, at least one left-hand side wall component comprising a left-hand side wall portion of the dryer, at least one right-hand side wall component comprising a right-hand side wall portion of the dryer and at least one component comprising a base wall portion and/or a ceiling wall portion of the dryer and a conveying unit of a conveying device for conveying workpieces to be dried through the dryer in the assembled state of the dryer, the dryer portion of the dryer being configured to be assembled at an assembly site from the at least two components of the kit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Inventors: Peter Näpfel, Klaus-Eugen Herbst, Konrad Ortlieb, Jürgen Weschke
  • Patent number: 7600329
    Abstract: In order to provide an easy-to-assemble drier (100) for drying surface-treated workpieces, in particular vehicle bodies (110), which are each disposed on a respective workpiece carrier (109), comprising a drier housing (102) having a drier tunnel (108), through which the workpieces are moved along a conveying direction (112) and which is delimited in a downward direction by a drier floor (116) comprising a plurality of floor elements (118), and a conveying device (138) that conveys the workpieces through the drier tunnel (108), it is proposed that the conveying device (138) comprises a plurality of carrying roller units (140), which are disposed successively in the conveying direction (112) and each comprise at least one carrying roller (142), on which the workpiece carriers (109) rest as they are conveyed through the drier tunnel (108), wherein the carrying roller units (140) are each mountable separately on a respective floor element (118) of the drier floor (116).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Durr Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Konrad Ortlieb, Helmut Zurich, Jürgen Weschke, Peter Näpfel, Manfred Föttinger, Rudolf Strauss
  • Publication number: 20090172966
    Abstract: In order to provide a drier module for a drier for a coating plant, in particular for a coating plant for vehicle bodies, wherein the drier comprises a drier working space for receiving the objects to be dried, which space is bounded by a drier floor, a drier ceiling and lateral boundary walls, which reduces the transport costs for transporting the drier components from the production site to the erection site, it is proposed that the drier module comprise at least one section of a lateral boundary wall of the drier working space and one section of the drier floor and/or one section of the drier ceiling, wherein the drier floor section and/or the drier ceiling section are/is connected to the boundary wall section so as to be pivotable relative to the boundary wall section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2008
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Applicant: Durr Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Napfel, Helmuth Zurich, Andreas Gerber
  • Publication number: 20070261264
    Abstract: In order to provide an easy-to-assemble drier (100) for drying surface-treated workpieces, in particular vehicle bodies (110), which are each disposed on a respective workpiece carrier (109), comprising a drier housing (102) having a drier tunnel (108), through which the workpieces are moved along a conveying direction (112) and which is delimited in a downward direction by a drier floor (116) comprising a plurality of floor elements (118), and a conveying device (138) that conveys the workpieces through the drier tunnel (108), it is proposed that the conveying device (138) comprises a plurality of carrying roller units (140), which are disposed successively in the conveying direction (112) and each comprise at least one carrying roller (142), on which the workpiece carriers (109) rest as they are conveyed through the drier tunnel (108), wherein the carrying roller units (140) are each mountable separately on a respective floor element (118) of the drier floor (116).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2007
    Publication date: November 15, 2007
    Applicant: Durr Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Konrad Ortlieb, Helmut Zurich, Jurgen Weschke, Peter Napfel, Manfred Fottinger, Rudolf Strauss