Patents by Inventor Roland André Pieter Higler

Roland André Pieter Higler 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: 20160186409
    Abstract: A suction head (1) for a dredger, includes;—an outlet (2) for fluidly coupling the suction head with a suction tube (3) for transport of dredge to the loading space of a floating dredger;—a sand inlet (4), which in use faces a sand bed (5) to be sucked away, for taking in a flow of dredge (6) in the suction head, and which flow of dredge runs in a dredge flow direction (7) at the sand inlet;—a side inlet (8) fluidly coupled with the sand inlet, wherein the side inlet and the outlet are arranged at opposite sides of the suction head for introducing a lateral flow (9) from outside the suction head into the suction head locally at the sand inlet, which lateral flow runs substantially transverse relative to the dredge flow direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Carel Frederik HOFSTRA, Erwin Cornelis Johannes BIJVOET, Bram Adrianus Waltherus VAN SPAENDONK, Roland Andre Pieter HIGLER
  • Patent number: 7614182
    Abstract: A method for separating a lump piece of rosette plants. The method includes the steps of gripping a rosette plant and positioning it parallel to a longitudinal axis of an elongated holder which has a longitudinal opening at least along the longitudinal axis; introducing a part of the lump piece of the rosette plant into the holder via the mentioned longitudinal opening; cutting off the lump piece along a cutting plane parallel to the longitudinal axis, while closing the longitudinal opening, such that the introduced part of the lump piece is enclosed in the holder; and removing the enclosed cut-off part of the lump piece from the holder. The method includes the further step of cutting off a part of the rosette plant enclosed in the holder along a second cutting plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2009
    Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegeast- Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO
    Inventors: Michiel Peter Oderwald, Justus Laurens Herder, Roland André Pieter Higler