Patents by Inventor Rolf Bronnimann

Rolf Bronnimann 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).

  • Patent number: 9758968
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method according to which a profile consisting of a shape-memory alloy is placed into concrete, or a concrete to be reinforced is roughened on the outside, then profiles (2) consisting of a shape-memory alloy are fastened to the roughened outside (9) of the structure (6) and a cementitious matrix is applied to the roughened outside (9) to cover the profiles (2). After the cementitious matrix has set, said profiles (2) produce a contraction force and thus a tension as a result of the input of heat. The mortar covering layer (16) thereby acts as a reinforcement layer owing to the interlocking of the mortar covering layer (16) with the roughened outside (9) of the structure (6). The profiles (2) run in an outer mortar as a reinforcement layer (16) of the outside of a structure along the outside of the structure inside the mortar or reinforcement layer (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignees: re-Fer AG, EMPA
    Inventors: Christian Leinenbach, Masoud Motavalli, Benedikt Weber, Wookjin Lee, Rolf Brönnimann, Christoph Czaderski
  • Publication number: 20160053492
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method according to which a profile consisting of a shape-memory alloy is placed into concrete, or a concrete to be reinforced is roughened on the outside, then profiles (2) consisting of a shape-memory alloy are fastened to the roughened outside (9) of the structure (6) and a cementitious matrix is applied to the roughened outside (9) to cover the profiles (2). After the cementitious matrix has set, said profiles (2) produce a contraction force and thus a tension as a result of the input of heat. The mortar covering layer (16) thereby acts as a reinforcement layer owing to the interlocking of the mortar covering layer (16) with the roughened outside (9) of the structure (6). The profiles (2) run in an outer mortar as a reinforcement layer (16) of the outside of a structure along the outside of the structure inside the mortar or reinforcement layer (16).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Applicants: RE-FER AG, EMPA
    Inventors: Christian LEINENBACH, Masoud MOTAVALLI, Benedikt WEBER, Wookjin LEE, Rolf BRĂ–NNIMANN, Christoph CZADERSKI
  • Patent number: 5164765
    Abstract: The copying light of a source of copying light is attenuated in areas using a mask with different density ranges to influence the density by areas of a copy to be produced from a copy master. The appropriate area of the mask is selected by analyzing a location dependent density variation of the mask stored in matrix form in a computing and evaluating unit by predetermined criteria. A photographic copying apparatus associated with the process includes an exposure station with a mask mounted on a slide. The slide may be displaced in response to control signals determined and generated in the computing and evaluating unit. The slide is displaced in a plane parallel to a transport plane of the copy master in the beam path of a source of copying light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1992
    Assignee: Gretag Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Christa Strobel, Rolf Bronnimann
  • Patent number: 5109251
    Abstract: The copy master is illuminated in scanning sections located along scanning lines and measuring light coming from the scanning sections of a scanning line is spectrally decomposed and subsequently passed onto a photoreceiver line coordinated with the scanning line involved. Along this photoreceiver line photoreceiver groups sequentially follow each other, each group being assigned to the spectrum of a scanning section of the scanning line involved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1992
    Assignee: Gretag Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Rolf Bronnimann, Harald Maxeiner