Patents by Inventor Roman Mlakar

Roman Mlakar 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: 20240109091
    Abstract: An installation is disclosed for coating objects, preferably automatically, with coating material, the installation having a coating station with at least one coating gun for spraying coating material, in particular as required, in the direction of a coating region, and having a conveying apparatus, by means of which objects to be coated can be transported, in particular continuously, through the coating region. Provision is made, in particular, for the installation to have a device for detecting the presence and/or absence, in a monitoring region located upstream of the coating station—as seen in the conveying direction of the conveying apparatus—of an object to be coated, wherein there is also provided a control device, which is designed to activate the at least one coating gun of the coating station in dependence on the detection result of the device for detecting the presence and/or absence of an object to be coated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Axel Forster, Roman Mlakar Trümpy, Felix Mauchle
  • Publication number: 20240001379
    Abstract: A spray gun, in particular a powder spray gun, has a handle part and a gun barrel connected to the handle part. The spray gun further includes an illumination device for continuously or optionally illuminating and/or lighting at least one region of an object to be coated by the spray gun. The illumination device is detachably and in particular exchangeably connected to the spray gun and has a ring-shaped lighting means carrier with at least one lighting means, in particular in the form of an LED. The lighting means carrier extends around a downstream region of the gun barrel, on which it is radially supported.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Roman Mlakar, Marco Sanwald
  • Patent number: 11633749
    Abstract: A multicolor powder center supplies at least one powder spraying device with different types of coating powder as required. The multicolor powder center has at least one powder container for receiving coating powder and at least one pump unit comprising at least one powder pump, in particular a dense flow pump or a diluted flow pump. The pressure side of the at least one powder pump is fluidically connected or can be fluidically connected to the powder inlet of a powder spraying device. The at least one powder container has at least one suction channel which is preferably formed in a suction pipe and which has a suction opening that opens into the interior of the powder container and an opposite discharge opening that opens into a connection, wherein the suction side of the at least one powder pump can be fluidically connected to the connection of the powder container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: GEMA SWITZERLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Roman Mlakar, Mark Steinemann, Marco Sanwald, Felix Mauchle
  • Patent number: 11446686
    Abstract: A multicolor powder center is disclosed for supplying at least one powder spraying device with different types of coating powder as required. The multicolor powder center has a first powder container for receiving a first type of coating powder, at least one second powder container for receiving a second type of coating powder, and at least one pump unit comprising at least one powder pump. The pressure side of the at least one powder pump is fluidically connected or can be fluidically connected to the powder inlet of a powder spraying device. The at least one pump unit and/or the powder container can be moved relative to each other such that the suction side of the at least one powder pump is fluidically connected or can be fluidically connected either to the interior of the first powder container or the interior of the at least one second powder container as required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: GEMA SWITZERLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Roman Mlakar, Mark Steinemann, Marco Sanwald, Felix Mauchle
  • Patent number: 11446685
    Abstract: A multicolor powder center is provided for supplying at least one powder spraying device with different types of coating powder as required. The multicolor powder center has at least one powder container for receiving coating powder and at least one pump unit comprising at least one powder pump, in particular a dense flow pump or a diluted flow pump. The pressure side of the at least one powder pump is fluidically connected or can be fluidically connected to the powder inlet of a powder spraying device. The pump unit is paired with a docking unit, via which the suction side of the at least one powder pump can be fluidically connected to the interior of the powder container as required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: GEMA SWITZERLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Roman Mlakar, Mark Steinemann, Marco Sanwald, Felix Mauchle
  • Publication number: 20210060590
    Abstract: A multicolor powder center is disclosed for supplying at least one powder spraying device with different types of coating powder as required. The multicolor powder center has a first powder container for receiving a first type of coating powder, at least one second powder container for receiving a second type of coating powder, and at least one pump unit comprising at least one powder pump. The pressure side of the at least one powder pump is fluidically connected or can be fluidically connected to the powder inlet of a powder spraying device. The at least one pump unit and/or the powder container can be moved relative to each other such that the suction side of the at least one powder pump is fluidically connected or can be fluidically connected either to the interior of the first powder container or the interior of the at least one second powder container as required.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Roman Mlakar, Mark Steinemann, Marco Sanwald, Felix Mauchle
  • Publication number: 20200360945
    Abstract: A multicolor powder center is provided for supplying at least one powder spraying device with different types of coating powder as required. The multicolor powder center has at least one powder container for receiving coating powder and at least one pump unit comprising at least one powder pump, in particular a dense flow pump or a diluted flow pump. The pressure side of the at least one powder pump is fluidically connected or can be fluidically connected to the powder inlet of a powder spraying device. The pump unit is paired with a docking unit, via which the suction side of the at least one powder pump can be fluidically connected to the interior of the powder container as required.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Roman Mlakar, Mark Steinemann, Marco Sanwald, Felix Mauchle
  • Publication number: 20200331011
    Abstract: A multicolor powder center supplies at least one powder spraying device with different types of coating powder as required. The multicolor powder center has at least one powder container for receiving coating powder and at least one pump unit comprising at least one powder pump, in particular a dense flow pump or a diluted flow pump. The pressure side of the at least one powder pump is fluidically connected or can be fluidically connected to the powder inlet of a powder spraying device. The at least one powder container has at least one suction channel which is preferably formed in a suction pipe and which has a suction opening that opens into the interior of the powder container and an opposite discharge opening that opens into a connection, wherein the suction side of the at least one powder pump can be fluidically connected to the connection of the powder container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Roman Mlakar, Mark Steinemann, Marco Sanwald, Felix Mauchle