Patents by Inventor Stefan Kotowski

Stefan Kotowski 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: 5384020
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for sealing an electrical connection between an anode structure for cathodic protection against corrosion and a connecting cable with an electrically insulating jacket, an annular body of elastic material, such as rubber for example, which surrounds in a sleeve-like manner the junction between an insulation-stripped end of the connecting cable and a socket on a current feed pin of titanium for the anode structure. By radial compression of a terminal body of plastically deformable material thrust onto the annular body the annular body is pressed at its one end onto the insulating jacket in the end area of the connecting cable and at its other end onto the outer surface of the current connecting pin of the anode structure, in a liquid-tight manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1995
    Assignee: Heraeus Elektrochemie GmbH
    Inventors: Gunter Oppermann, Rudiger Weinhardt, Stefan Kotowski
  • Patent number: 5232891
    Abstract: Catalytic gauzes which have an enlarged surface can be manufactured from a wire made of 90Pt/10Rh, for example, by coating the wire with a base metal, thermally treating the wire under partial conversion of the 90Pt/10Rh into solid solutions with the base metal, dissolving the base metal and weaving a wire gauze. They are used for the oxidation of ammonia and the ammoxidation of methane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1993
    Assignee: W. C. Heraeus GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Hormann, Stefan Kotowski, David F. Lupton, Werner Reiss, Friedhold Scholz, Bruno Streb, Antje Viel
  • Patent number: 5135633
    Abstract: An anode arrangement used in electrolytic processes for steel strip galvanizing or chrome-plating has a plate-like anode of titanium with an active surface, which is connected to a generally planar carrier having a steel core and a current supply conductor comprising a sleeve element and a bushing element. The core has a passage extending through it to receive the bushing element, and, for protection against attack by the electrolytic solution, the core is loosely surrounded by an envelope of titanium foil; in the region of the bushing element, the envelope has passages, the edges of which are welded to the bushing element in a gas-tight and fluid-tight manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1992
    Assignee: Heraeus Elektroden GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Kotowski, Rudiger Weinhardt, Gerhardt Dehm, Reinhard Koch