Patents by Inventor Thomas Busch

Thomas Busch 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: 11691469
    Abstract: A multi-layered sheet material (1) including a reinforcing support (2) having a polymer coating (3) on at least one side, alternatively on both sides, wherein the reinforcing support (2) includes at least one textile fabric (6), such as a supporting woven fabric (6a), wherein the fabric (6), has at least two surface regions (13a; 13b; 34a; 34b) that differ from each other in at least one mechanical property, as well as a crossway element, such as a crossway bellows, for components, vehicles, building connections, or for flight passenger bridges or staircase bridges, including at least one such multi-layered sheet material, and a vehicle, a building connection, and a flight passenger or staircase bridge including such a crossway element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Hübner GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Busch, Andreas Wiegrefe, Reinhard Hübner
  • Patent number: 11364177
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pressure equaliser (1) comprising:—a hollow element (101) with a cup-shaped section (1011) and a tubular section (1013) that merge seamlessly one into the other, and—a sealing element (103) that comprises a top edge (1031) with a first diameter (D1) and a central part (1033) with a second diameter (D2), wherein the top edge of the cup-shaped section (1011) of the hollow element (101) is inserted into the second inner diameter (D2) of the central part (1033) of the sealing element (103), the pressure equaliser being characterised in that at least the hollow element (101) can be disassembled into at least two hollow element parts (10a, 101b) along its longitudinal axis. The present invention further relates to a baby bottle assembly comprising: —a bottle-shaped container (3), —a pressure equaliser (1) according to the invention, —a screw element (5) and—a nipple (7a) or closure cap (7b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Inventors: Florian Enghard, Armin Enghard, Thomas Busch
  • Patent number: 11225269
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a multi-layered sheet material (1) comprising a reinforcing member (2), having a polymer coating (3) at least on one side, preferably on both sides, wherein the reinforcing member (2) comprises at least one backing fabric (6) made of warp threads (7a,b) and weft threads (8a,b), and wherein the sheet material (1) comprises at least one channel (12) extending through the sheet material (1), and wherein the warp and weft threads (7a,b; 8a; 8b) are woven together such that the backing fabric (6) comprises both single layer fabric regions (14) and at least one at least two-layered fabric region having at least two fabric layers (15a,b), which are not joined together, so that the channel (12) is each formed between the fabric layers (15a,b), as a bellows wall (19) of a crossway bellows (16), a crossway element comprising such a sheet material for the protection of a passageway of two vehicle parts or components, which are connected together movably relative to each other,
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Hübner GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Busch, Andreas Wiegrefe, Uwe Werner, Stefan Hanisch
  • Publication number: 20200262654
    Abstract: A flight for use in a mesh conveyor belt assembly that can have a first planar portion and a second planar portion extending non-coplanar to the first planar portion. The first planar portion can have a pair of tabs extending therefrom. Each tab can have a through-hole configured to receive a cross-rod of the mesh conveyor belt assembly therethrough.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Logan Baxter, Brian Robinson, Thomas Busch, William Cannon, Sean Lyons
  • Patent number: 10745175
    Abstract: A container with a taper mechanism, wherein the container is designed to be flexible and is provided for enclosing an object in the interior thereof, wherein the taper mechanism can pull together at least two pulling sides of a tapering surface of the container by means of at least one wire pull to reduce the circumference of the interior of the container, wherein the wire of the wire pull is alternately guided in spaced-apart wire pull guides arranged on the opposite pull sides along the pulling sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: X-CEN-TEK GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Harms, Thomas Busch
  • Publication number: 20200232126
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a one-part, textile-reinforced molded hose (1) having at least one bend along its extension in a hose longitudinal direction (4a), in particular a sealing hose for sealing a screen with respect to a holding frame of a vibrating screen apparatus for separating solids from a mixture of liquid and solids, and to a method for producing the molded hose (1), a vibrating screen apparatus and a vehicle used in public transportation, each having such a sealing hose, and to the use of the molded hose as such a sealing hose.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Andreas WIEGREFE, Thomas BUSCH, Lars KRUG
  • Publication number: 20200023699
    Abstract: A multi-layered sheet material (1) including a reinforcing support (2) having a polymer coating (3) on at least one side, alternatively on both sides, wherein the reinforcing support (2) includes at least one textile fabric (6), such as a supporting woven fabric (6a), wherein the fabric (6), has at least two surface regions (13a; 13b; 34a; 34b) that differ from each other in at least one mechanical property, as well as a crossway element, such as a crossway bellows, for components, vehicles, building connections, or for flight passenger bridges or staircase bridges, including at least one such multi-layered sheet material, and a vehicle, a building connection, and a flight passenger or staircase bridge including such a crossway element
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Thomas Busch, Andreas Wiegrefe, Reinhard Hübner
  • Patent number: 10406015
    Abstract: The invention relates to a patient stabilization and transport aid (1) having two triangular sections (3, 4) made of a flexible material, wherein the sections (3, 4) are attached to one another along a connecting line (5) on one side (A) of the triangle, wherein a handle-reinforcing strip (6), in particular in the form of a belt band, is engaged in a releasable connection (7, 8) with the triangular sections (3, 4) along the connecting line (5), and handle loops (91, 92) are present on the ends (61, 62) of the handle-reinforcing strip (6) protruding beyond the tips (21 and 22; 31 and 32) of the triangular sections (2, 3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: X-CEN-TEK GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Harms, Thomas Busch
  • Publication number: 20190185027
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a multi-layered sheet material (1) comprising a reinforcing member (2), having a polymer coating (3) at least on one side, preferably on both sides, wherein the reinforcing member (2) comprises at least one backing fabric (6) made of warp threads (7a,b) and weft threads (8a,b), and wherein the sheet material (1) comprises at least one channel (12) extending through the sheet material (1), and wherein the warp and weft threads (7a,b; 8a; 8b) are woven together such that the backing fabric (6) comprises both single layer fabric regions (14) and at least one at least two-layered fabric region having at least two fabric layers (15a,b), which are not joined together, so that the channel (12) is each formed between the fabric layers (15a,b), as a bellows wall (19) of a crossway bellows (16), a crossway element comprising such a sheet material for the protection of a passageway of two vehicle parts or components, which are connected together movably relative to each other,
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: Hübner GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas BUSCH, Andreas WIEGREFE, Uwe WERNER, Stefan HANISCH
  • Publication number: 20190175452
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pressure equaliser (1) comprising:—a hollow element (101) with a cup-shaped section (1011) and a tubular section (1013) that merge seamlessly one into the other, and—a sealing element (103) that comprises a top edge (1031) with a first diameter (D1) and a central part (1033) with a second diameter (D2), wherein the top edge of the cup-shaped section (1011) of the hollow element (101) is inserted into the second inner diameter (D2) of the central part (1033) of the sealing element (103), the pressure equaliser being characterised in that at least the hollow element (101) can be disassembled into at least two hollow element parts (10a, 101b) along its longitudinal axis. The present invention further relates to a baby bottle assembly comprising:—a bottle-shaped container (3),—a pressure equaliser (1) according to the invention,—a screw element (5) and—a nipple (7a) or closure cap (7b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Florian Enghard, Armin Enghard, Thomas Busch
  • Patent number: 10295017
    Abstract: A wire fastening device, wherein two parallel wire guides, arranged oppositely are provided on the flat wire fastening device on a first and second guide sides, wherein two wire ends can be fixed permanently in the wire fastening device, which wire ends are guided movably in the wire guides against the wire fastening device, wherein for this purpose two flat sections of the wire fastening device can be fixed removably to one another by means of a fastening device provided to that effect, that the wire guides respectively of a wire end are deflected and run substantially parallel and opposite to one another, so that the guiding direction of the wire ends can be substantially reversed in the wire guiding device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: X-CEN-TEK GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Harms, Thomas Busch
  • Publication number: 20180327139
    Abstract: A container with a taper mechanism, wherein the container is designed to be flexible and is provided for enclosing an object in the interior thereof, wherein the taper mechanism can pull together at least two pulling sides of a tapering surface of the container by means of at least one wire pull to reduce the circumference of the interior of the container, wherein the wire of the wire pull is alternately guided in spaced-apart wire pull guides arranged on the opposite pull sides along the pulling sides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: Andreas Harms, Thomas Busch
  • Publication number: 20180328448
    Abstract: A wire fastening device, wherein two parallel wire guides, arranged oppositely are provided on the flat wire fastening device on a first and second guide sides, wherein two wire ends can be fixed permanently in the wire fastening device, which wire ends are guided movably in the wire guides against the wire fastening device, wherein for this purpose two flat sections of the wire fastening device can be fixed removably to one another by means of a fastening device provided to that effect, that the wire guides respectively of a wire end are deflected and run substantially parallel and opposite to one another, so that the guiding direction of the wire ends can be substantially reversed in the wire guiding device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: Andreas Harms, Thomas Busch
  • Publication number: 20170247119
    Abstract: A material web for a bellows of a gangway between two articulately connected vehicles or a material web for a canopy roof of an air passenger bridge or air passenger stair has at least one reinforcement layer and an elastomer coating on each side of the reinforcement layer. The reinforcement layer is a nonwoven material and an adhesion-promoting layer is disposed between the nonwoven material and the elastomer coatings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Applicant: Hübner Holding GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Busch, Andreas Wiegrefe
  • Patent number: 9458938
    Abstract: The object of the invention is a cover device (1) for moving system or machine parts such as e.g. machine bellows, axle boots etc., the cover device (1) having a reinforcing element, the reinforcing element having a plurality of threads or yarns, the threads or yarns featuring a reticulated silicone-rubber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Hübner GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Lars Krug, Thomas Busch
  • Publication number: 20150328037
    Abstract: The invention relates to a patient stabilization and transport aid (1) having two triangular sections (3, 4) made of a flexible material, wherein the sections (3, 4) are attached to one another along a connecting line (5) on one side (A) of the triangle, wherein a handle-reinforcing strip (6), in particular in the form of a belt band, is engaged in a releasable connection (7, 8) with the triangular sections (3, 4) along the connecting line (5), and handle loops (91, 92) are present on the ends (61, 62) of the handle-reinforcing strip (6) protruding beyond the tips (21 and 22; 31 and 32) of the triangular sections (2, 3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Inventors: Andreas Harms, Thomas Busch
  • Patent number: 9133659
    Abstract: A door seal for a doorway in a vehicle for public passenger transportation has at least one reinforcing element coated with an elastomer, the reinforcing element having a lesser elasticity in the longitudinal direction of the seal than in the transverse direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Hübner GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Lars Krug, Thomas Busch
  • Publication number: 20140361498
    Abstract: The object of the invention is a cover device (1) for moving system or machine parts such as e.g. machine bellows, axle boots etc., the cover device (1) having a reinforcing element, the reinforcing element having a plurality of threads or yarns, the threads or yarns featuring a reticulated silicone-rubber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: Hübner GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Lars Krug, Thomas Busch
  • Publication number: 20140360100
    Abstract: A door seal for a doorway in a vehicle for public passenger transportation has at least one reinforcing element coated with an elastomer, the reinforcing element having a lesser elasticity in the longitudinal direction of the seal than in the transverse direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: Hübner GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Lars Krug, Thomas Busch
  • Patent number: D881620
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Inventors: Florian Enghard, Thomas Busch, Sarah Maiza