Patents by Inventor Thomas Karcz

Thomas Karcz 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: 11876430
    Abstract: Apparatus for sound insulation of a machine has a sleeve which has a sound-absorbing composite material wall with a plastic carrier layer. The composite material wall has two edge regions which lie against and/or above one another and each have a boundary edge which can be connected by at least one plug-in connection arrangement. The at least one plug-in connection arrangement has a plug-in tab arranged in one first edge region of the composite material wall and a receiving element which is arranged in the other second edge region of the composite material wall and into which the plug-in tab can be plugged. The plug-in tab has a web which has an end connected to the plastic carrier layer and an end section facing away from this end and having an insertion end and an upper side and an underside with at least one locking recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Inventors: Frank Riederer, Thomas Karcz, Volkmar Schulze
  • Publication number: 20230160336
    Abstract: Disclosed is a fully enclosing engine or unit capsule of a motor vehicle with an air cushion foil, whereby the acoustic component properties can be significantly influenced, tuned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Inventors: Frank RIEDERER, Thomas KARCZ, Volkmar SCHULZE
  • Publication number: 20230082634
    Abstract: The apparatus for fastening a vehicle component in and/or on a vehicle has a sound insulation element with a carrier layer and a sound absorbing layer. An anchoring recess is formed in the carrier layer and has an insertion opening in a first side of the carrier layer, which insertion opening is adjoined by a receiving space which is delimited by the plastic material of the carrier layer and is defined by a closed circumferential inner side and a closed bottom surface. An anchoring element is further provided. The anchoring recess has a constriction area formed on the circumferential inner side and at least partially narrowing the receiving space, with a widened widening area adjoining in the direction of the bottom surface. The anchoring element has an anchoring shoulder for engaging behind the constriction area when the anchoring element is received by the anchoring recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Frank RIEDERER, Thomas KARCZ, Volkmar SCHULZE, Wolfgang RIEDISSER, Tobias BAEUERLE
  • Publication number: 20220085688
    Abstract: Apparatus for sound insulation of a machine has a sleeve which has a sound-absorbing composite material wall with a plastic carrier layer. The composite material wall has two edge regions which lie against and/or above one another and each have a boundary edge which can be connected by at least one plug-in connection arrangement. The at least one plug-in connection arrangement has a plug-in tab arranged in one first edge region of the composite material wall and a receiving element which is arranged in the other second edge region of the composite material wall and into which the plug-in tab can be plugged. The plug-in tab has a web which has an end connected to the plastic carrier layer and an end section facing away from this end and having an insertion end and an upper side and an underside with at least one locking recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: Frank RIEDERER, Thomas KARCZ, Volkmar SCHULZE
  • Publication number: 20220073013
    Abstract: A sound insulation element for the wall of a vehicle body between the passenger compartment and the engine compartment has a front side facing the passenger compartment formed by the outer side of A plastic carrier layer, and a rear side which rests against the front wall formed by the outer side of a sound-absorbing layer. At least one holding-down projection projects from the plastic carrier layer at and/or offset from the edge of the hole of the carrier layer on the inner side of the plastic carrier layer facing away from the outer side of the plastic carrier layer facing the sound-absorbing layer, which is embedded in the sound-absorbing material of the sound-absorbing layer and whose free ends facing away from the plastic carrier layer are substantially aligned with the outer side of the sound-absorbing layer facing away from the plastic carrier layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Volkmar SCHULZE, Frank RIEDERER, Thomas KARCZ
  • Patent number: 11142140
    Abstract: A noise insulation element (14) for the bulkhead (12) of a vehicle body (10) is provided with a mass-spring element (20) which has a plastic support layer (22) as the heavy layer with a front side facing away from the bulkhead (12) when the mass-spring element (20) is installed and with a rear side facing towards the bulkhead (12), and a noise damping layer (24) made from a noise insulating material connected to the rear wall as the spring layer. The support layer (22) is provided on its rear side with an integrally designed hollow fixing projection (16) which is formed on an edge recess with a recess edge which recess is open towards an outer limiting edge section (28) of the support layer (22) and a side wall (30) projecting from the rear side of the support layer (22) and extending along the recess edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Adler Pelzer Holding GMBH
    Inventors: Frank Riederer, Thomas Karcz, Volkmar Schulze, Michael Johler, Wolfgang Riedisser
  • Publication number: 20200031292
    Abstract: A noise insulation element (14) for the bulkhead (12) of a vehicle body (10) is provided with a mass-spring element (20) which has a plastic support layer (22) as the heavy layer with a front side facing away from the bulkhead (12) when the mass-spring element (20) is installed and with a rear side facing towards the bulk-head (12), and a noise damping layer (24) made from a noise insulating material connected to the rear wall as the spring layer. The support layer (22) is provided on its rear side with an integrally designed hollow fixing projection (16) which is formed on an edge recess with a recess edge which recess is open towards an outer limiting edge section (28) of the support layer (22) and a side wall (30) projecting from the rear side of the support layer (22) and extending along the recess edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Frank RIEDERER, Thomas KARCZ, Volkmar SCHULZE, Michael JOHLER, Wolfgang RIEDISSER
  • Publication number: 20160207241
    Abstract: The invention concerns a compounder-injection-molding unit, wherein a continuously operating compounder is coupled to a discontinuously operating screw injection-molding machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: HP PELZER HOLDING GMBH
    Inventors: Joerg GERIGK, Tariq OWEIMREEN, Volkmar SCHULZE, Thomas KARCZ, Thomas BUCKI, Norbert NICOLAI
  • Publication number: 20160108511
    Abstract: A method for spray-coating substrate surfaces, in which (a) a thermoplastically processable material is molten and thus liquefied in an extruder in a first step; (b) the molten material is pressurized by means of a carrier gas or vapor; (c) a mixture formed from said molten material and said carrier gas or vapor is pressed through one or more nozzles, optionally supplying a spraying gas having a temperature at least as high as the melt temperature to the spraying jet in the region of the discharge opening of the nozzle; and (d) the obtained spray jet with the molten material is directed onto the substrate surface, wherein the material impinges in drops in a flowable state onto the substrate surface, forms a continuous coating on the substrate surface, and subsequently solidifies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicant: HP PELZER HOLDING GMBH
    Inventors: Norbert Nicolai, Volkmar Schulze, Thomas Karcz, Sergej Kohlert, Joachim Meyke, Holger Schaarschmidt, Toni Nippe, Christian Urban
  • Patent number: 8912271
    Abstract: The present invention relates to filled thermoplastic polyolefin compositions useful e.g., as sound-deadening sheeting for formed automotive applications comprising a propylene polymer having a density equal to or greater than 0.885 g/cm3, one or more linear ethylene polymer and/or substantially linear polymer, a plasticizer, and a filler, preferably calcium carbonate. Said composition demonstrates a good balance of heat properties and stiffness such that it is particularly suitable for sheet extrusion and thermoforming articles therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: James T. Seliskar, James D. Oelberg, Tariq S. Oweimreen, Paul M. Sowers, Thomas Karcz
  • Publication number: 20130187076
    Abstract: The present invention relates to filled thermoplastic polyolefin compositions useful e.g., as sound-deadening sheeting for formed automotive applications comprising a propylene polymer having a density equal to or greater than 0.885 g/cm3, one or more linear ethylene polymer and/or substantially linear polymer, a plasticizer, and a filler, preferably calcium carbonate. Said composition demonstrates a good balance of heat properties and stiffness such that it is particularly suitable for sheet extrusion and thermoforming articles therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicants: HP PELZER HOLDING GMBH, DOW GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: James T. Seliskar, James D. Oelberg, Tariq S. Oweimreen, Paul M. Sowers, Thomas Karcz