Patents by Inventor Thorsten Wichmann

Thorsten Wichmann 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: 9957987
    Abstract: Trench drains are hollow or grid-like bodies which can be installed in the ground and are intended to receive precipitated surface water and slowly dissipate it into the ground or to store the water. These hollow or grid-like bodies are constructed from individual drainage bodies which must be firmly connected together. Drainage body connecting elements are proposed for connecting drainage bodies, which comprise two pegs which are connected via a web and can each be inserted in a receiving orifice of a drainage body so the two drainage bodies can be connected together via the web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: ACO SEVERIN AHLMANN GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Marco Wandkowski, Jan Mieze, Thorsten Wichmann
  • Patent number: 9169630
    Abstract: The invention concerns a cover element for covering an opening in an in particular horizontal surface of a drainage body, with an edge region which is configured to support the cover element on the drainage body, and with a cover region which has a grid-like or perforated structure with supporting elements. It is distinguished in that the supporting elements have a thickness increasing in the vertical direction starting from the edge region in the direction of the regions remote from the edge, such that the cover element has a substantially plano-convex outer contour.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: ACO Severin Ahlmann GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Thorsten Wichmann, Arne Meincke, Jan Mieze
  • Publication number: 20150017384
    Abstract: The invention concerns a cover element for covering an opening in an in particular horizontal surface of a drainage body, with an edge region which is configured to support the cover element on the drainage body, and with a cover region which has a grid-like or perforated structure with supporting elements It is distinguished in that the supporting elements have a thickness increasing in the vertical direction starting from the edge region in the direction of the regions remote from the edge, such that the cover element has a substantially plano-convex outer contour.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Thorsten Wichmann, Arne Meincke, Jan Mieze
  • Publication number: 20150016874
    Abstract: Trench drains are hollow or grid-like bodies which can be installed in the ground and are intended to receive precipitated surface water and slowly dissipate it into the ground or to store the water. These hollow or grid-like bodies are constructed from individual drainage bodies which must be firmly connected together. Drainage body connecting elements are proposed for connecting drainage bodies, which comprise two pegs which are connected via a web can each be inserted in a receiving orifice of a drainage body so the two drainage bodies can be connected together via the web.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Marco Wandkowski, Jan Mieze, Thorsten Wichmann