Patents by Inventor Tomas Starec

Tomas Starec 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).

  • Flexible filter element with a plastic frame formed thereon by injection molding
    Patent number: 9975072
    Abstract: A filter element to be inserted into a filter housing, has a filter medium with a rim, wherein the rim is connected to an injection-molded frame or at least one injection-molded frame element, providing a flexibly bendable filter element using a frame made of plastic attached by injection molding, wherein the frame or at least one frame element is made of plastics of different hardnesses in alternation in at least one extension direction, such that the filter element can be bent flexibly at least in part by deforming the filter medium and the frame or frame element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Carl Freudenberg KG
    Inventors: Peter Capuani, Thomas Stoesser, Tomas Starec
  • FLEXIBLE FILTER ELEMENT WITH A PLASTIC FRAME FORMED THEREON BY INJECTION MOLDING
    Publication number: 20160279546
    Abstract: A filter element to be inserted into a filter housing, has a filter medium with a rim, wherein the rim is connected to an injection-molded frame or at least one injection-molded frame element, providing a flexibly bendable filter element using a frame made of plastic attached by injection molding, wherein the frame or at least one frame element is made of plastics of different hardnesses in alternation in at least one extension direction, such that the filter element can be bent flexibly at least in part by deforming the filter medium and the frame or frame element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Peter Capuani, Thomas Stoesser, Tomas Starec