Patents by Inventor Udo Michaelis

Udo Michaelis 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: 6682683
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an accordion filter insert in which an accordion filter pack is introduced into a mold and a space remaining thereafter in the mold is filled with a liquefied polymer material so as to form a frame surrounding the accordion filter pack. At least one peripheral elastically deformable sealing lip, consisting of the material of the frame, is produced together with the frame and is consolidated concurrently therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Assignee: Firma Carl Freudenberg
    Inventors: Udo Michaelis, Dieter Linse, Jörgen Knudsen
  • Patent number: 6582213
    Abstract: The bellows (6) of a filter cartridge is inserted into an injection-molding die (3) and provided with the plastic frame (24) by an injection-molding process. The surfaces of the die (3) that lie opposite one another are provided, at least at their edge surfaces (15), with sawtooth-like profiles (1, 2; 30, 31). The sawtooth-like profiles engage with one another and hold the individual folds (22, 23; 35, 36) of the bellows (6) in a defined position relative to one another. The bellows (6) is held by the profiles (1, 2; 30, 31) at its face edges (19) over a narrow region (18), and pressed together, forming a seal, for the injection-molding process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2003
    Assignee: Firma Carl Freudenberg
    Inventor: Udo Michaelis
  • Publication number: 20010013670
    Abstract: The bellows (6) of a filter cartridge is inserted into an injection-molding die (3) and provided with the plastic frame (24) by an injection-molding process. The surfaces of the die (3) that lie opposite one another are provided, at least at their edge surfaces (15), with sawtooth-like profiles (1, 2; 30, 31). The sawtooth-like profiles engage with one another and hold the individual folds (22, 23; 35, 36) of the bellows (6) in a defined position relative to one another. The bellows (6) is held by the profiles (1, 2; 30, 31) at its face edges (19) over a narrow region (18), and pressed together, forming a seal, for the injection-molding process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2000
    Publication date: August 16, 2001
    Inventor: Udo Michaelis
  • Patent number: 6165403
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a filter cartridge that has a filter medium, which, on the circumferential side, is surrounded with clearance by a gasket-seal. The method provides for a frame to be arranged in the gap formed by the clearance, and sealingly bonded to the edges of the filter medium and the gasket-seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Assignee: Firma Carl Freudenberg
    Inventors: Udo Michaelis, Jorgen Knudsen
  • Patent number: 6162272
    Abstract: An accordion filter insert has a frame formed about the filter material. The frame has an elastically deformable sealing lip on the periphery of the frame. The elastically deformable sealing lip is formed of the same material as the frame itself. The sealing lip and frame are formed as a unitary piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2000
    Assignee: Firma Carl Freudenberg
    Inventors: Udo Michaelis, Dieter Linse, Jorgen Knudsen
  • Patent number: 6045600
    Abstract: A filter cartridge has a filter medium, which, on the circumferential side, is surrounded with clearance by a gasket-seal. A frame is arranged in the gap formed by the clearance, and is sealingly bonded to the edges of the filter medium and the gasket-seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2000
    Assignee: Firma Carl Freudenberg
    Inventors: Udo Michaelis, Jorgen Knudsen
  • Patent number: 6010548
    Abstract: A spaced pocket filter assembly has a pocket secured to a holding frame and a spacing member within the pocket made of a single sheet of material. The spacing member has an alternately folded Z or zig zag configuration and is secured to the interior of the pocket along each of the fold lines. The pocket assembly can be manufactured by interposing a roll of a sheet media for the spacing member between rolls of filter media for the pocket. The spacing member media is folded into the Z or zig zag configuration, layered between the pocket media, and secured to the pocket media continuously along the fold lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2000
    Assignee: Freudenberg Nonwovens Limited Partnership
    Inventors: Robert B. Burkhead, Klaus Schwobel, Udo Michaelis
  • Patent number: 5958097
    Abstract: A filter insert. The filter insert includes an accordion fold pack that is made of a filter material and is joined to a filter frame. The material of the filter frame is injected in a flowable state into the folds of the accordion fold pack which are open in the on-coming flow direction of the medium to be filtered. The material is subsequently hardened during automatic claw fixation with the fold walls. The entire peripheral edge of the accordion fold pack sealingly overlaps the outer boundary surfaces of the filter frame, and is designed as a sealing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1999
    Assignee: Firma Carl Freudenberg
    Inventors: Ulrich Schlor, Udo Michaelis, Jorgen Knudsen
  • Patent number: 5863482
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a filter insert, and the filter insert so manufactured. The filter insert includes an accordion fold pack that is made of a filter material and is joined to a filter frame. The material of the filter frame is injected in a flowable state into the folds of the accordion fold pack which are open in the on-coming flow direction of the medium to be filtered. The material is subsequently hardened during automatic claw fixation with the fold walls. The entire peripheral edge of the accordion fold pack sealingly overlaps the outer boundary surfaces of the filter frame, and is designed as a sealing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1999
    Assignee: Firma Carl Freudenberg
    Inventors: Ulrich Schlor, Udo Michaelis, Jorgen Knudsen
  • Patent number: 5695535
    Abstract: A pocket filter includes a front frame which accommodates at least two filter bags. The top of each bag accommodates a reinforcing frame. The bags are secured dust-tight to one another, to the reinforcing frames, and to the front frame. The front frame is a severed at at least one point along its perimeter. The front frame has a U-shaped channel around it that opens inward, and the reinforcing frames can be inserted into the channel when the front frame is open at the severed point. The reinforcing frames match each other and match the size of the front frame, creating a dust-tight contact between all the adjacent reinforcing frames and the inner surface of the channel when the front frame is closed at the severed point. Facing webs, disposed in the channel opening on each side of the "U", create a dust-tight contact with the reinforcing frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 9, 1997
    Assignee: Carl Freudenberg
    Inventors: Dieter Hintenlang, Dieter Unrath, Udo Michaelis, Margit Hofmann
  • Patent number: 5167740
    Abstract: A filter insert of nonwoven material in the form of a pleated pack is self-supporting and consists of thermally weldable nonwoven (1). Each of the two outside ends (3) of the pleated pack (2) is hemmed by the nonwoven material (1) forming the pleats, which is folded over in the same direction and at the same time is fixed in tight contact to the corresponding folded of the adjacent pleat end. At the same time the nonwoven material projects beyond the near crease of the adjacent pleat end by 0.5 to 1.5 times the pleat spacing. For manufacture, the flat filter material (1) is first pleated and then a defined pleat spacing (7) is produced by drawing it apart to a limited extent. Then the two outside edges (8) of the pleated pack are gripped between comb-like tools (9) entering pincer-wise into the pleating at top and bottom, leaving the filter material projecting beyond the tools on each side by 1.5 to 2.5 times the pleat spacing (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1992
    Assignee: Carl Freudenberg
    Inventors: Udo Michaelis, Ulrich Schlor