Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Zimmerman

Wolfgang Zimmerman 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: 8769902
    Abstract: A tile system, comprising: —a mounting unit, e.g. a rail fixed to a wall; —a tile unit, e.g. a frame holding a decorative tile; —a tile unit-fastening device configured to fasten the tile unit to the mounting unit, e.g. a pin engaging recesses formed on the mounting and the tile unit, the tile unit-fastening device preferably comprising a repositioning mechanism configured to allow the tile unit to move in one or two directions parallel to the wall after the tile unit is fastened to the mounting unit, e.g. the pin having ribs on its outer surface and the recesses being elongated and having cooperating ribs on their elongated inner faces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Mohawk Carpet Corporation
    Inventors: Wesley A. King, Wolfgang Zimmerman
  • Publication number: 20110289864
    Abstract: A tile system, comprising: —a mounting unit, e.g. a rail fixed to a wall; —a tile unit, e.g. a frame holding a decorative tile; —a tile unit-fastening device configured to fasten the tile unit to the mounting unit, e.g. a pin engaging recesses formed on the mounting and the tile unit, the tile unit-fastening device preferably comprising a repositioning mechanism configured to allow the tile unit to move in one or two directions parallel to the wall after the tile unit is fastened to the mounting unit, e.g. the pin having ribs on its outer surface and the recesses being elongated and having cooperating ribs on their elongated inner faces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: Mohawk Carpet Corporation
    Inventors: Wesley A. King, Wolfgang Zimmerman
  • Patent number: 4954072
    Abstract: To provide a thermodynamic pinpoint gate nozzle which will permit a so-called cosmetic gate without stringing, and during which the plastic material to be processed is not subjected to high viscous or shear stress by the heating elements placed inside the nozzle channel, it is provided that the pinpoint gate nozzle on the side facing the mold cavity exhibits a low-mass inside nozzle (7) and that inside nozzle (7) can be heated by an ohmic resistance wire either inductively or by inside nozzle (7) formed as a Peltier element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 4, 1990
    Inventor: Wolfgang Zimmerman