Patents Assigned to Muehlbauer AG
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Publication number: 20140360840Abstract: A device for turning over identification objects comprising a receiving device for holding an identification object, wherein the receiving device can be moved from an initial position along a guide, and a first rolling element, which is rotatably received in the receiving device, wherein the first rolling element comprises a blocking device, which permits rotation of the receiving device in a first direction. The first rolling element, during movement along the first bearing, performs a rotation in the first direction and the receiving device performs a rotation in the first direction via the first rolling element. During an opposite movement of the receiving device, the first rolling element performs a rotation in a second direction opposite to the first direction, wherein the blocking device prevents rotation of the receiving device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2012Publication date: December 11, 2014Applicant: MUEHLBAUER AGInventor: Maximilian Kirschbauer
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Publication number: 20140291119Abstract: A device for transferring electronic components from a first carrier to a second carrier. A first receiving portion positions the first carrier on a support, wherein the electronic components are provided on a side of the first carrier, which faces away from the support. A second receiving portion positions the second carrier. The first receiving portion and the second receiving portion are arranged with respect to each other in such a manner that a gap separates the first carrier from the second carrier. A cap and/or the second receiving portion move from a first position into a second position to make the gap smaller. At least one slide lifts the first carrier, which is applied against the support, away from the support, and to move an electronic component provided on the first carrier, in the direction of the second carrier.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2012Publication date: October 2, 2014Applicant: MUEHLBAUER AGInventors: Thomas Courts, Sigmund Niklas, Gerhard Schiller, Markus Dogariu
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Publication number: 20140216990Abstract: A method and a device for sorting identification objects is described, wherein identification objects are fed in a defined sequence, one after the other, to a first transfer position and inspected for defects. Identification objects identified as defect-free are transferred in the first transfer position by a first transfer arrangement to a transfer buffer, and identification objects identified as defective are transported away by a first transport arrangement. The defect-free identification objects are then fed to a first magazine, which is then transported to a second transfer position by a second transport arrangement. The first magazine is then aligned in a first position with a first buffer of a rotatable sorting arrangement, and the defect-free identification objects following the defective identification objects are transported by the first transport arrangement to the second transfer position and transferred by a second transfer arrangement to the first buffer.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2012Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: MUEHLBAUER AGInventors: Maximilian Kirschbauer, Thomas Valta
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Patent number: 8796064Abstract: A method for producing thin-film solar modules, comprising the following steps: providing flexible thin-film solar cells as separate segments in a container or on a web wound up to a roll, the flexible thin-film solar cells bearing with a first side against the web, wherein each of the flexible thin-film solar cells is designed to have a first electric pole and a second electric pole; transferring the flexible thin-film solar cells from the web to a first film web such that the first pole of a first flexible thin-film solar cell is positioned next to the second pole of a second thin-film solar cell; and applying electrically conductive contact strips to the first and second poles of the flexible thin-film solar cells in longitudinal and/or transverse direction relative to the conveying direction of the first film web.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2011Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Muehlbauer AGInventor: Volker Brod
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Patent number: 8735764Abstract: A thermode device for connecting and/or electrically contacting a plurality of first semiconductor components to at least one support element and/or to a plurality of second semiconductor components by heating an adhesive under the application of pressure. An example thermode device includes a basic body and a heating element which can be extended out of the basic body and which, under the application of pressure, acts on at least one of the first semiconductor components, wherein the basic body has on its underside a plurality of heating plates which are oriented vertically and are arranged next to one another. Each heating plate has on its end and underside a plurality of the extendable heating elements, to the underside of each of which there is assigned a first semiconductor component.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2006Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: Muehlbauer AGInventors: Ewald Weckerle, Alexander Wodarz, Stefan Bierl, Niklas Sigmund
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Patent number: 8735218Abstract: A method of producing an electronic module with at least one electronic component and one carrier. A structure is provided on the carrier so that the electronic component can take a desired target position relative to the structure. The structure is coated with a liquid meniscus suitable for receiving the electronic component. Multiple electronic components are provided at a delivery point for the electronic components. The carrier, with the structure, is moved nearby and opposite to the delivery point, where the delivery point delivers one of the electronic components without contact, while the structure on the carrier is moving near the delivery point, so that after a phase of free movement the electronic component at least partly touches the material, and the carrier, with the structure, is moved to a downstream processing point, while the electronic component aligns itself to the structure on the liquid meniscus.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2009Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: Muehlbauer AGInventors: Michael Max Mueller, Helfried Zabel, Hans-Peter Monser
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Patent number: 8558861Abstract: A method and a device for recording information within an information surface region in a data carrier, consisting of a carrier layer and a transparent plastic layer, by means of at least one laser beam of a point-like laser source wherein the laser beam is deflected via at least one deflection surface, in particular a mirrored surface before it impinges on the data carrier, wherein the at least one deflection surface is arranged in a region between the laser source and the data carrier and outside an intermediate region bounded by notional straight connection lines between the laser source and edge regions of the information surface region.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2007Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignee: Muehlbauer AGInventors: Michael Wanjek, Axel Schwarzmeier
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Publication number: 20130214050Abstract: A system for processing security or identification objects, comprising a transfer device which is receives and re-delivers at least one security or identification object. The system includes processing, control, inventory or receiving modules which are arranged on an enclosure having an at least partially closed periphery. The periphery of the enclosures surrounds the space in which the transfer device moves the security or identification objects so that the space in which the security or identification objects are moved and a space surrounding the enclosure are spatially separated from each other. The periphery of the enclosure includes openings through which the transfer device receives the security or identification objects from the surrounding space and delivers same to the surrounding space and through which the supply and/or discharge of the security or identification objects to/from the modules takes place.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2011Publication date: August 22, 2013Applicant: MUEHLBAUER AGInventor: Boris Fruehauf
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Publication number: 20130052773Abstract: A method for producing thin-film solar modules, comprising the following steps: providing flexible thin-film solar cells as separate segments in a container or on a web wound up to a roll, the flexible thin-film solar cells bearing with a first side against the web, wherein each of the flexible thin-film solar cells is designed to have a first electric pole and a second electric pole; transferring the flexible thin-film solar cells from the web to a first film web such that the first pole of a first flexible thin-film solar cell is positioned next to the second pole of a second thin-film solar cell; and applying electrically conductive contact strips to the first and second poles of the flexible thin-film solar cells in longitudinal and/or transverse direction relative to the conveying direction of the first film web.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2011Publication date: February 28, 2013Applicant: MUEHLBAUER AGInventor: Volker Brod
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Patent number: 8348170Abstract: A simple and universal technique for fabricating different antenna structures, in particular a multilayer antenna structure, on a substrate is disclosed. Before the antenna is actually fabricated or placed on the substrate, connecting surfaces for connecting an antenna conductor and/or a chip or a chip module as well as through-platings extending through the antenna substrate are prepared between the connecting surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Mühlbauer AGInventor: Volker Brod
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Patent number: 8206524Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for producing film composites. In a first method step, a first individual film is picked up by at least one first gripping device and the gripping device is moved together with the film in a first movement direction. In a further method step, the position of the film in the first movement direction is determined, and the film is fixed at a predefined position in the first movement direction. In a further method step, the position of the first film in a second movement direction is determined, said second movement direction being substantially perpendicular to the first movement direction, and the first film is moved in a second movement direction. According to the invention, the film is gripped by a second gripping device for transport in the second movement direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2007Date of Patent: June 26, 2012Assignee: Muehlbauer AGInventor: Lutz Heubach
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Patent number: 8205547Abstract: The invention relates to an embossing apparatus for embossing cards, in particular plastic cards, comprising a feed unit for feeding a card into an embossing region, and an embossing device. The embossing device comprises a displaceable, actuatable embossing die which can be positioned above a position that is to be embossed in the embossing region; a plunger unit which has a displaceable plunger for moving forward the actuatable embossing die, and a striking mechanism for applying pressure to the plunger of the plunger unit in order to carry out an embossing on a card in the embossing region by means of the embossing die.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2007Date of Patent: June 26, 2012Assignee: Muehlbauer AGInventors: Alexander Godecke, Martin Dimpfl, Tino Henze, Christian Dobler
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Patent number: 8136231Abstract: A positioning apparatus for transferring at least one electronic component, in particular a chip, from a first flat support to at least one predetermined location on a second flat support which extends parallel to the first support, comprising an ejection device for removing the component from the first support by means of an ejection movement, wherein a camera device is provided for detecting position data of the predetermined location, of the component to be removed from the first support and optionally of the ejection device, which together with the camera device are arranged essentially on an imaginary common straight line. A positioning method is also described.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2004Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: Muehlbauer AGInventor: Gerhard Schiller
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Patent number: 8098139Abstract: There is disclosed a test head device for testing the functionality of a large number of RFID chips arranged in smart labels (17) within a smart label production apparatus by means of a data reading and/or data writing process, wherein the smart labels (17), each comprising a first antenna (10a-10e), are placed next to and behind one another on a common continuously moving strip, wherein the test head device comprises a plurality of test systems which function independently of one another, each of said test systems consisting of a write and/or read unit (12a-e), a second antenna (3, 11a-e; 18) connected thereto which is in each case assigned to one of the first antennas (10a-10e) for simultaneously transmitting read and/or write data between the first and second antennas (10a-10e; 3; 11a-e; 18) by means of ultrahigh frequency waves, and a common table unit which can be displaced at least in the height direction, wherein the second antennas (3; 11a-e; 18) are arranged on a common antenna carrier plate (2) orieType: GrantFiled: October 12, 2006Date of Patent: January 17, 2012Assignee: Muehlbauer AGInventor: Henrik Bufe
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Publication number: 20110291302Abstract: A method of producing an electronic module with at least one electronic component and one carrier. A structure is provided on the carrier so that the electronic component can take a desired target position relative to the structure. The structure is coated with a liquid meniscus suitable for receiving the electronic component. Multiple electronic components are provided at a delivery point for the electronic components. The carrier, with the structure, is moved nearby and opposite to the delivery point, where the delivery point delivers one of the electronic components without contact, while the structure on the carrier is moving near the delivery point, so that after a phase of free movement the electronic component at least partly touches the material, and the carrier, with the structure, is moved to a downstream processing point, while the electronic component aligns itself to the structure on the liquid meniscus.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2009Publication date: December 1, 2011Applicant: Mühlbauer AGInventors: Michael Max Mueller, Helfried Zabel, Hans-Peter Monser
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Publication number: 20110260441Abstract: A method for applying at least one image to a plastics substrate of a security document, comprising the following steps: selection of an image section from electronically stored image data of an image by means of a selection device; application of a connecting layer to the plastics substrate, the surface area and surface shape of the connecting layer corresponding to the surface area and surface shape of the selected image section, by means of an application device; and printing the applied connecting layer with a printed image that reproduces the image section, in such a manner that the connecting layer and the printed image are congruent, by means of a printing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2009Publication date: October 27, 2011Applicant: Muehlbauer AGInventors: Dominik Graf, Tobias Vitzthum
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Patent number: 8022828Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for reading and/or writing data from and/or to a multiplicity of RFID chips arranged in smart labels within a smart label production device, wherein the smart labels each comprising a first antenna are applied next to and behind one another on a common continuous film-like strip, wherein each smart label from a selected set of smart labels arranged next to and/or behind one another is respectively assigned a second antenna for the simultaneous transmission of read and/or write data between the first and second antennas by means of ultrahigh frequency waves, wherein the second antennas are arranged in a planar manner within at least one common antenna carrier.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2006Date of Patent: September 20, 2011Assignee: Muehlbauer AGInventors: Volker Brod, Henrik Bufe, Wolfram Kunze
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Patent number: 7982154Abstract: sorting device for RFID tags, comprising a dispensing unit for supplying RFID tags which are applied to a transport belt to a dispensing area, in which the RFID tags are detached from the transport belt; a pick-up unit having a plurality of transport units for respectively picking up the RFID tags in a respective pick-up area onto a corresponding transport belt of the transport units and a positioning device for positioning the dispensing area and a selected pick-up area with respect to one another so that the RFID tags detached from the transport belt in the dispensing area are picked up by the pick-up area of the selected transport unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2007Date of Patent: July 19, 2011Assignee: Muehlbauer AGInventors: Tim Wirsching, Doris Kies, Dieter Bergmann
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Patent number: 7931270Abstract: A method for personalizing a plurality of documents and a personalization installation which comprises a plurality of processing stations arranged one behind the other along a longitudinal axis of the personalization installation for carrying out individual personalization steps, wherein in order to carry out the personalization steps the documents or smart cards run through one processing station in a first direction running transversely to the longitudinal axis and the other processing station in a second direction which is opposite to the first direction and likewise runs transversely to the longitudinal axis, wherein all the processing stations are oriented with their run-through directions transverse to the longitudinal axis.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2007Date of Patent: April 26, 2011Assignee: Muehlbauer AGInventors: Josef Kirschbauer, Gunnar Kamp, Axel Schwarzmeier
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Publication number: 20110084473Abstract: An identification document has a substrate and a laminating film bonded to the substrate. The surface of the substrate facing the laminating film bears first text, numeric and/or image data detectable with the naked eye at least when illuminated by daylight and a first zone with a fluorescent substance. Under excitation with light in a specific wavelength range the substance fluoresces in colour in a manner detectable with the naked eye. The laminating film has a second zone which bears second text, numeric and/or image data. The first zone of the surface of the substrate and the second zone of the laminating film overlap one another at least partially.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2010Publication date: April 14, 2011Applicant: Mühlbauer AGInventors: Ronny Walther, Michael Wanjek