Patents by Inventor Donald Buch

Donald Buch 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).

  • Publication number: 20070059070
    Abstract: Apparatus for precisely positioning one or more of the workstations of a document printer/copier relative to an internal drum, including a first member, attached to either a workstation or the internal drum, having two sections, each section having a reference surface forming an angle therebetween, an actuator for changing the included angle between the first reference surface and second reference surface, thus enabling the included angle to be increased or decreased, and a second member having a reference surface that mates with the pair of reference surfaces, associated with the other of the workstation or the internal drum, so as to accurately adjust the workstation relative to the internal drum dependent upon the included angle of the first reference surface and second reference surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2006
    Publication date: March 15, 2007
    Inventors: Donald Hensel, Christopher Garcia, D. Kepner, Gary Nichols, Jeffrey Ulreich, Thomas Albrecht, Donald Buch, Charles Spehrley
  • Publication number: 20050058478
    Abstract: Apparatus for precisely positioning one or more of the work stations of a document printer/copier relative to an internal drum, including a first member, attached to either a work station or the internal drum, having two sections, each section having a reference surface forming an angle therebetween, an actuator for changing the included angle between the first reference surface and second reference surface, thus enabling the included angle to be increased or decreased, and a second member having a reference surface that mates with the pair of reference surfaces, associated with the other of the work station or the internal drum, so as to accurately adjust the work station relative to the internal drum dependent upon the included angle of the first reference surface and second reference surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2004
    Publication date: March 17, 2005
    Inventors: Donald Hensel, Christopher Garcia, D. Kepner, Gary Nichols, Jeffrey Ulreich, Thomas Albrecht, Donald Buch, Charles Spehrley
  • Patent number: 6591747
    Abstract: Correcting register faults in a multicolor printing machine having a number of items of equipment for the digital production of color separations, wherein correction values are determined and assigned to angular positions of at least one image cylinder and, as a result, taken into account for the control of the production of the color separations on the image cylinder. Correction values are to be made available for the correction of register faults, which, with a fine graduation, make it possible to assign them to angular positions of machine elements in a repeatable way. This is achieved by determining circularity errors of machine elements which have an influence on the register, assigned to their angular positions and, from these, the correction values for the control of the production of the color separations on the at least one image cylinder being determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2003
    Assignee: Nexpress Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Donald Buch, Heiko Hunold, Michael Kowalczyk, Christopher Liston, Patrick Metzler, Robert Peffer, Karlheinz Walter Peter, John Robert Thompson
  • Patent number: 6493012
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for setting register on a multicolor printing machine (1) having color printing units (6, 6′, 6″, 6″) allocated to various printing inks and having image cylinders (2, 2′), equipment (3, 3′) for producing images, in particular electrostatic latent images, on the image cylinders (2, 2′, . . . ), a carrier (4) for printing substrates (15) and image transfer points (5, 5′, 5″, 5′″) for the transfer of the color separations (7, 7′, . . . ) from the color printing units (6, 6′, 6″, 6′″) to the printing substrates (15), an allocation of the image productions (11, 11′) on the image cylinders (2, 2′, . . . ) to the printing substrates (15) being carried out in order to achieve coincidence of register of the color separations (7, 7′, . . . ) in the print. This is achieved by a time-independent allocation of the positions of the image productions (11, 11′, . . .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2002
    Assignee: Nexpress Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Donald Buch, Ingo Klaus Dreher, Heiko Hunold, Christopher Liston, Patrick Metzler, Michael Mordhorst, Stephan Walter Pareigis, Robert Peffer, Karlheinz Walter Peter, Ralph Petersen, Frank Pierel, John Robert Thompson, Günther Voss
  • Publication number: 20020001491
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for setting register on a multicolor printing machine (1) having color printing units (6, 6′, 6″, 6″) allocated to various printing inks and having image cylinders (2, 2′), equipment (3, 3′) for producing images, in particular electrostatic latent images, on the image cylinders (2, 2′, . . . ), a carrier (4) for printing substrates (15) and image transfer points (5, 5′, 5″, 5′″) for the transfer of the color separations (7, 7′, . . . ) from the color printing units (6, 6′, 6″, 6′″) to the printing substrates (15), an allocation of the image productions (11, 11′) on the image cylinders (2, 2′, . . . ) to the printing substrates (15) being carried out in order to achieve coincidence of register of the color separations (7, 7′, . . . ) in the print.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2001
    Publication date: January 3, 2002
    Applicant: NexPress Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Donald Buch, Ingo Klaus Dreher, Heiko Hunold, Christopher Liston, Patrick Metzler, Michael Mordhorst, Stephan Walter Pareigis, Robert Peffer, Karlheinz Walter Peter, Ralph Petersen, Frank Pierel, John Robert Thompson, Gunther Voss
  • Publication number: 20010050010
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for correcting register faults in a multicolor printing machine (1) having a number of items of equipment (2,2′, . . . ) for the digital production of color separations (3,3′, . . . ), correction values being determined and assigned to the angular positions (4,4′, . . . ) of at least one image cylinder (5,5′, . . . ) and, as a result, being taken into account for the control of the production of the color separations (3,3′, . . . ) on said image cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2001
    Publication date: December 13, 2001
    Applicant: NexPress Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Donald Buch, Heiko Hunold, Michael Kowalczyk, Christopher Liston, Patrick Metzler, Robert Peffer, Karlheinz Walter Peter, John Robert Thompson