Patents by Inventor Ingo Klaus Dreher

Ingo Klaus Dreher 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: 6934041
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for minimizing the influence of register differences in multicolor printing, in particular in digital printing processes, register values (1) in the transport direction (2), which are different transversely with respect to this direction being set to a value between the extremes (3, 3?). The invention is intended to carry out a development such that the influence of register differences on the image quality can be minimized reliably and to a great extent. This is achieved by a number of individual values of the register values (1) being measured and an average value (4, 4?) being determined from these and brought into alignment with the average value (4, 4?) from at least one further color printing unit (5, 5?, 5?, 5??).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Christopher Liston, Patrick Metzler, Karlheinz Walter Peter, Ralph Petersen, Ingo Klaus Dreher
  • Patent number: 6522857
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for setting registration in a multicolor printing machine (1) having a number of exposure devices (2, 2′, . . . ) for the digital production of color separations (3, 3′, . . . ), the actions of setting up and combining the color separations (3, 3′, . . . ) being controlled, in order to set registration, such that in-register prints are achieved, influencing variables (4, 4′, 4″) which are caused by the printed pages and have an influence on registration being taken into account in setting up and combining the color separations (3, 3′, . . . ) before the onset of a change in said influencing variables. Therefore, no interruption of the printing process between two different printed pages (33, 34) is necessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Assignee: NexPress Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Ingo Klaus Dreher, Heiko Hunold, Christopher Liston, Patrick Metzler, Karlheinz Walter Peter
  • Patent number: 6519423
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for setting registration in a multicolor printing machine for the digital production of color separations, the actions of setting up and combining color separations being controlled when printing substrates of a different grade are fed in, in order to correct registration setting. In the event of a change in the printing substrate grade, the influence of this change on registration can be compensated for optimally before the printing substrate (16) is fed to the printing process. When the printing substrate grade is changed, the influence of all the properties of the printing substrate (16) that are relevant to registration is taken into account directly as the change is implemented, by correction values (4, 4′, . . . ) for the printing substrate (16) that are available before printing is carried out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2003
    Assignee: NexPress Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Ingo Klaus Dreher, Christopher Liston, Patrick Metzler, Karlheinz Walter Peter
  • 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: 20010055505
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for setting register in a multicolor printing machine (1) having a number of items of equipment (2, 2′, . . . ) for the digital production of color separations (3, 3′, . . . ), the actions of setting up and combining the color separations (3, 3′, . . . ) being controlled, in order to set the register, in such a way that in-register prints are achieved, influencing variables (4, 4′, 4″) which are caused by the printed pages and have an influence on the register being taken into account in setting up and combining the color separations (3, 3′, . . . ) before the onset of a change in said influencing variables.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2001
    Publication date: December 27, 2001
    Applicant: NexPress Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Ingo Klaus Dreher, Heiko Hunold, Christopher Liston, Patrick Metzler, Karlheinz Walter Peter
  • Publication number: 20010055495
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for the digital production of color separations (3, 3′, . . . ), the actions of setting up and combining the color separations (3, 3′, . . . ) being controlled when printing substrates (16) of a different grade are fed in, in order to correct the register setting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2001
    Publication date: December 27, 2001
    Applicant: NexPress Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Ingo Klaus Dreher, Patrick Metzler, Karlheinz Walter Peter
  • Publication number: 20010043351
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for minimizing the influence of register differences in multicolor printing, in particular in digital printing processes, register values (1) in the transport direction (2), which are different transversely with respect to this direction being set to a value between the extremes (3, 3′).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2001
    Publication date: November 22, 2001
    Applicant: NexPress Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Liston, Patrick Metzler, Karlheinz Walter Peter, Ralph Petersen, Ingo Klaus Dreher
  • Publication number: 20010043816
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for setting register in a multicolor printing machine having a number of items of equipment for the digital production of color separations, the actions of setting up and combining the color separations being controlled when printing substrates of a different grade are fed in, in order to correct the register setting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2001
    Publication date: November 22, 2001
    Applicant: NexPress Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Ingo Klaus Dreher, Christopher Liston, Patrick Metzler, Karlheinz Walter Petter