Patents by Inventor Nicolaas Prakken

Nicolaas Prakken 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: 20150092810
    Abstract: A wrapped-product quality control method and a wrapped-product packing method include providing a wrapped product including a product in a wrapper; supplying the wrapped product on a measuring background in a capture range of an infrared-sensitive imaging device, the product having a product temperature different from a measuring background temperature of the measuring background, and the wrapper having a wrapper temperature; capturing with the infrared-sensitive imaging device infrared radiation from the wrapped product and the measuring background; providing an image of the product or of the wrapped product from the infrared radiation captured with the infrared-sensitive imaging device; and analyzing the image for quality control of the wrapped product. A corresponding wrapped-product quality control device and a corresponding wrapped-product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2013
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Applicant: BLUEPRINT HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Joseph Crompton, Nicolaas Prakken
  • Publication number: 20050144912
    Abstract: Method and assembly for filling a box with relatively flexible bags, such as snack food bags of relatively small size. Two rows of bags are horizontally placed adjacent to each other. A number of groups or rows can be vertically placed above each other in a box. To that end first of all a cassette is filled by transferring bags having a fixed spacing and lowering them in a cassette. After the cassette is filled, it is closed at its upper side and in lateral direction emptied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2004
    Publication date: July 7, 2005
    Inventor: Nicolaas Prakken