Patents by Inventor Uwe Ernst

Uwe Ernst 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: 20230001713
    Abstract: A device cures a UV-curable fluid, such as offset or inkjet printing ink, on a substrate by way of an emitter. The emitter includes at least two flash lamps which are disposed in a row. This provides a cost-efficient way of evenly and homogeneously curing UV-curable printing fluids at low environmental impact. There is also described a printing machine with a device for curing UV-curable printing ink.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Matthias Schloerholz, Michael Kohlmann, Uwe Ernst
  • Patent number: 11034160
    Abstract: A method for printing on the surface of an object uses a print head generating ink drops to print at least a first swath and subsequently a second swath of ink onto the surface in such a way that the swaths are mutually adjacent and overlap in a strip. The first and second swaths are printed as solid areas and the swaths are XY stitched in the strip. In the strip, at least one of the two swaths is additionally stitched by using a function of an ink amount profile in a Y direction. High-quality or even highest-quality printed products can therefore be produced, in particular avoiding defects that are visible to the human eye in a region of overlap or a strip between swaths that are printed next to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventor: Uwe Ernst
  • Publication number: 20210137649
    Abstract: An abutment for an endosseous dental implant which abutment can be inserted into a jaw bone and a dental implant including the implant abutment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2019
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Axel Kirsch, Uwe Ernst Kratt
  • Patent number: 10882336
    Abstract: A method prints and dries a substrate where ink containing water and pigment is printed onto the substrate in an inkjet printing process. The substrate has an initial moisture content and absorbs at least water of the ink, causing the moisture content of the substrate to rise. Radiation selectively acting on the water molecules is applied in a first drying step and then radiation selectively acting on the pigment is applied in a second drying step in such a way that after completion of the two drying steps, the water of the applied ink has essentially completely evaporated and the substrate has essentially reattained its initial moisture content. In this manner optimum drying of substrates to which ink has been applied occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Schoenberger, Peter Hachmann, Markus Moehringer, Uwe Ernst, Christian Hieb, Thomas Schmidt, Rolf Mueller, Michael Sauer
  • Publication number: 20190329570
    Abstract: A method prints and dries a substrate where ink containing water and pigment is printed onto the substrate in an inkjet printing process. The substrate has an initial moisture content and absorbs at least water of the ink, causing the moisture content of the substrate to rise. Radiation selectively acting on the water molecules is applied in a first drying step and then radiation selectively acting on the pigment is applied in a second drying step in such a way that after completion of the two drying steps, the water of the applied ink has essentially completely evaporated and the substrate has essentially reattained its initial moisture content. In this manner optimum drying of substrates to which ink has been applied occurs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: WOLFGANG SCHOENBERGER, PETER HACHMANN, MARKUS MOEHRINGER, UWE ERNST, CHRISTIAN HIEB, THOMAS SCHMIDT, ROLF MUELLER, MICHAEL SAUER
  • Publication number: 20190299654
    Abstract: A method for printing on the surface of an object uses a print head generating ink drops to print at least a first swath and subsequently a second swath of ink onto the surface in such a way that the swaths are mutually adjacent and overlap in a strip. The first and second swaths are printed as solid areas and the swaths are XY stitched in the strip. In the strip, at least one of the two swaths is additionally stitched by using a function of an ink amount profile in a Y direction. High-quality or even highest-quality printed products can therefore be produced, in particular avoiding defects that are visible to the human eye in a region of overlap or a strip between swaths that are printed next to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventor: UWE ERNST
  • Publication number: 20160167449
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a pneumatic tire having a circumferentially extending equatorial plane of the tire, the tire comprising a carcass, a tread radially outward of the carcass, the carcass comprising a carcass reinforcing ply, opposing bead portions, and opposing sidewalls, the carcass reinforcing ply having a main portion extending between the opposing bead portions and a pair of turnup portions, each turnup portion extending from one end of the main portion, the carcass ply further comprising reinforcing cords and a plycoat; each bead portion having a bead core and a bead apex, each apex being in contact with the plycoat; the plycoat comprising a vulcanizable plycoat rubber composition comprising a first methylene acceptor; the apex comprising a vulcanizable apex rubber composition comprising a second methylene acceptor and a methylene donor, wherein the amount of methylene donor is in stoichiometric excess relative to the second methylene acceptor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Laurent Albert Robert Poorters, Carlo Kanz, Jérôme Joel Daniel Delville, Uwe Ernst Frank, Marc Weydert
  • Patent number: 9272973
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing aldehydes having five carbon atoms, in which an input mixture containing 10% by weight to 50% by weight of linear butenes and less than 5% by weight of 1-butene is hydroformylated with synthesis gas in the presence of a catalyst system comprising rhodium and at least one bisphosphite ligand, wherein the hydroformylation is effected in a reactor from which, over an operating period, a cycle gas containing at least a portion of the products and unconverted reactants from the hydroformylation is continuously drawn off and partly condensed, and uncondensed components of the cycle gas are recycled into the reactor, and wherein, after the operating period has expired, the hydroformylation is stopped, the reactor is freed of reaction residues and the hydroformylation is restarted. It is based on the problem of making such a process more economically viable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Evonik Industries AG
    Inventors: Dirk Fridag, Robert Franke, Dieter Hess, Markus Schwarz, Katrin Marie Dyballa, Hans-Gerd Lueken, Bart Hamers, Uwe Ernst
  • Publication number: 20160052344
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an article of manufacture having a wire-reinforced component comprising (A) a metallic wire; and (B) a rubber composition contacting the wire, the rubber composition comprising (1) a diene based elastomer; and (2) a tin(II) carboxylate salt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventors: Uwe Ernst Frank, Carlo Kanz, Marc Weydert, Matthias Bode, Manfred Josef Jung
  • Publication number: 20150224488
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing aldehydes having five carbon atoms, in which an input mixture containing 10% by weight to 50% by weight of linear butenes and less than 5% by weight of 1-butene is hydroformylated with synthesis gas in the presence of a catalyst system comprising rhodium and at least one bisphosphite ligand, wherein the hydroformylation is effected in a reactor from which, over an operating period, a cycle gas containing at least a portion of the products and unconverted reactants from the hydroformylation is continuously drawn off and partly condensed, and uncondensed components of the cycle gas are recycled into the reactor, and wherein, after the operating period has expired, the hydroformylation is stopped, the reactor is freed of reaction residues and the hydroformylation is restarted. It is based on the problem of making such a process more economically viable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Inventors: Dirk Fridag, Robert Franke, Dieter Hess, Markus Schwarz, Katrin Marie Dyballa, Hans-Gerd Lueken, Bart Hamers, Uwe Ernst
  • Publication number: 20150148448
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a pneumatic tire comprising a tread, the tread comprising a rubber composition comprising from 20 to 90 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of rubber (phr) of solution polymerized styrene-butadiene rubber, from 10 to 80 phr of polybutadiene rubber, wherein from 0 to 20 weight percent of the polybutadiene rubber is a syndiotactic polybutadiene rubber comprising at least 70 percent of monomeric units in syndiotactic 1,2 configuration and the balance of the polybutadiene rubber comprises at least 90 percent of monomeric units in cis-1,4 configuration; and from 50 to 150 phr of pre-hydrophobated precipitated silica wherein the pre-hydrophobated precipitated silica is hydrophobated prior to its addition to the rubber composition by treatment with at least one silane selected from the group consisting of alkylsilanes, alkoxysilanes, organoalkoxysilyl polysulfides and organomercaptoalkoxysilanes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Manfred Josef Jung, Jean-Paul Piret, Carlo Kanz, William Urbano Villamizar, Maurice Peter Klinkenberg, Eric Engeldinger, Uwe Ernst Frank
  • Patent number: 8969628
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for enriching a homogenous catalyst from a process flow comprising said homogenous catalyst as a component, wherein the process flow is conducted over at least one membrane and wherein the membrane wholly or partially comprises a polymer that has planar polymer units connected to one another via a rigid link and wherein the linker is contorted, such that at least one planar polymer unit is connected to at least one second planar polymer unit via the link, in a non-co-planar arrangement. The invention furthermore relates to a method for producing tridecanal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Evonik Degussa GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Priske, Goetz Baumgarten, Hans-Gerd Lueken, Alfred Kaizik, Klaus-Diether Wiese, Uwe Ernst, Patrick Muhlack
  • Patent number: 8955712
    Abstract: A container includes (i) a metal receiving body having a peripheral upper edge delimiting an upper opening and provided with an one-piece outwardly projection and (ii) a relockable lid including a metallic cover provided with a resilient ring having a locking part with a lower free edge, and divided into two annular portions separated by an annular folding line, whose lower portion is foldable around the folding line between two stable positions. The locking part has:—locking elements including a plurality of beads arranged around the inner surface of the lower portion and at a distance from each other, and—a plurality of orifices, arranged around the locking part at a distance from each other and extending at a distance from the lower free edge, wherein the orifices extend through the locking part, at least over a part of the height of the upper and lower portions thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Ardagh MP Group Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Uwe Ernst Kloss, Manfred Hubert
  • Patent number: 8882242
    Abstract: A system for printing an image, preferably a multicolor halftone image, onto at least one non-planar area of a surface of an object, for example a section of a body of a vehicle, includes an inkjet print head having nozzles, a robot, preferably an articulated robot, creating a primary movement, the primary movement including at least two printing paths of the inkjet print head being lateral to each other, and a device creating a secondary movement, the secondary movement being substantially perpendicular to the primary movement and causing the printing paths to laterally adjoin each other. As a result, undesired streaks between the printing paths may advantageously be reduced or prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Bernard Beier, Uwe Ernst, Helge Grandt, Heiner Pitz
  • Patent number: 8820236
    Abstract: A device for supplying radiant energy onto a printing substrate (14), including at least one radiant energy source (10) whose light (12) impinges on the printing substrate (14) on the path (16) of the printing substrate (14) through a printing press at a position (116) downstream of at least one printing nip (18) in a printing unit. The radiant energy source (10) emits light (12) having a peak-to-valley homogeneity of less than 15% in a direction transverse to the direction of the path (16) of the printing substrate (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Bernard Beier, Uwe Ernst, Heiner Pitz
  • Patent number: 8707578
    Abstract: A sheet processing machine, in particular a sheet-fed printing press, includes a varnishing unit and at least one combination drier for applying radiation energy and heated air to a newly varnished sheet. The at least one combination drier includes a plurality of circular or polygonal air nozzles and narrow-band high-power infrared light sources disposed between the air nozzles. The infrared light sources apply radiation at a radiation density of at least 25 kW/m2 in total to the varnished sheet. The temperature of the heated air passing through the nozzles is below 100° C., preferably below 80° C. A method of drying sheets is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Jochen Jung, Uwe Ernst, Rolf Müller
  • Publication number: 20130257984
    Abstract: A system for printing an image, preferably a multicolor halftone image, onto at least one non-planar area of a surface of an object, for example a section of a body of a vehicle, includes an inkjet print head having nozzles, a robot, preferably an articulated robot, creating a primary movement, the primary movement including at least two printing paths of the inkjet print head being lateral to each other, and a device creating a secondary movement, the secondary movement being substantially perpendicular to the primary movement and causing the printing paths to laterally adjoin each other. As a result, undesired streaks between the printing paths may advantageously be reduced or prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: HEIDELBERGER DRUCKMASCHINEN AG
    Inventors: BERNARD BEIER, UWE ERNST, HELGE GRANDT, HEINER PITZ
  • Patent number: 8397776
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a pneumatic tire comprising a carcass and an innerliner in direct contact with the carcass, the innerliner comprising a rubber composition comprising: at least one elastomer selected from the group consisting of butyl rubber, chlorinated butyl rubber, brominated butyl rubber, synthetic polyisoprene, natural rubber, styrene butadiene rubber, polybutadiene, copolymer of isobutylene and paramethylstyrene, and brominated copolymer of isobutylene and paramethylstyrene; epichlorohydrin rubber; and at least one delaminated talc having a BET surface area according to DIN 66131 of 10-40 m2/g, an average particle size (D50) of 4-8 microns, determined by laser diffraction measurement, and a lamellarity index of 3-15.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Uwe Ernst Frank, Andreas Frantzen, Claude Schweitzer
  • Publication number: 20120248130
    Abstract: A container includes (i) a metal receiving body having a peripheral upper edge delimiting an upper opening and provided with an one-piece outwardly projection and (ii) a relockable lid including a metallic cover provided with a resilient ring having a locking part with a lower free edge, and divided into two annular portions separated by an annular folding line, whose lower portion is foldable around the folding line between two stable positions. The locking part has:—locking elements including a plurality of beads arranged around the inner surface of the lower portion and at a distance from each other, and—a plurality of orifices, arranged around the locking part at a distance from each other and extending at a distance from the lower free edge, wherein the orifices extend through the locking part, at least over a part of the height of the upper and lower portions thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2010
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: ARDAGH MP GROUP NETHERLANDS B.V.
    Inventors: Uwe Ernst Kloss, Manfred Hubert
  • Publication number: 20120208919
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a pneumatic tire having a tread comprising a vulcanizable rubber composition comprising, (A) 10 to 40 phr of a polybutadiene rubber having a microstructure comprised of about 96 to about 98 percent cis 1,4-isomeric units, about 1 to about 3 percent trans 1,4-isomeric units and about 0.3 to about 1 percent vinyl 1,2-content; Mn ranging from about 230,000 to about 250,000 with a heterogeneity index ranging from about 1.5/1 to about 2/1, and a Tg ranging from about ?104 to about ?109° C.; (B) 60 to 90 phr of a solution polymerized styrene-butadiene rubber functionalized with an alkoxysilane group and a primary amine group; (C) 60 to 100 phr of silica having a CTAB of between 40 and 525 m2/g, a BET of between 45 and 550 m2/g; and (D) less than 5 phr of carbon black.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Inventors: Carlo Kanz, Christian Jean-Marie Kaes, Olivio Jean-Baptiste Pagliarini, Marc Weydert, Uwe Ernst Frank