Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Koniger

Wolfgang Koniger 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: 20220392294
    Abstract: An assembly and a method for processing value documents such that the assembly has a transport apparatus for value-document receptacles which forms a cyclically circulating transport loop for the value-document receptacles. At least one checking apparatus for checking value documents is connected to the transport apparatus in such a manner that a respective value-document stack, possibly together with its value-document receptacle, can be transported via the respective transport interface from the cyclically circulating transport loop to the respective checking apparatus and/or from the respective checking apparatus to the cyclically circulating transport loop. The cyclically circulating transport loop is self-contained in such a manner that the value-document receptacles can circulate around the cyclically circulating transport loop several times in the same direction of circulation, and thus allows a temporally flexible removal of the respective value-document stack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Andreas JAKOBS, Wolfgang KONIGER, Michael KNICKREHM, Ralf LINCK, Helmut-Karl REINISCH, Christian VOELLMER, Carsten NADOLNY
  • Publication number: 20220383689
    Abstract: A method is provided for controlling a system or a device for recognizing, checking, counting, accounting and sorting objects of value, which can be automatically adapted to changing delivery and demand conditions. A control controls the transport paths and processing steps within the device with the aid of conveyor plants and corresponding diverters and optimizes them in such a way that the objects of value are transported in a targeted fashion to the processing stages which are necessary for the processing of the objects of value. The control takes into account information about the components of the device as well as the inbound-delivered objects of value and the objects of value to be delivered outbound in order to ensure optimal processing of the objects of value or to deliver ordered packs of objects of value outbound as quickly as possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Andreas JAKOBS, Michael KNICKREHM, Wolfgang KONIGER, Ralf LINCK, Jurgen VON KREMLING
  • Publication number: 20210070545
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided for receiving, temporarily storing and dispensing bank note containers as well as to a transport apparatus dockable thereto. The present invention further relates to a system arrangement comprising the proposed apparatus as well as the proposed transport apparatus. Further, a method arranged for operating the system arrangement is proposed as well as a computer program product having control commands executing the proposed method or operating the proposed system arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Andreas JAKOBS, Michael KNICKREHM, Wolfgang KONIGER
  • Publication number: 20210074111
    Abstract: The filling of value documents cassettes involves a cassette receiving device for receiving a value document cassette and a gripping device for transporting a value document stack from a value document container into the value document cassette. The apparatus optionally has a formatting device for the automatic alignment of a value document stack removed from the value document container before the stack is inserted in the value document cassette. A finger element is attached to the transport device of the gripping device, and besides the gripping device, the finger element is guided into the value document cassette before the value documents are inserted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Markus SPERL, Andreas JAKOBS, Wolfgang KONIGER, Michael KNICKREHM
  • Patent number: 9928678
    Abstract: An input module and a corresponding method involve feeding value documents to at least one value-document processing apparatus having a removal device for removing value documents from a first container located in a removal position and feeding the removed value documents to the value-document processing apparatus, an output device for receiving at least one container in an output position in which the container can be removed, and a conveying device for conveying the container within the input module. The input module and system have a simple and compact construction, and employ a simple procedure for feeding value documents to a value-document processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: GIESECKE+DEVRIENT CURRENCY TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Peter Dopfer, Wolfgang Königer, Evelyn Guldner, Erwin Demmeler
  • Patent number: 9908151
    Abstract: An apparatus for processing value documents, in particular banknotes, comprises more processing zones respectively having at least one cover for covering an internal space of the processing zone in question. An interior lighting means is provided and at least one region of the cover or adjacent to the cover is semitransparent. The internal space can thus be viewed through the semitransparent region only when the interior lighting means is switched on. Upon detecting an error in the bank note processing, the interior lighting means of the processing zone in question lights up automatically, thus guiding the operator directly to the location of the problem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: GIESECKE+DEVRIENT CURRENCY TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Peter Dopfer, Wolfgang Koniger, Mario Monch, Marcel Zandl
  • Publication number: 20160314638
    Abstract: An input module and a corresponding method involve feeding value documents to at least one value-document processing apparatus having a removal device for removing value documents from a first container located in a removal position and feeding the removed value documents to the value-document processing apparatus, an output device for receiving at least one container in an output position in which the container can be removed, and a conveying device for conveying the container within the input module. The input module and system have a simple and compact construction, and employ a simple procedure for feeding value documents to a value-document processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: Peter DOPFER, Wolfgang KÖNIGER, Evelyn GULDNER, Erwin DEMMELER
  • Publication number: 20140202936
    Abstract: An apparatus for processing value documents, in particular banknotes, comprises more processing zones respectively having at least one cover for covering an internal space of the processing zone in question. An interior lighting means is provided and at least one region of the cover or adjacent to the cover is semitransparent. The internal space can thus be viewed through the semitransparent region only when the interior lighting means is switched on. Upon detecting an error in the bank note processing, the interior lighting means of the processing zone in question lights up automatically, thus guiding the operator directly to the location of the problem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: GIESECKE & DEVRIENT GMBH
    Inventors: Peter Dopfer, Wolfgang Koniger, Mario Monch, Marcel Zandl