Patents Assigned to Wipotec GmbH
  • Patent number: 11073486
    Abstract: An X-ray detector device for a device for the X-ray inspection of products includes a first line detector with a first discrete spatial resolution, a second line detector with the same or lesser second discrete spatial resolution, and an evaluation and control unit. The first line detector is operable to capture X-radiation in a non-spectrally resolved fashion along a first capture line transverse to a product movement direction to generate first image data. The second line detector is operable to capture the X-radiation in a spectrally resolved fashion along a second capture line parallel to the first capture line to generate second image data. The evaluation and control unit is operable to evaluate the first and second image data to detect at least one predefined feature of the product with the first discrete spatial resolution by combining the items of information contained in the first and second image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Wipotec GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Siegrist, Ulrich Heil, Christian Bur, Kai Hoffmann
  • Publication number: 20210107035
    Abstract: A sorting device with a transport medium pivotable between two pivot positions and placed around two shafts. The pivot axis about which the transport medium is pivotable is spaced apart from the shaft axes and an upper run formed by the transport medium is straight in both pivot positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Applicant: Wipotec GmbH
    Inventors: Hermann Berger, Eugen Stumpf, Sergej Janzen, Hans-Sebastian Höhler, Louis Hoffmeister, Moritz Müller
  • Patent number: 10947059
    Abstract: A rejector device for rejecting discrete products from a product stream includes a transporting means, a rejecting means, and at least two collection containers. The rejecting means can reject the products of the product stream either into one collection container or into the other. In the process, the products are rejected either towards one side of the transporting means or towards the other. The arrangement of the collection containers one above the other on one side of the transporting means makes it possible for the operator to remove products from both collection containers from one side of the rejector device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Wipotec GmbH
    Inventor: Theo Düppre
  • Publication number: 20210053765
    Abstract: A belt conveyor, particularly a weighing belt conveyor includes a frame constructed from at least one side member and at least one cross member or from a supporting plate. Two rollers are mounted on the frame, with an endless belt located around the two rollers whereby the two rollers are mounted in such a way that they can be moved relative to each other in the conveyance direction. At least one adjustment device is provided on the frame for adjusting the separation between the two rollers. The adjustment device includes a rotatable adjusting component, the axis of rotation S of which lies obliquely above or obliquely below the conveyor level at an angle greater than 0° and less than 90°, in order to make an adjustment to the belt tension possible even after the endless belt has been installed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: Wipotec GmbH
    Inventor: Thorsten Blauth
  • Publication number: 20200408514
    Abstract: A test block is formed of at least one profile block and one mating block, wherein the two blocks lying one on top of the other with varying thickness combinations are radiographed together, in order to ascertain, for the pairings of the materials in the respective thickness, in each case a reference value relating to their common radiographic properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: Wipotec GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Heil, Christian Bur
  • Publication number: 20200408590
    Abstract: A monolithic weighing block is produced according to the principle of additive manufacturing, that is, 3D printing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: Wipotec GmbH
    Inventors: Jan Gottfriedsen, Thorsten Asal, Tobias Stellwagen, Jan-David Klingelhöfer
  • Publication number: 20200361712
    Abstract: A conveyor and process for transporting products, wherein a carrier with an associated product holder can be moved along a conveying path by means of a conveyor element. In a processing position, the carrier can be aligned by means of first alignment elements, and second alignment elements are provided for aligning the product holder for disengagement from the carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Applicant: Wipotec GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Schulzki, Matthias Joachim, Stephan Clößner, Christoph Eckhardt, Jochen Gerlach
  • Publication number: 20200363347
    Abstract: An X-ray detector device for a device for the X-ray inspection of products includes a first line detector with a first discrete spatial resolution, a second line detector with the same or lesser second discrete spatial resolution, and an evaluation and control unit. The first line detector is operable to capture X-radiation in a non-spectrally resolved fashion along a first capture line transverse to a product movement direction to generate first image data. The second line detector is operable to capture the X-radiation in a spectrally resolved fashion along a second capture line parallel to the first capture line to generate second image data. The evaluation and control unit is operable to evaluate the first and second image data to detect at least one predefined feature of the product with the first discrete spatial resolution by combining the items of information contained in the first and second image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Applicant: Wipotec GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Siegrist, Ulrich Heil, Christian Bur, Kai Hoffmann
  • Publication number: 20200348247
    Abstract: A method for the X-ray inspection of products of a predefined product type including at least one first and one second component having different absorption coefficients for X-radiation. X-radiation with a spectral range is transmitted through the product to be examined. The X-radiation that has passed through the product is detected by means of a spectrally resolving X-ray detector. The X-ray detector assigns the X-ray quanta to a number of energy channels and generates image data which for each pixel include spectral values for selected or all energy channels and/or total spectral values for one or more groups of adjacent energy channels. At least on mapping rule is used to process the image data to form a total image, where each mapping rule is designed such that spectral values or total spectral values are mapped onto a total image value of an image point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Applicant: Wipotec GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Bur, Marco Wickert
  • Publication number: 20200346876
    Abstract: A rejector device for rejecting discrete products from a product stream includes a transporting means, a rejecting means, and at least two collection containers. The rejecting means can reject the products of the product stream either into one collection container or into the other. In the process, the products are rejected either towards one side of the transporting means or towards the other. The arrangement of the collection containers one above the other on one side of the transporting means makes it possible for the operator to remove products from both collection containers from one side of the rejector device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Applicant: Wipotec GmbH
    Inventor: Theo Düppre
  • Patent number: 10775224
    Abstract: A device and method for the non-formatted weighing of a group of products. The products rest either on a positioning surface or on a supporting surface and, due to the relative movement of the two surfaces with respect to one another, are transferred from one surface to the other surface. By the acquisition of the weight of at least one of the two surfaces, the weight of each individual product can be determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Wipotec GmbH
    Inventor: Theo Düppre
  • Publication number: 20200275683
    Abstract: A test device for the irradiation of products which are fed into a housing along at least two tracks. At least one separate sensor is provided for each track in order to separately monitor the arrival at a target position selected individually for each track preferably within the housing of the test device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: Wipotec GmbH
    Inventor: Michael Siegrist
  • Publication number: 20200222947
    Abstract: The invention concerns a sorter having a base element that can be swiveled around a horizontal swivel axis with a number of support surfaces uniformly arranged about the swivel axis. Each of the support surfaces can be swiveled into a conveyor for conveying a product along a product stream and swiveled out of the conveyor for ejection of a product from the product stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Applicant: Wipotec GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Schulzki, Matthias Joachim
  • Publication number: 20200217709
    Abstract: A device and method for detection of an overload on a scale which operates by the principle of electromagnetic force compensation The device and method employing, in addition to the measurement voltage arising across a measurement resistor of the scale, an auxiliary voltage that is different from the measurement voltage The auxiliary voltage being tapped at the input to the compensation coil of the scale or at the output of the compensation coil
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicant: Wipotec GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Schulzki, Jan Gottfriedsen
  • Patent number: 10564030
    Abstract: A covering hood for jointly covering a plurality of a load cell housings in which a load introduction pin protrudes from each load cell housing through a housing opening. The covering hood including a separate passage opening in an upper part of the covering hood for each load introduction pin. The covering hood can be connected to the individual load cell housings at each separate passage opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Wipotec GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Schulzki, Andreas Rübel
  • Patent number: 10370192
    Abstract: A conveyor device includes at least three lift columns, a lower conveyor body, and an upper conveyor body. The upper conveyor body is adjustable in its height relative to the lower conveyor body. The lift columns project at least partially above the upper conveyor body without lengthwise supports acting in the transport direction. The upper conveyor body together with one or more cross members on which the upper conveyor body is supported may be formed as a modular unit which is mountable and removable from the conveying system as a unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Wipotec GmbH
    Inventors: Oliver Günther, Kay-Eric Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20190016534
    Abstract: A conveyor device includes at least three lift columns, a lower conveyor body, and an upper conveyor body. The upper conveyor body is adjustable in its height relative to the lower conveyor body. The lift columns project at least partially above the upper conveyor body without lengthwise supports acting in the transport direction. The upper conveyor body together with one or more cross members on which the upper conveyor body is supported may be formed as a modular unit which is mountable and removable from the conveying system as a unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Applicant: Wipotec GmbH
    Inventors: Oliver Günther, Kay-Eric Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20180292253
    Abstract: A device and method for the non-formatted weighing of a group of products. The products rest either on a positioning surface or on a supporting surface and, due to the relative movement of the two surfaces with respect to one another, are transferred from one surface to the other surface. By the acquisition of the weight of at least one of the two surfaces, the weight of each individual product can be determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Applicant: Wipotec GmbH
    Inventor: Theo Düppre
  • Patent number: 10081493
    Abstract: A conveyor device includes at least three lift columns, a lower conveyor body, and an upper conveyor body. The upper conveyor body is adjustable in its height relative to the lower conveyor body. The lift columns project at least partially above the upper conveyor body without lengthwise supports acting in the transport direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Wipotec GmbH
    Inventors: Oliver Günther, Kay-Eric Schmidt
  • Patent number: 10012262
    Abstract: A flexure hinge with two material segments connected to each other via a material tapering to a thin spot which defines a pivot axis between the two material segments. The material segments are provided with recesses such that the strength existing in the thin spot with respect to normal stresses or bending stresses is kept largely constant within a distance from the thin spot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Wipotec GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Rübel, Christian Bur