Patents by Inventor Berend J. Knapen

Berend J. Knapen 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: 4884188
    Abstract: A printing device for reproducing information having movable image-forming element with a dielectric surface. An image-forming station is provided in which a magnetic roller having a rotatable electrically conductive non-magnetic sleeve is disposed near the surface of the image-forming element. An electric field between the image-forming element and the magnetic roller is generated in accordance with an information pattern. An electrically conductive magnetically attractable toner powder is placed in the zone between the magnetic roller and the image-forming element during generating of the electric field. A magnetic field formed in the zone by stationary ferromagnetic knife blade disposed inside the magnetic roller sleeve and the blade is held between like poles of two magnets at an angle of between 70.degree. and 85.degree. to the tangential plane to the sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 28, 1989
    Assignee: Oce-Nederland B.V.
    Inventors: Ronald Berkhout, Johannes G. V. Van Stiphout, Jozef Corver, Antoon L. Hoep, Berend J. Knapen