Patents by Inventor Bernd Bayer

Bernd Bayer 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: 11922956
    Abstract: An apparatus for decoding an encoded audio signal, includes a spectral domain audio decoder for generating a first decoded representation of a first set of first spectral portions, the decoded representation having a first spectral resolution; a parametric decoder for generating a second decoded representation of a second set of second spectral portions having a second spectral resolution being lower than the first spectral resolution; a frequency regenerator for regenerating every constructed second spectral portion having the first spectral resolution using a first spectral portion and spectral envelope information for the second spectral portion; and a spectrum time converter for converting the first decoded representation and the reconstructed second spectral portion into a time representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Sascha Disch, Frederik Nagel, Ralf Geiger, Balaji Nagendran Thoshkahna, Konstantin Schmidt, Stefan Bayer, Christian Neukam, Bernd Edler, Christian Helmrich
  • Publication number: 20230241830
    Abstract: The thickness profile of a film tube manufactured using a film blowing process is regulated using a control system consisting of segmented control zones and at least at two measuring units for the film thickness such that the specified target film thickness profile exhibits deviations from a uniform film thickness in the form of one or two thin spots opposite each other, which serve to compensate for film thickness changes across the film width which occur during the monoaxial orientation in machine direction so that a film web is produced as a result of orientation whose thickness profile has as few deviations as possible from the target thickness across the entire width of the film web, the final film should exhibit a thickness profile where the thickness increase from the middle of the film to the edges is as minor as possible and the flatness of the film is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: HOSOKAWA ALPINE Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bernd BAYER, Georg SCHARPF, Hans-Peter SCHÜLE
  • Publication number: 20210221043
    Abstract: In the case of a device to permit the monoaxial length change of film webs in machine direction, which comprises at least one processing gap delimited by two rolls via which a film web is routed in machine direction, whereby the first roll in film transport direction exhibits a first peripheral speed and the second roll in film transport direction exhibits a second peripheral speed, in order to produce film webs with low transverse neck-in as well as reduced edge build-up and to improve the flatness of the film web.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicant: HOSOKAWA ALPINE Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Bernd Bayer
  • Patent number: 10052799
    Abstract: An internal cooling tower for a film blowing line with one or more superimposed cooling air nozzles designed such that the entrainment of droplets consisting of low-molecular components of the raw material that diffuse during the film blowing process from the film into the flow of cooling air is prevented. This is achieved in that at the height of the nozzle gap, the top surface of the cooling air nozzles has a grooved contour both on the inside and the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: HOSOKAWA ALPINE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Bernd Bayer
  • Publication number: 20160151942
    Abstract: An internal cooling tower for a film blowing line with one or more superimposed cooling air nozzles designed such that the entrainment of droplets consisting of low-molecular components of the raw material that diffuse during the film blowing process from the film into the flow of cooling air is prevented. This is achieved in that at the height of the nozzle gap, the top surface of the cooling air nozzles has a grooved contour both on the inside and the outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Applicant: HOSOKAWA ALPINE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Bernd BAYER
  • Patent number: 9302423
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process to regulate the film thickness of tubular film manufactured using a film blowing process, wherein the film is laid flat and repositioned using an oscillating take-off unit and subsequently monoaxially oriented in machine direction using an orientation unit. This process produces a film whose thickness profile has as few deviations as possible from the average film thickness across the film width. This result is achieved by setting the film thickness profile of tubular film produced with a film blowing line such that after orientation and as a result of deviations during orientation, a film thickness profile develops that is uniform across the entire film width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Hosakawa Alpine Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bernd Bayer, Lothar Klimek, Holger Niemeier
  • Publication number: 20110006452
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process to regulate the film thickness of tubular film manufactured using a film blowing process, wherein the film is laid flat and repositioned using an oscillating take-off unit and subsequently monoaxially oriented in machine direction using an orientation unit. This process produces a film whose thickness profile has as few deviations as possible from the average film thickness across the film width. This result is achieved by setting the film thickness profile of tubular film produced with a film blowing line such that after orientation and as a result of deviations during orientation, a film thickness profile develops that is uniform across the entire film width.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Inventors: Bernd Bayer, Lothar Klimek, Holger Niemeier