Patents by Inventor Bernd Koster

Bernd Koster 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: 20230168080
    Abstract: An optical measuring device (1) for determining the three-dimensional shape of an object (3) is described, which comprises a light section sensor (4) that has an illumination unit (5) configured to project a linear marking (L) onto the object (3) and at least one image acquisition unit (6) for recording the linear marking (L) projected onto the object (3), and comprises a forward increment recording unit that is configured to record the forward increment of the object (3) moved through under the light section sensor (4) as a function of time (t). The optical measuring device (1) is designed to ascertain distance profiles of the object (3) from the linear marking (L).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventor: Bernd KÖSTER
  • Patent number: 9914237
    Abstract: An apparatus for slicing food products, in particular a high-performance slicer, comprises a product feed which defines a feed plane and by means of which the products are fed along the feed plane in a feed direction to a cutting plane which is disposed in a slicing region and in which a cutting blade moves, in particular in a rotating and/or revolving manner, said cutting blade cooperating with a cutting edge which in particular extends in parallel with the feed plane and perpendicular to the feed direction to cut off slices from the products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Weber Maschinenbau GmbH Breidenbach
    Inventors: Bernd Köster, Jörg Stremel, Alexander Burk
  • Publication number: 20160075048
    Abstract: An apparatus for slicing food products, in particular a high-performance slicer, comprises a product feed which defines a feed plane and by means of which the products are fed along the feed plane in a feed direction to a cutting plane which is disposed in a slicing region and in which a cutting blade moves, in particular in a rotating and/or revolving manner, said cutting blade cooperating with a cutting edge which in particular extends in parallel with the feed plane and perpendicular to the feed direction to cut off slices from the products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Applicant: Weber Maschinenbau GmbH Breidenbach
    Inventors: Bernd KÖSTER, Jörg STREMEL, Alexander BURK
  • Patent number: 7185574
    Abstract: A device for separating disc-shaped bodies from an original body includes a separating device, a feeding device, an optical recognition device for determining the front face contour of the original body and lamps for illuminating the surroundings of the cutting surface. The recognition device detects the front face using the contrast between the surroundings of the front face and the original body in relation to the determined front face. The lamps are mounted in a tunnel and arranged in a planar manner along the longitudinal direction of the original body. The method includes the steps of guiding the source body in a tunnel, mounting a plurality of lamps in a planar fashion along the longitudinal direction of the source body in the tunnel, and illuminating the source body and the environment of the face of the source body with the plurality of lamps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Inventors: Ullrich Thiedig, Holger Wente, Bernd Köster
  • Publication number: 20030205120
    Abstract: A device for separating disc-shaped bodies from an original body includes a separating device, a feeding device, an optical recognition device for determining the front face contour of the original body and lamps for illuminating the surroundings of the cutting surface. The recognition device detects the front face using the contrast between the surroundings of the front face and the original body in relation to the determined front face. The lamps are mounted in a tunnel and arranged in a planar manner along the longitudinal direction of the original body. The method includes the steps of guiding the source body in a tunnel, mounting a plurality of lamps in a planar fashion along the longitudinal direction of the source body in the tunnel, and illuminating the source body and the environment of the face of the source body with said plurality of lamps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2001
    Publication date: November 6, 2003
    Inventors: Ullrich Thiedig, Holger Wente, Bernd Koster
  • Patent number: 5433767
    Abstract: In a first fluidized bed vessel containing an expanded fluidized bed, iron oxide-containing materials are reduced under weakly reducing conditions with solid carbonaceous reducing agents to or to less than the FeO state. In a second fluidized bed vessel containing an expanding fluidized bed the gas-solids suspension discharged from the first fluidized bed vessel is treated with a highly reducing fluidizing gas whereby the material is reduced in part to iron metal. From the gas-solid suspension discharged from the second fluidized bed vessel the carbonized carbonaceous material is separated and is recycled to the first fluidized bed vessel. The exhaust gas from which the carbonized carbonaceous material has been removed is purified and CO.sub.2 is removed therefrom and the exhaust gas is subsequently fed as a fluidizing gas to the second fluidized bed vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1995
    Assignee: Metallgesellschaft Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Bresser, Martin Hirsch, Bernd Kosters, Fritz Rose