Patents by Inventor Bernd Rabenstein

Bernd Rabenstein 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: 8342745
    Abstract: A method is provided for determination of an operating temperature in a thermally highly loaded device. Multiple individual passive measurement elements, having a measurable physical parameter depending on a constant temperature set during heat treatment, are provided. The parameter is set differently for each of the different measurement elements which are combined to form an array. In a first measurement, values of the physical parameter for the array are determined before the array is subjected to the operating temperature. The array is subjected to the operating temperature in the device and in a second measurement, values are determined for all the measurement elements in the array. First and second measurement values of the physical parameter for each of the measurement elements are compared and the temperature of the heat treatment of that measurement element whose value of the physical parameter has changed the least is taken as the measured temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: ALSTOM Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Roland Moser, Klaus Germerdonk, Bernd Rabensteiner, Peter Lang
  • Patent number: 7159594
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for adjusting the selecting out of winnowings in the manufacture of smokable products, in particular cigarettes, wherein the current size distribution of a stream of tobacco particles passing a measuring point, per unit of time, is detected and compared with a settable nominal size distribution, and wherein an arrangement for separating the winnowings is continually adjusted, depending on the result of said comparison, and to a corresponding device comprising a sensor for detecting the current size distribution, an arrangement for inputting a nominal size distribution, an arrangement for comparing said current size distribution with said settable nominal size distribution, and lastly an adjusting arrangement for setting the arrangement for separating the winnowings, depending on the output signal of said comparing arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2007
    Assignee: British American Tobacco (Germany) GmbH
    Inventors: Volker Kuhl, Heinz-Werner Masurat, Thomas Müller, Bernd Rabenstein
  • Patent number: 6857358
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for marking cigarette packets, comprising a transport device for conveying at least one cigarette packet to a marking station for marking cigarette packets, and the following features: the transport device grasps a batch of adjacent, aligned cigarette packets and moves them to the marking station, where the transport device releases the batch; and the released cigarette packets are marked on at least one exposed area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2005
    Assignee: British American Tobacco (Germany) GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Dittrich, Hans-Werner Fuchs, Bernd Rabenstein
  • Publication number: 20040079243
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for marking cigarette packets, comprising a transport device for conveying at least one cigarette packet to a marking station for marking cigarette packets, and the following features: the transport device grasps a batch of adjacent, aligned cigarette packets and moves them to the marking station, where the transport device releases the batch; and the released cigarette packets are marked on at least one exposed area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2003
    Publication date: April 29, 2004
    Applicant: British American Tobacco (Germany) GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Dittrich, Hans-Werner Fuchs, Bernd Rabenstein
  • Publication number: 20040040564
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for adjusting the selecting out of winnowings in the manufacture of smokable products, in particular cigarettes, wherein the current size distribution of a stream of tobacco particles passing a measuring point, per unit of time, is detected and compared with a settable nominal size distribution, and wherein an arrangement for separating the winnowings is continually adjusted, depending on the result of said comparison, and to a corresponding device comprising a sensor for detecting the current size distribution, an arrangement for inputting a nominal size distribution, an arrangement for comparing said current size distribution with said settable nominal size distribution, and lastly an adjusting arrangement for setting the arrangement for separating the winnowings, depending on the output signal of said comparing arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2003
    Publication date: March 4, 2004
    Inventors: Volker Kuhl, Heinz-Werner Masurat, Thomas Muller, Bernd Rabenstein