Patents by Inventor Bernhard Dunzinger

Bernhard Dunzinger 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: 8867045
    Abstract: A triggering light grid and a method for registering the position of containers and/or for checking their alignment on a conveyance path. Due to the fact that a plurality of light barriers provided at different height levels with respect to the conveyance path and having light sources that can be activated separately of one another and a shared housing are provided, as is a triggering unit for the generation of control signals on the basis of output signals of the light barriers, different container types can be registered by reprogramming the triggering light grid without mechanical adjustment of the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Krones AG
    Inventors: Stefan Piana, Thorsten Gut, Bernhard Dunzinger, Helmut Schäffer
  • Patent number: 7399435
    Abstract: A process and a device for producing hollow bodies of plastic by stretch-blow molding heated parisons, in which the parisons are inspected before being heated and at least some of the defective parisons are heated and are not separated out until after being heated. This method and the respective device can be implemented at low cost and with low space requirements and it has only a minor negative effect on output of finished hollow bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2008
    Assignee: Krones AG
    Inventors: Bernhard Dünzinger, Klaus Voth
  • Publication number: 20040159586
    Abstract: In a process for producing hollow bodies of plastic by stretch-blow molding heated parisons, the parisons are inspected before being heated and at least some of the defective parisons are heated and are not separated out until after being heated. This method and the respective device can be implemented at low cost and with low space requirements and it has only a minor negative effect on output of finished hollow bodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2003
    Publication date: August 19, 2004
    Inventors: Bernhard Dunzinger, Klaus Voth