Patents by Inventor Bernhard Grimm
Bernhard Grimm 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).
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Patent number: 10532844Abstract: A thermoform packaging machine including a forming station, a sealing station, a cutting station and a film conveying unit. The film conveying unit includes a clamp chain arranged on a lateral edge of a bottom film, wherein the clamp chain cyclically conveys the bottom film in a direction of production during operation, the bottom film is advanced one cycle length in each cycle of the thermoform packaging machine. Further, the thermoform packaging machine may include a pulling device that pulls a pull section of the bottom film and/or a top film in a direction parallel to the direction of production relative to the lateral edge of the bottom film held by the clamp chain.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2017Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMÜLLER SE & CO. KGInventors: Bernhard Grimm, Thomas Müller
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Patent number: 10384820Abstract: The present invention relates to a thermoform packaging machine as well as to a method for producing a skin pack, comprising the steps of preforming a skin film prior to a sealing station and subjecting it to a further forming step in the sealing station, so that the skin film can wrap around a product protruding far beyond a packaging trough.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2015Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER SE & CO. KGInventors: Bernhard Grimm, Elmar Ehrmann
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Publication number: 20180141693Abstract: A thermoform packaging machine including a forming station, a sealing station, a cutting station and a film conveying unit. The film conveying unit includes a clamp chain arranged on a lateral edge of a bottom film, wherein the clamp chain cyclically conveys the bottom film in a direction of production during operation, the bottom film is advanced one cycle length in each cycle of the thermoform packaging machine. Further, the thermoform packaging machine may include a pulling device that pulls a pull section of the bottom film and/or a top film in a direction parallel to the direction of production relative to the lateral edge of the bottom film held by the clamp chain.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2017Publication date: May 24, 2018Inventors: Bernhard Grimm, Thomas Muller
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Publication number: 20150367971Abstract: The present invention relates to a thermoform packaging machine as well as to a method for producing a skin pack, comprising the steps of preforming a skin film prior to a sealing station and subjecting it to a further forming step in the sealing station, so that the skin film can wrap around a product protruding far beyond a packaging trough.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2015Publication date: December 24, 2015Inventors: Bernhard Grimm, Elmar Ehrmann
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Patent number: 9180987Abstract: The disclosure relates to a thermoform packaging machine for stretching a film web as well as to a method of operating a thermoform packaging machine, in the case of which a stretching station with a heating unit is provided, and the film web is actively cooled by means of a film cooling device after stretching of the film web.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2011Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Bernhard Grimm, Annett Grott
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Patent number: 8293152Abstract: Proposed is a method for manufacturing a package out of foil, with a heating process for heating a foil section, as well as a packaging machine (1) for manufacturing a package out of foil, with a heating device (14) for heating a foil section (3?) and with a device (17) for generating negative pressures on each of the two sides of the foil section. In order to allow improved coordination of individual manufacturing steps, it is proposed that in a same time interval during the heating process, a negative pressure relative to the ambient pressure is generated on both sides of the foil section (3?) during the heating process.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2009Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Multivac Sepp Haggemueller GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Bernhard Grimm
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Publication number: 20120096809Abstract: The disclosure relates to a thermoform packaging machine for stretching a film web as well as to a method of operating a thermoform packaging machine, in the case of which a stretching station with a heating unit is provided, and the film web is actively cooled by means of a film cooling device after stretching of the film web.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2011Publication date: April 26, 2012Applicant: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Bernhard Grimm, Annett Grott
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Patent number: 8099931Abstract: A method or a device, respectively, for packaging of bulk goods in bags (26) comprises a lid (5) which forms a chamber (4) together with a lower portion (25), or the method is carried out in the chamber (4), respectively. It is the object of the method or the device, respectively, to package bulk goods in a chamber machine under vacuum. For this purpose a bag (26) is perforated in the chamber (4) or is inserted into the chamber (4) already perforated.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2009Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignee: Multivac Sepp Haggenmueller GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Bernhard Grimm, Wolfgang Lachmann
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Publication number: 20110271643Abstract: The present invention refers to a method for packaging foodstuff, particularly pizza, comprising a formed packaging tray and a formed cover film, wherein the space provided between the films and containing the foodstuff is gas-treated, and the cover film fixes the foodstuff in the packaging container.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2010Publication date: November 10, 2011Applicant: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMULLER GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Bernhard Grimm, Jan Tieme Slomp, Dieter Holzem
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Publication number: 20090260326Abstract: A method or a device, respectively, for packaging of bulk goods in bags (26) comprises a lid (5) which forms a chamber (4) together with a lower portion (25), or the method is carried out in the chamber (4), respectively. It is the object of the method or the device, respectively, to package bulk goods in a chamber machine under vacuum. For this purpose a bag (26) is perforated in the chamber (4) or is inserted into the chamber (4) already perforated.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2009Publication date: October 22, 2009Applicant: MULTIVAC Sepp Haggenmueller GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Bernhard Grimm, Wolfgang Lachmann
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Publication number: 20080104930Abstract: The invention proposes a packaging machine for packaging contents in packs, suction means being provided for extracting gas, in particular atmospheric air, from the packs, means being provided for supplying one or more gases provided for this purpose, and means being provided for sealing the packs once the gas has been supplied. The packaging machine according to the invention is intended to allow the controlled supply of gas into the packs. This is achieved according to the invention in that means are provided for closing the interior of the packs in relation to the suction means prior to the gas being supplied. The figure for the abstract is FIG. 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2007Publication date: May 8, 2008Inventors: Helmut Sparakowski, Bernhard Grimm
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Publication number: 20050102712Abstract: The present invention relates to a nucleic acid molecule which encodes a protein with the function of a plant Mg chelatase subunit CHLD or an active fragment thereof; a protein which has the function of a plant Mg chelatase subunit CHLD or an active fragment thereof, preferably a recombinant protein; a method of determining the interaction of plant Mg chelatase subunits, in which a host cell is transformed with a DNA sequence as claimed in one or more of claims 1 to 3 and at least with one DNA sequence encoding a further subunit of Mg chelatase in such a manner that the interaction of the Mg chelatase gene products leads to a directly or indirectly, qualitatively or quantitatively measurable signal, preferably by activating a marker gene, and transgenic plants, transgenic plant cells, transgenic plant organs, transgenic plant seeds, transgenic propagation material comprising an abovementioned nucleic acid molecule.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2003Publication date: May 12, 2005Inventors: Bernhard Grimm, Jutta Papenbrock, Frank Hanel, Susanna Grafe, Frank Schmidt, Wolfgang Streber
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Patent number: 6831207Abstract: The present invention relates to a nucleic acid molecule which encodes a protein with the function of a plant Mg chelatase subunit CHLD or an active fragment thereof; a protein which has the function of a plant Mg chelatase subunit CHLD or an active fragment thereof, preferably a recombinant protein; a method of determining the interaction of plant Mg chelatase subunits, in which a host cell is transformed with a DNA sequence as claimed in one or more of claims 1 to 3 and at least with one DNA sequence encoding a further subunit of Mg chelatase in such a manner that the interaction of the Mg chelatase gene products leads to a directly or indirectly, qualitatively or quantitatively measurable signal, preferably by activating a marker gene, and transgenic plants, transgenic plant cells, transgenic plant organs, transgenic plant seeds, transgenic propagation material comprising an abovementioned nucleic acid molecule.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 1999Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: Hoechst Schering AgrEvoInventors: Bernhard Grimm, Jutta Papenbrock, Frank Hänel, Susanna Gräfe, Frank Schmidt, Wolfgang Streber
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Patent number: 6624342Abstract: The present invention relates to new nucleic acid sequences, which code for a geranylgeranyl reductase, a method for producing new plants which contain the new DNA sequence and the content of tocopherol and/or chlorophyll of which is altered in comparison to wild-type plants, these new plants, parts and products thereof and plant cells as well as the use of the DNA sequences for the manipulation of tocopherol, chlorophyll and/or vitamin K1 content in transgenic plants, parts and products thereof and plant cells.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2000Date of Patent: September 23, 2003Assignee: Institut fur Pflanzengenetik und KulturpflanzenforschungInventors: Bernhard Grimm, Ryouichi Tanaka
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Patent number: 5885497Abstract: It is possible to manufacture articles out of thermoplastic materials and to metallize the articles at their surface. In this way one can manufacture reflectors and similar articles. Most thermoplastic materials require processing steps prior to the metallization like application of primers, chemical etching and the like. The invention is based on the discovery that a certain type of materials can be metallized without any extra processing steps. The materials involved are polyestercarbonates or blends of polyestercarbonates and polycarbonate. This is quite surprising since polycarbonates can not be metallized in good quality without extra processing steps prior to the metallization step.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 1997Date of Patent: March 23, 1999Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Christianus Johannes Jacobus Maas, Luca Pietro Fontana, Robertus Eduard de Jong, Michael Bernhard Grimm