Patents by Inventor Birgit Lattermann

Birgit Lattermann 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: 7326443
    Abstract: A method for heating and fixing an inking, particularly a toner powder on a plate-shaped support. Heat is applied and fixes the inking to a coated upper side of the support. The method of this invention can be used to fix and adhere toner inkings on thick-walled supports. In one method step of this invention, the coated upper side and/or an uncoated underside of the plate-shaped support each is subjected to infrared radiation and/or a hot air stream and/or a microwave radiation. At least a portion of the infrared radiation and/or the hot air stream and/or the microwave radiation directed onto the uncoated underside of the support passes through while another portion is absorbed, such as if the support has a high weight per unit area of the support. A ceramic or thermosetting toner forms the applied ink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignee: Schott Glas
    Inventors: Bernd Schultheis, Rainer Solbach, Birgit Lattermann, Hans-Jürgen Hommes, Dieter Jung
  • Patent number: 7123867
    Abstract: An electrophotographic printing device with a developer unit and a photoconductor. The photoconductor is either directly connected to a substrate to be printed in the region of a transfer zone, or is connected by an intermediate circuit of one or several transfer media. At least one charger is provided for the substrate and the substrate may be transported through the transfer zone by a transport device. According to this invention, an effective transfer of toner to the substrate surface can be achieved with such an arrangement, even with a poor electrically-conducting and thick-walled, sheet-like substrate, whereby a charger is arranged as the primary charger in the transport direction and a secondary charger is arranged in the region after the transfer zone and both primary and secondary chargers affect the surface of the substrate to be printed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Bernd Schultheis, Birgit Lattermann, Dieter Jung
  • Publication number: 20050100812
    Abstract: A method for heating and fixing an inking, particularly a toner powder on a plate-shaped support, and the inking applied to the coated upper side of the support is fixed on the support by heat action. This invention is to be able to fix and adhere well toner inkings on thick-walled supports. Thus, the coated upper side and/or the uncoated underside of the plate-shaped support is subjected to infrared radiation and/or a hot air stream and/or a microwave radiation. A support having a high weight per unit area is used, which permits a portion of the infrared radiation and/or the hot air stream and/or the microwave radiation directed onto the uncoated underside of the support to pass through while absorbing another portion of the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2002
    Publication date: May 12, 2005
    Inventors: Bernd Schultheis, Rainer Solbach, Birgit Lattermann, Hans-Jurgen Hommes, Dieter Jung
  • Patent number: 6810799
    Abstract: A printing machine with an electrophotographic device, having a photoconductor, a photoconductor drive and an illumination device. The electrophotographic unit can be provided with the substrate by a feed device. The photoconductor drive motor is adjusted by a controller and the feed device can be linearly adjusted by a feed device drive motor. In order to produce high-definition prints, especially images or lettering on plate-shaped substrates, the feed device drive motor is adjusted by a controller that is controlled by a master-slave controller via a setpoint feed. The controller for the photoconductor drive motor is also controlled by the master-slave controller via a setpoint feed and the master slave controller synchronizes the feeding speed of the feed device and the speed of movement of the photoconductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2004
    Assignee: Schott Glas
    Inventors: Bernd Schultheis, Dieter Jung, Birgit Lattermann, Hermann Lemm
  • Patent number: 6789471
    Abstract: A device for printing on paper or plate-shaped materials, such as plates made of glass, ceramic, glass-ceramic or plastic materials, having a transport device for the plates to be printed and an electrostatic, in particular an electrographic, printing device arranged above it. With the printing process of this invention, in an efficient manner, a conveying and centering unit of a screen-printing device is combined as a transport device with the electrostatic, in particular the electrographic, printing device, which is compatible with the upper unit of the screen-printing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2004
    Inventors: Michael Zimmer, Birgit Lattermann, Bernd Schultheis
  • Publication number: 20040028430
    Abstract: An electrophotographic printing device with a developer unit and a photoconductor. The photoconductor is either directly connected to a substrate to be printed in the region of a transfer zone, or is connected by an intermediate circuit of one or several transfer media. At least one charger is provided for the substrate and the substrate may be transported through the transfer zone by a transport device. According to this invention, an effective transfer of toner to the substrate surface can be achieved with such an arrangement, even with a poor electrically-conducting and thick-walled, sheet-like substrate, whereby a charger is arranged as the primary charger in the transport direction and a secondary charger is arranged in the region after the transfer zone and both primary and secondary chargers affect the surface of the substrate to be printed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2003
    Publication date: February 12, 2004
    Inventors: Bernd Schultheis, Birgit Lattermann, Dieter Jung
  • Publication number: 20040028444
    Abstract: A printing machine with an electrophotographic device, having a photoconductor, a photoconductor drive and an illumination device. The electrophotographic unit can be provided with the substrate by a feed device. The photoconductor drive motor is adjusted by a controller and the feed device can be linearly adjusted by a feed device drive motor. In order to produce high-definition prints, especially images or lettering on plate-shaped substrates, the feed device drive motor is adjusted by a controller that is controlled by a master-slave controller via a setpoint feed. The controller for the photoconductor drive motor is also controlled by the master-slave controller via a setpoint feed and the master slave controller synchronizes the feeding speed of the feed device and the speed of movement of the photoconductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2003
    Publication date: February 12, 2004
    Inventors: Bernd Schultheis, Dieter Jung, Birgit Lattermann, Hermann Lemm
  • Publication number: 20010039890
    Abstract: A device for printing on paper or plate-shaped materials, such as plates made of glass, ceramic, glass-ceramic or plastic materials, having a transport device for the plates to be printed and an electrostatic, in particular an electrographic, printing device arranged above it. With the printing process of this invention, in an efficient manner, a conveying and centering unit of a screen-printing device is combined as a transport device with the electrostatic, in particular the electrographic, printing device, which is compatible with the upper unit of the screen-printing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2001
    Publication date: November 15, 2001
    Inventors: Michael Zimmer, Birgit Lattermann, Bernd Schultheis