Patents by Inventor Christoph Dietrich

Christoph Dietrich 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: 11498316
    Abstract: Composite film (1) for closing a container (10) by sealing the composite film (1) against a circumferential sealing surface (11) of the container (10) or of a cap ring (12) to be connected to the container (10). The composite film (1) comprises an outer support layer (30) made of a metal film and an inner multilayer membrane (20) laminated to the outer support layer (30) using a bonding layer (28). The membrane (20) has a consecutive layer structure from the outside to the inside consisting of a backbone layer (21) made of polypropylene, an intermediate layer (23) made of a partially crystalline polyamide and a cohesively breakable peeling layer (25) made of polypropylene, polyethylene and talc, wherein between the intermediate layer (23) and the backbone layer (21) as well as between the intermediate layer (23) and the peeling layer (25) there is arranged a tie layer (22, 24) made of a maleic acid anhydride grafted polypropylene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: AMCOR FLEXIBLES SINGEN GMBH
    Inventors: Christoph Dietrich, Steven Welvaert, Bert De Schoenmaker
  • Publication number: 20200338871
    Abstract: Composite film (1) for closing a container (10) by sealing the composite film (1) against a circumferential sealing surface (11) of the container (10) or of a cap ring (12) to be connected to the container (10). The composite film (1) comprises an outer support layer (30) made of a metal film and an inner multilayer membrane (20) laminated to the outer support layer (30) using a bonding layer (28). The membrane (20) has a consecutive layer structure from the outside to the inside consisting of a backbone layer (21) made of polypropylene, an intermediate layer (23) made of a partially crystalline polyamide and a cohesively breakable peeling layer (25) made of polypropylene, polyethylene and talc, wherein between the intermediate layer (23) and the backbone layer (21) as well as between the intermediate layer (23) and the peeling layer (25) there is arranged a tie layer (22, 24) made of a maleic acid anhydride grafted polypropylene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Christoph Dietrich, Steven Welvaert, Bert De Schoenmaker
  • Patent number: 10370164
    Abstract: A composite film for closing a container by sealing the composite film against a circumferential sealing surface of the container or of a cap ring to be connected to the container has a support layer made of a metal film and a sealing layer connected to the metal film. The sealing layer comprises a coextruded layer with a cohesively breaking intermediate layer and adhesion promoter layers arranged on both sides of the intermediate layer. The composite film is suitable for tight sealing against sealing surfaces made of polished tinplate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: AMCOR FLEXIBLES SINGEN GMBH
    Inventors: Christoph Dietrich, Klaus Hafner, Sven Bauer
  • Publication number: 20180022520
    Abstract: A composite film for closing a container by sealing the composite film against a circumferential sealing surface of the container or of a cap ring to be connected to the container has a support layer made of a metal film and a sealing layer connected to the metal film. The sealing layer comprises a coextruded layer with a cohesively breaking intermediate layer and adhesion promoter layers arranged on both sides of the intermediate layer. The composite film is suitable for tight sealing against sealing surfaces made of polished tinplate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: AMCOR FLEXIBLES SINGEN GMBH
    Inventors: Christoph Dietrich, Klaus Hafner, Sven Bauer
  • Patent number: 9790010
    Abstract: A composite film for closing a container by sealing the composite film against a circumferential sealing surface of the container or of a cap ring to be connected to the container has a support layer made of a metal film and a sealing layer connected to the metal film. The sealing layer comprises a coextruded layer with a cohesively breaking intermediate layer and adhesion promoter layers arranged on both sides of the intermediate layer. The composite film is suitable for tight sealing against sealing surfaces made of polished tinplate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: AMCOR FLEXIBLES SINGEN GMBH
    Inventors: Christoph Dietrich, Klaus Hafner, Sven Bauer
  • Publication number: 20140231434
    Abstract: A composite film for closing a container by sealing the composite film against a circumferential sealing surface of the container or of a cap ring to be connected to the container has a support layer made of a metal film and a sealing layer connected to the metal film. The sealing layer comprises a coextruded layer with a cohesively breaking intermediate layer and adhesion promoter layers arranged on both sides of the intermediate layer. The composite film is suitable for tight sealing against sealing surfaces made of polished tinplate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2012
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: AMCOR FLEXIBLE SINGEN GMBH
    Inventors: Christoph Dietrich, Klaus Hafner, Sven Bauer
  • Patent number: 8167206
    Abstract: A reader for reading computer-generated individualized holograms which are written into a storage medium, having a light source for generating a light beam, a recording means for acquiring image data generated by the light beam by illuminating the individualized hologram, and display means for displaying the display data generated from the image data, wherein all the components are combined in a portable handheld unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: tesa scribos GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Dietrich, Kay Schulte-Wieking, Robert Thomann, Steffen Scheibenstock
  • Patent number: 7911666
    Abstract: An apparatus for reading a hologram, in particular a computer-generated hologram, that includes a radiation source for irradiation of the hologram with a read beam composed of electromagnetic radiation, and an outlet opening for receiving an image that is produced from the hologram. The apparatus may allow both greater variability and greater convenience in use with a simple design. The apparatus further includes optics having at least two lenses in which a focal point of the first lens and a focal point of the second lens are each arranged essentially on one plane, and in which the hologram is arranged in front of the second lens as viewed along the beam direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Tesa Scribos GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Dietrich, Steffen Scheibenstock
  • Patent number: 7727678
    Abstract: A holographic data storage medium includes a polymer film which is set up as a storage layer and whose surface structure can be changed locally by heating. The polymer film is set up for the storage of holographic information via the local surface structure of the polymer film. A reflective layer can be provided on the data storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Tesa Scribos GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Stadler, Steffen Noehte, Christoph Dietrich, Jörn Leiber, Matthias Gerspach
  • Publication number: 20090314775
    Abstract: The invention relates to a label to be used as a security feature with a substrate layer and with an optically changeable section which can be microstructured, wherein the optically changeable section is connected to the substrate layer. Thus, the technical problem of creating a label of the type previously mentioned which is simple, reliable, and tamper-proof is solved. The substrate layer of said label is provided with at least one recess which is arranged along a line which runs slightly below the optically changeable section. The invention also relates to a packaging, in which at least one label with a container is connected to a closure having at least one recess arranged in the area between the container and the closure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2007
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Applicant: Tesa Scribos GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Dietrich, Christoph Jürgens, Stefan Stadler
  • Publication number: 20090160177
    Abstract: Method of individualizing labels, in which a plurality of labels is formed from a label tape, characterized in that the shape of each label is formed individually.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2008
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Applicant: TESA SCRIBOS GMBH
    Inventors: Christoph Dietrich, Steffen Noehte
  • Publication number: 20090152861
    Abstract: A security label set comprising security labels, a backing material common to the security label, wherein the at least one security label is arranged directly on the common backing material and the other security label is indirectly arranged on the common backing material by being arranged to the backing. The security labels may be releasably arranged on the backing. The security labels are individualized by including serial or random numbers o by a computer-generated hologram. The backing may be in form of a web-form liner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Applicant: TESA SCRIBOS GMBH
    Inventors: Tobias Kresse, Volker Hahn, Christoph Dietrich
  • Publication number: 20090134224
    Abstract: A reader for reading computer-generated individualized holograms which are written into a storage medium, having a light source for generating a light beam, a recording means for acquiring image data generated by the light beam by illuminating the individualized hologram, and display means for dispalying the display data generated from the image data, wherein all the components are combined in a portable handheld unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2008
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Applicant: Tesa Scribos GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Dietrich, Kay Schulte-Wieking, Robert Thomann, Steffen Scheibenstock
  • Patent number: 7475820
    Abstract: A reader for reading computer-generated lithograms which are written into a storage medium, having a light source for generating a light beam, having recording means for acquiring the image data generated by the light beam by illuminating the lithogram, and having display means for displaying the display data generated from the image data, wherein all the components are combined in a portable handheld unit. This reader solves the object of specifying a manageable reader which has great variability in reading the information contained in the dot distribution of a computer-generated lithogram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: tesa scribos GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Dietrich, Kay Schulte-Wieking, Robert Thomann, Steffen Scheibenstock
  • Patent number: 7468935
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for optimized tracking of an optical scanner along a track of an optical recording medium, the track having information markings arranged in dense succession, and also having fundamental changes in properties in significantly lower density. The method has the following steps: formation of a track error signal, detection of the occurrence of fundamental changes in properties of the track, formation of an offset value from the comparison of the value of the track error signal that occurs shortly before and shortly after the fundamental change in properties, formation of the track error signal, taking account of the offset value and repetition of the aforementioned steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2008
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Christoph Dietrich, Christian Büchler
  • Patent number: 7445873
    Abstract: Producing a digital hologram-in a storage medium includes: (i) focusing a write beam onto the storage medium; (ii) moving the write beam two-dimensionally relative to the storage medium; (iii) focusing a scanning beam onto a beam-guiding mask having a plurality of tracks; (iv) moving the scanning beam two-dimensionally relative to the mask, the movement of the scanning beam being coupled with the movement of the write beam; (v) generating a position control signal when the position of the scanning beam deviates from the scanned track by a predefined value; (vi) controlling the position of the write beam on the storage medium with the aid of the position control signal; and (vii) writing the hologram by introducing radiation energy point by point, the intensity of the write beam being controlled as a function of the position of the write beam on the storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Tesa Scribos GmbH
    Inventors: Steffen Noehte, Christoph Dietrich, Robert Thomann, Stefan Stadler, Jörn Leiber
  • Patent number: 7413830
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of producing digital holograms in a storage medium, in which the technical problem of writing computer-generated holograms by means of optical lithography as quickly as possible and with little effort with simultaneous accurate control of the timed triggering and the positioning of the write beam is achieved in that a write beam is focused onto the storage medium and moved one-dimensionally relative to the storage medium, in that a scanning beam is focused onto a trigger mask having a plurality of trigger lines and moved one-dimensionally transversely relative to the trigger lines, the movement of the scanning beam being coupled with the movement of the write beam, in that, during the scanning of the trigger lines, a timed trigger signal is generated as a function of the arrangement of the trigger lines, in that, with the aid of the timed trigger signal, the intensity of the write beam on the storage medium is controlled, and in that the hologram is written line by li
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: Tesa Scribos GmbH
    Inventors: Steffen Noehte, Christoph Dietrich, Robert Thomann, Matthias Gerspach, Jörn Leiber, Stefan Stadler
  • Patent number: 7405851
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for identifying articles, wherein article identification data are made available and the article is provided with a hologram representing said data so that the article can be identified by way of an intensity profile corresponding to said hologram. To this end, article-identifying individual data are provided, a hologram profile is digitally calculated using said individual data, and an intensity modulation of the hologram-producing beam is determined. The hologram-producing beam transfers the hologram pixels onto a hologram support that is associated with the article to be identified so that the article can be identified by way of the intensity profile reproduced from the associated hologram support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2008
    Assignee: Tesa scribos GmbH
    Inventors: Steffen Noehte, Christoph Dietrich, Matthias Gerspach, Jörn Leiber, Stefan Stadler
  • Patent number: 7384709
    Abstract: A lithograph for producing digital holograms in a storage medium includes a light source for producing a write beam, the light source having drive means for the two-dimensional movement of the write beam relative to the storage medium and having a first objective for focusing the write beam onto the storage medium. Writing computer-generated holograms by means of optical lithography is solved in that: a two-dimensional trigger matrix is provided, means of producing a scanning beam are provided, a second objective for focusing the scanning beam onto the trigger matrix is provided, the drive means moves the scanning beam two-dimensionally relative to the surface of the trigger matrix, the movement of the scanning beam being coupled with the movement of the write beam, and means for generating a trigger signal to control the intensity of the write beam are connected to the trigger matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: Tesa Scribos GmbH
    Inventors: Steffen Noehte, Christoph Dietrich, Robert Thomann, Matthias Gerspach, Jörn Leiber, Stefan Stadler
  • Publication number: 20080068687
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for reading out a hologram (9), in particular a computer-generated hologram (9), comprising a radiation source for irradiating the hologram (9) with a readout beam (10) of electromagnetic radiation and an exit opening (2) for receiving an image that is generated by the hologram (9). The invention aims to solve the technical problem of providing a device of this type for reading out a hologram, which allows more flexibility and provides greater convenience during use and which has at the same time a simple construction. To achieve this, the device is provided with an optical system that comprises at least two lenses (12, 16), a respective focal point of the first lens (12) and second lens (16) being located essentially on one plane (13). The hologram (9) is positioned in front of at least the second lens (16), when viewed from the direction of the beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2005
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Inventors: Christoph Dietrich, Steffen Scheibenstock