Patents by Inventor Dirk Kahl

Dirk Kahl 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: 8662626
    Abstract: A device for controlling substrate web tension includes first and second driving units with respective driving rollers around which the substrate web is partially guided and tensioned. The first and second driving units have different rotational moments of inertia. A measuring unit measures the tension of the substrate web. A control unit has first and a second filtering units with different filtering characteristics for filtering the measured value. The control unit includes a first control device for controlling the first driving unit based on the measured value filtered by the first filtering device, and a second control device for controlling the second driving unit based on the measured value filtered by the second filtering device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Dirk Kahl, Karlheinz Peter, Rolf Spilz, Ulrich Schmidt, Matthias Wecker
  • Publication number: 20130010024
    Abstract: A device for controlling substrate web tension includes first and second driving units with respective driving rollers around which the substrate web is partially guided and tensioned. The first and second driving units have different rotational moments of inertia. A measuring unit measures the tension of the substrate web. A control unit has first and a second filtering units with different filtering characteristics for filtering the measured value. The control unit includes a first control device for controlling the first driving unit based on the measured value filtered by the first filtering device, and a second control device for controlling the second driving unit based on the measured value filtered by the second filtering device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Inventors: Dirk Kahl, Karlheinz Peter, Rolf Spilz, Ulrich Schmidt, Matthias Wecker
  • Patent number: 7812735
    Abstract: In a method for automatically identifying a conveyor belt in a printer as being one of a plurality of belt types, the conveyor belt is moved along a circulatory path. A start and an end of a longitudinal marking on the moving conveyor belt are detected. A distance of travel of the moving conveyor belt between the detecting of the start and the end is sensed to provide a sensed marking length. The sensed marking length is allocated to a nearest of a plurality of nominal marking lengths. Each nominal marking length is associated with a respective one of said belt types. The belt type is associated with or defined by a set of one or more printer control parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Dirk Kahl, Ralph Petersen, Frank Pierel, Soenke Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20080061998
    Abstract: In a method for automatically identifying a conveyor belt in a printer as being one of a plurality of belt types, the conveyor belt is moved along a circulatory path. A start and an end of a longitudinal marking on the moving conveyor belt are detected. A distance of travel of the moving conveyor belt between the detecting of the start and the end is sensed to provide a sensed marking length. The sensed marking length is allocated to a nearest of a plurality of nominal marking lengths. Each nominal marking length is associated with a respective one of said belt types. The belt type is associated with or defined by a set of one or more printer control parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2007
    Publication date: March 13, 2008
    Inventors: Dirk Kahl, Ralph Petersen, Frank Pierel, Soenke Schmidt
  • Patent number: 6969207
    Abstract: Recognizing a print substrate in the vicinity of a sensor within a printing machine, whereby a change in the capacitance of the system formed by the sensor and a surface of an area in which a print substrate should be recognized, is recognized by the sensor. In this way, print substrates can already be identified on the basis of a dielectric constant that is different from that of air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2005
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Dirk Kahl, Wolfgang Eberhard Luxem, Karlheinz Walter Peter, Sönke Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20040226466
    Abstract: Recognizing a print substrate in the vicinity of a sensor within a printing machine, whereby a change in the capacitance of the system formed by the sensor and a surface of an area in which a print substrate should be recognized, is recognized by the sensor. In this way, print substrates can already be identified on the basis of a dielectric constant that is different from that of air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2003
    Publication date: November 18, 2004
    Inventors: Dirk Kahl, Wolfgang Eberhard Luxem, Karlheinz Walter Peter, Sonke Schmidt