Patents by Inventor Gunter Baitz

Gunter Baitz 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: 10633912
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for handling notes of value, comprising a head module and a safe module for accommodating a cash box. Further, the device has an intermediate module for transmitting a drive force of a drive unit of the head module to a cash box mechanism and/or to transport elements of the safe module. The intermediate module is designed such that it is adaptable to at least two different wall thicknesses of a wall of the safe module so that at least for these two wall thicknesses it can transmit the drive force from the drive unit to the cash box mechanism or the transport elements of the safe module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Wincor Nixdorf International GmbH
    Inventors: Günter Baitz, Thomas Blechert
  • Publication number: 20150197977
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for handling notes of value, comprising a head module and a safe module for accommodating a cash box. Further, the device has an intermediate module for transmitting a drive force of a drive unit of the head module to a cash box mechanism and/or to transport elements of the safe module. The intermediate module is designed such that it is adaptable to at least two different wall thicknesses of a wall of the safe module so that at least for these two wall thicknesses it can transmit the drive force from the drive unit to the cash box mechanism or the transport elements of the safe module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Inventors: Günter BAITZ, Thomas BLECHERT
  • Publication number: 20120247924
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for detecting items with a transport device having two belt conveyors arranged one behind the other for transporting items in a transport direction, wherein a slot is configured between the belt conveyors perpendicular to the transport direction, and with a scanning unit for the contactless optical scanning through the slot of a contact surface of the items being transported on the transport device, where the slot is covered at least partially by a protective rail and is arranged spaced apart from the belt conveyors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: Wincor Nixdorf International GmbH
    Inventors: Günter Baitz, Jürgen Doell
  • Publication number: 20070274758
    Abstract: Merchandise detecting and billing device having a plurality of receipt dispensers (12L, 12R) whose discharge channel (26) has an adjoining diverting means (28) which is able to direct printed material (22) into at least two transportation channels (30L, 30R) which each lead to a printed material dispenser (12L, 12R).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2005
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Applicant: Wincor Nixdorf International GmbH
    Inventors: Gunter Baitz, Wolfgang Malke
  • Publication number: 20070138269
    Abstract: Self-service checkout system having a merchandise-registration device 5 with a scanner 8 for registering the merchandise, a screen 14 for displaying merchandise data, a payment device with at least one coin-depositing and coin-dispensing device and a data-processing device, with the merchandise-registration device 5 comprising a base segment 6 and a head segment 7 which can be pivoted about a vertical axis of rotation V and can be pivoted through 180° with respect to the base segment 6, with the head segment 7 comprising at least the scanner 8 for registering the merchandise, the screen 14 for displaying merchandise data, and the payment device with at least one coin-depositing and coin-dispensing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2006
    Publication date: June 21, 2007
    Inventors: Gunter Baitz, Michael Blecke
  • Patent number: 7191948
    Abstract: A self service bank terminal is constructed so as to be usable by sitting and standing customers, so as to take up little floor surface, and so that several terminals can be placed side-by-side with the display screen of one terminal being not viewable by customers at other of the terminals. The terminal has a housing 10 with two rectangular side walls 23, 123 connected by an upper cover plate 24, a rear wall 25, a front plate 27 and a bottom plate 26, which includes the bottom plate having a supporting surface for engaging a supporting floor, or the bottom plate 22 having a supporting column 21, with the cover plate being horizontal or slightly sloped. The display screen is located on a pulpit shaped portion 124 of the cover plate, has associated with it blinder shields 41 on three of its sides, and is slightly inclined. Also included in the terminal are a keyboard 52, a check examining device 53, and a printer drawer 30.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: Wincor Nixdorf GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Günter Baitz, Hartmut Kamin, Joachim Burchart
  • Patent number: 7128220
    Abstract: The invention relates to a banknote compartment for a till drawer or the like, which is defined by a bottom, sidewalls, a rear wall and a front wall and has a covering element which extends from the rear wall over a part of the length of the compartment which is measured between the rear wall and the front wall. Said covering element comprises a holding-down clamp for banknotes, near its free edge which is at a distance from the rear wall. The clamp can be pivoted about an axis which is parallel to the bottom and the rear wall, between a pressure position, in which said clamp is pre-stressed downwards in the direction of the bottom, and a lifted release position. At least one intermediate bottom dividing the banknote compartment into superposed partial compartments is arranged between the bottom of the compartment and the covering element, parallel thereto and at a distance therefrom. Said intermediate bottom extends from the rear wall over a part of the length of the compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignee: Wincor Nixdorf International GmbH
    Inventor: Günter Baitz
  • Patent number: 6896255
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cassette for receiving a stack of sheets, with a pressing element which bears against a first end face of the stack of sheets and is movable in the pressing direction, with a drive motor for displacing the pressing element so that a second end face the stack of sheets facing away from the pressing element can be brought to bear against extracting elements of a sheet extracting device, and with a measuring device for determining the pressing force of the stack of sheets against the extracting elements an output signal of the measuring device serving for controlling the drive motor in order to generate a predetermined pressing force. The stack of sheets and the pressing element are arranged in a slide which is accommodated in the cassette movably in the direction of displacement of the pressing element, the pressing element being displaceable with respect to the slide by the drive motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2005
    Assignee: Siemens Nixdorf Informationssyteme Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Fick, Günter Baitz, Wolfgang Malke
  • Patent number: 6883987
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for treating forms, especially betting slips or the like, comprising a reader with a transport device that forms a gap-type transport path for a betting slip. In the path of said transport path a reading head is disposed and is linked with a control and evaluation unit. In the projection of the at least one vertically aligned transport path a printer is disposed below the reading heat that is linked with the control and evaluation unit. Said printer comprises an abutment and a print head that can be adjusted between an abutment remote rest position and an abutment proximal operative position. Downstream of the abutment and below said abutment a sheet tray is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2005
    Assignee: Wincor Nixdorf International GmbH
    Inventors: Hartmut Kamin, Günter Baitz, Wolfgang Malke
  • Publication number: 20040027558
    Abstract: The invention relates to a banknote compartment for a till drawer or the like, which is defined by a bottom, sidewalls, a rear wall and a front wall and has a covering element which extends from the rear wall over a part of the length of the compartment which is measured between the rear wall and the front wall. Said covering element comprises a holding-down clamp for banknotes, near its free edge which is at a distance from the rear wall. The clamp can be pivoted about an axis which is parallel to the bottom and the rear wall, between a pressure position, in which said clamp is pre-stressed downwards in the direction of the bottom, and a lifted release position. At least one intermediate bottom dividing the banknote compartment into superposed partial compartments is arranged between the bottom of the compartment and the covering element, parallel thereto and at a distance therefrom. Said intermediate bottom extends from the rear wall over a part of the length of the compartment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2003
    Publication date: February 12, 2004
    Inventor: Gunter Baitz
  • Patent number: 6637959
    Abstract: Printing device with means for conveying paper A printing device (10) comprises a lower part (12) and an upper part (14) that is mounted on said lower part (12) such that it can pivot about a pivot axis (16). A print head (18) and a holding trough. (62) for a recording medium supply roll (64) are arranged in the lower part (12) , and a conveying device (24, 30) for a recording medium (66), and a print backing support (36) spatially associated with the print head (18) are arranged in the upper part (14). The upper part (14) has two side walls (42) which laterally enclose a recording medium supply roll (64) put into the holding trough (62).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2003
    Assignee: Wincor Nixdorf GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Günter Baitz, Wilfried Dobring, Wolfgang Malke
  • Patent number: 6638102
    Abstract: Device arrangement with a subassembly retained in a housing. A arrangement comprising a housing and a subassembly (10) which is retained in a releasable manner in the housing on an installation wall (12) is characterized in that the subassembly (10) is suspended on the installation wall (12) by means of a hook-like mounting element (36) and is pressed against the installation wall (12), and retained in its position, by a cover panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2003
    Assignee: Wincor Nixdorf GmbH & Co. KG.
    Inventor: Günter Baitz
  • Patent number: 6626354
    Abstract: Cashbox arrangement, having a transportable cashbox (10) and a fixed base plate (20), to which the cashbox (10) can be locked, and having a bolt (30) in the interior of the cashbox (10) which can be unlocked only when the cashbox lid (18) is open. Arranged in the cashbox (10) is a sensor (34), which registers the unlocking and/or the removal of the cashbox (10) from the base plate (20) and reports an information signal to a monitoring device via a signal path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2003
    Assignee: Wincor Nixdorf GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Günter Baitz, Hartmut Kamin
  • Publication number: 20030156880
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for treating forms, especially betting slips or the like, comprising a reader (12) with a transport device (26) that forms a gap-type transport path (22) for a betting slip (20). In the path of said transport path (22) a reading head (24) is disposed and is linked with a control and evaluation unit (62). In the projection of the at least one vertically aligned transport path (22) a printer (38) is disposed below the reading heat (24) that is linked with the control and evaluation unit (62). Said printer comprises an abutment (58) and a print head (40) that can be adjusted between an abutment (58) remote rest position and an abutment (58) proximal operative position. Downstream of the abutment (58) and below said abutment a sheet tray (36) is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2003
    Publication date: August 21, 2003
    Inventors: Hartmut Kamin, Gunter Baitz, Wolfgang Malke
  • Patent number: 6474800
    Abstract: In an inkjet printer having at least one interchangeable container (16) for printing ink, having a holder (10) to hold the interchangeable container (16), having a switching device to block and enable the inkjet printer, having a signal transmitter (24) and a signal receiver (28) connected to the switching device, which are arranged on the holder (10), and having a signal transmitting device, on the interchangeable container (16), which transmits an enable signal from the signal transmitter (24) to the signal receiver (28) during or after the insertion of the interchangeable container (16) into the holder, the signal transmitting device is arranged in the interior of the interchangeable container (16) and has a signal input (38), a signal transmission element (40) and a signal output (48).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: Wincor Nixdorf GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Günter Baitz, Wolfgang Malke
  • Patent number: 6241149
    Abstract: A modular operator unit, in particular for a cash register, having a block which includes a display unit and/or at least one keypad and/or a swipe-through magnetic card reader and which has a cable duct extending through the block to peripheral devices attached to opposing ends of the block and wherein one of the peripheral devices can be pivoted about a horizontal or a vertical axis and the other of the peripheral devices can be flange-mounted to a side wall or opposing end of the block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2001
    Assignee: Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Günter Baitz, Hartmut Kamin
  • Patent number: 6206285
    Abstract: A peripheral device kit for the workstation of a goods invoicing system in which a display and input unit can be mounted either on a printer box or on a base box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Assignee: Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Günter Baitz, Joachim Burchart, Hartmut Kamin
  • Patent number: 6199975
    Abstract: An ink jet printer has an ink filling device for an ink jet print head wherein the ink jet print head can be filled with the filling device. The ink filling device has an ink reservoir and a discharge opening. The print head has an ink chamber with a feed opening for ink and can be filled when it is installed in an ink jet printer. The discharge opening is arranged in a hollow body with a variable-volume that moves ink from the ink reservoir when the volume is increased and that discharges ink via the discharge opening when the volume is decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2001
    Assignee: Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Günter Baitz, Joachim Burchart
  • Patent number: 6073838
    Abstract: The present invention provides new cash registers which are suitable for use in catering companies and retail businesses. The cash registers can be easily adapted to the ergonomic requirements of a standing or seated operator. Various devices can optionally be installed in a wall located underneath a keypad surface and are covered by a front region of the keypad surface. The keypad surface can pivot to allow access to the various devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2000
    Assignee: Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG
    Inventors: Gunter Baitz, Hartmut Kamin
  • Patent number: 6059471
    Abstract: A device for transporting a sheet (18) to be printed in a printer is described, with a carriage (14) which is designed for receiving the sheet and which can be displaced on a fixed stand (12) perpendicularly to the line direction between a starting position for inserting and removing the sheet and an end position moved into the printer. Mounted on the carriage (14) is a releasable clamping device (26) which comprises a bearing surface (22) for the sheet (18) and a clamping lever (35) spring-loaded in the clamping direction. The latter is provided with an actuating cam (48) which co-operates with a control bar (40) provided on the stand (12), in such a way that the clamping device (26) is opened in the starting position, closes after this starting position has been passed in the direction opposite to the end position and opens again when the carriage (14), coming from the end position, reaches the starting position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2000
    Assignee: Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG
    Inventors: Wilfried Dobring, Gunter Baitz