Patents by Inventor Klaus Dietrich

Klaus 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: 5305906
    Abstract: A container with a plug is described, with at least one plug hole, sealable n a liquid-tight manner by means of the plug. The container with plug is characterized by the plug hole surrounded by a collar made from the material of the container, the collar having at least one locking element to secure the plug, and having a sealing surface provided thereon, between which surface and the plug a sealing element for sealing the plug hole tightly is insertable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1994
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Klaus Dietrich, Roland Winkler
  • Patent number: 5293030
    Abstract: A device for processing mail and charging required postage includes a standardized mail depositing device having a transport catch. A charging unit is connected to the mail depositing device for charging postage after mail has been inserted in the mail depositing device and for unlocking the transport catch. Secured storage containers receive mail from the mail depositing device. A method for processing mail and charging required postage includes inserting mail into a standardized mail depositing device having a transport catch. Postage is charged after the mail has been inserted in the mail depositing device and then the transport catch is unlocked, with a charging unit connected to the mail depositing device. The mail is fed into secured storage containers from the mail depositing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1994
    Assignee: Francotyp-Postalia GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Dietrich, Wolfgang Thiel
  • Patent number: 5186498
    Abstract: A method for identifying postage meter and monetary value stamping machines from printed patterns thereof includes performing microprocessor-controlled printing processes in the machine for forming a printing pattern including a monetary value stamp, a data stamp and a printing block from stored data and current data only immediately prior to being printed and temporarily storing the printing pattern until being printed. An identification characteristic is imprinted in the open in addition to the pattern to be printed. The temporarily stored printing pattern and the identification characteristic are supplied together to a printer control for generating a final printing pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1993
    Assignee: Francotyp-Postalia GmbH
    Inventor: Klaus Dietrich
  • Patent number: 5152418
    Abstract: A package is provided which consists of a container bottom made of thin-walled plastic, a narrow opening edge and a closure made of a sheet, which are joined with high strength and high tightness by heat-sealing in that two separate sealing zones are provided between the two parts, one of which primarily serving to achieve the high mechanical strength and the other primarily serving to achieve a high hermetic seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1992
    Assignee: Schmalbach-Lubeca AG
    Inventors: Frank Kroeschell, Kurt Huth, Klaus-Dietrich Geske
  • Patent number: 5009371
    Abstract: A rotary disintegration apparatus comprises a housing with a central material input and a material outlet that is open underneath, an inner rotor fixed to a first shaft and an outer rotor fixed to a second shaft on the same axis that rotates in the opposite direction, and blade rings that follow each other in alternation having blades which are inclined in the direction of rotation, which can be coated with a protective layer, which have front and rear edges of hard wear-resistant material, and which sit on one side on retaining rings and on the other side on assembly rings forming replaceable components of annular assembly ring carriers that are connected to the shafts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1991
    Assignee: Citadel Investments Limited
    Inventor: Klaus-Dietrich Nickel
  • Patent number: 4942291
    Abstract: A position-resolving sensor for detecting individual light flashes with a multiplicity of adjacent light-receiving elements and an evaluating circuit which determines the light-receiving element which is struck by a light flash. The sensor comprises light-receiving elements subdivided into a plurality of groups such that each light-receiving element is exclusively adjacent to light-receiving elements belonging to other groups. Each group of light-receiving elements is associated with a row of light detectors and at least one optical connecting element establishes a light-conducting connection between each individual light-receiving element and light detectors which are selected in accordance with a given code from the assigned row of light detectors. A high solid-angle resolution can be achieved with few light detectors. In addition, that order number of the light-receiving element is read out which has registered the light flash, directly in a digital code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 17, 1990
    Assignee: Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm GmbH
    Inventor: Klaus Dietrich
  • Patent number: 4899901
    Abstract: A container that is arranged on rollers and can be rotated by either rotary drive system or manually about its longitudinal axis within a stacking frame is configured as a body of rotation and provided inside with a mechanical delivery and fluidizing system. One of the container bottoms serves as a voiding bottom and is combined with a voiding system that comprises a passage for the bulk material that passes through a central opening in the voiding bottom. The opposite container bottom serves as a pressure-equalizing bottom and is combined with a pressure-equalizing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1990
    Assignees: KASA-TECHNOPLAN GmbH, INNOPLAN-Ingenieurgesellschaft Braas und Co. mbH
    Inventor: Klaus-Dietrich Nickel
  • Patent number: 4892201
    Abstract: A telescopic outrigger is swivel mounted and disposed so that it can be moved in the longitudinal direction in an jib trough. When the telescopic jib is in its horizontal or slightly inclined operating position, it is situated in the jib trough. In order to achieve a steep operating position, it is moved lengthwise in the jib trough in the direction of the jib tip, and is raised up about a pivot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 9, 1990
    Assignee: VEB Schwermaschinenbaukombinat Takraf
    Inventors: Harry Hellwig, Klaus-Dietrich Sturm
  • Patent number: 4891038
    Abstract: A drive and bearing arrangement for two rotor systems of a disintegrator which rotate in opposite directions and are mounted next to each other. Each rotor system has a rotor support member and a drive hub. The rotor support member of each rotor system is rotatably mounted through a rotor bearing directly on a common vibration absorbing and elastically mounted support and supply tube. The other end of each hub is rotatably mounted through a drive bearing on an axially movable shaft stub mounted in a bearing block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 2, 1990
    Assignee: Kasa-Technoplan GmbH
    Inventor: Klaus-Dietrich Nickel
  • Patent number: 4873521
    Abstract: An address management unit is provided for the conversion of logical addresses contained in a program into physical addresses for a multi-processor central control unit of a computer-controlled communications switching system comprising a central bulk storage, and additional memories in the processors, and peripheral units, a logical address forms a polysyllable address word of which one address syllable corresponds to the logical starting address of a logical address space and the other address syllable corresponds to the logical address within this logical address space. A special-purpose memory serves the purpose of storing four-syllable words having a long word length which are respectively stored therein under the addresses formed by the one address syllables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1989
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Klaus Dietrich, Hans Hauer, Klaus Schreier
  • Patent number: 4847489
    Abstract: A light sensitive detector arrangement contains a plurality of photosensitive detector elements, which in each instance have a multilayer structure of alternating positively and negatively doped photosensitive semiconductor material with a superlattice structure and control electrodes arranged vertically to the semiconductor layers and bordering on them on their front faces. To these a control voltage can be applied in order to control the spectral light sensitivity. An array contains in each case a predetermined number (for example three) of photo detector groups (E.sub.11 to E.sub.mm) of photosensitive detector elements (E.sub.111, E.sub.112, E.sub.113. . . respectively E .sub.mml, E.sub.mm2, E.sub.mm3). The control electrodes of the photo detector elements of each photo detector group are connected to variable voltage regulators (U.sub.1, U.sub.2, U.sub.3). Through the voltage regulators the upper and/or lower limit wavelength (.lambda..sub.o, .lambda..sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1989
    Assignee: Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm GmbH
    Inventor: Klaus Dietrich
  • Patent number: 4812019
    Abstract: For producing the first differential of a two-dimensional optical image, an image of electrical charges corresponding to the brightness distribution of the image is produced in a first layer of an optical structural element. The first, electrical charges storing layer includes a plurality of light sensitive detector elements arranged in a mosaic-type pattern (D.sub.i). The electrical charge image representing the brightness distribution is converted into a transmissivity or transparency distribution corresponding to the potential differences across said detector elements in the first layer, by a second layer made of a material (M) that is electro-optically modulatable for changing the transparency or degree of transparency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1989
    Assignee: Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Dietrich, Anton Harasim
  • Patent number: 4797562
    Abstract: The invention relates to an image recording sensor (1) with a plurality of photodetectors (15) in a matrix arrangement. The photodetectors (15) are here integrated components of cells (2), which through address lines (PX, PY) can be coupled for the definition of cell addresses. Each cell has at least one capacitor (C1, C2), in which the photocharge of the photodetector (15) can be stored. The resulting capacitor voltage (U1) is compared in a comparator (17) with a reference voltage (U.sub.REF, U2). The comparator is succeeded by an output circuit (18) for the output of a signal to the address lines upon the occurrence of a positive comparison result. All cells (2) can be driven via an external control circuit (4) with groups of common control and check signals. With such image recording sensor (1) no intensity values per picture element are output but only the addresses of the picture elements of interest, in which the intensity value has exceeded a given level, i.e.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1989
    Assignee: Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm GmbH
    Inventor: Klaus Dietrich
  • Patent number: 4772928
    Abstract: An electric transducer for measuring mechanical quantities comprises a movable tongue which is acted upon by the mechanical quantity to be measured and the deflection of which is converted into an electrical signal. The tip of the tongue may be designed as the gate and an electric conduction channel disposed opposite the tip at a small distance therefrom may comprise the source-drain path of a field effect transistor, or vice versa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1988
    Assignee: Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Dietrich, Walter Kroy
  • Patent number: 4699468
    Abstract: A liquid crystal light modulator is constructed for the transmission of sch signals modulated onto a light carrier passing through gaseous, liquid, and solid media such as air, water, or glass. A large surface area modulation of the light is accomplished in the visible and infrared range over narrow, however adjustable, wave length ranges or widths. Several circuit arrangements for such modulators are disclosed and their function described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1987
    Assignee: Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm Gesellschaft mit beschraenkter Haftung
    Inventors: Anton Harasim, Klaus Dietrich
  • Patent number: 4686556
    Abstract: The invention relates to a photocathode for the infra-red range having a plurality of layers of semi-conductive and conductive material. The photocathode is transparent and sensitive in a spectral range of between approx. 1 and 20 .mu.m. This is achieved by the following layer structure:p.sub.1 : a highly doped p-layern.sub.2 : a highly doped n-layeri.sub.3 : an intrinsic layerp.sub.4 : a highly doped p-layerm.sub.5 : a thin metal layer, preferably of an atomic layer of Cs.The spectral sensitivity can be adjusted by applying a negative bias voltage to the layer p.sub.1 with respect to the layer P.sub.4. When this happens, the Fermi level of the layer p.sub.2 is shifted and the work function of the electrons is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1987
    Inventor: Klaus Dietrich
  • Patent number: 4635572
    Abstract: A process and devices with which the fused sulphur is removed from fossil fuels, preferably coke and petrocoke, ahead of the furnace or the like and is fused with an additive. In the combustion chamber, the additive with the fused sulphur is then sintered. The fuel is desulphurized at a temperature management controllable by an electronic process computer, at controllable residence times and pressure conditions in leading zones so that practically completely desulphurized fuel is burned in the combustion chamber. The sulphur components are removed with the additive via an ash removal plant. A combustion of the sulphur components of the fuel to SO.sub.2 within the combustion chamber does not occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1987
    Assignee: Kasa-Technoplan GmbH
    Inventor: Klaus-Dietrich Nickel
  • Patent number: 4589098
    Abstract: A method of optical data processing employs a modulable source of light which illuminates an optical assembly. A storage location selector is employed to apply a second modulating signal to an address selected storage location of a charge storage register. A charge storage register provides a selected storage cell with a potential of the modulating signal. After storing the predetermined potential variation in the charge storage register the potential of each cell is applied through an optical modulator to the photocell of a photodetector arrangement. The optical properties of each modular element is controlled through the potential of the associated cell of the charge storage resistor in a manner such that the intensity of the light falling on the photocell is a function of the total intensity incident on the optical assembly and also a function of the voltage applied in the respective modular element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 13, 1986
    Assignee: Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm GmbH
    Inventor: Klaus Dietrich
  • Patent number: 4551172
    Abstract: Sponge iron is produced by a direct reduction with solid carbonaceous reducing agents. In order to permit a melting of the sponge iron, particularly of that part thereof which is inferior in metallurgical properties, in a process which is as simple and economical as possible, the exhaust gas from the direct reduction process is used to produce electrical energy, which is supplied to the electric reducing furnace, and sponge iron at a rate corresponding to the electrical energy that is produced is charged to the electrical reducing furnace and comprises at least part of the sponge iron which is inferior in metallurgical properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 5, 1985
    Assignees: Metallgesellschaft Aktiengesellschaft, Mannesmann Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Lothar Formanek, Martin Hirsch, Harry Serbent, Wolfram Schnabel, Klaus-Dietrich Fritzsche, Heribert Koenig, Gero Rath
  • Patent number: 4539598
    Abstract: An image readout device is constructed to read out a partial image from a total image stored in photo detectors arranged in at least one row or two-dimensionally in rows and columns. The partial image may be of interest for a particular purpose, for example for the identification of a target, which does not require the processing of all the data representing the total image. The readout is accomplished by a series of switches arranged in a row and controlled by two shift registers in response to shift clock pulses. A logical "high (1)" state is loaded into a first shift register position (A) corresponding to the first detector position to be read out. All other shift register positions are loaded with the logical "low (0)" state. These logical states are then shifted in parallel into another second shift register which addresses the row of switches in a serial manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1982
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1985
    Assignee: Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Dietrich, Walter Kroy