Patents by Inventor Malte Seidler
Malte Seidler 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).
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Patent number: 11002541Abstract: A Position and Orientation Measurement Engine (POME) is a mobile camera system that can be used for accurate indoor measurement (e.g., at a construction site). The POME uses a plurality of cameras to acquire images of a plurality of targets. If locations of the plurality of targets are precisely known, images of the targets can be used to determine a position of the POME in relation to the plurality of targets. However, to precisely determine locations of the plurality of targets can be time consuming and/or use expensive equipment. This disclosure discusses how to use a camera system with an electronic distance measuring unit to determine locations of the plurality of targets.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2019Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: Trimble Inc.Inventors: Young Jin Lee, Kent Kahle, Malte Seidler, Paul Montgomery, Andreas Winter
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Patent number: 10997747Abstract: A Position and Orientation Measurement Engine (POME) is a mobile camera system that can be used for accurate indoor measurement (e.g., at a construction site). The POME uses a plurality of cameras to acquire images of a plurality of targets. If locations of the plurality of targets are precisely known, images of the targets can be used to determine a position of the POME in relation to the plurality of targets. However, to precisely determine locations of the plurality of targets can be time consuming and/or use expensive equipment. This disclosure discusses how to use the POME itself to determine locations of the plurality of targets.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2019Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: Trimble Inc.Inventors: Young Jin Lee, Kent Kahle, Malte Seidler
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Publication number: 20210025705Abstract: A Position and Orientation Measurement Engine (POME) is a mobile camera system that can be used for accurate indoor measurement (e.g., at a construction site). The POME uses a plurality of cameras to acquire images of a plurality of targets. If locations of the plurality of targets are precisely known, images of the targets can be used to determine a position of the POME in relation to the plurality of targets. However, to precisely determine locations of the plurality of targets can be time consuming and/or use expensive equipment. This disclosure discusses how to use a camera system with an electronic distance measuring unit to determine locations of the plurality of targets.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2019Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventors: Young Jin Lee, Kent Kahle, Malte Seidler, Paul Montgomery, Andreas Winter
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Publication number: 20200357134Abstract: A Position and Orientation Measurement Engine (POME) is a mobile camera system that can be used for accurate indoor measurement (e.g., at a construction site). The POME uses a plurality of cameras to acquire images of a plurality of targets. If locations of the plurality of targets are precisely known, images of the targets can be used to determine a position of the POME in relation to the plurality of targets. However, to precisely determine locations of the plurality of targets can be time consuming and/or use expensive equipment. This disclosure discusses how to use the POME itself to determine locations of the plurality of targets.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2019Publication date: November 12, 2020Inventors: Young Jin Lee, Kent Kahle, Malte Seidler
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Patent number: 9284154Abstract: A method of transferring processing parameters of a print medium includes the steps of reading values of processing parameters from a portable data carrier into a control unit of the processing machine or from a control unit of the processing machine into a portable data carrier and causing the portable data carrier, together with the pile of sheet-shaped copies of the print medium, to interact with the processing machine in such a way that an automated data transfer into the control unit or from the control unit of the processing machine can take place.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2007Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AGInventors: Malte Seidler, Albert Maul, Thomas Schmid
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Patent number: 9079388Abstract: A method and an apparatus control a printing press having a plurality of printing units, a plurality of cylinders which are coupled mechanically to one another and a control computer for controlling at least one drive motor which drives the mechanically coupled cylinders. A torsion model is stored in the machine computer for describing the torsion state of the cylinders in the printing press which are rotatably coupled mechanically to one another, as a function of at least one measurable operating parameter or at least one variable of the printing press which is known to the machine computer. A control of the printing press is performed by the control computer on the basis of the values which are calculated by the torsion model.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2007Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AGInventors: Stefan Schreiber, Bernhard Buck, Werner Joss, Malte Seidler
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Patent number: 8794148Abstract: A printing press includes an assembly and a cam mechanism for moving at least one part of the assembly. A cam of the cam mechanism has a curvature course with points, in particular bends or jumps, which are not constantly differentiable within a movement region of the cam. The cam mechanism can include an actuator for the temporal displacement of jolts which are induced by the points that are not constantly differentiable to the at least one part of the assembly. An adaptation of the movement which is produced to the operating state of the printing press is possible, with the result that a considerable reduction can be achieved in vibrations for all printing speeds.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2009Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AGInventors: Martin Baureis, Bernhard Buck, Siegfried Kurtzer, Stefan Mutschall, Henning Niggemann, Malte Seidler
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Patent number: 8763529Abstract: A method of compensating for vibration-induced circumferential-register errors in a sheet-fed printing press includes compensating for at least one vibration-induced deviation of an actual angular position of a cylinder from a nominal angular position by adjusting the circumferential register of at least one printing unit, in particular of the cylinder. For this purpose, the current vibration state of the sheet-fed printing press is determined, the effect of the determined vibrations of an integer order on a position of color excerpts on a sheet of printing material is calculated, and the compensating circumferential-register adjustment required in accordance with the result of the calculation is carried out. A sheet-fed printing press for carrying out the method, is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2007Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AGInventors: Bernhard Buck, Stefan Schreiber, Malte Seidler
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Patent number: 8464636Abstract: A sheet-fed rotary printing machine includes at least two electric drive motors acting on a gearwheel train which mechanically connects a plurality of printing units to one another. A device for controlling the printing machine includes a control loop for each electric drive motor having a higher-frequency control element. At least one control loop has a low-frequency control element supplying an output signal picked up at the control loops in a predetermined ratio. A sheet-fed rotary printing machine having the device is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2008Date of Patent: June 18, 2013Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AGInventors: Malte Seidler, Detlef Strunk
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Patent number: 8375856Abstract: In a method for compensating an oscillation which has a frequency spectrum with a number of discrete frequency components in a printing press, at least one counter torque is introduced into the printing press in order to compensate for at least one discrete frequency component of the oscillation. A first group of one or more frequency components are compensated for by introducing one or more previously determined counter torques, and a second group of one or more frequency components is compensated for by introducing specific counter torques as a function of a measurement, carried out during the operation of the printing press, of at least one signal which contains at least the one or the plurality of frequency components.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2007Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AGInventors: Bernhard Buck, Eric Knopf, Matthias Nöll, Stefan Schreiber, Malte Seidler, Detlef Strunk
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Publication number: 20090183646Abstract: A printing press includes an assembly and a cam mechanism for moving at least one part of the assembly. A cam of the cam mechanism has a curvature course with points, in particular bends or jumps, which are not constantly differentiable within a movement region of the cam. The cam mechanism can include an actuator for the temporal displacement of jolts which are induced by the points that are not constantly differentiable to the at least one part of the assembly. An adaptation of the movement which is produced to the operating state of the printing press is possible, with the result that a considerable reduction can be achieved in vibrations for all printing speeds.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2009Publication date: July 23, 2009Applicant: HEIDELBERGER DRUCKMASCHINEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Martin Baureis, Bernhard Buck, Siegfried Kurtzer, Stefan Mutschall, Henning Niggemann, Malte Seidler
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Publication number: 20090101031Abstract: A sheet-fed rotary printing machine includes at least two electric drive motors acting on a gearwheel train which mechanically connects a plurality of printing units to one another. A device for controlling the printing machine includes a control loop for each electric drive motor having a higher-frequency control element. At least one control loop has a low-frequency control element supplying an output signal picked up at the control loops in a predetermined ratio. A sheet-fed rotary printing machine having the device is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2008Publication date: April 23, 2009Applicant: HEIDELBERGER DRUCKMASCHINEN AGInventors: Malte Seidler, Detlef Strunk
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Patent number: 7453223Abstract: For the active compensation of oscillations in a machine which processes printing material, a signal which contains an oscillation of the machine or of a part of the machine is measured and at least one counter torque is introduced into the machine to reduce the oscillation. At least one measure for a ratio between the amplitude of the uncompensated oscillation and the amplitude of the counter torque necessary for complete compensation is compared with a threshold value. The counter torque is determined in a first functional relationship with the oscillation if the measure is greater than the threshold value, and the counter torque is determined in a second functional relationship with the oscillation, if the measure is smaller than the threshold value. In the machine, a regulating device is operated in a first or second operating mode in dependence on the measure of the ratio.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2007Date of Patent: November 18, 2008Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AGInventors: Bernhard Buck, Eric Knopf, Matthias Nöll, Malte Seidler, Detleff Strunk, Uwe Tessmann
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Publication number: 20080098920Abstract: A method of compensating for vibration-induced circumferential-register errors in a sheet-fed printing press includes compensating for at least one vibration-induced deviation of an actual angular position of a cylinder from a nominal angular position by adjusting the circumferential register of at least one printing unit, in particular of the cylinder. For this purpose, the current vibration state of the sheet-fed printing press is determined, the effect of the determined vibrations of an integer order on a position of color excerpts on a sheet of printing material is calculated, and the compensating circumferential-register adjustment required in accordance with the result of the calculation is carried out. A sheet-fed printing press for carrying out the method, is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2007Publication date: May 1, 2008Applicant: HEIDELBERGER DRUCKMASCHINEN AGInventors: Bernhard Buck, Stefan Schreiber, Malte Seidler
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Publication number: 20080017060Abstract: A method of transferring processing parameters of a print medium includes the steps of reading values of processing parameters from a portable data carrier into a control unit of the processing machine or from a control unit of the processing machine into a portable data carrier and causing the portable data carrier, together with the pile of sheet-shaped copies of the print medium, to interact with the processing machine in such a way that an automated data transfer into the control unit or from the control unit of the processing machine can take place.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2007Publication date: January 24, 2008Applicant: HEIDELBERGER DRUCKMASCHINEN AGInventors: Malte Seidler, Albert Maul, Thomas Schmid
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Publication number: 20070221086Abstract: In a method for compensating an oscillation which has a frequency spectrum with a number of discrete frequency components in a printing press, at least one counter torque is introduced into the printing press in order to compensate for at least one discrete frequency component of the oscillation. A first group of one or more frequency components are compensated for by introducing one or more previously determined counter torques, and a second group of one or more frequency components is compensated for by introducing specific counter torques as a function of a measurement, carried out during the operation of the printing press, of at least one signal which contains at least the one or the plurality of frequency components.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2007Publication date: September 27, 2007Inventors: Bernhard Buck, Eric Knopf, Matthias Noll, Stefan Schreiber, Malte Seidler, Detlef Strunk
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Control of a printing press using a torsion model and printing press controlled by the torsion model
Publication number: 20070186793Abstract: A method and an apparatus control a printing press having a plurality of printing units, a plurality of cylinders which are coupled mechanically to one another and a control computer for controlling at least one drive motor which drives the mechanically coupled cylinders. A torsion model is stored in the machine computer for describing the torsion state of the cylinders in the printing press which are rotatably coupled mechanically to one another, as a function of at least one measurable operating parameter or at least one variable of the printing press which is known to the machine computer. A control of the printing press is performed by the control computer on the basis of the values which are calculated by the torsion model.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2007Publication date: August 16, 2007Inventors: Stefan Schreiber, Bernhard Buck, Werner Joss, Malte Seidler -
Publication number: 20070120514Abstract: For the active compensation of oscillations in a machine which processes printing material, a signal which contains an oscillation of the machine or of a part of the machine is measured and at least one counter torque is introduced into the machine to reduce the oscillation. At least one measure for a ratio between the amplitude of the uncompensated oscillation and the amplitude of the counter torque necessary for complete compensation is compared with a threshold value. The counter torque is determined in a first functional relationship with the oscillation if the measure is greater than the threshold value, and the counter torque is determined in a second functional relationship with the oscillation, if the measure is smaller than the threshold value. In the machine, a regulating device is operated in a first or second operating mode in dependence on the measure of the ratio.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2007Publication date: May 31, 2007Inventors: Bernhard Buck, Eric Knopf, Matthias Noll, Malte Seidler, Detleff Strunk, Uwe Tessmann
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Publication number: 20060244204Abstract: A sheet brake for a press contains braking elements diverging in the sheet running direction in order to tauten the printing material sheets transversely. The braking elements are driven so as to circulate at a nonuniform speed. The nonuniform speed of the diverging braking elements results in more effective transverse tautening of the printing material sheets.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2006Publication date: November 2, 2006Inventors: Andreas Bottger, Michael Diews, Sven Lippardt, Stefan Maier, Albert Maul, Frank Schramm, Malte Seidler