Patents by Inventor Michael Bloss
Michael Bloss 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: 9310231Abstract: The invention relates to a checking unit for checking a material web and to a calibrating method for the checking unit. The checking unit is equipped with drive means for transporting the calibration medium past the checking unit in order to detect a multiplicity of measurement values of the calibration medium. The drive means are arranged in the housing of the checking unit in order for the drive means to be protected from moisture or contaminants from the environment. To obtain a transporting of the calibration medium past the checking unit in spite of the arrangement of the drive means in the housing, drive means are employed that are configured for a contactless interaction with the calibration medium and can transport the calibration medium past the checking unit contactlessly. For this purpose there is preferably used a magnetic interaction between the drive means and the calibration medium.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2012Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: GIESECKE & DEVRIENT GMBHInventors: Michael Bloss, Wolfgang Deckenbach, Werner Heimann, Hans-Peter Ehrl, Erich Kerst
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Patent number: 9245400Abstract: A sensor for checking value documents is arranged to carry out a self-test for testing its functionality. The sensor in the self-test reacts to at least one malfunction that is ascertained during the self-test and hinders the check of the value documents by the sensor automatically employing for checking the value documents, instead of the operating mode provided for checking the value documents. A modified operating mode employs at least one other measured value of the sensor for checking the value documents than is determined in the operating mode provided for checking the value documents. In contrast to the hitherto customary function failure of the sensor, the sensor can continue being operated for checking the value documents despite the malfunction.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2012Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: GIESECKE & DEVRIENT GMBHInventors: Jorg Frankenberger, Michael Bloss, Erich Kerst
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Patent number: 9177432Abstract: An apparatus for checking bank notes in a bank note processing machine includes at least one sensor. The sensor is arranged to determine the information characterizing the bank notes to be checked and is connected to a bending resistant carrier via a first adhesive layer. The bending resistant carrier is further connected to a component of the apparatus for checking bank notes and/or directly with the bank note processing machine via a second, permanently elastic adhesive layer.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2006Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: GIESECKE & DEVRIENT GMBHInventors: Michael Bloss, Wolfgang Deckenbach, Georg Vetter
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Patent number: 9171412Abstract: A sensor for checking different features of value documents is arranged to carry out a self-test for testing its functionality. Before the sensor carries out its self-test, at least one of the features that is to be checked by the sensor is selected. It is provided in the self-test that the sensor rates a malfunction ascertained in the self-test differently and reacts to the ascertained malfunction differently in dependence on the selected feature. While a malfunction of the sensor has hitherto always led to a failure of the sensor, the sensor, despite ascertained malfunctions, can nevertheless carry out the check of certain features. It is achieved that the number of function failures of the sensor is reduced through the different reactions of the sensor to the ascertained malfunction in dependence on the feature.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2012Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: GIESECKE & DEVRIENT GMBHInventors: Jorg Frankenberger, Michael Bloss, Erich Kerst
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Patent number: 8817242Abstract: A sensor device for spectrally resolved capture of optical detection radiation which emanates from a value document transported through a capture area of the sensor device, includes a detection device for spectrally resolved detection of the detection radiation and emission of detection signals which represent at least one property of the detection radiation, at least one reference radiation device which emits optical reference radiation which is coupled into a detection beam path of the detection device and which has a spectrum with a structure which is within the spectral detection range, and which has a radiation source which acts as the transmitter of a light barrier or of a light scanner by means of which barrier or scanner a motion and/or a position of the value document relative to the capture area is capturable, and a control/evaluation device which is configured for receiving detection signals from the detection device, evaluating them and emitting evaluation signals in dependence on the result of thType: GrantFiled: June 4, 2009Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbHInventors: Michael Bloss, Martin Clara, Wolfgang Deckenbach
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Publication number: 20140204365Abstract: A sensor for checking different features of value documents is arranged to carry out a self-test for testing its functionality. Before the sensor carries out its self-test, at least one of the features that is to be checked by the sensor is selected. It is provided in the self-test that the sensor rates a malfunction ascertained in the self-test differently and reacts to the ascertained malfunction differently in dependence on the selected feature. While a malfunction of the sensor has hitherto always led to a failure of the sensor, the sensor, despite ascertained malfunctions, can nevertheless carry out the check of certain features. It is achieved that the number of function failures of the sensor is reduced through the different reactions of the sensor to the ascertained malfunction in dependence on the feature.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2012Publication date: July 24, 2014Inventors: Jorg Frankenberger, Michael Bloss, Erich Kerst
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Publication number: 20140204366Abstract: A sensor for checking value documents is arranged to carry out a self-test for testing its functionality. The sensor in the self-test reacts to at least one malfunction that is ascertained during the self-test and hinders the check of the value documents by the sensor automatically employing for checking the value documents, instead of the operating mode provided for checking the value documents. A modified operating mode employs at least one other measured value of the sensor for checking the value documents than is determined in the operating mode provided for checking the value documents. In contrast to the hitherto customary function failure of the sensor, the sensor can continue being operated for checking the value documents despite the malfunction.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2012Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: GIESECKE & DEVRIENT GMBHInventors: Jorg Frankenberger, Michael Bloss, Erich Kerst
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Publication number: 20140130568Abstract: The invention relates to a checking unit for checking a material web and to a calibrating method for the checking unit. The checking unit is equipped with drive means for transporting the calibration medium past the checking unit in order to detect a multiplicity of measurement values of the calibration medium. The drive means are arranged in the housing of the checking unit in order for the drive means to be protected from moisture or contaminants from the environment. To obtain a transporting of the calibration medium past the checking unit in spite of the arrangement of the drive means in the housing, drive means are employed that are configured for a contactless interaction with the calibration medium and can transport the calibration medium past the checking unit contactlessly. For this purpose there is preferably used a magnetic interaction between the drive means and the calibration medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2012Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicant: GIESECKE & DEVRIENT GMBHInventors: Michael Bloss, Wolfgang Deckenbach, Werner Heimann, Hans-Peter Ehrl, Erich Kerst
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Patent number: 8598558Abstract: There is described a sensor device for spectrally resolved capture of optical detection radiation which emanates from a value document transported through a capture area of the sensor device in a predefined transport direction, comprising a detection device for spectrally resolved detection of the detection radiation in at least one predefined spectral detection range and emission of detection signals which represent at least one, in particular spectral, property of the detected detection radiation, at least one reference radiation device which emits optical reference radiation which is coupled into a detection beam path of the detection device at least partly in dependence on the position of a value document relative to the capture area, and which has a spectrum with a narrow band which is within the predefined spectral detection range, and/or at least one spectrum with an edge which is within the predefined spectral detection range, and a control and evaluation device which is configured for employing the dType: GrantFiled: June 4, 2009Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbHInventors: Michael Bloss, Martin Clara, Wolfgang Deckenbach
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Patent number: 8115910Abstract: An apparatus for optical analysis of at least one value document (12) in a recording area (38) of the apparatus has an illumination device (36) for illuminating the value document (12) in the recording area (38) and possessing at least one surface emitting laser diode (50), a control device (42) for driving the laser diode (50), and a detection device (40) for recording optical radiation from the recording area (38).Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2007Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbHInventors: Michael Bloss, Martin Clara, Wolfgang Deckenbach
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Publication number: 20110102772Abstract: A sensor device for spectrally resolved capture of optical detection radiation which emanates from a value document transported through a capture area of the sensor device, includes a detection device for spectrally resolved detection of the detection radiation and emission of detection signals which represent at least one property of the detection radiation, at least one reference radiation device which emits optical reference radiation which is coupled into a detection beam path of the detection device and which has a spectrum with a structure which is within the spectral detection range, and which has a radiation source which acts as the transmitter of a light barrier or of a light scanner by means of which barrier or scanner a motion and/or a position of the value document relative to the capture area is capturable, and a control/evaluation device which is configured for receiving detection signals from the detection device, evaluating them and emitting evaluation signals in dependence on the result of thType: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2009Publication date: May 5, 2011Inventors: Michael Bloss, Martin Clara, Wolfgang Deckenbach
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Publication number: 20110085157Abstract: There is described a sensor device for spectrally resolved capture of optical detection radiation which emanates from a value document transported through a capture area of the sensor device in a predefined transport direction, comprising a detection device for spectrally resolved detection of the detection radiation in at least one predefined spectral detection range and emission of detection signals which represent at least one, in particular spectral, property of the detected detection radiation, at least one reference radiation device which emits optical reference radiation which is coupled into a detection beam path of the detection device at least partly in dependence on the position of a value document relative to the capture area, and which has a spectrum with a narrow band which is within the predefined spectral detection range, and/or at least one spectrum with an edge which is within the predefined spectral detection range, and a control and evaluation device which is configured for employing the dType: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2009Publication date: April 14, 2011Inventors: Michael Bloss, Martin Clara, Wolfgang Deckenbach
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Patent number: 7737417Abstract: A method and apparatus for checking luminescent value documents, in particular bank notes, with a luminescence sensor. The value document to be checked is irradiated to excite luminescence radiation, and the luminescence radiation emanating from the value document is detected with spectral resolution. Since the value document to be checked is transported past the luminescence sensor in the transport direction and is illuminated with an illumination area which extends in the transport direction, an effective measurement is possible even of value documents that emit very little luminescence radiation.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2005Date of Patent: June 15, 2010Assignee: Giesecke & DevrientInventors: Thomas Giering, Michael Bloss, Wolfgang Deckenbach, Martin Clara, Hans-Peter Ehrl
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Publication number: 20100060880Abstract: An apparatus for optical analysis of at least one value document (12) in a recording area (38) of the apparatus has an illumination device (36) for illuminating the value document (12) in the recording area (38) and possessing at least one surface emitting laser diode (50), a control device (42) for driving the laser diode (50), and a detection device (40) for recording optical radiation from the recording area (38).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2007Publication date: March 11, 2010Inventor: Michael BLOSS
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Publication number: 20090174879Abstract: An apparatus for optical analysis of value documents (BN) possesses a recording area (14) in which a value document (BN) is located during analysis, and a spectrographic device (16). The latter has a spatially dispersing optical device (29) for at least partly decomposing optical radiation coming from the recording area (14) into spectrally separate spectral components propagating in different directions according to the wavelength, a detection device (30) locally resolving in at least one spatial direction for detecting the spectral components, and a collimating and focusing optic (28) for collimating the optical radiation directed from the recording area (14) onto the dispersing device (29) and for focusing at least some of the spectral components formed by means of the dispersing optical device (29) onto the detection device (30).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2007Publication date: July 9, 2009Applicant: GIESECKE & DEVRIENT GMBHInventors: Michael Bloss, Martin Clara, Wolfgang Deckenbach
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Publication number: 20080271973Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for checking banknotes in a banknote processing machine. In the case of the inventive apparatus for checking banknotes in a banknote processing machine, said apparatus having at least one sensor for detecting information that characterizes the banknotes to be checked, the sensor is connected to a flexurally rigid carrier via a first adhesive layer, the flexurally rigid carrier is connected to part of the apparatus for checking banknotes via a second, permanently elastic adhesive layer and/or is directly connected to the banknote processing machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2006Publication date: November 6, 2008Inventors: Michael Bloss, Wolfgang Deckenbach, Georg Vetter
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Publication number: 20080135780Abstract: The invention relates to a method and apparatus (1) for checking luminescent value documents (BN), in particular bank notes, with a luminescence sensor (12), wherein the value document to be checked is irradiated to excite luminescence radiation and the luminescence radiation emanating from the value document is detected with spectral resolution. Since the value document (BN) to be checked transported past the luminescence sensor (12) in the transport direction (T) is illuminated with an illumination area (35) which extends in the transport direction (T), an effective measurement is possible even of value documents that emit very little luminescence radiation.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2005Publication date: June 12, 2008Inventors: Thomas Giering, Michael Bloss, Wolfgang Deckenbach, Martin Clara, Hans-Peter Ehrl
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Patent number: 5670880Abstract: For measuring magnetic properties of sheet material the sheet material is guided past a magnetic measuring system at a measuring distance defined between the sheet material and the magnetic measuring system. The sheet material is transported with a transport medium disposed between the measuring system and the sheet material. The measuring distance is determined substantially by the thickness of the transport medium. The thickness of the transport medium is selected to be smaller than a predetermined local resolution. If the local resolution is high enough it is also possible to detect magnetic printed images.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 1996Date of Patent: September 23, 1997Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbHInventors: Michael Bloss, Dieter Stein