Patents by Inventor Olivier Conca

Olivier Conca 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).

  • Access to letter path
    Patent number: 6736395
    Abstract: A mechanism for freeing document jams in a machine that transports documents, the machine including a housing having an interior portion and a pivotable cover adapted to permit easy access to the interior portion of the machine housing, the cover pivoting from a closed and locked position to an open and locked position and being spring biased is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2004
    Assignee: Ascom Hasler Mailing Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Roger Frey, Olivier Conca, Gerhard Staufer, Andreas von Niederhausern
  • Method for putting into storage and dispensing sheet-like objects, and device for carrying out this method
    Patent number: 6715753
    Abstract: In a method for putting into storage and dispensing sheet-like objects, in particular bank notes, between at least one tension storage belt into or from a storage reel, in time periods between input and dispensing cycles, at least one belt tightening operation (F1-F3), which uses an increased belt tightening tension by comparison with the base belt tension is carried out. This operation is used to tighten up the belt in the belt spool of the storage reel so that the objects in the belt spool are tightened to increase the storage reel capacity and in order preferably to lend the belt spool greater mechanical stability so that the latter remains stable at the sides even when the filling level is high. Advantageously, the belt tightening is carried out in pulsed manner at a repetition frequency in the Hertz range using a pulse duty factor of active tensioning force relative to a base nominal value of between 0.2 and 2.0, preferably in the region of 1.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Assignee: De La Rue International, Ltd.
    Inventors: Olivier Conca, Olivier Gaeumann
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    Publication number: 20020140164
    Abstract: A mechanism for freeing document jams in a machine that transports documents, the machine including a housing having an interior portion and a pivotable cover adapted to permit easy access to the interior portion of the machine housing, the cover pivoting from a closed and locked position to an open and locked position and being spring biased is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2002
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Inventors: Roger Frey, Olivier Conca, Gerhard Staufer, Andreas von Niederhausern