Patents by Inventor Rainer Simon

Rainer Simon 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: 11207895
    Abstract: A method is provided for printing a surface of a non-absorbent substrate with an ink to be applied by an inkjet printing device. An ink that contains water as a solvent is used for printing the substrate. An ink having a water content of at least 70% is used. The substrate to be printed is supported by a workpiece support and is moved relative to the inkjet printing device. During this relative movement, ink is applied by the inkjet printing device to the surface of the substrate to be printed. The ink that is applied to the surface of the substrate is heated to a temperature that is above the temperature of the air surrounding the substrate and that is below the boiling point of the solvent contained in the ink. Above a liquid phase of the ink, a vapor layer, consisting of the solvent that is contained in the ink, is formed. The vapor layer that is formed above the liquid phase of the ink is transported away by an air flow emitted by at least one blower nozzle unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: KOENIG & BAUER AG
    Inventors: Eberhard Wahl, Manuel Komander, Bernhard Mokler, Rainer Simon, Dominik Wewior
  • Publication number: 20210309019
    Abstract: A method is provided for printing a surface of a non-absorbent substrate with an ink to be applied by an inkjet printing device. An ink that contains water as a solvent is used for printing the substrate. An ink having a water content of at least 70% is used. The substrate to be printed is supported by a workpiece support and is moved relative to the inkjet printing device. During this relative movement, ink is applied by the inkjet printing device to the surface of the substrate to be printed. The ink that is applied to the surface of the substrate is heated to a temperature that is above the temperature of the air surrounding the substrate and that is below the boiling point of the solvent contained in the ink. Above a liquid phase of the ink, a vapor layer, consisting of the solvent that is contained in the ink, is formed. The vapor layer that is formed above the liquid phase of the ink is transported away by an air flow emitted by at least one blower nozzle unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Eberhard WAHL, Manuel KOMANDER, Bernhard MOKLER, Rainer SIMON, Dominik WEWIOR
  • Publication number: 20200086660
    Abstract: In a method for printing non-absorbent substrates with a water-based ink, ink droplets are applied to the respective substrate. The ink is applied to the relevant substrate by the use of at least one inkjet print head. Substrates are used, which have a surface tension of less than 45 mN/m in air at a temperature of 20° C. Before the application of the ink droplets, the surface tension of the substrate to be printed is increased to a value of at least 45 mN/m. The ink droplets are only afterwards applied to the respective substrate which has the increased surface tension. The applied ink droplets are dried one of by an input of heat and heat exposure, with an exposure time of less than 0.2 seconds within only a single second after the printing of the relevant substrate. The method is carried out, in particular, in a digital printing press.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Bernhard MOKLER, Rainer SIMON
  • Patent number: 7360572
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for the winding of label strips (17), comprising a rotary driven transport means (1), which cyclically transports the label strip (17) away after removal of the labels and a winding means (2) for the cyclical winding of the label strip transported away.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2008
    Assignee: Convenience Food Systems Wallau GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Rainer Simon
  • Publication number: 20050039857
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for the winding of label strips (17), comprising a rotary driven transport means (1), which cyclically transports the label strip (17) away after removal of the labels and a winding means (2) for the cyclical winding of the label strip transported away.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2002
    Publication date: February 24, 2005
    Inventor: Rainer Simon
  • Publication number: 20030234084
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a set-down box of a labelling machine, including: a conveyor means used to place the labels over the articles to be labelled; a vertically displaceable pressing means used to press the labels on the articles to be labelled; a means used to vertically displace the pressing means; a motor with clockwise and anti-clockwise rotation; and a driving means transmitting the driving power of the motor to the conveyor means and to the means used to vertically displace the pressing means; wherein the means used to vertically displace the pressing means has a free-wheel in one direction of rotation of the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2003
    Publication date: December 25, 2003
    Applicant: CONVENIENCE FOOD SYSTEMS WALLAU GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Rainer Simon
  • Patent number: 6634404
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a set-down box of a labelling machine, including: a conveyor means used to place the labels over the articles to be labelled; a vertically displaceable pressing means used to press the labels on the articles to be labelled; a means used to vertically displace the pressing means; a motor with clockwise and anti-clockwise rotation; and a driving means transmitting the driving power of the motor to the conveyor means and to the means used to vertically displace the pressing means; wherein the means used to vertically displace the pressing means has a free-wheel in one direction of rotation of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2003
    Assignee: Convenience Food Systems Wallau GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Rainer Simon
  • Publication number: 20020043345
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a set-down box of a labelling machine, including:
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2001
    Publication date: April 18, 2002
    Inventor: Rainer Simon
  • Patent number: 5570354
    Abstract: A system of digitally operating cordless telephone including a fixed station (20) connected with the common net (11) and several freely movable mobile stations (30.1 to 30.4). The naturally provided functional area (22) of the system can be enlarged by using a relay station (40). For this purpose the relay station (40) can permit the retransmission of transmission packages arriving from the fixed station (20) without changes to further mobile stations (30.5, 30.6) in a further functional area (23). In the other direction, the relay station (40) forwards respective packages arriving from the further mobile stations (30.5, 30.6) to the fixed station (20). For this purpose the relay station (40) maintains transmission channels, which are associated with each other in pairs and are chronologically very closely coupled, to the fixed station (20) as well as to the further mobile stations (30.5, 30.6) in accordance with the DECT Standards (Digital European Cordless Telecommunications).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 29, 1996
    Assignee: ASCOM Business Systems AG
    Inventor: Rainer Simon