Patents by Inventor Ralf Hobmeier
Ralf Hobmeier 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: 11954961Abstract: A method is for processing sheet material, in particular value papers, such as banknotes, checks, etc., in which different groups of sheet material are processed one after the other. The different groups of sheet material are separated for processing. In the processing of different groups of sheets materials, which are separated from one another by separation cards arranged respectively at the beginning of the different groups of sheet material, a first processing, in which separation cards and unrecognized sheet material are sorted out, should be followed by a second processing of the sorted-out separation cards and of the unrecognized sheet material, in which separation cards to which no unrecognized sheet material is assigned are sorted out.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: GIESECKE+DEVRIENT CURRENCY TECHNOLOGY GMBHInventor: Ralf Hobmeier
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Publication number: 20230377404Abstract: A method and a value document processing system for processing value documents include: ascertaining first identification data by means of which the value documents contained in a plurality of different batches can be identified, in at least one value document processing device; generating assignment data; transmitting the first identification data to an external computing device; comparing the transmitted first identification data with specified second identification data by means of which value documents can be identified that are to be removed from circulation and/or are to remain in circulation; and, if the comparison indicates that at least one value document that is to be removed from circulation is contained in the value documents, identifying the batch in which the at least one value document is contained that is to be removed from circulation; and sorting the value documents.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2021Publication date: November 23, 2023Inventors: Tilo FRITZHANNS, Ralf HOBMEIER, Jens KULIKOWSKI, Andrej PIETSCHKER
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Publication number: 20230377403Abstract: A method for processing value documents and to a value document processing system, involve: ascertaining first identification data by means of which the value documents contained in at least one batch of value documents can be identified, in at least one value document processing device; transmitting the first identification data to an external computing device; ascertaining first sorting data in the external computing device by comparing the transmitted first identification data with specified second identification data by means of which value documents can be identified to be removed from circulation and/or remain in circulation; transmitting the first sorting data from the external computing device to the at least one value document processing device; and sorting the value documents contained in the at least one batch in the at least one value document processing device on the basis of the transmitted first sorting data.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2021Publication date: November 23, 2023Inventors: Tilo FRITZHANNS, Ralf HOBMEIER, Jens KULIKOWSKI, Andrej PIETSCHKER
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Publication number: 20230274601Abstract: A method is for processing sheet material, in particular value papers, such as banknotes, checks, etc., in which different groups of sheet material are processed one after the other. The different groups of sheet material are separated for processing. In the processing of different groups of sheets materials, which are separated from one another by separation cards arranged respectively at the beginning of the different groups of sheet material, a first processing, in which separation cards and unrecognized sheet material are sorted out, should be followed by a second processing of the sorted-out separation cards and of the unrecognized sheet material, in which separation cards to which no unrecognized sheet material is assigned are sorted out.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2021Publication date: August 31, 2023Inventor: Ralf HOBMEIER
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Patent number: 9934643Abstract: Described is a method for processing value documents which have an individual identifier, for example a serial number, in which for the value documents the individual identifier is respectively captured and from at least a part of the value documents a stack is formed, wherein for the stack the individual identifiers of the value documents of the stack are stored as belonging to a stack, for the stack there are captured usage data with the help of which the usage of the stack is identifiable and identifier data describing the individual identifier of at least one value document of the stack, and using the identifier data, the usage data and the individual identifiers of the value documents of the stack, which were stored as belonging to a stack, are stored so as to be associated with each other.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2013Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: GIESECKE+DEVRIENT CURRENCY TECHNOLOGY GMBHInventors: Richard Neuhauser, Ralf Hobmeier
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Publication number: 20160189465Abstract: Described is a method for processing value documents which have an individual identifier, for example a serial number, in which for the value documents the individual identifier is respectively captured and from at least a part of the value documents a stack is formed, wherein for the stack the individual identifiers of the value documents of the stack are stored as belonging to a stack, for the stack there are captured usage data with the help of which the usage of the stack is identifiable and identifier data describing the individual identifier of at least one value document of the stack, and using the identifier data, the usage data and the individual identifiers of the value documents of the stack, which were stored as belonging to a stack, are stored so as to be associated with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2013Publication date: June 30, 2016Inventors: Richard NEUHAUSER, Ralf HOBMEIER
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Patent number: 8561980Abstract: In an apparatus for singling sheet material, multiple picks are avoided by a retaining device ensuring that sheet material entrained with the sheet to be singled is retained not only on one side but also on the other side of the sheet to be singled. While the first retaining device is located opposite a singling gap of the singling device and is continually effective, the second retaining device acts before, or in, the singling gap from the other side of the singling gap and is only activated after the sheet to be singled is reliably grasped by the singling device, and deactivated when it has left the singling gap.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2004Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbHInventors: Erwin Demmeler, Ralf Hobmeier, Rainer Stoll, Frank Werner
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Patent number: 8123121Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for accepting and dispensing or returning bank notes, including a pocket which is dividable by means of a dividing element into two areas for inputting and dispensing or returning bank notes, wherein the dividing element can be moved within the pocket in order to form the two areas, with a clamping element which can be moved within the pocket independently from the dividing element, in order to clamp bank notes disposed in the pocket inside the pocket and to transport them, wherein for clamping bank notes the clamping and transport element is moved in a first direction within the pocket on top of bank notes disposed in the pocket, and transports bank notes to be dispensed or returned out of the area of the dividing element at least for the most part. The dividing element is subsequently moved out of the area of the bank notes disposed in the pocket within the pocket past the clamping and transport element in a second direction that is contrary to the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2008Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbHInventors: Xavier Thum, Ralf Hobmeier
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Patent number: 7849993Abstract: The invention relates to sheet material having an electrical circuit and to apparatuses and methods for processing said sheet material. The present invention describes sheet material having an electrical circuit as well as apparatuses and methods for processing same, which reduce the effort required for processing the sheet material and/or facilitate processing and/or improve it and/or make it more reliable. For this purpose, the sheet material has at least one electrical circuit, with energy and/or data being transmitted from the apparatus to the electrical circuit and/or from the electrical circuit to the apparatus and at least part of the transmitted data being used for processing.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2002Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbHInventors: Klaus Finkenzeller, Thomas Giering, Manfred Heim, Thomas Hildebrandt, Ralf Hobmeier, Lars Hoffmann, Norbert Holl, Wittich Kaule, Friedrich Kretschmar, Markus Krombholz, Ralf Liebler, Thorsten Pillo, Harald Reiner, Walter Schneider, Eckart Schroeder-Bergen, Martin Seysen, Dieter Stein, Alexander Steinkogler, Christian Voellmer, Bernd Wunderer, Fabiola Bellersheim, Marius Dichtl, Juergen Schuetzmann
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Patent number: 7624982Abstract: An apparatus for processing sheet material includes a transport device for transporting single sheets of the sheet material. The transport device includes a diverting device for diverting the transport direction of the single sheets having one or more opposite first and second diverting elements between which the sheets are transported through for diversion. One of the diverting elements has a roughened surface with depressions of at least 1 mm. The apparatus further includes a smoothing device arranged so as to pull apart the sheet material in a direction perpendicular to the transport direction immediately before diversion in the diverting device.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2004Date of Patent: December 1, 2009Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbHInventors: Rudolf Christl, Ralf Hobmeier, Michael Stapfer
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Publication number: 20090133986Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for accepting and dispensing or returning bank notes, including a pocket which is dividable by means of a dividing element into two areas for inputting and dispensing or returning bank notes, wherein the dividing element can be moved within the pocket in order to form the two areas, with a clamping element which can be moved within the pocket independently from the dividing element, in order to clamp bank notes disposed in the pocket inside the pocket and to transport them, wherein for clamping bank notes the clamping and transport element is moved in a first direction within the pocket on top of bank notes disposed in the pocket, and transports bank notes to be dispensed or returned out of the area of the dividing element at least for the most part. The dividing element is subsequently moved out of the area of the bank notes disposed in the pocket within the pocket past the clamping and transport element in a second direction that is contrary to the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2008Publication date: May 28, 2009Inventors: Xavier Thum, Ralf Hobmeier
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Publication number: 20070272730Abstract: The invention relates to apparatuses for processing sheet material, such as bank notes. Since a diverting device, located in the transport path, itself has means for transporting even poor-quality sheets through between diverting elements of the diverting device without jamming, and/or a transport monitoring of the position of the sheets in the transport path is only carried out after traversal of an alignment unit, particularly reliable operation of the processing apparatus with a low probability of jams and malfunctions is possible.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2004Publication date: November 29, 2007Inventors: Rudolf Christl, Ralf Hobmeier, Michael Stapfer
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Publication number: 20070142112Abstract: In a method and a system for checking money-equivalent documents (1), such as e.g. bank notes, checks, coupons, vouchers and tickets, at a counter (2) at least one identification feature (5) of the document (1) is captured with the help of a high-resolution image capture system (3).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2006Publication date: June 21, 2007Inventors: Ralf Hobmeier, Frank Werner
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Publication number: 20070063421Abstract: In an apparatus for singling sheet material, multiple picks are avoided by a retaining device ensuring that sheet material entrained with the sheet to be singled is retained not only on one side but also on the other side of the sheet to be singled. While the first retaining device is located opposite a singling gap of the singling device and is continually effective, the second retaining device acts before, or in, the singling gap from the other side of the singling gap and is only activated after the sheet to be singled is reliably grasped by the singling device, and deactivated when it has left the singling gap.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2004Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventors: Erwin Demmeler, Ralf Hobmeier, Rainer Stoll, Frank Werner
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Patent number: 7133741Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for accepting sheet material, in particular papers of value such as bank notes, checks, etc., whereby different groups of sheet material are successively accepted and stored. In a known method and corresponding apparatus for accepting groups of sheet material such as bank notes, the bank notes coming from a deliverer are checked and stored in a storage container in the order of their input. Thus it is not always recognizable without doubt subsequently, e.g. in cases of malfunction, which deliverer certain bank notes come from. The present invention starts out from the consideration that each group of sheet material is assigned at least one separation means and the separation means are stored at least partly together with the associated group of sheet material for separating the associated group of sheet material from other groups of sheet material.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2001Date of Patent: November 7, 2006Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbHInventors: Christoph Mätzig, Dirk Schelling, Karl-Heinz Strasser, Ralf Hobmeier
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Publication number: 20060163027Abstract: An apparatus for processing bank notes having a transport system with a plurality of transport paths for transporting bank notes. To provide an apparatus of particularly flexible and compact design, a bidirectionally drivable transport path is provided between two transport path branches.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2003Publication date: July 27, 2006Applicant: Giesecke & Devrient GmbHInventors: Ralf Hobmeier, Christoph Ernesti, Michael Stapfer, Walter Kraemer
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Publication number: 20050161501Abstract: The invention relates to a sheet-shaped value document, such as a bank note. An authenticity feature which can be reliably verified by machine or by humans and which can moreover not be deceptively imitated by copying technology is realized by an electro-optical and/or acoustic display device integrated in the value document.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2002Publication date: July 28, 2005Applicant: Giesecke & Devrient GmbHInventors: Thomas Giering, Ralf Hobmeier, Norbert Holl, Alfred Schmidt, Dieter Stein, Christian Voellmer, Bernd Wunderer
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Publication number: 20050150740Abstract: The invention relates to sheet material having an electrical circuit and to apparatuses and methods for processing said sheet material. The present invention describes sheet material having an electrical circuit as well as apparatuses and methods for processing same, which reduce the effort required for processing the sheet material and/or facilitate processing and/or improve it and/or make it more reliable. For this purpose, the sheet material has at least one electrical circuit, with energy and/or data being transmitted from the apparatus to the electrical circuit and/or from the electrical circuit to the apparatus and at least part of the transmitted data being used for processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2002Publication date: July 14, 2005Inventors: Klaus Finkenzeller, Thomas Giering, Manfred Heim, Thomas Hildebrandt, Ralf Hobmeier, Lars Hoffmann, Norbert Holl, Wittich Kaule, Friedrich Kretschmar, Markus Krombholz, Ralf Liebler, Thorsten Pillo, Harald Reiner, Walter Schneider, Eckart Schroeder-Bergen, Martin Seysen, Dieter Stein, Alexander Steinkogler, Christian Voellmer, Bernd Wunderer, Fabiola Bellersheim, Marius Dichtl, Juergen Schuetzmann
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Publication number: 20040012144Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for accepting sheet material, in particular papers of value such as bank notes, checks, etc., whereby different groups of sheet material are successively accepted and stored.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2003Publication date: January 22, 2004Inventors: Christoph Matzig, Dirk Schelling, Karl-Heinz Strasser, Ralf Hobmeier