Patents by Inventor Robert Hoyer

Robert Hoyer 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).

  • Duplex electrophotographic printing using sacrificial sheets
    Patent number: 8155549
    Abstract: A device and a method for improving the quality of prints using a printing device and system for carrying out a print job with a digital printing machine, preferably with a printing machine that works with a toner, in particular with an electrophotographically operating printing machine, whereby the sheets (1) are preferably printed by recto-printing and verso-printing, whereby the sheets (1) to be printed are divided into batches, and whereby, in the case of batches that are incompletely occupied with sheets (1), the slots of the missing sheets are replaced by an approximately sheet-sized toner field (3) on the transport belt (4) for the sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Jan D. Boness, Robert Hoyer, Stefan Schluenss, Stefan Schrader, Jens Ellerbrock
  • METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A PRINT JOB
    Publication number: 20090324264
    Abstract: A device and a method for improving the quality of prints using a printing device and system for carrying out a print job with a digital printing machine, preferably with a printing machine that works with a toner, in particular with an electrophotographically operating printing machine, whereby the sheets (1) are preferably printed by recto-printing and verso-printing, whereby the sheets (1) to be printed are divided into batches, and whereby, in the case of batches that are incompletely occupied with sheets (1), the slots of the missing sheets are replaced by an approximately sheet-sized toner field (3) on the transport belt (4) for the sheets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2007
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Inventors: Jan D. Boness, Robert Hoyer, Stefan Schluenss, Stefan Schrader, Jens Ellerbrock