Patents by Inventor Rudolf Wacker

Rudolf Wacker 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: 6163362
    Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for the processing of light or photo sensitive material with a printing device. Material separated into individual sections is transportable in a preferred direction of a transporting device. In a material processing device with a moving device, the individual material provided with an image is transported in a predominant direction, the preferred direction and the predominant direction differing from one another at an angle. A device at the end section of the printing device forwards the individual material to the material processing device. In accordance with the invention the forwarding device is positioned in such a way that the individual light or photo sensitive is transferable under the transporting device to the material processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2000
    Assignee: Gretag Imaging AG
    Inventors: Hugo Knecht, Rudolf Wacker, Martin Heller
  • Patent number: 6072604
    Abstract: In a method for calibrating a photographic copy printer, developed copies are scanned regionally (such as dotwise), and the measured light transmitted or remitted by each scanned region of the copying material is supplied to a detector array, broken down spectrally, and converted into wavelength- and intensity-dependent measurement data. The electrical measurement signals are digitized, and with their aid, copy-specific measurement data are ascertained. On the basis of the copy-specific measurement data, the original-specific measurement data, and the exposure used in the copying, a model of the original adapted to the copy material and a model for the copy material, or the model (Pi) inverse to it, which forms the basis for calculating the requisite amounts of copying light, are checked with respect to specifiable accuracy criteria and optimized as needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2000
    Assignee: Gretag Imaging AG
    Inventors: Peter Zolliker, Walter Kraft, Rudolf Wacker
  • Patent number: 5995192
    Abstract: In a method for copying originals onto photographic single-sheet copy material, the original is scanned, and on the basis of the scanning values obtained the requisite quantities of copying light for the ensuing copying of the original onto the single-sheet copy material are ascertained. First, the unexposed single-sheet copy material is transported into the exposure beam path, then acted upon by the quantities of copying light ascertained previously, and finally removed for further processing. During the removal of the exposed single-sheet copy material, the next piece of unexposed single-sheet copy material is being transported into the exposure beam path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1999
    Assignee: Gretag Imaging AG
    Inventor: Rudolf Wacker
  • Patent number: 5984304
    Abstract: Individual sheets of a sheet material to be treated which arrive in an arrival sequence, are distributed on two or more adjacently located conveying tracks. The sheets are conveyed along the conveying tracks through a processing station and are sorted thereafter in accordance with their arrival sequence. The distribution of the sheets is based on evaluating utilization of the conveying tracks to minimize the distance between sheets following each other on the same transport track. A throughput for sheets with varying length that is approximately equal to the throughput for sheets of same length is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1999
    Assignee: Gretag Imaging AG
    Inventor: Rudolf Wacker
  • Patent number: 5875371
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention include two half shells that can be operably joined together, in whose walls pouches are provided. Two elements, approximately formed as ladders, each include first transport rollers, the two ladderlike elements being configured for insertion in the joined together half-shells. The first transport rollers are disposed on the respective ladderlike elements in such a way that upon insertion of the ladderlike elements into the joined together half-shells, the transport rollers fit into the pouches of the walls of the respective half shells. Exemplary embodiments also include a central element which, after the insertion of the two ladderlike elements, can be placed between the two ladderlike elements to maintain the two ladderlike elements in position and which, together with the respective ladderlike elements and the respective walls of the half-shells, defines a conduit for photographic material to be developed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1999
    Inventors: Hugo Knecht, Rudolf Wacker, Rudolf Dech, Gabriele Poli, Eni Scodellaro, Anthony Earle