Patents by Inventor Stefan LAIS

Stefan LAIS 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).

  • Publication number: 20240265220
    Abstract: A code reading unit for the parallel reading of a plurality of codes on a plurality of objects in a conveying unit is provided, wherein the code reading device has a camera unit having at least one camera head for recording an image of the objects with the codes and a control and evaluation unit that is configured to localize code regions of the codes in the image and to read the code information of the codes and to determine the position of a respective code in the image and to associate the position of a code in the image with a position in the conveying unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventors: Stefan LAIS, Carl Joseph HAFNER, Manfred PIERL, Tobias ZIMMERMANN, Jaroslaw ERMANTRAUT
  • Publication number: 20210182520
    Abstract: A code reading device for the parallel reading of a plurality of codes on a plurality of objects arranged next to one another is provided that has a camera unit having at least one camera head for recording an image of the objects, a control and evaluation unit that is configured to localize code zones of the codes in the image and to read the code information of the codes, and a display unit to present the image and to mark the read codes and/or objects having read codes, Here a hand reading unit for reading codes is provided to subsequently read codes not read by means of the camera unit and to transfer the subsequently read code information to the control and evaluation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Stefan LAIS, Carl HAFNER, Rainer MAIER, Karsten HEUSER, Matthias HELD, Helge SCHLEGEL
  • Publication number: 20170241396
    Abstract: A Pelton runner with a wheel disk and separately fabricated buckets (2), which may be cast or made from a solid block of material and secured detachably to the wheel disk (1), fastened by at least one screw (5) or at least one bolt. At least one screw or at least one bolt is designed as an expansion screw (5) or expansion bolt, where the expansion screw (5) or expansion bolt is subjected to controlled pre-stressing, and each bucket (2) has at least one expansion screw (5) or expansion bolt that is arranged perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the wheel disk (1) and secured to the wheel disk (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Benno LOETSCHER, Pascal ISLER, Stefan LAIS