Patents by Inventor Volker Schmidt
Volker Schmidt 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: 8491992Abstract: The present invention relates to a sheet-like construction element composed of composite material, comprising two metallic outer layers, a rigid polyurethane foam layer, and a compact polyurethane layer which comprises microcapsules with a capsule core composed of latent-heat-accumulator material, and also to a process for its production, and to its use.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2009Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Marco Schmidt, Marco Balbo Block, Volker Schmidt, Annerose Heimes-Scheller, Lothar Jandel
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Patent number: 8464948Abstract: The invention relates to a switchgear cabinet or rack comprising a mounting unit, the front of which has vertical mounting profiles that laterally delimit an installation frame for installed user-side units, the front of said profiles being provided with flat fixing sections for attaching laterally projecting mounting sections of the installed units, and comprising components of a detection device for determining the presence of an installed unit in an installation position of the installation frame. The components of the detection device have a vertical detector strip that is attached to a mounting section and contains detector elements and code carriers that are provided on the installed units.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2010Date of Patent: June 18, 2013Assignee: Rittal GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Bodo Thielmann, Markus Hain, Volker Schmidt
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Patent number: 8456521Abstract: A triangulation camera device includes a light source device being adapted for generating illumination light to be directed onto an object under investigation and including a light source with an optical pattern generator and a first aperture being arranged along a first optical axis, a detector device being adapted for sensing reflection light reflected by the object and including a detector camera and a second aperture being arranged along a second optical axis, and an imaging optic having imaging lenses being adapted for imaging the illumination light onto the object and for collecting the reflection light, said imaging optic having a third optical axis, wherein the first, second and third optical axes are arranged in parallel and displaced relative to each other and the first and second apertures are arranged with a telecentric configuration relative to the imaging optic such that the illumination light and the reflection light are capable of forming a parallel illumination light bundle and a parallel refType: GrantFiled: December 14, 2009Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: Berliner Glas KGaA Herbert Kubatz GmbH & Co.Inventor: Volker Schmidt
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Patent number: 8382955Abstract: A method for operating a sheet-forming unit of a papermaking machine. At least one fibrous material suspension is fed to a headbox and is conducted in a plurality of turbulence-generating channels to form sub-flows, and fed to a nozzle. From the nozzle, the at least one fibrous material suspension is in the form of a free jet into the forming unit to define an impingement line. In a final fluidization region of an individual turbulence-generating channel a pressure loss (?p) of ?50 mbar is generated within the fibrous material suspension before inlet thereof into the nozzle, and the fibrous material suspension is guided from the final fluidization region as far as the impingement line in such a way that the dwell time of the suspension in the region defined by the final fluidization region as far as the impingement line ranges from >30 ms to ?300 ms.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2012Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Voith Patent GmbHInventors: Markus Häussler, Hans Loser, Volker Schmidt-Rohr, Wolfgang Ruf, Thomas Ruehl
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Patent number: 8349136Abstract: The invention relates to a method for optimizing the energy balance of a forming section in a machine for producing fibrous webs, in which a fiber suspension, which is fed to the forming section by way of a material ramp after the immobility point is reached, is passed through at least two dewatering units within a compression zone and to a subsequent functional unit. The invention is characterized in that a setpoint value for a target dryness to be set is predefined based on the existing dewatering elements as a function of a theoretical maximum achievable dryness under plant conditions in the area of the transition zone, said setpoint being selected such that it is less than the theoretical maximum achievable dryness but is equal to or greater than a required minimum dryness in the area of the transition zone, and that the target dryness is controlled by lowering the inlet dryness at one of the last dewatering units disposed in the direction of passage of the fiber suspension within the compression zone.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Voith Patent GmbHInventors: Thomas Ruehl, Moritz Schmalenbach, Volker Schmidt-Rohr, Marco Esper, Oliver Kaufmann
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Patent number: 8323452Abstract: A forming section in a machine for producing a web of fibrous material includes a control and/or regulating system including a control and/or regulating device which is connected with at least one device for at least indirect acquisition of one value at least indirectly characterizing the dry content of the fibrous web in a transfer area from the forming section to a following function unit, with a device for input of a desired value for the target dry content, and with at least the control elements of an individual dewatering unit located prior to one of the last dewatering units, or the last dewatering unit inside the compression zone. The control and/or regulating device also includes a device for creating the control variables for controlling the individual dewatering units.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2011Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Voith Patent GmbHInventors: Thomas Ruehl, Moritz Schmalenbach, Volker Schmidt-Rohr, Marco Esper, Oliver Kaufmann
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Patent number: 8236138Abstract: The invention relates to a headbox for a machine for producing a fibrous web, in particular a paper or cardboard web, from at least one fibrous stock suspension, having a feed apparatus which feeds the at least one fibrous stock suspension, having a distributor-pipe perforated plate which is adjacent downstream and has a multiplicity of channels which are arranged in rows and in columns, having an intermediate channel which lies downstream of the latter, extends over the width of the headbox and has a plurality of means which are spaced apart from one another in the width direction of the headbox for the preferably regulatable/controllable metering of a fluid in fluid part streams into the at least one fibrous stock suspension.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2011Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: Voith Patent GmbHInventors: Marco Thomisch, Wolfgang Ruf, Volker Schmidt-Rohr, Markus Häubler, Hans Loser
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Publication number: 20120193059Abstract: A method for operating a sheet-forming unit of a papermaking machine. At least one fibrous material suspension is fed to a headbox and is conducted in a plurality of turbulence-generating channels to form sub-flows, and fed to a nozzle. From the nozzle, the at least one fibrous material suspension is in the form of a free jet into the forming unit to define an impingement line. In a final fluidization region of an individual turbulence-generating channel a pressure loss (?p) of ?50 mbar is generated within the fibrous material suspension before inlet thereof into the nozzle, and the fibrous material suspension is guided from the final fluidization region as far as the impingement line in such a way that the dwell time of the suspension in the region defined by the final fluidization region as far as the impingement line ranges from >30 ms to ?300 ms.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2012Publication date: August 2, 2012Inventors: Markus Häussler, Hans Loser, Volker Schmidt-Rohr, Wolfgang Ruf, Thomas Ruehl
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Publication number: 20120186767Abstract: A headbox includes a feed device feeding the fibrous material suspension, a nozzle, and a turbulence-generating device. The fibrous material suspension is guided in the turbulence-generating device in sub-flows through turbulence-generating channels. Within the individual turbulence-generating channel of the turbulence-generating device, at least one region forming a fluidization region is provided, in which a pressure loss can be generated in the sub-flow of the fibrous material suspension guided through said region. The nozzle and the turbulence-generating device are designed and dimensioned such that they are suitable for setting a dwell time of ?200 ms of the fibrous material suspension flowing through the same from a final fluidization region of an individual turbulence-generating channel before inlet into the nozzle as far as the outlet gap of the nozzle, and a pressure loss of ?50 mbar in the final fluidization region upstream of the inlet into the nozzle.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2012Publication date: July 26, 2012Inventors: Hans Loser, Markus Häussler, Volker Schmidt-Rohr, Wolfgang Ruf
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Publication number: 20120145346Abstract: A forming section in a machine for producing a web of fibrous material includes a control and/or regulating system including a control and/or regulating device which is connected with at least one device for at least indirect acquisition of one value at least indirectly characterizing the dry content of the fibrous web in a transfer area from the forming section to a following function unit, with a device for input of a desired value for the target dry content, and with at least the control elements of an individual dewatering unit located prior to one of the last dewatering units, or the last dewatering unit inside the compression zone. The control and/or regulating device also includes a device for creating the control variables for controlling the individual dewatering units.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2011Publication date: June 14, 2012Inventors: Thomas Ruehl, Moritz Schmalenbach, Volker Schmidt-Rohr, Marco Esper, Oliver Kaufmann
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Patent number: 8156587Abstract: The invention relates to a holding device for supporting the hands of a patient resting on an examination couch. In accordance with the invention, the holding device for supporting the hands of a patient resting on an examination couch comprises gripping zones which are distanced from one another, said gripping zones each being grippable with a hand of the patient, with the holding device being moveable independently of further devices surrounding the patient.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2008Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Klaus Gagneur, Volker Schmidt, Robert Wirth
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Publication number: 20120031964Abstract: The invention relates to a switchgear cabinet or rack comprising a mounting unit, the front of which has vertical mounting profiles that laterally delimit an installation space for installed user-side units, said profiles having fixing sections for attaching mounting sections of the installed units, and comprising components of a detection device for determining the presence of an installed unit in an installation position of the installation space. he components of the detection device have a vertical detector strip that is attached to a mounting profile and contains detector elements associated with the installed positions and arranged on or in said strip and code carriers that are provided on the installed units, the information from said carriers being transmitted for evaluation via the detector elements to a monitoring and control unit, either wirelessly or by wire.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2010Publication date: February 9, 2012Applicant: RITTAL GMBH & CO. AGInventors: Bodo Thielmann, Marcus Hain, Volker Schmidt
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Publication number: 20120031965Abstract: The invention relates to a switchgear cabinet or rack comprising a mounting unit, the front of which has vertical mounting profiles that laterally delimit an installation frame for installed user-side units, the front of said profiles being provided with flat fixing sections for attaching laterally projecting mounting sections of the installed units, and comprising components of a detection device for determining the presence of an installed unit in an installation position of the installation frame. The components of the detection device have a vertical detector strip that is attached to a mounting section and contains detector elements and code carriers that are provided on the installed units.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2010Publication date: February 9, 2012Applicant: Rittal GMBH & Co. AGInventors: Bodo Thielmann, Markus Hain, Volker Schmidt
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Publication number: 20120026647Abstract: The invention relates to a switchgear cabinet or rack comprising a mounting unit, the front of which has vertical mounting sections that laterally delimit a cabinet frame for installed user-side units, said profiles having flat fixing sections that lie on a front mounting plane and that are used to fix laterally projecting mounting sections of the installed units, and comprising components of a detection device for determining the presence of an installed unit in an installation position of the cabinet frame. The components of the detection device have a vertical antenna strip that is attached to a mounting section and contains antenna elements arranged therein and code carriers that are designed as transponder elements and are provided on the installed units.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2010Publication date: February 2, 2012Applicant: RITTAL GMBH & CO. AGInventors: Bodo Thielmann, Markus Hain, Volker Schmidt
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Publication number: 20110290440Abstract: The invention relates to a headbox for a machine for producing a fibrous web, in particular a paper or cardboard web, from at least one fibrous stock suspension, having a feed apparatus which feeds the at least one fibrous stock suspension, having a distributor-pipe perforated plate which is adjacent downstream and has a multiplicity of channels which are arranged in rows and in columns, having an intermediate channel which lies downstream of the latter, extends over the width of the headbox and has a plurality of means which are spaced apart from one another in the width direction of the headbox for the preferably regulatable/controllable metering of a fluid in fluid part streams into the at least one fibrous stock suspension.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2011Publication date: December 1, 2011Inventors: Marco Thomisch, Wolfgang Ruf, Volker Schmidt-Rohr, Markus Häussler, Hans Loser
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Publication number: 20110247215Abstract: The present invention relates to a sheet-like construction element composed of composite material, comprising two metallic outer layers, a rigid polyurethane foam layer, and a compact polyurethane layer which comprises microcapsules with a capsule core composed of latent-heat-accumulator material, and also to a process for its production, and to its use.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2009Publication date: October 13, 2011Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Marco Schmidt, Marco Balbo Block, Volker Schmidt, Annerose Heimes-Scheller, Lothar Jandel
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3D DENTAL CAMERA FOR RECORDING SURFACE STRUCTURES OF AN OBJECT BE MEASURED BY MEANS OF TRIANGULATION
Publication number: 20110242281Abstract: The invention relates to a 3D dental camera for recording surface structures of a measuring object (2) by means of triangulation, said camera comprising a light source (3) for producing an illumination beam (7.1, 7.2, 7.3), means for focusing the illumination beam (7.1, 7.2, 7.3) onto the surface of the measuring object, an image sensor (6) for receiving an illumination beam (7.1, 7.2, 7.3) reflected by the surface of the measuring object (2) in the form of an observation beam (9.1, 9.2, 9.3), and means (5) for focusing the observation beam (9.1, 9.2, 9.3) onto the image sensor (6). The light source (3) is split into a plurality of regions (3.1, 3.2, 3.3) that can be independently regulated in terms of the light intensity thereof, in such a way that a light centre position (10.1, 10.2, 10.3) of the illumination beam (7.1, 7.2, 7.3) changes in at least two switching modes.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2009Publication date: October 6, 2011Applicant: SIRONA DENTAL SYSTEMS GMBHInventor: Volker Schmidt -
Publication number: 20110221879Abstract: The invention relates to an objective (4) and to a method for designing said objective (4) for a dental camera (1), the objective (4) comprising at least two lenses (9, 10, 20, 21) and the dental camera (1) comprising a light source (3) and an image sensor (7). An illuminating beam emitted by the light source (3) is focused by the objective (4), imaged on an object (8) to be measured, and reflected by the object (8) to be measured to form a monitoring beam (12). The monitoring beam (12) passes through the objective (4) and is directed toward the image sensor (7), the illuminating beam (11) being partially reflected by surfaces (9?, 9?, 9?, 10?, 10?, 20?, 20?, 21?, 21?) of the lenses (9, 10, 20, 21) to form reflected beams (17.1 to 17.8). The objective (4) comprises means (27) for tilting each lens (9, 10, 20, 21) relatively to the illuminating beam (11) such that the optical axis (9?? 10??, 15.1, 15.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2009Publication date: September 15, 2011Applicant: SIRONA DENTAL SYSTEMS GMBHInventor: Volker Schmidt
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Patent number: 8011372Abstract: A device for filling cigarette tubes with tobacco, wherein the device comprises at least one separating means adapted to detach a tobacco portion from a tobacco block and at least one portioning means adapted to portion the tobacco block, at least one transport means adapted to transport the tobacco block towards the separating means, wherein the portioning means and the transport means are coupled such that the transport means transports the tobacco block in a number of transport steps, and at least one filling means adapted to fill a cigarette tube with the detached tobacco portion. The device further comprises at least one blocking means adapted to block the transport means after each transport step until the at least one filling means has been operated.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2008Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignee: Philip Morris USA Inc.Inventors: Manfred Neumann, Volker Schmidt
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Publication number: 20110141252Abstract: A triangulation camera device includes a light source device being adapted for generating illumination light to be directed onto an object under investigation and including a light source with an optical pattern generator and a first aperture being arranged along a first optical axis, a detector device being adapted for sensing reflection light reflected by the object and including a detector camera and a second aperture being arranged along a second optical axis, and an imaging optic having imaging lenses being adapted for imaging the illumination light onto the object and for collecting the reflection light, said imaging optic having a third optical axis, wherein the first, second and third optical axes are arranged in parallel and displaced relative to each other and the first and second apertures are arranged with a telecentric configuration relative to the imaging optic such that the illumination light and the reflection light are capable of forming a parallel illumination light bundle and a parallel refType: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2009Publication date: June 16, 2011Applicant: BERLINER GLAS KGAA HERBERT KUBATZ GMBH & CO.Inventor: Volker Schmidt