Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Ruf

Wolfgang Ruf 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: 20230235508
    Abstract: A flow body for a format control unit of a Fourdrinier wire machine for producing a web of fibrous material, includes: a flow dividing device which is configured for separating an edge strip from a fibrous stock suspension stream, in a region of a flow division the flow dividing device including a rounded edge with a curvature radius greater than 2 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Uwe Joos, Daniel Gronych, Wolfgang Ruf, Tobias Henle, Michael Drescher
  • Patent number: 8382955
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Häussler, Hans Loser, Volker Schmidt-Rohr, Wolfgang Ruf, Thomas Ruehl
  • Patent number: 8303774
    Abstract: A headbox includes a feed device for feeding at least one fiber suspension, a perforated distribution pipe plate arranged immediately downstream thereof and having a plurality of channels arranged in lines and columns and an intermediate channel arranged downstream thereof extending over the width of the headbox and having a plurality of apparatuses for dosing a fluid in partial fluid streams to the at least one fiber suspension in an adjustable/controlled manner. The apparatuses are spaced apart from each other in the width direction of the headbox and the individual apparatuses include a plurality of dosing channels having respective dosing channel openings on the outlet side and a dosing channel length, arriving at different levels and being connected to a common supply channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Ruf, Konstantin Fenkl, Markus Häussler
  • Patent number: 8236137
    Abstract: The invention relates to a headbox which comprises a feed device feeding the at least one fiber suspension, a perforated distribution pipe plate arranged immediately downstream thereof and having a plurality of channels arranged in lines and columns, an intermediate channel arranged downstream thereof, extending over the width of the headbox and having a plurality of means for dosing a fluid in partial fluid streams to the at least one fiber suspension in a preferably adjustable/controlled manner, the means being spaced apart from each other in the width direction of the headbox and the individual means comprising a plurality of dosing channels having respective dosing channel openings and an opening center line, arriving at different levels and being connected to a common supply channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Ruf, Konstantin Fenkl, Markus Häuβler
  • Patent number: 8236138
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Marco Thomisch, Wolfgang Ruf, Volker Schmidt-Rohr, Markus Häubler, Hans Loser
  • Publication number: 20120193059
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Inventors: Markus Häussler, Hans Loser, Volker Schmidt-Rohr, Wolfgang Ruf, Thomas Ruehl
  • Publication number: 20120186767
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Inventors: Hans Loser, Markus Häussler, Volker Schmidt-Rohr, Wolfgang Ruf
  • Patent number: 8221590
    Abstract: The invention relates to a headbox for a machine for producing a fibrous web, especially a paper or cardboard web, from at least one fiber suspension, comprising a feed device feeding the at least one fiber suspension, a perforated distribution pipe plate arranged immediately downstream thereof and having a plurality of channels arranged in lines and columns, an intermediate channel arranged downstream thereof, extending over the width of the headbox and having a plurality of means for dosing a fluid in partial fluid streams to the at least one fiber suspension in a preferably adjustable/controlled manner, the means being spaced apart from each other in the width direction of the headbox and the individual means comprising a plurality of dosing channels having respective dosing channel openings on the outlet side and a dosing channel length, arriving at different levels and being connected to a common supply channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Ruf, Konstantin Ferkl, Markus Iläussler, Klaus Lehleiter
  • Publication number: 20120168105
    Abstract: A headbox for a machine for producing a fibrous web, in particular a paper, cardboard or tissue web from at least one fibrous stock suspension, includes a feeding device for feeding the at least one fibrous stock suspension; a perforated distribution pipe plate which is arranged immediately downstream from the feeding device in the flow direction of the at least one fibrous stock suspension and which includes a plurality of flow channels arranged in rows and columns; an intermediate channel which is arranged immediately downstream from the perforated distribution pipe plate in the flow direction of the at least one fibrous stock suspension and which extends in a width direction of the headbox and includes two walls, for example having the width of the machine; a turbulence generator which is arranged immediately downstream of the intermediate channel in the flow direction of the at least one fibrous stock suspension and which has a plurality of flow channels arranged in rows and columns; and a headbox nozzle
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Inventors: Wolfgang Ruf, Frank Fey, Markus Häussler, Ole Hansen
  • Publication number: 20120138251
    Abstract: Headbox for a machine to produce a fiber web, in particular a paper, cardboard or tissue web from at least one fibrous suspension, having a headbox nozzle comprising an upper nozzle wall and a lower nozzle wall, as well as two side walls tapering to form an outlet, and having an inner chamber through which the fibrous suspension flows in flow direction during operation of headbox, whereby on upper nozzle wall of headbox nozzle a baffle is arranged on the outlet side which is movable by way of several elements and which extends across machine width, and which has a baffle protrusion and a baffle immersion depth and which has at least two surfaces—an upstream ramp surface and a subsequent main surface contacted by a fibrous suspension during operation of headbox. The inventive headbox is characterized in that between ramp surface of baffle and main surface of baffle at least one refraction surface which is in contact during operation of headbox with a fibrous suspension is provided on baffle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Inventors: Wolfgang Ruf, Markus Häussler, Stefan Schlegel, Jens Haessner
  • Publication number: 20110303381
    Abstract: A headbox includes a feed device for feeding at least one fiber suspension, a perforated distribution pipe plate arranged immediately downstream thereof and having a plurality of channels arranged in lines and columns and an intermediate channel arranged downstream thereof extending over the width of the headbox and having a plurality of apparatuses for dosing a fluid in partial fluid streams to the at least one fiber suspension in an adjustable/controlled manner. The apparatuses are spaced apart from each other in the width direction of the headbox and the individual apparatuses include a plurality of dosing channels having respective dosing channel openings on the outlet side and a dosing channel length, arriving at different levels and being connected to a common supply channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Inventors: Wolfgang Ruf, Konstantin Fenkl, Markus Häussler
  • Publication number: 20110290440
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2011
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Inventors: Marco Thomisch, Wolfgang Ruf, Volker Schmidt-Rohr, Markus Häussler, Hans Loser
  • Publication number: 20110290441
    Abstract: The invention relates to a headbox for a machine for producing a fibrous web, especially a paper or cardboard web, from at least one fiber suspension, comprising a feed device feeding the at least one fiber suspension, a perforated distribution pipe plate arranged immediately downstream thereof and having a plurality of channels arranged in lines and columns, an intermediate channel arranged downstream thereof, extending over the width of the headbox and having a plurality of means for dosing a fluid in partial fluid streams to the at least one fiber suspension in a preferably adjustable/controlled manner, the means being spaced apart from each other in the width direction of the headbox and the individual means comprising a plurality of dosing channels having respective dosing channel openings on the outlet side and a dosing channel length, arriving at different levels and being connected to a common supply channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Inventors: Wolfgang Ruf, Konstantin Ferkl, Markus Iläussler, Klaus Lehleiter
  • Publication number: 20110265968
    Abstract: The invention relates to a headbox which comprises a feed device feeding the at least one fiber suspension, a perforated distribution pipe plate arranged immediately downstream thereof and having a plurality of channels arranged in lines and columns, an intermediate channel arranged downstream thereof, extending over the width of the headbox and having a plurality of means for dosing a fluid in partial fluid streams to the at least one fiber suspension in a preferably adjustable/controlled manner, the means being spaced apart from each other in the width direction of the headbox and the individual means comprising a plurality of dosing channels having respective dosing channel openings and an opening center line, arriving at different levels and being connected to a common supply channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2011
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Inventors: Wolfgang Ruf, Konstantin Fenkl, Markus Häußler
  • Patent number: 7877649
    Abstract: An apparatus and methods for testing an integrated device comprising memory a test device are provided. At least two data inputs of the memory are coupled to a data output of the test device. As an alternative, at least two data outputs of the memory are coupled to a data input of the test device. Test data are transferred from the test device to the memory chip and written to memory cells of the memory. Data are read from the memory cells of the memory and transferring from the memory to the test device. The data read from the memory chip are compared with the test data written to the memory in order to identify faults of the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Qimonda AG
    Inventors: Joerg Kliewer, Manfred Proell, Stephan Schroeder, Georg Eggers, Wolfgang Ruf, Hermann Hass
  • Patent number: 7760569
    Abstract: A memory device in a semiconductor substrate includes at least one temperature sensor to provide a temperature dependent signal and at least one circuit to dissipate heat in response to a control signal. A control circuit is coupled to the at least one circuit and is operable to generate the control signal in response to the temperature dependent signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Qimonda AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Ruf, Martin Schnell, Rainer Kömmling
  • Patent number: 7757145
    Abstract: The test method, integrated circuit and test system embodiments disclosed herein relate to testing at least one integrated circuit which uses an internal operating clock and has a first number of address pins, a second number of command pins and an address generation circuit which receives at least one encoded address information item using a third number of the address pins, which is smaller than the first number, and provides the other address pins as a fourth number of free address pins, where at least one first command is transferred using the command pins and at least one second command is transferred using at least one portion of the fourth number of the address pins from a test apparatus to the integrated circuit using a test clock which has a lower rate than the internal operating clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Qimonda AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Ruf, Martin Schnell
  • Patent number: 7752510
    Abstract: An integrated device comprises a functional circuit, a test circuit for testing the functional circuit and for providing an error data item and a register element for storing the error data item and for outputting the error data item at an error data output of the integrated device responsive to an output signal. The register element is connected to a data input of the integrated device in order to accept a data item, which is applied to the data input, responsive to the output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Qimonda AG
    Inventors: Manfred Proell, Stephan Schroeder, Wolfgang Ruf, Hermann Haas
  • Publication number: 20090085596
    Abstract: A system for testing semiconductor devices is disclosed. In one embodiment, the test system being configured to be electrically connected via parallel wiring paths to a plurality of contact pins of a number of devices under test. The test system having at least one signal distribution matrix arranged in the wiring path to provide signals for testing and/or power supply to the devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Publication date: April 2, 2009
    Applicant: QIMONDA AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Ruf, Michael Schittenhelm
  • Publication number: 20090051383
    Abstract: Test method and production method for testing a semiconductor circuit comprising a plurality of subcircuits. The semiconductor circuit is produced according to specification stipulations comprising a design based on a hardware description language for a functional implementation, a logic synthesis for a structural implementation, a layout design for a topological implementation and processing a semiconductor substrates in accordance with the layout design. A test pattern having test signal sequences is coupled into the semiconductor circuit and functional results are coupled out. Test signal lengths and/or test signal levels are selected from a previously generated test parameter list, wherein the test parameter list is generated during the logic synthesis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2005
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: QIMONDA AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Ruf, Martin Schnell