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: 20030058711
    Abstract: A method for integrating imperfect semiconductor memory devices having functional and defective memory cells into a data processing apparatus. The defective memory cells are assigned defect addresses or defect address ranges. Before a memory access of the data processing apparatus is carried out, the address of the memory access is compared with the defect addresses or defect address ranges and is recoded in the event of correspondence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2002
    Publication date: March 27, 2003
    Inventors: Alexander Benedix, Reinhard Dueregger, Wolfgang Ruf
  • Publication number: 20030061532
    Abstract: A method for replacing defective memory cells of a random access memory device of a data processing apparatus, in which, during the operation of the data processing apparatus, a defective memory cell is replaced by a replacement memory cell in the random access memory device by using a control instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2002
    Publication date: March 27, 2003
    Inventors: Alexander Benedix, Reinhard Dueregger, Wolfgang Ruf
  • Patent number: 6536443
    Abstract: Apparatus for controlling a breaking length ratio L/Q of a web. The apparatus includes a machine having a headbox, the headbox has at least one headbox nozzle, at least one mechanism is used for influencing a microturbulence of a stock suspension flowing out of the headbox nozzle, at least one measuring device is used for measuring a current breaking length ratio L/QCURR of the web, and a regulating device for changing the microturbulence, wherein the microturbulence is adjusted to change the L/QCURR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2003
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Ruf, Otto L. Heissenberger
  • Patent number: 6524441
    Abstract: Process and a device for detecting a change in the fiber orientation cross-direction profile of a paper or cardboard web in the manufacturing process on a paper or cardboard machine. It is recognized that a change in the fiber orientation cross-direction profile in the web is inferred or determined by way of a characteristic change in the basis weight cross-direction profile or at least one measurement quantity that correlates to it, and/or by way of a characteristic change in the basis weight in the travel direction of the web or at least one measurement quantity that correlates to it. The device includes an arrangement for detecting a change in the basis weight cross-direction profile and/or a characteristic chronological course of the change in the basis weight, which is characteristic for a change in the fiber orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Ruf, Hans Loser, Ulrich Begemann, Klaus Lehleiter
  • Publication number: 20030005565
    Abstract: Process of forming a headbox for a machine, which includes arranging a plurality of headbox channels into rows and columns, positioning a lamella between adjacent rows, fixing an end of the lamella at a fixing point, and arranging lamellar supports downstream of, relative to a headbox flow direction, the fixing point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2002
    Publication date: January 9, 2003
    Applicant: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Ruf, Hans Loser, Thomas Dietz, Klaus Lehleiter, Konstantin Fenkl
  • Publication number: 20030000674
    Abstract: Headbox for one of a paper and cardboard machine includes at least one material suspension supply running a width of the machine. At least one turbulence producer has at least one conduit through which a material suspension flows. At least one metered addition point is located in the conduit for introducing a fluid medium. A headbox nozzle is located downstream from the at least one turbulence producer for delivering the material suspension. A portion of a flow resistance located downstream of the metered addition point is at least approximately 50% of a total flow resistance of the at least one conduit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2002
    Publication date: January 2, 2003
    Applicant: VOITH SULZER PAPIERTECHNIK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Ruf, Hans Loser, Klaus Lehleitter
  • Patent number: 6471828
    Abstract: Headbox for a machine and process for forming the same. The headbox includes a plurality of channels arranged in rows that extend across a width of the machine and in columns substantially perpendicular to the rows, at least one lamella positioned between adjacent rows, a fixing point for the at least one lamella, and lamellar supports positioned after the fixing point, relative to a headbox flow. This includes arranging a plurality of headbox channels into rows and columns, positioning a lamella between adjacent rows, fixing an end of the lamella at a fixing point, and arranging lamellar supports downstream of, relative to a headbox flow direction, the fixing point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2002
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Ruf, Hans Loser, Thomas Dietz, Klaus Lehleiter, Konstantin Fenkl
  • Publication number: 20020153113
    Abstract: Lamella of a headbox through which at least one fibrous suspension flows. The headbox has a machine-width headbox nozzle with a nozzle length and an exit opening, and the headbox nozzle is delimited by an upper nozzle wall and a lower nozzle wall. The lamella, which is structured and arranged to be mounted within the headbox nozzle, includes a lamella body having a downstream Lamella end structured and arranged to be positioned downstream, relative to a suspension flow direction, of an opposite end of the lamella body, and the downstream lamella end includes a first surface, a portion coupled to an sloped relative to the first surface, and a second surface, located opposite the first surface, provided with a structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2002
    Publication date: October 24, 2002
    Applicant: VOITH PAPER PATENT GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Ruf, Konstantin Fenkl, Hans Loser
  • Patent number: 6464837
    Abstract: Process for a metered addition of a fluid medium into a material suspension stream of a headbox, including feeding the material suspension in a main flow direction through at least one turbulence-producing conduit to a headbox nozzle, the at least one turbulence-producing conduit having an entrance, a graduated pressure loss area, and an exit. A total pressure loss &Dgr;Ptotal is caused in the at least one turbulence-producing conduit such that the total pressure loss &Dgr;Ptotal includes at least one intake pressure loss &Dgr;Pintake formed at the entrance and a graduated pressure loss &Dgr;Pgrad formed at the graduated pressure loss area. A metered addition of a fluid medium is also provided in a region between the entrance and the exit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2002
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Ruf, Hans Loser, Klaus Lehleiter
  • Publication number: 20020117282
    Abstract: Method for regulating a basis weight of a paper or cardboard web in the manufacturing process. The method includes determining a basis weight at an end of the manufacturing process, calculating a deviation of the determined basis weight from a predetermined target value, adjusting a concentration of a material suspension supplied to a headbox via a first control loop such that the calculated deviation is corrected, one of directly and indirectly measuring a basis weight of a resulting web in a region upstream, with regard to a web travel direction, a drying section, and supplying a signal related to the measured basis weight to a second control loop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2002
    Publication date: August 29, 2002
    Applicant: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Ruf, Hans Loser, Klaus Lehleiter
  • Publication number: 20020043355
    Abstract: Lamella and headbox of a web production machine. The lamella is formed of at least one high-performance polymer. The at least one high-performance polymer includes high stability, high heat resistance, and good to very good resistance to at least one of alkaline solution and acid. The headbox includes the lamella.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2001
    Publication date: April 18, 2002
    Applicant: VOITH PAPER PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Ruf, Hans Loser
  • Patent number: 6368461
    Abstract: Paper or cardboard machine and method for regulating a basis weight of a paper or cardboard web in the manufacturing process. The paper or cardboard machine includes at least one headbox that extends across a machine width. The at least one headbox is adapted to provide a machine-wide distribution of a material suspension onto one of a screen and between two screens. The machine also includes at least one material suspension supply coupled to the at least one headbox and adapted to supply a material suspension to the at least one headbox. The at least one material suspension supply has at least one concentration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2002
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Ruf, Hans Loser, Klaus Lehleiter
  • Patent number: 6319363
    Abstract: A sheet forming system of a paper or cardboard machine. A headbox includes a headbox nozzle with to laterally extending side panels and first and second nozzle walls extending along a width of the machine. First and second screens converge in a region adjacent the headbox nozzle. At least two guide mechanisms, each having a guide surface, guide the first and second screens in the region. At least one support mechanism supports at least a portion of one of the first and second nozzle walls against said guide surface of at least one of said at least two guide mechanisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Ruf, Peter Mirsberger, Holger Humberg
  • Patent number: 6303004
    Abstract: Stock inlet of a paper machine that includes at least one stock suspension supply, a diffusor block having a plurality of tubular elements, dividing elements which extend across a width of the machine, and a stock inlet aperture having a top wall and a bottom wall. The dividing elements are located between the top wall and the bottom wall, so that a plurality of suspension conduits are formed, which extend across the width of the machine. Further, the stock inlet aperture is positioned one of adjacent one wire and between two wires. The suspension conduits include a first region and a second region disposed downstream of the first region, with respect to a stock flow direction. The first region is formed by flat boundary surfaces which extend across the width of the machine and converge in the stock flow direction, and each of the dividing elements has a sharper convergence of surfaces in the second region than in the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Ruf, Walter Holzer
  • Patent number: 6251225
    Abstract: A process and apparatus for controlling a breaking length ratio L/Q of a web. The process includes providing a fluid fiber layer using a headbox havng a headbox nozzle, producing a web from the fluid fiber layer, measuring a current breaking length ratio L/QCURR of the web, comparing the current breaking length ratio L/QCURR with a preset breaking length ratio L/QSET, determining a deviation between L/QCURR and L/QSET, and adjusting a microturbulence in a vicinity of said headbox nozzle to change the deviation. The apparatus includes a machine having a headbox, the headbox has at least one headbox nozzle, at least one mechanism is used for influencing a microturbulence of a stock suspension flowing out of the headbox nozzle, at least one measuring device is used for measuring a current breaking length ratio L/QCURR of the web, and a regulating device for changing the microturbulence, wherein the microturbulence is adjusted to change the L/QCURR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Ruf, Otto L. Heissenberger
  • Patent number: 6214169
    Abstract: Sheet formation system and method for reducing wavy edges in a fourdrinier machine. The system includes a headbox having a nozzle bring adapted to produce a pulp suspension jet across a width of the machine, at least one rotating screen positioned to receive the pulp suspension jet, and at least two deckle plates adjacent to the screen. The deckle plates may be adjustably positionable such that a distance between the deckle plates and a centerline of the screen is adjustable in a machine direction over a substantial portion of a length of the side shields. The method includes directing a pulp suspension jet onto the rotating shield between the deckle plates to form a web sheet, moving the web sheet in a machine direction, and adjusting a distance between the deckle plates as the web sheet is moved in the machine direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2001
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Ruf, Thomas Dietz, Konstantin Fenkl
  • Publication number: 20010000002
    Abstract: Process and a device for detecting a change in the fiber orientation cross-direction profile of a paper or cardboard web in the manufacturing process on a paper or cardboard machine. It is recognized that a change in the fiber orientation cross-direction profile in the web is inferred or determined by way of a characteristic change in the basis weight cross-direction profile or at least one measurement quantity that correlates to it, and/or by way of a characteristic change in the basis weight in the travel direction of the web or at least one measurement quantity that correlates to it. The device includes an arrangement for detecting a change in the basis weight cross-direction profile and/or a characteristic chronological course of the change in the basis weight, which is characteristic for a change in the fiber orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2000
    Publication date: March 15, 2001
    Inventors: Wolfgang Ruf, Hans Loser, Ulrich Begemann, Klaus Lehleiter
  • Patent number: 6174413
    Abstract: Process and a device for detecting a change in the fiber orientation cross-direction profile of a paper or cardboard web in the manufacturing process on a paper or cardboard machine. It is recognized that a change in the fiber orientation cross-direction profile in the web is inferred or determined by way of a characteristic change in the basis weight cross-direction profile or at least one measurement quantity that correlates to it, and/or by way of a characteristic change in the basis weight in the travel direction of the web or at least one measurement quantity that correlates to it. The device includes an arrangement for detecting a change in the basis weight cross-direction profile and/or a characteristic chronological course of the change in the basis weight, which is characteristic for a change in the fiber orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2001
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Ruf, Hans Loser, Ulrich Begemann, Klaus Lehleiter
  • Patent number: 6162331
    Abstract: An apparatus and a process for controlling or regulating a web property profile of a paper or cardboard web produced in the manufacturing process of a paper or cardboard machine is disclosed. The apparatus incorporates information regarding the position of one or more devices of a plurality of adjustable devices for sectionally manipulating at least one web property for regulating or controlling the devices to manipulate at least one web property across the width of the machine. The process includes combing the regulating process or a regulator device for adjusting individual actuators that only act on a certain section of conventional systems with the adjustment of an actuator acting across the entire web width for achieving a certain web property, so that the sectionally-operating actuators are not located in an end-position, so that these sectional actuators continue to be able to adjust the web property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2000
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Ruf, Hans Loser, Klaus Lehleiter
  • Patent number: 6077395
    Abstract: Head box for manufacturing a fibrous pulp web. The head box may include a pulp suspension inlet feed device that is sectioned across a width of the head box that feeds a pulp suspension in a feed direction, at least one device having a plurality of entrance ports that produces microturbulences, and an intermediate channel extending across the width of the head box and positioned in front of the at least one device. A plurality of partition units being positionably adjustable into the intermediate channel and being arranged parallel to the feed direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2000
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Lehleiter, Hans Loser, Wolfgang Ruf