Patents by Inventor Xavier Thum

Xavier Thum 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: 9926149
    Abstract: In a method for handling sheet goods, in particular value documents, such as bank notes, in an apparatus for processing sheet goods, such as a bank-note machine, sheet goods are removed from a container for sheet goods that is inserted in the apparatus, through an output opening of the container, checked for further processability, and in the case of a negative check result returned into the container through an input opening of the container that is separate from the output opening. The container has a pressing device for exerting a pressure on the sheet goods in the direction of the output opening, wherein the pressing device is displaceable along the height of the container such that sheet goods are both outputtable from a sheet-goods region of the container through the output opening and inputtable back into the sheet-goods region through the input opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: CI Tech Components AG
    Inventor: Xavier Thum
  • Publication number: 20160284152
    Abstract: In a method for handling sheet goods, in particular value documents, such as bank notes, in an apparatus for processing sheet goods, such as a bank-note machine, sheet goods are removed from a container for sheet goods that is inserted in the apparatus, through an output opening of the container, checked for further processability, and in the case of a negative check result returned into the container through an input opening of the container that is separate from the output opening. The container has a pressing device for exerting a pressure on the sheet goods in the direction of the output opening, wherein the pressing device is displaceable along the height of the container such that sheet goods are both outputtable from a sheet-goods region of the container through the output opening and inputtable back into the sheet-goods region through the input opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventor: Xavier Thum
  • Publication number: 20160217639
    Abstract: A container for sheet goods, in particular for value documents, such as bank notes, includes at least a first sheet-goods region having an input opening for inputting sheet goods to the first sheet-goods region, so that the first sheet-goods region can assume a first filling state increasing in time, and at least a second sheet-goods regions, separate from the first sheet-goods region, having an output opening for outputting sheet goods received in the second sheet-goods region, so that the second sheet-goods region can assume a second filling state decreasing in time. The first sheet-goods region and the second sheet-goods region are variable such that in dependence on the filling state of the first sheet-goods region and of the second sheet-goods region a partial volume of the container can belong to the first sheet-goods region at a first time and to the second sheet-goods region at a second time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Xavier THUM, Helmut STEIDL
  • Patent number: 8167135
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for accepting or dispensing or returning bank notes. An operator wishing to remove bank notes protruding from the apparatus for dispensing or returning, is assisted during removal in that the bank notes are transported towards the operator by the apparatus as soon as the operator grasps the bank notes and starts pulling or moving them out of the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventors: Dominik Nützel, Franz Reuter, Xavier Thum
  • Patent number: 8123121
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for accepting and dispensing or returning bank notes, including a pocket which is dividable by means of a dividing element into two areas for inputting and dispensing or returning bank notes, wherein the dividing element can be moved within the pocket in order to form the two areas, with a clamping element which can be moved within the pocket independently from the dividing element, in order to clamp bank notes disposed in the pocket inside the pocket and to transport them, wherein for clamping bank notes the clamping and transport element is moved in a first direction within the pocket on top of bank notes disposed in the pocket, and transports bank notes to be dispensed or returned out of the area of the dividing element at least for the most part. The dividing element is subsequently moved out of the area of the bank notes disposed in the pocket within the pocket past the clamping and transport element in a second direction that is contrary to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventors: Xavier Thum, Ralf Hobmeier
  • Patent number: 8100249
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for accepting and dispensing or returning bank notes, including an apparatus having a pocket for accepting and dispensing or returning bank notes, which is dividable by means of a dividing element into two areas for inputting and dispensing or returning bank notes, wherein the dividing element consists of at least two non-interconnected parts which can be moved together within the pocket in order to form the two areas. Each part of the dividing element is movably arranged on a respectively opposite side wall of the pocket, as well as at least one clamping element which is disposed between the parts of the dividing element and can be moved within the pocket independently from the dividing element, in order to clamp bank notes disposed in the pocket inside the pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventor: Xavier Thum
  • Patent number: 7883088
    Abstract: Apparatus for singling sheet material, in particular bank notes, which is inputted into an input area of the apparatus as a stack and is transported up to a singler, which transfers individual pieces of sheet material of the stack of sheet material to a sheet transport system, which transports the singled sheet material in a transport direction, a sensor disposed in transport direction upstream of the singler, which substantially extends over the width of the input area, generating signals which specify whether and in which area of the width of the input area the sheet material is present, and a control device evaluating the signals of the sensor during a transport of the stack of sheet material to the singler and comparing occurring fluctuations and changes of the signals of the sensor regarding the presence or absence of sheet material with predetermined threshold values for fluctuations and changes of the signals of the sensor, in order to derive a statement from the occurring fluctuations and changes of t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventors: Dominik Nützel, Franz Reuter, Xavier Thum
  • Publication number: 20100025308
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for accepting or dispensing or returning bank notes. An operator wishing to remove bank notes protruding from the apparatus for dispensing or returning, is assisted during removal in that the bank notes are transported towards the operator by the apparatus as soon as the operator grasps the bank notes and starts pulling or moving them out of the apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Inventors: Dominik Nutzel, Franz Reuter, Xavier Thum
  • Publication number: 20090206541
    Abstract: Apparatus for singling sheet material, in particular bank notes, which is inputted into an input area of the apparatus as a stack and is transported up to a singler, which transfers individual pieces of sheet material of the stack of sheet material to a sheet transport system, which transports the singled sheet material in a transport direction, a sensor disposed in transport direction upstream of the singler, which substantially extends over the width of the input area, generating signals which specify whether and in which area of the width of the input area the sheet material is present, and a control device evaluating the signals of the sensor during a transport of the stack of sheet material to the singler and comparing occurring fluctuations and changes of the signals of the sensor regarding the presence or absence of sheet material with predetermined threshold values for fluctuations and changes of the signals of the sensor, in order to derive a statement from the occurring fluctuations and changes of t
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2009
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Inventors: Dominik Nützel, Franz Reuter, Xavier Thum
  • Publication number: 20090133986
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for accepting and dispensing or returning bank notes, including a pocket which is dividable by means of a dividing element into two areas for inputting and dispensing or returning bank notes, wherein the dividing element can be moved within the pocket in order to form the two areas, with a clamping element which can be moved within the pocket independently from the dividing element, in order to clamp bank notes disposed in the pocket inside the pocket and to transport them, wherein for clamping bank notes the clamping and transport element is moved in a first direction within the pocket on top of bank notes disposed in the pocket, and transports bank notes to be dispensed or returned out of the area of the dividing element at least for the most part. The dividing element is subsequently moved out of the area of the bank notes disposed in the pocket within the pocket past the clamping and transport element in a second direction that is contrary to the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Inventors: Xavier Thum, Ralf Hobmeier
  • Publication number: 20090134071
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for accepting and dispensing or returning bank notes, including an apparatus having a pocket for accepting and dispensing or returning bank notes, which is dividable by means of a dividing element into two areas for inputting and dispensing or returning bank notes, wherein the dividing element consists of at least two non-interconnected parts which can be moved together within the pocket in order to form the two areas. Each part of the dividing element is movably arranged on a respectively opposite side wall of the pocket, as well as at least one clamping element which is disposed between the parts of the dividing element and can be moved within the pocket independently from the dividing element, in order to clamp bank notes disposed in the pocket inside the pocket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Inventor: Xavier THUM