Philip A Rombult

US Patent:

6371021, Apr 16, 2002

Filed:

Sep 15, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/663663

Inventors:

Philip Rombult - Boxford MA

Assignee:

Agfa Corporation - Wilmington MA

International Classification:

B41F 1324

US Classification:

101232, 101248, 400636, 400641, 400579, 271109, 271116

Abstract:

The present invention provides an input roller system for displacing a printing plate toward and against a plurality of registration pins located on an external drum of an imaging system. The input roller system deskews the printing plate relative to the registration pins.

US Patent:

6450496, Sep 17, 2002

Filed:

Apr 26, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/843050

Inventors:

James J. Hebert - Manchester NH
Philip A. Rombult - Boxford MA

Assignee:

Agfa Corporation - Wilmington MA

International Classification:

B65H 502

US Classification:

271276, 271 322, 355 73

Abstract:

A method and apparatus for holding recording media against a media support surface of an imaging system using an arrangement of variable cross-section vacuum grooves. Each vacuum groove has a continuously decreasing cross-section along its length. Each vacuum groove has a maximum cross-section adjacent a vacuum port and a minimum cross-section at a distal end of the vacuum groove.

US Patent:

6615724, Sep 9, 2003

Filed:

Sep 25, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/962529

Inventors:

Philip Rombult - Boxford MA
Aron Mirmelshteyn - Marblehead MA

Assignee:

Agfa Corporation - Wilmington MA

International Classification:

B41L 4714

US Classification:

101477, 101232, 271116, 271236

Abstract:

The present invention provides an input roller system for displacing a printing plate toward and against a plurality of registration pins located on an external drum of an imaging system. The input roller system deskews the printing plate relative to the registration pins.

US Patent:

6726433, Apr 27, 2004

Filed:

Jul 13, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/615931

Inventors:

Laurence S. Blake - Peabody MA
Philip A. Rombult - Bradford MA
Libor Krupica - Methuen MA
David B. Larsen - Woburn MA
James C. Folsom - Sanford ME
Ross A. Freeman - Somersworth NH
Roger A. Jacques - Rochester NH
Robert S. Ring - Rochester NH
Gerald L. Smith - Dover NH

Assignee:

Agfa Corporation - Wilmington MA

International Classification:

B65H 100

US Classification:

414411, 4143311

Abstract:

An apparatus is provided for positioning a plurality of cassettes within an automated printing plate handler. In a plate handler, a plurality of cassettes each contain a supply of printing plates for delivery to an automatic plate-recording device. The apparatus includes a separate support table for supporting each of the plurality of cassettes within the plate handler and an elevator device for moving each of the support tables along a vertical axis of the automated plate handler. The automated plate handler is configured to automatically position a selected cassette in a first position to facilitate removal of the cassette from the handler. The plate handler further includes a platform, which substantially forms an extension of the support table supporting the selected cassette in the first position. The platform provides a second position, at which the selected cassette is to be one of, loaded or unloaded. The selected cassette may be filled with a new supply of plates on the platform or the selected cassette may be removed from the platform and replaced by a another cassette.

US Patent:

6882457, Apr 19, 2005

Filed:

Aug 27, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/650068

Inventors:

Bryan Comeau - Atkinson NH, US
Philip A. Rombult - Boxford MA, US
Jeffrey Knox - Lynnfield MA, US

Assignee:

Agfa Corporation - Wilmington MA

International Classification:

G02B026/00

US Classification:

359239, 359237

Abstract:

A modulation quality detection system is disclosed for determining the modulation quality of an illumination modulator in an imaging system. The modulation quality detection system includes a modulator adjustment unit for providing a test pattern on the illumination modulator, a detector for receiving a modulated illumination field from the illumination modulator, a sampling unit for determining at least three sample values (A, B and C) for each of three areas of the modulated illumination field respectively, and an evaluation unit for determining whether the value is greater than a threshold value.

US Patent:

7055431, Jun 6, 2006

Filed:

Mar 23, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/807085

Inventors:

Laurence S. Blake - Peabody MA, US
Philip A. Rombult - Bradford MA, US
Libor Krupica - Methuen MA, US
David B. Larsen - Woburn MA, US
James C. Folsom - Sanford ME, US
Ross A. Freeman - Somersworth NH, US
Roger A. Jacques - Rochester NH, US
Robert S. Ring - Rochester NH, US
Gerald L. Smith - Dover NH, US

Assignee:

AGFA Corporation - Wilmington MA

International Classification:

B41F 27/06

US Classification:

101477, 414411

Abstract:

An apparatus is provided for positioning a plurality of cassettes within an automated printing plate handler. In a plate handler, a plurality of cassettes each contain a supply of printing plates for delivery to an automatic plate-recording device. The apparatus includes a separate support table for supporting each of the plurality of cassettes within the plate handler and an elevator device for moving each of the support tables along a vertical axis of the automated plate handler. The automated plate handler is configured to automatically position a selected cassette in a first position to facilitate removal of the cassette from the handler. The plate handler further includes a platform, which substantially forms an extension of the support table supporting the selected cassette in the first position. The platform provides a second position, at which the selected cassette is to be one of, loaded or unloaded. The selected cassette may be filled with a new supply of plates on the platform or the selected cassette may be removed from the platform and replaced by a another cassette.

US Patent:

7079233, Jul 18, 2006

Filed:

Aug 27, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/649530

Inventors:

Bryan Comeau - Atkinson NH, US
Philip A. Rombult - Boxford MA, US
Jeffrey Knox - Lynnfield MA, US

International Classification:

G01B 11/26
G02B 26/00

US Classification:

35613904, 356400, 359237

Abstract:

An alignment detection system is disclosed for determining whether a modulated illumination field in an imaging system employing an illumination modulator is mis-aligned. The alignment detection system includes a modulator adjustment unit for providing a test pattern on the illumination modulator, a detector for receiving a modulated illumination field from the illumination modulator, a sampling unit for determining at least two sample values (A and C) for each of two areas of the modulated illumination field respectively, and an evaluation unit for determining whether the value |A−C| is greater than a threshold value.

US Patent:

8139205, Mar 20, 2012

Filed:

May 11, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/463882

Inventors:

Stephen V. McKaughan - Arlington MA, US
Philip A. Rombult - Boxford MA, US

Assignee:

Flir Systems, Inc. - Wilsonville OR

International Classification:

G01C 3/08

US Classification:

356 501, 356 301, 356 31, 356 401, 356 41, 356 51

Abstract:

A compact optical payload for an unmanned aircraft includes two infrared cameras for wide and narrow field viewing, a daylight color camera, a laser pointer and a laser range finder.