Patents by Inventor Andreas Blume
Andreas Blume 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: 10203394Abstract: The invention relates to a method of MR imaging near metal parts using SEMAC. It is an object of the invention to provide an improved MR imaging technique that is sufficiently fast and robust against susceptibility effects. The invention proposes to apply a weaker slice-selection magnetic field gradient (Gslice) for reduction of ripple-artefacts near metal parts or to apply undersampling in the slice-selection direction of the SEMAC sequence or to apply both these aspects. According to one aspect of the invention, a sparsity constraint is used to make the reconstruction of the undersampled MR images more stable. Moreover, the invention relates to a MR device (1) and to a computer program to be run on a MR device (1).Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2014Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Michel Paul Jurriaan Jurrissen, Johan Michiel Den Harder, Ulrike Andrea Blume, Elwin De Weerdt, Gerrit Hendrik Van Ijperen
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Patent number: 10150636Abstract: A stacker device in an items processing system is a last station of a mail line. The stacker device has a receiving plate to receive flat items, a longitudinal alignment wall, graduated in at least two steps, at a rear side of the stacker device, and a stop wall that is arranged at the downstream end of the receiving plate.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2017Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Francotyp-Postalia GmbHInventors: Andreas Blume, Volker Harder
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Patent number: 10011452Abstract: A stacker device in an items processing system is a last station of a mail line. The stacker device has a receiving plate to receive flat items, a longitudinal alignment wall, graduated in at least two steps, at a rear side of the stacker device, and a stop wall that is arranged at the downstream end of the receiving plate.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2016Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: Francotyp-Postalia GmbHInventors: Andreas Blume, Volker Harder
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Publication number: 20180105384Abstract: A stacker device in an items processing system is a last station of a mail line. The stacker device has a receiving plate to receive flat items, a longitudinal alignment wall, graduated in at least two steps, at a rear side of the stacker device, and a stop wall that is arranged at the downstream end of the receiving plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2017Publication date: April 19, 2018Applicant: FRANCOTYP-POSTALIA GMBHInventors: Andreas Blume, Volker Harder
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Patent number: 9778094Abstract: A dynamic scale to achieves a higher throughput, by at least one of a spring steel sheet being installed in the travel direction of the first shaft of the first transport belt, and/or the control of the motors as well as the transmission of the sensor signals taking place via ribbon cables which are arranged parallel to the transport belts, and/or an electronic evaluation of interference oscillations of the signals of the sensors of the weighing cell takes place, within at least one lowpass filter being used, and wherein at least two digital notch filters are used.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2015Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Francotyp-Postalia GmbHInventors: Frank Geserich, Stefan Beckmann, Andreas Blume, Karsten van der Waydbrink
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Patent number: 9739656Abstract: In a dynamic scale and a weighing method therefor, an object to be weighed is received on a weighing unit of the dynamic scale and weight information of the object on the weighing unit is detected by the weighing unit. The weight information includes a number of items of weight information, which are supplied to a processor, and a derived weight value is determined in the processor by evaluation of a predetermined number of the items of weight information, and a quality value for the derived weight value is also determined in the processor by evaluation of the predetermined number of items of weight information. Depending on the quality value, it is established, in the processor, that the derived weight value is a valid weight value and, when it is established that the derived weight value is a valid weight value, the weighing unit is then fed with a new object.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2015Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: Francotyp-Postalia GmbHInventors: Axel Kieser, Volker Baum, Andreas Blume, Karsten Von der Waydbrink
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Publication number: 20170197800Abstract: A stacker device in an items processing system is a last station of a mail line. The stacker device has a receiving plate to receive flat items, a longitudinal alignment wall, graduated in at least two steps, at a rear side of the stacker device, and a stop wall that is arranged at the downstream end of the receiving plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2016Publication date: July 13, 2017Applicant: FRANCOTYP-POSTALIA GMBHInventors: ANDREAS BLUME, VOLKER HARDER
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Patent number: 9488709Abstract: When magnetic resonance imaging in the vicinity of a metallic object (like, for instance, a metal implant), severe spatial perturbations of the static magnetic field occur. In order to suppress the back-folding of distant off-resonant signals into the region of interest, the imaging volume is spatially restricted by selection gradients applied concurrently with the excitation and the refocusing RF pulses in a spin echo sequence. The selection gradient applied during the excitation pulse has an amplitude and/or a polarity different from that of the selection gradient applied during the refocusing pulse so that the respectively selected slices in an off-resonance frequency versus spatial coordinate diagram become tilted with respect to one another. The applied imaging technique may of the SEMAC or MAVRIC type and may incorporate compressed sensing, parallel imaging, fat suppression and/or SVD-based noise reduction.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2012Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Johan Michiel Den Harder, Clemens Bos, Ulrike Andrea Blume
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Publication number: 20160018251Abstract: A dynamic scale to achieves a higher throughput, by at least one of a spring steel sheet being installed in the travel direction of the first shaft of the first transport belt, and/or the control of the motors as well as the transmission of the sensor signals taking place via ribbon cables which are arranged parallel to the transport belts, and/or an electronic evaluation of interference oscillations of the signals of the sensors of the weighing cell takes place, within at least one lowpass filter being used, and wherein at least two digital notch filters are used.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2015Publication date: January 21, 2016Applicant: FRANCOTYP POSTALIA GMBHInventors: Frank Geserich, Stefan Beckmann, Andreas Blume, Karsten van der Waydbrink
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Publication number: 20150362576Abstract: The invention relates to a method of MR imaging near metal parts using SEMAC. It is an object of the invention to provide an improved MR imaging technique that is sufficiently fast and robust against susceptibility effects. The invention proposes to apply a weaker slice-selection magnetic field gradient (Gslice) for reduction of ripple-artefacts near metal parts or to apply undersampling in the slice-selection direction of the SEMAC sequence or to apply both these aspects. According to one aspect of the invention, a sparsity constraint is used to make the reconstruction of the undersampled MR images more stable. Moreover, the invention relates to a MR device (1) and to a computer program to be run on a MR device (1).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2014Publication date: December 17, 2015Inventors: MICHEL PAUL JURRIAAN JURRISSEN, JOHAN MICHIEL DEN HARDER, ULRIKE ANDREA BLUME, ELWIN DE WEERDT, GERRIT HENDRIK VAN IJPEREN
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Publication number: 20150362357Abstract: In a dynamic scale and a weighing method therefor, an object to be weighed is received on a weighing unit of the dynamic scale and weight information of the object on the weighing unit is detected by the weighing unit. The weight information includes a number of items of weight information, which are supplied to a processor, and a derived weight value is determined in the processor by evaluation of a predetermined number of the items of weight information, and a quality value for the derived weight value is also determined in the processor by evaluation of the predetermined number of items of weight information. Depending on the quality value, it is established, in the processor, that the derived weight value is a valid weight value and, when it is established that the derived weight value is a valid weight value, the weighing unit is then fed with a new object.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2015Publication date: December 17, 2015Applicant: FRANCOTYP-POSTALIA GMBHInventors: Axel Kieser, Volker Baum, Andreas Blume, Karsten Von der Waydbrink
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Publication number: 20140002080Abstract: The invention relates to magnetic resonance imaging in the vicinity of a metallic object (like, for instance, a metal implant) where severe spatial perturbations of the static magnetic field occur. In order to suppress the back-folding of distant off-resonant signals into the region of interest, the imaging volume is spatially restricted by means of selection gradients applied concurrently with the excitation and the refocusing RF pulses in a spin echo sequence. The selection gradient applied during the excitation pulse has an amplitude and/or a polarity different from that of the selection gradient applied during the refocusing pulse so that the respectively selected slices in an off-resonance frequency versus spatial coordinate diagram become tilted with respect to one another. The applied imaging technique may of the SEMAC or MAVRIC type and may incorporate compressed sensing, parallel imaging, fat suppression and/or SVD-based noise reduction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2012Publication date: January 2, 2014Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Johan Michell Den Harder, Clemens Bos, Ulrike Andrea Blume