Patents by Inventor Andreas Kantwerg

Andreas Kantwerg 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).

  • Microscope system with a beam hub unit having a beam multiplexer for alternatively selecting beam ports
    Patent number: 7423806
    Abstract: A microscope system having an objective lens (10) defining a central optical axis (14) of the microscope system; an optical beam hub unit (18, 20) having a center coinciding with the central optical axis, a plurality of optical beam ports (24, 26, 30, 32; 214) arranged radially around the central optical axis, a beam multiplexer system (22, 28, 222) arranged in the center of the hub unit, and a device for rotating the beam multiplexer system around the central optical axis for alternatively selecting at least one of the beam ports. The beam ports include at least two elements selected any one of input ports, output ports and dual input/output ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2008
    Assignee: Till I.D. GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Uhl, Andreas Kantwerg
  • Microscope system with beam hub unit having beam multiplexer for alternatively selecting beam ports
    Publication number: 20060181766
    Abstract: A microscope system having an objective lens (10) defining a central optical axis (14) of the microscope system; an optical beam hub unit (18, 20) having a center coinciding with the central optical axis, a plurality of optical beam ports (24, 26, 30, 32; 214) arranged radially around the central optical axis, a beam multiplexer system (22, 28, 222) arranged in the center of the hub unit, and a device for rotating the beam multiplexer system around the central optical axis for alternatively selecting at least one of the beam ports. The beam ports include at least two elements selected any one of input ports, output ports and dual input/output ports.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2004
    Publication date: August 17, 2006
    Applicant: TILL I.D. GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Uhl, Andreas Kantwerg