Patents by Inventor Anton Kasenbacher
Anton Kasenbacher 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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Publication number: 20150257827Abstract: The disclosure relates to a laser beam aligning unit comprising an outer sleeve and an inner sleeve arranged inside the outer sleeve such that a laser beam may be guided through an inner chamber thereof in a direction of an area of material to be treated. A laser treatment device may comprise the laser beam aligning unit and/or a distribution device for distributing an ectoine solution.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2015Publication date: September 17, 2015Inventor: Anton Kasenbacher
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Publication number: 20120232542Abstract: The disclosure relates to a laser beam aligning unit comprising an outer sleeve and an inner sleeve arranged inside the outer sleeve such that a laser beam may be guided through an inner chamber thereof in a direction of an area of material to be treated. A laser treatment device may comprise the laser beam aligning unit and/or a distribution device for distributing an ectoine solution.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2012Publication date: September 13, 2012Applicant: Lumera Laser GmbHInventor: Anton Kasenbacher
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Publication number: 20120202167Abstract: Device and method for lasering biological tissue. In a general aspect, the device for lasering a biological tissue may include a source configured to provide a pulsed laser beam, an outcoupler configured to couple the laser beam towards the tissue, and an outfeeder configured to feed a photosensitizer in a direction of the tissue where the outfeeder is connected to the outcoupler. In another general aspect, a method for lasering a biological tissue may include applying a photosensitizer towards the tissue, providing a pulsed laser beam, and lasering a site of the tissue with the pulsed laser beam where the laser beam is emitted with a temporal width at a half maximum range from about 1 ps to about 100 ps.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2012Publication date: August 9, 2012Applicants: LUMERA LASER GMBHInventor: Anton KASENBACHER
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Publication number: 20120015318Abstract: A method for material processing and laser processing device for material processing. The laser machining device has a laser beam source to provide a pulsed processing laser beam, a laser beam aligning unit to output couple the laser beam in the direction toward a area of material to be machined, and an emission device to emit a photosensitizer in the direction toward a surrounding area of the area of the material to be machined, wherein the emission device is connected to the aligning unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2011Publication date: January 19, 2012Applicants: Dr. Anton Kasenbacher, Lumera Laser GmbHInventor: Anton KASENBACHER
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Publication number: 20110300504Abstract: Method and laser processing device to process tissue. In a general aspect, the method to process tissue may include applying a photosensitizer into an area surrounding a region of the tissue to be processed, and irradiating the region of the tissue to be processed with the pulsed processing laser beam, the laser beam emitting laser pulses with a temporal full width at half maximum in a range between about 100 femtosecond and about 1 nanosecond. In another general aspect, the laser processing device to process tissue may include a laser radiation source to provide a pulsed processing laser beam providing emitting laser pulses, a laser beam decoupling unit to decouple the laser beam towards a region of the tissue to be processed, and an output device to output a photosensitizer in a direction of an area surrounding the region of the tissue to be processed, the output device being connected to the decoupling unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2011Publication date: December 8, 2011Applicants: Lumera Laser GmbHInventor: Anton KASENBACHER
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Publication number: 20110236850Abstract: Device and method for lasering biological tissue. In a general aspect, the device for lasering a biological tissue may include a source configured to provide a pulsed laser beam, an outcoupler configured to couple the laser beam towards the tissue, and an outfeeder configured to feed a photosensitizer in a direction of the tissue where the outfeeder is connected to the outcoupler. In another general aspect, a method for lasering a biological tissue may include applying a photosensitizer towards the tissue, providing a pulsed laser beam, and lasering a site of the tissue with the pulsed laser beam where the laser beam is emitted with a temporal width at a half maximum range from about 1 ps to about 100 ps.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2011Publication date: September 29, 2011Applicants: Lumera Laser GmbH, Dr. Anton KasenbacherInventor: Anton Kasenbacher
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Publication number: 20110183283Abstract: Described are a handpiece, a coupling, and a device with a laser source and handpiece for emitting a laser beam for dental treatment. In order to avoid damage to the healthy tooth tissue, an improved determination of the tooth temperature by measurement of at least part of the heat radiation emitted from the treatment area using a temperature sensor, preferably an infra-red sensor, is carried out. Upon reaching or exceeding a temperature threshold, the emission of the laser beam to the treatment area is interrupted or the power output of the laser source reduced or the user made aware of the violation of the threshold value using an acoustic or visual signal. The temperature sensor can be located, e.g., on the handpiece or on the coupling, such as on the coupling tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2011Publication date: July 28, 2011Inventors: Martin Strassl, Anton Kasenbacher
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Patent number: 7931645Abstract: Described are a handpiece, a coupling, and a device with a laser source and handpiece for emitting a laser beam for dental treatment. In order to avoid damage to the healthy tooth tissue, an improved determination of the tooth temperature by measurement of at least part of the heat radiation emitted from the treatment area using a temperature sensor, preferably an infra-red sensor, is carried out. Upon reaching or exceeding a temperature threshold, the emission of the laser beam to the treatment area is interrupted or the power output of the laser source reduced or the user made aware of the violation of the threshold value using an acoustic or visual signal. The temperature sensor can be located, e.g., on the handpiece or on the coupling, such as on the coupling tube.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2005Date of Patent: April 26, 2011Assignee: W&H Dentalwerk Bürmoos GmbHInventors: Martin Strassl, Anton Kasenbacher
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Publication number: 20110059415Abstract: A method of laser machining biological tissue including the provision of a pulsed processing laser beam and the processing of tissue by radiation using the pulsed processing laser beam, wherein the processing laser beam has a wavelength of the laser pulses ranging between 700 nm and 1400 nm, a time duration of the laser pulses ranging between 5 ps and 100 ps, and an energy density of the laser pulses on the surface of the tissue ranging between 1.5 J/cm2 and 7.5 J/cm2.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2010Publication date: March 10, 2011Applicant: Dr. Anton Kasenbacher and Lumera Laser GmbHInventor: Anton Kasenbacher
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Publication number: 20050245917Abstract: Described are a handpiece, a coupling, and a device with a laser source and handpiece for emitting a laser beam for dental treatment. In order to avoid damage to the healthy tooth tissue, an improved determination of the tooth temperature by measurement of at least part of the heat radiation emitted from the treatment area using a temperature sensor, preferably an infra-red sensor, is carried out. Upon reaching or exceeding a temperature threshold, the emission of the laser beam to the treatment area is interrupted or the power output of the laser source reduced or the user made aware of the violation of the threshold value using an acoustic or visual signal. The temperature sensor can be located, e.g., on the handpiece or on the coupling, such as on the coupling tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2005Publication date: November 3, 2005Inventors: Martin Strassl, Anton Kasenbacher
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Patent number: 6878145Abstract: Laser treatment appliance having an illumination system, in particular for use in the field of medicine, has a laser light source for producing a treatment laser beam which is guided essentially freely, as well as an illuminating light source for producing a visible light for illuminating an area to be treated, and one or more first optical elements via which the treatment laser beam is passed on, with at least one of the first optical elements being in the form of an optical multifunction element, such that the visible light for illumination is also steered at least over this at least one optical multifunction element. The laser treatment appliance furthermore has an optical evaluation apparatus for diagnosis or analysis of radiation which is produced during the treatment process, and all the optical multifunction elements are designed such that they influence the treatment laser beam and the visible illuminating light essentially in an equivalent reflecting and/or transmitting manner.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2002Date of Patent: April 12, 2005Assignee: W & H Dentalwerk Burmoos GmbHInventors: Wilhelm Brugger, Anton Kasenbacher, Mark Niemz, Martin Strassl
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Publication number: 20050033388Abstract: A medical laser treatment appliance which can be switched between a continuous wave (cw) operating mode and a pulsed operating mode and has at least one first laser light source for producing a cw laser beam, with the laser treatment appliance furthermore having a second laser light source for producing a pulsed laser beam, which is pumped by at least one first laser light sources, and the cw laser beam from at least one of first laser light sources is used for treatment in the cw operating mode, and the pulsed laser beam from the second laser light source is used for treatment in the pulsed operating mode, with the laser treatment appliance being designed such that the laser light source is also pumped continuously in the cw operating mode by at least one of the first laser light sources.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2001Publication date: February 10, 2005Inventors: Wilhelm Brugger, Anton Kasenbacher, Mark Niemz, Thorsten Bauer
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Publication number: 20040097910Abstract: Laser treatment appliance having an illumination system, in particular for use in the field of medicine, has a laser light source for producing a treatment laser beam which is guided essentially freely, as well as an illuminating light source for producing a visible light for illuminating an area to be treated, and one or more first optical elements via which the treatment laser beam is passed on, with at least one of the first optical elements being in the form of an optical multifunction element, such that the visible light for illumination is also steered at least over this at least one optical multifunction element. The laser treatment appliance furthermore has an optical evaluation apparatus for diagnosis or analysis of radiation which is produced during the treatment process, and all the optical multifunction elements are designed such that they influence the treatment laser beam and the visible illuminating light essentially in an equivalent reflecting and/or transmitting manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2003Publication date: May 20, 2004Inventors: Wilhelm Brugger, Anton Kasenbacher, Mark Niemz, Martin Strassl
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Publication number: 20030226831Abstract: The present invention relates to a laser processing apparatus for plasma-induced ablation having a laser light source for generating a processing laser beam, a focussing means for focussing the processing laser beam and an optical detection device for detecting the plasma radiation generated during an ablation, in which case the laser processing apparatus comprises an evaluation and/or control unit, the optical detection device being designed in such a way that it can output to the evaluation and/or control unit a signal dependent on the intensity of the detected plasma radiation, and the laser processing apparatus is designed in such a way that it can automatically be switched from a processing mode into a quiescent mode and/or from the quiescent mode into the processing mode, in a manner dependent on said signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2003Publication date: December 11, 2003Inventors: Martin Strassl, Harald Schorghofer, Anton Kasenbacher