Patents by Inventor Daniel Günther

Daniel Günther 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: 11025871
    Abstract: A driver for powering a pulsed light source of a scanning projector display is configured to provide a succession of powering electric pulses to the light source. Duration of the powering electric pulses is less than a pixel time interval during which a scanner of the projector display is directing the light beam to form a corresponding pixel of the image to be displayed. The amplitude of the powering electric pulses is proportionally higher, such that the light pulse has a pulse energy similar to the light energy provided by the light source when continuously driven through the pixel time interval. This enables the light source to be operated at a steeper portion of the electro-optical transfer curve, thereby improving the wall plug efficiency of the scanning projector display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ziv Magoz, James Laudolff, Daniel Guenther Greif, Scott Charles McEldowney
  • Publication number: 20210109343
    Abstract: A scanning projector for a display apparatus includes a first scanning reflector configured to steer a light beam in a first plane, a second scanning reflector configured to steer the light beam received from the first scanning reflector in a second plane, and beam relay optics configured to relay a first pupil defined at the first scanning reflector to a second pupil defined at the second scanning reflector, and to relay the second pupil to an output pupil of the scanning projector. The beam relay optics may include a concave reflector and a polarization beam splitter coupled to a scanning reflector in a triple pass configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Weichuan Gao, Brian Wheelwright, Maxwell Parsons, Daniel Guenther Greif, Scott Charles McEldowney
  • Publication number: 20210107227
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a device for producing three-dimensional models, wherein binding/bonding material is applied in layers to a building platform and media are selectively applied which delay or completely prevent the binding of the applied material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Ingo Ederer, Daniel Günther, Florian Mögele
  • Patent number: 10946556
    Abstract: The invention relates to a casting mold, in particular for use in cold casting methods, which is produced with the aid of a powder-based layering method, the final casting mold having a treated surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: VOXELJET AG
    Inventors: Ingo Ederer, Daniel Günther, Anton Gruber
  • Patent number: 10939080
    Abstract: A controller for a tiltable MEMS reflector is configured to oscillate the reflector about X axis or about X and Y axes, and to obtain information about current and past tilt angles. The controller is configured to evaluate tilt angles of the tiltable MEMS reflector at a later moment of time based on the previously obtained information about the tilt angles of the tiltable MEMS reflector at the different earlier moments of time. The controller may be further configured to energize the light source providing a light beam to the tiltable MEMS reflector at the later moment of time with brightness and color corresponding to the brightness and color of a pixel that will be painted by the tiltable MEMS reflector at the later moment of time. A statistical model may be combined with machine learning to accurately predict future tilt angles of the tiltable MEMS reflector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Guenther Greif, James Laudolff, Ziv Magoz, Stephen John Holmes, Taha Masood, Scott Charles McEldowney, Jonathan Robert Peterson
  • Patent number: 10913207
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a device for producing three-dimensional models, wherein binding/bonding material is applied in layers to a building platform and media are selectively applied which delay or completely prevent the binding of the applied material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: VOXELJET AG
    Inventors: Ingo Ederer, Daniel Günther, Florian Mögele
  • Publication number: 20210016500
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method, a device, a binder system, and a material system for producing components using layering technology, wherein the temperature in the building space and/or in the applied material is set to at least 70° C. and maintained for at least 2 hours. Areas on which binder has been selectively applied, solidify and form the component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Daniel Günther, Florian Mögele
  • Patent number: 10889055
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device, a special paper and a method for producing three-dimensional objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: VOXELJET AG
    Inventors: Daniel Günther, Ingo Ederer
  • Publication number: 20200406602
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method, a device and a binding agent system for producing three-dimensional models.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Ingo Ederer, Daniel Günther, Ulrich Recknagel, Florian Mögele
  • Publication number: 20200404228
    Abstract: A scanning projector display includes a light engine comprising N emitters coupled to a collimator for providing a fan of N light beams of variable optical power levels, where N>1. The N emitters are spaced apart from each other such that pixels of the image simultaneously energized by neighboring ones of the N emitters are non-adjacent. A scanner receives and angularly scans the fan of N light beams about first and second non-parallel axes to provide an image in angular domain. A controller coupled to the scanner and the light engine causes the scanner to simultaneously scan the fan of N light beams about the first and second axes, and cause the light engine to vary the optical power levels of the N emitters with time delays such that adjacent pixels of the image are energized by different ones of the N emitters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Daniel Guenther Greif, James Laudolff
  • Patent number: 10843404
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method, a device, a binder system, and a material system for producing components using layering technology, wherein the temperature in the building space and/or in the applied material is set to at least 70° C. and maintained for at least 2 hours. Areas on which binder has been selectively applied, solidify and form the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: VOXELJET AG
    Inventors: Daniel Günther, Florian Mögele
  • Publication number: 20200314395
    Abstract: A controller for a tiltable MEMS reflector is configured to oscillate the reflector about X axis or about X and Y axes, and to obtain information about current and past tilt angles. The controller is configured to evaluate tilt angles of the tiltable MEMS reflector at a later moment of time based on the previously obtained information about the tilt angles of the tiltable MEMS reflector at the different earlier moments of time. The controller may be further configured to energize the light source providing a light beam to the tiltable MEMS reflector at the later moment of time with brightness and color corresponding to the brightness and color of a pixel that will be painted by the tiltable MEMS reflector at the later moment of time. A statistical model may be combined with machine learning to accurately predict future tilt angles of the tiltable MEMS reflector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Daniel Guenther Greif, James Laudolff, Ziv Magoz, Stephen John Holmes, Taha Masood, Scott Charles McEldowney, Jonathan Robert Peterson
  • Publication number: 20200310122
    Abstract: A light source includes a first set of source elements and a second set of source elements. A respective set of source elements is disposed on a respective substrate and electrically coupled to a respective set of circuit pads formed on a respective top surface of the respective substrate by respective bond wires. At least a portion of the respective top surfaces face each other and are spaced apart from each other to accommodate at least some of the first set of source elements, at least some of the second set of source elements, and at least some of the bond wires. The display device that includes a light source configured to output image light, an optical assembly configured to collimate the image light, a scanning assembly configured to steer the image light, and an output device configured to output the image light for displaying images is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Wanli CHI, Chadwick Brian MARTIN, Scott Charles MCELDOWNEY, Maxwell PARSONS, Stephen James MCNALLY, Daniel Guenther GREIF
  • Publication number: 20200310120
    Abstract: A light source or projector for a near-eye display includes a light source subassembly optically coupled to a waveguide concentrator. The light source subassembly may include several semiconductor chips each hosting an array of emitters such s superluminescent light-emitting diodes. The semiconductor chips may be disposed side-by-side, with their emitting sides or facets coupled to the waveguide concentrator, which provides a tight array of output light ports on a common output plane of the concentrator. The output diverging beams at the array of output light ports are coupled to a collimator, which collimates the beams and couples them to an angular scanner for scanning the collimated light beams together across the field of view of the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Daniel Guenther Grief, Scott Charles McEldowney, Stephen John Holmes, Chadwick Brian Martin, Stephen James McNally, John Goward
  • Patent number: 10786945
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method, a device and a binding agent system for producing three-dimensional models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: VOXELJET AG
    Inventors: Ingo Ederer, Daniel Günther, Ulrich Recknagel, Florian Mögele
  • Publication number: 20200262141
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for producing three-dimensional models by layering in a high-speed sintering process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Ingo Ederer, Daniel Günther, Johannes Günther, Christoph Scheck
  • Patent number: 10682809
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for producing three-dimensional models by layering in a high-speed sintering process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: VOXELJET AG
    Inventors: Ingo Ederer, Daniel Günther, Johannes Günther, Christoph Scheck
  • Patent number: 10639715
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a device for producing three-dimensional objects based on computer-provided data. Material is extruded on a surface of a workpiece (e.g., in two-dimensions). The workpiece is then moved incrementally so that additional material can be extruded on the new surface of the work piece. These steps are repeated until the 3-dimensional object is completed. The present invention also relates to a device including an extruder system for extruding a build material in multiple directions on a surface of a workpiece, and a conveying component for moving the workpiece incrementally for extruding additional material on the new surface. The method and device preferably allows for the continuous construction of three-dimensional objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: VOXELJET AG
    Inventors: Ingo Ederer, Daniel Günther, Andreas Dominik Hartmann
  • Publication number: 20200130263
    Abstract: A process and an apparatus for producing 3D moldings, wherein a spectrum converter is used. Said converter is defined as a means which absorbs a radiation, for example electromagnetic thermal radiation, and radiates or emits one or more defined wavelength ranges; the spectrum converter is here irradiated by an emitter of an electromagnetic thermal radiation (shortwave or longwave radiation), i.e.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Daniel Günther, Christoph Scheck, Imre Bardos
  • Patent number: 10589460
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing three-dimensional objects based on computer data by repeated application in layers of a medium containing particulate material and selective solidification of the medium, whereby a feedstock made of medium in a build space is provided and a layer application of the medium takes place on a surface of the feedstock bordering the build space at an angle ? and a solidification according to computer data occurs by use of a solidification unit, characterized in that the feedstock is not moved during build-up of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: VOXELJET AG
    Inventors: Johannes Günther, Daniel Günther, Andreas Hartmann