Patents by Inventor Hans-Juergen Dobschal

Hans-Juergen Dobschal 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: 8467132
    Abstract: A display device including a holding device that can be placed on the head of a user, an image generating module fixed to the holding device and generating an image, and a multifunction glass that is fixed to the holding device and has a coupling in area and a coupling out area. The image produced is coupled into the multifunction glass via the coupling in area, guided in the multifunction glass to the coupling in area, and extracted via the coupling out area, in such a way that the user can perceive the coupled out image superimposed on the surroundings when the holding device is placed on the head of the user. The coupling in area has a Fresnel structure causing a folding of the beam path when the image is injected into the multifunction glass, said structure having an imaging property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss AG
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen Dobschal, Guenter Rudolph, Karsten Lindig
  • Patent number: 8456744
    Abstract: A beam combiner for combining a first beam cluster with a second beam cluster that is not parallel to the first, to form a common beam cluster. The beam combiner includes a transparent body for the first beam cluster, which has a superimposition region that is encountered by the first beam cluster as it passes through the body. The superimposition region is split into a first section and a second section. Only the first section formed from interspaced reflective and/or refractive deflection elements causes a deflection of the second beam cluster by reflection and/or refraction, such that the first beam cluster forms the common beam cluster with the deflected second beam cluster once it has left the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss AG
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen Dobschal, Guenter Rudolph, Karsten Lindig
  • Patent number: 8405904
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for superimposing an image in the beam path of an aiming optics, having an at least partially transparent optical support element which is arranged in the beam path of the aiming optics and has at least one diffractive optical coupling element and at least one diffractive optical decoupling element, the at least one diffractive optical coupling element leading light of the image to be superimposed, which light is incident on said coupling element and is to be coupled in, through the optical support element to the at least one diffractive optical decoupling element for the purpose of superimposition with the beam path. The image to be superimposed is imaged into the beam path of the aiming optics by the at least one diffractive optical coupling element and the least one diffractive optical decoupling element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignees: Carl Zeiss Sports Optics GmbH, Carl Zeiss AG
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen Dobschal, Guenter Rudolph, Eva-Maria Menzel, Christian Sinn, Karsten Lindig, Thomas Wagner
  • Publication number: 20120218547
    Abstract: Laser scanning microscope or spectral detector having a detection beam path and first imaging optics which image spectrally dispersed sample light in a Fourier plane such that the individual spectral components of the sample light are spatially separated from one another therein. A micromirror arrangement is provided in this plane, and a spectrally selective change in direction of the detection beam is carried out by controlling the micromirrors, where a useful light component of the detection beam arrives on a detector. At least one second micromirror arrangement and a 1:1 imaging of the first micromirror arrangement in the second micromirror arrangement is provided. Alternatively, the same micromirror arrangement is passed at least twice, where, in the light path between the first pass and second pass, a spatial offset of the light beam of at least the first pass and second pass is generated on the micromirror arrangement by optical means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2010
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Inventors: Jakow Konradi, Daniel Schwedt, Enrico Geissler, Günter Rudolph, Hans-Jürgen Dobschal
  • Patent number: 8098374
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a highly sensitive spectrum analysis unit with a diffraction grating, wherein a parallel light bundle having a wavelength range impinges on a diffraction grating which splits the different wavelengths into spectra by diffraction in first directions, and wavelength partial ranges of the spectrally split light bundle can be focused on a detector row by means of camera optics, and evaluation electronics are connected to the detector row and acquire the generated spectrum as information and display it. The invention is characterized in that the light bundle passes a first optical element, and then wavelength partial ranges of a spectrally split light bundle impinge on respective partial regions of a diffraction grating, the diffraction grating having the same grating constant across all partial regions and a changing profile shape, the profile shapes generating different blaze wavelengths that lie in the respective wavelength partial ranges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Wolleschensky, Hans-Juergen Dobschal, Reinhard Steiner
  • Publication number: 20120002295
    Abstract: A display device including a holding device that can be placed on the head of a user, an image generating module fixed to the holding device and generating an image, and a multifunction glass that is fixed to the holding device and has a coupling in area and a coupling out area. The image produced is coupled into the multifunction glass via the coupling in area, guided in the multifunction glass to the coupling in area, and extracted via the coupling out area, in such a way that the user can perceive the coupled out image superimposed on the surroundings when the holding device is placed on the head of the user. The coupling in area has a Fresnel structure causing a folding of the beam path when the image is injected into the multifunction glass, said structure having an imaging property.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2010
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: CARL ZEISS AG
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen Dobschal, Guenter Rudolph, Karsten Lindig
  • Publication number: 20120001833
    Abstract: A display device has a holding device wearable on a user's head and holding a multifunctional glass that comprises a first and second coupling-out section and a coupling-in section, an image generation module that generates and couples an image into the multifunctional glass through the coupling-in section to the first coupling-out section redirecting the image in the direction of the user such that the user can perceive the image in superimposition with the real environment, a control unit for the image generation module, and a detector which is connected to the control unit and which measures the intensity of ambient light coupled through the first coupling-out section to the second coupling-out section and coupled out of the multifunctional glass through the second coupling-out section. The control unit controls the brightness of the image of the image generation module, the brightness controlled according to the intensity measured by the detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2009
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: CARL ZEISS AG
    Inventors: Karsten Lindig, Hans-Juergen Dobschal, Guenter Rudolph
  • Publication number: 20120002294
    Abstract: A beam combiner for combining a first beam cluster with a second beam cluster that is not parallel to the first, to form a common beam cluster. The beam combiner includes a transparent body for the first beam cluster, which has a superimposition region that is encountered by the first beam cluster as it passes through the body. The superimposition region is split into a first section and a second section. Only the first section formed from interspaced reflective and/or refractive deflection elements causes a deflection of the second beam cluster by reflection and/or refraction, such that the first beam cluster forms the common beam cluster with the deflected second beam cluster once it has left the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2010
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: CARL ZEISS AG
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen Dobschal, Guenter Rudolph, Karsten Lindig
  • Publication number: 20100321686
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a device for optical spectrometry, wherein the reference beam and the measuring beam between the deflector and the detector input, in particular between the deflector output and the detector or between a device connecting the optical paths and the detector exhibit the same (the identical) etendue and the same (the identical) optical axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2010
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicant: CARL ZEISS MICROIMAGING GMBH
    Inventors: Nico Correns, Felix Kerstan, Doris Jochmann, Werner Hoyme, Hans-Juergen Dobschal, Marcel Seeber, Lutz Freytag
  • Patent number: 7855831
    Abstract: A microscope objective including an front optical element, a plurality of optical elements spaced apart from the front element and from each other, as well as an adjusting unit. At least one of the optical elements can be displaced along the optical axis by the adjusting unit to adjust the focus of the objective. The focus of the objective is displaced relative to the front element along the optical axis and/or a temperature-induced imaging error of the objective is compensated for.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microlmaging GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Wolleschensky, Hans-Jürgen Dobschal
  • Patent number: 7852474
    Abstract: A spectral analytical unit for acting on a parallel light bundle having different wavelengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen Dobschal, Ralf Wolleschensky, Wolfgang Bathe, Joerg Steinert
  • Patent number: 7796329
    Abstract: A sighting device couples a sight mark into a viewing beam path and is especially for a handheld weapon (2), a bow or a pump gun. The sighting device includes an optical component (6) having a first optical coupling element (8) for coupling the sight mark from a sight mark source into the component (6) and having a second optical coupling element in the region of the viewing beam path for coupling the sight mark (14) out of the component (6) and into the viewing beam path. The second optical coupling element is configured as a diffractive structure (9). The optical component (6) is configured to be totally reflective for guiding the sight mark beam in the interior of the optical component and is at least partially transmissive for the viewing beam paths in the region of the viewing beam path. In this way, a compact and lightweight illuminated sight is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignees: Carl Zeiss AG, Carl Zeiss Sports Optics GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Jürgen Dobschal, Jörn Greif-Wüstenbecker, Stephan Albrecht
  • Publication number: 20100208341
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for fading an image into the beam path of an aiming optics, having an at least partially transparent optical support element which is arranged in the beam path of the aiming optics and has at least one diffractive optical coupling element and at least one diffractive optical decoupling element, the at least one diffractive optical coupling element leading light of the image to be faded in, which light is incident on said coupling element and is to be coupled in, through the optical support element to the at least one diffractive optical decoupling element for the purpose of superposition with the beam path. The image to be faded in is imaged into the beam path of the aiming optics by the at least one diffractive optical coupling element and the least one diffractive optical decoupling element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen Dobschal, Guenter Rudolph, Eva-Maria Menzel, Christian Sinn, Karsten Lindig, Thomas Wagner
  • Patent number: 7690787
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an arrangement by which the image field of the illumination components and irradiation components of ophthalmic instruments for diagnosis and therapy is improved. In the arrangement according to the invention, one or more diffractive optical elements is/are arranged additionally in the illumination beam path for deliberate shaping of the image plane in the eye to be irradiated. These diffractive optical elements can be located on the surface of other optical elements, swiveled into the illumination beam path, and their wavelength changed by filters. The image plane can be adapted to the spherical contour of the eye so that the projected characters and structures have a uniformly high image quality in the center and in the edge area of the eye. The present invention is applicable for variable illumination for diagnosis and treatment of the eye, in particular for irradiation of the eye lens and other parts of the eye such as the cornea or retina.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Ingo Koschmieder, Hans-Juergen Dobschal
  • Patent number: 7671822
    Abstract: The invention is directed to an optical unit for a head-up display comprising an image generator, a mirror and a cover plate which are arranged in a housing one behind the other in the direction of light propagation. The beam path is directed to a windshield. The invention is wherein that the mirror is a rear-surface mirror whose reflection surface has a light-bundling action. The rear-surface mirror has, in addition, a refractive action that can be generated by the refractive index of the mirror material and a material thickness which changes between the reflection surface and the transmissive surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Sypro Optics GmbH
    Inventor: Hans-Juergen Dobschal
  • Publication number: 20100007878
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a highly sensitive spectrum analysis unit with a diffraction grating, wherein a parallel light bundle having a wavelength range impinges on a diffraction grating which splits the different wavelengths into spectra by diffraction in first directions, and wavelength partial ranges of the spectrally split light bundle can be focused on a detector row by means of camera optics, and evaluation electronics are connected to the detector row and acquire the generated spectrum as information and display it. The invention is characterized in that the light bundle passes a first optical element, and then wavelength partial ranges of a spectrally split light bundle impinge on respective partial regions of a diffraction grating, the diffraction grating having the same grating constant across all partial regions and a changing profile shape, the profile shapes generating different blaze wavelengths that lie in the respective wavelength partial ranges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2007
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Inventors: Ralf Wolleschensky, Hans-Juergen Dobschal, Reinhard Steiner
  • Patent number: 7561338
    Abstract: A microscope objective system including an objective, which includes an illumination beam path via which illumination radiation from a source is directed onto an object to be examined, as well as a partial detection beam path surrounding at least part of the illumination beam path and, together with the illumination beam path, forms a detection beam path via which radiation to be detected and coming from the sample is guided towards a detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Wolleschensky, Hans-Jürgen Dobschal, Robert Brunner
  • Patent number: 7525115
    Abstract: Apparatus for inspecting objects especially masks in microlithography that are disposed in a vacuum chamber. The apparatus includes a converter for converting illuminating radiation emitted from the object into a radiation of a higher wavelength. A sensor for recording images is disposed outside the vacuum chamber and arranged as an optical interface from the vacuum chamber to the sensor of the converter or at least one part of an image lens is arranged as a window in the vacuum chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMS GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen Dobschal, Wolfgang Harnisch, Thomas Scheruebl, Nobert Rosenkranz, Ralph Semmler
  • Patent number: 7298557
    Abstract: The invention is directed is directed to a projection unit for a head-up display having an image generator, a mirror and a refractive lens which are arranged in a housing one behind the other in the light propagation direction. The beam path is directed to a windshield. Notably the mirror has a concave reflection surface, and the lens has a free-form surface at lease on one of the optically active surfaces (D-U and/or D-O).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2007
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen Dobschal, Dirk Jahn
  • Publication number: 20070242268
    Abstract: A spectral analytical unit for acting on a parallel light bundle having different wavelengths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2007
    Publication date: October 18, 2007
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen Dobschal, Ralf Wolleschensky, Wolfgang Bathe, Joerg Steinert