Patents by Inventor Harmut GIMPEL

Harmut GIMPEL 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: 11313954
    Abstract: An optoelectronic sensor for detecting three-dimensional image data from a monitored zone is provided that has an illumination unit for illuminating the monitored zone with modulated transmitted light, a light receiver for a simultaneous light reception of the transmitted light remitted by objects in the monitored zone at at least two locations at a mutual distance corresponding to a first resolution pattern, and a control and illumination unit that is configured to determine times of flight from properties of the modulated and remitted transmitted light and to detect three-dimensional data in a second resolution pattern finer than the first resolution pattern by at least one measurement repetition with a light reception from at least two other locations shifted with respect to the first resolution pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: SICK AG
    Inventors: Martin Marra, Harmut Gimpel
  • Publication number: 20190376782
    Abstract: An optoelectronic sensor for detecting three-dimensional image data from a monitored zone is provided that has an illumination unit for illuminating the monitored zone with modulated transmitted light, a light receiver for a simultaneous light reception of the transmitted light remitted by objects in the monitored zone at at least two locations at a mutual distance corresponding to a first resolution pattern, and a control and illumination unit that is configured to determine times of flight from properties of the modulated and remitted transmitted light and to detect three-dimensional data in a second resolution pattern finer than the first resolution pattern by at least one measurement repetition with a light reception from at least two other locations shifted with respect to the first resolution pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: Martin MARRA, Harmut GIMPEL
  • Publication number: 20190120962
    Abstract: A transmission/reception module for an optoelectronic sensor is provided that has a light transmitter having a transmission optics and that has a light receiver having a reception optics, wherein an irradiation angle of transmitted light of the light transmitter is smaller than a reception angle of received light incident on the light receiver; the light transmitter and the light receiver are arranged coaxially; and the transmission optics and the reception optics are formed as a common optics. The light transmitter and the light receiver are here indirectly micromechanically connected to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Harmut GIMPEL, Gottfried HUG