Patents by Inventor Ingmar Bruder

Ingmar Bruder 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).

  • Publication number: 20180249051
    Abstract: A camera (110) for recording at least one image of at least one object (112) is proposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Applicant: trinamiX GmbH
    Inventors: Robert SEND, Ingmar BRUDER, Stephan IRLE, Erwin THIEL
  • Publication number: 20180238993
    Abstract: A detector (110) for determining a position of at least one object (118) is disclosed. The detector (110) comprises: at least one optical sensor (112), the optical sensor (112) being adapted to detect a light beam (150) traveling from the object (118) towards the detector (110), the optical sensor (112) having at least one matrix (152) of pixels (154); and at least one evaluation device (126), the evaluation device (126) being adapted for determining an intensity distribution of pixels (154) of the optical sensor (112) which are illuminated by the light beam (150), the evaluation device (126) further being adapted for determining at least one longitudinal coordinate of the object (118) by using the intensity distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Robert Send, Ingmar Bruder, Stephan Irle, Erwin Thiel
  • Publication number: 20180210064
    Abstract: A detector (110) for determining a position of at least one object (118) is proposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Applicant: trinamiX GmbH
    Inventors: Robert SEND, Ingmar BRUDER, Sebastian VALOUCH
  • Patent number: 10012532
    Abstract: An optical detector (110) is disclosed, the optical detector (110) comprising: at least one spatial light modulator (114) being adapted to modify at least one property of a light beam (136) in a spatially resolved fashion, having a matrix (132) of pixels (134), each pixel (134) being controllable to individually modify the at least one optical property of a portion of the light beam (136) passing the pixel (134); at least one optical sensor (116) adapted to detect the light beam (136) after passing the matrix (132) of pixels (134) of the spatial light modulator (114) and to generate at least one sensor signal; at least one modulator device (118) adapted for periodically controlling at least two of the pixels (134) with different modulation frequencies; and at least one evaluation device (120) adapted for performing a frequency analysis in order to determine signal components of the sensor signal for the modulation frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Robert Send, Ingmar Bruder, Stephan Irle, Erwin Thiel, Henrike Wonneberger
  • Patent number: 9989623
    Abstract: A detector for determining a position of at least one object. The detector includes: at least one optical sensor configured to detect a light beam traveling from the object towards the detector, the optical sensor including at least one matrix of pixels; and at least one evaluation device configured to determine an intensity distribution of pixels of the optical sensor that are illuminated by the light beam, the evaluation device further configured to determine at least one longitudinal coordinate of the object by using the intensity distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Robert Send, Ingmar Bruder, Stephan Irle, Erwin Thiel
  • Publication number: 20180136319
    Abstract: A detector for an optical detection of an object, including: a longitudinal optical sensor having a sensor region and designed to generate a longitudinal sensor signal in a manner dependent on an illumination of the sensor region by a light beam, where the longitudinal sensor signal, given the same total power of the illumination, exhibits a dependency on a beam cross-section of the light beam in the sensor region, and is generated by a semiconducting material contained in the sensor region, where a high-resistive material is present at a part of a surface of the semiconducting material, where the high-resistive material exhibits an electrical resistance which equals or exceeds the electrical resistance of the semiconducting material; and an evaluation device, where the evaluation device is designed to generate an item of information on a longitudinal position of the object by evaluating the longitudinal sensor signal of the longitudinal optical sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2016
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Applicant: trinamiX GmbH
    Inventors: Robert SEND, Ingmar BRUDER, Sebastian VALOUCH
  • Patent number: 9958535
    Abstract: A detector (118) for determining a position of at least one object (112) is disclosed, the detector (118) comprising: at least one longitudinal optical sensor (120), wherein the longitudinal optical sensor (120) has at least one sensor region (124), wherein the longitudinal optical sensor (120) is at least partially transparent, wherein the longitudinal optical sensor (120) is designed to generate at least one longitudinal sensor signal in a manner dependent on an illumination of the sensor region (124) by at least one light beam (126) traveling from the object (112) to the detector (118), wherein the longitudinal sensor signal, given the same total power of the illumination, is dependent on a beam cross-section of the light beam (126) in the sensor region (124); at least one illumination source (114) adapted to illuminate the object (112) with illumination light (115) through the longitudinal optical sensor (120); and at least one evaluation device (136), wherein the evaluation device (136) is designed to
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Robert Send, Ingmar Bruder, Erwin Thiel, Stephan Irle
  • Publication number: 20180067213
    Abstract: A detector for optical detection of an object contains a modulation device generating at least one modulated light beam from the object to the detector; a longitudinal optical sensor having at least one sensor region and designed to generate at least one longitudinal sensor signal depending on an illumination of the sensor region by the modulated light beam; and an evaluation device designed to generate at least one item of information on a longitudinal position of the object. The longitudinal sensor signal contains a first component, which depends on a response of the longitudinal optical sensor to a variation of the modulation of the modulated light beam, and a second component, which depends on the total power of the illumination. The item of information is generated by deriving the first component and the second component from the longitudinal sensor signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Robert SEND, Ingmar BRUDER, Sebastian VALOUCH, Stephan IRLE, Erwin THIEL
  • Publication number: 20180031672
    Abstract: A detector (110) for determining a position of at least one object (118) is disclosed. The detector (110) comprises: at least one optical sensor (112), the optical sensor (112) being adapted to detect a light beam (150) traveling from the object (118) towards the detector (110), the optical sensor (112) having at least one matrix (152) of pixels (154); and at least one evaluation device (126), the evaluation device (126) being adapted to determine a number N of pixels (154) of the optical sensor (112) which are illuminated by the light beam (150), the evaluation device (126) further being adapted to determine at least one longitudinal coordinate of the object (118) by using the number N of pixels (154) which are illuminated by the light beam (150).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Ingmar BRUDER, Erwin Thiel, Stephan Irle, Robert Send
  • Publication number: 20180017679
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a detector (110) containing: at least one longitudinal optical sensor (114), wherein the longitudinal optical sensor (114); and at least one evaluation device (140), wherein the evaluation device (140) is designed to generate at least one item of information on a longitudinal position of the object (112) by evaluating the longitudinal sensor signal of the longitudinal optical sensor (114). Also disclosed herein are articles containing the detector (110), and methods for optical detection of objects using the detector (110).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: Trinamix GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastian VALOUCH, Ingmar BRUDER, Robert SEND, Christoph LUNGENSCHMIED, Wilfried HERMES, Erwin THIEL, Stephan IRLE
  • Patent number: 9865823
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrode layer comprising a porous film made of oxide semiconductor fine particles sensitized with a quinolinium dye having a fluorinated counteranion. Moreover the present invention relates to a photoelectric conversion device comprising said electrode layer, a dye sensitized solar cell comprising said photoelectric conversion device and to novel quinolinium dyes having a fluorinated counteranion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Robert Send, Ingmar Bruder, Peter Erk, Ruediger Sens, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Hitoshi Yamato, Shinji Nakamichi, Ryuichi Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20180003993
    Abstract: A detector (110) for an optical detection of at least one object (112) is proposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Robert SEND, Ingmar BRUDER, Sebastian VALOUCH, Stephan IRLE, Erwin THIEL
  • Publication number: 20180007343
    Abstract: An optical detector (110) is disclosed, comprising: at least one optical sensor (122) adapted to detect a light beam (116) and to generate at least one sensor signal, wherein the optical sensor (122) has at least one sensor region (126), wherein the sensor signal of the optical sensor (122) is dependent on an illumination of the sensor region (126) by the light beam (116), wherein the sensor signal, given the same total power of the illumination, is dependent on a width of the light beam (116) in the sensor region (126); at least one focus-tunable lens (130) located in at least one beam path (132) of the light beam (116), the focus-tunable lens (130) being adapted to modify a focal position of the light beam (116) in a controlled fashion; at least one focus-modulation device (136) adapted to provide at least one focus-modulating signal (138) to the focus-tunable lens (130), thereby modulating the focal position; and at least one evaluation device (140), the evaluation device (140) being adapted to evaluate th
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Robert SEND, Ingmar BRUDER, Sebastian VALOUCH, Stephan IRLE, Erwin THIEL, Christoph LUNGENSCHMIED
  • Publication number: 20170363741
    Abstract: A method of controlling pixels (134) of at least one spatial light modulator (114) is disclosed. The spatial light modulator (114) has a matrix of pixels (132). Each pixel (134) is individually controllable. The method comprises the following steps: receiving at least one image (331), (342); defining at least one image segment (333) within the image (331),(344); assigning at least one gray scale value to each image segment (333),(348); assigning at least one pixel (134) of the matrix of pixels (132) to each image segment (333),(350); assigning a unique modulation frequency to each gray scale value assigned to the at least one image segment (333),(352); controlling the at least one pixel (134) of the matrix of pixels (132) assigned to the at least one image segment (333) with the unique modulation frequency assigned to the respective image segment (333),(354).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Robert SEND, Ingmar BRUDER, Sebastian VALOUCH, Stephan IRLE, Erwin THIEL, Heiko HENGEN
  • Publication number: 20170363465
    Abstract: An optical detector(110) is disclosed, comprising: at least one optical sensor(122) adapted to detect a light beam(120) and to generate at least one sensor signal, wherein the optical sensor(122) has at least one sensor region(124), wherein the sensor signal of the optical sensor(122) exhibits a non-linear dependency on an illumination of the sensor region(124) by the light beam (120) with respect to a total power of the illumination; at least one image sensor(128) being a pixelated sensor comprising a pixel matrix(174) of image pixels(176), wherein the image pixels(176) are adapted to detect the light beam(120) and to generate at least one image signal, wherein the image signal exhibits a linear dependency on the illumination of the image pixels(176) by the light beam(1,6) with respect to the total power of the illumination; and at least one evaluation device(132), the evaluation device(132) being adapted to evaluate the sensor signal and the image signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Robert SEND, Ingmar BRUDER, Sebastian VALOUCH, Stephan IRLE, Erwin THIEL
  • Patent number: 9831042
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of general formula I wherein R100 and R200 are each independently hydrogen, C1-C10-alkyl which in case of C2-alkyl may be interrupted by one and in case of C3-C10-alkyl by one or two nonadjacent oxygen atoms, C5-C7-cycloalkyl, aryl, aryl-C1-C10-alkyl or aryloxy-C1-C10-alkyl, D is an m-valent (m=1, 2 or 3) donor moiety which comprises at least one carbon-carbon or carbon-heteroatom double bond and/or at least one unfused or fused carbo- or heterocyclic ring, A is an acceptor moiety which comprises at least one carbon-carbon or carbon-heteroatom double bond and/or at least one unfused or fused carbo- or heterocyclic ring, and the donor moiety D and the acceptor moiety A are ?-conjugated to one another. Furthermore, the present invention relates to the use of compounds of formula I for producing dye-sensitized solar cells and to dye-sensitized solar cells comprising compounds of formula I.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Ingmar Bruder, Robert Send, Simona Urnikaite, Tadas Malinauskas, Maryte Daskeviciene, Vytautas Getautis
  • Patent number: 9829564
    Abstract: A detector (110) for determining a position of at least one object (118) is disclosed. The detector (110) comprises: at least one optical sensor (112), the optical sensor (112) being adapted to detect a light beam (150) traveling from the object (118) towards the detector (110), the optical sensor (112) having at least one matrix (152) of pixels (154); and at least one evaluation device (126), the evaluation device (126) being adapted to determine a number N of pixels (154) of the optical sensor (112) which are illuminated by the light beam (150), the evaluation device (126) further being adapted to determine at least one longitudinal coordinate of the object (118) by using the number N of pixels (154) which are illuminated by the light beam (150).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Ingmar Bruder, Erwin Thiel, Stephan Irle, Robert Send
  • Patent number: 9741954
    Abstract: An optical detector (110) is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Ingmar Bruder, Robert Send, Stephan Irle, Erwin Thiel
  • Publication number: 20170237926
    Abstract: An optical detector (110) is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Ingmar BRUDER, Robert SEND, Stephan IRLE, Erwin THIEL
  • Publication number: 20170219694
    Abstract: A detector (118) for determining a position of at least one object (112) is disclosed, the detector (118) comprising: at least one longitudinal optical sensor (120), wherein the longitudinal optical sensor (120) has at least one sensor region (124), wherein the longitudinal optical sensor (120) is at least partially transparent, wherein the longitudinal optical sensor (120) is designed to generate at least one longitudinal sensor signal in a manner dependent on an illumination of the sensor region (124) by at least one light beam (126) traveling from the object (112) to the detector (118), wherein the longitudinal sensor signal, given the same total power of the illumination, is dependent on a beam cross-section of the light beam (126) in the sensor region (124); at least one illumination source (114) adapted to illuminate the object (112) with illumination light (115) through the longitudinal optical sensor (120); and at least one evaluation device (136), wherein the evaluation device (136) is designed to
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Robert SEND, Ingmar BRUDER, Erwin THIEL, Stephan IRLE