Patents by Inventor Marco Wieland

Marco Wieland 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: 20070029507
    Abstract: The invention pertains to a maskless lithography system for transferring a pattern onto a surface of a target, comprising at least one beamlet optical unit for generating a plurality of beamlets, at least one measuring unit for measuring properties of each beamlet, at least one control unit for generating and delivering pattern data to said beamlet optical unit, said control unit being operationally coupled to said measuring unit for identifying invalid beamlets which have a measured property value outside a predefined range of values for said property at least one actuator for inducing a shift of said beamlet optical unit and said target with respect to one another, wherein said actuator is operationally coupled with said control unit, said control unit determining said shift, positioning valid beamlets at the position of said invalid beamlets, thus replacing said invalid beamlets with valid beamlets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2006
    Publication date: February 8, 2007
    Inventors: Stijn Karel Steenbrink, Pieter Kruit, Marco Wieland
  • Patent number: 7173263
    Abstract: A maskless lithography system for transferring a pattern onto the surface of a target. At least one beam generator generates a plurality of beamlets. A plurality of modulators modulate the magnitude of a beamlet, and a control unit controls each of the modulators. The control unit generates and delivers pattern data to the modulators for controlling the magnitude of each individual beamlet. The control unit includes at least one data storage for storing the pattern data, at least one readout unit for reading out the data from the data storage, at least one data converter for converting the data that is read out from the data storage into at least one modulated light beam, and at least one optical transmitter for transmitting the at least one modulated light beam to the modulation modulators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: Mapper Lighography IP B.V.
    Inventors: Jan-Jaco Marco Wieland, Johannes Christiaan van 't Spijker, Remco Jager, Pieter Kruit
  • Publication number: 20050266382
    Abstract: A dental device, in particular a one-piece dental implant, comprising an outer body made of metal; and an inner body made of plastic or composite, wherein the inner body comprises a core perfectly fitting into a cavity of the outer body, and a method for manufacturing a dental device, in particular a one-piece dental implant, comprising the following steps in any order: manufacturing an outer body of metal; and manufacturing an inner body of plastic or composite material; wherein the inner body comprises a core manufactured within a cavity of the outer body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2005
    Publication date: December 1, 2005
    Applicant: Straumann Holding AG
    Inventors: Christoph Soler, Ulrich Mundwiler, Marco Wieland
  • Publication number: 20050266380
    Abstract: A dental device, in particular a dental implant, comprising an outer body made of ceramic or metal; and an inner body made of metal or ceramic, provided that when the outer body is made of metal the inner body is made of ceramic and when the outer body is made of ceramic the inner body is made of metal, wherein the metal body is produced by metal injection molding and the ceramic body is produced by ceramic injection molding as well as to a method for manufacturing the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2005
    Publication date: December 1, 2005
    Inventors: Christoph Soler, Ulrich Mundwiler, Marco Wieland
  • Patent number: 6958804
    Abstract: A maskless lithography system for transferring a pattern onto the surface of a target. At least one beam generator for generating a plurality of beamlets. A plurality of modulators modulate the magnitude of a beamlet, and a control unit controls of the modulators. The control unit generates and delivers pattern data to the modulators for controlling the magnitude of each individual beamlet. The control unit includes at least one data storage for storing the pattern data, at least one readout unit for reading out the data from the data storage, at least one data converter for converting the data that is read out from the data storage into at least one modulated light beam, and at least one optical transmitter for transmitting the at least one modulated light beam to the modulation modulators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2005
    Assignee: Mapper Lithography IP B.V.
    Inventors: Jan-Jaco Marco Wieland, Johannes Christiaan van 't Spijker, Remco Jager, Pieter Kruit
  • Publication number: 20050211921
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electron beam exposure apparatus for transferring a pattern onto the surface of a target, comprising: a beamlet generator for generating a plurality of electron beamlets; a modulation array for receiving said plurality of electron beamlets, comprising a plurality of modulators for modulating the intensity of an electron beamlet; a controller, connected to the modulation array for individually controlling the modulators, an adjustor, operationally connected to each modulator, for individually adjusting the control signal of each modulator; a focusing electron optical system comprising an array of electrostatic lenses wherein each lens focuses a corresponding individual beamlet, which is transmitted by said modulation array, to a cross section smaller than 300 nm, and a target holder for holding a target with its exposure surface onto which the pattern is to be transferred in the first focal plane of the focusing electron optical system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2005
    Publication date: September 29, 2005
    Inventors: Marco Wieland, Bert Kampherbeek, Alexander Vincent van Veen, Pieter Kruit
  • Publication number: 20050161621
    Abstract: The invention relates to a charged-particle-optical system for a charged particle beam exposure apparatus, said system comprising: a first aperture means comprising at least a first substantially round aperture for partially shielding an emitted charged particle beam for forming a charged particle beamlet; a lens system comprising at least one lens for focussing a charged particle beamlet from said first aperture within or in the vicinity of an image focal plane of said lens; a deflector means, substantially located in said image focal plane, comprising at least one beamlet deflector for the deflection of a passing charged particle beamlet upon the reception of a control signal, and a second aperture means comprising at least one second substantially round aperture positioned in the conjugate plane of the first aperture, and said second aperture being aligned with said first aperture and said beamlet deflector for blocking said charged particle beamlet upon deflection by said beamlet deflector and to transmit
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2004
    Publication date: July 28, 2005
    Inventors: Marco Wieland, Pieter Kruit
  • Publication number: 20050113834
    Abstract: Implant (1) with a base body having at least one bone contact surface (K) and at least one soft tissue contact surface (W), characterized in that the soft tissue contact surface (W) and/or a transition area (U) from bone contact surface (K) to soft tissue contact surface (W) have/has at least partially a ceramic coating (2), and in that the bone contact surface (K) has areas not provided with a ceramic coating (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2004
    Publication date: May 26, 2005
    Inventors: Michael Breitenstien, Marco Wieland
  • Publication number: 20050062950
    Abstract: The invention relates to a modulator for modulating the magnitude of a beamlet in a multi-beamlet lithography system, said modulator comprising at least one means for influencing the direction of a beamlet, a light sensitive element for receiving light from a modulated light beam and converting said light into a signal, and discretizing means, coupling to said light sensitive element and to at least one of means for influencing, for converting said signal received from said light sensitive element into a discrete signal having discrete values selected from a set of predefined discrete values and providing said discrete signal to said means for influencing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2004
    Publication date: March 24, 2005
    Inventors: Johannes van 't Spijker, Marco Wieland, Ernst Habekotte, Floris van der Wilt
  • Patent number: 6844560
    Abstract: A lithography system comprising a converter element (7) for receiving light and converting said light in a plurality of electron beams (15) to be directed towards and focused on a substrate (10) to be processed, said plurality of electron beams (15) being used to define a pattern in a resist layer (20) on said substrate (10), wherein said lithography system is provided with a protective foil with holes at the positions of the electron beams (23) being arranged to protect, in use, said converter element (7) from contamination with material from the resist layer (21).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2005
    Assignee: Mapper Lithography IP B.V.
    Inventors: Marco Wieland, Bert Jan Kampherbeek, Pieter Kruit
  • Publication number: 20040135983
    Abstract: The invention relates to a maskless lithography system for transferring a pattern onto the surface of a target, comprising at least one beam generator for generating a plurality of beamlets, modulation means comprising a plurality of modulators for modulating the magnitude of a beamlet, and a control unit for controling each of the modulators, wherein the control unit generates and delivers pattern data to said modulation means for controlling the magnitude of each individual beamlet, the control unit comprising at least one data storage for storing the pattern data, at least one readout unit for reading out the data from the data storage, at least one data converter for converting the data that is read out from the data storage into at least one modulated light beam, and at least one optical transmitter for transmitting said at least one modulated light beam to said modulation means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2003
    Publication date: July 15, 2004
    Inventors: Jan-Jaco Marco Wieland, Johannes Christiaan van 't Spijker, Remco Jager, Pieter Kruit
  • Publication number: 20030030014
    Abstract: A lithography system comprising a converter element (7) for receiving light and converting said light in a plurality of electron beams (15) to be directed towards and focused on a substrate (10) to be processed, said plurality of electron beams (15) being used to define a pattern in a resist layer (20) on said substrate (10), wherein said lithography system is provided with a protective foil with holes at the positions of the electron beams (23) being arranged to protect, in use, said converter element (7) from contamination with material from the resist layer (21).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2002
    Publication date: February 13, 2003
    Inventors: Marco Wieland, Bert Jan Kampherbeek, Pieter Kruit