Patents by Inventor Michael Spieweck

Michael Spieweck 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).

  • System and method for determining a position or/and orientation of two objects relative to each other as well as beam guiding arrangement, interferometer arrangement and device for changing an optical path length for use in such a system and method
    Patent number: 7358516
    Abstract: A system and a method for determining a position of two objects relative to each other is suggested, comprising: a source 43 of coherent radiation, a beam guidance for providing a measuring branch 49 for a measuring beam, which has an optical path length dependent on the position of the two objects, a radiation intensity sensor 65 for measuring an intensity of an interfering superposition of radiation, which include radiation at least after passing through the measuring branch 49, and a calculator 67 which responds to a measuring signal from the radiation intensity sensor 65, in order to detect optical path lengths of the measuring branch 49 and therefrom to detect the position of the two objects relative to each other, wherein the measuring branch 49 includes: at least one emitter fixedly mountable on a first of the two objects for emitting radiation supplied to the measuring branch 49 in a space between the two objects, at least three retroreflectors 19 mountable on the second one of the two objects, such t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss AG
    Inventors: Frank Holler, Jurgen Werner, Edward Gumbrell, Michael Spieweck
  • System and method for determining a position or/and orientation of two objects relative to each other as well as beam guiding arrangement, interferometer arrangement and device for changing an optical path length for use in such a system and method
    Publication number: 20020179866
    Abstract: A system and a method for determining a position of two objects relative to each other is suggested, comprising: a source 43 of coherent radiation, a beam guidance for providing a measuring branch 49 for a measuring beam, which has an optical path length dependent on the position of the two objects, a radiation intensity sensor 65 for measuring an intensity of an interfering superposition of radiation, which include radiation at least after passing through the measuring branch 49, and a calculator 67 which responds to a measuring signal from the radiation intensity sensor 65, in order to detect optical path lengths of the measuring branch 49 and therefrom to detect the position of the two objects relative to each other, wherein the measuring branch 49 includes: at least one emitter fixedly mountable on a first of the two objects for emitting radiation supplied to the measuring branch 49 in a space between the two objects, at least three retroreflectors 19 mountable on the second one of the two objects, such t
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2002
    Publication date: December 5, 2002
    Inventors: Frank Hoeller, Jurgen Werner, Edward Gumbrell, Michael Spieweck