Patents by Inventor Stefan Stocker

Stefan Stocker 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: 20240103108
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a gradient coil unit comprising a hollow cylindrical primary coil longitudinally surrounding a cylinder axis and designed to generate a magnetic field gradient in a first spatial direction, which primary coil comprises two primary conductor pattern pairs. Each primary conductor pattern pair of the two primary conductor pattern pairs is separately drivable, spans one half of the primary coil in each case, and comprises two spiral conductor patterns, which are formed by an electrical conductor implemented as a hollow conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Krug, Simon Bauer, Stefan Stocker, Peter Dietz
  • Publication number: 20230305085
    Abstract: A gantry tube for a medical imaging system. The gantry tube includes a first tube located within a second tube, wherein the first tube is oriented about a longitudinal axis of the system. The gantry tube also includes a plurality of wall elements that extend between the first and second tubes, wherein the walls and first and second tubes form a plurality of channels that extend in an axial direction substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis wherein each channel is configured to hold a detector of the system. A detector is inserted into or removed from an associated channel in an axial direction from either a first end or a second end of the gantry tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Ludwig Eberler, James L. Corbeil, Martin Schramm, Stefan Stocker
  • Publication number: 20230288507
    Abstract: A gradient coil unit may include a hollow cylinder surrounding a cylinder axis, delimited perpendicularly to the cylinder axis by a first longitudinal end and a second longitudinal end opposing the first longitudinal end. The hollow cylinder may include a first hollow cylinder region and a second hollow cylinder region separated from the first hollow cylinder region by a sectional plane perpendicular to the cylinder axis. The first hollow cylinder region may be delimited by the first longitudinal end and the second hollow cylinder region by the second longitudinal end. The gradient coil unit may also include a conductor structure configured to generate magnetic field gradients in three mutually different directions. The gradient coil unit may have a length corresponding to a distance between the first longitudinal end and the second longitudinal end of at least 140 cm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Dietz, Stefan Stocker, Simon Körber, Andreas Krug
  • Patent number: 11488766
    Abstract: A gradient coil having a coil body made from a cured casting compound and at least one cooler embedded in the casting compound, serving to conduct a fluid coolant, wherein the cooler and the casting compound do not adhere to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Dietz, Lothar Schoen, Stefan Stocker
  • Patent number: 11143726
    Abstract: A cable for operating a gradient coil of a magnetic resonance apparatus, a magnetic resonance apparatus, and a method for manufacturing a cable for operating a gradient coil of a magnetic resonance apparatus are provided. The cable includes at least one electric conductor and a stabilizing sheathing that surrounds the at least one electric conductor at least partially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventor: Stefan Stocker
  • Patent number: 11041923
    Abstract: A directly coolable multifilament conductor or a magnetic coil, having at least two electric conductors and at least one cooling tube disposed between the conductors adapted to carry a fluid coolant, wherein the cooling tube is a metal conductor having a lower conductivity than the conductors surrounding the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Stocker, Peter Dietz
  • Patent number: 10871123
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a cylinder housing of an internal combustion engine. In one embodiment of the present disclosure, the cylinder housing includes at least two adjacently arranged cylinders, each of which includes a wet cylinder liner, a support structure, and a coolant jacket arranged between the support structure and the cylinder liner. The cylinder housing further including at least one screw receptacle for a cylinder head screw, and is positioned between at least two adjacently arranged cylinders in a region of at least one engine transverse plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: AVL List GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Feichtinger, Stefan Stocker-Reicher, Günter Häusl
  • Publication number: 20200049780
    Abstract: A directly coolable multifilament conductor or a magnetic coil, having at least two electric conductors and at least one cooling tube disposed between the conductors adapted to carry a fluid coolant, wherein the cooling tube is a metal conductor having a lower conductivity than the conductors surrounding the tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Stocker, Peter Dietz
  • Publication number: 20200043649
    Abstract: A gradient coil having a coil body made from a cured casting compound and at least one cooler embedded in the casting compound, serving to conduct a fluid coolant, wherein the cooler and the casting compound do not adhere to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Dietz, Lothar Schoen, Stefan Stocker
  • Publication number: 20200003148
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a cylinder housing of an internal combustion engine. In one embodiment of the present disclosure, the cylinder housing includes at least two adjacently arranged cylinders, each of which includes a wet cylinder liner, a support structure, and a coolant jacket arranged between the support structure and the cylinder liner. The cylinder housing further including at least one screw receptacle for a cylinder head screw, and is positioned between at least two adjacently arranged cylinders in a region of at least one engine transverse plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Stefan Feichtinger, Stefan Stocker-Reicher, Günter Hausl
  • Patent number: 10422840
    Abstract: In a method for manufacturing a flat insulation layer for use in a gradient coil, a thermoplastic insulating material in the form of a plate, strip or foil is three-dimensionally deformed in a hot shaping step to form specified local elevations on at least one side, which are spaced apart from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Lothar Schön, Stefan Stocker
  • Patent number: 10401450
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance apparatus has a magnetic resonance data acquisition scanner having a basic field magnet that generates a basic magnetic field in a patient-receiving zone of the scanner, and a gradient coil unit in the scanner, formed of individual gradient coil elements, and a shim unit having at least one carrier unit that is movably introducible into the scanner, the carrier carrying at least two shim elements formed of a material for shimming the basic magnetic field. The at least one carrier unit is bendable in at least one direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventor: Stefan Stocker
  • Patent number: 10295629
    Abstract: The present embodiments provide a gradient coil assembly. The gradient coil assembly includes an aluminum wire body, and a copper wire end connected by cold pressure welding to two ends of the aluminum wire body. Using the gradient coil according to a particular embodiment, it is possible to reduce gradient coil weight as well as reduce the thickness of an outer vacuum chamber used for a magnet, thereby reducing the cost of the magnet and gradient coil, and making it less difficult to install and maintain the magnet and gradient coil. There is no problem of oxidation associated with the cold pressure welding of the aluminum wire body to the copper wire ends, so quality defects arising from such oxidation are avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wei Ping Peng, Stefan Stocker, Chao Wang
  • Publication number: 20180088195
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance apparatus has a magnetic resonance data acquisition scanner having a basic field magnet that generates a basic magnetic field in a patient-receiving zone of the scanner, and a gradient coil unit in the scanner, formed of individual gradient coil elements, and a shim unit having at least one carrier unit that is movably introducible into the scanner, the carrier carrying at least two shim elements formed of a material for shimming the basic magnetic field. The at least one carrier unit is bendable in at least one direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventor: Stefan Stocker
  • Publication number: 20180011157
    Abstract: In a method for manufacturing a flat insulation layer for use in a gradient coil, a thermoplastic insulating material in the form of a plate, strip or foil is three-dimensionally deformed in a hot shaping step to form specified local elevations on at least one side, which are spaced apart from one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Applicant: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Lothar Schoen, Stefan Stocker
  • Publication number: 20170371013
    Abstract: A cable for operating a gradient coil of a magnetic resonance apparatus, a magnetic resonance apparatus, and a method for manufacturing a cable for operating a gradient coil of a magnetic resonance apparatus are provided. The cable includes at least one electric conductor and a stabilizing sheathing that surrounds the at least one electric conductor at least partially.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventor: Stefan Stocker
  • Patent number: 9851422
    Abstract: A shim coil arrangement is provided for a magnetic resonance tomography system. The shim coil arrangement includes a printed circuit board, a plurality of spacers, and at least one shim coil. The plurality of spacers are arranged on the printed circuit board. The at least one shim coil is arranged on the printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Johann Schuster, Lothar Schön, Stefan Stocker, Axel vom Endt
  • Patent number: 9817095
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an electromagnetic shielding of a device is disclosed for a magnetic resonance system. The device is shielded via a conductive layer which surrounds an inner part of the device in such a manner that an electrical current path completely around the inner part can be formed in the layer. The layer is arranged between a housing of the device, surrounding the inner part, and the inner part. In another embodiment, an electromagnetic shielding of a device is disclosed for a magnetic resonance system, wherein the device is shielded via a conductive layer which surrounds the device in such a manner that an electrical current path completely around the device is formed. In this situation, the device having the layer is mounted by way of projections on the magnetic resonance system. Each projection has a contact surface with the layer, at which the respective projection contacts the layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignees: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
    Inventors: James Corbeil, Ralf Ladebeck, Stefan Stocker
  • Patent number: 9470768
    Abstract: A cooling device for disposal between two flat coils of a gradient coil has at least one first and with at least one second foil that are connected to each other in areas such that continuous cooling channels for a cooling fluid are formed. The cooling channels are branched, whereby an improved cooling effect is produced with a smaller thickness of the cooling device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Norbert Huber, Lothar Schoen, Stefan Stocker, Muris Torlak
  • Patent number: 9451902
    Abstract: A medical imaging apparatus includes a first imaging modality which is formed by a magnetic resonance apparatus and which comprises a cylindrical gradient coil unit, and a further imaging modality which comprises a detector unit. The detector unit of the further imaging modality is supported in a radial direction within an area surrounded by the gradient coil unit and an annular gap is disposed between the detector unit of the further imaging modality and the gradient coil unit. The further imaging modality includes a pressure unit which is disposed in the annular gap between the detector unit of the further imaging modality and the gradient coil unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Stefan Stocker