Patents by Inventor Steffen Reichel

Steffen Reichel 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: 20220407252
    Abstract: An electrical circuit board plug contact device includes an electrical circuit board contact element and an electrical plug contact element formed separately from the electrical circuit board contact element. The electrical plug contact element is laterally offset with respect to the electrical circuit board contact element and an electrically conductive connection is provided between the electrical circuit board contact element and the electrical plug contact element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Karl Marc-Andreas Berger, Eike Luellich, Dirk Duenkel, Steffen Reichel, Juri Fionik
  • Patent number: 9752756
    Abstract: A lighting device is provided that includes an LED and an NIR filter for a control panel or a display, which does not interfere with a night vision device. The light of the LED is in an area of u?>0.19 and v?>0.46 of the u?v? diagram of the CIE-LUV chromaticity diagram. The NIR filter exhibits descending light transmittance between 500 nm and 800 nm. The thickness of the NIR filter is chosen so that a sufficient blocking effect is provided in a range of wavelengths between 600 nm and 800 nm, so that the color coordinates of the filtered useful light are in an area with a radius of 0.04 around coordinates u?=0.19 and v?=0.49 of the u?v? diagram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Ralf Biertuempfel, Steffen Reichel, Michael Landi
  • Publication number: 20150138756
    Abstract: A lighting device is provided that includes an LED and an NIR filter for a control panel or a display, which does not interfere with a night vision device. The light of the LED is in an area of u?>0.19 and v?>0.46 of the u?v? diagram of the CIE-LUV chromaticity diagram. The NIR filter exhibits descending light transmittance between 500 nm and 800 nm. The thickness of the NIR filter is chosen so that a sufficient blocking effect is provided in a range of wavelengths between 600 nm and 800 nm, so that the color coordinates of the filtered useful light are in an area with a radius of 0.04 around coordinates u?=0.19 and v?=0.49 of the u?v? diagram.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Ralf Biertuempfel, Steffen Reichel, Michael Landi
  • Publication number: 20130265478
    Abstract: A lens system having an infrared filter for a compact camera module is provided. The lens system is an achromatic lens system and has two lenses. The first lens has a positive focal length, and the second lens has a negative focal length. The first lens is made of copper ion containing glass which absorbs infrared light and functions as an infrared filter. The second lens has an Abbe number that is smaller than that of the first lens with a difference between the Abbe numbers of the first lens and the second lens being at least 15.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: Schott AG
    Inventors: Steffen REICHEL, Frank-Thomas LENTES, Karl MENNEMANN
  • Patent number: 8531771
    Abstract: The invention relates to a LED light source comprising a preferably aspheric glass lens having an aspect ratio of more than 0.1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Steffen Reichel, Ralf Biertuempfel, Helge Vogt
  • Patent number: 8180482
    Abstract: The method for producing at least one rotationally symmetrical lens consisting of an opto-ceramic includes the step of moulding a ceramic green body for the lens, wherein the mould has a shaping surface, which is described by the following equation B: y ? ? 1 = cz 2 1 + 1 - ( k + 1 ) ? c 2 ? z 2 + a 1 ? z 2 + a 2 ? z 4 + a 3 ? z 6 + a 4 ? z 8 + … ? , ( B ) y1 gives a position on an optical axis; x designates a perpendicular distance from the optical axis to the surface; k, c, and a1, a2, a3, a4, . . . are constants describing a surface of the lens to be moulded and z=|x|+b, wherein b is a constant with a value greater than 0 and less than 0.3 mm, which is a measure of a deviation of the shaping surface from the surface of the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Yvonne Menke, Ulrich Peuchert, Yoshio Okano, Steffen Reichel
  • Publication number: 20110254180
    Abstract: The method for producing at least one rotationally symmetrical lens consisting of an opto-ceramic includes the step of moulding a ceramic green body for the lens, wherein the mould has a shaping surface, which is described by the following equation B: y ? ? 1 = cz 2 1 + 1 - ( k + 1 ) ? c 2 ? z 2 + a 1 ? z 2 + a 2 ? z 4 + a 3 ? z 6 + a 4 ? z 8 + … ? , ( B ) y1 gives a position on an optical axis; x designates a perpendicular distance from the optical axis to the surface; k, c, and a1, a2, a3, a4, . . . are constants describing a surface of the lens to be moulded and z=|x|+b, wherein b is a constant with a value greater than 0 and less than 0.3 mm, which is a measure of a deviation of the shaping surface from the surface of the lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2011
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Inventors: Yvonne Menke, Ulrich Peuchert, Yoshio Okano, Steffen Reichel
  • Patent number: 8025818
    Abstract: The invention relates to an optical hybrid lens. According to the invention, the lens consists of a substrate (1) that consists of a ceramic having a predetermined shape and at least another material (2), which covers a surface of the substrate (1) at least in certain sections in order to form a lens surface. Use of an optical ceramic as a material enables an additional degree of freedom for adjusting the imaging properties of the hybrid lens. The optical ceramic may have a high refractive index and a low dispersion. The other material can be a material that can be deformed or recast at temperatures that are low in comparison to those of the optical ceramic. In particular the other material can be a low-TG glass or a polymer. The other material is directly applied onto the substrate without a further surface finishing being necessarily required. Other aspects of the invention relate to an optical lens group, an optical image acquisition device, and a process for manufacturing a hybrid lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Jochen Alkemper, Joe Hayden, José Zimmer, Frank-Thomas Lentes, Steffen Reichel, Ulrich Peuchert
  • Patent number: 8019461
    Abstract: The moulding tool is a near-net-shape negative mould for shaping a ceramic green body for the lens. The mould has a shaping surface, which is described by the following equation B: y ? ? 1 = cz 2 1 + 1 - ( k + 1 ) ? c 2 ? z 2 + a 1 ? z 2 + a 2 ? z 4 + a 3 ? z 6 + a 4 ? z 8 + … ? , ( B ) y1 gives a position on an optical axis; x designates a perpendicular distance from the optical axis to the surface; k, c, and a1, a2, a3, a4, . . . are constants describing a surface of the lens to be moulded and z=|x|+b, wherein b is a constant with a value greater than 0 and less than 0.3 mm, which is a measure of a deviation of the shaping surface from the surface of the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Yvonne Menke, Ulrich Peuchert, Yoshio Okano, Steffen Reichel
  • Patent number: 8008220
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of lead-free and phosphate-containing glasses, preferably colored and filter glasses which absorb light in the infrared region (IR-region), in a precision molding process. Preferably, the content of fluorine in the glass is low. Advantageously, so optical constituents can be produced without finishing, such as for example lenses for digital cameras. By the use according to the present invention, also other optical constituents can be produced which can be directly used for a corresponding technical purpose. For an advantageous use, the optical constituents produced by precision molding can be used in the fields imaging, projection, telecommunications, optical communications engineering and laser technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Simone Monika Ritter, Christopher Klein, Christian Schenk, Frank-Thomas Lentes, Petra Auchter-Krummel, Rainer Jaschek, Steffen Reichel, Michael Waschulewski, Stephan Kuepper-Brennberger
  • Publication number: 20100212742
    Abstract: The invention relates to a photovoltaic device having a concentrator optics. The photovoltaic device includes at least one solar cell and a concentrator optics, with the concentrator optics having at least one first, light-input-side, focusing optical element and at least one second optical element downstream of the first, light-input-side optical element and upstream of the solar cell, onto which, in operating position of the photovoltaic device, the bundled solar radiation falls by way of the first optical element, with the second optical element having a solarization-stabilized silicate glass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2010
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Inventors: Axel Engel, Peter Nass, Ralf Jedamzik, Simone Monika Ritter, Steffen Reichel, Ulrich Fotheringham
  • Patent number: 7751123
    Abstract: The refractive, transmissive or diffractive optical elements are made from a ceramic containing one or more oxides of the type X2O3, which is transmissive for visible light and/or for infrared radiation and which has a cubic crystal structure analogous to that of Y2O3. In preferred embodiments X is Y, Sc, In, or a lanthanide element, namely La to Lu, and in particular is Lu, Yb, Gd, or La. Also mixtures of oxides of the type X2O3 with oxides having different stoichiometries, such as HfO2 and/or ZrO2, may be present, as long as the cubic structure of the ceramic is maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Jose Zimmer, Ulrich Peuchert, Jochen Alkemper, Martin Letz, Steffen Reichel, Yoshio Okano, Yvonne Menke
  • Publication number: 20100155973
    Abstract: The invention relates to an optical hybrid lens. According to the invention, the lens consists of a substrate (1) that consists of a ceramic having a predetermined shape and at least another material (2), which covers a surface of the substrate (1) at least in certain sections in order to form a lens surface. Use of an optical ceramic as a material enables an additional degree of freedom for adjusting the imaging properties of the hybrid lens. The optical ceramic may have a high refractive index and a low dispersion. The other material can be a material that can be deformed or recast at temperatures that are low in comparison to those of the optical ceramic. In particular the other material can be a low-TG glass or a polymer. The other material is directly applied onto the substrate without a further surface finishing being necessarily required. Other aspects of the invention relate to an optical lens group, an optical image acquisition device, and a process for manufacturing a hybrid lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Inventors: Jochen ALKEMPER, Joe Hayden, José Zimmer, Frank-Thomas Lentes, Steffen Reichel, Ulrich Peuchert
  • Publication number: 20100091490
    Abstract: The invention relates to a LED light source comprising a preferably aspheric glass lens having an aspect ratio of more than 0.1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Steffen Reichel, Ralf Biertuempfel, Helge Vogt
  • Publication number: 20100045164
    Abstract: The invention concerns a glass composition for a glass body of an illuminating means with external electrodes, wherein the quotient of the loss angle (tan ?[10?4]) and the dielectric constant (??) amounts to tan ?[10?4]/??<5, i.e., tan ?/??<5×10?4). In this way, the total power loss of the illuminating means with external electrodes can be minimized in a targeted manner by means of the glass properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2005
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Inventors: Joerg Fechner, Martin Letz, Steffen Reichel, Franz Ott, Brigitte Hueber
  • Publication number: 20090220201
    Abstract: The invention relates to a transparent arrangement for a display device, in particular for an analog and/or digital display, having a fiber-optic arrangement which transmits light from an entry face into an exit face, wherein regions, in particular pixels, of an image field lying in front of the entry face are visible on the exit face of the fiber-optic arrangement, and regions visible on the exit face, in particular pixels are spatially offset relative to the image field at least by an offset V.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2006
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Applicant: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Steffen Reichel, Burkhard Danielzik, Kevin Tabor, Michael Weisser
  • Patent number: 7515800
    Abstract: The invention relates to a display device having a fiber-optic plate and a display with an image plane on which the image information of the display is generated, the fiber-optic plate comprising a fiber bundle with a multiplicity of fiber cores extending beside one another, which are enclosed by a cladding material and which transmit light from an entry face of the fiber-optic plate, facing the display, to an exit face of the fiber-optic plate, wherein the entry face of the fiber-optic plate lies further away from the image plane than the lateral dimension of the smallest image information representable by the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Steffen Reichel, Burkhard Danielzik, Kevin Tabor, Michael Weisser
  • Publication number: 20080164402
    Abstract: The present invention addresses a mould for forming a ceramic green body useful for producing at least one optical lens consisting of optoceramics. The invention further refers to the use of such a mould. The (negative) form of the mould is close to the final geometry of the body to be formed (near net shape principle), at least regarding one functional area of at least one surface of the lens to be formed, which can be described by the following equation: y ? ? 1 = c ? ( ? x ? + b ) 2 1 + 1 - ( k + 1 ) ? c 2 ? ( ? x ? + b ) 2 + a 1 ? ( ? x ? + b ) 2 + a 2 ? ( ? x ? + b ) 4 + a 3 ? ( ? x ? + b ) 6 + a 4 ? ( ? x ? + b ) 8 + … ? , ( equation ? ? B ) wherein b is a constant and amounts to >zero and describes the deviation of the negative form of the mould from the form of the surface of the at least one lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2008
    Publication date: July 10, 2008
    Inventors: Yvonne Menke, Ulrich Peuchert, Yoshio Okano, Steffen Reichel
  • Publication number: 20080094734
    Abstract: The refractive, transmissive or diffractive optical elements are made from a ceramic containing one or more oxides of the type X2O3, which is transmissive for visible light and/or for infrared radiation and which has a cubic crystal structure analogous to that of Y2O3. In preferred embodiments X is Y, Sc, In, or a lanthanide element, namely La to Lu, and in particular is Lu, Yb, Gd, or La. Also mixtures of oxides of the type X2O3 with oxides having different stoichiometries, such as HfO2 and/or ZrO2, may be present, as long as the cubic structure of the ceramic is maintained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2007
    Publication date: April 24, 2008
    Inventors: Jose Zimmer, Ulrich Peuchert, Jochen Alkemper, Martin Letz, Steffen Reichel, Yoshio Okano, Yvonne Menke
  • Publication number: 20080069505
    Abstract: The invention relates to a display device having a fiber-optic plate and a display with an image plane on which the image information of the display is generated, the fiber-optic plate comprising a fiber bundle with a multiplicity of fiber cores extending beside one another, which are enclosed by a cladding material and which transmit light from an entry face of the fiber-optic plate, facing the display, to an exit face of the fiber-optic plate, wherein the entry face of the fiber-optic plate lies further away from the image plane than the lateral dimension of the smallest image information representable by the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2007
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Applicant: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Steffen Reichel, Burkhard Danielzik, Kevin Tabor, Michael Weisser