Patents by Inventor Thomas Kahler

Thomas Kahler 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).

  • Patent number: 11253238
    Abstract: A detector system for a medical motor system includes a multi-channel redundantly-configured detection device, which is accommodated in a hand-held control device that is adapted to control the medical motor system and which is positioned to detect the actuation of an actuation device of the hand-held control device. The multi-channel redundantly-configured detection device allows the plausibility of its output signals to be checked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: AESCULAP AG
    Inventors: Thomas Kahler, Roland-Alois Högerle, Martin Machill
  • Publication number: 20200297332
    Abstract: A detector system for a medical motor system includes a multi-channel redundantly-configured detection device, which is accommodated in a hand-held control device that is adapted to control the medical motor system and which is positioned to detect the actuation of an actuation device of the hand-held control device. The multi-channel redundantly-configured detection device allows the plausibility of its output signals to be checked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: THOMAS KAHLER, ROLAND-ALOIS HÖGERLE, MARTIN MACHILL
  • Patent number: 10595883
    Abstract: A coil former for an electric motor, in particular a high-speed surgical motor, in which a rotor is surrounded concentrically by the substantially hollow-cylindrical coil former, carries at least one stator winding. To ensure that as narrow an air gap as possible is permanently maintained between the coil former, which is preferably produced using an injection-molding method often with complex shaping, and a rotor, which runs in the coil former, the coil former is formed either by a non-conductive fully ceramic body, or is in the form of a composite body in which at least one dimension-stabilizing frame element is embedded by injection-molding with plastic in a plastic body which is preferably produced by injection molding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Aesculap AG
    Inventors: Thomas Kahler, Jürgen Barth, Stephanie Auber, Roland-Alois Högerle
  • Publication number: 20180008289
    Abstract: A coil former for an electric motor, in particular a high-speed surgical motor, in which a rotor is surrounded concentrically by the substantially hollow-cylindrical coil former, carries at least one stator winding. To ensure that as narrow an air gap as possible is permanently maintained between the coil former, which is preferably produced using an injection-molding method often with complex shaping, and a rotor, which runs in the coil former, the coil former is formed either by a non-conductive fully ceramic body, or is in the form of a composite body in which at least one dimension-stabilizing frame element is embedded by injection-molding with plastic in a plastic body which is preferably produced by injection molding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventors: Thomas Kahler, Jürgen Barth, Stephanie Auber, Roland-Alois Högerle
  • Patent number: 8241235
    Abstract: In order to improve a surgical DC power tool such that it can be operated, where applicable, under sterile conditions, in particular, using conventional DC voltage supplies, a surgical switch mode power supply for a surgical DC power tool is provided. The switch mode power supply includes a switch mode power supply circuit arrangement, a switch mode power supply housing and a circuit receptacle formed in the housing of the switch mode power supply for accommodating the circuit arrangement of the switch mode power supply. The housing of the switch mode power supply has a switch mode power supply interface which is designed in such a manner that it can be brought into engagement with and/or connected to an interface of the DC power tool provided for a mains-independent energy source. Furthermore, an improved surgical DC power tool having such a power supply is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Aesculap AG
    Inventors: Thomas Kahler, Roland Hoegerle
  • Patent number: 8010096
    Abstract: For an automatic control of a mobile terminal, a method is proposed for the control of a mobile terminal by receiving a set of control commands in a mobile terminal comprising a processor, a subscriber module and a communications unit, storing a set of control commands in a memory of a subscriber module of a mobile terminal, and activating of functions of the mobile terminal by the subscriber module as a function of commands of the set of control commands via an interface between the subscriber module and the mobile terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Communology GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Kähler, Frank Bell
  • Publication number: 20100136961
    Abstract: For an automatic control of a mobile terminal, a method is proposed for the control of a mobile terminal by receiving a set of control commands in a mobile terminal comprising a processor, a subscriber module and a communications unit, storing a set of control commands in a memory of a subscriber module of a mobile terminal, and activating of functions of the mobile terminal by the subscriber module as a function of commands of the set of control commands via an interface between the subscriber module and the mobile terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2008
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: COMMUNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Kähler, Frank Bell
  • Publication number: 20090292305
    Abstract: In order to improve a surgical DC power tool such that it can be operated, where applicable, under sterile conditions, in particular, using conventional DC voltage supplies, a surgical switch mode power supply for a surgical DC power tool is suggested, comprising a switch mode power supply circuit arrangement, a switch mode power supply housing and a circuit receptacle formed in the housing of the switch mode power supply for accommodating the circuit arrangement of the switch mode power supply, wherein the housing of the switch mode power supply has a switch mode power supply interface which is designed in such a manner that it can be brought into engagement with and/or connected to an interface of the DC power tool provided for a mains-independent energy source. Furthermore, an improved surgical DC power tool is suggested.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Applicant: Aesculap AG
    Inventors: Thomas Kahler, Roland Hoegerle