Patents by Inventor Volker Mannheim

Volker Mannheim 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).

  • MULTI-SPECTRAL OPTICAL SENSOR AND SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20230388660
    Abstract: A monolithic semiconductor chip defines a plurality of subarrays of optical detector regions, wherein each subarray of optical detector regions includes a corresponding plurality of optical detector regions and wherein each subarray of optical detector regions has the same relative spatial arrangement of optical detector regions as each of the other subarrays of optical detector regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: ams Sensors Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Gunter SIESS, Volker MANNHEIM, Holger PLESS, Julius KOMMA
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING OR CLASSIFYING THE SURFACE COLOUR OF AT LEAST PARTLY TRANSLUCENT MATERIALS
    Publication number: 20220196472
    Abstract: An apparatus for determining a colour of a translucent material. The apparatus comprises a first light source configured to illuminate a translucent material at a first surface location, a second light source configured to illuminate the translucent material at a second surface location spaced apart from said first surface location, and a light spectral sensor configured to detect light at said first surface location. The apparatus is configured to operate the first and second light sources alternately, and such that light detected by the light spectral sensor originating from said first source is principally light diffusely reflected from said first surface location, whilst light detected by the detector originating from said second source is principally light scattered by scattering centres in the interior of the translucent material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: ams Sensors Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Gunter SIESS, Holger PLESS, Volker MANNHEIM
  • Internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 7499477
    Abstract: The invention relates to an internal combustion engine with a laser ignition device (1), Q-switched, pumped solid-state laser with a pulsed pumped light source (30), a solid laser crystal (2), enclosed in a resonator, a Q-switch (4), for increasing the power density, at least one output mirror (6) and a focussing device (7), by means of which the laser beam (26) may be focussed in a combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2009
    Assignee: AVL List GmbH
    Inventors: Ernst Winklhofer, Georg Franz, Gerhard Kroupa, Volker Mannheim, Alfred Binder
  • Internal combustion engine
    Publication number: 20070064746
    Abstract: The invention relates to an internal combustion engine with a laser ignition device (1), Q-switched, pumped solid-state laser with a pulsed pumped light source (30), a solid laser crystal (2), enclosed in a resonator, a Q-switch (4), for increasing the power density, at least one output mirror (6) and a focussing device (7), by means of which the laser beam (26) may be focussed in a combustion chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2004
    Publication date: March 22, 2007
    Inventors: Ernst Winklhofer, Georg Franz, Gerhard Kroupa, Volker Mannheim, Alfred Binder