Patents by Inventor Wolfram Bohle
Wolfram Bohle 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).
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Patent number: 11054307Abstract: A spectrometer may include a radiation source having a spark generator, an entrance slit, a dispersive element and a plurality of detectors, and a rotatable sector shutter having an axis of rotation and a trigger unit optically coupled to the sector diaphragm. The axis of rotation of the sector shutter is non-parallel to a connecting line between the source and the entrance slit.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2020Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: SPECTRO ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENTS GMBHInventors: Heinz-Gerd Joosten, Wolfram Bohle, Rolf Friedrich Frueke
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Publication number: 20200217717Abstract: A spectrometer may include a radiation source having a spark generator, an entrance slit, a dispersive element and a plurality of detectors, and a rotatable sector shutter having an axis of rotation and a trigger unit optically coupled to the sector diaphragm. The axis of rotation of the sector shutter is non-parallel to a connecting line between the source and the entrance slit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2020Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventors: Heinz-Gerd JOOSTEN, Wolfram BOHLE, Rolf Friedrich FRUEKE
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Publication number: 20200158649Abstract: An arrangement for optical emission spectrometry with a spectrochemical source, which during operation emits non-directed radiation, and with a spectrometer having at least one entry aperture arranged at a side next to the source, at least one dispersive element and at least one detector, which are arranged such that during operation part of the radiation emitted in the direction of the entry aperture from the source enters the spectrometer through the entry aperture, from the entry aperture falls indirectly or directly on the dispersive element(s), is split up according to wavelengths and is registered by the at least one detector. A mirror may be arranged at a side of the source opposed to the entry aperture at a distance from the source to reflect at least one part of the radiation, not emitted in the direction of the entry aperture from the source, in the direction of the entry aperture.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2019Publication date: May 21, 2020Applicants: Spectro Analytical Instruments GmbH, Spectro Analytical Instruments GmbHInventors: Dirk ARDELT, Wolfram BOHLE
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Patent number: 10018508Abstract: A spectrometer for examining the spectrum of an optical emission source may include: an optical base body, a light entry aperture connected to the optical base body to couple light into the spectrometer, at least one dispersion element to receive the light as a beam of rays and generate a spectrum, and at least one detector for measuring the generated spectrum. A light path may run from the light entry aperture to the detector. A mirror group with at least two mirrors may be provided in a section of the light path between the light entry aperture and the at least one detector, in which the beam does not run parallel, which may compensate for temperature effects. In the mirror group, at least one mirror or the entire mirror group may be moveable relative to the optical base body and may be coupled to a temperature-controlled drive.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2016Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: Spectro Analytical Instruments GmbHInventors: Wolfram Bohle, Alexander Morlang
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Publication number: 20170322077Abstract: A spectrometer for examining the spectrum of an optical emission source may include: an optical base body, a light entry aperture connected to the optical base body to couple light into the spectrometer, at least one dispersion element to receive the light as a beam of rays and generate a spectrum, and at least one detector for measuring the generated spectrum. A light path may run from the light entry aperture to the detector. A mirror group with at least two mirrors may be provided in a section of the light path between the light entry aperture and the at least one detector, in which the beam does not run parallel, which may compensate for temperature effects. In the mirror group, at least one mirror or the entire mirror group may be moveable relative to the optical base body and may be coupled to a temperature-controlled drive.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2016Publication date: November 9, 2017Inventors: Wolfram BOHLE, Alexander MORLANG
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Patent number: 8654327Abstract: The invention relates to a spectrometer for analyzing the optical emission of a sample by means of pulsed excitation of an optical spectral emission, having an excitation source, a gap arrangement, at least one dispersive element and having detectors for the emitted spectrum, in which two beam paths are provided with two dispersive elements, the first dispersive element of which images the spectrum of the emission onto a number of spatially resolving detectors and the second dispersive element of which images the spectrum of the emission onto a number of time-resolving detectors.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2008Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: Spectro Analytical Instruments GmbHInventors: Wolfram Bohle, Ulrich Heynen
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Patent number: 8649009Abstract: The invention relates to a spectrometer for analyzing the optical emission of a sample, having an excitation source, an entrance gap and a dispersive element, which fans out the spectrum of the light generated in the excitation source in a plane, and having solid body sensors with one or more lines, which are arranged in the region of the focal curve of the beam path in order to evaluate the spectral information, wherein the sensors are arranged above or below the plane and the spectral emission is deflected onto the sensors by mirrors and focused, wherein the reflecting surface of the mirrors is aspherically formed in a direction of curvature.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2008Date of Patent: February 11, 2014Assignee: Spectro Analytical Instruments GmbHInventor: Wolfram Bohle
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Publication number: 20100177308Abstract: The invention relates to a spectrometer for analysing the optical emission of a sample by means of pulsed excitation of an optical spectral emission, having an excitation source, a gap arrangement, at least one dispersive element and having detectors for the emitted spectrum, in which two beam paths are provided with two dispersive elements, the first dispersive element of which images the spectrum of the emission onto a number of spatially resolving detectors and the second dispersive element of which images the spectrum of the emission onto a number of time-resolving detectors.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2008Publication date: July 15, 2010Applicant: Spectro Analytical Instruments GmbHInventors: Wolfram Bohle, Ulrich Heynen
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Publication number: 20100141941Abstract: The invention relates to a spectrometer for analysing the optical emission of a sample, having an excitation source, an entrance gap and a dispersive element, which fans out the spectrum of the light generated in the excitation source in a plane, and having solid body sensors with one or more lines, which are arranged in the region of the focal curve of the beam path in order to evaluate the spectral information, wherein the sensors are arranged above or below the plane and the spectral emission is deflected onto the sensors by mirrors and focused, wherein the reflecting surface of the mirrors is aspherically formed in a direction of curvature.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2008Publication date: June 10, 2010Applicant: Spectro Analytical Instruments GmbHInventor: Wolfram Bohle
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Patent number: 6614528Abstract: In order to extend the available spectral range and to optimize spectral resolution while retaining a compact spectrometer setup, two diffraction gratings are operated with congruent focal curves in a Paschen-Runge geometry. The spectrometer features only one entrance slit and allows an adequate adaptation of the covered spectral range to the demands of analytical spectrometry. Apart from photomultiplier tubes commercial solid-state linear array sensors placed tangential at the Rowland circle are used for simultaneous detection of the spectrum. By employing angular cut cylindrical mirrors the radiation is deflected by 90% upward or downward in an alternating series. In this way two effects are achieved, an almost complete detection of the spectrum firstly and secondly a gain of intensity by focusing of radiation perpendicular to the plane of dispersion.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 1999Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: SAI Gesellschaft fur analytische MeBgerate mbHInventor: Wolfram Bohle