Patents Assigned to Agfa-Fevaert Aktiengesellschaft
  • Patent number: 6734993
    Abstract: A device and method are disclosed for exposing a digital image onto light-sensitive material. The device includes an image generation device that is controlled by a control device according to image data. In addition, the device has an optical system for reproducing the image onto light-sensitive material that is supported by a stage. A beam splitter, located in the exposure beam path, directs a portion of the light emitted by the image generation device onto a light sensor that has at least one sensor line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2004
    Assignee: Agfa-Fevaert Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Tobias Damm, Friedrich Jacob, Bernhard Lorenz, Knut Oberhardt, Lothar Prause, Gudrun Taresch
  • Patent number: 6373074
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device (10,60) for reading out information stored in a phosphor carrier (15) and to an X-ray cassette (70) which contains the phosphor carrier (15) and such a device. The inventive device (10,60) has a radiation source (11;20, . . . ,29,30 . . . 39; 50,53;61) that can emit a first radiation source (16) with which the phosphor carrier (15) can be exited such that the carrier emits a second radiation (17). This second radiation (17) comprises an image of the information stored in the phosphor carrier (15). The device (10,60) additionally has a receiving means (12,62) which contains a number of point elements (PD1, . . . PDn) in order to receive the second radiation (17) emitted from the phosphor carrier (15) in a point-by-point manner. The second radiation of a point of the phosphor carrier (15) can thus be received by each one of the point elements (PD1, . . . ,PDn).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2002
    Assignee: Agfa-Fevaert Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Juergen Mueller, Herbert Gebele, Thomas Zehetmaier, Ralph Thoma