Patents by Inventor Alfred Fendt

Alfred Fendt 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).

  • Optical device
    Patent number: 9194658
    Abstract: An optical device for a missile seeker head includes an optical sensor with a plurality of pixels, a light source, a detection device, and an optical system. The light source is configured to illuminate, using the optical system, an object that can be mapped using the optical system on at least one subarea of a predefined pixel of the optical sensor. The detection device is configured to detect the light emitted from the light source and reflected by the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: MBDA Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Senft, Alfred Fendt, Juergen Zoz
  • Optical Device
    Publication number: 20140246536
    Abstract: An optical device for a missile seeker head includes an optical sensor with a plurality of pixels, a light source, a detection device, and an optical system. The light source is configured to illuminate, using the optical system, an object that can be mapped using the optical system on at least one subarea of a predefined pixel of the optical sensor. The detection device is configured to detect the light emitted from the light source and reflected by the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: MBDA Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph SENFT, Alfred FENDT, Juergen ZOZ
  • Method and apparatus for measuring the optical axis of a guide beam projector
    Patent number: 4848903
    Abstract: The optical axis of a guide beam projector operating in accordance with the reticle field modulation method, is measured by projecting the guide beam through a retroreflector into the optical axis of a sighting instrument. When the two axes are coincident the two axes are harmonized. A non-coincidence is measured and evaluated in an electronic signal processing circuit to provide information to be used for harmonizing the two axes, for example, by a respective automatic adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1989
    Assignee: Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm GmbH
    Inventor: Alfred Fendt