Patents by Inventor Bernd Stoeckel
Bernd Stoeckel 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: 9207077Abstract: A construction laser system comprising at least one rotation laser which has a laser unit and a rotatable deflection means, a laser receiver has a laser beam detector which is designed to generate an output signal when the laser beam impinges on the laser beam detector. An evaluation unit for determining the position of the laser receiver relative to the reference surface and an indicator for the determined position. A controller where a known emission pattern is generated over a sequence of a plurality of revolutions by varying the emission of the laser beam in a manner temporally coupled to the revolution period of the deflection means, and the evaluation unit is designed to identify the reference surface using a sequence of output signals which are each generated by the laser beam detector when the rotating laser beam repeatedly successively impinges, which sequence corresponds to the known emission pattern.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2011Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: LEICA GEOSYSTEMS AGInventors: Anton Kehl, Bernd Stöckel, Martin Winistörfer
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Patent number: 9200900Abstract: A construction laser system includes a rotating laser with self-leveling and a laser receiver. The system performs a self-leveling recalibration process by which-the self-leveling is checked automatically for quality and the related calibration data is updated automatically. A sequence of N calibration measurements is defined, where N is greater than or equal to three. The calibration measurements are obtained by the rotating laser and the laser receiver with a respective azimuthal alignment of the stand while the position of the laser receiver remains unchanged. As part of each calibration measurement, one output signal dependent on the laser beam impingement position is detected. The respective output signals or specified impingement positions are evaluated in pairs correlated with the respective I-th azimuthal alignments. The quality of the beam leveling functionality is thereby checked. If the requirements are not met, the previously stored calibration data can then be updated automatically.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2014Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: LEICA GEOSYSTEMS AGInventors: Thilo Fessler, Bernd Stöckel, Thomas Ammer
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Patent number: 9175956Abstract: A construction laser system includes a rotation laser and a laser receiver. To determine a direction in which the laser receiver lies in sight of the rotation laser, a digital code respectively assigned uniquely to the respective rotation angle ranges includes a state value sequence based on a defined sequence of states relating to the laser beam. In the respective rotation angle ranges, the corresponding sequence of states is respectively generated by successively occurring crossings of the respective rotation angle range. On the receiver side, an output signal is generated as a function of incidence of the laser beam. With the aid of an output signal sequence of successively generated output signals, which is acquired by the evaluation unit, the state value sequence corresponding to the acquired output signal sequence is identified, permitting final determination of the corresponding rotation angle range in which the laser receiver lies.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2014Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: LEICA GEOSYSTEMS AGInventors: Thilo Fessler, Bernd Stöckel
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Publication number: 20140283397Abstract: A construction laser system includes a rotation laser and a laser receiver. To determine a direction in which the laser receiver lies in sight of the rotation laser, a digital code respectively assigned uniquely to the respective rotation angle ranges includes a state value sequence based on a defined sequence of states relating to the laser beam. In the respective rotation angle ranges, the corresponding sequence of states is respectively generated by successively occurring crossings of the respective rotation angle range. On the receiver side, an output signal is generated as a function of incidence of the laser beam. With the aid of an output signal sequence of successively generated output signals, which is acquired by the evaluation unit, the state value sequence corresponding to the acquired output signal sequence is identified, permitting final determination of the corresponding rotation angle range in which the laser receiver lies.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2014Publication date: September 25, 2014Applicant: LEICA GEOSYSTEMS AGInventors: Thilo FESSLER, Bernd STÖCKEL
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Publication number: 20140283399Abstract: A construction laser system includes a rotating laser with self-leveling and a laser receiver. The system performs a self-leveling recalibration process by which-the self-leveling is checked automatically for quality and the related calibration data is updated automatically. A sequence of N calibration measurements is defined, where N is greater than or equal to three. The calibration measurements are obtained by the rotating laser and the laser receiver with a respective azimuthal alignment of the stand while the position of the laser receiver remains unchanged. As part of each calibration measurement, one output signal dependent on the laser beam impingement position is detected. The respective output signals or specified impingement positions are evaluated in pairs correlated with the respective I-th azimuthal alignments. The quality of the beam leveling functionality is thereby checked. If the requirements are not met, the previously stored calibration data can then be updated automatically.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2014Publication date: September 25, 2014Applicant: Leica Geosystems AGInventors: Thilo FESSLER, Bernd STÖCKEL, Thomas AMMER
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Patent number: 8686728Abstract: A system generates a Radio Frequency (RF) magnetic field in an MR imaging unit using an RF transmitting coil for generating a Radio Frequency (RF) magnetic field and multiple RF receiver coils for receiving RF signals for Magnetic Resonance (MR) image data acquisition. An RF transmission coil generates an RF magnetic field. An RF receiver coil receives an RF signal for MR image data acquisition and couples a magnetic field from the RF receiver coil to the RF transmission coil for adaptively altering the RF magnetic field generated by the RF transmission coil to reduce inhomogeneity in the RF magnetic field generated by the RF transmission coil in response to applying an RF pulse to the RF transmission coil. An adjustment processor adjusts characteristics of the RF receiver coil to alter the RF magnetic field generated by the RF transmission coil.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2011Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.Inventors: Bernd Stoeckel, Stefan Röll
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Publication number: 20130298413Abstract: A construction laser system comprising at least one rotation laser which has a laser unit and a rotatable deflection means, a laser receiver has a laser beam detector which is designed to generate an output signal when the laser beam impinges on the laser beam detector. An evaluation unit for determining the position of the laser receiver relative to the reference surface and an indicator for the determined position. A controller where a known emission pattern is generated over a sequence of a plurality of revolutions by varying the emission of the laser beam in a manner temporally coupled to the revolution period of the deflection means, and the evaluation unit is designed to identify the reference surface using a sequence of output signals which are each generated by the laser beam detector when the rotating laser beam repeatedly successively impinges, which sequence corresponds to the known emission pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2011Publication date: November 14, 2013Applicant: LEICA GEOSYSTEMS AGInventors: Anton Kehl, Bernd Stöckel, Martin Winistörfer
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Publication number: 20130021033Abstract: A system generates a Radio Frequency (RF) magnetic field in an MR imaging unit using an RF transmitting coil for generating a Radio Frequency (RF) magnetic field and multiple RF receiver coils for receiving RF signals for Magnetic Resonance (MR) image data acquisition. An RF transmission coil generates an RF magnetic field. An RF receiver coil receives an RF signal for MR image data acquisition and couples a magnetic field from the RF receiver coil to the RF transmission coil for adaptively altering the RF magnetic field generated by the RF transmission coil to reduce inhomogeneity in the RF magnetic field generated by the RF transmission coil in response to applying an RF pulse to the RF transmission coil. An adjustment processor adjusts characteristics of the RF receiver coil to alter the RF magnetic field generated by the RF transmission coil.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2011Publication date: January 24, 2013Applicant: SIEMENS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS USA, INC.Inventors: Bernd Stoeckel, Stefan Röll
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Patent number: 7439742Abstract: In a magnetic resonance system and an operating method therefor, a number of independently operable radio frequency signal generator modules are provided or respectively connected to radio frequency coils. A control unit provides a synchronization signal to each of the radio frequency signal generator modules to selectively operate the modules to achieve different types of signal transmission. One of the radio frequency signal generator modules can serve as a master module, that receives the synchronization signal directly from the control unit, and supplies the synchronization signal to the other modules, functioning as slave modules.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2006Date of Patent: October 21, 2008Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Ulrich Fontius, Rudi Baumgartl, Franz Schmitt, Georg Pirkl, Bernd Stoeckel
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Patent number: 6100693Abstract: An antenna for a magnetic resonance device comprises an antenna conductor structure and capacitors connected thereto. The antenna conductor structure and/or the capacitors are connected to a water cooling system.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 1998Date of Patent: August 8, 2000Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Ludwig Eberler, Peter Heubes, Michael Moritz, Bernd Stoeckel
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Patent number: 6084409Abstract: Magnetic resonance scanner has a radio-frequency system with transmission/reception antennas, and possibly a radio-frequency shield as well, and guides for a movable patient bed arranged in a basic field system and in a gradient system, with the electrical components of the radio-frequency system being embedded in a cylindrical, rigid carrier tube that penetrates the basic field system and the gradient system in the axial direction and which simultaneously serves as a carrier for the guides for the patient bed. The carrier tube is introducible as structural unit into the basic field and gradient system.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 1997Date of Patent: July 4, 2000Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Guenther Zebelein, Ludwig Eberler, Bernd Stoeckel
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Patent number: 6020740Abstract: An antenna arrangement having at least a first and a second conductor section (2, 2a, 8) that are connected to one another via a capacitor arrangement (6, 6a, 6b). During operation, the first conductor section (2, 2a) exhibit an alternating first potential and the second conductor section (8) exhibits an alternating second, opposite potential with respect to a reference potential. A shielding against electrical fields is arranged between the antenna conductor arrangement and the imaging volume (12). The shielding (16) has no electrical connection to the reference potential. The shielding (16) has a first overlap region (18) with the first conductor section (2, 2a) and has a second overlap region (20) with the second conductor section (8). The relationship of the two overlap regions (18, 20) to one another is selected such that the potential of the shielding (16) assumes reference potential during operation.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 1997Date of Patent: February 1, 2000Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Wolfgang Renz, Bernd Stoeckel