Patents by Inventor Christian Bach
Christian Bach 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: 11114255Abstract: An electrical switching device with separable contacts includes a switching apparatus including a fixed electrical contact and a mobile electrical contact that can be moved between a closing position and an opening position; a control lever mechanically coupled to the mobile electrical contact, the control lever being rotatable, about a first axis of rotation, between a first position and a second position; an anti-rebound lever arranged so as to move from a rest position to an opened-out position when the control lever reaches the second position. The anti-rebound lever engages a stop when it is in the opened-out position thereof and when the control lever is in the second position so as to prevent the control lever from leaving the second position.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2019Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: Schneider Electric Industries SASInventors: Javier Herreros, Christian Bach
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Patent number: 11062858Abstract: An electrical switching unit with separable contacts comprises a switching device comprising: a control lever coupled mechanically to a mobile electrical contact and an anti-bounce lever, mounted on the control lever and configured to be displaced to a deployed position to cooperate with an abutment to prevent the control lever from leaving its position. The switching device comprises a fixed bearing mounted around the control lever. The anti-bounce lever comprises a contact portion which is in contact against an edge of the bearing when the anti-bounce lever is in its rest position and which is displaced along the edge when the control lever rotates about the bearing. The bearing comprises, on the edge, a guiding portion in the form of a cam configured to push the anti-bounce lever to its deployed position.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2020Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Schneider Electric Industries SASInventors: Christian Bach, Javier Herreros
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Publication number: 20210082636Abstract: An electrical switching unit with separable contacts comprises a switching device comprising: a control lever coupled mechanically to a mobile electrical contact and an anti-bounce lever, mounted on the control lever and configured to be displaced to a deployed position to cooperate with an abutment to prevent the control lever from leaving its position. The switching device comprises a fixed bearing mounted around the control lever. The anti-bounce lever comprises a contact portion which is in contact against an edge of the bearing when the anti-bounce lever is in its rest position and which is displaced along the edge when the control lever rotates about the bearing. The bearing comprises, on the edge, a guiding portion in the form of a cam configured to push the anti-bounce lever to its deployed position.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2020Publication date: March 18, 2021Applicant: Schneider Electric Industries SASInventors: Christian BACH, Javier HERREROS
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Patent number: 10895754Abstract: A system described herein includes a first lens, a first image stabilization unit and a first image plane. When seen from the first lens in the direction of the first image plane, the order in which the elements are arranged along a first optical axis is as follows: first lens, first image stabilization unit and first image plane. The first image stabilization unit has at least one first inlet surface and at least one first outlet surface. The first inlet surface is oriented towards the first lens. The first outlet surface is oriented towards the first image plane. Furthermore, the first outlet surface is spaced apart from the first image plane in a range of 1 mm to 20 mm.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2013Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignees: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AG, CARL ZEISS AGInventors: Christian Bach, Erhard Mutz, Christof Heintz, Jörg Reinhardt
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Publication number: 20200035424Abstract: An electrical switching device with separable contacts includes a switching apparatus including a fixed electrical contact and a mobile electrical contact that can be moved between a closing position and an opening position; a control lever mechanically coupled to the mobile electrical contact, the control lever being rotatable, about a first axis of rotation, between a first position and a second position; an anti-rebound lever arranged so as to move from a rest position to an opened-out position when the control lever reaches the second position. The anti-rebound lever engages a stop when it is in the opened-out position thereof and when the control lever is in the second position so as to prevent the control lever from leaving the second position.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2019Publication date: January 30, 2020Applicant: Schneider Electric Industries SASInventors: Javier Herreros, Christian Bach
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Patent number: 9971168Abstract: A method for adjusting a position of a first image stabilization unit and/or a second image stabilization unit of an optical system is provided. The method comprises the steps of detecting a movement of the optical system by means of an angle-of-rotation sensor and determining a bending angle of a first hinge part relative to a second hinge part of a folding bridge of the optical system. Furthermore, a correction angle is determined based on the bending angle. The first image stabilization unit is rotated about the correction angle relative to a first housing and/or the second image stabilization unit is rotated about the correction angle relative to a second housing.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2013Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: Carl Zeiss Sports Optics GmbHInventor: Christian Bach
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Patent number: 9846314Abstract: A method for adjusting a position of a first image stabilization unit and/or a second image stabilization unit of an optical system is provided. The method comprises the steps of detecting a movement of the optical system by means of an angle-of-rotation sensor and determining a bending angle of a first hinge part relative to a second hinge part of a folding bridge of the optical system. Furthermore, a correction angle is determined based on the bending angle. The first image stabilization unit is rotated about the correction angle relative to a first housing and/or the second image stabilization unit is rotated about the correction angle relative to a second housing.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2013Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: Carl Zeiss Sports Optics GmbHInventor: Christian Bach
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Patent number: 9625697Abstract: An optical system for imaging an object includes a objective, an image stabilizing unit, an image plane and a drive unit, which is arranged at the image stabilizing unit and provided for moving the image stabilizing unit. The optical system includes a control unit. A signal from the control unit is forwarded to a first high-pass filter. The control unit has an output line and the high-pass filter has a filter output line. Both the output line and the filter output line are arranged at an addition unit such that an actuation signal from the control unit and an output signal from the high-pass filter are added to produce an addition signal. The addition unit is arranged at the drive unit in such a way that the addition signal is used for actuating the drive unit and for moving the image stabilizing unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2014Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Carl Zeiss Sports Optics GmbHInventor: Christian Bach
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Patent number: 9618769Abstract: A long-range optical device has at least one optical channel, which has a housing and an arrangement of optical elements, wherein at least one of the optical elements is movable relative to the housing for image stabilization in the event of perturbing movements of the housing. The device further has a first passive stabilization system based on mass inertia for the at least one movable optical element, which, in the event of displacement of the at least one optical element relative to the housing, generates a first restoring force proportional to the displacement and a second restoring force proportional to the displacement velocity. The first stabilization system is designed for image stabilization in the event of perturbing movements in a first frequency range.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2014Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: Carl Zeiss Sports Optics GmbHInventors: Kurt Becker, Christian Bach, Georg Guenther, Dirk Dobermann
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Patent number: 9581828Abstract: An optical system for imaging an object has at least a first objective, at least a first image stabilizing unit and at least a first eyepiece, wherein, as seen in the direction of the first eyepiece from the first objective, the first objective is arranged first along a first optical axis, then followed by the first image stabilizing unit and then followed by the first eyepiece. The first image stabilizing unit is rotatably mounted in cardan-joint fashion about a first hinge point, and the first hinge point is arranged between the first objective and the first eyepiece. The optical system is distinguished by virtue of the fact that the first image stabilizing unit comprises a first lens unit and at least a further optical element, wherein the first lens unit and the optical element are arranged such that the first lens unit is, together with the optical element, rotatably mounted in cardan-joint fashion about the first hinge point.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2013Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: Carl Zeiss Sports Optics GmbHInventors: Volker Tautz, Erhard Mutz, Christian Bach
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Publication number: 20160128401Abstract: A glove, for use in connection with athletic and casual wear for fixed attachment to a sleeve of an outer garment; the glove has a fastening tab , which protrudes from the material of the glove and is provided for placement between the “negative” and “positive” closure means of a sleeve width adjustment; with a closure device (positive or negative) on the sleeve that is predetermined by the outer garment , the underside of the tab has the corresponding closure device (negative or positive) and in accordance with a closure device (negative or positive) on the underside of the sleeve adjusting tab , the appropriately corresponding closure device (positive or negative) is embodied on the tab .Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2015Publication date: May 12, 2016Inventor: Christian Bach
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Publication number: 20160011433Abstract: An optical system for imaging an object has at least a first objective, at least a first image stabilizing unit and at least a first eyepiece, wherein, as seen in the direction of the first eyepiece from the first objective, the first objective is arranged first along a first optical axis, then followed by the first image stabilizing unit and then followed by the first eyepiece. The first image stabilizing unit is rotatably mounted in cardan-joint fashion about a first hinge point, and the first hinge point is arranged between the first objective and the first eyepiece. The optical system is distinguished by virtue of the fact that the first image stabilizing unit comprises a first lens unit and at least a further optical element, wherein the first lens unit and the optical element are arranged such that the first lens unit is, together with the optical element, rotatably mounted in cardan-joint fashion about the first hinge point.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2013Publication date: January 14, 2016Applicant: Carl Zeiss Sports Optics GmbHInventors: Volker Tautz, Erhard Mutz, Christian Bach
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Publication number: 20150355476Abstract: An optical system for imaging an object includes a objective, an image stabilizing unit, an image plane and a drive unit, which is arranged at the image stabilizing unit and provided for moving the image stabilizing unit. The optical system includes a control unit. A signal from the control unit is forwarded to a first high-pass filter. The control unit has an output line and the high-pass filter has a filter output line. Both the output line and the filter output line are arranged at an addition unit such that an actuation signal from the control unit and an output signal from the high-pass filter are added to produce an addition signal. The addition unit is arranged at the drive unit in such a way that the addition signal is used for actuating the drive unit and for moving the image stabilizing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2014Publication date: December 10, 2015Inventor: Christian BACH
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Patent number: 9097892Abstract: An optical observation device with at least one visual observation beam path includes an objective lens, an eyepiece, an Abbe König prism system, a Porro prism system or a Schmidt Pechan prism system, arranged in the at least one visual observation beam path between the objective lens and the eyepiece, a display device for displaying an additional image in the visual observation beam path to the observer, and a device for image superposition, which has a holographic optical element, and which uses the holographic optical element to superpose onto the image of the display device the image of a target object to be observed in an intermediate image plane of the visual observation beam path. The prism system is provided with the at least one holographic element of the at least one device for image superposition.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2012Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: Carl Zeiss Sports Optics GmbHInventor: Christian Bach
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Patent number: 8970342Abstract: The invention relates to a system and a method with at least one presence detector, wherein the presence detector has a radio transmitter. The system further comprises at least one radio receiver that is constructed in such a manner as to receive and evaluate signals of the presence detector transmitted via radio. The radio receiver further comprises at least one device that acts on downstream units as a function of the evaluation result.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2013Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: EnOcean GmbHInventors: Frank Schmidt, Armin Anders, Christian Bach
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Publication number: 20150054936Abstract: An optical system for imaging an object comprises a first lens, a first image stabilization unit and a first image plane. When seen from the first lens in the direction of the first image plane, the order in which the elements are arranged along a first optical axis is as follows: first lens, first image stabilization unit and first image plane. The first image stabilization unit has at least one first inlet surface and at least one first outlet surface. The first inlet surface is oriented towards the first lens. The first outlet surface is oriented towards the first image plane. Furthermore, the first outlet surface is spaced apart from the first image plane in a range of 1 mm to 20 mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2013Publication date: February 26, 2015Inventors: Christian Bach, Erhard Mutz, Christof Heintz, Jörg Reinhardt
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Publication number: 20150002938Abstract: A method for adjusting a position of a first image stabilization unit and/or a second image stabilization unit of an optical system is provided. The method comprises the steps of detecting a movement of the optical system by means of an angle-of-rotation sensor and determining a bending angle of a first hinge part relative to a second hinge part of a folding bridge of the optical system. Furthermore, a correction angle is determined based on the bending angle. The first image stabilization unit is rotated about the correction angle relative to a first housing and/or the second image stabilization unit is rotated about the correction angle relative to a second housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2013Publication date: January 1, 2015Inventor: Christian Bach
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Publication number: 20140368911Abstract: A long-range optical device has at least one optical channel, which has a housing and an arrangement of optical elements, wherein at least one of the optical elements is movable relative to the housing for image stabilization in the event of perturbing movements of the housing. The device further has a first passive stabilization system based on mass inertia for the at least one movable optical element, which, in the event of displacement of the at least one optical element relative to the housing, generates a first restoring force proportional to the displacement and a second restoring force proportional to the displacement velocity. The first stabilization system is designed for image stabilization in the event of perturbing movements in a first frequency range.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2014Publication date: December 18, 2014Inventors: Kurt Becker, Christian Bach, Georg Guenther, Dirk Dobermann
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Publication number: 20140091899Abstract: The invention relates to a system and a method with at least one presence detector, wherein the presence detector has a radio transmitter. The system further comprises at least one radio receiver that is constructed in such a manner as to receive and evaluate signals of the presence detector transmitted via radio. The radio receiver further comprises at least one device that acts on downstream units as a function of the evaluation result.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2013Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: EnOcean GmbHInventors: Frank SCHMIDT, Armin ANDERS, Christian BACH
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Patent number: 8410955Abstract: A module with a radio transceiver device, an actuator, and an activation device. Also disclosed is a system comprising such a module and a central unit, and a method with such a module and a central unit and the activation device with the radio transceiver device. The radio transceiver device is coupled with the actuator and with an electrical energy source, and the activation device is constructed to feed electrical energy from the electrical energy source to the radio transceiver device and the actuator.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2008Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: Enocean GmbHInventors: Frank Schmidt, Andreas Schneider, Christian Bach