Patents by Inventor Christian Dietrich

Christian Dietrich 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).

  • Patent number: 11745459
    Abstract: Thin glass substrates are provided. Also provided are methods and apparatuses for the production thereof and provides a thin glass substrate of improved optical quality. The method includes, after the melting and before a hot forming process, adjusting the viscosity of the glass that is to be formed or has at least partially been formed is in a defined manner for the thin glass substrate to be obtained. The apparatus includes a device for melting, a device for hot forming, and also a device for defined adjustment of the viscosity of the glass to be formed into a thin glass substrate, and the device for defined adjustment of the viscosity of the glass to be formed into a thin glass substrate is arranged upstream of the device for hot forming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Armin Vogl, Thomas Schmiady, Thilo Zachau, Michael Meister, Jochen Alkemper, Christian Kunert, Lutz Klippe, Rüdiger Dietrich
  • Publication number: 20230191741
    Abstract: A thin glass substrate, as well as a method and an apparatus are provided. The glass substrate has a glass having first and second main surfaces and elongated elevations on one of the main surfaces. The elevations rise in a normal direction, have a longitudinal extent that is greater than two times a transverse extent, and have a height, on average, that is less than 100 nm, and with a transverse extent of the elevation smaller than 40 mm. The method includes melting a glass, hot forming the glass, and adjusting a viscosity of the glass so that for the viscosity ?1 for a first stretch over a first distance of up to 1.5 m downstream of a flow rate control component and y1 indicating a second distance to a location immediately downstream the flow rate control component the equation lg ?1(y1)/dPa·s=(lg ?01/dPa·s+a1(y1)) applies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Armin VOGL, Thomas SCHMIADY, Thilo ZACHAU, Jochen ALKEMPER, Michael MEISTER, Christian KUNERT, Lutz KLIPPE, Rüdiger DIETRICH
  • Publication number: 20230183193
    Abstract: Benzoylamides of the general formula (I) are described as herbicides. In this formula (I), X, R and Ra represent radicals such as alkyl, cycloalkyl and halogen. Q represents a five-membered heterocycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Hartmut AHRENS, Joerg TIEBES, Christian WALDRAFF, Hansjoerg DIETRICH, Elmar GATZWEILER, Christopher Hugh ROSINGER, Anu Bheemaiah MACHETTIRA
  • Publication number: 20220292704
    Abstract: Stereoscopy in which at least one image of a scene is recorded from a first viewing angle, and at least one image of the scene is recorded from a second viewing angle. The scene is recorded multiple times from the first viewing angle. A first combination image is obtained from the various images recorded from the first viewing angle, said combination image according to the stipulation of a comparison algorithm having smaller differences in relation to at least one image also recorded from the second viewing angle or smaller differences in relation to a second combination image obtained from the images from the second viewing angle than each individual image recorded from the first viewing angle. An image of the scene with the depth information is obtained from the first combination image and at least one image from the second viewing angle or the second combination image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Lars Omlor, Timo Stich, Christian Dietrich
  • Publication number: 20220113525
    Abstract: A method for generating an overview image of a sample which is arranged in an observation volume of a microscope by means of a sample carrier is proposed, wherein the sample carrier is illuminated by a first illumination, wherein a preliminary overview image is generated using the first illumination and an overview camera of the microscope, wherein an overview image illumination is chosen on the basis of the preliminary overview image, wherein the sample carrier is illuminated by the overview illumination, and wherein the overview image is generated using the overview image illumination and the overview camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
    Inventors: Daniel HAASE, Manuel AMTHOR, Markus STICKER, Sebastian BACKS, Thomas OHRT, Christian DIETRICH
  • Publication number: 20220027952
    Abstract: A sales support system for selling vehicles and/or vehicle accessories is disclosed. The sales support system has a computer-aided control system designed and equipped to receive customer-related customer information, and to determine and transmit customized customer-specific product information. The sales support system also has a showroom including at least one detection device and at least one output device. The detection device acquires at least one item of information about a customer who enters or is in the showroom, automatically and without any particular action by the customer, and passes the information to the control system. The control system determines at least one item of customized customer-specific product information from the acquired customer information, and passes the information to the output device. The output device outputs the information such that the customer can immediately perceive the product information that is intended for the customer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventor: Christian DIETRICH
  • Patent number: 10955653
    Abstract: Various aspects of the invention relate to techniques to facilitate autofocus techniques for a test object by means of an angle-variable illumination. Here, image datasets are captured at a multiplicity of angle-variable illumination geometries. The captured image datsets are evaluated in order to determine the Z-position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Cad Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
    Inventors: Lars Stoppe, Thomas Ohrt, Christian Dietrich, Markus Sticker
  • Publication number: 20210015665
    Abstract: A drainage aid which is introduced into tissue to permit or improve drainage of liquid by generating new drainage channels or by keeping existing drainage channels open, to permit effective drainage. In particular, a stent for glaucoma treatment is provided for the drainage of aqueous humor from the anterior chamber through the cornea, the limbus or the sclera directly onto the eye surface. The shunt implant includes at least one inner component and one outer component, which are connected to each other following introduction. The cross section of the shunt implant can be round, oval or angular. The invention can also be used wherever narrowed vessels or channels are intended to be expanded or held open.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Martin HACKER, Rudolf Murai von Bünau, Christian DIETRICH
  • Publication number: 20200405539
    Abstract: A planning device that generates control data for an ophthalmological laser therapy appliance with a laser device and a control unit, includes a first interface for supplying various data and a second interface for transferring the control data to the control unit of the ophthalmological laser therapy appliance, which is embodied to generate control data for a scanning pattern for the ophthalmological laser therapy appliance from the supplied data, by application of which scanning pattern a structure can be produced in the cornea, the limbus, and/or the sclera of a patient's eye. The planning device is embodied to generate from the supplied data, control data for the scanning pattern of this structure and/or a structure for receiving the shunt implant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Martin HACKER, Mark BISCHOFF, Christian DIETRICH
  • Patent number: 10718496
    Abstract: The invention relates to a switch cabinet light for illuminating the interior of a switch cabinet, comprising a light-emitting circuit board that has at least a first and a second orientation relative to a translucent light cover of the switch cabinet light in order to vary the beam direction of the switch cabinet light, wherein a light-emitting side of the light-emitting circuit board faces toward a first wall section of the translucent light cover in a first orientation of the light-emitting circuit board and toward a second wall section of the translucent light cover in a second orientation of the light-emitting circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Ewgenij Premysler, Kurt-Michael Schaffer, Marco Deusing, Matthias Müller, Christian Dietrich
  • Publication number: 20190302440
    Abstract: Various aspects of the invention relate to techniques to facilitate autofocus techniques for a test object by means of an angle-variable illumination. Here, image datasets are captured at a multiplicity of angle-variable illumination geometries. The captured image datsets are evaluated in order to determine the Z-position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Lars STOPPE, Thomas OHRT, Christian DIETRICH, Markus STICKER
  • Patent number: 10415807
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic device with a device base for mounting the electronic device on a support, wherein at least one pivot arm is partially taken up in a receptacle of the device base and partially protrudes from the device base, which arm is adjustable about a pivot axis parallel to a contact side of the device base, wherein, in a first setting position of the pivot arm, a first attachment means is arranged outside the receptacle and wherein, in a second setting position of the pivot arm, a second attachment means differing from the first attachment means is arranged outside the receptacle, characterized in that a recess opening into the receptacle is formed on a side wall of the device base, into which recess a locking piece is inserted, which is adjustable between a release position, in which it releases the pivot arm, and a locking position, in which it fixes the pivot arm optionally in the first or in the second setting position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Rittal GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Christian Dietrich
  • Patent number: 10345570
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for optical examination of a specimen with a cryo-immersion objective, having a stative, to which the cryo-immersion objective is fixed, wherein the cryo-immersion objective has a plurality of optical components, in particular lenses, and wherein the cryo-immersion objective has an optical front component which is in contact during operation with a coolable immersion liquid, having a specimen carrier for a specimen to be examined, having means for providing a cooled immersion liquid between the optical front component and the specimen to be examined on or against the specimen carrier. The device is characterized in that insulating means are present for interrupting a heat transition between the stative and the optical front component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Singer, Aksel Goehnermeier, Guenter Rudolph, Johannes Ruoff, Christian Dietrich, Rong Dong
  • Publication number: 20190086063
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic device with a device base for mounting the electronic device on a support, wherein at least one pivot arm is partially taken up in a receptacle of the device base and partially protrudes from the device base, which arm is adjustable about a pivot axis parallel to a contact side of the device base, wherein, in a first setting position of the pivot arm, a first attachment means is arranged outside the receptacle and wherein, in a second setting position of the pivot arm, a second attachment means differing from the first attachment means is arranged outside the receptacle, characterized in that a recess opening into the receptacle is formed on a side wall of the device base, into which recess a locking piece is inserted, which is adjustable between a release position, in which it releases the pivot arm, and a locking position, in which it fixes the pivot arm optionally in the first or in the second setting position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Christian DIETRICH
  • Publication number: 20190063725
    Abstract: The invention relates to a switch cabinet light for illuminating the interior of a switch cabinet, comprising a light-emitting circuit board that has at least a first and a second orientation relative to a translucent light cover of the switch cabinet light in order to vary the beam direction of the switch cabinet light, wherein a light-emitting side of the light-emitting circuit board faces toward a first wall section of the translucent light cover in a first orientation of the light-emitting circuit board and toward a second wall section of the translucent light cover in a second orientation of the light-emitting circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Ewgenij PREMYSLER, Kurt-Michael SCHAFFER, Marco DEUSING, Matthias MÜLLER, Christian DIETRICH
  • Patent number: 9697605
    Abstract: A method for the three-dimensional imaging of a sample in which image information from different depth planes of the sample is stored in a spatially resolved manner, and the three-dimensional image of the sample is subsequently reconstructed from this stored image information is provided. A reference structure is applied to the illumination light, at least one fluorescing reference object is positioned next to or in the sample, images of the reference structure of the illumination light, of the reference object are recorded from at least one detection direction and evaluated. The light sheet is brought into an optimal position based on the results and image information of the reference object and of the sample from a plurality of detection directions is stored. Transformation operators are obtained on the basis of the stored image information and the reconstruction of the three-dimensional image of the is based on these transformation operators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: CARL ZEISS MICROSCOPY GMBH
    Inventors: Helmut Lippert, Benno Radt, Michael Kempe, Christian Dietrich
  • Publication number: 20170123198
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for optical examination of a specimen with a cryo-immersion objective, having a stative, to which the cryo-immersion objective is fixed, wherein the cryo-immersion objective has a plurality of optical components, in particular lenses, and wherein the cryo-immersion objective has an optical front component which is in contact during operation with a coolable immersion liquid, having a specimen carrier for a specimen to be examined, having means for providing a cooled immersion liquid between the optical front component and the specimen to be examined on or against the specimen carrier. The device is characterised in that insulating means are present for interrupting a heat transition between the stative and the optical front component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Singer, Aksel Goehnermeier, Guenter Rudolph, Johannes Ruoff, Christian Dietrich, Rong Dong
  • Patent number: 8921809
    Abstract: A microscopy device, particularly for use in an imaging fluorescence lifetime microscopy method is provided. The microscopy device comprises an illumination means for generating an illumination beam, an imaging detector for spatially resolved acquisition of an emission radiation emitted by an object to be examined, an illumination beam path between the illumination means and the object to be examined, and a detection beam path between the object to be examined and the detector. The illumination beam path comprises illumination optics which are designed to generate a light sheet of illumination radiation extending transverse to the axis of the illumination beam path, wherein the axis of the detection beam path is oriented substantially perpendicular to a section plane of the light sheet and of the object to be examined. The illumination means comprise a pulsed laser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Lippert, Christopher Power, Christian Dietrich, Benno Radt
  • Patent number: 8786450
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for identifying dirt and/or dew on components of a voltage intermediate circuit converter. According to the invention, the temporal curve of a partial discharge pulsed current is detected at least during a precharging process of an intermediate circuit capacitor of the voltage intermediate circuit converter comprising at least one capacitor, wherein a frequency spectrum is calculated from said current pulse, and wherein depending of the result, a dirt warning and/or a dew warning is activated. Thus, the degree of dirt and/or dew of said voltage intermediate circuit converter can be determined at least during a charging process of an intermediate circuit capacitor of a voltage intermediate circuit converter, thereby preventing a breakdown including the consequences thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christian Dietrich, Werner Fischer, Jörg Hassel, Marc Hiller, Carsten Probol, Rainer Sommer
  • Patent number: 8699133
    Abstract: A sample holding system for a microscope, including a sample chamber which has an upper opening and is filled with an immersion liquid, and in which a sample embedded in a transparent embedding compound is placed in a holder. Translatory movement of the sample in relation to a detection objective of the microscope, and rotating the sample about an essentially vertical rotational axis in a plane forming an angle different from zero with the optical axis of the detection objective is included. Rotating the sample includes a rotational drive provided with a magnetic coupling or a belt drive and/or toothed wheel rotational drive arranged above the sample chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Lippert, Christopher Power, Christian Dietrich, Benno Radt