Patents by Inventor Christian Schulz

Christian Schulz 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).

  • Publication number: 20220283422
    Abstract: An optical imaging device for a microscope includes an objective and an optical system configured to interact with the objective for optically imaging an object selectively in a first operating mode and a second operating mode. The optical system includes a first optical subsystem associated with the first operating mode, and a second optical subsystem associated with the second operating mode. The first optical subsystem is configured to form a first image of the object with a first magnification. The second optical subsystem is configured to form a second image of the object with a second magnification that is less than the first magnification. The second optical subsystem includes an optical module insertable into the optical path for selecting the second operating mode. The optical module includes a lens element with a positive refractive power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Christian SCHUMANN, Christian SCHULZ, Arnold MUELLER-RENTZ, Andreas LOTTER
  • Publication number: 20220091411
    Abstract: An optical system for a microscope for imaging an object includes: a telescope system having an optical correction unit, which is adjustable in order to correct a spherical imaging aberration, and having a zoom optical unit, which is adjustable in order to adapt a magnification of the telescope system to a ratio of two refractive indices, one of which is assigned to an object side and an other of which is assigned to an image side, within a predetermined magnification range. The telescope system is telecentric over an entire magnification range both with respect to the object side and with respect to the image side by the zoom optical unit contained in the telescope system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Andreas LOTTER, Christian SCHULZ, Christian SCHUMANN
  • Patent number: 11262567
    Abstract: The invention relates to a correction objective (10), comprising a first lens group (12) of positive optical power, a second lens group (14) of positive optical power, a third lens group (16) of negative optical power, and a fourth lens group (18) of positive optical power, which are arranged in this order from the object side, the second lens group (14) being movable along the optical axis (O) in such a way that the sum of the distance (V1) between the second lens group (14) and the first lens group (12) and the distance (V2) between the second lens group (14) and the third lens group (16) is constant. The image scale of the second lens group (14) lies in a range of ?0.9 to ?1.1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: LEICA MICROSYSTEMS CMS GMBH
    Inventor: Christian Schulz
  • Patent number: 11225397
    Abstract: A safety device for an elevator system may include a safety element that in a release position holds a safety system in a deactivated state and in a blocking position activates the safety system. The safety element may exert a driving force configured to transfer the safety element from the release position into the blocking position. A holding element may exert a holding force on the safety element that counteracts the driving force to hold the safety element in the release position. In the release position of the safety element, the holding force exceeds the driving force by a tolerance amount that is adjustable depending on different operating modes that are possible in the release position of the safety element. The safety device may be configured to transfer the safety element into the blocking position, to reduce the holding force such that the driving force exceeds the holding force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: TK Elevator Innovation and Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Christian Schulz
  • Publication number: 20220011561
    Abstract: A microscope includes: an optical system including an immersion objective for an immersion medium of a predetermined refractive index; an aperture stop; and a processor for setting an immersion-free imaging mode in which the optical system is operated without immersion medium. The processor controls the aperture stop in the immersion-free imaging mode to set a numerical aperture of the immersion objective to a reduced value which is lower than a nominal value of the numerical aperture, the numerical aperture being equal to the nominal value when the optical system is operated using the immersion medium without reducing the numerical aperture by the aperture stop. The processor controls the optical system in accordance with the reduced value of the numerical aperture in the immersion-free imaging mode to generate at least one image representing the overview image of the sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Christian SCHUMANN, Christian SCHULZ, Alexander WEISS
  • Patent number: 11155112
    Abstract: A method and a security element with a front side and a rear side lying opposite the front side, wherein the security element has two or more security features, wherein a first security feature of the two or more security features has one or more first layers and a second security feature of the two or more security features has one or more second layers, wherein the first security feature and the second security feature are in particular arranged in register with each other, wherein the first security feature generates at least one first optically variable effect and the second security feature generates at least one second optically variable effect, wherein the at least one first optically variable effect has a first color and the at least one second optically variable effect has a second color, wherein the first color and the second color differ from each other, as well as a method for producing a security element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignees: LEONHARD KURZ STIFTUNG & CO. KG, OVD KINEGRAM AG
    Inventors: Ludwig Brehm, Anja Cathomen, Christian Schulz, René Staub, Harald Walter
  • Patent number: 11143216
    Abstract: A filter subassembly, having a first screen comprising a fabric that has mesh elements, the mesh size of which determines how effectively particles are prevented from penetrating therethrough, wherein a second screen is provided at a distance from the first screen, and the two screens are arranged in series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Christian Courth, Heiko Gastauer, Heiko Gensert, Christian Schulz
  • Publication number: 20210310839
    Abstract: The invention relates to a flow measuring device comprising a meter body having a conduit for the fluid, two phased-array ultrasonic transducer units spaced apart in the longitudinal direction of the conduit, which can emit and receive ultrasonic signals at different angles, a control and evaluation unit for driving the ultrasonic transducer units and evaluating the received ultrasonic signals and determining the flow using the transit time of the ultrasonic signals on the measuring paths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Markus KLEMM, Eric STARKE, Christian SCHULZ
  • Patent number: 11131840
    Abstract: A microscope system includes a detection unit having a color beam splitter arrangement with three beam splitter prisms, each having first, second and third prism surfaces. The first prism surfaces face in the same direction and are oriented parallel to one another at a right angle to an optical axis. The first and second prism surfaces are oriented in each case at acute angles to one another. The second and third prism surfaces are oriented in each case at right or obtuse angles to one another. The third and first prism surfaces are oriented in each case at acute angles to one another. A prismatic compensation element having first and second prism surfaces is assigned to each prism. The second prism surface of each of the compensation elements is arranged in a common plane with or parallel to the second prism surface of the respectively assigned prism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: LEICA MICROSYSTEMS CMS GMBH
    Inventors: Arnold Mueller-Rentz, Christian Schulz
  • Patent number: 11090922
    Abstract: A thermal transfer foil and also a process for producing a true color image, and a true color image, wherein the thermal transfer foil includes at least one effect pigment layer and a carrier foil which has first effect pigments in one or more first regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: LEONHARD KURZ STIFTUNG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Eser Alper Unal, Christian Schulz, Thimo Huber, Norbert Schmidt, Soren Klages
  • Publication number: 20210251067
    Abstract: A probe for measuring plasma parameters by means of active plasma resonance spectroscopy comprises an external coupling, a balun, an internal coupling, and a probe head. It is provided that the couplings, the balun, and the probe head are integrated in an electrically-insulating substrate cylinder, and the substrate cylinder has a layered structure made from multiple substrate layers along its rotational axis. In this way, a probe for measuring plasma parameters is provided which enables an improved measurement of the plasma parameters, wherein the plasma is influenced as little as possible during the measurement of the plasma parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Dennis Pohle, Christian Schulz, Ilona Rolfes
  • Patent number: 11081923
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to electrical machines. The teachings thereof may be embodied in a corona shielding system for an electrical machine. For example, a corona shielding system may include: an outer corona shield and an overhang corona shielding. The outer corona shielding and the overhang corona shielding may comprise a first corona shielding material having a nonlinear field strength-dependent electrical resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Bernhard Klaussner, Jiri Lang, Steffen Lang, Alexander Litinsky, Guido Schmidt, Christian Schulz-Drost, Klaus Schaefer, Christian Staubach
  • Publication number: 20210231772
    Abstract: A radar arrangement includes a printed circuit board (PCB), an electronic component, and an antenna. The electronic component is arranged on the PCB and is used to generate a high-frequency signal. The PCB has at least four electrically conductive layers separated from one another by at least three electrically insulating layers. A first conductive inner layer is adjacent to a first conductive outer layer, and a second conductive inner layer is adjacent to a second conductive outer layer. The electronic component is arranged on the first conductive outer layer. The antenna is formed at least partially in the second outer layer. The signal generated by the electronic component is transmitted to the antenna, which is formed at least partially in the second conductive outer layer of the PCB, through a region of the conductive inner layers and insulating inner layers of the PCB.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Thomas Convent, Christoph Dahl, Michael Gerding, Christian Schulz, Michael Vogt
  • Publication number: 20210234261
    Abstract: A radar antenna arrangement includes a plurality of transmitting elements and with a plurality of receiving elements. The transmitting elements are arranged in a transmitting arrangement and the receiving elements are arranged in a receiving arrangement, in each case in fields of a regularly hexagonally parqueted surface. An associated virtual antenna arrangement of virtual antenna elements results from the geometrical convolution of the transmitting arrangement with the receiving arrangement. High angular resolution and good alignability with good directional independence can be achieved by arranging the receiving elements in the receiving arrangement and the transmitting elements in the transmitting arrangement so that the virtual antenna elements in the virtual antenna arrangement are arranged without overlap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Thomas Convent, Christoph Dahl, Michael Gerding, Christian Schulz, Michael Vogt
  • Publication number: 20210223078
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for measuring the flow velocity of a fluid having a measuring sensor comprising a pipe with a pipe wall, at least two ultrasonic transducer units (20 and 22), each of which consists of an array of individual ultrasonic transducers (30-x and 32-x) and defining a measuring path (24) between them in the pipeline (14), and a control and evaluation unit (34) for driving the ultrasonic transducer units (20, 22) to emit ultrasonic signals (28) and for evaluating received ultrasonic signals (28) and determining the flow velocity (v), wherein the control and evaluation unit (34) is designed to drive the individual ultrasonic transducers (30-x, 32-x) with different phase, so that the ultrasonic transducer units (20, 22) are each designed as a phased array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Markus KLEMM, Christian SCHULZ, Eric STARKE
  • Publication number: 20210165198
    Abstract: A microscope system includes a detection unit having a color beam splitter arrangement with three beam splitter prisms, each having first, second and third prism surfaces. The first prism surfaces face in the same direction and are oriented parallel to one another at a right angle to an optical axis. The first and second prism surfaces are oriented in each case at acute angles to one another. The second and third prism surfaces are oriented in each case at right or obtuse angles to one another. The third and first prism surfaces are oriented in each case at acute angles to one another. A prismatic compensation element having first and second prism surfaces is assigned to each prism. The second prism surface of each of the compensation elements is arranged in a common plane with or parallel to the second prism surface of the respectively assigned prism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Arnold Mueller-Rentz, Christian Schulz
  • Patent number: 10982989
    Abstract: A fill level measuring device having at least one transmitting and receiving unit, a measuring antenna with a first supply element for transmitting and receiving an electromagnetic measurement signal and at least one dielectric body for guiding and/or shaping the waves of the measurement signal, and a communication antenna. The communication antenna has at least one second supply element for wireless transmission and for receiving an electromagnetic communication signal. To provide a fill level measuring device that can be used particularly flexibly, the first supply element and the second supply element are arranged inside the dielectric body so that the dielectric body is able to guide and/or shape the measurement signal and the communication signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: KROHNE MESSTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Christoph Schmits, Matthias Linkies, Charalambos Ouzounis, Christian Schulz
  • Publication number: 20210036586
    Abstract: An electric motor vehicle auxiliary unit includes a housing which is at least partly electrically conductive. An electric drive motor having stator-side motor coils, a unit mechanism which is driven by the electric drive motor, and a motor electronics circuit board are each arranged within the housing. The motor electronics circuit board includes motor electronics having control and power electronics which control the electric drive motor, and at least one housing ground connection which is electrically conductively connected directly to the housing via a housing ground element. A punch comb arrangement has at least two plug pins. A plug connection connects the motor electronics circuit board to an engine control unit. The plug connection is electrically connected to the motor electronics circuit board via the punch comb arrangement. The housing ground element is designed as a plug pin of the at least two plug pins of the punch comb arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Applicant: PIERBURG PUMP TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: CHRISTIAN SCHULZ, PETER GROSS
  • Publication number: 20210031553
    Abstract: A method and a security element with a front side and a rear side lying opposite the front side, wherein the security element has two or more security features, wherein a first security feature of the two or more security features has one or more first layers and a second security feature of the two or more security features has one or more second layers, wherein the first security feature and the second security feature are in particular arranged in register with each other, wherein the first security feature generates at least one first optically variable effect and the second security feature generates at least one second optically variable effect, wherein the at least one first optically variable effect has a first color and the at least one second optically variable effect has a second color, wherein the first color and the second color differ from each other, as well as a method for producing a security element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Ludwig BREHM, Anja CATHOMEN, Christian SCHULZ, René STAUB, Harald WALTER
  • Publication number: 20210011268
    Abstract: The invention relates to a correction objective (10), comprising a first lens group (12) of positive optical power, a second lens group (14) of positive optical power, a third lens group (16) of negative optical power, and a fourth lens group (18) of positive optical power, which are arranged in this order from the object side, the second lens group (14) being movable along the optical axis (O) in such a way that the sum of the distance (V1) between the second lens group (14) and the first lens group (12) and the distance (V2) between the second lens group (14) and the third lens group (16) is constant. The image scale of the second lens group (14) lies in a range of ?0.9 to ?1.1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventor: Christian SCHULZ