Patents by Inventor Claus Kunze

Claus Kunze 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: 4566113
    Abstract: Method for examining the content of containers, which includes weighing the container, comparing the weight of the container with a total weight derived from the net weight of a given load and the product of the volume and the packing weight of the given load, transilluminating the container with a spatially limited high energy X-ray beam, moving the container relative to the X-ray, and determining and evaluating the distribution of the mass attenuation coefficient over at least one surface of the container, and an apparatus for carrying out the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1986
    Assignee: Heimann GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Donges, Thomas Herwig, Claus Kunze, Karl-Ulrich Stein
  • Patent number: 4276534
    Abstract: The present invention involves a structure of a contactless ohmic resistance potentiometer. A current path between two exterior electrodes is provided by a photoconductor, and a means is provided for causing an exposure of a portion of the length of the photoconductor between one exterior electrode and a tapping electrode. This permits a voltage division between two exterior electrodes. The usable surface of the photoconductor layer is delimited by an exterior electrode and a tapping electrode having a definite geometric course between the exterior electrodes. The distance ratio from the tapping electrode to the two exterior electrodes is varied by means of displacing the exposure of the photoconductor which causes the active partial surface of the photoconductor to be varied at will.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1981
    Assignee: Heimann GmbH
    Inventors: Juergen Meyer, Norbert Schaaf, Claus Kunze
  • Patent number: 4216499
    Abstract: A baggage inspection system utilizing fluoroscopy of baggage pieces and the like, employing an X-Ray flash unit, a television pick-up unit for scanning the X-Ray image, storage of the television image and subsequent image reproduction by a television monitor, in which, in accordance with the invention, the memory is a digital solid state memory for the digital storage of a half frame, of an interlaced video frame of the television pick-up unit, with a capacity of 6 to 8 bits per image-point of the image signal to be stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1978
    Date of Patent: August 5, 1980
    Assignee: Heimann GmbH
    Inventors: Claus Kunze, Manfred Dennhoven
  • Patent number: 4210811
    Abstract: An apparatus for inspecting or screening articles, such as closed luggage and parcels, having a moveable shield to enclose selectively a monitoring duct area in which the articles are placed for screening by X-ray or similar radiation. The shield moves in a fixed housing (which may in turn be mobile) on wheels. A linear drive motor has a stator fixed in the bottom of the housing. The shield carries a rail electromagnetically reactable directly with the stator. Proximity switches in the housing activated by a magnet on the shield control the travel of the shield. A switch located between the end of travel switches may be employed to vary the speed of the linear motor to provide quick, safe cycling of the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 1, 1980
    Assignee: Heimann GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Dennhoven, Claus Kunze
  • Patent number: 4199218
    Abstract: The invention relates to a "warm light reflector", which reflects infrared radiation and absorbs visible light. More specifically, a reflecting layer of, for example, gold carries a double layer of PbS, which is constructed of one smooth layer and of one fine-flocked layer of agglomerates.The disclosed warm light reflector finds particular application in infrared measurement technology, preferably in a passive infrared alarm generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1978
    Date of Patent: April 22, 1980
    Assignee: Heimann GmbH
    Inventors: Peter-Wilhelm Steinhage, Claus Kunze
  • Patent number: 4139771
    Abstract: A luggage inspection apparatus utilizing fluoroscopic examination in conjunction with an X-ray generator, with the fluoroscopic picture being received by a TV camera, the video signals of which are supplied to an intermediate store for ultimate supply to a TV monitor, the camera containing an AC line-coupled pulse generator for synchronizing the camera and the X-ray flash generator, which pulse generator is electrically interconnected with a synchronizing unit which, upon the initiating of a starting pulse, thus likewise synchronously triggers the X-ray flash generator with respect to the AC supply line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1976
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1979
    Assignee: Heimann GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Dennhoven, Claus Kunze, Rainhard Kuehn
  • Patent number: 4047035
    Abstract: A baggage inspection apparatus utilizing an X-ray generator for fluoroscopic examination of luggage and the like in which an X-ray detector is disposed in the beam path of the X-ray generator, operative to control switch means for switching off the high voltage of the X-ray beam generator in the event the intensity and/or duration of the X-ray radiation exceeds a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1977
    Assignee: Heimann GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Dennhoven, Claus Kunze, Rainhard Kuehn
  • Patent number: 3974415
    Abstract: A light-sensitive target for a color television system which includes a transparent carrier plate such as the front plate of a color television camera, having discrete strips of interference filter material disposed thereon. The strips are disposed in parallel relation on the inside surface of the transparent carrier. An intermediate layer is formed over these strips to eliminate abrupt or sharp edges presented by the strip to the inside surface of the tube. A conductive layer is formed over the intermediate layer and finally a light sensitive medium is disposed over the entire inside surface of the system. By means of the intermediate layer, the contour between the light-sensitive and the conductive layers are caused to have generally rounded configurations, thereby eliminating interferences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1974
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1976
    Assignee: Heimann GmbH
    Inventor: Claus Kunze