Patents by Inventor Detleff Mattern

Detleff Mattern 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).

  • X-ray radiator with rotating bulb tube with exteriorly profiled anode to improve cooling
    Patent number: 6426998
    Abstract: An x-ray radiator has a housing containing a fluid coolant wherein a rotating bulb x-ray tube is rotatably seated, the rotating bulb x-ray tube having an evacuated vacuum housing containing a cathode and an anode, with the anode forming a wall of the vacuum housing and having an exterior charged by the coolant. The anode has a profiling at its exterior that enlarges the surface area contact between the exterior of the anode and the coolant. The profiling can be in the form of at least one channel proceeding from as a spiral from a central region of the anode toward its periphery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2002
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Erich Hell, Detleff Mattern, Thomas Ohrndorf, Peter Schardt