Patents by Inventor DIETER KUHNKE

DIETER KUHNKE 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: 9366852
    Abstract: A corner reflector for armored vehicles includes a housing, a one-part or multi-part prism block fitted in the housing, an inwardly viewing window, an outwardly viewing window and an electronic screen for simultaneously looking through and feeding in text and/or image information. The screen is formed of a thin flat or film-like component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Gus Periscopes GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Dieter Kuhnke
  • Patent number: 9341845
    Abstract: An angle mirror with image injection has an angle-mirror body, a viewing-in end, a viewing-out end, panels arranged in front of the ends, upper and lower deflection mirrors and a display. The image of the display is visible in the viewing-in end. The angle mirror makes it unnecessary for an observer's eye to refocus during an image-source change, such that he can recognize both represented image information items at the same time. This is achieved by arranging the display in a vertical direction on the angle mirror, configuring the lower deflection mirror as a beam splitter, arranging a first mirror element behind it, and guiding a first beam path of the display via an injection lens arranged on the angle-mirror body and likewise via mirror elements arranged thereon such that the first beam path is superposed at the beam splitter by a second beam path through the viewing-out end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: GuS Periscopes GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Dieter Kuhnke
  • Patent number: 9302300
    Abstract: A method is provided for cleaning at least a part of a water-steam circuit of a power plant. The method includes introducing a cleaning solution into the part requiring to be cleaned and subsequently draining off the cleaning solution. While the cleaning solution is being drained off or immediately thereafter, steam for flushing is injected via a steam injection device into the part requiring to be cleaned at at least one high point of the part requiring to be cleaned and low-point drains are opened or remain open in the part requiring to be cleaned and steam continues to be injected until steam emerges from the low-point drains and those low-point drains from which steam emerges are closed, and steam continues to be injected until steam has emerged from all low-point drains, upon which the steam injection device is closed and all low-point drains are reopened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Klaus-Dieter Kuhnke
  • Patent number: 9086572
    Abstract: A corner reflector of an armored vehicle includes a housing having a look-in aperture of a subregion extending into a vehicle interior, a look-out aperture of a subregion extending out of the vehicle and at least one prism body or deflection mirrors disposed in the housing, to provide effective shielding against sources of electromagnetic interference. Providing the corner reflector on all sides with a shield made of electrically conductive material ensures that vehicles equipped therewith or individual electronic components thereof cannot be influenced or rendered unusable by sources of electromagnetic interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: GuS Periscopes GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Dieter Kuhnke
  • Publication number: 20150168709
    Abstract: A corner reflector of an armored vehicle includes a housing having a look-in aperture of a subregion extending into a vehicle interior, a look-out aperture of a subregion extending out of the vehicle and at least one prism body or deflection mirrors disposed in the housing, to provide effective shielding against sources of electromagnetic interference. Providing the corner reflector on all sides with a shield made of electrically conductive material ensures that vehicles equipped therewith or individual electronic components thereof cannot be influenced or rendered unusable by sources of electromagnetic interference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventor: DIETER KUHNKE
  • Publication number: 20150153562
    Abstract: A corner reflector for armored vehicles includes a housing, a one-part or multi-part prism block fitted in the housing, an inwardly viewing window, an outwardly viewing window and an electronic screen for simultaneously looking through and feeding in text and/or image information. The screen is formed of a thin flat or film-like component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Inventor: DIETER KUHNKE
  • Publication number: 20150109664
    Abstract: A periscope includes a prism block with upper and lower deflection mirrors, in a housing with a vision unit and a reflector unit. A display unit is disposed opposite the vision unit, above the lower deflection mirror on a section of the rear side that is parallel to the front side. A reflector unit image can be seen exclusively on a lower region and a display image can be seen exclusively on an upper region of the vision unit. The upper region corresponds to at least half the height of the vision unit. An air gap is present between the display unit and the prism block, and a heating film or an ITO coating (indium-tin oxide) for heating the optical surface and/or an anti-frosting nano coating is applied to the surface of the prism block opposite the display unit and/or to the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventor: DIETER KUHNKE
  • Publication number: 20140376099
    Abstract: An angle mirror with image injection has an angle-mirror body, a viewing-in end, a viewing-out end, panels arranged in front of the ends, upper and lower deflection mirrors and a display. The image of the display is visible in the viewing-in end. The angle mirror makes it unnecessary for an observer's eye to refocus during an image-source change, such that he can recognize both represented image information items at the same time. This is achieved by arranging the display in a vertical direction on the angle mirror, configuring the lower deflection mirror as a beam splitter, arranging a first mirror element behind it, and guiding a first beam path of the display via an injection lens arranged on the angle-mirror body and likewise via mirror elements arranged thereon such that the first beam path is superposed at the beam splitter by a second beam path through the viewing-out end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventor: DIETER KUHNKE
  • Patent number: 8861105
    Abstract: A corner reflector of an armored vehicle includes a housing having a look-in aperture of a subregion extending into a vehicle interior, a look-out aperture of a subregion extending out of the vehicle and at least one prism body or deflection mirrors disposed in the housing, to provide effective shielding against sources of electromagnetic interference. Providing the corner reflector on all sides with a shield made of electrically conductive material ensures that vehicles equipped therewith or individual electronic components thereof cannot be influenced or rendered unusable by sources of electromagnetic interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: GuS Praezision in Kunststoff, Glas und Optik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Dieter Kuhnke
  • Publication number: 20140240833
    Abstract: A corner reflector (e.g. a periscope) is made of a prism block having a viewing-in end and a viewing-out end with mirrored inclined surfaces or deflection mirrors applied on its inclined surfaces and also functional plates arranged in front of the viewing-in end and/or the viewing-out end. In the corner reflector, as far as possible, no signs of detachment of the deflection mirrors arranged thereon or of functional plates occur and which has an increased lifetime, which is achieved by all plate-shaped components, such as the deflection mirrors and the functional plates. All solid components of the corner reflector, such as the prism block, are made of plastic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: GUS PRAEZISION IN KUNSTOFF, GLAS UND GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Dieter Kuhnke
  • Publication number: 20130155532
    Abstract: A corner reflector of an armored vehicle includes a housing having a look-in aperture of a subregion extending into a vehicle interior, a look-out aperture of a subregion extending out of the vehicle and at least one prism body or deflection mirrors disposed in the housing, to provide effective shielding against sources of electromagnetic interference. Providing the corner reflector on all sides with a shield made of electrically conductive material ensures that vehicles equipped therewith or individual electronic components thereof cannot be influenced or rendered unusable by sources of electromagnetic interference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Inventor: DIETER KUHNKE
  • Publication number: 20130139855
    Abstract: A method is provided for cleaning at least a part of a water-steam circuit of a power plant. The method includes introducing a cleaning solution into the part requiring to be cleaned and subsequently draining off the cleaning solution. While the cleaning solution is being drained off or immediately thereafter, steam for flushing is injected via a steam injection device into the part requiring to be cleaned at at least one high point of the part requiring to be cleaned and low-point drains are opened or remain open in the part requiring to be cleaned and steam continues to be injected until steam emerges from the low-point drains and those low-point drains from which steam emerges are closed, and steam continues to be injected until steam has emerged from all low-point drains, upon which the steam injection device is closed and all low-point drains are reopened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2011
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Inventor: Klaus-Dieter Kuhnke