Patents by Inventor Dietmar Schmidt
Dietmar Schmidt 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).
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Publication number: 20240125444Abstract: A lighting device for a motor vehicle, wherein the lighting device has a circuit board with a multiplicity of light-emitting diodes arranged thereon, a transparent optical layer, and a reflector element, wherein the reflector element is arranged between the circuit board and the optical layer, wherein the reflector element has multiple segments into which the reflector element is subdivided, wherein a segment is associated with each light-emitting diode so that light emitted by the light-emitting diodes can be reflected by the reflector element and can pass through the optical layer. Two light-emitting diodes are arranged in a segment. In addition, a lighting system and a motor vehicle are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: HELLA GmbH & Co. KGaAInventors: Mathias DRUEPPEL, Carsten HOHMANN, Marc KAUP, Alfons MICHAELIS, Martin MUEGGE, Diana MUNDT, Thomas RETTWEILER, Jacek ROSLAK, Christian SCHMIDT, Dietmar SCHROEDER, Martin VOLLMER
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Publication number: 20240125316Abstract: A method for determining operating properties of a drill-rod borehole pump, having a pump head, which is connected to a kinematics converter via a drill rod, and the kinematics converter is driven by an electric motor, and furthermore a measuring device is provided for measuring the power consumption of the motor during operation of same.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2020Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: Siemens Energy Austria GmbHInventors: Stefan Gschiel, Helmut Wimmer, Dietmar Schmidt
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Patent number: 11912502Abstract: Grippers for a picking device for drug packages and methods for operating the picking device are provided. The gripper has a tray having an end portion with an arcuate front, the end portion forming a loading and unloading front. The gripper further includes a transport device arranged above the tray and configured for moving drug packages from a storage surface onto the tray, and at least one sensor arranged in the end portion of the tray and configured to determine a presence of a drug package in a detection area of the at least one sensor.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Becton Dickinson Rowa Germany GmbHInventors: Hardy Schmidt-Ellinger, Bernd Nellinger, Stephan Brokonier, Dietmar Gross, Jochen Daumen
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Patent number: 10852715Abstract: A method for visualizing and validating process events in process monitoring systems, wherein a permanently installed sensor system reports states to a process monitoring system, if predefined limit values are exceeded, then the process monitoring system initiates, plans and performs local data acquisition using a mobile sensor, where the result of this data acquisition is analyzed and visualized in the process monitoring system and is integrated in the state information relating to the process or the installation.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2017Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Josef Alois Birchbauer, Michael Hornacek, Daniel Schall, Dietmar Schmidt, Paul Schneeweiss
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Publication number: 20190204814Abstract: A method for visualizing and validating process events in process monitoring systems, wherein a permanently installed sensor system reports states to a process monitoring system, if predefined limit values are exceeded, then the process monitoring system initiates, plans and performs local data acquisition using a mobile sensor, where the result of this data acquisition is analyzed and visualized in the process monitoring system and is integrated in the state information relating to the process or the installation.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2017Publication date: July 4, 2019Inventors: Josef Alois BIRCHBAUER, Michael HORNACEK, Daneil SCHALL, Dietmar SCHMIDT, Paul SCHNEEWEISS
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Patent number: 10207207Abstract: A method for producing at least one hollow filter element comprising a grid-like wall, wherein the at least one filter element is produced by means of a generative process from a free-flowing or pourable starting material by solidifying the starting material in selective locations, layer by layer at the locations of each layer which correspond to the at least one filter element by inputting energy by means of focused radiation.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2014Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Inventors: Matthias Fockele, Heinz-Dietmar Schmidt
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Patent number: 9879831Abstract: A semiconductor lamp comprises a housing in which a driver is accommodated and at least one contact pin protruding from the housing outwards, wherein the contact pin is tubular and riveted to the housing and the driver is connected to the contact pin via an electrically conductive connection element which is inserted into a cavity of the contact pin. A method serves for producing a semiconductor lamp, wherein at least one tubular contact pin is inserted into a feedthrough of a housing from outside till the contact pin abuts the housing, the contact pin is next riveted with the housing on the inside and a driver is inserted into the housing, whereby an electrically conductive connection element is inserted into the contact pin. The invention is particularly applicable to LED retrofit lamps for replacing bipin halogen lamps, in particular MR16 lamps.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2017Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: LEDVANCE GmbHInventors: Thomas Klafta, Dietmar Schmidt
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Publication number: 20170254483Abstract: A semiconductor lamp (1) comprises a housing (2) in which a driver (3) is accommodated and at least one contact pin (6) protruding from the housing (2) outwards, wherein the contact pin (6) is tubular and riveted to the housing (2) and the driver (3) is connected to the contact pin (6) via an electrically conductive connection element (12) which is inserted into a cavity (13) of the contact pin (6). A method serves for producing a semiconductor lamp (1), wherein at least one tubular contact pin (6) is inserted into a feedthrough (5) of a housing (2) from outside till the contact pin (6) abuts the housing (2), the contact pin (6) is next riveted with the housing (2) on the inside and a driver (3) is inserted into the housing (2), whereby an electrically conductive connection element (12) is inserted into the contact pin (6). The invention is particularly applicable to LED retrofit lamps for replacing bipin halogen lamps, in particular MR16 lamps.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2017Publication date: September 7, 2017Inventors: Thomas Klafta, Dietmar Schmidt
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Patent number: 9377405Abstract: An improved evaluation circuit which allows high sensitivity in an economical manner. For this purpose, a shift register having at least one data input, a clock input, a plurality of register stages and at least one data output is provided, wherein the output of the analog-to-digital converter is connected to the data input of the shift register. With a shift register, fluorescent light and scattered light can be temporally distinguished in an economical manner.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2012Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbHInventors: Gunter Möhler, Dietmar Schmidt, Oliver Holub, Robert Hauschild
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Publication number: 20160059154Abstract: A method for producing at least one hollow filter element comprising a grid-like wall, wherein the at least one filter element is produced by means of a generative process from a free-flowing or pourable starting material by solidifying the starting material in selective locations, layer by layer at the locations of each layer which correspond to the at least one filter element by inputting energy by means of focused radiation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2014Publication date: March 3, 2016Inventors: Matthias FOCKELE, Heinz-Dietmar SCHMIDT
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Publication number: 20140231675Abstract: An improved evaluation circuit which allows high sensitivity in an economical manner. For this purpose, a shift register having at least one data input, a clock input, a plurality of register stages and at least one data output is provided, wherein the output of the analog-to-digital converter is connected to the data input of the shift register. With a shift register, fluorescent light and scattered light can be temporally distinguished in an economical manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2012Publication date: August 21, 2014Inventors: Gunter Möhler, Dietmar Schmidt, Oliver Holub, Robert Hauschild
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Patent number: 8633430Abstract: Method and apparatus for generating an at least two-dimensional image of at least part of a sample. The method involves scanning the sample. Acquiring at least one light signal by an optoelectronic detector for different areas of the sample. Converting the light signal into an electrical signal. Distributing the electrical signal onto several parallel evaluation channels whose signal evaluations differ from each other so that their dynamic ranges are different. Generating a result signal in each evaluation channel. Selecting at least one of the result signals as a function of one of the result signals in order to generate the image for the sample range concerned. It is also possible to generate one intermediate result signal for each channel, typically from the respective actual result signal and one or more other sources. Thus the signal selection depending on both the result signals and the intermediate result signals are possible.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2012Date of Patent: January 21, 2014Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microscophy GmbHInventors: Gunter Möhler, Dietmar Schmidt, Oliver Holub
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Patent number: 8420992Abstract: In microscopes, particularly laser scanning microscopes, for detecting light coming from a sample, it is known to protect detectors from excessively high light outputs by means of shutters in the detection beam path. Further, in order to measure the light output impinging on the detector when the detection beam path is closed, a portion of the light is coupled out of the detection beam path and directed to a monitor diode. Constructions of this kind are complicated and costly. In the microscope according to the invention, a monitor diode is arranged on the shutter in such a way that the monitor diode is situated in the detection beam path when the shutter is closed. This makes it possible in a simple manner to measure the light output in a microscope when the detection beam path is closed even without additionally coupling light out of the detection beam path.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2010Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbHInventors: Peter Kuehn, Dietmar Schmidt, Thomas Mehner
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Publication number: 20120205519Abstract: Method and apparatus for generating an at least two-dimensional image of at least part of a sample. The method involves scanning the sample. Acquiring at least one light signal by an optoelectronic detector for different areas of the sample. Converting the light signal into an electrical signal. Distributing the electrical signal onto several parallel evaluation channels whose signal evaluations differ from each other so that their dynamic ranges are different. Generating a result signal in each evaluation channel. Selecting at least one of the result signals as a function of one of the result signals in order to generate the image for the sample range concerned. It is also possible to generate one intermediate result signal for each channel, typically from the respective actual result signal and one or more other sources. Thus the signal selection depending on both the result signals and the intermediate result signals are possible.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2012Publication date: August 16, 2012Applicant: Carl Zeiss Microlmaging GmbHInventors: Gunter Möhler, Dietmar Schmidt, Oliver Holub
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Publication number: 20110090561Abstract: In microscopes, particularly laser scanning microscopes, for detecting light coming from a sample, it is known to protect detectors from excessively high light outputs by means of shutters in the detection beam path. Further, in order to measure the light output impinging on the detector when the detection beam path is closed, a portion of the light is coupled out of the detection beam path and directed to a monitor diode. Constructions of this kind are complicated and costly. In the microscope according to the invention, a monitor diode is arranged on the shutter in such a way that the monitor diode is situated in the detection beam path when the shutter is closed. This makes it possible in a simple manner to measure the light output in a microscope when the detection beam path is closed even without additionally coupling light out of the detection beam path.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2010Publication date: April 21, 2011Inventors: Peter KUEHN, Dietmar Schmidt, Thomas Mehner
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Patent number: 7859673Abstract: A method for detecting and analyzing light signals, in which a light signal impinges an optoelectric converter, where it is converted into an electric signal and the electric signal subsequent to the conversion is distributed into several analysis channels (13.1-13.4), within each analysis channel (13.1), (i) a signal analysis is performed, which is different from the signal analysis for the other analysis channels (13.2-13.4) and (ii) an output signal is created. In such a method, one or more output signals are selected for further processing and output using a specified, changeable selection criterion.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2007Date of Patent: December 28, 2010Assignee: Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbHInventors: Gunter Moehler, Dietmar Schmidt, Mirko Liedtke
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Publication number: 20080008479Abstract: A method for detecting and evaluating light signals, in which a light signal impinges an optoelectric converter, where it is converted into an electric signal and the electric signal subsequent to the conversion is distributed into several evaluation channels (13.1-13.4), within each evaluation channel (13.1), (i) a signal evaluation is performed, which is different form the signal evaluation for the other evaluation channels (13.2-13.4) and (ii) a result signal is created. In such a method, one or more result signals are selected for further processing and displayed using a predetermined variably adjustable selection criterion.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2007Publication date: January 10, 2008Inventors: Gunter Moehler, Dietmar Schmidt, Mirko Liedtke
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Patent number: 7237383Abstract: A method according to the invention and a corresponding device (1) designed to cool the exhaust gas (15) of a gas turbine to below its dew point. Water (25) accumulating hereby can be used for the power plant operation, so that the provision of (make-up) water for the power plant operation can be dispensed with or at least reduced, especially in areas ill-supplied with water.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2004Date of Patent: July 3, 2007Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Rudolf Ahrens-Botzong, Eberhard Gralla, Dietmar Schmidt
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Publication number: 20050039461Abstract: A method according to the invention and a corresponding device (1) designed to cool the exhaust gas (15) of a gas turbine to below its dew point. Water (25) accumulating hereby can be used for the power plant operation, so that the provision of (make-up) water for the power plant operation can be dispensed with or at least reduced, especially in areas ill-supplied with water.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2004Publication date: February 24, 2005Inventors: Rudolf Ahrens-Botzong, Eberhard Gralla, Dietmar Schmidt
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Patent number: 6823079Abstract: An arrangement for examination of one or more specimens arranged in specimen vessels or on specimen carriers by transmitted light or incident light by imaging and/or detecting at least a portion of the specimen volume through the specimen vessel or specimen carrier by a CCD camera followed by an evaluating unit, wherein, advantageously, an incident illumination is likewise effected through the specimen vessel or specimen carrier and the illumination is used to excite specimen emission, preferably fluorescence excitation.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2001Date of Patent: November 23, 2004Assignee: Carl Zeiss Jena GmbHInventors: Johannes Winterot, Dietmar Schmidt, Dieter Schau