Patents by Inventor Dirk David Goldbeck

Dirk David Goldbeck 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: 8435191
    Abstract: The embodiments relate to a sensor strip (13) and to a flexible support strip (12) for receiving the sensor strip and for fixing the strip to a surface e.g. to the back of a test person. According to the embodiments, the sensor strip (13) has a reference point (18), (for example a snap fastener connection), with which it can be fixed to a reference surface (16) of the support strip. This allows the position of the sensor strip (13) to be unambiguously defined on the support strip (12). The further extension of the sensor strip (13) lies in a pocket (23) so that it can slide, allowing the relative movement between the support strip and the sensor strip if the support strip is lengthened (represented by a dot-dash line). The entire sensor unit is thus advantageously more comfortable to wear, as the elastic support strip (12), for example, can freely follow the back movements of the test person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Grigorios Barboutis, Dirk David Goldbeck, Tobias Happel, Andre Matthias Kwiatek, Stefan Nerreter
  • Patent number: 8241231
    Abstract: The profile of the spinal column and changes in the profile of the spinal column are continuously measured during movement along the entire spinal column in all degrees of freedom of its deformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Bausewein, Thomas Bierhoff, Dirk David Goldbeck, Tobias Happel, Hans-Jürgen Schrage
  • Publication number: 20110245733
    Abstract: In a method and a device for measuring a torsion of a body with the aid of flexion sensors (B1, B2), a respective flexion effected by the torsion is detected at the flexion sensors by a first flexion signal (T1) of the first flexion sensor (B1) and a second flexion signal (T2) of the second flexion sensor (B2), and a flexion signal (CT) characteristic of the torsion is obtained by subtracting the first flexion signal from the second flexion signal or by adding the first flexion signal and the second flexion signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2007
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Inventors: Dirk David Goldbeck, Tobias Happel, Benjamin L'Henoret
  • Publication number: 20100305482
    Abstract: A sensor application (11) has modules consisting of a carrier strip (13) and a sensor strip (12). The sensor strip (12) is fixed to the carrier strip (13) which, in turn, is fixed, for example, to the back of a human proband. In this way, the spinal curvature can be determined, the carrier strip (13) and the sensor strip (12) being elastically embodied for this purpose. The carrier strip (13) has a data memory (22), for example an RFID label on which relevant information is stored. The data can be evaluated by an evaluation device (14), and the sensor strip (12) is only released when the carrier strip is suitable for the sensor strip used. In this way, defective functions and measuring errors are advantageously avoided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2008
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventors: Dirk David Goldbeck, Tobias Happel
  • Publication number: 20100240981
    Abstract: The embodiments relate to a sensor strip (13) and to a flexible support strip (12) for receiving the sensor strip and for fixing the strip to a surface e.g. to the back of a test person. According to the embodiments, the sensor strip (13) has a reference point (18), (for example a snap fastener connection), with which it can be fixed to a reference surface (16) of the support strip. This allows the position of the sensor strip (13) to be unambiguously defined on the support strip (12). The further extension of the sensor strip (13) lies in a pocket (23) so that it can slide, allowing the relative movement between the support strip and the sensor strip if the support strip is lengthened (represented by a dot-dash line). The entire sensor unit is thus advantageously more comfortable to wear, as the elastic support strip (12), for example, can freely follow the back movements of the test person.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2008
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Inventors: Grigorios Barboutis, Dirk David Goldbeck, Tobias Happel, Andre Matthias Kwiatex, Stefan Nerreter
  • Publication number: 20100145235
    Abstract: A device (V) for fixing at least one fibrous strip (FB) to a body part (K), wherein the fibrous strip comprises at least one fibre (F) embodied as a fibre-optic bending sensor, has at least one fixing unit (BE) which respectively has (a) a fixing part (BM) for applying part of the fibrous strip to the body part, and (b) at least one fixing loop (BS) for guiding the fibrous strip along an axis of a three-dimensional space. The fixing loop can be fixed to the body part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2007
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Inventors: Dirk David Goldbeck, Tobias Happel, Benjamin L'Hénoret, Helmut Nowsch, Daniel Sommer
  • Publication number: 20090234250
    Abstract: The profile of the spinal column and changes in the profile of the spinal column are continuously measured during movement along the entire spinal column in all degrees of freedom of its deformation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2007
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Inventors: Andreas Bausewein, Thomas Bierhoff, Dirk David Goldbeck, Tobias Happel, Hans-Jürgen Schrage