Patents by Inventor Dirk Tenholte

Dirk Tenholte 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).

  • Publication number: 20150223745
    Abstract: The invention relates to a bladder measurement capsule, which can be introduced into the bladder of a living being, in particular a human, and which has a pressure sensor and measurement electronics in a housing by means of which pressure measurement values provided by the pressure sensor can be detected and saved and which has a shape deviating from a linear longitudinal extension, in particular the shape of a ring torus sector, and is flexible against a resetting force into a linear longitudinally extended shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Inventors: Sebastian Wille, Jan Mehner, Dirk Tenholte
  • Publication number: 20140066804
    Abstract: The invention relates to a bladder pressure measurement system and to a measurement method comprising a measurement capsule (1) that can be placed in the bladder of a living creature, in particular of a human being, and comprising a pressure sensor and measurement electronics, by means of which pressure measurement values provided by the pressure sensor can be captured and saved, comprising a probe device having a manually actuated probe, wherein the probe device and the measurement capsule comprise internal chronometers synchronized to each other or at least capable of being synchronized to each other and the measurement capsule (1) is designed to capture and save pressure measurement values together with time information from the chronometer thereof, and the probe device is designed to detect and save a probe actuation together with time information from the chronometer thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Inventors: Sebastian Wille, Dirk Tenholte, Jan Mehner
  • Patent number: 8186225
    Abstract: The invention relates to a sensor element for pressure measurement, having a substrate (5) and at least one mass element (1), which is arranged spaced apart from the substrate (5) and is connected in an oscillating manner to the substrate (5) and/or a support body (6) fixed relative to the substrate (5), so that a gap is formed between the mass element (1) and the substrate (5), the width of which can be varied through oscillations of the mass element (1). At least one recess and/or at least one bushing (4) is located in the surface of the substrate (5) delimiting the gap, which recess is used for reducing the damping of the oscillation of the mass element through the gas or plasma surrounding the mass element (1). The sensor element is used in particular in pressure sensors for measuring pressures in the vacuum range. Through the use of the sensor element according to the invention as a pressure sensor, maximum pressures up to the range of atmospheric air pressure can be recorded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignees: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V., Technische Univeristaet Chemnitz
    Inventors: Steffen Kurth, Dirk Tenholte, Karla Hiller, Christian Kaufmann, Thomas Gessner, Wolfram Doetzel
  • Publication number: 20100024562
    Abstract: The invention relates to a sensor element for pressure measurement, having a substrate (5) and at least one mass element (1), which is arranged spaced apart from the substrate (5) and is connected in an oscillating manner to the substrate (5) and/or a support body (6) fixed relative to the substrate (5), so that a gap is formed between the mass element (1) and the substrate (5), the width of which can be varied through oscillations of the mass element (1). At least one recess and/or at least one bushing (4) is located in the surface of the substrate (5) delimiting the gap, which recess is used for reducing the damping of the oscillation of the mass element through the gas or plasma surrounding the mass element (1). The sensor element is used in particular in pressure sensors for measuring pressures in the vacuum range. Through the use of the sensor element according to the invention as a pressure sensor, maximum pressures up to the range of atmospheric air pressure can be recorded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2007
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Applicant: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.,
    Inventors: Steffen Kurth, Dirk Tenholte, Karla Hiller, Christian Kaufmann, Thomas Gessner, Wolfram Doetzel