Patents by Inventor Franz Dirauf

Franz Dirauf 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: 20200016927
    Abstract: An embodiment relates to an omnidirectional chassis for a gantry of a computed tomography device. The omnidirectional chassis includes a first pair of omnidirectional wheels; and a first wheel suspension for the first pair of omnidirectional wheels. The first wheel suspension includes a connecting unit to connect the first wheel suspension to a rack; a swivel unit connected to the connecting unit via a first swivel bearing and swivel-mounted about a first swivel axis relative to the connecting unit; and a tandem unit, connected to the swivel unit via a second swivel bearing and swivel-mounted about a second swivel axis. In an embodiment, the first pair of omnidirectional wheels is coupled to the tandem unit such that, on a swivel movement of the tandem unit about the second swivel axis, one omnidirectional wheel of the first pair of omnidirectional wheels is relatively raised and another omnidirectional wheel is relatively lowered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Florian DIETRICH, Franz DIRAUF, Boban JOVIC, Hans-Juergen MUELLER
  • Publication number: 20190343701
    Abstract: A transport device is for carrying and moving objects from one location to another. In an embodiment, the transport device includes a chassis and at least four motor-driven omnidirectional wheels arranged on the chassis. The chassis is configured to adapt the wheelbase and the track gauge of the omnidirectional wheels according to the size of the object. A corresponding method for operating such transport device is further specified in an embodiment. The embodiments of the application lie in the universal usage of the transport device for nearly all sizes and shapes of an object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Inventors: Franz DIRAUF, Thorsten GECKS
  • Publication number: 20190209104
    Abstract: A method is for operating an at least partially autonomously moving, mobile medical unit, which has at least one sensing device for detecting possible collision objects in the environment of the unit and a control device, which evaluates the sensing data of the sensing device and which is designed to at least partially autonomously operate the movement of the unit while performing a collision protection function. In an embodiment of the method, a possible collision object described by the sensing data is classified by evaluating the sensing data and the classification is taken into consideration in the autonomous operation of the unit, in particular in the calculation of a trajectory to be traveled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Franz DIRAUF, Verena SCHMIDT
  • Patent number: 10244997
    Abstract: A C-arm for a medical examination device or therapeutic device, is designed as a cast metal component. In at least one embodiment, one or more reinforcement profile, extending at least in certain sections along the C-arm, are cast in.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: SIEMENS HEALTHCARE GMBH
    Inventors: Franz Dirauf, Alexander Kraemer, Wolfgang Neuber, Patrick Plannerer, Martin Seifert, Josef Zeidler
  • Publication number: 20190008470
    Abstract: A C-arm for a medical examination device or therapeutic device, is designed as a cast metal component. In at least one embodiment, one or more reinforcement profile, extending at least in certain sections along the C-arm, are cast in.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Applicant: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Franz DIRAUF, Alexander KRAEMER, Wolfgang NEUBER, Patrick PLANNERER, Martin SEIFERT, Josef ZEIDLER
  • Publication number: 20180297396
    Abstract: The present embodiments provide a mobile medical device with at least one motor-driven wheel. The mobile medical device is movable on the at least one wheel. The motor-driven wheel is arranged on a hub assigned to the motor-driven wheel. The motor-driven wheel is reversibly removable from the hub and is pluggable back onto the hub manually and without aids. The present embodiments provide that the motor-driven wheel may be removed rapidly manually and without additional aids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Inventors: Florian Dietrich, Franz Dirauf
  • Publication number: 20180206818
    Abstract: A portable expansion unit controls safety-relevant functions of a medical device. The expansion unit has a retaining device to be adjusted to the size of a flat, portable operating unit of the medical device. The retaining device mechanically connects the expansion unit detachably with the portable operating unit. A communication module establishes a safety-related data connection with the medical device. This combines a mobile, portable consumer operating device, such as a tablet computer or smartphone, which does not fulfill any particular safety-related requirements, with an expansion unit, which permits the control of safety-relevant functions with the aid of a safety-related radio protocol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Inventors: FRANZ DIRAUF, ROBERT KAGERMEIER, JOERG HOFMANN
  • Patent number: 9943271
    Abstract: A medical device is controlled as a function of a position of a control element projected onto a projection surface, wherein a geometric property of the projected control element is adjusted to the surface structure. The adjustment is accomplished by means of a transformation of projection data, the projection data corresponding to the control element that is to be projected. The optical projection of the control element is based on the transformed projection data. Such an adjustment and transformation are made possible by determining the surface structure of the projection surface. The control system has an image processor both for determining the surface structure and for transforming the projection data. The control system additionally has a projector for optically projecting the control element and a control unit for controlling the medical device based on the first position of the projected control element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Franz Dirauf, Thilo Hannemann, Anja Jaeger, Robert Kagermeier
  • Publication number: 20170354564
    Abstract: A mobile walker has a frame, at least two wheels which are embodied and arranged on the frame to move the mobile walker around on a ground surface, at least one hand grip embodied and arranged on the frame to be used by a user of the mobile walker as a support and pushing aid, at least one measured value recording unit embodied and programmed to record at least one vital parameter of the user, and a processor unit which is connected communicatively to the measured value recording unit and which is embodied and programmed to assess the recorded vital parameter and/or transmit the same to a control center arranged separately from the mobile walker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventors: FRANZ DIRAUF, ROBERT KAGERMEIER, VERENA SCHMIDT
  • Publication number: 20170325763
    Abstract: An arrangement includes a gantry of a medical imaging device and an omnidirectional suspension for moving the arrangement relative to a support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Applicant: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Mathias HOERNIG, Hans-Juergen MUELLER, Georg WITTMANN, Franz DIRAUF
  • Patent number: 9785131
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for contact-free control of a patient table includes a camera system for detecting at least one gesture of a user of the device, a processing unit for converting the at least one detected gesture into at least one command for controlling the patient table, and an execution unit for executing the at least one command for controlling the patient table. The device can furthermore include a monitoring system for monitoring the control of the patient table and an authentication system for authenticating the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Franz Dirauf, Sultan Haider, Stefan Popescu
  • Patent number: 9737270
    Abstract: A collision sensor device for a medical apparatus includes a sensor structure having a first sensor and a second sensor that are separated by a spacer layer, at least one crumple layer that adjoins one of the first sensor and the second sensor and is configured to provide a run-on path, and an outer surface layer provided on a side facing away from the medical apparatus in an installed state of the collision sensor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Franz Dirauf, Verena Schmidt
  • Patent number: 9554953
    Abstract: The embodiments relate to a medical device and to a method for controlling a movement of the mobile medical device. The medical device includes a chassis and a control apparatus, wherein the medical device is embodied by the chassis to perform a movement in at least two spatial directions on a plane of motion and to execute a rotary movement about an axis of rotation standing perpendicularly on the plane of motion, and the control apparatus is embodied for controlling the chassis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Franz Dirauf, Dieter Heinl, Peter Klemm, Michael Koerth
  • Patent number: 9541486
    Abstract: A panel includes a plurality of integrated strain gauges for measuring deformation information relating to the panel. The strain gauges are arranged parallel to one another in the longitudinal direction of the panel and have at least two different lengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Franz Dirauf, Kerstin Farmbauer
  • Publication number: 20160120487
    Abstract: A couch panel for a patient couch for a medical imaging method is disclosed. The couch panel is of single-shell design, beads are formed in the longitudinal direction of the couch panel, wherein the number and the shape of the beads are chosen such that the couch panel has a predefinable geometric moment of inertia. The two longitudinally extending edges of the couch panel are bent upward. This is advantageous because of the cost-effective production of a couch panel and, in the case of X-ray imaging, in the low radiation absorption. A patient couch having a couch panel of this kind is likewise disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Franz Dirauf, Michael Grasruck, Alexander Krämer, Riccardo Kunze, Otto Sembritzki
  • Patent number: 9314647
    Abstract: The present embodiments relate to a holding arm for a detector that may be positioned on a first arm end or a diagnostic beam source that may be positioned on the first arm end. The present embodiments also relate to a radiation therapy arrangement with the holding arm. The holding arm may be positioned in a region of a second arm end in an emitter head region of a radiation therapy system and is essentially curved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Franz Dirauf, Franz Fadler, Christian Ziegler
  • Publication number: 20150351709
    Abstract: A medical device is controlled as a function of a position of a control element projected onto a projection surface, wherein a geometric property of the projected control element is adjusted to the surface structure. The adjustment is accomplished by means of a transformation of projection data, the projection data corresponding to the control element that is to be projected. The optical projection of the control element is based on the transformed projection data. Such an adjustment and transformation are made possible by determining the surface structure of the projection surface. The control system has an image processor both for determining the surface structure and for transforming the projection data. The control system additionally has a projector for optically projecting the control element and a control unit for controlling the medical device based on the first position of the projected control element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Franz Dirauf, Thilo Hannemann, Anja Jaeger, Robert Kagermeier
  • Patent number: 9192785
    Abstract: A device and a method to determine a position of a component that is moveable in a linear manner along an assigned axis are provided. A reference element that extends in a direction of the assigned axis is assigned to the component. The component may be brought into mechanical contact with the reference element. A respective piezo transducer is arranged on the reference element to generate and receive vibrations in a material used for the reference element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Franz Dirauf, Kerstin Farmbauer, Carsten Schuh, Thorsten Steinkopff, Andreas Wolff
  • Publication number: 20150320367
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for contact-free control of a patient table includes a camera system for detecting at least one gesture of a user of the device, a processing unit for converting the at least one detected gesture into at least one command for controlling the patient table, and an execution unit for executing the at least one command for controlling the patient table. The device can furthermore include a monitoring system for monitoring the control of the patient table and an authentication system for authenticating the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Franz Dirauf, Sultan Haider, Stefan Popescu
  • Publication number: 20150216746
    Abstract: The embodiments relate to a medical device and to a method for controlling a movement of the mobile medical device. The medical device includes a chassis and a control apparatus, wherein the medical device is embodied by the chassis to perform a movement in at least two spatial directions on a plane of motion and to execute a rotary movement about an axis of rotation standing perpendicularly on the plane of motion, and the control apparatus is embodied for controlling the chassis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: Franz Dirauf, Dieter Heinl, Peter Klemm, Michael Koerth