Patents by Inventor Guenter Rudolph

Guenter Rudolph 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: 11815817
    Abstract: A field facet system for a lithography apparatus includes an optical element. The optical element includes a base section having an optically effective surface. The optical element also includes a plurality of lever sections provided at a rear side of the base section facing away from the optically effective surface. In addition, the field facet system includes two or more actuating elements configured, with the aid of the lever sections acting as levers, to apply in each case a bending moment to the base section to elastically deform the base section and thus to alter a radius of curvature of the optically effective surface. The actuating elements are arranged in series as viewed along a length direction of the optical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
    Inventors: Guenter Rudolph, Joram Rosseels
  • Patent number: 11656385
    Abstract: A method for producing a freeform Fresnel surface having a number of Fresnel facets with a respective Fresnel segment surface and a trailing edge includes the production of the freeform Fresnel surface via machining processing of a starting body based on the construction data for the freeform Fresnel surface. With the aid of the circular cylinder casing surfaces and/or cone casing surfaces, the projection of the edges of the Fresnel facets on the x-y-plane represent circular paths for the creation of the construction data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: tooz technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Guenter Rudolph, Georg Michels, Wolf Krause
  • Patent number: 11573355
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus for smartglasses includes an image generator element arrangement having a number of image generator elements, on which a corresponding number of original partial images is represented, a number of imaging channels comprising in each case at least one image-forming reflection surface and/or at least one image-forming refraction surface, said number corresponding to the number of image generator elements, wherein each of the imaging channels is associated with one of the image generator elements and transmits one of the original partial images, and a spectacle lens, which is common to all imaging channels and via which the imaging channels are directed in the direction of an observer's eye. The image-forming reflection surfaces and/or refraction surfaces of the imaging channels are surfaces of a prism that is arranged on the spectacle lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: tooz technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Guenter Rudolph, Hans-Juergen Dobschal, Matthias Hillenbrand
  • Publication number: 20220113633
    Abstract: A field facet system for a lithography apparatus includes an optical element. The optical element includes a base section having an optically effective surface. The optical element also includes a plurality of lever sections provided at a rear side of the base section facing away from the optically effective surface. In addition, the field facet system includes two or more actuating elements configured, with the aid of the lever sections acting as levers, to apply in each case a bending moment to the base section to elastically deform the base section and thus to alter a radius of curvature of the optically effective surface. The actuating elements are arranged in series as viewed along a length direction of the optical element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Guenter Rudolph, Joram Rosseels
  • Patent number: 11054651
    Abstract: A spectacle lens for an imaging optical unit for producing a virtual image of an output image presented on an image generator includes an inner surface facing the eye and an outer surface facing away from the eye, an input coupling section, and an output coupling structure. The imaging beam path is guided to the output coupling structure by way of reflections between the inner surface and the outer surface. A reflection surface having a concave curvature when seen from the interior of the spectacle lens is present between the input coupling section and the output coupling structure in the region of the inner surface and/or in the region of the outer surface. The curvature of said reflection surface differs from a basic curvature of the inner surface or of the outer surface of the spectacle lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: tooz technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen Dobschal, Matthias Hillenbrand, Guenter Rudolph
  • Patent number: 11003090
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a lithography apparatus for writing to substrate wafers. The apparatus includes: a light generating device including one or a plurality of light sources for generating light; a writing device; a light transferring device including a number of optical waveguides for transferring the light from the light generating device to a writing device, the writing device including a plurality of individually controllable write heads for projecting the light from the one or the plurality of light sources in different regions of a substrate wafer; a transport device for moving the substrate wafer relative to the writing device in a predefined transport direction; and a control device for controlling the writing process on the substrate wafer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Richter, Enrico Geissler, Dirk Doering, Lakshmanan Senthil Kumar, Guenter Rudolph, Martin Voelcker, Markus Deguenther
  • Patent number: 10831031
    Abstract: A spectacle lens for a display device that can be fitted on the head of a user and generates an image, wherein the spectacle lens comprises a front side and a rear side, a coupling-in section and a coupling-out section spaced apart from the coupling-in section, which comprises several reflective deflecting surfaces arranged next to each other, which together form a reflective Fresnel surface, as well as a light-guiding channel which is suitable for guiding light bundles of pixels of the generated image, which are coupled into the spectacle lens via the coupling-in section of the spectacle lens, in the spectacle lens to the coupling-out section, by which they are coupled out of the spectacle lens, and wherein the distance of the reflective deflecting surfaces from the front side increases and/or decreases as the distance from the coupling-in section increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: tooz technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Guenter Rudolph, Hans-Juergen Dobschal
  • Publication number: 20200192122
    Abstract: A spectacle lens for an imaging optical unit for producing a virtual image of an output image presented on an image generator includes an inner surface facing the eye and an outer surface facing away from the eye, an input coupling section, and an output coupling structure. The imaging beam path is guided to the output coupling structure by way of reflections between the inner surface and the outer surface. A reflection surface having a concave curvature when seen from the interior of the spectacle lens is present between the input coupling section and the output coupling structure in the region of the inner surface and/or in the region of the outer surface. The curvature of said reflection surface differs from a basic curvature of the inner surface or of the outer surface of the spectacle lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen DOBSCHAL, Matthias HILLENBRAND, Guenter RUDOLPH
  • Publication number: 20200166852
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a lithography apparatus for writing to substrate wafers. The apparatus includes: a light generating device including one or a plurality of light sources for generating light; a writing device; a light transferring device including a number of optical waveguides for transferring the light from the light generating device to a writing device, the writing device including a plurality of individually controllable write heads for projecting the light from the one or the plurality of light sources in different regions of a substrate wafer; a transport device for moving the substrate wafer relative to the writing device in a predefined transport direction; and a control device for controlling the writing process on the substrate wafer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Stefan Richter, Enrico Geissler, Dirk Doering, Lakshmanan Senthil Kumar, Guenter Rudolph, Martin Voelcker, Markus Deguenther
  • Publication number: 20200116907
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus for smartglasses includes an image generator element arrangement having a number of image generator elements, on which a corresponding number of original partial images is represented, a number of imaging channels comprising in each case at least one image-forming reflection surface and/or at least one image-forming refraction surface, said number corresponding to the number of image generator elements, wherein each of the imaging channels is associated with one of the image generator elements and transmits one of the original partial images, and a spectacle lens, which is common to all imaging channels and via which the imaging channels are directed in the direction of an observer's eye. The image-forming reflection surfaces and/or refraction surfaces of the imaging channels are surfaces of a prism that is arranged on the spectacle lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Guenter RUDOLPH, Hans-Juergen DOBSCHAL, Matthias HILLENBRAND
  • Publication number: 20190250311
    Abstract: A method for producing a freeform Fresnel surface having a number of Fresnel facets with a respective Fresnel segment surface and a trailing edge includes the production of the freeform Fresnel surface via machining processing of a starting body based on the construction data for the freeform Fresnel surface. With the aid of the circular cylinder casing surfaces and/or cone casing surfaces, the projection of the edges of the Fresnel facets on the x-y-plane represent circular paths for the creation of the construction data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Guenter RUDOLPH, Georg MICHELS, Wolf KRAUSE
  • Patent number: 10345570
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for optical examination of a specimen with a cryo-immersion objective, having a stative, to which the cryo-immersion objective is fixed, wherein the cryo-immersion objective has a plurality of optical components, in particular lenses, and wherein the cryo-immersion objective has an optical front component which is in contact during operation with a coolable immersion liquid, having a specimen carrier for a specimen to be examined, having means for providing a cooled immersion liquid between the optical front component and the specimen to be examined on or against the specimen carrier. The device is characterized in that insulating means are present for interrupting a heat transition between the stative and the optical front component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Singer, Aksel Goehnermeier, Guenter Rudolph, Johannes Ruoff, Christian Dietrich, Rong Dong
  • Publication number: 20180373042
    Abstract: A spectacle lens for a display device that can be fitted on the head of a user and generates an image, wherein the spectacle lens comprises a front side and a rear side, a coupling-in section and a coupling-out section spaced apart from the coupling-in section, which comprises several reflective deflecting surfaces arranged next to each other, which together form a reflective Fresnel surface, as well as a light-guiding channel which is suitable for guiding light bundles of pixels of the generated image, which are coupled into the spectacle lens via the coupling-in section of the spectacle lens, in the spectacle lens to the coupling-out section, by which they are coupled out of the spectacle lens, and wherein the distance of the reflective deflecting surfaces from the front side increases and/or decreases as the distance from the coupling-in section increases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: Guenter RUDOLPH, Hans-Juergen DOBSCHAL
  • Patent number: 10139626
    Abstract: An imaging optical system for a display device that can be fitted on the head of a user and generate an image, with an optical element, which includes an entry surface, and a spectacle lens, which includes a coupling-out section. The imaging optical system is configured to guide the generated image fed to the optical element via the entry surface in the optical element, and to couple it from the latter into the spectacle lens, in which it is guided to the coupling-out section and coupled out via the coupling-out section to generate a virtual image. The optical element includes, in addition to the entry surface, at least one reflecting surface, on which the generated image is reflected for guiding in the optical element, and in that the optical element and the spectacle lens are formed together as a one-piece optical part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: tooz technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen Dobschal, Karsten Lindig, Guenter Rudolph, Lisa Riedel
  • Patent number: 10120191
    Abstract: An imaging optical system for a display device that can be fitted on the head of a user and generate an image, with an optical element including an entry surface, and a spectacle lens, which includes a coupling-in section and a coupling-out section spaced apart therefrom. The imaging optical system can guide the generated image fed to the optical element via the entry surface in the optical element, for coupling it from the latter into the spectacle lens, in which it is guided to the coupling-out section and coupled out via the coupling-out section to generate a virtual image. The optical element includes an entry surface, at least one reflecting surface, on which the generated image is reflected, and an exit surface. The entry surface, the at least one reflecting surface and/or the exit surface are formed curved, with the result that the optical element has an imaging property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: tooz technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Guenter Rudolph, Hans-Juergen Dobschal, Karsten Lindig
  • Patent number: 10114223
    Abstract: An imaging device includes at least one eyeglass lens to be worn in front of the eye and a display device arranged in the edge region of the eyeglass lens, said display device including an image generator and an imaging optics arranged between the image generator and the eyeglass lens. The image generator is the start point of an imaging beam path which generates the virtual image having an image distance on the basis of the output image and which penetrates into the eyeglass lens by means of the imaging optics via the edge region of the eyeglass lens. An outcoupling device for outcoupling the imaging beam path in the direction of the eye is provided in the eyeglass lens. The display device comprises a device for adjusting the image distance of the virtual image. The invention also relates to data eyeglasses comprising an imaging device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: tooz technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Guenter Rudolph, Momchil Davidkov, Toufic Jabbour
  • Patent number: 10012839
    Abstract: A first side of the outer shell of a spectacle lens faces away from the inner shell and forms the front side of the spectacle lens, and the first side of the inner shell faces away from the outer shell and forms the rear side of the spectacle lens. The outer shell includes the coupling-in section, the light guiding channel and the coupling-out section. The inner shell includes an opening which extends from the second side of the inner shell, which faces towards the outer shell, in the direction of the rear side and in which the light guiding channel sits. The coupling-out section lies next to the opening such that the light bundles coupled out by the coupling-out section enter the inner shell via the second side of the inner shell, run through the inner shell and leave the inner shell via the rear side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: tooz technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Guenter Rudolph, Hans-Juergen Dobschal
  • Patent number: 9989766
    Abstract: A spectacle lens for a display device can be fitted on the head of a user and generate an image. The spectacle lens includes a curved front and/or side, wherein a light guiding channel which is suitable for guiding light bundles of pixels of the generated image, which are coupled into the spectacle lens via the coupling-in section of the spectacle lens, in the spectacle lens to the coupling-out section to couple them out of the spectacle lens via the coupling-out section. The coupling-out section includes at least two deflecting surfaces arranged next to each other which reflect the light bundles in the direction of the rear side for the coupling out. Deflecting surfaces can be formed as a switchable layer which can be switched into a first and a second state, wherein the reflectivity of the switchable layers in the first state is higher than in the second state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: tooz technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen Dobschal, Karsten Lindig, Guenter Rudolph, Ersun Kartal, Lisa Riedel, Frank Widulle, Michael Patra
  • Patent number: 9989767
    Abstract: A spectacle lens for a display device can be fitted on the head of a user and generate an image. The front side and/or the rear side can be curved. A light guiding channel can guide-light bundles of pixels of the generated image, which are coupled into the spectacle lens via the coupling-in section and coupled out of the spectacle lens via the coupling-out section. The light guiding channel includes a first reflecting surface and a second reflecting surface spaced apart from the first reflecting surface, each of which extend in a direction from the coupling-in section to the coupling-out section. At least one of the two reflecting surfaces can be formed as a switchable layer which can be switched into a first and a second state. The reflectivity of the switchable layer in the first state is higher than in the second state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: tooz technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen Dobschal, Karsten Lindig, Guenter Rudolph, Ersun Kartal, Lisa Riedel, Frank Widulle, Michael Patra
  • Publication number: 20170255110
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a lithography apparatus for writing to substrate wafers. The apparatus includes: a light generating device including one or a plurality of light sources for generating light; a writing device; a light transferring device including a number of optical waveguides for transferring the light from the light generating device to a writing device, the writing device including a plurality of individually controllable write heads for projecting the light from the one or the plurality of light sources in different regions of a substrate wafer; a transport device for moving the substrate wafer relative to the writing device in a predefined transport direction; and a control device for controlling the writing process on the substrate wafer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Stefan Richter, Enrico Geissler, Dirk Doering, Lakshmanan Senthil Kumar, Guenter Rudolph, Martin Voelcker, Markus Deguenther