Patents by Inventor Gunter Laukien

Gunter Laukien 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: 5847633
    Abstract: A device for the safe discharge of a superconducting magnet coil (4) which is located inside a cryostat (2) and superconductively short-circuited by a superconducting switch (7) providing at or in the cryostat (2) a transmitter (10) of electromagnetic energy being located at a temperature level considerably above the cryogenic temperature of the superconducting magnet coil (4), which transmitter can be switched on quickly from outside, and by arranging in the region of the superconducting switch (7) at the cryogenic temperature level of the superconducting magnet coil (4) a receiver (20) for the emitted electromagnetic energy, which transmits the received energy directly or indirectly to a heating device (15) of the superconducting switch (7) or which activates an auxiliary energy source (41) in the region of the superconducting switch (7) , which on its turn effects a heating of the superconducting switch (7), so that it becomes normal-conducting and causes a discharge process of the superconducting magnet c
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1998
    Assignee: Bruker Analytische Messtechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Tony Keller, Gunter Laukien, Rene Jeker, Arne Kasten
  • Patent number: 5686877
    Abstract: A device for the safe discharge of a superconducting magnet coil (4) which is located inside a cryostat (2) and superconductively short-circuited by a superconducting switch (7) providing at or in the cryostat (2) a transmitter (10) of electromagnetic energy being located at a temperature level considerably above the cryogenic temperature of the superconducting magnet coil (4), which transmitter can be switched on quickly from outside, and by arranging in the region of the superconducting switch (7) at the cryogenic temperature level of the superconducting magnet coil (4) a receiver (20) for the emitted electromagnetic energy, which transmits the received energy directly or indirectly to a heating device (15) of the superconducting switch (7) or which activates an auxiliary energy source (41) in the region of the superconducting switch (7), which on its turn effects a heating of the superconducting switch (7), so that it becomes normal-conducting and causes a discharge process of the superconducting magnet co
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 11, 1997
    Assignee: Bruker-Analytische Messtechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Tony Keller, Gunter Laukien, Rene Jeker, Arne Kasten
  • Patent number: 5317260
    Abstract: In order to simplify the process of plotting a pulse sequence controlling the course of an MR experiment, for example an NMR tomographic investigation, by which the excitation of an RF pulse bringing about transverse magnetization, the switching on and off of field gradients acting in different directions, superposed on a constant magnetic field, as well as the acquisition times, it is proposed to generate this pulse sequence by modification of standard pulse sequences and/or by composition from standard pulses. These pulses are offered on a picture screen (22) as simple symbols (42-49), icons, or brief designations for standard pulse sequences (36-41). By clicking-on of the offering fields, for example by means of a mouse (51), these elements can be copied on time axes (58) allocated to them and attached at the suitable release time point onto these axes. The pulse sequence thus determined is stored on-line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1994
    Assignee: Bruker Analytische Messtechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Arne Kasten, Gunter Laukien