Patents by Inventor Helmut Seifert

Helmut Seifert 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: 9310197
    Abstract: A measuring device and a method for adjusting the measuring device is disclosed. The device includes a first electro-optical component, a second electro-optical component, a beam-shaping optical element, an optics carrier, and a printed circuit board. The optics carrier includes a first receptacle, where the first electro-optical component is mounted in the first receptacle, and a second receptacle, where the beam-shaping optical element is mounted in the second receptacle. The printed circuit board includes a third receptacle, where the second electro-optical component is mounted in the third receptacle. The first electro-optical component and the beam-shaping optical element are adjustable relative to the optics carrier in a direction of a respective optical axis of the first electro-optical component and the beam-shaping optical element and the second electro-optical component is adjustable and fixable in a plane essentially perpendicular to an optical axis of the second electro-optical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Torsten Gogolla, Stefan Tiefenthaler, Helmut Seifert, Gero Schusser
  • Patent number: 9261362
    Abstract: A measuring device for measuring a distance between a reference mark and a target object is disclosed. The device includes a beam source, which is embodied as an electro-optical component and emits a laser beam along an optical axis, a detector, which is embodied as an additional electro-optical component and receives a reception beam reflected and/or scattered by the target object along an optical axis, a beam forming optics, which forms the laser beam and the reception beam along an optical axis, and a beam splitting optics, which deflects the laser beam or the reception beam. An optics carrier is provided with a first receptacle for mounting a first of the electro-optical components and a second receptacle for mounting the beam forming optics. The optics carrier is monolithic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Torsten Gogolla, Stefan Tiefenthaler, Roman Steffen, Helmut Seifert, Gero Schusser
  • Publication number: 20140253904
    Abstract: A measuring device for measuring a distance between a reference mark and a target object is disclosed. The device includes a beam source, which is embodied as an electro-optical component and emits a laser beam along an optical axis, a detector, which is embodied as an additional electro-optical component and receives a reception beam reflected and/or scattered by the target object along an optical axis, a beam forming optics, which forms the laser beam and the reception beam along an optical axis, and a beam splitting optics, which deflects the laser beam or the reception beam. An optics carrier is provided with a first receptacle for mounting a first of the electro-optical components and a second receptacle for mounting the beam forming optics. The optics carrier is monolithic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicants: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft, ESW Gmbh
    Inventors: Torsten Gogolla, Stefan Tiefenthaler, Roman Steffen, Helmut Seifert, Gero Schusser
  • Patent number: 8767188
    Abstract: A measuring device for measuring a distance between a reference mark and a target object is disclosed. The device includes a beam source, which is embodied as an electro-optical component and emits a laser beam along an optical axis, a detector, which is embodied as an additional electro-optical component and receives a reception beam reflected and/or scattered by the target object along an optical axis, a beam forming optics, which forms the laser beam and the reception beam along an optical axis, and a beam splitting optics, which deflects the laser beam or the reception beam. An optics carrier is provided with a first receptacle for mounting a first of the electro-optical components and a second receptacle for mounting the beam forming optics. The optics carrier is monolithic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignees: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft, ESW GmbH
    Inventors: Torsten Gogolla, Stefan Tiefenthaler, Roman Steffen, Helmut Seifert, Gero Schusser
  • Patent number: 8467036
    Abstract: A laser instrument for electro-optical measurement of the distance of a target object to a reference mark is disclosed. The instrument includes a housing, a measuring device which emits a laser beam and determines a distance value from the receiving beam coming from the target object, an outlet opening to couple out the laser beam from the housing, a display device to display the distance value and an operating device to operate the laser instrument and to start a distance measurement. The display and operating devices are arranged on an upper side of the housing. The outlet opening is arranged in the upper side, in the lower side opposite from the upper side or in a side surface of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Torsten Gogolla, Andreas Winter, Helmut Seifert, Gero Schusser
  • Publication number: 20130135604
    Abstract: A measuring device and a method for adjusting the measuring device is disclosed. The device includes a first electro-optical component, a second electro-optical component, a beam-shaping optical element, an optics carrier, and a printed circuit board. The optics carrier includes a first receptacle, where the first electro-optical component is mounted in the first receptacle, and a second receptacle, where the beam-shaping optical element is mounted in the second receptacle. The printed circuit board includes a third receptacle, where the second electro-optical component is mounted in the third receptacle. The first electro-optical component and the beam-shaping optical element are adjustable relative to the optics carrier in a direction of a respective optical axis of the first electro-optical component and the beam-shaping optical element and the second electro-optical component is adjustable and fixable in a plane essentially perpendicular to an optical axis of the second electro-optical element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Torsten Gogolla, Stefan Tiefenthaler, Helmut Seifert, Gero Schusser
  • Publication number: 20120300190
    Abstract: A measuring device for measuring a distance between a reference mark and a target object is disclosed. The device includes a beam source, which is embodied as an electro-optical component and emits a laser beam along an optical axis, a detector, which is embodied as an additional electro-optical component and receives a reception beam reflected and/or scattered by the target object along an optical axis, a beam forming optics, which forms the laser beam and the reception beam along an optical axis, and a beam splitting optics, which deflects the laser beam or the reception beam. An optics carrier is provided with a first receptacle for mounting a first of the electro-optical components and a second receptacle for mounting the beam forming optics. The optics carrier is monolithic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicants: ESW Gmbh, Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Torsten GOGOLLA, Stefan Tiefenthaler, Roman Steffen, Helmut Seifert, Gero Schusser
  • Patent number: 8068215
    Abstract: An electro-optic laser distance meter (1, 1?) has a hand-held housing (2), an electric radiation source (3) for generating a bundled light beam (4), and receiving optics (5) with a photoreceiver (7) for receiving parts of the light beam (4) that is backscattered in a reception beam bundle (9) from a measurement object (8), with the photoreceiver (7) being arranged along the reception axis (E) in the focal point (6), extending in a plane transverse to the reception axis (E), and being partially shadowed inside the reception beam bundle (9) by a polarization filter (10, 10?, 10?, 10??).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Torsten Gogolla, Andreas Winter, Helmut Seifert, Gero Schusser
  • Patent number: 7940378
    Abstract: A hand-held laser distance measuring device (1) with pulse reflection mixing includes a control device (2) for calculating the distance (D) to a measurement object (3) over at least one determinable periodic, with a pulse repetition frequency (f), time difference (?) between a measurement pulse (4) reflected at the measurement object (3) and a reference pulse (6) of an optically emitted transmitting pulse (7) traveling over a reference distance (5) within the device, a local oscillator (8) for generating the transmitting pulse (7) at the pulse repetition frequency (f), at least one delay circuit (9a, 9b) which can be controlled by the control device (2), is arranged between the local oscillator (8) and a light detector (10) and/or a light transmitter (12), and generates a delay between the scanning pulses (11) and the transmitting pulses (7) in order to scan the measurement pulse (4) and the reference pulse (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Torsten Gogolla, Andreas Winter, Helmut Seifert
  • Publication number: 20110030591
    Abstract: An incinerator including a wet slag remover for discharging combustion residues that includes a tank configured to provide a water bath having a water surface adapted to receive the combustion residues. A heat insulation layer is configured to float on the water surface. The heat insulation layer includes a plurality floating bodies that are movable relative to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2010
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Applicant: KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FUER TECHNOLOGIE
    Inventors: Thomas Kolb, Michael Nolte, Helmut Seifert, Wolf-Dieter Zeidler, Bernd Zimmerlin
  • Publication number: 20100309453
    Abstract: A laser instrument for electro-optical measurement of the distance of a target object to a reference mark is disclosed. The instrument includes a housing, where the housing has an outlet opening to couple out a laser beam from the laser instrument, a measuring device which emits a laser beam and determines a distance value from the receiving beam coming from the target object, a display device to display the distance value, an operating device to operate the laser instrument and to start the distance measurement, and an optical sighting device to align the laser beam on the target object. The direction in which a user looks into the optical sighting device is aligned parallel to the optical axis of the laser beam coupled out of the laser instrument via the outlet opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Torsten Gogolla, Andreas Winter, Helmut Seifert, Gero Schusser
  • Publication number: 20100302527
    Abstract: A laser instrument for electro-optical measurement of the distance of a target object to a reference mark is disclosed. The instrument includes a housing, a measuring device which emits a laser beam and determines a distance value from the receiving beam coming from the target object, an outlet opening to couple out the laser beam from the housing, a display device to display the distance value and an operating device to operate the laser instrument and to start a distance measurement. The display and operating devices are arranged on an upper side of the housing. The outlet opening is arranged in the upper side, in the lower side opposite from the upper side or in a side surface of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Torsten GOGOLLA, Andreas WINTER, Helmut SEIFERT, Gero SCHUSSER
  • Publication number: 20100166623
    Abstract: A device for thermal dehalogenation of halogen-containing substances. The device includes a temperable reaction volume. The temperable reaction volume includes a top vapor space, a bottom sump region, a first inlet for a halogen-containing substance, a second inlet for a polyolefin, a first outlet for dehalogenated substances and halogen-containing reaction products, and a second outlet for the polyolefin. The second inlet includes a heater configured to heat the polyolefin to above a softening point thereof. The second inlet discharges into the top vapor space and includes at least one nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2006
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Hornung, Helmut Seifert, Wolfgang Koch
  • Patent number: 7714990
    Abstract: A hand-held pulse laser distance measuring device and a pulse reflection mixing method both having an algorithm which controls a microcontroller and which serves to calculate the distance to a measurement object by at least two different time differences ?11, ?12 between a measurement pulse and a reference pulse with a pulse width ?t, which time differences ?11, ?12 are measured with a pulse repetition frequency f1, f2, respectively, wherein a selection module is provided which selects at least the first pulse repetition frequency f1 from at least a first frequency set {f}1 with at least one other pulse repetition frequency f1i in such a way that the condition |?11·f1i|>A >2·|?t11·f1i| is satisfied with a pre-selected lower limit A, a relative time difference |?1i·f1i| and a relative pulse width |?t?·f1i|.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Torsten Gogolla, Andreas Winter, Helmut Seifert
  • Patent number: 7600997
    Abstract: In a method for increasing the throughput of packages of waste material of a high caloric value of rotary kiln plants which include a rotary tube with a combustion chamber and a post combustion chamber to which the combustion gases from the rotary tube are supplied and which includes at least one burner supplied by gas from a gas supply, the waste packages are supplied to the rotary tube and burned therein with oxygen containing gas and the combustion gas flows to the post combustion chamber for post combustion, the combustion process being continuously monitored in the kiln and the post combustion chamber and controlled by adjustment of the combustion conditions in the kiln and the post combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Nolte, Bernhard Oser, Mark Eberhard, Thomas Kolb, Helmut Seifert, Rolf Kerbe, Hubert Gramling
  • Publication number: 20090153834
    Abstract: An electro-optic laser distance meter (1, 1?) has a hand-held housing (2), an electric radiation source (3) for generating a bundled light beam (4), and receiving optics (5) with a photoreceiver (7) for receiving parts of the light beam (4) that is backscattered in a reception beam bundle (9) from a measurement object (8), with the photoreceiver (7) being arranged along the reception axis (E) in the focal point (6), extending in a plane transverse to the reception axis (E), and being partially shadowed inside the reception beam bundle (9) by a polarization filter (10, 10?, 10?, 10??).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Inventors: Torsten Gogolla, Andreas Winter, Helmut Seifert, Gero Schusser
  • Patent number: 7548829
    Abstract: A hand-held pulse laser distance measuring device (1) with an algorithm (3) which controls a microcontroller (2) and which serves to calculate the distance (X) to a measurement object (4) by a time difference (?) between a measurement pulse (6) and a reference pulse (7) and with a superimposition module (5) which calculates the time difference (?) of a plurality of repeated pulse trains which are periodically superimposed with a trigger frequency fTRIGGER, wherein the trigger frequency fTRIGGER lies in the frequency range of 0.7 · 2 2 · m - 1 · f INT < f TRIGGER < 1.3 · 2 2 · m - 1 · f INT , where ? ? m = 1 , 2 , 3 , … at an interference frequency fINT=100 Hz . . . 120 Hz; and a measuring method for the pulse laser distance measuring device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2009
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Torsten Gogolla, Andreas Winter, Helmut Seifert
  • Publication number: 20090021721
    Abstract: A hand-held laser distance measuring device (1) with pulse reflection mixing includes a control device (2) for calculating the distance (D) to a measurement object (3) over at least one determinable periodic, with a pulse repetition frequency (f), time difference (?) between a measurement pulse (4) reflected at the measurement object (3) and a reference pulse (6) of an optically emitted transmitting pulse (7) traveling over a reference distance (5) within the device, a local oscillator (8) for generating the transmitting pulse (7) at the pulse repetition frequency (f), at least one delay circuit (9a, 9b) which can be controlled by the control device (2), is arranged between the local oscillator (8) and a light detector (10) and/or a light transmitter (12), and generates a delay between the scanning pulses (11) and the transmitting pulses (7) in order to scan the measurement pulse (4) and the reference pulse (6).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2008
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Inventors: Torsten Gogolla, Andreas Winter, Helmut Seifert
  • Patent number: 7456936
    Abstract: An electro-optical hand-held distance measuring instrument (1) with a housing (2) which can be held in the hand and with an electro-optical distance measurement module (3) with an electric beam source (5) for generating an optical measurement beam (S), a beam receiver (8) for receiving portions of the measurement beam (S) that are backscattered by an object to be measured (MO), and an output device (7) for the determined distance (X). A mechanical distance measuring device (9, 11) is connected to the housing (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Torsten Gogolla, Armin Spiegel, Andreas Winter, Helmut Seifert, Heinz Kousek
  • Publication number: 20080204701
    Abstract: A hand-held pulse laser distance measuring device and a pulse reflection mixing method both having an algorithm which controls a microcontroller and which serves to calculate the distance to a measurement object by at least two different time differences ?11, ?12 between a measurement pulse and a reference pulse with a pulse width ?t, which time differences ?11, ?12 are measured with a pulse repetition frequency f1, f2, respectively, wherein a selection module is provided which selects at least the first pulse repetition frequency f1 from at least a first frequency set {f}1 with at least one other pulse repetition frequency f1i in such a way that the condition |?11·f1i|>A >2·|?t11·f1i| is satisfied with a pre-selected lower limit A, a relative time difference |?1i·f1i| and a relative pulse width |?t?·f1i|.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2008
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Applicants: HILTI AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, JENOPTIK LASER, OPTIK SYSTEME GMBH
    Inventors: Torsten Gogolla, Andreas Winter, Helmut Seifert