Patents by Inventor Hermann Boss

Hermann Boss 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: 11789038
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved probe for precisely positioning a probe tip at a measurement point. For this purpose, an image capturing device such as a camera may be firmly arranged at the probe. The image capturing device may capture image data around an area of the probe tip. The captured image data may be provided to a user during positioning the probe tip at the desired measuring point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Johannes Steffens, Hermann Boss
  • Publication number: 20220214378
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved probe for precisely positioning a probe tip at a measurement point. For this purpose, an image capturing device such as a camera may be firmly arranged at the probe. The image capturing device may capture image data around an area of the probe tip. The captured image data may be provided to a user during positioning the probe tip at the desired measuring point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Johannes Steffens, Hermann Boss
  • Patent number: 11340257
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved probe for precisely positioning a probe tip at a measurement point. For this purpose, an image capturing device such as a camera may be firmly arranged at the probe. The image capturing device may capture image data around an area of the probe tip. The captured image data may be provided to a user during positioning the probe tip at the desired measuring point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: ROHDE & SCHWARZ GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Johannes Steffens, Hermann Boss
  • Publication number: 20200241045
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved probe for precisely positioning a probe tip at a measurement point. For this purpose, an image capturing device such as a camera may be firmly arranged at the probe. The image capturing device may capture image data around an area of the probe tip. The captured image data may be provided to a user during positioning the probe tip at the desired measuring point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Johannes Steffens, Hermann Boss
  • Patent number: 7868634
    Abstract: A probe or measuring head for measuring an electrical signal of an electrical contact has an electrically conducting feeler (1) which protrudes out of a housing (3) and has, at its end, a contact region (4) which comes into touching contact with the electrical contact. The contact region (4) of the feeler (1) and the measurement environment surrounding the contact region (4) of the feeler (1) is illuminated by the light beams from a light source (101, 102, . . . , 10n, 10o) connected to the probe or measuring head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Hermann Boss, Johannes Steffens
  • Publication number: 20090021276
    Abstract: A probe or measuring head for measuring an electrical signal of an electrical contact has an electrically conducting feeler (1) which protrudes out of a housing (3) and has, at its end, a contact region (4) which comes into touching contact with the electrical contact. The contact region (4) of the feeler (1) and the measurement environment surrounding the contact region (4) of the feeler (1) is illuminated by the light beams from a light source (101, 102, . . . , 10n, 10o) connected to the probe or measuring head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2006
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Applicant: Rhode & Schwarz GmgH Co. KG
    Inventors: Hermann Boss, Johannes Steffens
  • Patent number: 6970000
    Abstract: A measuring device (e.g., a vectorial network analyzer) by means of at least two ports can be connected to a device under test and has associated excitation/receiving units (ERUs), each thereof having one port. At least one ERU has a signal generator, which can apply an excitation signal onto a device under test. Each ERU possesses two receiving apparatuses (each with a mixer in connection with an oscillator signal) to receive the excitation signal, the reflected signal from the associated port or the signal transmitted to the associated port and converts said signal into an intermediate signal. Each ERU exhibits its own oscillator separate from the signal generator, and generates the oscillator signal for the mixer of the receiving apparatus of the ERU, whereby the frequency and/or phase of the oscillator signals, can be adjusted independently of the frequency and/or phase of oscillator signals of the oscillators of other ERUs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2005
    Assignee: Rohde & Schwartz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Christian Evers, Peter Kraus, Hermann Boss
  • Patent number: 6965242
    Abstract: An apparatus for the determination of the magnitude of a noise (TDUT) of an electronic object to be measured (2) includes a sine signal source (1), which generates a sine signal (Sin) for input into said object to be measured (2) and a level meter (3) for the measurement of a power level at the output of the said object to be measured (2). In accord with the invention, the level meter (3) possesses a sine power detector device (31) for the capture of a sine power level ({circumflex over (P)}sin) and has a noise power level detector device (32) for a separate capture of a noise power level ({circumflex over (P)}noise).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2005
    Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Hermann Boss, Kurt Schmidt, Markus Freidhof
  • Publication number: 20040066203
    Abstract: An apparatus for the determination of the magnitude of a noise (TDUT) of an electronic object to be measured (2) includes a sine signal source (1), which generates a sine signal (Sin) for input into said object to be measured (2) and a level meter (3) for the measurement of a power level at the output of the said object to be measured (2). In accord with the invention, the level meter (3) possesses a sine power detector device (31) for the capture of a sine power level ({circumflex over (P)}sin) and has a noise power level detector device (32) for a separate capture of a noise power level ({circumflex over (P)}noise).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2003
    Publication date: April 8, 2004
    Inventors: Hermann Boss, Kurt Schmidt, Markus Freidhof
  • Patent number: 6529012
    Abstract: With a view to determining the complex transfer function of a measuring instrument, a line spectrum is fed in from a pulse generator which, for example, is constituted by a step-recovery diode, and the digitized output signal arising at the output of the measuring instrument is evaluated in a computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Hermann Boss, Alexander Roth, Manfred Müller