Patents by Inventor Holger Lubatschowski
Holger Lubatschowski 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).
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Patent number: 11659991Abstract: An OCT examination device for recording an object comprises an OCT radiation source which emits OCT radiation, an OCT beam path, a housing, an exit opening formed in the housing for the OCT radiation of the OCT radiation source, an OCT exit direction of the radiation through the exit opening, a control unit connected to the OCT radiation source OCT radiation and configured to record a multiplicity of measurement profiles mutually separated in a recording period and, within the recording period, to drive the OCT radiation source in order to emit the OCT radiation and the OCT radiation receiver in order to receive the backscattered OCT radiation, and to keep an OCT output direction and an OCT exit direction constant with respect to one another in their angular orientation during the recording period.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2018Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: OCUMAX HEALTHCARE GMBHInventor: Holger Lubatschowski
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Patent number: 11406535Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of devices for correcting or mitigating refractive errors in the eye, more particularly, to a solution in which desired improvements in eyesight are achieved as far as possible without limiting everyday activities and where performing the treatment itself involves minimum risk by use of a device for creating an aperture in an eye, the device having a control unit for a laser unit, and the control unit is designed to control the laser unit to create the aperture in a lens of the eye, wherein the aperture is used to increase the depth of field of the eye and is formed by laser-induced lesions which reduce light transmission through a lens aperture region surrounding an aperture opening.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2018Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: ROWIAK GMBHInventor: Holger Lubatschowski
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Publication number: 20210311324Abstract: A device for correcting or mitigating refractive errors in the eye presents a solution in which desired improvements in eyesight are achieved as far as possible without limiting everyday activities and where performing the treatment itself involves minimum risk. The device creates an aperture diaphragm in an eye, and has a control unit for a laser unit, the control unit being designed to control the laser unit to create the aperture diaphragm in a lens of the eye, wherein the aperture diaphragm is used to increase the depth of focus of the eye and is formed by laser-induced lesions which reduce light transmission through a lens aperture region surrounding an aperture opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2019Publication date: October 7, 2021Applicant: ROWIAK GMBHInventors: Holger Lubatschowski, Georg Gerten
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Publication number: 20210145273Abstract: An OCT examination device for recording an object comprises an OCT radiation source which emits OCT radiation, an OCT beam path, a housing, an exit opening formed in the housing for the OCT radiation of the OCT radiation source, an OCT exit direction of the radiation through the exit opening, a control unit connected to the OCT radiation source OCT radiation and configured to record a multiplicity of measurement profiles mutually separated in a recording period and, within the recording period, to drive the OCT radiation source in order to emit the OCT radiation and the OCT radiation receiver in order to receive the backscattered OCT radiation, and to keep an OCT output direction and an OCT exit direction constant with respect to one another in their angular orientation during the recording period.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2018Publication date: May 20, 2021Applicant: ROWIAK GMBHInventor: Holger Lubatschowski
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Patent number: 10912675Abstract: A glaucoma drainage implant comprising a pressure relief valve via which aqueous humor can be drained. The pressure relief valve has a pressure relief flap which is movably connected with a base plate of the implant, which is to be embedded in a sclera, wherein the pressure relief flap has an actuation area by means of which the pressure relief flap can be mobilized non-invasively during a post-operative healing phase or thereafter. The actuation area is preferably designed as a thermomechanically active area.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2018Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: ROWIAK GmbHInventor: Holger Lubatschowski
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Publication number: 20200330277Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of devices for correcting or mitigating refractive errors in the eye, more particularly, to a solution in which desired improvements in eyesight are achieved as far as possible without limiting everyday activities and where performing the treatment itself involves minimum risk by use of a device for creating an aperture in an eye, the device having a control unit for a laser unit, and the control unit is designed to control the laser unit to create the aperture in a lens of the eye, wherein the aperture is used to increase the depth of field of the eye and is formed by laser-induced lesions which reduce light transmission through a lens aperture region surrounding an aperture opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2018Publication date: October 22, 2020Applicant: ROWIAK GMBHInventor: Holger Lubatschowski
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Patent number: 10799392Abstract: The invention relates to a controller for a surgical laser. According to the invention, the controller is adapted to control a laser in order to produce two or more three-dimensional compression zones, each comprising a plurality of lesions, inside a lens cortex of a crystalline lens of the eye using a laser pulse or multiple laser pulses, wherein the controller is adapted such that a laser can be calibrated with respect to a reference point within the lens, and each of the compression zones produced has a length in a radial direction, a depth in a direction parallel to the optical or visual axis and an average width in a direction parallel to a tangent of the lens cortex, wherein the sum of the average widths of all compression zones is 0.1 to 2 millimeter for every 1 diopter of desired gain in accommodation amplitude of the lens.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2011Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: ROWIAK GMBHInventors: Holger Lubatschowski, Omid Kermani, Georg Gerten, Uwe Oberheide
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Patent number: 10092445Abstract: An ophthalmological apparatus includes a base station having a light source generating light pulses, and an application head mountable on an eye having a light projector for focussed projection of the light pulses for punctiform breakdown of eye tissue. The application head has movement drivers moving the light projector in a feed direction and a first scanning direction. A scanner in the base station deflects the light pulses in a second scanning direction. The ophthalmological apparatus includes an optical transmission system transmitting deflected light pulses from the base station to the application head, and superimposing the light pulses deflected in the second scanning direction onto the movement of the light projector in the first scanning direction. Light sources with high light pulse rates, for example femtosecond lasers may be used, without impractical enlargement of the size of the application head.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2016Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: SIE AG SURGICAL INSTRUMENT ENGINEERINGInventors: Christian Rathjen, Wolfgang Zesch, Karl Michael Deyerler, Holger Lubatschowski, Tammo Ripken
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Publication number: 20180250166Abstract: A glaucoma drainage implant comprising a pressure relief valve via which aqueous humor can be drained. The pressure relief valve has a pressure relief flap which is movably connected with a base plate of the implant, which is to be embedded in a sclera, wherein the pressure relief flap has an actuation area by means of which the pressure relief flap can be mobilized non-invasively during a post-operative healing phase or thereafter. The actuation area is preferably designed as a thermomechanically active area.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2018Publication date: September 6, 2018Applicant: ROWIAK GMBHInventor: Holger Lubatschowski
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Patent number: 9603743Abstract: A device for processing material of a workpiece, the device including a pulsed processing laser, a focusing lens, a beam-deflection unit, a control unit and a confocal detector unit. The intensity of the laser radiation is variable. An imaging unit is provided to detect structures within the workpiece using electromagnetic radiation, wherein the electromagnetic radiation of the imaging unit is radiated via the beam-deflection unit and the focusing lens into the workpiece, and evaluating device is provided and compares the position of the focus of the laser radiation determined by the detector unit with the expected position of the focus in the image of the workpiece obtained by the imaging unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2011Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: ROWIAK GMBHInventors: Christian Rathjen, Holger Lubatschowski, Tammo Ripken
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Publication number: 20160317349Abstract: An ophthalmological apparatus includes a base station having a light source generating light pulses, and an application head mountable on an eye having a light projector for focussed projection of the light pulses for punctiform breakdown of eye tissue. The application head has movement drivers moving the light projector in a feed direction and a first scanning direction. A scanner in the base station deflects the light pulses in a second scanning direction. The ophthalmological apparatus includes an optical transmission system transmitting deflected light pulses from the base station to the application head, and superimposing the light pulses deflected in the second scanning direction onto the movement of the light projector in the first scanning direction. Light sources with high light pulse rates, for example femtosecond lasers may be used, without impractical enlargement of the size of the application head.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2016Publication date: November 3, 2016Inventors: Christian RATHJEN, Wolfgang ZESCH, Karl Michael DEYERLER, Holger LUBATSCHOWSKI, Tammo RIPKEN
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Patent number: 9414963Abstract: An ophthalmological apparatus includes a base station having a light source generating light pulses, and an application head mountable on an eye having a light projector for focussed projection of the light pulses for punctiform breakdown of eye tissue. The application head has movement drivers moving the light projector in a feed direction and a first scanning direction. A scanner in the base station deflects the light pulses in a second scanning direction. The ophthalmological apparatus includes an optical transmission system transmitting deflected light pulses from the base station to the application head, and superimposing the light pulses deflected in the second scanning direction onto the movement of the light projector in the first scanning direction. Light sources with high light pulse rates, for example femtosecond lasers may be used, without impractical enlargement of the size of the application head.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2012Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: SIE AG SURGICAL INSTRUMENT ENGINEERINGInventors: Christian Rathjen, Wolfgang Zesch, Karl Michael Deyerler, Holger Lubatschowski, Tammo Ripken
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Patent number: 9192778Abstract: The invention provides a cochlea stimulator for implantation comprising optical fibers of which are coupled to an irradiation source that is controlled by a modulator to generate irradiation specific for a pre-determined range of sound-frequencies. The cochlea stimulator effects a frequency-specific activation of the organ of Corti needed for speech perception especially in noisy environment and more complex sounds. For imparting excitation signals which are generated by modulated pulsed laser irradiation conducted within an optical fiber in order to elicit nervous signals in residual functional organ of Corti sections, the auditory prosthesis preferably contains optical fibers which are dimensioned to terminate in end sections within the cochlea at different sites or sections of the organ of Corti. e.g. having different lengths for locating their end sections at different internal parts of the cochlea.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2009Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignees: MEDIZINISCHE HOCHSCHULE HANNOVER, LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITAT HANNOVERInventors: Thomas Lenarz, Holger Lubatschowski, Guenter Reuter, Gentiana I. Wenzel, Hubert H. Lim, Wolfgang Ertmer
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Patent number: 9162319Abstract: The invention relates to a method for removing material by means of a laser, wherein a sequence of laser pulses is generated and an area of material to be machined is irradiated with the sequence of laser pulses. Methods of this kind are used to cut a number of different materials. One problem with this method is that thermal or mechanical damage occurs in the surroundings of the area being machined and causes impairment of areas of material that are not being machined. The invention solves this problem by the pulse energy of a single pulse in the sequence of laser pulses being lower than the laser pulse energy required to produce material removal using an isolated laser pulse in the region irradiated with the single laser pulse of the sequence of laser pulses.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2006Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: ROWIAK GMBHInventors: Holger Lubatschowski, Tammo Ripken, Christian Rathjen
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Publication number: 20150190275Abstract: An ophthalmological apparatus includes a base station having a light source generating light pulses, and an application head mountable on an eye having a light projector for focussed projection of the light pulses for punctiform breakdown of eye tissue. The application head has movement drivers moving the light projector in a feed direction and a first scanning direction. A scanner in the base station deflects the light pulses in a second scanning direction. The ophthalmological apparatus includes an optical transmission system transmitting deflected light pulses from the base station to the application head, and superimposing the light pulses deflected in the second scanning direction onto the movement of the light projector in the first scanning direction. Light sources with high light pulse rates, for example femtosecond lasers may be used, without impractical enlargement of the size of the application head.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2012Publication date: July 9, 2015Inventors: Christian Rathjen, Wolfgang Zesch, Karl Michael Deyerler, Holger Lubatschowski, Tammo Ripken
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Patent number: 8998416Abstract: An opthalmological apparatus includes a base station having a light source for generating light pulses, and an application head mountable on an eye having a light projector for the focussed projection of the light pulses for punctiform breakdown of eye tissue. The application head has drivers for moving the light projector in a feed direction and in a first scanning direction. A scanner is arranged in the base station in order to deflect the light pulses in a second scanning direction. The opthalmological apparatus includes an optical transmission system for transmitting deflected light pulses from the base station to the application head, and for superimposing the light pulses deflected in the second scanning direction onto the movement of the light projector in the first scanning direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2012Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Sie AG Surgical Instrument EngineeringInventors: Christian Rathjen, Wolfgang Zesch, Karl Michael Deyerler, Holger Lubatschowski, Tammo Ripken
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Patent number: 8758331Abstract: A method and apparatus for a refractive surgical treatment that uses a laser which produces a succession of laser pulses applied to a material region. The laser pulses irradicates the material region to be divided where the energy of the individual pulse in less than the energy required to produce the material division or cutting.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2012Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: SIE Surgical Instruments Engineering AGInventors: Holger Lubatschowski, Christian Rathjen
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Patent number: 8600089Abstract: The invention relates to a hearing aid device for humans with impaired hearing, who have an at least partially functional cochlea and a functional nervous signalling pathway from the cochlea via the auditory nerve to the brain. The hearing aid device contains a receiver, a transducer of the sound or other acoustic signals into electrical current serving as a signal representing a sound, a pulsed irradiation source connected to the transducer for receiving the electrical current and for generating modulated pulsed irradiation in dependence from the electrical current, and preferably one or more optical fibers optically coupled to the exit of the pulsed irradiation source, wherein the optical path for conduction of irradiation within the device ends directly opposite a functional element of the natural vibration transduction pathway, e.g.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2010Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Medizinische Hochschule HannoverInventors: Gentiana I. Wenzel, Hubert H. Lim, Thomas Lenarz, Holger Lubatschowski
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Publication number: 20130274725Abstract: A device for processing material of a workpiece, the device including a pulsed processing laser, a focusing lens, a beam-deflection unit, a control unit and a confocal detector unit. The intensity of the laser radiation is variable. An imaging unit is provided to detect structures within the workpiece using electromagnetic radiation, wherein the electromagnetic radiation of the imaging unit is radiated via the beam-deflection unit and the focusing lens into the workpiece, and evaluating device is provided and compares the position of the focus of the laser radiation determined by the detector unit with the expected position of the focus in the image of the workpiece obtained by the imaging unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2011Publication date: October 17, 2013Inventors: Christian Rathjen, Holger Lubatschowski, Tammo Ripken
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Patent number: 8545383Abstract: The invention relates to a hearing aid device for humans with impaired hearing, who have an at least partially functional cochlea and a functional nervous signalling pathway from the cochlea via the auditory nerve to the brain. The hearing aid device contains a receiver, a transducer of the sound or other acoustic signals into electrical current serving as a signal representing a sound, a pulsed irradiation source connected to the transducer for receiving the electrical current and for generating modulated pulsed irradiation in dependence from the electrical current, and preferably one or more optical fibers optically coupled to the exit of the pulsed irradiation source, wherein the optical path for conduction of irradiation within the device ends directly opposite a functional element of the natural vibration transduction pathway, e.g.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2009Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Medizinische Hochschule HannoverInventors: Gentiana I. Wenzel, Hubert H. Lim, Thomas Lenarz, Holger Lubatschowski