Patents by Inventor Ingomar Schmidt

Ingomar Schmidt 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: 10935366
    Abstract: A method and device for geometrically determining features of a workpiece, having an image processing sensor having a first beam path, the first beam path comprising at least one front optical unit facing the workpiece to be measured, and an optical splitter being mounted on the side of the front optical unit facing away from the workpiece. The optical splitter connects a second beam path to the image processing beam path, a common beam path being formed, and the second beam path being associated with a second optical sensor, the image processing sensor and the second sensor being designed to directly measure the surface of the workpiece. The front optical unit is formed as a sphere and/or has a longitudinal chromatic aberration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: WERTH MESSTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Ralf Christoph, Ingomar Schmidt, Volker Wegner, Matthias Andräs, Ulrich Neuschaefer-Rube, Andreas Ettemeyer, Mehmet Demirel, Sabine Linz-Dittrich, Benjamin Hopp
  • Patent number: 10900777
    Abstract: A method for determining the geometry of a structure on an object at least by using a computer tomography sensor system comprising at least a radiation source, a mechanical axis of rotation, and a detector, preferably a planar detector, wherein surface measurement points are generated by the computer tomography sensor system, for example in the region of material transitions. In order to select the surface measurement points to be used for the determination of a geometry feature by using any target geometry, in particular without the availability of a CAD model being necessary, according to the invention, in order to determine the geometry features, surface measurement points are used which are associated with the geometry features to be determined on the basis of specifiable rules and the geometry features are determined from the associated surface measurement points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: WERTH MESSTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Ralf Christoph, Ingomar Schmidt
  • Patent number: 10612907
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for tactile/optical measuring of geometric features and structures on a workpiece. In order to be able to precisely align the probe extension for performing precise measurements without problems, a probe is proposed comprising a probe extension (13) having a flexurally elastic design at least in segments and having a mounting segment for mounting in a receptacle (14) comprising a mounting segment (60) implemented as a rotational lock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: WERTH MESSETECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Ralf Christoph, Ingomar Schmidt, Benjamin Hopp, Sebastian Zoeller, Markus Hechler, Stefan Gruenwald, Andreas Ettemeyer, Sabine Linz-Dittrich, Matthias Andraes
  • Publication number: 20190360795
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for tactile/optical measuring of geometric features and structures on a workpiece. In order to be able to precisely align the probe extension for performing precise measurements without problems, a probe is proposed comprising a probe extension (13) having a flexurally elastic design at least in segments and having a mounting segment for mounting in a receptacle (14) comprising a mounting segment (60) implemented as a rotational lock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: WERTH MESSTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Ralf CHRISTOPH, Ingomar SCHMIDT, Benjamin HOPP, Sebastian ZOELLER, Markus HECHLER, Stefan GRUENWALD, Andreas ETTEMEYER, Sabine LINZ-DITTRICH, Matthias ANDRAES
  • Patent number: 10393505
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for tactile/optical measuring of geometric features and structures on a workpiece. In order to be able to precisely align the probe extension for performing precise measurements without problems, a probe is proposed comprising a probe extension (13) having a flexurally elastic design at least in segments and having a mounting segment for mounting in a receptacle (14) comprising a mounting segment (60) implemented as a rotational lock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: WERTH MESSTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Ralf Christoph, Ingomar Schmidt, Benjamin Hopp, Sebastian Zoeller, Markus Hechler, Stefan Gruenwald, Andreas Ettemeyer, Sabine Linz-Dittrich, Matthias Andraes
  • Publication number: 20180106595
    Abstract: A method and device for geometrically determining features of a workpiece, having an image processing sensor having a first beam path, the first beam path comprising at least one front optical unit facing the workpiece to be measured, and an optical splitter being mounted on the side of the front optical unit facing away from the workpiece. The optical splitter connects a second beam path to the image processing beam path, a common beam path being formed, and the second beam path being associated with a second optical sensor, the image processing sensor and the second sensor being designed to directly measure the surface of the workpiece. The front optical unit is formed as a sphere and/or has a longitudinal chromatic aberration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: WERTH MESSTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Ralf CHRISTOPH, Ingomar SCHMIDT, Volker WEGNER, Matthias ANDRÄS, Ulrich NEUSCHAEFER-RUBE, Andreas ETTEMEYER, Mehmet DEMIREL, Sabine LINZ-DITTRICH, Benjamin HOPP
  • Patent number: 9599456
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and arrangement for determining structures and/or geometry of a workpiece in a coordinate measuring machine by means of a tactile-optical measuring method, wherein the position of a shaped probe element is determined in at least one direction by means of a first sensor using an optically lateral measuring method, and the position of the shaped probe element is determined in at least one second direction using at least one distance sensor. In order to allow the error-free detection of the shaped probe element using the sensors, the invention proposes that at least one flexible connector element is used in a mounting for fastening the shaped probe element, permeated by the beam path of the first sensor in the beam direction, wherein the connecting element is transparent and/or is disposed severely out of focus with respect to the first sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: WERTH MESSTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Ralf Christoph, Matthias Andräes, Ingomar Schmidt, Markus Hechler, Benjamin Hopp
  • Publication number: 20160370172
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for tactile/optical measuring of geometric features and structures on a workpiece. In order to be able to precisely align the probe extension for performing precise measurements without problems, a probe is proposed comprising a probe extension (13) having a flexurally elastic design at least in segments and having a mounting segment for mounting in a receptacle (14) comprising a mounting segment (60) implemented as a rotational lock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Applicant: WERTH MESSTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Ralf Christoph, Ingomar Schmidt, Benjamin Hopp, Sebastian Zoeller, Markus Hechler, Stefan Gruenwald, Andreas Ettemeyer, Sabine Linz-Dittrich, Matthias Andraes
  • Patent number: 9503658
    Abstract: A method for generating and evaluating an image of a section of an object using an optical sensor. To generate a bright image, individual images are recorded of a section, of which individual images at least some individual images overlap at least in part in each case, and that to generate the image, the individual images or signals are aligned with respect to one another and superposed to form an overall image as the image of the at least one section, so that the evaluation of the overall image is substantially restricted to the overlapping regions of the individual images and/or the evaluation of the overall image or of a part thereof is brought about on the basis of the overlapping regions of the individual images having the latter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: WERTH MESSTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Ralf Christoph, Ingomar Schmidt, Peter Winck
  • Publication number: 20150355113
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining the geometry of a structure on an object at least by using a computer tomography sensor system comprising at least a radiation source, a mechanical axis of rotation, and a detector, preferably a planar detector, wherein surface measurement points are generated by the computer tomography sensor system, for example in the region of material transitions. In order to select the surface measurement points to be used for the determination of a geometry feature by using any target geometry, in particular without the availability of a CAD model being necessary, according to the invention, in order to determine the geometry features, surface measurement points are used which are associated with the geometry features to be determined on the basis of specifiable rules and the geometry features are determined from the associated surface measurement points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Ralf CHRISTOPH, Ingomar SCHMIDT
  • Publication number: 20150260859
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for correcting the results of a computed tomography measurement of the geometry of a workpiece, the computed tomography sensor system, which consists at least of a radiation source, a two-dimensional detector and a mechanical axis of rotation for rotating the workpiece or component, being integrated into a coordinate measuring machine. To provide a simple and inexpensive method for carrying out a distortion correction, imaging errors present on the detector are corrected by measuring a calibration object in at least two relative positions between the calibration object and the detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2013
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Inventors: Ralf Christoph, Michael Hammer, Ingomar Schmidt
  • Patent number: 9025855
    Abstract: A method for determining structures or geometry of an object, or for measuring an object using a CT measuring system, and for correcting projection data for a CT reconstruction with the application of a CT detector, wherein the CT measuring system includes at least one radiation source, at least one radiation detector, and at least one axis of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Werth Messtechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Christoph, Ingomar Schmidt, Michael Hammer, Thomas Wiedenhöfer
  • Publication number: 20140192234
    Abstract: A method for generating and evaluating an image of a section of an object using an optical sensor. To generate a bright image, individual images are recorded of a section, of which individual images at least some individual images overlap at least in part in each case, and that to generate the image, the individual images or signals are aligned with respect to one another and superposed to form an overall image as the image of the at least one section, so that the evaluation of the overall image is substantially restricted to the overlapping regions of the individual images and/or the evaluation of the overall image or of a part thereof is brought about on the basis of the overlapping regions of the individual images having the latter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Inventors: Ralf Christoph, Ingomar Schmidt, Peter Winck
  • Publication number: 20120327221
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and arrangement for determining structures and/or geometry of a workpiece in a coordinate measuring machine by means of a tactile-optical measuring method, wherein the position of a shaped probe element is determined in at least one direction by means of a first sensor using an optically lateral measuring method, and the position of the shaped probe element is determined in at least one second direction using at least one distance sensor. In order to allow the error-free detection of the shaped probe element using the sensors, the invention proposes that at least one flexible connector element is used in a mounting for fastening the shaped probe element, permeated by the beam path of the first sensor in the beam direction, wherein the connecting element is transparent and/or is disposed severely out of focus with respect to the first sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2010
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: WERTH MESSTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Ralf Christoph, Matthias Andräs, Ingomar Schmidt, Markus Hechler, Benjamin Hopp