Patents by Inventor Jan Ruterbories

Jan Ruterbories 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: 7711418
    Abstract: An electroimpedance tomograph including a plurality of electrodes placed on a body, measuring circuits processing voltage signals recorded by the electrodes, and a control unit supplying two electrodes each with an alternating current. The control unit has a preset feed frequency. The control unit processes the processed voltage signals of all other electrodes to reconstruct the impedance distribution of the body in the electrode plane. The control unit provides for an automatic setting of the current feed frequency/frequencies to record a background frequency spectrum by detecting the electrode voltage signals over a preset period of time and record them as a voltage time series and transform them into a frequency spectrum. The control unit searches in the background frequency spectrum for a frequency (different states) or frequencies (different frequencies) that leads to a useful signal to background ratio above a preset threshold value when used as a feed frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Dräger Medical AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Yvo Gärber, Markus Steeger, Jianhua Li, Steffen Leonhardt, Jan Rüterbories, Rainer Goldau
  • Publication number: 20050059901
    Abstract: An electroimpedance tomograph is provided with a plurality of electrodes placed on a body, measuring circuits that process the voltage signals recorded by the electrodes, and a control unit that supplies two, preferably adjacent electrodes each with an alternating current. The control unit has a preset feed frequency performed in different states and different preset feed frequencies performed at different frequencies. The control unit processes the processed voltage signals of all other electrodes to reconstruct the impedance distribution of the body in the electrode plane. To make the EIT more insensitive to electromagnetic interferences, the control unit provides for an automatic setting of the current feed frequency/frequencies to record a background frequency spectrum by detecting the electrode voltage signals over a preset period of time and record them as a voltage time series and transform them into a frequency spectrum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2004
    Publication date: March 17, 2005
    Inventors: Yvo Garber, Markus Steeger, Jianhua Li, Steffen Leonhardt, Jan Ruterbories, Rainer Goldau