Patents by Inventor Joerg BREITENSTEIN

Joerg BREITENSTEIN 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).

  • Publication number: 20240032791
    Abstract: The ophthalmic workstation comprises a table having a top surface, a base unit mounted to the table, a microscope, and a headrest. The base unit includes an X-displacement stage, a Z-displacement stage, and a platform mounted to the X-displacement stage and the Z-displacement stage. The microscope is mounted to the platform. The table comprises an opening in its top surface. An embedded section of the base unit is located, at least in part, in this recess or opening. The headrest is mounted to a headrest section of the base unit, which projects laterally over an edge of the table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Haag-Streit AG
    Inventors: Frank ZUMKEHR, Jörg BREITENSTEIN, Adrian ZIMMERMANN, Fredy GUARRIELLO
  • Publication number: 20220225870
    Abstract: The ophthalmologic microscope comprises a first component including a base and a stage, a second component including a pivotal arm and a microscope device, and a third component including a pivotal arm and a light source. The various components are mutually pivotal at a hinge. An electronically controlled brake and a position sensor are incorporated into the hinge. The brake controller of the microscope is adapted to interrupt a manual mutual displacement of the components in response to a signal from the position sensor in order to assist the user in properly aligning the components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: Haag-Streit AG
    Inventors: Frank ZUMKEHR, Jörg BREITENSTEIN, André HUBER-MEZNARIC, Thomas KILLER, Julian V. KOOL VAN LANGENBERGHE
  • Publication number: 20220222970
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic device includes a microscope, an illumination system, a camera positioned to record an image through the microscope, and a storage device. When examining an eye, the camera is operated to continuously record a series of images. The images are stored in the storage device, each one with attributed imaging parameters describing the recording conditions of the image. When the examiner wants to retrieve images taking under examining conditions similar to the one presently used, the device is able to automatically retrieve the closest matches from the storage device. This allows to record, in the background, a large number of images documenting an eye's history and to retrieve them efficiently.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: Haag-Streit AG
    Inventors: Frank ZUMKEHR, Jörg BREITENSTEIN
  • Publication number: 20220167842
    Abstract: In the device and method, the angle of incidence of slit light onto an eye to be examined is determined from its Purkinje reflection recorded in an image by measuring the offset from the reflection to the apex of the image of the cornea. In another embodiment, Purkinje reflections of light sources arranged around the optical axis of the microscope are correlated with a reference pattern of radial stripes in order to determine the offset between the optical axis and the apex of the eye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: Haag-Streit AG
    Inventors: Claudio DELLAGIACOMA, Jörg BREITENSTEIN
  • Publication number: 20200154998
    Abstract: In a method for testing a disposable on a medical examination appliance, more particularly on a tonometer, wherein the medical examination appliance comprises a disposable holding apparatus, on which a disposable is held and, in particular, able to be brought into contact with a patient's eye for an applanation tonometry measurement, and which comprises a detection device, by means of which a physical property of the disposable can be measured, a measured value of the physical property of the disposable is ascertained by means of the detection device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Applicant: Haag-Streit AG
    Inventors: Jörg BREITENSTEIN, Frank ZUMKEHR
  • Patent number: 10595723
    Abstract: In a method for registering measurement points on a body, in particular on an eye, measurement points are registered along a trajectory on a surface of the body, in particular a curved surface of the body, for determining an axial length profile, by way of a measurement beam. Here, a minimum radius of curvature of the trajectory is at least 1/7, preferably at least ?, particularly preferably at least ? of a radius of a circumference of the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: HAAG-STREIT AG
    Inventors: André Meznaric, Bernhard Von Waldkirch, Christian Schlaeppi, Christian Zoss, Ernst Rindlisbacher, Joerg Breitenstein, Kaspar Baltzer, Lucio Robledo, Peter Stalder, Silja Kiriyanthan
  • Publication number: 20190223718
    Abstract: A device (1) for examining an eye, in particular a slit lamp, comprises an image recording unit (220) with at least one first sensor (241.1) in a first beam path and a second sensor (241.2) in a second beam path, the device also comprising in the first beam path a first objective with a first optical axis, which has a fixed magnification and is arranged as fixed in the first beam path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: HAAG-STREIT AG
    Inventors: Joerg Breitenstein, Frank Zumkehr, Claudio Dellagiacoma
  • Patent number: 9375140
    Abstract: An adapter (60) for an apparatus (50) for measuring a first property of an eye is attachable to the apparatus (50), wherein, when the adapter (60) is attached to the apparatus (50), a second additional property of the eye is measurable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: HAAG-STREIT AG
    Inventors: Joerg Breitenstein, Jonas Haehnle, Christian Zoss, Peter Stalder, Kaspar Baltzer, Ernst Rindlisbacher, André Meznaric, Christian Schlaeppi, Lucio Robledo
  • Publication number: 20160128565
    Abstract: In a method for registering measurement points on a body, in particular on an eye, measurement points are registered along a trajectory on a surface of the body, in particular a curved surface of the body, for determining an axial length profile, by way of a measurement beam. Here, a minimum radius of curvature of the trajectory is at least 1/7, preferably at least ?, particularly preferably at least ? of a radius of a circumference of the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: Haag-Streit AG
    Inventors: André MEZNARIC, Bernhard VON WALDKIRCH, Christian SCHLAEPPI, Christian ZOSS, Ernst RINDLISBACHER, Joerg BREITENSTEIN, Kaspar BALTZER, Lucio ROBLEDO, Peter STALDER, Silja KIRIYANTHAN
  • Publication number: 20140204339
    Abstract: An adapter (60) for an apparatus (50) for measuring a first property of an eye is attachable to the apparatus (50), wherein, when the adapter (60) is attached to the apparatus (50), a second additional property of the eye is measurable,
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: HAAG-STREIT AG
    Inventors: Joerg BREITENSTEIN, Jonas HAEHNLE, Christian ZOSS, Peter STALDER, Kaspar BALTZER, Ernst RINDLISBACHER, André MEZNARIC, Christian SCHLAEPPI, Lucio ROBLEDO
  • Publication number: 20120200859
    Abstract: A device for establishing geometric values at least from a first region (MB1) and from a second region (MB3), distanced from the first region (MB1), of a transparent or diffusive object, comprises a coherence tomograph with an object arm, a reference arm, a detector arm, and a light source (ALQ) for emitting light. The device has a first path, formed by the object arm and/or the reference arm, having a first optical path length and a second path having a second optical path length, along which the light emitted by the light source (ALQ) can propagate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Inventors: Joerg BREITENSTEIN, Rudolf Waelti
  • Patent number: 8049899
    Abstract: A Michelson-interferometer which has two reference arms and a short coherence length is used for the method and apparatus for measurement of geometric values on transparent or diffuse objects (19). The basic optical delay times of the reference arms (11, 12) are chosen in such a manner that they result in an optical delay time difference corresponding to a layer thickness, as a geometric value. The at least two reference arm beams (33a, 35a) are passed to a single rotating path-length variation element (23), with a mutual spatial offset angle (dw). A delay-time change, which is dependent on the rotation angle, of the reference arm beams is produced as a function of a rotation angle caused by rotation, in order to allow a delay-time change caused by the path-length variation element (23) to be applied successively to the basic optical delay times in the reference arms (11, 12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Haag-Streit AG
    Inventors: Rudolf Waelti, Urs Buri, Jörg Breitenstein