Patents by Inventor Juergen Kirsch

Juergen Kirsch 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).

  • X-ray mammography apparatus having a solid-state radiation detector
    Patent number: 6208708
    Abstract: An X-ray mammography device has an X-ray tube arrangement, a compression mechanism, a subject table, and a large-area solid-state detector made of amorphous silicon (a-Si) which is integrated in a detector cassette that can be inserted into the subject table and that has a first part of at least one transmission path for supplying the operating voltage, and/or the control signals for operating the solid-state detector and/or the readout data, this first said part engaging functionally with a corresponding second part of the transmission path which is attached at the subject table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martin Hoheisel, Juergen Kirsch, Hartmut Sklebitz, Martin Spahn