Patents by Inventor Lothar Koch

Lothar Koch 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: 20100020938
    Abstract: A device and method for X-ray tube focal spot parameter control, wherein stray electrons are detected in an X-ray tube. The detected electrons lead to a signal having a characteristic pattern. The characteristic pattern may be evaluated, and based on the evaluation a controlling signal may be outputted so that a fast and exact controlling of the operating parameters of an X-ray tube may be carried out based on the detected stray electrons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2007
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
    Inventors: Lothar Koch, Wolfgang Chrost, Horst Roloff
  • Publication number: 20030164300
    Abstract: Described is a process for the separation of americium metal from spent fuel or chlorinated high level waste of fuel reprocessing by using a liquid electrode whereby americium will be obtained in high yields.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2002
    Publication date: September 4, 2003
    Inventors: Carole Pernel, Lothar Koch, Tadafumi Koyama
  • Publication number: 20030081726
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vacuum tube (1) for the processing or conversion of electric powers, for example, an X-ray tube or a traveling-wave tube, which tube includes at least one surface which is to be cooled by thermal emission in the operating condition, as well as a getter which serves to avoid an undesirable pressure increase. The tube is notably characterized in that the getter is provided in the form of a coating (30) partly or completely on the surface of the tube (1) to be cooled, the coating having a thickness such that it has a thermal emissive power which is adequate for the cooling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2002
    Publication date: May 1, 2003
    Inventor: Lothar Koch
  • Patent number: 6485695
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method and an apparatus for preparing Bi-213 to be integrated in a radioimmunocojugate for human therapeutic use. According to the invention the method comprises the sequence of steps as follows: a) an ampoule 5 containing colloid-free actinium-225, obtained from drying an actinium nitrate solution, is loaded into a container 20 provided with radiation panels 21; b) a dissolving medium is poured into the ampoule 5; c) the solution obtained in the ampoule is transferred into an ion exchange column 6; d) an elution medium is circulated through the column 6; e) the eluate containing eluted Bi-213 is pumped towards a vial 10 for quantification and quality control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Assignee: European Community (EC)
    Inventors: Lothar Koch, Christos Apostolidis, Roger Molinet, Bruno Brandalise, Willem Janssens, Jacques Van Geel
  • Publication number: 20020119488
    Abstract: This invention relates to an ex-corpore method of treating human blood cells incorporating tumour cells particularly in the frame of High-Dose Chemotherapy and/or Total Body Irradiation
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 1999
    Publication date: August 29, 2002
    Inventors: LOTHAR KOCH, WILLEM JANSSENS, JACQUES VAN GEEL, FREDDY DEZEURE, DANNY VANSTRAELEN
  • Patent number: 6400787
    Abstract: Described are a process and an apparatus for the remote measurement of uranium or plutonium in radioactive materials. in which the sample of the material to be analyzed is to be handled as little as possible. To attain that object it is proposed that the laser beam of a laser is focussed by means of a focussing unit onto the sample to be analyzed, so that a light-emitting plasma is generated, an image of the emission spectrum of the plasma is formed in a spectrograph by means of an imaging unit, and finally it is analyzed by means of an analyzing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2002
    Assignee: Euratom
    Inventors: Kay Niemax, Lars Hiddemann, Lothar Koch, Jean-Francois Babelot
  • Publication number: 20010036243
    Abstract: Described are a process and an apparatus for the remote measurement of uranium or plutonium in radioactive materials, in which the sample of the material to be analyzed is to be handled as little as possible. To attain that object it is proposed that the laser beam of a laser is focused by means of a focusing unit onto the sample to be analyzed, so that a light-emitting plasma is generated, an image of the emission spectrum of the plasma is formed in a spectrograph by means of an imaging unit, and finally it is analyzed by means of an analyzing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2001
    Publication date: November 1, 2001
    Inventors: Kay Niemax, Lars Hiddemann, Lothar Koch, Jean-Francois Babelot
  • Patent number: 6299666
    Abstract: This invention refers to a method for producing Actinium-225, comprising the steps of preparing a target (1) containing Radium-226, of irradiating this target with protons in a cyclotron and of chemically separating Actinium from the irradiated target material thereafter. According to the invention the proton energy in the cyclotron is adjusted such that the energy incident on the Ra-226 is between 10 and 20 MeV, preferably between 9 14 and 17 MeV. By this means the yield of production of the desired isotope Ac-225 is enhanced with respect to other radioisotopes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2001
    Assignee: European Community (EC)
    Inventors: Christos Apostolidis, Willem Janssens, Lothar Koch, John McGinley, Roger Molinet, Michel Ougier, Jacques van Geel, Josef Möllenbeck, Hermann Schweickert
  • Patent number: 6259757
    Abstract: Described are a process and an apparatus for the remote measurement of uranium or plutonium in radioactive materials, in which the sample of the material to be analyzed is to be handled as little as possible. To attain that object it is proposed that the laser beam of a laser is focussed by means of a focussing unit onto the sample to be analyzed, so that a light-emitting plasma is generated, an image of the emission spectrum of the plasma is formed in a spectrograph by means of an imaging unit, and finally it is analyzed by means of an analyzing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2001
    Assignee: Euratom
    Inventors: Kay Niemax, Lars Hiddemann, Lothar Koch, Jean-Francois Babelot
  • Patent number: 5355394
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing actinium-225 and bismuth-213. According to the invention, radium-226 is irradiated in the thermal neutron flux of a nuclear reactor, the thorium fraction of the irradiation product is then chemically isolated and therefrom the actinium and radium mixture growing continuously by decay therein is chemically separated, this mixture serving as "cow" for the desired radionuclides which are growing continuously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1994
    Assignee: European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM)
    Inventors: Jacobus N. C. van Geel, Jean J. Fuger, Lothar Koch