Patents by Inventor Lothar Schoen

Lothar Schoen 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: 11493582
    Abstract: A gradient coil unit includes a primary coil, a secondary coil and a carrier unit. The carrier unit stabilizes the primary coil and the secondary coil, and is formed from an encapsulating material. The carrier unit may include at least two encapsulating pockets that each include a delimiting structure and a filling. A thermoset component unit includes an electronic component and a carrier unit surrounding the electronic component, and being formed from an encapsulating material. The carrier unit may include at least one encapsulating pocket that includes a delimiting structure having a first material, and a filling having a second material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Simon Bauer, Peter Dietz, Andreas Johannes Fischer, Lothar Schoen
  • Patent number: 11488766
    Abstract: A gradient coil having a coil body made from a cured casting compound and at least one cooler embedded in the casting compound, serving to conduct a fluid coolant, wherein the cooler and the casting compound do not adhere to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Dietz, Lothar Schoen, Stefan Stocker
  • Publication number: 20210231759
    Abstract: A gradient coil unit includes a primary coil, a secondary coil and a carrier unit. The carrier unit stabilizes the primary coil and the secondary coil, and is formed from an encapsulating material. The carrier unit may include at least two encapsulating pockets that each include a delimiting structure and a filling. A thermoset component unit includes an electronic component and a carrier unit surrounding the electronic component, and being formed from an encapsulating material. The carrier unit may include at least one encapsulating pocket that includes a delimiting structure having a first material, and a filling having a second material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Simon Bauer, Peter Dietz, Andreas Johannes Fischer, Lothar Schoen
  • Publication number: 20200043649
    Abstract: A gradient coil having a coil body made from a cured casting compound and at least one cooler embedded in the casting compound, serving to conduct a fluid coolant, wherein the cooler and the casting compound do not adhere to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Dietz, Lothar Schoen, Stefan Stocker
  • Publication number: 20180011157
    Abstract: In a method for manufacturing a flat insulation layer for use in a gradient coil, a thermoplastic insulating material in the form of a plate, strip or foil is three-dimensionally deformed in a hot shaping step to form specified local elevations on at least one side, which are spaced apart from one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Applicant: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Lothar Schoen, Stefan Stocker
  • Patent number: 9470768
    Abstract: A cooling device for disposal between two flat coils of a gradient coil has at least one first and with at least one second foil that are connected to each other in areas such that continuous cooling channels for a cooling fluid are formed. The cooling channels are branched, whereby an improved cooling effect is produced with a smaller thickness of the cooling device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Norbert Huber, Lothar Schoen, Stefan Stocker, Muris Torlak
  • Patent number: 8866479
    Abstract: Casting compound suitable for casting an electronic module, in particular a large-volume coil such as a gradient coil, which is composed of a support material forming a matrix, one or more fillers made of inorganic microparticles, and at least one filler made of polymer nanoparticles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Groeppel, Juergen Huber, Gerhard Piecha, Lothar Schoen, Matthias Uebler
  • Patent number: 8305174
    Abstract: A superconducting coil for a magnetic resonance apparatus is formed by one or more wound superconducting conductors that are embedded in a cured sealing compound, with a filler composed only of nanoparticles added to the sealing compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Groeppel, Juergen Huber, Lothar Schoen, Matthias Uebler
  • Patent number: 8192786
    Abstract: In a method to ensure the removability and/or the mobility of at least one element cast in a casting compound for a module of a medical apparatus, wherein the element is coated with a meltable substance before the casting, the meltable substance is melted by heating after the casting in order to remove and/or to produce the mobility of the element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Johann Schuster, Lothar Schoen, Stefan Stocker
  • Publication number: 20110115488
    Abstract: Casting compound suitable for casting an electronic module, in particular a large-volume coil such as a gradient coil, which is composed of a support material forming a matrix, one or more fillers made of inorganic microparticles, and at least one filler made of polymer nanoparticles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2010
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Inventors: Peter Groeppel, Juergen Huber, Gerhard Piecha, Lothar Schoen, Matthias Uebler
  • Patent number: 7927442
    Abstract: In a method and apparatus for producing a plate-type insulation support provided with an adhesive layer for a gradient coil for a magnetic resonance device, an adhesive film forming the adhesive layer is used, which has a number of openings distributed over its surface to allow the passage of air and which is applied to the insulation support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Johann Schuster, Lothar Schoen, Stefan Stocker
  • Patent number: 7888938
    Abstract: In a gradient coil and a method to manufacture a gradient coil for a magnetic resonance apparatus, the gradient coil has at least one saddle coil, the saddle coil having a spatially shaped, electrically conductive plate with a line-shaped recess penetrating the plate. Conductor structures that create a gradient magnetic field in an examination region when a current signal flows therethrough are formed by the recess and by the shaping of the plate. The recess is filled with an electrically insulating material before implementation of the spatial shaping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Sascha Fath, Ralph Kimmlingen, Johann Schuster, Lothar Schoen, Stefan Stocker
  • Patent number: 7884606
    Abstract: In a cooling device for arrangement between two gradient coil windings of a gradient coil for dissipation of the heat (arising upon feeding current to the gradient coil windings) by means of a coolant flowing through one or more coolant channels in the cooling device, two films made of thermoplastic material are connected with one another, and are preformed in a thermal reshaping procedure to form coolant channel sections that are complementary to one another to form an inherently stable coolant channel after the connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Johann Schuster, Lothar Schoen, Stefan Stocker
  • Publication number: 20100265019
    Abstract: A superconducting coil for a magnetic resonance apparatus is formed by one or more wound superconducting conductors that are embedded in a cured sealing compound, with nanoparticles added to the sealing compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: Peter Groeppel, Juergen Huber, Lothar Schoen, Matthias Uebler
  • Patent number: 7782167
    Abstract: In a method to produce a curved coil, in particular a sub-coil of a gradient coil for a magnetic resonance apparatus, at least one conductor is wound corresponding to a predetermined pattern on a winding plate, and a winding plate composed of multiple plate elements that are moveable relative to one another is used that is formed into a curved shape after the winding of the conductor, in which curved shape the conductor is fixed while maintaining the curved shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Kolbeck, Johann Schuster, Lothar Schoen, Stefan Stocker
  • Publication number: 20090179646
    Abstract: In a gradient coil and a method to manufacture a gradient coil for a magnetic resonance apparatus, the gradient coil has at least one saddle coil, the saddle coil having a spatially shaped, electrically conductive plate with a line-shaped recess penetrating the plate. Conductor structures that create a gradient magnetic field in an examination region when a current signal flows therethrough are formed by the recess and by the shaping of the plate. The recess is filled with an electrically insulating material before implementation of the spatial shaping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2009
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Inventors: Sascha Fath, Ralph Kimmlingen, Johann Schuster, Lothar Schoen, Stefan Stocker
  • Patent number: 7528604
    Abstract: A gradient coil system for a magnetic resonance tomography apparatus has a layer structure including a gradient coil layer and a cooling layer. The cooling layer is fashioned as a plate heat exchanger, composed of plates, for cooling the gradient coil layer. In this way, a highly efficient cooling of the gradient coil layer is achieved with a lower structural height compared to conventional tubular configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bernd Gromoll, Norbert Huber, Johann Schuster, Lothar Schoen, Stefan Stocker
  • Publication number: 20090066463
    Abstract: In a method to produce a curved coil, in particular a sub-coil of a gradient coil for a magnetic resonance apparatus, at least one conductor is wound corresponding to a predetermined pattern on a winding plate, and a winding plate composed of multiple plate elements that are moveable relative to one another is used that is formed into a curved shape after the winding of the conductor, in which curved shape the conductor is fixed while maintaining the curved shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2008
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Inventors: Thomas Kolbeck, Johann Schuster, Lothar Schoen, Stefan Stocker
  • Patent number: 7495444
    Abstract: In a method for manufacturing a cooling device for a gradient coil, the cooling device having at least one flexible cooling tube arranged on a carrier plate configured in accordance with a predetermined pattern, the at least one cooling tube originally having a circular cross section, is laid in accordance with the predetermined pattern and is flattened to permanently deform its cross section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2009
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Johann Schuster, Lothar Schoen, Stefan Stocker
  • Publication number: 20080204179
    Abstract: In a cooling device for arrangement between two gradient coil windings of a gradient coil for dissipation of the heat (arising upon feeding current to the gradient coil windings) by means of a coolant flowing through one or more coolant channels in the cooling device, two films made of thermoplastic material are connected with one another, and are preformed in a thermal reshaping procedure to form coolant channel sections that are complementary to one another to form an inherently stable coolant channel after the connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2008
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Inventors: Johann Schuster, Lothar Schoen, Stefan Stocker