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: 7250765
    Abstract: Magnetic resonance device with an assembly having a recess, in which a gradient coil unit is attached with at least one attachment means, the attachment means having two members, between which an elastic element is disposed, only one of the members in each instance being in contact with either the gradient coil unit or the assembly, with the attachment means acting as an attachment means having no elastic element in a first attachment state, in which at least a minimum force presses the two members together, in that the two members have stop surfaces, which are in contact with each other due to the minimum force acting on the members compressed elastic element and with the attachment means acting as a spring unit in a second fixing state, in that the elastic element pushes the members apart in the event of forces smaller than the minimum force and causes the attachment means to be fixed in relation to the gradient coil unit and the assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Dietz, Thomas Kolbeck, Jörg Riegler, Johann Schuster, Lothar Schön, Stefan Stocker
  • Patent number: 7224165
    Abstract: For generating of magnetic resonance exposures of an examination subject, a dielectric element with high dielectric constant is positioned on the examination subject to locally influence the B1 field distribution, the dielectric element being formed primarily of material whose magnetic resonance line(s) is/are shifted by at least a specific degree relative to the magnetic resonance line of water protons for a given magnetic field. In a measurement for generation of a magnetic resonance exposure a measurement sequence is used, such in the acquisition of the raw image data the dielectric material of the dielectric element supplies no signal contributions for the image generation and/or the signals caused by the dielectric material of the dielectric element can be separated from the signals caused by the examination subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2007
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thorsten Feiweier, Berthold Kiefer, Wolfgang Renz, Lothar Schön
  • Patent number: 7154270
    Abstract: A gradient coil system for a magnetic resonance apparatus has gradient coils and at least one cooling tube for cooling the gradient coils using a coolant flowing through the cooling tube. The cooling tube is formed of a flexible thermoplastic material, augmented with a filler, and has a thermal conductivity greater than 0.5 W/mK.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Winfried Arz, Michael Schaaf, Johann Schuster, Lothar Schön
  • Patent number: 7075300
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance apparatus has a basic field magnet with an interior bore having a bulge therein. A mass augmentation device is disposed in the bulge, and is composed of a number of assembled individual segments. The mass augmentation device reduces the propagation of mechanical oscillations that are produced during operation of the magnetic resonance apparatus, and which otherwise would produce unwanted noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Kolbeck, Lothar Schön, Stefan Stocker
  • Patent number: 7002347
    Abstract: A local coil unit for a magnetic resonance apparatus, which radiates a radio-frequency field into an examination subject, has a housing and at least a part of the housing is formed of an insulating dielectric material that passively compensates for an inhomogeneity in the high-frequency field in the subject. The material has a relative dielectric value ?r of greater than 50, preferably greater than 100, and a dielectric loss factor tan ? of less than 2.5×10?2, preferably less than 1×10?3. In the dielectric material displacement currents are generated which create an additional magnetic field that compensates for the minima in the B1 field as a result of the eddy currents arising in the patient due to the radio-frequency radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2006
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thorsten Feiweier, Razvan Lazar, Wolfgang Renz, Lothar Schön
  • Patent number: 6642717
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance apparatus has a gradient coil system which has at least one flexible and thermally conductive damping structure that contains a flexible matrix and thermally conductive, particulate fillers. At least parts of a cooling device of the gradient coil system are arranged within the damping structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2003
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Dietz, Arthur Kaindl, Lothar Schoen
  • Patent number: 6552545
    Abstract: Gradient coil for magnetic resonance (MR) devices has direct cooling by means of cooling lines that are embedded in the coil and through which a cooling agent flows. The cooling lines are arranged substantially parallel to one another, such as parallel to the axis of the gradient coil, and are combined to form heat exchanger modules whose individual cooling lines are coupled with one another so that the maximum length between the inlet and outlet of a module corresponds to twice the longitudinal length of the gradient coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2003
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Arthur Kaindl, Lothar Schoen, Johann Schuster
  • Publication number: 20020008516
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance apparatus has a gradient coil system which has at least one flexible and thermally conductive damping structure that contains a flexible matrix and thermally conductive, particulate fillers. At least parts of a cooling device of the gradient coil system are arranged within the damping structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2001
    Publication date: January 24, 2002
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Dietz, Arthur Kaindl, Lothar Schoen
  • Publication number: 20010042385
    Abstract: Gradient coil for magnetic resonance (MR) devices has direct cooling by means of cooling lines that are embedded in the coil and through which a cooling agent flows. The cooling lines are arranged substantially parallel to one another, such as parallel to the axis of the gradient coil, and are combined to form heat exchanger modules whose individual cooling lines are coupled with one another so that the maximum length between the inlet and outlet of a module corresponds to twice the longitudinal length of the gradient coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2001
    Publication date: November 22, 2001
    Inventors: Arthur Kaindl, Lothar Schoen, Johann Schuster
  • Patent number: 5447797
    Abstract: A reaction resin mixture, which is able to be hardened thermally and by means of UV radiation, contains the following constituents:a cationically polymerizable epoxide resin;a latent hardening initiator in the form of an aralkyl-thiolanium salt; anda sensitizer of the structure ##STR1## A being --CO--, --NR-- and --CO--CO--, and D being --O--, --S--, --CO-- and --CH.sub.2).sub.x (where x= 1 or 2) or rather a single bond or two hydrogen atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1995
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bernhard Stapp, Lothar Schoen, Volker Muhrer
  • Patent number: 5242715
    Abstract: In a process for coating or bonding electronic components and subassemblies with reaction resin mixtures that are stable in storage at room temperature as a one-component system for several months, reaction resin mixtures are used, which contain the following components:a cationically hardenable, solvent-free epoxy resin;a triarylsulphonium salt with hexafluorophosphate, -arsenate or -antimonate as anion, with a mass concentration of 0.01 to 5% (relative to epoxy resin); anda benzylthiolanium salt with hexafluorophosphate, -arsenate or -antimonate as anion, with a mass concentration of 0.01 to 5% (relative to epoxy resin);as well as possibly customary additives.These reaction resin mixtures are hardened through UV radiation and thermally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1993
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Lothar Schoen, Bernhard Stapp, Heiner Bayer, Helmut Markert, Volker Muhrer
  • Patent number: 5239073
    Abstract: The invention relates to isocyanurate-containing, organosilicon compounds of the general formula ##STR1## in which Q=--(CH.sub.2).sub.3 SiR.sub.2 O(SiR.sub.2 O).sub.n SiR.sub.2 R', n is an integer from 0 to 25 and x is an integer from 0 to 10, and the following holds for the residues R and R', which can be the same or different:R=alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, arylalkyl or alkylaryl, andR'=an epoxy-functional residue with 4 to 10 C-atoms or a (meth)acrylate-functional residue with at least 6 C-atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1993
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bernhard Stapp, Helmut Markert, Lothar Schoen
  • Patent number: 5101029
    Abstract: The invention relates to isocyanurate-containing, organosilicon compounds of the general formula ##STR1## in which Q=--(CH.sub.2).sub.3 SiR.sub.2 O(SiR.sub.2 O).sub.n SiR.sub.2 R', n is an integer from 0 to 25 and x is an integer from 0 to 10, and the following holds for the residues R and R', which can be the same or different:R=alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, arylalkyl or alkylaryl, andR'=an epoxy-functional residue with 4 to 10 C-atoms or a (meth)acrylate-functional residue with at least 6 C-atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1992
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bernhard Stapp, Helmut Markert, Lothar Schoen