Patents by Inventor Ludwig Danzer
Ludwig Danzer 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).
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Patent number: 10890673Abstract: An X-ray detector, including a stacking arrangement, includes an evaluation unit and a carrier unit. The evaluation unit and the carrier unit are electrically conductively connected via a plurality of connecting elements. An interspace is formed between the evaluation unit, the carrier unit and the plurality of connecting elements. A protective element is formed on side faces of the carrier unit, arranged essentially parallel to a stacking direction of the stacking arrangement. The protective element is formed in at least one section of the side faces along the entire outer circumference and along the edges of the side faces, facing the evaluation unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2018Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: SIEMENS HEALTHCARE GMBHInventors: Ludwig Danzer, Harald Geyer, Jan Wrege
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Publication number: 20190090825Abstract: An X-ray detector, including a stacking arrangement, includes an evaluation unit and a carrier unit. The evaluation unit and the carrier unit are electrically conductively connected via a plurality of connecting elements. An interspace is formed between the evaluation unit, the carrier unit and the plurality of connecting elements. A protective element is formed on side faces of the carrier unit, arranged essentially parallel to a stacking direction of the stacking arrangement. The protective element is formed in at least one section of the side faces along the entire outer circumference and along the edges of the side faces, facing the evaluation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Applicant: Siemens Healthcare GmbHInventors: Ludwig DANZER, Harald GEYER, Jan WREGE
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Patent number: 10107920Abstract: A sensor board for a detector module is disclosed. It includes, in a stack construction, at least one reader unit and a sensor layer arranged spaced from the reader unit in the direction of the stack. A gap formed by the spacing between the sensor layer and the reader unit is filled with a cured filling material such that at least one edge region of the sensor layer is free of the filling material. Furthermore, a method is disclosed for manufacturing a corresponding sensor board, and a detector module is disclosed for an X-ray detector having a number of sensor boards which are arranged to be mutually adjacent on a module carrier.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2015Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Ludwig Danzer, Harald Geyer, Miguel Labayen De Inza, Jan Wrege
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Patent number: 9966409Abstract: An imaging device for electromagnetic radiation, especially for x-ray and/or gamma radiation, is disclosed. In an embodiment, the imaging device includes a layering including a number of detection elements, a number of read-out boards and a base board. Each of the detection elements is electrically contacted with a respective read-out board via a plurality of first solder contacts. Each read-out board includes a plurality of through-contacts and is electrically contacted with the base board via a plurality of second solder contacts.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2015Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Ludwig Danzer, Miguel Labayen De Inza, Jan Wrege
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Publication number: 20160170032Abstract: A sensor board for a detector module is disclosed. It includes, in a stack construction, at least one reader unit and a sensor layer arranged spaced from the reader unit in the direction of the stack. A gap formed by the spacing between the sensor layer and the reader unit is filled with a cured filling material such that at least one edge region of the sensor layer is free of the filling material. Furthermore, a method is disclosed for manufacturing a corresponding sensor board, and a detector module is disclosed for an X-ray detector having a number of sensor boards which are arranged to be mutually adjacent on a module carrier.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2015Publication date: June 16, 2016Applicant: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Ludwig DANZER, Harald GEYER, Miguel LABAYEN DE INZA, Jan WREGE
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Publication number: 20160015339Abstract: An imaging device for electromagnetic radiation, especially for x-ray and/or gamma radiation, is disclosed. In an embodiment, the imaging device includes a layering including a number of detection elements, a number of read-out boards and a base board. Each of the detection elements is electrically contacted with a respective read-out board via a plurality of first solder contacts. Each read-out board includes a plurality of through-contacts and is electrically contacted with the base board via a plurality of second solder contacts.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2015Publication date: January 21, 2016Inventors: Ludwig DANZER, Miguel LABAYEN DE INZA, Jan WREGE
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Patent number: 8385508Abstract: A scattered radiation collimator element is disclosed for producing a scattered radiation collimator for absorbing scattered radiation which is generated during an examination of an object by interaction of x-ray or gamma radiation used for this purpose. For the purposes of simplification and reducing costs during production, in at least one embodiment, the scattered radiation collimator element includes a plurality of absorber elements, designed in a strip-like or filament-like fashion and arranged adjacent to one another to form an absorber surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2009Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventor: Ludwig Danzer
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Patent number: 8324581Abstract: An embodiment of the invention relates to a radiation detector which includes a plurality of radiation detector modules arranged adjacent to one another with in each case one scintillation element with a radiation inlet surface aligned transversely with respect to a main direction of a radiation, and light detector arrangements arranged transversely with respect to the radiation inlet surfaces of the scintillation elements. In the process of at least one embodiment, one light detector arrangement is arranged between two scintillation elements and has two light inlet surfaces which point away from one another, of which one is associated with a first scintillation element and one is associated with a second scintillation element. Furthermore, at least one embodiment of the invention relates to a light detector arrangement, a production method for a radiation detector according to at least one embodiment of the invention and/or an imaging system.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2009Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Ludwig Danzer, Jan Wrege
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Publication number: 20100173445Abstract: A production method for a sensor unit of an X-ray detector is disclosed, which can be implemented easily and precisely, is specified, the sensor unit including a scintillator with photodiodes integrated in its septa for lateral readout. In at least one embodiment of the method, individual scintillator strips are initially produced from a plurality of scintillator pixels adjoining one another along one dimension. Respectively one photodiode strip, made of a plurality of photodiodes in turn adjoining one another along one dimension, is attached to each of the individual scintillator strips along a longitudinal side in order to form a sensor strip. Here, respectively one photodiode is associated with each scintillator pixel for readout purposes.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2009Publication date: July 8, 2010Inventors: Ludwig Danzer, Michael Miess, Stefan Wirth
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Publication number: 20100163738Abstract: An embodiment of the invention relates to a radiation detector which includes a plurality of radiation detector modules arranged adjacent to one another with in each case one scintillation element with a radiation inlet surface aligned transversely with respect to a main direction of a radiation, and light detector arrangements arranged transversely with respect to the radiation inlet surfaces of the scintillation elements. In the process of at least one embodiment, one light detector arrangement is arranged between two scintillation elements and has two light inlet surfaces which point away from one another, of which one is associated with a first scintillation element and one is associated with a second scintillation element. Furthermore, at least one embodiment of the invention relates to a light detector arrangement, a production method for a radiation detector according to at least one embodiment of the invention and/or an imaging system.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2009Publication date: July 1, 2010Inventors: Ludwig DANZER, Jan Wrege
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Patent number: 7645998Abstract: A detector module includes an array of detector elements and a printed circuit board. On a first side of the circuit board, the array of detector elements is arranged, and on a second side at least one component used for signal processing is arranged. The printed circuit board makes electrical contact with a plug connector having a free space in which the component is held. The detector module is provided for a detector of a computed tomography unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2006Date of Patent: January 12, 2010Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Ludwig Danzer, Harald Märkl
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Publication number: 20090225953Abstract: A scattered radiation collimator element is disclosed for producing a scattered radiation collimator for absorbing scattered radiation which is generated during an examination of an object by interaction of x-ray or gamma radiation used for this purpose. For the purposes of simplification and reducing costs during production, in at least one embodiment, the scattered radiation collimator element includes a plurality of absorber elements, designed in a strip-like or filament-like fashion and arranged adjacent to one another to form an absorber surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2009Publication date: September 10, 2009Inventor: Ludwig Danzer
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Patent number: 7358501Abstract: A detector module is disclosed, having an array of detector elements and a printed circuit board. The printed circuit board includes a first region for holding the array of detector elements and includes at least one second region, angled off relative to the first region. On this at least one second region, signal-processing electronics may be arranged. The vertical design of the detector module allows the design of an area detector to be produced on the basis of a multiplicity of detector modules arranged next to one another. The area detector may be provided for a computer tomograph.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2006Date of Patent: April 15, 2008Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Ludwig Danzer, Andreas Freund, Björn Heismann, Peter Kämmerer, Harald Märkl, Claus Pohan, Thomas Reichel, Gottfried Tschöpa, Stefan Wirth
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Publication number: 20070181252Abstract: Use of a hotmelt adhesive is disclosed for fixing at least one micro device on a carrier. A pasty fixation compound is further disclosed for micro devices including a powdered hotmelt adhesive, an anti-flow additive and a solvent for the anti-flow additive. Furthermore, a method is disclosed for fixing at least one micro device on a carrier, a hotmelt adhesive being applied to a carrier, the micro device being positioned at a predetermined distance from the carrier and fixed by the hotmelt adhesive until a solid adhesive bond has been produced between the at least one micro device and the carrier by cooling the hotmelt adhesive, the gap produced being filled by an epoxy resin and the two devices being adhesively bonded securely by curing of the epoxy resin. Furthermore, a detector is disclosed for detecting ionizing radiation which has a multiplicity of detector elements disposed in a two-dimensional arrangement.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2007Publication date: August 9, 2007Inventors: Stefan Bohm, Ludwig Danzer, Gregor Hemken, Jurgen Leppert, Elisabeth Stammen, Jan Wrege
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Publication number: 20070163671Abstract: In a method and a device for non-contacting monitoring of the fill state of liquids in an unpressurized liquid container, the fill state and/or the fill state change is determined by radiating light onto the boundary region of the liquid at which a fill state-dependent curvature arises due to adhesion forces of the liquid at the reservoir wall and surface tension, and the intensity of the reflected light or the reflection angle is measured at a predetermined location.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2007Publication date: July 19, 2007Inventors: Stefan Boehm, Ludwig Danzer, Sven Rathmann, Jan Wrege
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Publication number: 20070034804Abstract: A collimator is disclosed for a detector sensitive to radiation and having a contact electrode. The collimator includes a bottom element which is connectable to the contact electrode of the detector. In the bottom element, there is introducible into the recess in such a manner that when the bottom element is connected to the contact electrode, the electrical conductor is electrically connected to the contact electrode. A detector arrangement is also disclosed, having such a collimator.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2006Publication date: February 15, 2007Inventors: Ludwig Danzer, Silke Janssen
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Publication number: 20070034807Abstract: A detector module includes an array of detector elements and a printed circuit board. On a first side of the circuit board, the array of detector elements is arranged, and on a second side at least one component used for signal processing is arranged. The printed circuit board makes electrical contact with a plug connector having a free space in which the component is held. The detector module is provided for a detector of a computed tomography unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2006Publication date: February 15, 2007Inventors: Ludwig Danzer, Harald Markl
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Publication number: 20060231767Abstract: A detector module is disclosed, having an array of detector elements and a printed circuit board. The printed circuit board includes a first region for holding the array of detector elements and includes at least one second region, angled off relative to the first region. On this at least one second region, signal-processing electronics may be arranged. The vertical design of the detector module allows the design of an area detector to be produced on the basis of a multiplicity of detector modules arranged next to one another. The area detector may be provided for a computer tomograph.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2006Publication date: October 19, 2006Inventors: Ludwig Danzer, Andreas Freund, Bjorn Heismann, Peter Kammerer, Harald Markl, Claus Pohan, Thomas Reichel, Gottfried Tschopa, Stefan Wirth
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Publication number: 20060011851Abstract: A component carrier is for at least one x-ray sensitive detector element. On the carrier, at least one signal-processing component can be arranged. The carrier includes an x-ray absorbing material for the protection of the signal-processing component from x-rays.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2005Publication date: January 19, 2006Inventors: Ludwig Danzer, Richard Matz
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Publication number: 20050184246Abstract: A detector module for an X-ray computer tomograph, includes a number of sensor arrays provided next to one another on a printed circuit board. Each of the sensor arrays includes a plurality of first contact elements on a top side, averted from the printed circuit board. In order to make contact with the sensor array, the first contact elements are electrically connected to second contact elements with the aid of conductor tracks that are accommodated in or on an electrically insulating flexible carrier.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2005Publication date: August 25, 2005Inventors: Ludwig Danzer, Bjoern Heismann, Richard Matz, Heinz Pilz, Stefan Wirth, Joerg Zapf