Patents by Inventor Michael Bohnel

Michael Bohnel 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).

  • Method and apparatus for determining one or more characteristics of radiation
    Patent number: 7983397
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device and method for determining one or more characteristics of radiation using a sensor comprising one or more detector units capable of counting the number of photon or charged particle of said radiation impinging on said sensor in or above a determined energy range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg
    Inventors: Thilo Michel, Alexander Korn, Gisela Anton, Daniel Niederlohner, Michael Bohnel, Markus Firsching, Jurgen Durst
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING ONE OR MORE CHARACTERISTICS OF RADIATION
    Publication number: 20110051901
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device and method for determining one or more characteristics of radiation using a sensor comprising one or more detector units capable of counting the number of photon or charged particle of said radiation impinging on said sensor in or above a determined energy range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2007
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITAT ERLANGEN-NURNBERG
    Inventors: Thilo Michel, Alexander Korn, Gisela Anton, Daniel Niederlohner, Michael Bohnel, Markus Firsching, Jurgen Durst
  • Radiation Monitoring Device
    Publication number: 20110036988
    Abstract: Radiation detector (1) for measuring one or more characteristics of a radiation, comprising one or more detector pixels (3), a clock pulse generator, each detector pixel (3) comprising a sensor (20) producing an electrical signal in response to an event of a photon or charged particle of said radiation impinging on said sensor (20); a pixel electronics (24) adapted for receiving and processing said electrical signal, comprising an analog processing unit (62) for amplifying and shaping said electrical signal and producing a shaped pulse said pixel electronics (24) comprises time determination unit (51) for counting the TOT-count, the TOT-count being the number of clock pulses occurring during the time interval when said shaped pulse is above a threshold. Said pixel electronics comprises a plurality of event counters (82), each event counter (82) counting the number of events having a TOT-count in a predefined ranges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2008
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Inventors: Michael Campbell, Xavier Llopart Cudie, Lukas Tlustos, Winnie Sze-Wing Wong, Rafael Ballabriga Sune, Gisela Anton, Thilo Michel, Michael Bohnel, Karl L. Schwartz, Uwe Mollenhauer, Ernst Fritsch