Patents by Inventor Michael Hosemann

Michael Hosemann 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: 20240319388
    Abstract: One or more example embodiments of the present invention relates to a detector module for an X-ray detector comprising a sensor layer in a stacked construction configured to convert incident X-ray radiation into electrical signals; a readout layer configured to read out the electrical signals from the sensor layer; and a heating layer, the heating layer including a plurality of heating elements spatially distributed in the heating layer and configured separately from one another for heating the sensor layer, and wherein the readout layer has for each heating element an associated activatable adapting unit via which each heating element is contacted for feeding in power and which is configured to adapt the power fed to each heating element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: Siemens Healthineers AG
    Inventors: Michael HOSEMANN, Andrea ZANG
  • Patent number: 12099151
    Abstract: An evaluation circuit for an x-ray detector for signaling coupling to a converter, designed to convert incident x-radiation into electrical signals. In at least one embodiment, the evaluation circuit includes a multiplicity of pixel-electronics modules. A respective pixel-electronics module is designed to process electrical signals fed into the respective pixel-electronics module from the converter, order to produce a respective digital pixel-measurement signal. Further, each of the respective pixel-electronics modules has at least one respective settable digital signal-processor, designed to adapt a respective processed digital pixel-measurement signal in a respective pixel-electronics module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Healthineers AG
    Inventor: Michael Hosemann
  • Publication number: 20240223875
    Abstract: A detector module for an X-ray detector includes: a sensor unit configured to convert incoming X-rays into electrical signals; at least one readout unit configured to read out the electrical signals from the sensor unit; a radio module with a radio circuit, which is configured to transmit the readout electrical signals by a wireless data transmission method; and an electronic unit arranged in a stacked arrangement with respect to the sensor unit having at least one electrically conductive connection for forwarding the readout electrical signals from the at least one readout unit to the radio module, wherein the radio circuit of the radio module is at least partially embedded in an embedding material of the electronic unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventor: Michael Hosemann
  • Publication number: 20240215940
    Abstract: A detector apparatus for a computed tomography device includes: at least one detector module having a sensor configured to detect measurement signals; at least one radio unit assigned to the at least one detector module, the radio unit having at least one radio antenna for wireless data transmission of the detector signals; and a housing that at least partially encloses the at least one detector module. The housing has a recess for the at least one radio antenna, relative to which the at least one radio antenna is arranged, so that wireless data transmission of the detector signals through the housing is enabled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventor: Michael Hosemann
  • Publication number: 20240004091
    Abstract: A detector module for an X-ray detector comprises: a stacked structure having a sensor layer, a readout layer, a heating layer, and a wiring unit, wherein the wiring unit is positioned after the heating layer in the stacked structure. The heating layer is partitioned into a plurality of heating subregions, each of which includes at least one heating element, and with each of which contact can be made individually for supplying power. Through the wiring unit, contact is made to each of the plurality of heating subregions of the heating layer, and at least one subset of the plurality of heating subregions is interconnected for the supply of power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventor: Michael HOSEMANN
  • Patent number: 11452487
    Abstract: An X-ray detector module includes a plurality of evaluation circuits, coupled to at least one converter circuit, each evaluation circuit including a multiplicity of pixel electronics circuits for processing the electrical signals from the converter circuit pixel by pixel; and a number of forwarding circuits, a forwarding circuit including at least a first data input for receiving a measured data set from a first evaluation circuit and at least a second data input for receiving a measured data set from a second evaluation circuit, or for receiving at least one forwarded measured data set from a further forwarding circuit of the number of forwarding circuits. Each forwarding circuit is constructed to forward the measured data sets that are received by way of the first data input and second data input to a coupled receiving circuit over a common data output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: SIEMENS HEALTHCARE GMBH
    Inventor: Michael Hosemann
  • Publication number: 20220066054
    Abstract: An evaluation circuit for an x-ray detector for signaling coupling to a converter, designed to convert incident x-radiation into electrical signals. In at least one embodiment, the evaluation circuit includes a multiplicity of pixel-electronics modules. A respective pixel-electronics module is designed to process electrical signals fed into the respective pixel-electronics module from the converter, order to produce a respective digital pixel-measurement signal. Further, each of the respective pixel-electronics modules has at least one respective settable digital signal-processor, designed to adapt a respective processed digital pixel-measurement signal in a respective pixel-electronics module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventor: Michael HOSEMANN
  • Publication number: 20220061778
    Abstract: An X-ray detector module includes a plurality of evaluation circuits, coupled to at least one converter circuit, each evaluation circuit including a multiplicity of pixel electronics circuits for processing the electrical signals from the converter circuit pixel by pixel; and a number of forwarding circuits, a forwarding circuit including at least a first data input for receiving a measured data set from a first evaluation circuit and at least a second data input for receiving a measured data set from a second evaluation circuit, or for receiving at least one forwarded measured data set from a further forwarding circuit of the number of forwarding circuits. Each forwarding circuit is constructed to forward the measured data sets that are received by way of the first data input and second data input to a coupled receiving circuit over a common data output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventor: Michael HOSEMANN
  • Patent number: 11226422
    Abstract: An x-ray detector includes a sensor slice for directly converting x-ray radiation and a downstream read-out chip. Further, in at least one embodiment, a first amplifier stage is interconnected between the sensor slice and read-out chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: SIEMENS HEALTHCARE GMBH
    Inventors: Michael Hosemann, Thorsten Ergler, Jan Wrege
  • Patent number: 11076822
    Abstract: A photon detector includes at least one sensor element, formed by a semiconductor material and sensitive to incident radiation, forming a pixel array including sensor pixels; and a detector circuit, situated after the sensor element in the direction of incident radiation, to detect charge carriers generated in the semiconductor material as a result of radiation. The detector circuit includes an integrated circuit with detector pixels in signal communication contact with the sensor pixels; and an enclosure surrounding the integrated circuit and in which the integrated circuit is embedded, and on which is formed on a pixel face facing the sensor element. A contact redistribution layer is formed, in which contact pads are formed for signal-communicatively connecting the detector pixels to the correspondingly assigned sensor pixels, and also conductor tracks are formed for connecting the contact pads to the detector pixels of the integrated circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: SIEMENS HEALTHCARE GMBH
    Inventors: Thorsten Ergler, Michael Hosemann
  • Patent number: 11025721
    Abstract: A detector apparatus for use as part of a data network includes a plurality of x-ray detectors, each of the plurality of x-ray detectors including a network-capable network interface, and a switch or router, connected to each of the network-capable network interfaces of the plurality of x-ray detectors, each of the plurality of x-ray detectors including a distinct IP address such that the data network is adjustable to take a change in a number of the plurality of x-ray detectors into account. The plurality of x-ray detectors are configured to detect x-rays generated from a single x-ray source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GMBH
    Inventors: Alfons Eismann, Thorsten Ergler, Taras Pryymak, Bodo Reitz, Alexander Graf, Edmund Goetz, Stefan Hartmann, Thomas Hilderscheid, Shameem Kabir Chaudhury, Kurt Stadlthanner, Michael Hosemann
  • Publication number: 20210011181
    Abstract: An x-ray detector includes a sensor slice for directly converting x-ray radiation and a downstream read-out chip. Further, in at least one embodiment, a first amplifier stage is interconnected between the sensor slice and read-out chip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Applicant: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Michael HOSEMANN, Thorsten ERGLER, Jan WREGE
  • Patent number: 10866328
    Abstract: A radiation detector includes an intermediate layer, which is arranged between a detection layer with a number of detection elements and a number of readout units. In an example embodiment of this arrangement, the intermediate layer has a plurality of electrically-conductive connections between the detection elements and the readout units. An example embodiment further specifies a medical imaging system, as well as a method of using the heating apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: SIEMENS HEALTHCARE GMBH
    Inventors: Thorsten Ergler, Harald Geyer, Michael Hosemann, Stefan Wirth, Jan Wrege
  • Patent number: 10825729
    Abstract: A method is for producing an integrated circuit. In an embodiment, a metallic contact structure, for a through silicon via with a contact area, is applied onto a silicon substrate without an insulating intermediate layer. An interconnection structure, with at least one insulating layer and at least one interconnection layer, is applied onto the silicon substrate. The contact structure is or will be contacted with the interconnection layer or at least one of the possibly plurality of interconnection layers, and a diode structure for blocking a current flow between the contact area of the metallic contact structure and the silicon substrate is introduced into the silicon substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: SIEMENS HEALTHCARE GMBH
    Inventors: Michael Hosemann, Kay Viehweger
  • Publication number: 20200170593
    Abstract: A photon detector includes at least one sensor element, formed by a semiconductor material and sensitive to incident radiation, forming a pixel array including sensor pixels; and a detector circuit, situated after the sensor element in the direction of incident radiation, to detect charge carriers generated in the semiconductor material as a result of radiation. The detector circuit includes an integrated circuit with detector pixels in signal communication contact with the sensor pixels; and an enclosure surrounding the integrated circuit and in which the integrated circuit is embedded, and on which is formed on a pixel face facing the sensor element. A contact redistribution layer is formed, in which contact pads are formed for signal-communicatively connecting the detector pixels to the correspondingly assigned sensor pixels, and also conductor tracks are formed for connecting the contact pads to the detector pixels of the integrated circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Thorsten ERGLER, Michael HOSEMANN
  • Publication number: 20200158890
    Abstract: A radiation detector includes an intermediate layer, which is arranged between a detection layer with a number of detection elements and a number of readout units. In an example embodiment of this arrangement, the intermediate layer has a plurality of electrically-conductive connections between the detection elements and the readout units. An example embodiment further specifies a medical imaging system, as well as a method of using the heating apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Applicant: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Thorsten Ergler, Herald Geyer, Michael Hosemann, Stefan Wirth, Jan Wrege
  • Publication number: 20200128079
    Abstract: A detector apparatus for use as part of a data network includes a plurality of x-ray detectors, each of the plurality of x-ray detectors including a network-capable network interface, and a switch or router, connected to each of the network-capable network interfaces of the plurality of x-ray detectors, each of the plurality of x-ray detectors including a distinct IP address such that the data network is adjustable to take a change in a number of the plurality of x-ray detectors into account. The plurality of x-ray detectors are configured to detect x-rays generated from a single x-ray source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Applicant: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Alfons EISMANN, Thorsten ERGLER, Taras PRYYMAK, Bodo REITZ, Alexander GRAF, Edmund GOETZ, Stefan HARTMANN, Thomas HILDERSCHEID, Shameem Kabir CHAUDHURY, Kurt STADLTHANNER, Michael HOSEMANN
  • Patent number: 10598798
    Abstract: A radiation detector includes an intermediate layer, which is arranged between a detection layer with a number of detection elements and a number of readout units. In an example embodiment of this arrangement, the intermediate layer has a plurality of electrically-conductive connections between the detection elements and the readout units. An example embodiment further specifies a medical imaging system, as well as a method of using the heating apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: SIEMENS HEALTHCARE GMBH
    Inventors: Thorsten Ergler, Harald Geyer, Michael Hosemann, Stefan Wirth, Jan Wrege
  • Patent number: 10547685
    Abstract: A detector apparatus includes at least one x-ray detector, including a network-capable network unit; and a switching unit connected to the network unit of the x-ray detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: SIEMENS HEALTHCARE GMBH
    Inventors: Alfons Eismann, Thorsten Ergler, Taras Pryymak, Bodo Reitz, Alexander Graf, Edmund Goetz, Stefan Hartmann, Thomas Hilderscheid, Shameem Kabir Chaudhury, Kurt Stadlthanner, Michael Hosemann
  • Publication number: 20190326172
    Abstract: A method is for producing an integrated circuit. In an embodiment, a metallic contact structure, for a through silicon via with a contact area, is applied onto a silicon substrate without an insulating intermediate layer. An interconnection structure, with at least one insulating layer and at least one interconnection layer, is applied onto the silicon substrate. The contact structure is or will be contacted with the interconnection layer or at least one of the possibly plurality of interconnection layers, and a diode structure for blocking a current flow between the contact area of the metallic contact structure and the silicon substrate is introduced into the silicon substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Applicant: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Michael HOSEMANN, Kay VIEHWEGER