Patents by Inventor Olaf Kuhn

Olaf Kuhn 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: 7254262
    Abstract: A method for optimizing target quantities for optical precision measuring includes obtaining ancillary parameters from image data of a workpiece which is to be measured. Control data for influence quantities of the target quantities are derived from the ancillary parameters. The control data is derived as follows: by determining the courses of the ancillary parameters depending on at least one influence quantity and the courses of the ancillary parameters are determined in such a way that the courses have a like extremum of the functional dependence from the influence quantities. An overall course of the ancillary parameters is determined and an extremum of the overall course of the ancillary parameters is determined. Corresponding values of the influence quantities are determined at the site of the determined extremum as control data for the influence quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2007
    Assignee: Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung
    Inventors: Uwe Nehse, Gerhard Linss, Olaf Kühn
  • Publication number: 20040131244
    Abstract: A method for optimizing target quantities for optical precision measuring includes obtaining ancillary parameters from image data of a workpiece which is to be measured. Control data for influence quantities of the target quantities are derived from the ancillary parameters. The control data is derived as follows: by determining the courses of the ancillary parameters depending on at least one influence quantity and the courses of the ancillary parameters are determined in such a way that the courses have a like extremum of the functional dependence from the influence quantities. An overall course of the ancillary parameters is determined and an extremum of the overall course of the ancillary parameters is determined. Corresponding values of the influence quantities are determined at the site of the determined extremum as control data for the influence quantity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2003
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Inventors: Uwe Nehse, Gerhard Linss, Olaf Kuhn
  • Patent number: 5673165
    Abstract: A reduction in contact bounce in an electromagnetic switch is accomplished by optimizing armature speed over its travel path with a circuit arrangement for controlling a drive current in the coil of the electromagnetic switch. A superposed speed loop including a speed sensor produces a measured voltage in response to speed of the armature. A converter coupled to the speed sensor converts the measured voltage into a value corresponding to an actual speed of the armature. A first summer receives a constant reference value corresponding to a desired speed for the armature and the value corresponding to the actual speed of the armature, and produces a difference voltage corresponding to a difference between the desired speed and the actual speed of the armature. A proportional element amplifies the difference voltage and produces a desired current value corresponding to the amplified difference voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1997
    Assignee: AEG Niederspannungstechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Olaf Kuhn, Thomas Roschke