Patents by Inventor Peter Höfer
Peter Höfer 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: 11079457Abstract: A microwave resonator for an electron paramagnetic resonance probehead comprises a cavity body supporting an electromagnetic microwave resonance mode, at least one sample opening for inserting a sample in a sample container, at least one microwave opening for transmitting microwave radiation into the resonator, and at least one access opening for inserting and removing a modifier in a modifier vessel into or out of the cavity body. The modifier vessel is fixed in the at least one access opening, the modifier is a fluid comprising attenuator fluid and/or marker fluid and/or adaptor fluid, and the modifier vessel has an insert opening for filling and discharging the modifier gradually into or out of the cavity body. This improves performance greatly, enabling a gradual modification of specific experimental conditions without moving any mechanical parts in the cavity body, and without changing other experimental conditions for Q- and/or M- and/or D-variation.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2020Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Inventors: Ion Prisecaru, Peter Höfer
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Publication number: 20210018585Abstract: A microwave resonator for an electron paramagnetic resonance probehead comprises a cavity body supporting an electromagnetic microwave resonance mode, at least one sample opening for inserting a sample in a sample container, at least one microwave opening for transmitting microwave radiation into the resonator, and at least one access opening for inserting and removing a modifier in a modifier vessel into or out of the cavity body. The modifier vessel is fixed in the at least one access opening, the modifier is a fluid comprising attenuator fluid and/or marker fluid and/or adaptor fluid, and the modifier vessel has an insert opening for filling and discharging the modifier gradually into or out of the cavity body. This improves performance greatly, enabling a gradual modification of specific experimental conditions without moving any mechanical parts in the cavity body, and without changing other experimental conditions for Q- and/or M- and/or D-variation.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2020Publication date: January 21, 2021Inventors: Ion Prisecaru, Peter Höfer
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Patent number: 10656230Abstract: An EPR resonator for a cylindrical TE01n microwave mode, where n=1, 2, 3, or 4, has: a cylindrical body (10) which has an RF absorption of less than 5% at RFs below 1 kHz, a first plunger (11) delimiting the resonating volume within the body in an axial direction at a first end and a second plunger (12) delimiting the resonating volume within the body at a second end, the second plunger having an opening (13) for inserting an EPR sample. The first and second plunger each has a spiral winding of an electrically conductive filament wherein neither the ends nor neighboring turns of the spiral windings have electrically conductive connections prone to forming electrically closed loops. Using spiral winding plungers for cylindrical TE01n microwave modes provides equivalent functionality compared to conventional plungers, but without creating Eddy currents at frequencies lower than the frequency of the TE01n microwave mode.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2017Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: BRUKER BIOSPIN GMBHInventors: Peter Hoefer, Ion Prisecaru
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Patent number: 10353027Abstract: A microwave resonator for an EPR probe head has a metal cavity body (1) supporting an electromagnetic microwave resonance mode. The metal cavity body (1) has an opening for inserting a sample tube (2) to a center position of the resonator. The center of the opening and the center position of the resonator define an x-axis. The cavity body also has an opening for transmitting microwave radiation into the resonator. Two dielectric elements (4a, 4b) are located symmetrically to the E-field nodal plane containing the x-axis and a z-axis perpendicular to the x-axis. Each dielectric element is geometrically formed and positioned such that it provides an equal overlap with a local maximum of the microwave electric field energy. The microwave resonant cavity has a thin planar shape and the resonator is loaded with two dielectric elements, placed symmetrically relative to the central EPR sample.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Bruker BioSpin GmbHInventors: Ion Prisecaru, Peter Hoefer
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Publication number: 20180172790Abstract: An EPR resonator for a cylindrical TE01n microwave mode, where n=1, 2, 3, or 4, has: a cylindrical body (10) which has an RF absorption of less than 5% at RFs below 1 kHz, a first plunger (11) delimiting the resonating volume within the body in an axial direction at a first end and a second plunger (12) delimiting the resonating volume within the body at a second end, the second plunger having an opening (13) for inserting an EPR sample. The first and second plunger each has a spiral winding of an electrically conductive filament wherein neither the ends nor neighboring turns of the spiral windings have electrically conductive connections prone to forming electrically closed loops. Using spiral winding plungers for cylindrical TE01n microwave modes provides equivalent functionality compared to conventional plungers, but without creating Eddy currents at frequencies lower than the frequency of the TE01n microwave mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2017Publication date: June 21, 2018Inventors: Peter HOEFER, Ion PRISECARU
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Publication number: 20160274200Abstract: A microwave resonator for an EPR probe head has a metal cavity body (1) supporting an electromagnetic microwave resonance mode. The metal cavity body (1) has an opening for inserting a sample tube (2) to a center position of the resonator. The center of the opening and the center position of the resonator define an x-axis. The cavity body also has an opening for transmitting microwave radiation into the resonator. Two dielectric elements (4a, 4b) are located symmetrically to the E-field nodal plane containing the x-axis and a z-axis perpendicular to the x-axis. Each dielectric element is geometrically formed and positioned such that it provides an equal overlap with a local maximum of the microwave electric field energy. The microwave resonant cavity has a thin planar shape and the resonator is loaded with two dielectric elements, placed symmetrically relative to the central EPR sample.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2016Publication date: September 22, 2016Inventors: Ion Prisecaru, Peter Hoefer
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Patent number: 7919963Abstract: A resonator assembly for executing measurements on a sample within a constant magnetic field B0 by means of magnetic resonance is disclosed. It comprises a resonator portion defining a longitudinal axis and an axial direction. The resonator portion has, along the axial direction, a hollow cavity for exciting electron resonance within the sample. A coupling portion is provided adjacent the resonator portion and has, along the longitudinal axis, a stepped through being electrically conductive at its inner surface. A first, middle section of the stepped through configures the hollow cavity. A second and a third, lateral section adjacent axially opposed sides of the hollow cavity are each dimensioned such that a basic mode being resonant within the hollow cavity is unable to propagate within the second and the third section. A coil is wound around the resonator portion for additionally exciting a nuclear resonance within the sample.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2009Date of Patent: April 5, 2011Assignee: Bruker Biospin, GmbHInventors: Alexander Krahn, Peter Hoefer, Marian Kloza, Frank Engelke
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Publication number: 20090230963Abstract: A resonator assembly for executing measurements on a sample within a constant magnetic field B0 by means of magnetic resonance is disclosed. It comprises a resonator portion defining a longitudinal axis and an axial direction. The resonator portion has, along the axial direction, a hollow cavity for exciting electron resonance within the sample. A coupling portion is provided adjacent the resonator portion and has, along the longitudinal axis, a stepped through being electrically conductive at its inner surface. A first, middle section of the stepped through configures the hollow cavity. A second and a third, lateral section adjacent axially opposed sides of the hollow cavity are each dimensioned such that a basic mode being resonant within the hollow cavity is unable to propagate within the second and the third section. A coil is wound around the resonator portion for additionally exciting a nuclear resonance within the sample.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2009Publication date: September 17, 2009Applicant: BRUKER BIOSPIN GMBHInventors: Alexander Krahn, Peter Hoefer, Marian Kloza, Frank Engelke
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Patent number: 7586305Abstract: In a method for determining an absolute number of electron spins in an extended sample (3) with the assistance of an apparatus for measuring magnetic resonance, the extended sample (3) is disposed within a measurement volume (2) of a radiofrequency RF resonator (1) of the apparatus during an electron spin resonance measurement (ESR).Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2008Date of Patent: September 8, 2009Assignee: Bruker Biospin GmbHInventors: Peter Höfer, Patrick Carl
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Patent number: 7436181Abstract: A probe head for nuclear magnetic resonance measurements comprises a sample holder having a stator and a rotor. The rotor is journalled for rotation about an axis of rotation within the stator. It is adapted for receiving a sample substance. The axis of rotation is inclined by an angle with respect to a longitudinal axis of the probe head. The stator is configured as a dielectric resonator.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2006Date of Patent: October 14, 2008Inventors: Alexander Krahn, Peter Hoefer, Frank Engelke
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Patent number: 7391212Abstract: A resonator apparatus and a method for electron spin resonance (ESR) measurements are disclosed. The resonator apparatus comprises a dielectric resonator and a sample vessel extending through the resonator. The sample vessel is configured as one single flexible tube. Means are provided for conveying a liquid sample substance through the flexible tube. According to the method a liquid sample substance is guided through the sample vessel, wherein the sample substance is gated by cyclically conveying and stopping, resp., a flow of the sample substance. A measurement is conducted within the resonator when the flow of sample substance is stopped.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2002Date of Patent: June 24, 2008Assignee: Bruker BioSpin GmbHInventors: Diether Maier, Dieter Schmalbein, Andreas Kamlowski, Marian Kloza, Peter Hoefer
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Publication number: 20070030005Abstract: A probe head for nuclear magnetic resonance measurements comprises a sample holder having a stator and a rotor. The rotor is journalled for rotation about an axis of rotation within the stator. It is adapted for receiving a sample substance. The axis of rotation is inclined by an angle with respect to a longitudinal axis of the probe head. The stator is configured as a dielectric resonator.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2006Publication date: February 8, 2007Applicant: Bruker BioSpin GmbHInventors: Alexander Krahn, Peter Hoefer, Frank Engelke
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Publication number: 20030155916Abstract: A resonator apparatus and a method for electron spin resonance (ESR) measurements are disclosed. The resonator apparatus comprises a dielectric resonator and a sample vessel extending through the resonator. The sample vessel is configured as one single flexible tube. Means are provided for conveying a liquid sample substance through the flexible tube. According to the method a liquid sample substance is guided through the sample vessel, wherein the sample substance is gated by cyclically conveying and stopping, resp., a flow of the sample substance. A measurement is conducted within the resonator when the flow of sample substance is stopped.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2002Publication date: August 21, 2003Applicant: Bruker BioSpin GmbHInventors: Diether Maier, Dieter Schmalbein, Andreas Kamlowski, Marian Kloza, Peter Hoefer
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Patent number: 6314199Abstract: A process and an apparatus for the examination, especially the quality control, of optical components, in which an image of the particular component to be examined is produced and flaws in the imaged article are detected by image analysis, as well as the integration of that examining process into the manufacture of the component. The optical components may be optical components for the eye, such as spectacle lenses, contact lenses, intraocular lenses and the like.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 1994Date of Patent: November 6, 2001Assignee: Novartis AGInventors: Peter Höfer, Peter Hagmann, Roland Hauck, Wolfgang Geissler, Hubert Lutz
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Patent number: 5789257Abstract: A method and an apparatus are disclosed for detecting a first substance within a second substance, preferably for localizing diamonds in kimberlite rocks. The first substance, e.g. the diamonds, have a very long spin-lattice relaxation time (T.sub.1) in the order of hours. For rapidly detecting the first substance, the build-up of magnetization of a predetermined kind of nuclei, e.g. .sup.13 C, being abundant in the first substance only is shortened and the nuclear magnetic resonance of that kind of nuclei is measured thereafter. The shortening is executed within a pre-treatment station, whereas the measurement takes place within an analyzing station. The shortening and the measuring, respectively, are carried out within magnetic fields (B.sub.01, B.sub.02) of different field strengths.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 1996Date of Patent: August 4, 1998Assignee: Bruker Analytische Messtechnik GmbHInventors: Ulf Anders Staffan Tapper, Detlef R. Mueller, Grant Lysle High, George William Over, Peter Hoefer
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Patent number: 5619139Abstract: A method and an apparatus are disclosed for detecting an atomic structure of a sample along a surface thereof. The method comprises arranging the sample in a constant magnetic field (B.sub.0) of predetermined field strength and high homogeneity and irradiating a high-frequency magnetic field (B.sub.1) of a predetermined frequency on the sample, wherein the fields (B.sub.0) and (B.sub.1) are oriented perpendicularly to each other. The method further comprises providing a force-sensitive sensor having a paramagnetic tip comprising a paramagnetic material. The sensor is placed in close vicinity to the sample such that the paramagnetic tip is in atomic interaction with the sample surface which means that the distance between the tip and the surface is in the order of between 1 and 10 .ANG.. The predetermined field strength and the predetermined frequency are set such that electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) is excited within the tip paramagnetic material.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 1995Date of Patent: April 8, 1997Assignee: Bruker Analytische Messtechnik GmbHInventors: Karoly Holczer, Dieter Schmalbein, Peter Hoefer
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Patent number: 4618228Abstract: A bifocal contact lens has two, differently-focusing lens parts with a transitional zone therebetween and an arrangement to orient the zone vertically in use. The focus of the lens part then closer to user's nose is preferably adapted for reading and the other for distance. Preferably, too, the transitional area runs across the optical and physical center of at least an optical portion of the lens.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 1983Date of Patent: October 21, 1986Assignee: Titmus Eurocon Kontaktlinsen GmbHInventors: Heinz Baron, Peter Hoefer, Herbert Schwind