Patents by Inventor Rainer Siebert

Rainer Siebert 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: 10478158
    Abstract: The invention concerns a preoperative probe (2) for guiding an ablation tool, comprising a sensing head (21), said sensing head including: at least one optic fiber (2121, 2123) for receiving and guiding a signal emitted, by radioactive tracers and/or fluorescent molecules in a tissue zone, to an analyzing equipment (32), fixing means (2112) for mounting the head (21) on the ablation tool (1), such that the ablation tool is capable of extracting a portion of tissue in the tissue zone emitting the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (CNRS)
    Inventors: Laurent Menard, Sébastien Bonzom, Yves Charon, Marie-Alix Duval, Françoise Lefebvre, Stéphane Palfi, Laurent Pinot, Rainer Siebert, Stéphanie Pitre
  • Patent number: 9775573
    Abstract: A peroperative probe for guiding a manual excision tool. The probe includes a detection head, an optical fiber for the reception and guidance of a signal emitted by radioactive tracers and fluorescent molecules in a tissue area, a photo-detector for converting the emitted signal into an electrical signal, a transmitter for transmitting information carried by the electrical signal to an analysis equipment, and a fastener for attaching the probe onto the manual excision tool, so that the excision tool can be used to remove a portion of tissue from the tissue area emitting the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique
    Inventors: Laurent Menard, Sebastien Bonzom, Yves Charon, Marie-Alix Duval, Francoise Lefebvre-Bouvet, Stephane Palfi, Laurent Pinot, Rainer Siebert, Stephanie Pitre
  • Patent number: 9614522
    Abstract: The operating device, such as a human-machine interface, in particular for a vehicle component, is provided with a front wall having a front side that has several fixed symbol fields and having a rear side, a capacitive sensor system that has individual electrodes associated with the symbol fields, which electrodes are arranged on the rear side of the front wall, and a carrier plate that faces the rear side of the front wall and is arranged at a distance from the front wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Behr-Hella Thermocontrol GmbH
    Inventors: Holger Kleine-Hollenhorst, Bernd Stich, Rainer Siebert
  • Patent number: 9257243
    Abstract: The operating device (10), in particular for a vehicle component or generally for a human/machine interface, is provided with at least one pushbutton (28), which has a depressible pushbutton element (26). In addition, the operating device (10) has a guide element (18), which defines an accommodating area (24) in which the pushbutton element (26) is at least partially accommodated and in which the pushbutton element (26) is guided, and a capacitive proximity sensor (36) with an electrode (34) for detecting an object approaching the pushbutton element (26), in particular a hand or a finger of a hand. The electrode (34) is arranged outside the accommodating area (24) of the guide element (18).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: Behr-Hella Thermocontrol GMBH
    Inventors: Rainer Siebert, Bernd Stich, Holger Kleine-Hollenhorst
  • Publication number: 20150182177
    Abstract: A preoperative probe for guiding a manual excision tool. The probe includes a detection head, an optical fibre for the reception and guidance of a signal emitted by radioactive tracers and fluorescent molecules in a tissue area, a photo-detector for converting the emitted signal into an electrical signal, a transmitter for transmitting information carried by the electrical signal to an analysis equipment, and a fastener for attaching the probe onto the manual excision tool, so that the excision tool can be used to remove a portion of tissue from the tissue area emitting the signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Inventors: Laurent Menard, Sebastien Bonzom, Yves Charon, Marie-Alix Duval, Francoise Lefebvre, Stephane Palfi, Laurent Pinot, Rainer Siebert, Stephanie Pitre
  • Publication number: 20140347301
    Abstract: The operating device, such as a human-machine interface, in particular for a vehicle component, is provided with a front wall having a front side that has several fixed symbol fields and having a rear side, a capacitive sensor system that has individual electrodes associated with the symbol fields, which electrodes are arranged on the rear side of the front wall, and a carrier plate that faces the rear side of the front wall and is arranged at a distance from the front wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2012
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Inventors: Holger Kleine-Hollenhorst, Bernd Stich, Rainer Siebert
  • Publication number: 20140124350
    Abstract: The operating device (10), in particular for a vehicle component or generally for a human/machine interface, is provided with at least one pushbutton (28), which has a depressible pushbutton element (26). In addition, the operating device (10) has a guide element (18), which defines an accommodating area (24) in which the pushbutton element (26) is at least partially accommodated and in which the pushbutton element (26) is guided, and a capacitive proximity sensor (36) with an electrode (34) for detecting an object approaching the pushbutton element (26), in particular a hand or a finger of a hand. The electrode (34) is arranged outside the accommodating area (24) of the guide element (18).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2012
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Inventors: Rainer Siebert, Bernd Stich, Holger Kleine-Hollenhorst
  • Publication number: 20100063523
    Abstract: The invention concerns a preoperative probe (2) for guiding an ablation tool, comprising a sensing head (21), said sensing head including: at least one optic fiber (2121, 2123) for receiving and guiding a signal emitted, by radioactive tracers and/or fluorescent molecules in a tissue zone, to an analyzing equipment (32), fixing means (2112) for mounting the head (21) on the ablation tool (1), such that the ablation tool is capable of extracting a portion of tissue in the tissue zone emitting the signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2006
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Inventors: Laurent Menard, Sébastien Bonzom, Yves Charon, Marie-Alix Duval, Francoise Lefebvre, Stéphane Palfi, Laurent Pinot, Rainer Siebert, Stéphanie Pitre
  • Patent number: 7018519
    Abstract: A multicapillary electrophoresis system includes juxtaposed capillaries, at least one source configured for the emission of a light beam intended to excite molecules lying in its path and inside the capillaries and detects the fluorescence of the molecules excited by the light beam. Light that emerges at the exit of the capillaries and that propagates along the direction in that the capillaries extend is detected. The resolution for detection is high enough to distinguish light that emerges at the exit of each of the capillaries. A first liquid is located outside of the capillaries. A second liquid is located inside of the capillaries. The first liquid has a first refractive that is equal to or greater than the refractive index of the second liquid. A mirror is facing the source on the side of the capillaries which is opposed to the source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Inventors: Rainer Siebert, Samuele Bottani, Hans Rebscher, Luc Valentin, Gilbert Gauguet
  • Publication number: 20040011649
    Abstract: A method of injecting a sample into an electrophoresis capillary, in which method the capillary (1) is plunged into the sample and an electric field is applied between the ends of the capillary (1) to cause the sample to migrate into the capillary (1), the method being characterized in that the sample is previously introduced into a part (3) presenting a channel (4) of dimensions perpendicular to the direction in which said channel (4) extends that are smaller than about four times the outside diameter of the capillary (1), and in that in order to plunge the capillary (1) into the sample, said capillary (1) is introduced into said channel (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2003
    Publication date: January 22, 2004
    Inventors: Gilbert Gauguet, Rainer Siebert
  • Patent number: 6613212
    Abstract: The invention concerns a multiple capillary electrophoresis system including many juxtaposed capillaries, at least one source for transmitting a beam designed to excite the molecules present in its path and inside the capillaries, and detection of the fluorescence of the molecules excited by said beam. The invention is arranged so as to detect the light emerging at the output of said capillaries and propagated along a direction wherein the capillaries extend and the detection resolution is sufficient for distinguishing the light emerging at the output of the capillaries from that coming from the walls thereof and/or their surrounding medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
    Inventors: Rainer Siebert, Samuele Bottani, Hans Rebscher, Luc Valentin
  • Patent number: 6485626
    Abstract: The invention concerns a multiple capillary electrophoresis device comprising a plurality of juxtaposed capillaries, means for generating inside the capillaries an electric field ensuring electrophoretic migration, at least one source for emitting a beam dsigned to exite the molecules at the capillary output, means for detecting the fluorescence of the molecules excited by said beam. The invention also comprises means for generating another electric field, called confinement electric field, which is regularly distributed around said capillaries and which is substantially parallel thereto, said electric field confining the electrophoretic migration field and forcing the molecules to move substantially without divergence in the axis of said capillaries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Assignee: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
    Inventors: Samuele Bottani, Rainer Siebert, Hans Rebscher, Maurice Cohen-Solal, Luc Valentin
  • Patent number: 6407391
    Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for use on a collimator of a radio-imaging device. The system includes a stack of plates provided with perforations, the thickness (d) of the plates being less than the diameter of the perforations in the internal entry face of the collimator. The thickness of the span between the perforations is made greater than the thickness of the plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Assignee: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
    Inventors: Roland Mastrippolito, Lydie Ploux, Yves Pierre Charon, Laurent Pinot, Luc Valentin, Alejandro Anibal Valda Ochoa, Rainer Siebert, Philippe Laniece, Hervé Tricoire
  • Publication number: 20020024024
    Abstract: A non-invasive analysis device including a plurality of sensors (110) combined with collimating structures (120) having a common source focus (O) and processing means (300) providing an AND-type combinational logic function of the output of the sensors (110) for sensing two coincidently transmitted beams that are at least slightly angularly correlated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2001
    Publication date: February 28, 2002
    Inventors: Roland Mastrippolito, Lydie Ploux, Pierre Yves Charon, Laurent Pinot, Luc Valentin, Alejandro Anibal Valda Ochoa, Rainer Siebert, Philippe Laniece, Herve Tricoire
  • Patent number: 6225631
    Abstract: A non-invasive analysis device including a plurality of sensors (110) combined with collimating structures (120) having a common source focus (O) and processing means (300) providing an AND-type combinational logic function of the output of the sensors (110) for sensing two coincidently transmitted beams that are at least slightly angularly correlated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Assignee: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
    Inventors: Roland Mastrippolito, Lydie Ploux, Yves Pierre Charon, Laurent Pinot, Luc Valentin, Alejandro Anibal Valda Ochoa, Rainer Siebert, Philippe Laniece, Hervé Tricoire
  • Patent number: 4969396
    Abstract: An arming arrangement with rotatable airfoils or blades of a propeller constituting the deliverants for an arming criterium. The blades of the driving propeller for a drone, have the rotational movement thereof determined from the tail end of the drone towards one side of the propeller hub through a beam or radiation coupling and is then conducted to a counting evaluating circuit for the derivation of a release signal for the arming device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 13, 1990
    Assignee: Diehl GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Rainer Siebert
  • Patent number: 4793258
    Abstract: A time fuze or detonating device for unpredictably-detonating scatter ammunition, which is activatable through the intermediary of an electrical trigger signal. The time fuze or triggering device is equipped with a cyclical counter which, in dependence upon a time period which commences upon the deployment of the scatter ammunition, is supplied with counting pulses, and wherein upon the appearance of a switching information, there is counted further from an end-count position momentarily reached in the cyclical counter, into a pregiven triggering count position for the emission of the trigger signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1988
    Assignee: Diehl GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Rainer Siebert, Erich Gerum
  • Patent number: 4648320
    Abstract: A detonator triggering device which is located in the head of an underwater projectile, and wherein a pressure receiver which is positioned within an opening in the projectile head is exposed to a dynamic pressure or velocity head. A piezo-ceramic disc which is equipped with electrical contacts is rigidly supported on one side thereof in the head of the projectile, and with its other side contacts against a pressure transmitting member which is supported within the opening in the head. As a result, the dynamic pressure will act against the piezo-ceramic disc. Every change in the dynamic pressure consequently provides for a corresponding change in the charge or change in the voltage of the piezo-ceramic disc. This permits itself to be processed in an electronic evaluating or gating circuit, such that the applicable voltage change is employed as the actuating criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1987
    Assignee: Diehl GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Wilhelm Furst, Werner Rudenauer, Rainer Siebert
  • Patent number: 4467401
    Abstract: An arrangement for the mechanical fastening and electrical connection of a pellet, particularly a tantalum pellet, covered with a surface-adherent electrode, to a support. The electrode cannot be subjected to inertial forces of the pellet. An intermediate sheathing is positioned between the electrode and the support. The sheathing non-adhesively encompasses the pellet in a form-fitting manner. The intermediate sheathing is glued to the support. The electrode is electrically connected with the support through a flexible conductor element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1983
    Date of Patent: August 21, 1984
    Assignee: Diehl GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Rainer Siebert, Erich Bock
  • Patent number: 4417518
    Abstract: A detonating arrangement for missiles in which, as a result of a change of the magnetic field of a permanent magnet at an approach to a ferromagnetic object, a voltage will be induced in an induction element, which is transmissible to the control input of electronic evaluating circuit powering a detonating medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1979
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1983
    Assignee: Diehl GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Rainer Siebert, Dietmar Stutzle, Peter Weidner