Patents by Inventor Ralf Müller

Ralf Müller 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: 9983484
    Abstract: An illumination optical unit for EUV projection lithography serves to illuminate an object field with illumination light. A transmission optical unit images field facets in a manner superposed on one another into the object field via illumination channels, which each have assigned to them one of the field facets and one pupil facet of a pupil facet mirror. The superposition optical unit has at least two mirrors for grazing incidence, downstream of the pupil facet mirror. The mirrors for grazing incidence produce an illumination angle bandwidth of an illumination light overall beam, composed of the illumination channels, in the object field. The bandwith is smaller for a plane of incidence parallel to the object displacement direction than for a plane perpendicular thereto. The result can be an illumination optical unit, by which a projection optical unit can be adapted to a configuration of an EUV light source for the illumination light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Endres, Ralf Mueller, Stig Bieling
  • Publication number: 20180137620
    Abstract: In an image processing system a processor is configured to perform an image processing method. The method performs receiving a spectral image of a person's skin and identifying the person based on the received spectral image of the person's skin and skin reflectance information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander GATTO, Piergiorgio SARTOR, Matthias WILDE, Ralf MUELLER
  • Patent number: 9958783
    Abstract: An illumination system for EUV projection lithography has a beam shaping optical unit for generating an EUV collective output beam from an EUV raw beam of a synchrotron-radiation-based light source. An output coupling optical unit serves for generating a plurality of EUV individual output beams from the EUV collective output beam. In each case a beam guiding optical unit serves for guiding the respective EUV individual output beam toward an object field in which a lithography mask is arrangable. The result is an illumination system with which EUV light of a synchrotron-radiation-based light source is guided to the greatest possible extent without losses and at the same time flexibly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Patra, Ralf Mueller
  • Patent number: 9950104
    Abstract: A method of rinsing and/or filling a blood treatment device, in particular for priming a blood treatment device, is associated with a blood treatment device that includes a membrane filter, in particular a hollow fiber membrane filter, a first partial circuit, and a second partial circuit. The first and the second partial circuits are separated by the membrane filter in a semipermeable manner, with temporarily the first partial circuit being first filled with a fluid with a uniform and/or a pulsatile first volumetric flow rate, with the volumetric flow rate not exceeding a specified threshold value at which the fluid has not completely wetted and/or soaked the membrane. The second partial circuit is temporarily open towards the atmosphere, air is displaced from the first partial circuit into the second partial circuit via the membrane, and during filling no negative pressure is applied to the first partial circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Soeren Gronau, Joachim Noack, Juergen Haecker, Ralf Mueller
  • Patent number: 9895481
    Abstract: A device and a method are provided for blood treatment in a single-needle operating mode. The blood treatment device has an extracorporeal blood circuit comprising a blood supply line leading to the inlet of a blood treatment unit and a blood return line leading away from the outlet of the blood treatment unit. A blood collecting container is provided in the blood return line, and is connected to an air reservoir by a flow line. The flow connection comprises two line branches, one branch being used to transfer gas from the air reservoir into the blood collecting container and the other branch being used to transfer gas from the blood collecting container into the air reservoir. The connection branch for transferring gas from the air store into the blood collecting container can contain a compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Götz Günther, Michael Herrenbauer, Martin Lauer, Ralf Müller
  • Patent number: 9888232
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a 3D picture processing device comprising an input unit for receiving a video signal, an output unit for providing a video signal for a 2D display device, preferably a TV set, and a 3D shutter glasses driver unit for generating a driving signal to control 3D shutter glasses. A delay compensation unit is coupled to the driver unit and adapted to compensate for the processing delay present in the display device, preferably the TV set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael Enenkl, Ralf Mueller
  • Publication number: 20180031475
    Abstract: An arrangement for examining a sample which can be excited by means of electromagnetic radiation comprises a first dichroitic beam splitter having a first and a second prism, which are connected to one another on the base surfaces thereof, and a dichroitic layer arranged between the base surfaces of the two prisms, wherein an entry surface of the first prism encloses an angle (?) in the range from 10° to <40° with the dichroitic layer. Furthermore a light source provides the electromagnetic radiation suitable for excitation of the sample, the radiation coupled into the entry surface of the first prism, wherein a part of the radiation is reflected on the dichroitic layer in the direction of the sample, which is positioned downstream of an exit surface of the first prism. Finally, a detector detects electromagnetic radiation emitted by the sample, passed through the beam splitter and leaving the latter on a measurement surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2016
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventors: Ralf MUELLER, Hans-Georg ORTLEPP
  • Publication number: 20180024002
    Abstract: An electronic device including a processor configured to receive a first radiation measurement and determine a skin surface condition information based on the first radiation measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: Sony CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alexander GATTO, Piergiorgio SARTOR, Ralf MUELLER
  • Patent number: 9827358
    Abstract: Disclosed is a sealing device for sealing at least one first volume of an arrangement for the treatment of at least one medical fluid against at least one second volume, wherein the first volume is provided for receiving at least one external functional device. The sealing device includes at least one first connection device whereby the sealing device may be connected to the arrangement. In addition an arrangement and a method are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Goetz Günther, Markus Koehler, Uwe Lapp, Martin Lauer, Ralf Mueller, Peter Scheunert, Wolfgang Schulz, Udo Waeber, Manfred Weis, Andrea Günther, Richard Robert Bernd Günther, Gesa Dagmar Günther
  • Patent number: 9782868
    Abstract: A slide grinding machine having a turntable and a work container rotated by the turntable has an air pressure operated automatic gap setting feature having a zero gap width reference value to adjust the gap width between the turntable and the work container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: ROESLER HOLDING GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Egon Schmidt, Ralf Mueller, Erwin Denninger, Dennis Eichenberg
  • Patent number: 9779218
    Abstract: In a method for a model-based determination of a temperature distribution of an exhaust gas post-treatment unit, a differentiation is made between steady operating states and non-steady operating states by taking into account the axial and the radial temperature distribution, and, on the basis of virtual segmentation of the post-treatment unit, in particular the radial heat transfer to the surroundings is taken into account in the model-based determination for steady operating states, and for non-steady operating states the heat transfer from the exhaust gas which flows axially through the post-treatment unit to the segments is taken into account by a heat transfer coefficient k.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH
    Inventors: Marc Hehle, Ralf Müller, Jens Niemeyer, Jörg Remele, Guido Schäffner, Holger Sinzenich, Tim Späder
  • Publication number: 20170246373
    Abstract: An apparatus for treating a medical fluid is provided which includes a treatment machine having a coupling surface, with a cassette made of a hard part having liquid-conducting passages which are covered by a flexible film being able to be coupled to the coupling surface of the treatment machine. A corresponding medical cassette is also provided. An air-free coupling of the flexible film of the cassette to the treatment machine is ensured in that air can be sucked out areally along a plane between the flexible film and the coupling surface during the coupling process and/or with a coupled cassette. A method for coupling the cassette and a method for checking the leaktightness of the cassette via the vacuum control of the air suction is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Applicant: FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Götz GÜNTHER, Jürgen HÄCKER, Markus KÖHLER, Martin LAUER, Ralf MÜLLER, Hans-Peter SCHNEIDER, Tobias WEBER, Manfred WEIS
  • Publication number: 20170248851
    Abstract: An illumination optical unit for EUV projection lithography serves to illuminate an object field with illumination light. A transmission optical unit images field facets in a manner superposed on one another into the object field via illumination channels, which each have assigned to them one of the field facets and one pupil facet of a pupil facet mirror. The superposition optical unit has at least two mirrors for grazing incidence, downstream of the pupil facet mirror. The mirrors for grazing incidence produce an illumination angle bandwidth of an illumination light overall beam, composed of the illumination channels, in the object field. The bandwith is smaller for a plane of incidence parallel to the object displacement direction than for a plane perpendicular thereto. The result can be an illumination optical unit, by which a projection optical unit can be adapted to a configuration of an EUV light source for the illumination light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Inventors: Martin Endres, Ralf Mueller, Stig Bieling
  • Patent number: 9732438
    Abstract: A silicon-carbide volume monocrystal is produced with a specific electrical resistance of at least 105 ?cm. An SiC growth gas phase is generated in a crystal growing area of a crucible. The SiC volume monocrystal grows by deposition from the SiC growth gas phase. The growth material is transported from a supply area inside the growth crucible to a growth boundary surface of the growing monocrystal. Vanadium is added to the crystal growing area as a doping agent. A temperature at the growth boundary surface is set to at least 2250° C. and the SiC volume monocrystal grows doped with a vanadium doping agent concentration of more than 5·1017 cm?3. The transport of material from the SiC supply area to the growth boundary surface is additionally influenced. The growing temperature at the growth boundary surface and the material transport to the growth boundary surface are influenced largely independently of one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: SiCrystal AG
    Inventors: Ralf Mueller, Matthias Stockmeier, Michael Vogel
  • Publication number: 20170177630
    Abstract: A computer system may create version records in a versioned database that stores data from transaction documents. Each version record may include a timestamp that represents a time from which the data stored in the version record is valid. The timestamp may represent the time of creation of particular version of the transaction document. The version records may be accessed to perform a valuation for a specified time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Volker Barth, Ralf Mueller, Andy Peichl, Michael Goll, Harald Schlueter, Manfred Crumbach, Anuj Dham
  • Patent number: 9669145
    Abstract: An apparatus for treating a medical fluid is provided which includes a treatment machine having a coupling surface, with a cassette made of a hard part having liquid-conducting passages which are covered by a flexible film being able to be coupled to the coupling surface of the treatment machine. A corresponding medical cassette is also provided. An air-free coupling of the flexible film of the cassette to the treatment machine is ensured in that air can be sucked out areally along a plane between the flexible film and the coupling surface during the coupling process and/or with a coupled cassette. A method for coupling the cassette and a method for checking the leaktightness of the cassette via the vacuum control of the air suction is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Götz Günther, Jürgen Häcker, Markus Köhler, Martin Lauer, Ralf Müller, Hans-Peter Schneider, Tobias Weber, Manfred Weis
  • Publication number: 20170131528
    Abstract: An imaging optical unit serves within a metrology system for examining a lithography mask. The lithography mask can be arranged in an object field of the imaging optical unit. The object field is defined by two mutually perpendicular object field coordinates. The imaging optical unit has an aperture stop of which the aspect ratio in the direction of the two object field coordinates differs from 1. This results in an imaging optical unit which can be used for the examination of lithography masks that are designed for projection exposure with an anamorphic projection optical unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventors: Johannes Ruoff, Ralf Müller, Susanne Beder, Ulrich Matejka, Hans-Jürgen Mann, Jens Timo Neumann
  • Publication number: 20170101916
    Abstract: A method for operating an internal combustion engine with an exhaust gas after treatment system, which includes at least one particulate filter. The method is characterized by a parameter-controlled partial regeneration of the particulate filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventors: Philipp KLAAS, Daniel CHATTERJEE, Marc HEHLE, Norbert MARKERT, Ralf MÜLLER
  • Publication number: 20170087292
    Abstract: A device and a method are provided for blood treatment in a single-needle operating mode. The blood treatment device has an extracorporeal blood circuit comprising a blood supply line leading to the inlet of a blood treatment unit and a blood return line leading away from the outlet of the blood treatment unit. A blood collecting container is provided in the blood return line, and is connected to an air reservoir by a flow line. The flow connection comprises two line branches, one branch being used to transfer gas from the air reservoir into the blood collecting container and the other branch being used to transfer gas from the blood collecting container into the air reservoir. The connection branch for transferring gas from the air store into the blood collecting container can contain a compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Götz Günther, Michael Herrenbauer, Martin Lauer, Ralf Müller
  • Patent number: 9606339
    Abstract: A mirror (M) of a projection exposure apparatus for microlithography configured for structured exposure of a light-sensitive material and a method for producing a mirror (M). The mirror (M) has a substrate body (B), a first mirror surface (S) and a second mirror surface (S?). The first mirror surface (S) is formed on a first side (VS) of the substrate body (B). The second mirror surface (S?) is formed on a second side (RS) of the substrate body (B), the second side being different from the first side of the substrate body (B). The mirror (M) may be embodied, in particular, such that the substrate body (B) is produced from a glass ceramic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
    Inventors: Jochen Hetzler, Ralf Mueller, Wolfgang Singer