Patents by Inventor Rolf Hensel

Rolf Hensel 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: 7876908
    Abstract: For the visualization of the hearing ability or hearing recognition respectively of a person with or without a hearing device at least one hearing dimension as for instance the loudness recognition is being made visible by means of a picture by varying at least one picture parameter such as for instance the brightness. The visualization can also be achieved by fade-in or fade-out of individual objects or a plurality of objects within a picture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Phonak AG
    Inventor: Rolf Hensel
  • Patent number: 7474976
    Abstract: A device for compensating field disruptions in magnetic fields of electromagnets with high field homogeneity, in particular, for stabilizing the H0 field of an MR measuring system, comprising at least one field detector (31) for detecting interfering signals (Uin), at least one control loop for processing the detected interfering signals (Uin), and at least one compensation coil (34) to which the detected and processed interfering output signals (Uout) are transferred and which generates a correction field for compensating the interfering signals (Uin), is characterized in that at least one of the control loops comprises a multi-selective filter system (35) which comprises one or more parallel connected selective filter elements whose center frequencies can be tuned either once or in an adaptive fashion to the frequency values of the interfering signals (Uin) to be compensated for, wherein the outputs of these filter elements are connected to at least one of the compensation coils (34).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: Bruker Biospin AG
    Inventors: Michael Schenkel, Rolf Hensel, Werner Tschopp
  • Publication number: 20080027666
    Abstract: A device for compensating field disruptions in magnetic fields of electromagnets with high field homogeneity, in particular, for stabilizing the H0 field of an MR measuring system, comprising at least one field detector (31) for detecting interfering signals (Uin), at least one control loop for processing the detected interfering signals (Uin), and at least one compensation coil (34) to which the detected and processed interfering output signals (Uout) are transferred and which generates a correction field for compensating the interfering signals (Uin), is characterized in that at least one of the control loops comprises a multi-selective filter system (35) which comprises one or more parallel connected selective filter elements whose center frequencies can be tuned either once or in an adaptive fashion to the frequency values of the interfering signals (Uin) to be compensated for, wherein the outputs of these filter elements are connected to at least one of the compensation coils (34).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2007
    Publication date: January 31, 2008
    Inventors: Michael Schenkel, Rolf Hensel, Werner Tschopp
  • Publication number: 20060140427
    Abstract: For the visualisation of the hearing ability or hearing recognition respectively of a person with or without a hearing device at least one hearing dimension as for instance the loudness recognition is being made visible by means of a picture by varying at least one picture parameter such as for instance the brightness. The visualisation can also be achieved by fade-in or fade-out of individual objects or a plurality of objects within a picture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2004
    Publication date: June 29, 2006
    Inventor: Rolf Hensel
  • Patent number: 6219135
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for the optical recording of at least one parameter on a longitudinally moved thread-type material. To enable parameters such as the diameter of a thread-type material, the diameter of a yarn package, the hairiness of a yarn etc. to be determined more simply and more accurately, an optical sensor composed of at least two individual sensors (30), in which at least one individual sensor is so constructed and arranged that at least one measured value is recorded digitally for a parameter, is to be used to record in parallel from the material at least two signals, one at least of which is clocked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Assignee: Zellweger Luwa AG
    Inventors: Rolf Hensel, Hans Wampfler, Jeffrey Mitchell Raynor, Peter Markus Seitz
  • Patent number: 5636803
    Abstract: A number of sensors, each including a light source, illuminating and imaging optics and a detector, are arranged decentrally on a spinning or winding machine having a number of thread lines to provide online monitoring of the winding quality of a number of bobbins during the production of the bobbins. The sensors are preferably mounted on bobbin changers to traverse back and forth across a plurality of thread lines to examine a plurality of bobbins as they are being wound. These sensors are used on spinning or winding machines equipped with an electronic yarn-clearing system, with an interlinking of the measurement signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 10, 1997
    Assignee: Zellweger Luwa AG
    Inventors: Alfred Aschmann, Rolf Hensel, Hans Wampfler
  • Patent number: 5521395
    Abstract: The surface of a yarn (G) is imaged on a sensor (7) having a plurality of sensor elements of differing structural arrangement. The signals of the individual sensor elements are compared with one another, and the structure of the examined yarn surface is determined on the basis of correspondence with the appropriate sensor element. The structure to be examined is formed both by the actual yarn surface and by the yarn edge, including projecting fibers and possible impurities, such as foreign fibers, included in the yarn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1996
    Assignee: Zellweger Luwa AG
    Inventors: Rolf Hensel, Hans Wampfler, Peter Seitz