Patents by Inventor Stefan Balle
Stefan Balle 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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Publication number: 20240112011Abstract: A system and method for continual learning in a provider network. The method is configured to implement or interface with a system which implements a semi-automated or fully automated architecture of continual machine learning, the semi-automated or fully automated architecture implementing user-configurable model retraining or hyperparameter tuning, which is enabled by a provider network. This functions to adapt a model over time to new information in the training data while also providing a user-friendly, flexible, and customizable continual learning process.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2022Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Giovanni ZAPPELLA, Lukas Stefan BALLES, Beyza ERMIS, Martin WISTUBA, Cedric Philippe ARCHAMBEAU
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Patent number: 7324266Abstract: An electrooptical element is disclosed, made from a crystal, for an electrooptical modulator (EOM), for example, a Pockels cell, comprising a housing, with the crystal arranged therein in the form of a vertical cylinder, the both end surfaces of which form a front plane, for entry of a light beam and an outlet plane, at a separation from the above, with an annular electrode in contact with each of the above and with a retainer, between the housing and both the outer region of the crystal and the two annular electrodes. The invention is characterized in that the retainer is embodied as an O-ring, concentrically enclosing each annular electrode and forming a closed annular chamber between itself and the housing, made from an electrically-conducting material and a hardened sealing compound, filling the annular chamber.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2004Date of Patent: January 29, 2008Assignee: LINOS Photonics GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Thomas Fehn, Stefan Balle, Sven Poggel
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Patent number: 7236287Abstract: The invention relates to a pockels cell comprising two spaced-apart cubical RTP crystals that have a square cross section, are located one behind another, and are oriented towards each other so as to provide thermal compensation in the direction of radiation. Each of said RTP crystals is provided with electrodes on two opposite faces, said faces of one crystal being rotated by 90° relative to the faces of the other crystal and relative to the direction of radiation (5). Flexible, electrically insulating, high voltage-proof plastic mats which conduct heat well and rest against the inside of a cooling member are provided around the exterior faces of the electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2003Date of Patent: June 26, 2007Assignee: LINOS Photonics GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Stefan Balle, Sven Poggel, Thomas Fehn
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Patent number: 7206116Abstract: A Faraday rotator for a Faraday isolator with an input polarizer, with an output polarizer, with a roller-shaped optical crystal that is arranged therebetween and that is arranged symmetrical to its axis of symmetry, with a right hollow cylinder that surrounds this and has a hollow space made of a permanent magnetic material, which cylinder is axially magnetized and the magnetic field of which extends in the hollow space approximately parallel to the axis of symmetry that runs in only one direction from the north pole to the south pole, and with terminal magnets attached to each of the two end faces in the plane perpendicular to the y- and z-directions of the axis of symmetry, each of which is embodied as a hollow right cylinder and has a through-aperture in the extension of the axis of symmetry, is characterized in that each terminal magnet is largely radially magnetized with regard to the axis of symmetry at least by region, in that the one of the two terminal magnets is magnetized radially from interior toType: GrantFiled: April 21, 2004Date of Patent: April 17, 2007Assignee: Linos Photonics GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Thomas Fehn, Sven Poggel, Stefan Balle
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Publication number: 20060187521Abstract: The invention relates to a pockels cell comprising two spaced-apart cuboidal RTP crystals that have a square cross section, are located one behind another, and are oriented towards each other so as to provide thermal compensation in the direction of radiation. Each of said RTP crystals is provided with electrodes on two opposite faces, said faces of one crystal being rotated by 90° relative to the faces of the other crystal and relative to the direction of radiation (5). Flexible, electrically insulating, high voltage-proof plastic mats which conduct heat well and rest against the inside of a cooling member are provided around the exterior faces of the electrodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2003Publication date: August 24, 2006Inventors: Stefan Balle, Sven Poggel, Thomas Fehn
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Publication number: 20060132900Abstract: An electrooptical element is disclosed, made from a crystal (4), for an electrooptical modulator (EOM), for example, a Pockels cell, comprising a housing (5), with the crystal (4) arranged therein in the form of a vertical cylinder, the both end surfaces of which form a front plane, for entry of a light beam and an outlet plane (41), at a separation from the above, with an annular electrode (1) in contact with each of the above and with a retainer, between the housing (5) and both the outer region of the crystal (4) and the two annular electrodes (1). The invention is characterized in that the retainer is embodied as an O-ring (2), concentrically enclosing each annular electrode (1) and forming a closed annular chamber between itself and the housing (5), made from an electrically-conducting material and a hardened sealing compound (3), filling the annular chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2004Publication date: June 22, 2006Inventors: Thomas Fehn, Stefan Balle, Sven Poggel
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Publication number: 20050225831Abstract: A Faraday rotator for a Faraday isolator with an input polarizer, with an output polarizer, with a roller-shaped optical crystal that is arranged therebetween and that is arranged symmetrical to its axis of symmetry, with a right hollow cylinder that surrounds this and has a hollow space made of a permanent magnetic material, which cylinder is axially magnetized and the magnetic field of which extends in the hollow space approximately parallel to the axis of symmetry that runs in only one direction from the north pole to the south pole, and with terminal magnets attached to each of the two end faces in the plane perpendicular to the y- and z-directions of the axis of symmetry, each of which is embodied as a hollow right cylinder and has a through-aperture in the extension of the axis of symmetry, is characterized in that each terminal magnet is largely radially magnetized with regard to the axis of symmetry at least by region, in that the one of the two terminal magnets is magnetized radially from interior toType: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2004Publication date: October 13, 2005Inventors: Thomas Fehn, Sven Poggel, Stefan Balle
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Patent number: 5385641Abstract: In a three-stage process for the delignification of cellulose-containing raw materials, pulping is initially performed with a solution of concentrated aqueous acetic acid at an elevated temperature and under an elevated pressure. The resultant acetic acid-moist pulp is treated in a second stage with the aforementioned pulping solution with the addition of nitric acid and is then washed or extracted with water or with the pulping solution. In a third treatment stage, the thus-obtained acetic acid-moist pulp is treated with an ozone-containing gas.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 1992Date of Patent: January 31, 1995Assignee: Acetocell GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Alex Berg, Wim Janssen, Stefan Balle, Rudolf G. Kunz, deceased, Wolfdieter Klein