Patents by Inventor Thomas Helzel

Thomas Helzel 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: 7136690
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electrode for biomedical measurements, in particular for measurements for electrical impedance tomography, which permits measurements with as little interference as possible. The electrodes comprise a contact plate, a line driver with a high-impedance signal input and low-impedance line output and a current source, with a current output and a reference point, whereby the contact plate is connected to the high-impedance signal input of the line driver and to the current output of the current source and the line driver and the current source are arranged in the vicinity of the contact plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2006
    Inventors: Thomas Helzel, Fernando Suarez Sipmann, Gerd Kowalewski
  • Publication number: 20050020935
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electrode for biomedical measurements, in particular for measurements for electrical impedance tomography, which permits measurements with as little interference as possible. The electrodes comprise a contact plate, a line driver with a high-impedance signal input and low-impedance line output and a current source, with a current output and a reference point, whereby the contact plate is connected to the high-impedance signal input of the line driver and to the current output of the current source and the line driver and the current source are arranged in the vicinity of the contact plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2004
    Publication date: January 27, 2005
    Inventors: Thomas Helzel, Fernando Suarez Sipmann, Gerd Kowalewski
  • Patent number: 5279295
    Abstract: A sensor includes a pair of resiliently loaded jaws for receiving a finger, the sensor including a pair of fiber optic light transmitting guides secured in fixed spaced relation to one of the jaws for sensing blood in the finger tip. A control unit includes a light generator for transmitting light modulated at first and second frequencies to one of the guides via a light guide transfer section. The finger pulse modulates the received transmitted light. The modulated light is sensed by the other guide and returned to a receiver in the control unit via the transfer section for separating and demodulating the different frequency signals. The control unit includes a calculating unit which has two branches for processing and then combining by dividing the processed demodulated signals for determining the oxygen content of the blood from the relative magnitudes of the pulse-dependent modulation factor of the wave reflected from the finger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 18, 1994
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Gerhard Martens, Jurgen Kordts, Thomas Helzel
  • Patent number: 4873486
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance spectrometer in which, at least in the receiving branch, the received spin resonance signal is transposed by successive mixing processes into a transposed signal having a higher frequency range than the baseband. The transposed signal is converted into a digital signal by an analog-to-digital converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1989
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corp.
    Inventors: Michael H. Kuhn, Thomas Helzel, Roland Proksa, Noel J. M. Van Den Berg
  • Patent number: 4740081
    Abstract: An optical sensor (1) is connected to an electro-optical transducer unit (35) and a measuring circuit (36) via an optical delay line (14) and an optical path (15). Error-free measurement values which are independent of the attenuation characteristics of the optical delay line (14) are obtained if the optical sensor (1) comprises a polarization splitter (3) which receives light pulses from the optical path (15) and from the optical delay line (14) and which is followed by a sensor body (2) which is traversed by the light pulses. A mirror (4) arranged on the side of the sensor body (2) on which the light is not incident reflects the light pulses back into the polarization splitter (3), which couples the light pulses back into the optical path (15) and the optical delay line (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1986
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1988
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Gerhard Martens, Thomas Helzel
  • Patent number: 4694836
    Abstract: A method of generating a motion signal which is dependent on motion of a body to be examined in an MRI tomography apparatus, characterized in that during the examination the impedance of a high-frequency coil system (33; 34) whose field acts on the body (3) to be examined and which is tuned to a predetermined resonance frequency is measured in the resonance frequency range with the motion signal being derived from the measurement signal just formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1987
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Dirk Buikman, Thomas Helzel, Peter Roschman
  • Patent number: 4664129
    Abstract: An optical movement sensor for clearly accurately detecting deformations of a human body. The movement sensor consists of a belt with a buckle made up of two parts which are joined together mechanically by a light-transmitting sensor element. Transmitting and a receiving fibre optic light guides are connected to one part of the buckle in such a way that light emitted by the transmitting light guide passes through the sensor element by way of a polarizer and is coupled to the receiving light guide via an analyzer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1987
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Helzel, Jurgen Kordts, Gerhard Martens
  • Patent number: 4646086
    Abstract: The invention relates to arrangement for data transmission between two mutually rotatable parts, in particular for computer tomographs, in which the signal can travel along two separate paths from transmitter to receiver, so that the phase angle and amplitude, respectively, of the received signal changes upon one rotation. For the signals propagating along the two distinct paths a separate receiving channel is provided for each path with a limiter amplifier, the output signals of the limiter amplifier being fed to inputs of an OR circuit whose output signal forms the output signal of the data transmission network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1987
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas Helzel
  • Patent number: 4496202
    Abstract: The invention relates to a high voltage transfer device comprising two insulator bodies which are rotatable with respect to each other. In each insulator body there is embedded an electrode arrangement which horizontally encloses the axis of rotation. The two electrode arrangements together form a kind of Faraday cage, so that the field between the two electrode arrangements and in their vicinity is corrected and reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 29, 1985
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Friedrich K. Beckmann, Thomas Helzel, Horst Peemoller