Patents by Inventor Tobias Otto

Tobias Otto 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).

  • Publication number: 20250116506
    Abstract: A system for confocal-chromatic line distance measurement, comprising a line light source (2), an aperture (3), a confocal-chromatic, preferably rotationally symmetrical, measurement lens (6), and a spectrometer (14), preferably a 2D spectrometer, wherein the illumination beam path extends from the light source (2) via the aperture (3) and a first region (5) of the measurement lens (6) to the measurement object (9) and wherein the imaging beam path extends from the measurement object (6) via a second region (11) of the measurement lens (6) to the spectrometer (14). Furthermore, a method for confocal-chromatic line distance measurement is specified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: MICRO-EPSILON OPTRONIC GMBH
    Inventors: Tobias OTTO, Christoph GRÜBER, Torsten STAUTMEISTER
  • Publication number: 20240255348
    Abstract: A spectrometer with a lens, a dispersive element, and a detector, wherein a measuring light guided onto the lens is projected by way of the lens onto the dispersive element, is reflected back to the lens by the dispersive element in a spectrally dispersed manner, and is guided onto the detector by way of the lens, is designed and developed with regard to high performance given a compact structural size with structurally simple means such that the lens is a single lens or individual lens having at least one non-spherical surface for influencing the imaging. Furthermore, a corresponding distance measurement system and a corresponding method for operating a spectrometer are specified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Tobias Otto, Alexander Haussmann, Christoph Grueber
  • Patent number: 9851251
    Abstract: The invention relates to a spectrometer comprising a combination of at least one grid (1) and at least one prism (2), characterized in that total reflexion is used to produce a compact spectrometer in at least one prism (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: MICRO-EPSILON Optronic GmbH
    Inventor: Tobias Otto
  • Publication number: 20170067780
    Abstract: The invention relates to a spectrometer comprising a combination of at least one grid (1) and at least one prism (2), characterised in that total reflexion is used to produce a compact spectrometer in at least one prism (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2015
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Inventor: Tobias Otto
  • Patent number: 8928862
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device (1) for non-contacting measuring of a distance and/or a profile of a measured object (9), a light source (2) generating an illuminating light beam for illuminating the measured object (9), and a detector (11) being provided for detecting the reflected portion of the illuminating light beam at the measured object (9), characterized with regard to a potentially robust and nevertheless compact sensor construction in that a first optic (13) and a second optic are disposed in the beam path of the illuminating light beam, wherein the illuminating light beam can first be expanded in an expansion plane parallel to the diffusion direction by means of the first optic (13), and then made nearly parallel by means of the second optic. In a particularly preferable embodiment, the second optic is formed by a Fresnel lens (5). A corresponding method is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Micro-Epsilon Optronic GmbH
    Inventors: Tobias Otto, Peter Meja, Torsten Stautmeister
  • Patent number: 8810778
    Abstract: An optical sensor for measuring at least one of a range, a position, and a profile of an object that is to be measured, the measured object emitting electromagnetic radiation due to the temperature of the object to be measured, and the sensor having a light source for illuminating the surface of the measured object and a detector for detecting the illuminating light reflected at the object to be measured, wherein with respect to the measurability even on the bodies that emit electromagnetic radiation, the light generated by the light source has a wavelength below the peak of the Planck radiation spectrum of the object that is to be measured. A corresponding method is specified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Micro-Epsilon Optronic GmbH
    Inventors: Torsten Stautmeister, Tobias Otto
  • Publication number: 20120287416
    Abstract: An optical sensor for measuring at least one of a range, a position, and a profile of an object that is to be measured, the measured object emitting electromagnetic radiation due to the temperature of the object to be measured, and the sensor having a light source for illuminating the surface of the measured object and a detector for detecting the illuminating light reflected at the object to be measured, wherein with respect to the measurability even on the bodies that emit electromagnetic radiation, the light generated by the light source has a wavelength below the peak of the Planck radiation spectrum of the object that is to be measured. A corresponding method is specified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Inventors: Torsten Stautmeister, Tobias Otto
  • Publication number: 20120038900
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device (1) for non-contacting measuring of a distance and/or a profile of a measured object (9), a light source (2) generating an illuminating light beam for illuminating the measured object (9), and a detector (11) being provided for detecting the reflected portion of the illuminating light beam at the measured object (9), characterized with regard to a potentially robust and nevertheless compact sensor construction in that a first optic (13) and a second optic are disposed in the beam path of the illuminating light beam, wherein the illuminating light beam can first be expanded in an expansion plane parallel to the diffusion direction by means of the first optic (13), and then made nearly parallel by means of the second optic. In a particularly preferable embodiment, the second optic is formed by a Fresnel lens (5). A corresponding method is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2010
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Applicant: MICRO-EPSILON OPTRONIC GMBH
    Inventors: Tobias Otto, Peter Meja, Torsten Stautmeister
  • Publication number: 20110233573
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing temperature-stable large-size emitting LEDs and LEDs produced by said method. The method is characterised in that a large-area emitting light emitter is provided in the form of semiconductor nanocrystals which furthermore is temperature-stable and has a narrow band emission. A colloidal solution of emitting nanocrystals and a matrix of either inorganic gels or at least one polymer are alternately applied to the substrate with the first electrode by spraying, as a result of the electrostatic interactions between substrate, nanoparticles and inorganic gels or polymers, the nanopartides or the polymers of the matrix are adsorbed and the impurities run down with the solvent. The layer of alternately sprayed nanocrystals and matrix are heated to give a gel cross-linking the metal oxide nanoparticles, wherein thee size of thee semiconductor nanocrystals which determine the emission wavelength are determined by the temperature and duration of the heating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET DRESDEN
    Inventors: Alexander Eychmüller, Nikolai Gaponik, Tobias Otto, Paul Mundra, Elena Frolova