Patents by Inventor Walter Glaas

Walter Glaas 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: 20220128500
    Abstract: The invention relates to a measuring device having a transmitter (1, 2, 3) for transmitting a measurement signal, a receiver (4) for receiving a response to the transmitted measurement signal, and a signal processing device (7, 8, 9; 18) for determining a measurement result from the response, the transmitter and/or the receiver having a coil (3; 4; 16), the measuring device having a calibration device for reducing an interference influence on the measurement result, characterized in that the calibration device is configured such that a current pulse can be introduced into the coil (3; 4; 16) from a current source (DC) and the signal processing device (7, 8, 9; 18) can perform a measurement value correction using the calibration signal generated by the current pulse and can determine a measurement result from the response and the measurement value correction. The invention further relates to a measuring method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Xihe Tan, Egon Zimmermann, Achim Mester, Jan van der Kruk, Walter Glaas, Markus Dick, Michael Ramm
  • Patent number: 7221156
    Abstract: The invention relates to a magnetic flow sensor (1, 21, 51) comprising a) a loop-shaped magnetic field conductor comprising a point (2, 22, 32, 52) which expands to form a bar or a film (3, 23, 52), a loop-shaped part (3a, 23a, 53a) and at least one part (4, 24, 54?, 54?) which guides back the magnetic field lines of the probe, b) SQUID (7, 27, 57), c) and a diaphragm (5, 25, 35, 55) comprising a hole (6, 26, 36, 56), whereby the part (4, 24, 54?, 54?) which guides the magnetic field lines of the probe back to the loop-shaped magnetic field conductor is connected to the diaphragm (5, 25, 35, 55).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Assignee: Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH
    Inventors: Mikhail Faley, Egon Zimmermann, Ulrich Poppe, Knut Urban, Horst Halling, Helmut Soltner, Bernd Jungbluth, Rolf Speen, Walter Glaas
  • Publication number: 20060244444
    Abstract: The invention relates to a magnetic flow sensor (1, 21, 51) comprising a) a loop-shaped magnetic field conductor comprising a point (2, 22, 32, 52) which expands to form a bar or a film (3, 23, 52), a loop-shaped part (3a, 23a, 53a) and at least one part (4, 24, 54?, 54?) which guides back the magnetic field lines of the probe, b) SQUID (7, 27, 57), c) and a diaphragm (5, 25, 35, 55) comprising a hole (6, 26, 36, 56), whereby the part (4, 24, 54?, 54?) which guides the magnetic field lines of the probe back to the loop-shaped magnetic field conductor is connected to the diaphragm (5, 25, 35, 55).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2004
    Publication date: November 2, 2006
    Inventors: Mikhail Faley, Egon Zimmermann, Ulrich Poppe, Knut Urban, Horst Halling, Helmut Soltner, Bernd Jungbluth, Rolf Speen, Walter Glaas
  • Patent number: 7106076
    Abstract: An electrode, in the form of a spike, for insertion into a sample, has a large-area jacket adapted for applying an excitation current to the sample and a small-area tip electrically decoupled from the jacket, at which a potential measurement is made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Assignee: Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH
    Inventors: Axel Tillmann, Andreas Kemna, Egon Zimmermann, Walter Glaas, Arre Verweerd
  • Patent number: 6943553
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for the rapid tomographic measurement of conductivity distribution in a sample in which current excitations or voltage excitation is applied to the sample via electrodes or the like and potential differences or magnetic field strengths association with those excitation fields are measured and analyzed, e.g. by a Fourier analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2005
    Assignee: Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH
    Inventors: Egon Zimmermann, Walter Glaas, Arre Verweerd, Axel Tillmann, Andreas Kemna
  • Publication number: 20040222805
    Abstract: An electrode, in the form of a spike, for insertion into a sample, has a large-area jacket adapted for applying an excitation current to the sample and a small-area tip electrically decoupled from the jacket, at which a potential measurement is made.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2003
    Publication date: November 11, 2004
    Applicant: FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JULICH GmbH
    Inventors: Axel Tillmann, Andreas Kemna, Egon Zimmermann, Walter Glaas, Arre Verweerd
  • Publication number: 20040201380
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for the rapid tomographic measurement of conductivity distribution in a sample in which current excitations or voltage excitation is applied to the sample via electrodes or the like and potential differences or magnetic field strengths association with those excitation fields are measured and analyzed, e.g. by a Fourier analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2003
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Applicant: FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JULICH GmbH
    Inventors: Egon Zimmermann, Walter Glaas, Arre Verweerd, Axel Tillmann, Andreas Kemna
  • Patent number: 6583619
    Abstract: In order to measure magnetic characteristics of a sample, the latter is positioned above the SQUID so that both the SQUID and the sample are supported in a vessel in a gaseous nitrogen space above a liquid nitrogen coolant so that the measurement can take place at ambient pressure and in a nitrogen atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2003
    Assignee: Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH
    Inventors: Egon Zimmermann, Helmut Soltner, Walter Glaas, Horst Halling, Mikkail Faley
  • Publication number: 20020057085
    Abstract: In order to measure magnetic characteristics of a sample, the latter is positioned above the SQUID so that both the SQUID and the sample are supported in a vessel in a gaseous nitrogen space above a liquid nitrogen coolant so that the measurement can take place at ambient pressure and in a nitrogen atmosphere.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2001
    Publication date: May 16, 2002
    Applicant: FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JULICH GmbH
    Inventors: Egon Zimmermann, Helmut Soltner, Walter Glaas, Horst Halling, Mikkail Faley