Patents by Inventor Walter Kuster

Walter Kuster 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: 6417783
    Abstract: Vehicle detector arrangement comprising at least one detector unit (8) comprising at least one sensor (47, 48, 49, 50), a transmission/reception unit (54), an energy supply unit and a control unit (51, 52, 53), whereby the energy supply unit comprises a solar cell module (3). The transmission/reception unit (54), the energy supply unit and the control unit (51, 52, 53) are accommodated in a housing (27, 28) and connected to the at least one detector unit (8), whereby the solar cell module (3) is secured to the outside of the housing (27, 28). As a result of what is thus autonomous functioning of the vehicle detector arrangement, it can be simply secured, for example, to a bridge (6), and complicated installation jobs for power supply and data transmission, for example to a traffic routing center, are avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2002
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Manfred Gabler, Walter Kuster, Elmar Reisinger, Erik Büchel
  • Patent number: 5007432
    Abstract: A medical diagnostic method and apparatus employs differential radiation detection apparatus for remotely detecting temperature differentials between a plurlity of areas on the surface of an object having a plurality of lenses which each focus a beam of radiation from a corresponding area of the body onto a radiation detector in such a way that not more than one field of view reaches the detector at any time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1991
    Assignee: Eltec Instruments, Inc.
    Inventors: Hans J. Keller, Walter A. Kuster
  • Patent number: 4930864
    Abstract: An improved optical assembly which provides a panoramic field of view for infrared motion detection. In one form of the invention the optical assembly comprises a spherical section having an inner surface and an outer spherical surface, the outer spherical surface having a radius of curvature centered in a focal region which is suitable for placement of an infrared detector. The inner surface of the spherical section comprises a plurality of circular convex lenses, each lens having an optical axis passing through the focal region. The combination of the outer spherical surface with each circular convex lens forms a biconvex lens having a focal point in the focal region. Radiation received by each biconvex lens from a zone in the field of view is focused in the focal region for sensing by the infrared detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 5, 1990
    Assignee: Eltec Instruments, Inc.
    Inventors: Walter Kuster, Hans J. Keller