Patents by Inventor Walter Munchmeyer

Walter Munchmeyer 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).

  • Specimen holder for a corpuscular-beam apparatus
    Patent number: 4058731
    Abstract: A corpuscular-beam apparatus including a specimen holder having at least two degrees of freedom of translation and at least one degree of freedom of rotation, and control means for correcting the translational coordinates of the specimen holder automatically when the specimen holder is rotated and retaining a predetermined specimen point in its position in the apparatus. The improvement of the invention comprises the control means comprising means for controlling the rotational movement of the specimen holder stepwise in angular increments, the angular increments being chosen small so that the translational movement of the specimen point for each angular increment may be considered linear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1977
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Muller, Walter Munchmeyer, Moriz VON Rauch, Norbert Schafer