Patents by Inventor Winfried Lurz
Winfried Lurz 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).
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Publication number: 20240016558Abstract: A computer-implemented method for generating control information for the remote control of an intervention device that is to be used during an intervention, for example a medical intervention, at an intervention location, wherein at least one first person is present at the intervention location and at least one second person is present at a location which differs from and is remote from the intervention location for the purpose of cooperation during the performance of the intervention, and control information provided by the second person is sent from the remote location to the intervention location by a communication connection, wherein use of the control information for controlling the intervention device is only enabled if a safeguarding signal, which indicates a monitoring activity of the first person and is output by a signaling device that may be activated by the first person, is present.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2023Publication date: January 18, 2024Inventors: Nils Sebastian Pickert, Gaurav Tripathi, Andreas Berting, Winfried Lurz, Markus Solowiej, Michael Greiffenhagen
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Patent number: 8660694Abstract: A method for computer-aided movement planning of a robot is provided, in which a trajectory for the movement of a spatial point assigned to the robot is planned in a fixed coordinates system. The spatial positions are translated from a plurality of spatial positions of the spatial point into respective configuration positions in a configuration room of the robot based on inverse kinematics. The respective configuration positions are described by axial positions of one or several rotatory or translational movement axes of the robot and are tested for collisions and a trajectory is formed along spatial positions of the spatial point, the respective configuration positions of which are collision-free. Planning the movement in a fixed coordinates system improves the efficiency of the planning method and the planned movement corresponds more to the expectations of the persons or the operating staff in the surroundings of the robot.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2009Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Inventors: Winfried Lurz, Werner Neubauer, Manfred Schönborn
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Patent number: 8489175Abstract: The invention relates to a method and device for imaging a cyclically moving organ of a human or animal body, with a device supported such that it can be rotated at an angular velocity around the body recording images of the organ from different angle positions, with the angular velocity being modulated with a reference signal representing the movement phase of the organ. During the rest phase of the organ images of the organ are recorded at nominal angular speed. In the movement phase of the organ the device is slowed down, turned back and accelerated again such that on entry into the next rest phase the device records images for the next angle range at nominal angular velocity without major angle gaps in respect of the previous angle range, to generate the most complete data record possible.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2006Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Manfred Schönborn, Rudolf Heimberger, Herbert Kemeth, Winfried Lurz, Frank Grasser
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Patent number: 8002464Abstract: The invention relates to a device for guiding at least one cable between a first system component connected to the cable and a second system component which is relatively rotatable and/or displaceable with respect to the first and is connected to the cable, whereby the cable exhibits a cable modality which can be changed by displacement and/or rotation of the second system component, whereby at least one device for adapting the cable modality is present. By making available a guide medium which allows the device for adapting the cable modality to be guided according to the displacement and/or rotation of the second system component, it is possible to provide a device which supports a mobile device without the function of the device being restricted by the cable guide.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2006Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Frank Grasser, Franz Schmeisser, Rudolf Heimberger, Herbert Kemeth, Winfried Lurz, Manfred Schönborn
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Patent number: 7681138Abstract: A system and appertaining method provide a user interface application whose design is optimally modular and can be simply serviced and expanded on, and offers and optimally “free” configuration in order to cover all types of system conditions. A GUI file comprising description of graphical elements and appertaining identifiers is used to permit field changes by non-software developers without rebuilding any software. A similar communications file comprising communications parameters is provided that permits linkage to the GUI file by utilizing identifiers in common with those of the graphical elements in the GUI file.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2006Date of Patent: March 16, 2010Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Frank Grasser, Sigmar Hopf, Winfried Lurz, Peter Schmittinger
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Publication number: 20090271035Abstract: A method for computer-aided movement planning of a robot is provided, in which a trajectory for the movement of a spatial point assigned to the robot is planned in a fixed coordinates system. The spatial positions are translated from a plurality of spatial positions of the spatial point into respective configuration positions in a configuration room of the robot based on inverse kinematics. The respective configuration positions are described by axial positions of one or several rotatory or translational movement axes of the robot and are tested for collisions and a trajectory is formed along spatial positions of the spatial point, the respective configuration positions of which are collision-free. Planning the movement in a fixed coordinates system improves the efficiency of the planning method and the planned movement corresponds more to the expectations of the persons or the operating staff in the surroundings of the robot.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2009Publication date: October 29, 2009Inventors: Winfried Lurz, Werner Neubauer, Manfred Schonborn
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Patent number: 7594751Abstract: In a biplane X-ray system, a robot is used for moving at least a pair comprising an X-ray radiation source and an X-ray detector. The robot can be a buckling arm robot bearing an X-ray C-arm. It is also possible for the X-ray radiation source and X-ray detector each to be suspended from the ceiling of the room by means of robot arms.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2008Date of Patent: September 29, 2009Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Albert Grebner, Klaus Klingenbeck-Regn, Winfried Lurz, Stefan Sattler, Manfred Schönborn
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Patent number: 7591589Abstract: The present intervention relates to a medical diagnosis or intervention system with a radiation source, a radiation detector, and a C-arm as a component carrier, to which the radiation source and the radiation detector are fastened. The distance between the radiation source and the radiation detector can be changed by means of a linear guide. The C-arm is fastened to an articulated arm of a robot and the linear guide is arranged in the vicinity of the fastening point of the C-arm on the articulated arm.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2008Date of Patent: September 22, 2009Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Albert Grebner, Winfried Lurz, Stefan Sattler, Manfred Schönborn
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Patent number: 7530739Abstract: The invention relates to a robot-controlled recording device comprising a robot with a number of axes of movement which are able to be controlled via a robot controller for moving a robotic hand and a recording system fitted to the robotic hand which is able to be moved by the robot for recording data of an object supported on a support unit. The robot controller is connected to an additional drive and controls this for moving the robotic hand synchronized to the axes of movement such that the additional drive would create a relative rotation and/or translation movement between the recording system and the support unit created by the movement of the robotic hand solely by a movement of the support unit with a stationary robotic hand. The drive is however connected not to the support unit but to an encoder for creating a synchronization signal for the recording.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2007Date of Patent: May 12, 2009Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Winfried Lurz, Manfred Schönborn
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Patent number: 7500784Abstract: The invention relates to an X-ray device, in which an X-ray source and an X-ray detector are attached, in an opposed arrangement oriented toward a rotational axis, to a common holder capable of rotating about the rotational axis. To simplify the design of the X-ray device, it is proposed that the holder is attached to the hand of a robot displaying six axes of rotation.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2006Date of Patent: March 10, 2009Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Albert Grebner, Herbert Kemeth, Winfried Lurz, Manfred Schönborn
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Publication number: 20090028290Abstract: In a biplane X-ray system, a robot is used for moving at least a pair comprising an X-ray radiation source and an X-ray detector. The robot can be a buckling arm robot bearing an X-ray C-arm. It is also possible for the X-ray radiation source and X-ray detector each to be suspended from the ceiling of the room by means of robot arms.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2008Publication date: January 29, 2009Inventors: Albert Grebner, Klaus Klingenbeck-Regn, Winfried Lurz, Stefan Sattler, Manfred Schonborn
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Publication number: 20080279340Abstract: The present intervention relates to a medical diagnosis or intervention system with a radiation source, a radiation detector, and a C-arm as a component carrier, to which the radiation source and the radiation detector are fastened. The distance between the radiation source and the radiation detector can be changed by means of a linear guide. The C-arm is fastened to an articulated arm of a robot and the linear guide is arranged in the vicinity of the fastening point of the C-arm on the articulated arm.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2008Publication date: November 13, 2008Inventors: Albert Grebner, Winfried Lurz, Stefan Sattler, Manfred Schonborn
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Patent number: 7450682Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for executing the method for spatial presentation of a predeterminable area under examination. By overlaying a movement of the axis of projection along an axis of examination onto a rotation of an axis of projection around the object under examination, and by interpolating from the recorded projection data sets image data sets for axes of projection not recorded, and by creating a spatial presentation of the area under examination from the projection and image data sets, a method and a device can be provided which increases the speed of an examination for an extended area under examination of an object under examination.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2006Date of Patent: November 11, 2008Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Manfred Schönborn, Frank Grasser, Rudolf Heimberger, Herbert Kemeth, Winfried Lurz
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Publication number: 20080240363Abstract: The invention relates to an X-ray device, in which an X-ray source and an X-ray detector are attached, in an opposed arrangement oriented toward a rotational axis, to a common holder capable of rotating about the rotational axis. To simplify the design of the X-ray device, it is proposed that the holder is attached to the hand of a robot displaying six axes of rotation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2006Publication date: October 2, 2008Inventors: Albert Grebner, Herbert Kemeth, Winfried Lurz, Manfred Schonborn
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Publication number: 20080125649Abstract: A medical treatment system is described having an imaging device and a patient examination table. At least one of the imaging device or the patient table has a motorized or hydraulic mechanism for moving the imaging device and the patient examination table relative to each other. A processor tracks the position of a catheter or a bolus of contrast enhancing material so that the catheter or bolus is maintained within the field of view of the imaging system, or within the displayed image where the images have been previously obtained. The position of the catheter may be determined by image analysis or magnetic or acoustic means, and the position of the bolus may be obtained by image analysis.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2006Publication date: May 29, 2008Inventors: Andreas Meyer, Winfried Lurz, Anton Nekovar
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Publication number: 20080016466Abstract: A system and appertaining method provide a user interface application whose design is optimally modular and can be simply serviced and expanded on, and offers and optimally “free” configuration in order to cover all types of system conditions. A GUI file comprising description of graphical elements and appertaining identifiers is used to permit field changes by non-software developers without rebuilding any software. A similar communications file comprising communications parameters is provided that permits linkage to the GUI file by utilizing identifiers in common with those of the graphical elements in the GUI file.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2006Publication date: January 17, 2008Inventors: Frank Grasser, Sigmar Hopf, Winfried Lurz, Peter Schmittinger
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Publication number: 20080013690Abstract: The invention relates to a robot-controlled recording device comprising a robot with a number of axes of movement which are able to be controlled via a robot controller for moving a robotic hand and a recording system fitted to the robotic hand which is able to be moved by the robot for recording data of an object supported on a support unit. The robot controller is connected to an additional drive and controls this for moving the robotic hand synchronized to the axes of movement such that the additional drive would create a relative rotation and/or translation movement between the recording system and the support unit created by the movement of the robotic hand solely by a movement of the support unit with a stationary robotic hand. The drive is however connected not to the support unit but to an encoder for creating a synchronization signal for the recording.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2007Publication date: January 17, 2008Inventors: Winfried Lurz, Manfred Schonborn
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Publication number: 20070165786Abstract: The invention relates to a device for guiding at least one cable between a first system component connected to the cable and a second system component which is relatively rotatable and/or displaceable with respect to the first and is connected to the cable, whereby the cable exhibits a cable modality which can be changed by displacement and/or rotation of the second system component, whereby at least one device for adapting the cable modality is present. By making available a guide medium which allows the device for adapting the cable modality to be guided according to the displacement and/or rotation of the second system component, it is possible to provide a device which supports a mobile device without the function of the device being restricted by the cable guide.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2006Publication date: July 19, 2007Inventors: Frank Grasser, Franz Schmeisser, Rudolf Heimberger, Herbert Kemeth, Winfried Lurz, Manfred Schonborn
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Publication number: 20070104309Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for executing the method for spatial presentation of a predeterminable area under examination. By overlaying a movement of the axis of projection along an axis of examination onto a rotation of an axis of projection around the object under examination, and by interpolating from the recorded projection data sets image data sets for axes of projection not recorded, and by creating a spatial presentation of the area under examination from the projection and image data sets, a method and a device can be provided which increases the speed of an examination for an extended area under examination of an object under examination.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2006Publication date: May 10, 2007Inventors: Manfred Schonborn, Frank Grasser, Rudolf Heimberger, Herbert Kemeth, Winfried Lurz
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Publication number: 20070100227Abstract: The invention relates to a method and device for imaging a cyclically moving organ of a human or animal body, with a device supported such that it can be rotated at an angular velocity around the body recording images of the organ from different angle positions, with the angular velocity being modulated with a reference signal representing the movement phase of the organ. During the rest phase of the organ images of the organ are recorded at nominal angular speed. In the movement phase of the organ the device is slowed down, turned back and accelerated again such that on entry into the next rest phase the device records images for the next angle range at nominal angular velocity without major angle gaps in respect of the previous angle range, to generate the most complete data record possible.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2006Publication date: May 3, 2007Inventors: Manfred Schonborn, Rudolf Heimberger, Herbert Kemeth, Winfried Lurz, Frank Grasser