Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Steiger

Wolfgang Steiger 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: 11904550
    Abstract: A device for the lithography-based additive manufacturing of three-dimensional structures may comprise a building platform defining a building plane, a light engine designed for the dynamic patterning of light in an exposure field of said light engine, a material transport unit comprising a first drive mechanism for transporting a material layer across the exposure field, a second drive mechanism for causing relative movement of the light engine and the building platform along a displacement path extending parallel to the building plane, a linear encoder for sensing a position and/or a velocity of the light engine relative to the building platform, and/or one or more control units configured to adjust the feeding rate of a pattern data feeder based on the position or the velocity sensed by the linear encoder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: CUBICURE GMBH
    Inventors: Robert Gmeiner, Thomas Förster-Romswinckel, Philipp Neubauer, Bernhard Busetti, Wolfgang Steiger, Raphael Krobath
  • Publication number: 20230294354
    Abstract: A device for the lithography-based additive manufacturing of three-dimensional structures on a substrate, comprises a carrier element for carrying a substrate having a curved surface, a light engine designed for the dynamic patterning of light in an exposure field of said light engine, a material transport unit comprising a first drive means for transporting a material layer across the exposure field, second drive means for causing rotational movement of the substrate having the curved surface such as to establish a rolling contact of the curved surface on the material layer in a contact zone, said contact zone being arranged in the exposure field, and first control means configured to control said first and/or second drive means so that said rolling contact of the curved surface on the material layer is essentially slip-free.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Robert GMEINER, Thomas FÖRSTER-ROMSWINCKEL, Philipp NEUBAUER, Bernhard BUSETTI, Wolfgang STEIGER, Raphael KROBATH
  • Publication number: 20220347932
    Abstract: A device for the lithography-based additive manufacturing of three-dimensional structures may comprise a building platform defining a building plane, a light engine designed for the dynamic patterning of light in an exposure field of said light engine, a material transport unit comprising a first drive mechanism for transporting a material layer across the exposure field, a second drive mechanism for causing relative movement of the light engine and the building platform along a displacement path extending parallel to the building plane, a linear encoder for sensing a position and/or a velocity of the light engine relative to the building platform, and/or one or more control units configured to adjust the feeding rate of a pattern data feeder based on the position or the velocity sensed by the linear encoder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Robert Gmeiner, Thomas Förster-Romswinckel, Philipp Neubauer, Bernhard Busetti, Wolfgang Steiger, Raphael Krobath
  • Patent number: 11440263
    Abstract: A device for the lithography-based additive manufacturing of three-dimensional structures may comprise a building platform defining a building plane, a light engine designed for the dynamic patterning of light in an exposure field of said light engine, a material transport unit comprising a first drive mechanism for transporting a material layer across the exposure field, a second drive mechanism for causing relative movement of the light engine and the building platform along a displacement path extending parallel to the building plane, a linear encoder for sensing a position and/or a velocity of the light engine relative to the building platform, and/or one or more control units configured to adjust the feeding rate of a pattern data feeder based on the position or the velocity sensed by the linear encoder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: CUBICURE GMBH
    Inventors: Robert Gmeiner, Thomas Förster-Romswinckel, Philipp Neubauer, Bernhard Busetti, Wolfgang Steiger, Raphael Krobath
  • Publication number: 20210187859
    Abstract: A device for the lithography-based additive manufacturing of three-dimensional structures may comprise a building platform defining a building plane, a light engine designed for the dynamic patterning of light in an exposure field of said light engine, a material transport unit comprising a first drive mechanism for transporting a material layer across the exposure field, a second drive mechanism for causing relative movement of the light engine and the building platform along a displacement path extending parallel to the building plane, a linear encoder for sensing a position and/or a velocity of the light engine relative to the building platform, and/or one or more control units configured to adjust the feeding rate of a pattern data feeder based on the position or the velocity sensed by the linear encoder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Robert Gmeiner, Thomas Förster-Romswinckel, Philipp Neubauer, Bernhard Busetti, Wolfgang Steiger, Raphael Krobath
  • Patent number: 5900803
    Abstract: The data communication device is designed for a towed vehicle having wheels rear lights, brake lights, turn signal lights and an anti-lock braking system, that is drawn by a motor vehicle. This data communication device includes an electrical cable connection (19) for supplying electrical power from the towing vehicle to the rear, brake and turn signal lights; an electrical pulse generator and electrical power supply circuit (14) for producing direct current from wheel motion of the towed vehicle; a rechargeable battery (15) to provide a supplementary direct current in addition to this direct current, when necessary; a controller (10) for the anti-lock braking system including a data producing unit (7) for producing data including mileage covered by the towed vehicle and a wireless transponder (6) operating the gigahertz range for transmission and reception of data from the data producing unit to and from an external data transmitting and receiving station (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1999
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Politz, Wilhelm Grabow, Wolfgang Steiger, Rainer Schmedding
  • Patent number: 4943926
    Abstract: Method for analyzing and synthesizing pulses using a first pulse state memory for storing the pulse state connected to a pulse edge detector for detecting a pulse change of state, the latter connected to the reset pin of a pulse counter driven by a clock; a first-in-first-out memory connected to the counter for receiving the counter content for each pulse, and a microprocessor connected to the first-in-first-out memory output, having a signal pulse list for storing for each pulse its state and pulse length measured in clock counts. Two or more associate memories are provided for storing clock count of any 0-state pulse and any 1-state pulse, and a pulse display connected to each associate memory to display any 0-state pulse and any 1-state pulse as a percentage of the total pulse period To.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1986
    Date of Patent: July 24, 1990
    Assignee: BBC Aktiengesellschaft Brown, Boveri & Cie
    Inventors: Jorge Guzman-Edery, Wolfgang Steiger, Michael Boer
  • Patent number: 4724534
    Abstract: A modulator for modulating binary data signals by frequency shift keying (FSK), in which a binary data level 1 is represented by a first frequency (f.sub.1) and the binary data level 0 is represented by a second frequency (f.sub.2) is provided. The modulator addresses a first addressing input of a programmable memory with the binary data signals, in which half the periods of the two frequencies (f.sub.1, f.sub.2) are marked in two memory regions (I, II) of the programmable memory addressed by the first addressing input. The modulator further controls other address inputs with a driven counter; and generates a pulse resetting the counter and controlling a 2:1 frequency divider having an output delivering one of the frequencies (f.sub.1, f.sub.2), when addressing a storage cell, in which one of the halfperiods is marked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1988
    Assignee: BBC Aktiengesellschaft, Brown, Boverie & Cie
    Inventors: Jorge Guzman-Edery, Wolfgang Steiger