Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Zeller

Wolfgang Zeller 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: 10826270
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein to thermally regulate laser diodes. During operation, the structure of a laser diode may generate heat, which will affect the stability and accuracy of the output wavelength of the laser diode. During an OFF stage, the structure of the laser diode will then lose heat, creating a thermal gradient as the laser diode is switched between operation and an OFF state. The systems and methods provide constant average heat and a stable thermal gradient by integrating a laser diode power-coupled supply and a heater onto a heatspreader, such that the output wavelength of a coupled laser diode may be stabilized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Automotive Coalition for Traffic Safety, Inc.
    Inventors: Derek Treese, Nicolas Koslowski, Michael Legge, Wolfgang Zeller
  • Publication number: 20170194763
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein to thermally regulate laser diodes. During operation, the structure of a laser diode may generate heat, which will affect the stability and accuracy of the output wavelength of the laser diode. During an OFF stage, the structure of the laser diode will then lose heat, creating a thermal gradient as the laser diode is switched between operation and an OFF state. The systems and methods provide constant average heat and a stable thermal gradient by integrating a laser diode power-coupled supply and a heater onto a heatspreader, such that the output wavelength of a coupled laser diode may be stabilized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Derek Treese, Nicolas Koslowski, Michael Legge, Wolfgang Zeller
  • Patent number: 8855156
    Abstract: The invention relates to a DFB laser diode having a lateral coupling, which comprises at least one semi-conductor substrate (10), at least one active layer (40) that is arranged on the semiconductor substrate, at least one ridge (70) that is arranged above the active layer (40), at least one periodic surface structure (110) that is arranged next to the ridge (70) above the active layer (40) and at least one wave guide layer (30, 50) comprising a thickness ?1 ?m that is arranged below and/or above the active layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: nanoplus GmbH Nanosystems and Technologies
    Inventors: Johannes Bernhard Koeth, Wolfgang Zeller
  • Publication number: 20120093187
    Abstract: The invention relates to a DFB laser diode having a lateral coupling, which comprises at least one semi-conductor substrate (10), at least one active layer (40) that is arranged on the semiconductor substrate, at least one ridge (70) that is arranged above the active layer (40), at least one periodic surface structure (110) that is arranged next to the ridge (70) above the active layer (40) and at least one wave guide layer (30, 50) comprising a thickness ?1 ?m that is arranged below and/or above the active layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Inventors: Johannes Bernhard Koeth, Wolfgang Zeller
  • Patent number: 6971309
    Abstract: In order to create preconditions, in a web-fed rotary press, for good format variability of the printed products and economic utilization of the printing material, at least two printed pages of different heights are arranged in the circumferential direction on a form cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2005
    Assignee: MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Andreas Birkenfeld, Peer Dilling, Robert Kersch, Wolfgang Zeller
  • Patent number: 6880439
    Abstract: A method of cross-cutting a moving web uses a cutting knife operably mounted on a knife cylinder having a circumferential distance LZ where LZ is smaller than a cut length, LA. The knife cylinder for revolving in a first and a second opposite direction is powered by a drive motor in either direction. The method includes revolving the knife cylinder in a first direction, cutting the web with the cutting knife, and completing a first cut. The knife cylinder is then reversed to retard progress in the first direction and then accelerated to the speed of the moving web until starting the second cut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignee: MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Robert Kersch, Wolfgang Zeller
  • Patent number: 6755130
    Abstract: An automatically controlled cleaning system has a cleaning fluid reservoir with a feed of the cleaning fluid to the rotating bodies to be cleaned via a cleaning element for each body. Its serviceability can be monitored, in particular erroneously exceeding the critical quantity of cleaning agent per unit time during the cleaning of the rotating bodies of the press can be detected and countermeasures can be initiated, by constructing the cleaning reservoir as a pressure container which can be pressurized from a compressed-air source via an electronically drivable changeover valve V1, and by implementing each feed of the cleaning fluid to the rotating body by means of a fluid feed line in which there are installed at least one electronically driveable changeover valve V4 that controls the flow, and at least one further electronically driveable changeover valve V5 which controls the expulsion quantities and expulsion times of the cleaning fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2004
    Assignee: MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Andrea Kersch, Ulrike Lütgens, Wolfgang Zeller
  • Publication number: 20040060463
    Abstract: In order to create preconditions, in a web-fed rotary press, for good format variability of the printed products and economic utilization of the printing material, at least two printed pages of different heights are arranged in the circumferential direction on a forme cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Applicant: MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Andreas Birkenfeld, Peer Dilling, Robert Kersch, Wolfgang Zeller
  • Publication number: 20040060464
    Abstract: In order to provide good format variability of printed products and economic utilization of the printing material, a web is supplied to a cross-cutting device and cut up into sheets with different cut lengths corresponding to heights of printed pages in a sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Applicant: MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Andreas Birkenfeld, Peer Dilling, Robert Kersch, Wolfgang Zeller
  • Publication number: 20030183056
    Abstract: A method of cross-cutting a moving web uses a cutting knife operably mounted on a knife cylinder having a circumferential distance LZ where LZ is smaller than a cut length, LA. The knife cylinder for revolving in a first and a second opposite direction is powered by a drive motor in either direction. The method includes revolving the knife cylinder in a first direction, cutting the web with the cutting knife, and completing a first cut. The knife cylinder is then reversed to retard progress in the first direction and then accelerated to the speed of the moving web until starting the second cut.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2003
    Publication date: October 2, 2003
    Applicant: MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Robert Kersch, Wolfgang Zeller
  • Publication number: 20030167949
    Abstract: An automatically controlled cleaning system has a cleaning fluid reservoir with a feed of the cleaning fluid to the rotating bodies to be cleaned via a cleaning element for each body. Its serviceability can be monitored, in particular erroneously exceeding the critical quantity of cleaning agent per unit time during the cleaning of the rotating bodies of the press can be detected and countermeasures can be initiated, by constructing the cleaning reservoir as a pressure container which can be pressurized from a compressed-air source via an electronically drivable changeover valve V1, and by implementing each feed of the cleaning fluid to the rotating body by means of a fluid feed line in which there are installed at least one electronically driveable changeover valve V4 that controls the flow, and at least one further electronically driveable changeover valve V5 which controls the expulsion quantities and expulsion times of the cleaning fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2003
    Publication date: September 11, 2003
    Applicant: MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Andrea Kersch, Ulrike Lutgens, Wolfgang Zeller
  • Publication number: 20020057677
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for the realization of a service for an automatic transmission of packet data to a subscriber of a communication network which comprises a packet data network, in particular, an Internet information service, the packet data to be transmitted being stored in a network facility of the communication network and being transmitted via the packet data network, wherein, if the communication network also comprises a circuit-switching telephone network, a telephone call of a first subscriber to a further subscriber causes the network facility to transmit packet data to one of the subscribers, as well as a communication network, an information computer and a program module for it.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2001
    Publication date: May 16, 2002
    Applicant: ALCATEL
    Inventors: Lothar Katzschner, Andreas Lemke, Emmanuel Sutter, Wolfgang Zeller
  • Publication number: 20010053215
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of processing the calls addressed to a called subscriber (B) of a telephone network (KN), comprising the steps:
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2001
    Publication date: December 20, 2001
    Applicant: ALCATEL
    Inventors: Sascha Larger, Wolfgang Zeller, Emmanuel Sutter
  • Patent number: 5091136
    Abstract: In a method of making relief structures on mother-of-pearl layers removed from the shells of mollusks a portion of the layer is disposed on a negative mold having a relief shape formed therein, a modelling material is disposed on the layer portion and the layer portion is pressed into engagement with the negative mold by way of a planar stamp pressing onto the modelling material thereby relief-shaping the mother-of-pearl layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1992
    Assignee: Bock & Schupp GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jurgen Bock, Karola Metzger-Pegau, Wolfgang Zeller