Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Zerl

Wolfgang Zerl 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: 7331712
    Abstract: An X-ray system has a patient examination table, an image acquisition unit under the surface of the patient examination table, and an X-ray radiator that can be positioned above the patient examination table, On the patient examination table a radiation protection device is disposed, which—during the operation—shields at least one zone on one side of the patient examination table from the radiation area between the X-ray radiator and the image acquisition unit. In addition, on the patient examination table an X-ray system operation unit is disposed that is accessible from the shielded zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Klaus Fischer, Wolfgang Zerl
  • Publication number: 20050058257
    Abstract: An X-ray system has a patient examination table, an image acquisition unit under the surface of the patient examination table, and an X-ray radiator that can be positioned above the patient examination table, On the patient examination table a radiation protection device is disposed, which—during the operation—shields at least one zone on one side of the patient examination table from the radiation area between the X-ray radiator and the image acquisition unit. In addition, on the patient examination table an X-ray system operation unit is disposed that is accessible from the shielded zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2004
    Publication date: March 17, 2005
    Inventors: Klaus Fischer, Wolfgang Zerl
  • Patent number: 5394871
    Abstract: A medical diagnostics installation comprises components for portraying an examination region on a monitor and includes an operating unit which is spatially spaced from the monitor and has a control unit, either a sensor field, a joystick or a key field, for acting on a data processor for controlling the components. The data processor includes a data store that contains data corresponding to different operating menus, and these menus are capable of being called in via the operating unit and are displayed on the monitor. At least one operating condition of the medical diagnostics installation can be produced by the operating unit and the operating menus correspond to the operating conditions being displayed on the monitor are only the operating functions required for this operating condition. The operating functions are controllable via a mark or cursor which is controlled by either the sensor field, joystick or key field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 7, 1995
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Roland Sauer, Rudolf Brendl, Wolfgang Jaeger, Wolfgang Zerl, Alois Noettling, Hans-Peter Rieger, Gerd Wessels
  • Patent number: 4609940
    Abstract: The invention relates to a radiodiagnostic installation with a motor-adjustable patient table, a motor-adjustable radiation diaphragm, and an image intensifier television system for image reproduction. With the monitor of the image intensifier television system a light pen is associated for the entry of certain sites on the monitor into a memory. Connected to the memory are control circuits for the motors of the patient table and of the primary radiation diaphragm, which are designed so that the patient table and the primary radiation diaphragm are adjusted in accordance with the respective image field on the monitor to which the light pen points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1984
    Date of Patent: September 2, 1986
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans-Joachim Born, Hartmut Duschka, Gerhard Seyler, Wolfgang Zerl