Patents by Inventor Frank Menten

Frank Menten 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).

  • Publication number: 20050132725
    Abstract: A refrigerator or freezer including at least one compartment for refrigerating, freezing and/or climate control and a display device. Information specific to at least one of the compartments can be displayed by the display device. The display device is interactive via an input device for user input, which input can be displayed by the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2005
    Publication date: June 23, 2005
    Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerate GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Menten, Bernward Reinker
  • Patent number: 5842143
    Abstract: A circuit configuration for evaluating signals from a yaw rate sensor is used in particular for movement stabilization in a motor vehicle. There is provided a controller which receives the signals from the yaw rate sensor and from further sensors. The further sensors detect motion state dependent variables, such as for example wheel speed, steering wheel angle, lateral acceleration and longitudinal acceleration. The controller calculates from one or more of these further sensors a reference yaw rate. The reference yaw rate is compared with the yaw rate measured by the yaw rate sensor. The plausibility of the yaw rate sensor signal is also checked, taking account of the motion state. If the difference between the measured yaw rate and the reference yaw rate determined in the plausibility check is above a predetermined threshold value, then the yaw rate sensor is identified as being faulty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1998
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Frank Lohrenz, Frank Menten, Gregor Probst
  • Patent number: 5719790
    Abstract: A method and a circuit configuration for compensating for signal errors of a yaw velocity sensor used in regulating driving stability of a motor vehicle include ascertaining a driving state in which an offset of a yaw velocity sensor is unequivocally determinable from electrical signals of at least one of a steering wheel angle sensor, wheel speed sensors and a transverse acceleration sensor, ascertaining the offset from the signals of one of the sensors in the driving state, and calculating a yaw velocity from the electrical signals of at least one of the sensors. Driving states are ascertained at a beginning and at an end of a predetermined time interval in which the yaw velocities of the motor vehicle are unequivocally determinable and differ from one another, the yaw velocities are calculated and associated signal voltages of the yaw velocity sensor are fixed at those instants. A sensitivity is calculated from the calculated yaw velocities and the associated signal voltages of the yaw velocity sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1998
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Frank Lohrenz, Frank Menten, Gregor Probst
  • Patent number: 5645352
    Abstract: A circuit configuration and method for ascertaining the temperature of a current-regulated electric coil, in particular the coil of an electromagnetic proportional valve of a hydraulic regulating device, by measurement of an ohmic resistance of a winding of the coil, includes a coil current circuit in which the coil and other resistances are connected. A control and evaluation circuit is connected to the coil current circuit and has a pulse-width modulated regulating signal for regulating a mean current through the coil. A temperature sensor is connected to the control and evaluation circuit. The control and evaluation circuit ascertains a correction value once the temperature of the coil has been aligned with the temperature of the temperature sensor, taking into account an influence of interference of the other resistances in the coil current circuit upon the temperature thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1997
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Frank Menten