Patents by Inventor Gregor Svobodnik

Gregor Svobodnik 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: 8683683
    Abstract: In a method for positioning and mounting, on a carrier body (6), an LED assembly (1) preassembled on a circuit board (4), the circuit board (4) having the LED assembly (1) is placed and glued onto the carrier body (6), the LED assembly (1) being brought into the prescribed position relative to the carrier body (6) after being placed on the carrier body (6) by a positioning body (11) having centering elements (17) that contact the LED assembly (1) on one side and the carrier body (6) on the other, wherein the circuit board (4) having the LED assembly (1) is aligned with the carrier body (6). The positioning body (11) has a leg (15, 16) extending from a connecting part (12) and having centering elements (17) for contacting the LED assembly (1) on one side and the carrier body (6) on the other side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Knoll, Michael Maryschka, Gregor Svobodnik, Boris Thaller
  • Publication number: 20100302777
    Abstract: In a method for positioning and mounting, on a carrier body (6), an LED assembly (1) preassembled on a circuit board (4), the circuit board (4) having the LED assembly (1) is placed and glued onto the carrier body (6), the LED assembly (1) being brought into the prescribed position relative to the carrier body (6) after being placed on the carrier body (6) by a positioning body (11) having centering elements (17) that contact the LED assembly (1) on one side and the carrier body (6) on the other, wherein the circuit board (4) having the LED assembly (1) is aligned with the carrier body (6). The positioning body (11) has a leg (15, 16) extending from a connecting part (12) and having centering elements (17) for contacting the LED assembly (1) on one side and the carrier body (6) on the other side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2008
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventors: Franz Knoll, Michael Maryschka, Gregor Svobodnik, Boris Thaller
  • Patent number: 7248007
    Abstract: A control system for an electromechanical drive in a vehicle has a motor (29) whose connections (24, 25) are connected to the assigned control elements (2, 3) of a bridge circuit, a control circuit (21) with signal connections (12, 13) at which control signals are provided for controlling the control elements, a return circuit (6) through which information about the operating state of the motor (29) is returned to the control circuit (21) in order to monitor the functioning of the motor, wherein the signal connections (12, 13) can be switched as output or as input, the information about the operating state is returned through the return circuit (6) to these signal connections that can be switched as input or as output, and the control circuit has a monitoring program (21) that records and evaluates the returned information about the operating state during a monitoring phase in which the signal connections (12, 13) are switched as input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2007
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Gregor Svobodnik
  • Patent number: 7141944
    Abstract: Device for controling an electrical motor mounted on the crossarm of a bridge circuit whose motor current is controllable with semiconductor components formed in a first bridge branch by an electromagnetic switching device and in a second bridge branch by two serially switched, opposite-phase timed semiconductor switches. The opposite-phase timing of both semiconductor switches creates an active freewheeling branch, thereby making a freewheeling diode unnecessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2006
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Gregor Svobodnik
  • Publication number: 20060202649
    Abstract: A control system for an electromechanical drive in a vehicle has a motor (29) whose connections (24, 25) are connected to the assigned control elements (2, 3) of a bridge circuit, a control circuit (21) with signal connections (12, 13) at which control signals are provided for controlling the control elements, a return circuit (6) through which information about the operating state of the motor (29) is returned to the control circuit (21) in order to monitor the functioning of the motor, wherein the signal connections (12, 13) can be switched as output or as input, the information about the operating state is returned through the return circuit (6) to these signal connections that can be switched as input or as output, and the control circuit has a monitoring program (21) that records and evaluates the returned information about the operating state during a monitoring phase in which the signal connections (12, 13) are switched as input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2006
    Publication date: September 14, 2006
    Inventor: Gregor Svobodnik
  • Patent number: 6989643
    Abstract: An electrical drive apparatus, in particular, a motor-driven motor vehicle window winder or motor vehicle belt roller, which can be operated via a full bridge circuit with at least four switching elements with a different load depending on the rotation direction, wherein the switching elements are individually designed on the basis of their different maximum loads, in the sense of an asymmetric full bridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2006
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiegesellschaft
    Inventors: Patrick Komaromi, Gregor Svobodnik
  • Publication number: 20050200323
    Abstract: Device for controling an electrical motor mounted on the crossarm of a bridge circuit whose motor current is controllable with semiconductor components formed in a first bridge branch by an electromagnetic switching device and in a second bridge branch by two serially switched, opposite-phase timed semiconductor switches. The opposite-phase timing of both semiconductor switches creates an active freewheeling branch, thereby making a freewheeling diode unnecessary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2005
    Publication date: September 15, 2005
    Inventor: Gregor Svobodnik
  • Publication number: 20040036430
    Abstract: An electrical drive apparatus, in particular, a motor-driven motor vehicle window winder or motor vehicle belt roller, which can be operated via a full bridge circuit with at least four switching elements with a different load depending on the rotation direction, wherein the switching elements are individually designed on the basis of their different maximum loads, in the sense of an asymmetric full bridge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventors: Patrick Komaromi, Gregor Svobodnik