Patents by Inventor Jörg Heimel

Jörg Heimel 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: 9214896
    Abstract: The invention relates to a frequency generator assembly, including at least one oscillator and an electronic signal processing device, which is designed in such a way that the electronic signal processing device provides an electric clock signal (f) having a defined frequency as an output signal of the frequency generator assembly, wherein the defined frequency depends on the vibration frequency of the oscillator, wherein the oscillator includes at least one micromechanical seismic mass which is vibrationally excited by at least one driving device, whereupon the electronic signal processing device generates and provides the electric clock signal (f) according to the vibration frequency of the at least one seismic mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Jörg Heimel, Timo Dietz, Gerhard Möheken, Stefan Günthner
  • Publication number: 20140347139
    Abstract: The invention relates to a frequency generator assembly, including at least one oscillator and an electronic signal processing device, which is designed in such a way that the electronic signal processing device provides an electric clock signal (f) having a defined frequency as an output signal of the frequency generator assembly, wherein the defined frequency depends on the vibration frequency of the oscillator, wherein the oscillator includes at least one micromechanical seismic mass which is vibrationally excited by at least one driving device, whereupon the electronic signal processing device generates and provides the electric clock signal (f) according to the vibration frequency of the at least one seismic mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Jörg Heimel, Timo Dietz, Gerhard Möheken, Stefan Günthner
  • Patent number: 8695424
    Abstract: In order to be able to perform redundant measurements of rotation rates particularly economically, disclosed herein is a sensor device which includes a dual-axis, first rotation rate sensor element with which rotation rates of rotating motions of the sensor device about a first and a second rotation rate measurement axis can be detected, wherein the first and the second rotation rate measurement axes are oriented orthogonally in relation to one another. The sensor device is defined by the fact that the sensor device includes at least one other rotation rate sensor element with which a rotation rate of a rotating motion of the sensor device about a rotation rate measurement axis, which lies in a plane together with the first and the second rotation rate measurement axes, can be deselected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Bernhard Schmid, Roland Burghardt, Jörg Heimel, Otmar Simon, Roland Hilser
  • Publication number: 20120017676
    Abstract: In order to be able to perform redundant measurements of rotation rates particularly economically, disclosed herein is a sensor device which includes a dual-axis, first rotation rate sensor element with which rotation rates of rotating motions of the sensor device about a first and a second rotation rate measurement axis can be detected, wherein the first and the second rotation rate measurement axes are oriented orthogonally in relation to one another. The sensor device is defined by the fact that the sensor device includes at least one other rotation rate sensor element with which a rotation rate of a rotating motion of the sensor device about a rotation rate measurement axis, which lies in a plane together with the first and the second rotation rate measurement axes, can be deselected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2009
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: Continental Tevas AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Bernhard Schmid, Roland Burghardt, Jörg Heimel, Otmar Simon, Roland Hilser
  • Publication number: 20110197414
    Abstract: A method for installing a sensor arrangement into a vehicle having a vehicle chassis, wherein the vehicle chassis is in a defined position during the installation, and the sensor arrangement is attached directly or indirectly to the vehicle chassis, wherein the sensor arrangement includes one or more acceleration sensors with three linearly independent measuring directions, and the sensor arrangement has an electronic control unit which is configured in such a way that it includes a sensor calibration mode, wherein, after the attachment of the sensor arrangement, the at least one acceleration sensor senses the gravitational acceleration, after which the electronic control unit in the sensor calibration mode calculates and stores one or more relative positioning parameters from at least the detected direction of the gravitational acceleration (g), which positioning parameters include at least information about the relative positioning between the sensor arrangement and the vehicle chassis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2009
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicant: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Roland Burghardt, Bernhard Schmid, Jörg Heimel, Roland Hilser, Dirk Theobald