Patents by Inventor Jürgen Irion

Jürgen Irion 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).

  • Method of producing a strain-sensitive resistor arrangement
    Patent number: 7065861
    Abstract: The invention relates to a strain-sensitive resistor, comprising a resistance layer arranged on a support element and an electromechanical transducer produced with this resistor. An increase in the electrical measured signal picked off across the resistor is achieved in a simple way by the support element (1) having a recess (7) on its surface (9) which, when the support element (1) is subjected to mechanical stress in at least one area of the surface (9) of the support element (1) in which the resistance layer (4) is positioned, produces a ratio between the two main strain directions (L, T) of the resistance layer (4) which differs in magnitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG
    Inventors: Arthur Schäfert, Jürgen Irion, Zlatko Penzar, Wolfgang Porth
  • Method of producing a strain-sensitive resistor
    Patent number: 6842970
    Abstract: A method of producing a strain sensitive resistor includes matching an area of a film insulating layer to a shape of a recess in a surface of a support element. The film insulating area is applied to the support element so that the area of the film matching the shape of the recess is congruent with the shape of the recess. A resistive layer comprising strain-sensitive resistors is applied to the film insulating layer and the film insulating layer and the resistive layer are applied to heat treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2005
    Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG
    Inventors: Arthur Schäfert, Jürgen Irion, Zlatko Penzar, Wolfgang Porth
  • Torque sensor with a bridge-circuit of thick film resistors
    Patent number: 6675663
    Abstract: A mechanical/electrical transducer which has a bridge circuit formed by electrically connecting strain-sensitive thick-film resistors by conductor tracks, the thick-film resistors being arranged directly on a metallic component to be subjected mechanically to torsional loading and lying outside an axis of the component to be loaded which is neutral with respect to bending moments, it being possible to tap an electrical signal corresponding to the strain of the thick-film resistors when the component is subjected to torsion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jürgen Irion, Arthur Schäfert, Bernd Thyzel, Klaus Weber
  • Strain-sensitive resistor
    Patent number: 6512445
    Abstract: A strain-sensitive resistor including a resistance layer arranged on a support element and an electromechanical transducer produced with this transistor. The support element has a recess in its surface. When the support element is subjected to mechanical stress in at least one area in which the resistance layer is positioned, the recess produces a ratio between the two main strain directions of the resistance layer which differs in magnitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2003
    Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG
    Inventors: Arthur Schäfert, Jürgen Irion, Zlatko Penzar, Wolfgang Porth