Patents by Inventor Timm Grams

Timm Grams 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 and device for performing a bus request and collective acknowledgement in a process bus system
    Patent number: 4628503
    Abstract: A method for performing a bus request or collective acknowledgement on a bus system, in a process bus system for serial data transmission, including subscribers of the process bus system, and a bus control device, includes generating a band-limited signal capable of superposition at all of the subscribers, in accordance with a common given principle, transmitting the band-limited signal with the subscribers for performing a bus request or collective acknowledgement, and analyzing the signal with the bus control device, and a device for carrying out the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 9, 1986
    Assignee: Brown, Boveri & Cie AG
    Inventors: Timm Grams, Werner Deck, Johannes Figge, Hartmut Siebert