Patents Assigned to Horst Siedle GmbH & Co., KG
  • Patent number: 6504361
    Abstract: An inductive measurement transducer for determining a position of a moving body, comprising: a conductor loop over the moving body; a stationary conductor loop which extends over a measurement length and is fixed with respect to the moving body; an inductively acting element mounted to the moving body to produce an alternating magnetic field which extends essentially at right angles to the conductor loop over the moving body so that the alternating field passes through the stationary conductor loop, a voltage difference between a forward line and a return line of the stationary conductor loop being averaged and passed to an output so that voltage elements can be tapped off by individual taps which are distributed over the measurement length on the conductor loop; and one of individual resistors and individual capacitors operatively arranged to carry out the averaging, the one of individual resistors and individual capacitors being connected to a common connection which encloses the region through which the al
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2003
    Assignee: Horst Siedle GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Franz Xaver Josef Gleixner
  • Patent number: 6316947
    Abstract: A displacement/angular position sensor including a potentiometer path (20), which is arranged on a carrier (10) and to which an alternating voltage can be applied, a collector path (30) arranged on the carrier (10), a first probe (70) guided for displacement above the potentiometer path (20), and a second probe (80) electrically coupled with the latter and guided for displacement above the collector path. Screening surfaces (11, 12, 13, 14), connected to frame potential, are provided that surround the potentiometer path (20) and the collector path (30) and the probes guided above them so that both the potentiometer path (20) with the first probe (70) associated to it and the collector path (30) with the second probe (80) associated to it are each arranged in a spatially separate, screened space (22,32).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2001
    Assignee: Horst Siedle GmbH & Co., KG
    Inventor: Rainer Utz
  • Patent number: 6163974
    Abstract: A position sensor having a housing which defines a carriage guide, a carriage movably arranged in the guide, and a measurement probe arranged on the carriage for transmitting a measurement signal as a function of a position of the carriage. The measurement probe includes a measurement probe carrier separated from the carriage and the carriage guide and movably arranged in the housing. The measurement probe carrier is also connected to the carriage and the carriage guide so that a force can only be transmitted to the measurement probe carrier parallel to a movement direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Assignee: Horst Siedle GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ivan Masek, Rainer Utz
  • Patent number: 6133743
    Abstract: For determining the respective geometrical position, the displacement or angle of a body by capacitive sensing, a supply voltage applied to a voltage-distribution element is switched, and/or phase-shifted voltages are applied, in such a way that at least two different distribution patterns of the supply voltage, that follow each other in time, are obtained across the voltage divider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2000
    Assignee: Horst Siedle GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Franz Gleixner, Rainer Utz, Dieter Bachle
  • Patent number: 6031380
    Abstract: For determining the respective geometrical position, the displacement or angle of a body by capacitive sensing, a supply voltage applied to a voltage-distribution element is switched, and/or phase-shifted voltages are applied, in such a way that at least two different distribution patterns of the supply voltage, that follow each other in time, are obtained across the voltage divider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 29, 2000
    Assignee: Horst Siedle GmbH & Co. KG.
    Inventors: Franz Gleixner, Rainer Utz, Dieter Bachle