Patents Assigned to Technologies AG
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Patent number: 11532541Abstract: A semiconductor package includes: an insulating substrate having opposing first and second main sides; a power semiconductor die embedded in, and thinner than or a same thickness as, the substrate, and including a first load terminal bond pad at a first side which faces a same direction as the substrate first main side, a second load terminal bond pad at a second side which faces a same direction as the substrate second main side, and a control terminal bond pad; electrically conductive first vias extending through the substrate in a periphery region; a first metallization connecting the first load terminal bond pad to the first vias at the substrate first main side; solderable first contact pads at the substrate second main side and formed by the first vias; and a solderable second contact pad at the substrate second main side and formed by the second load terminal die bond pad.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2020Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Eung San Cho, Petteri Palm
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Patent number: 11531086Abstract: A radar device is disclosed including an input DMA module, at least one processing module, and an output DMA module. The input DMA module is arranged to access a memory and supply data from the memory to the at least one processing module, wherein each of the processing modules is arranged to be enabled or disabled. The at least one processing module that is enabled is arranged to process at least a portion of the data supplied by the input DMA module, and the output DMA module is arranged to store the data that are processed by the at least one processing module that is enabled in the memory. Also, a method for processing data by a radar device is provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2018Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Andre Roger, Markus Bichl, Romain Ygnace
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Patent number: 11531093Abstract: There are disclosed techniques for laser scanning control. A system includes control equipment to perform a coordinated scanning control by controlling: a mirror driver, to drive a mirror along desired mirror positions through a motion mirror control signal; and a laser driver, to generate laser light pulses to be impinged onto the mirror at the desired mirror positions through a pulse trigger control signal. The control equipment includes a motion estimator to provide estimated motion information based on feedback motion measurement(s), to generate the pulse trigger control signal by adapting a desired scheduling, for triggering the laser light pulses, to the estimated motion information.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2020Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Franz Michael Darrer, David Brunner, Georg Schitter, Han Woong Yoo
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Patent number: 11531566Abstract: A message processing component may include an execution unit configurable to execute a set of tasks associated with one or more communication network messages. The set of tasks may include at least one of a message evaluation task or a cryptography task. The execution unit may be configured to provide functional safety in association with executing the set of tasks. The execution unit includes a set of time-multiplexed partitions. Each partition in the set of time-multiplexed partitions may be configurable to execute only one task included in the set of tasks. The message processing component may include an interface to one or more hardware accelerators available for use in association with the execution of the set of tasks. Only one partition, of the set of time-multiplexed partitions, may have access to the one or more hardware accelerators at a time.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2020Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Viola Rieger, Uli Kretzschmar
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Publication number: 20220399262Abstract: A die package and method is disclosed. In one example, the die package includes a die having a first die contact on a first side and a second die contact on a second side opposite the first side, and insulating material laterally adjacent to the die. A metal structure substantially directly contacts the surface of the second die contact, wherein the metal structure is made of the same material as the second die contact. A first pad contact on the first side of the die electrically contacts the first die contact, and a second pad contact on the first side of the die electrically contacts the second die contact via the metal structure. The insulating material electrically insulates the metal structure from the first die contact.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2022Publication date: December 15, 2022Applicant: Infineon Technologies AGInventor: Petteri PALM
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Publication number: 20220397186Abstract: A torque-transmitting device has a first input side, a second input side, an output side, a hydrodynamic converter, a lockup clutch, a first torque-transmitting path which runs between a splitting point and a merging point, and a second torque-transmitting path which is configured so as to be parallel with respect to the first torque-transmitting path. The hydrodynamic converter is arranged in the first torque-transmitting path and the lockup clutch is arranged in the second torque-transmitting path. The hydrodynamic converter has a pump wheel and a turbine wheel which is hydrodynamically connectable to the pump wheel. The splitting point is connected to the first input side for conjoint rotation. The pump wheel and a first clutch input side of the lock-up clutch are each connected to the splitting point for conjoint rotation. A second input side is connected downstream of the merging point in a torque flow of a first torque from the first input side to the output side.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2020Publication date: December 15, 2022Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Benjamin Vögtle, Thorsten Krause
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Publication number: 20220397617Abstract: A sensor device includes a current conductor designed to carry a measurement current, and a magnetic field sensor chip having a sensor element, wherein the magnetic field sensor chip is designed to detect a magnetic field at the location of the sensor element. The sensor device furthermore includes an encapsulation material, wherein the magnetic field sensor chip is encapsulated by the encapsulation material, and a soft magnet secured to the encapsulation material and designed to concentrate the magnetic field at the location of the sensor element. The magnetic field sensor chip and the soft magnet are galvanically isolated from one another by the encapsulation material.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2022Publication date: December 15, 2022Applicant: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Rainer Markus SCHALLER, Volker STRUTZ
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Publication number: 20220397593Abstract: A capacitive sensor includes a first conductive structure; a second conductive structure that is counter to the first conductive structure, wherein the second conductive structure is movable relative to the first conductive structure in response to an external force acting thereon, wherein the second conductive structure is capacitively coupled to the first conductive structure to form a first capacitor having a first capacitance that changes with a change in a distance between the first conductive structure and second conductive structure; a signal generator configured to apply a first electrical signal step at an input or at an output of the first capacitor to induce a first voltage transient response at the output of first capacitor; and a diagnostic circuit configured to detect a fault in the capacitive sensor by measuring a first time constant of the first voltage transient response and detecting the fault based on the first time constant.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2021Publication date: December 15, 2022Applicant: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Dan-Ioan-Dumitru STOICA, Cesare BUFFA, Constantin CRISU, Mihai-Liviu TUDOSE, Bernhard WINKLER
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Publication number: 20220399762Abstract: A device includes a first electronic component and a case, wherein the case includes a first charging compartment configured to accommodate and charge the first electronic component. The device further includes a first magnet included in the first electronic component and a 3D magnetic field sensor included in the case. The device further includes a detection unit configured to detect a position of the first electronic component relative to the first charging compartment based on a magnetic field sensed by the 3D magnetic field sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2022Publication date: December 15, 2022Applicant: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Lifeng GUAN, Wai Keung Frankie CHAN
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Publication number: 20220397157Abstract: An encoder for a wheel bearing includes a carrier plate ring and a magnetic encoding ring. The carrier plate ring has a radially running first leg, and an axially running second leg arranged on an outer ring or on an inner ring of the wheel bearing. The carrier plate ring has, on the radially running first leg, cut-outs distributed over its circumference. The first leg has a fold for forming a folded portion, and the folded portion at least partly covers the cut-outs. The carrier plate ring is at least partly surrounded by the magnetic encoding ring. The encoding ring has unipolar magnetization and at least partly comes into contact in the cut-outs.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2020Publication date: December 15, 2022Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Christian Mock, Christian Huelz, Marco Krapf, Branko Katana
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Publication number: 20220397164Abstract: A dog clutch with ratcheting one-way clutch includes an axis, a dog clutch ring, a first ring, a second ring, and a plurality of rockers. The dog clutch ring has a plurality of first teeth. The first ring includes a plurality of second teeth, complementary to the first teeth, a first spline for receiving a first shaft, and a plurality of first pockets. The second ring includes a plurality of third teeth, complementary to the first teeth, a second spline for receiving a second shaft, and a plurality of second pockets. The plurality of rockers is disposed in a one of the plurality of first pockets or the plurality of second pockets for selectively engaging with the other one of the plurality of first pockets or the plurality of second pockets to prevent rotation of the first ring relative to the second ring in only one rotational direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2021Publication date: December 15, 2022Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Jordan Geiser, Carsten Behler
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Publication number: 20220397191Abstract: The invention relates to a flexible transmission components for a harmonic drive comprising a resilient toothing element formed as a sheet metal part and having external toothing, and a printed circuit board bonded to the toothing element.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2020Publication date: December 15, 2022Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventor: Marcel Mergenthaler
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Patent number: 11525493Abstract: A torsional vibration damper, including: an output flange supported for rotation around an axis of rotation and including a first drive surface and a second drive surface; an intermediate flange including a first drive tab aligned in series with the first drive surface in a circumferential direction around the axis of rotation and a second drive tab aligned in series with the second drive surface in the circumferential direction; a first spring including a first end directly engaged with the first drive surface and a second end directly engaged with the first drive tab; and a second spring including a first end directly engaged with the second drive tab and a second end directly engaged with the second drive surface. In an example embodiment, the intermediate flange includes a centering tab in contact with the output flange and arranged to center the intermediate flange with respect to the output flange.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventor: Austin Hoff
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Patent number: 11525485Abstract: An axle disconnect assembly, including: a housing; a shaft; a sleeve non-rotatably connected to the shaft and including teeth; a shift assembly; and at least one resilient element directly connected to the shift assembly. In a first blocked mode, the teeth of the sleeve contact the power output without meshing with teeth of the power output, the shift assembly deflects the at least one resilient element to at least one first shape, and the at least one resilient element urges the sleeve against the power output. In a second blocked mode, the teeth of the sleeve are meshed with the teeth of the power output, a force blocks disengagement of the sleeve from the power output, the shift assembly deflects the at least one resilient element to at least one second, and the at least one resilient element urges the sleeve away from the power output without displacing the sleeve.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2021Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventor: Brian Lee
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Patent number: 11525706Abstract: A rotational position sensor arrangement having first and second sensors positioned adjacent to first and second axial faces or a first axial face and a radial face of a target disc. The target disc has first and second wave profiles on the first axial face and the second axial or radial face, having respectively, first and second pluralities of segments, with each segment being formed with axially offset peaks and valleys which extend along radial lines/planes. The valleys separate the segments, and the number of the first plurality of segments is different than that of the second plurality of segments. The first and second sensors signal a controller with data on a field variance due to a difference in at least one of a size or location of the first and second wave profiles as they pass the first and second sensors to determine a rotational speed and/or position.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2021Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventor: Edward J. Wey
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Patent number: 11528025Abstract: A driver circuit is provided. The driver circuit comprises a power transistor and a gate driver circuit arrangement. The driver circuit is integrated in a package. In addition, the driver circuit comprises a terminal for an external transistor. The external transistor and the power transistor are controlled by the gate driver circuit arrangement in a mutually corresponding manner.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Robert Illing, Christian Djelassi-Tscheck, Christof Glanzer
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Patent number: 11527881Abstract: A circuit includes a monitor circuit. The monitor circuit includes a nonlinear functional unit configured to receive a current sense signal and to generate a power signal representing the power of the current sense signal. The circuit further includes a first filter configured to receive the power signal and to generate a first filtered signal and a second filter configured to receive an input signal that depends on the current sense signal and to generate a second filtered signal. A comparator circuit is configured to receive the first filtered signal and the second filtered signal and to compare the first filtered signal with a first threshold value and the second filtered signal with a second threshold value. The protection signal is indicative of whether the first filtered signal exceeds the first threshold value or the second filtered signal exceeds the second threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2021Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Mirko Bernardoni, Michael Asam, Christian Djelassi-Tscheck, Robert Illing, Martin Ringswirth, Mario Tripolt
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Patent number: 11526389Abstract: A fault check circuit, including a first channel comparator to output a first channel comparator output signal indicating whether a first channel digital signal is outside of a first channel threshold range, wherein the first channel digital signal is A/D converted from a first channel analog signal; a second channel comparator to output a second channel comparator output signal indicating whether a second channel digital signal is outside of a second channel threshold range, wherein the second channel digital signal is A/D converted from a second channel analog signal; and an alarm generator circuit to combine the first and second channel comparator output signals, and output a fault check signal, wherein the first and second channel comparators and the alarm generator circuit are implemented in hardware, and the fault check circuit performs a fault check without software intervention.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Ketan Dewan, Juergen Schaefer
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Patent number: 11524567Abstract: A transmission unit for a hybrid motor vehicle, has a planetary gearing. The planetary gearing is fitted with a first planetary wheel set and a second planetary wheel set. The transmission unit also includes an electric machine, which is coupled with a component part of the planetary gearing, and a plurality of switching devices, each of which forming a brake or a clutch, and each being movable between an activated position and a deactivated position. The switching devices are operatively installed for switching various transmission ratios between an input, which can be coupled with an internal combustion engine, and an output, and/or between the electric machine and the output.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Laurent Bayoux, Matthieu Rihn
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Patent number: 11527887Abstract: A system for distributing locally generated energy from at least one renewable DC source to a plurality of local load units of the system, including, for each load unit: an input terminal configured to connect to a grid, and an output terminal configured to connect to at least one load. Further for each load the system includes an inverter including an inverter input and an inverter output, wherein the inverter input is connected to the at least one renewable DC source and the inverter output is connected to the input terminal and to the output terminal of the respective load unit, and wherein the inverter is configured to convert a direct current at the inverter input into an alternating current at the inverter output.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2021Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: SMA Solar Technology AGInventors: Claus Allert, Volker Wachenfeld, Aleksandra-Sasa Bukvic-Shaefer