Patents Assigned to Technologies AG
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Publication number: 20240044363Abstract: A strut bearing includes an upper case, a lower case, and a polygonal annular thrust bearing disk disposed axially between the upper case and the lower case. In some example embodiment, the polygonal annular thrust bearing disk has a first contact face and a second contact face in contact with the upper case, and a third contact face and a fourth contact face in contact with the lower case. In an example embodiment, the upper case has a first raceway surface in contact with the first contact face and a second raceway surface in contact with the second contact face, and the lower case has a third raceway surface in contact with the third contact face and a fourth raceway surface in contact with the fourth contact face.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2022Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventor: Kleberson Sierra
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Patent number: 11891927Abstract: A harmonic drive includes an internally toothed housing element (2), a pot-shaped output element (4) which is mounted in the housing element (2), and a likewise pot-shaped, resilient drive element (19) which is connected to the output element (4) and has an external toothing system (13) which meshes with the internal toothing system (14) of the housing element (2). A spring element (35) is active between the housing element (2) and the output element (4), which spring element (35) is arranged in an annular chamber which is delimited radially to the inside by a sleeve section (24) of the resilient drive element (19), radially to the outside by a cylindrical section (5) of the output element (4), and in the axial direction firstly by an annular disc-shaped surface (23) of the housing element (2) and secondly by a bottom (9) of the output element (4).Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2019Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventor: Bastian Hain
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Patent number: 11895930Abstract: A current sensor package, comprises a current path and a sensing device. The sensing device is spaced from the current path, and the sensing device is configured for sensing a magnetic field generated by a current flowing through the current path. Further, the sensing device comprises a sensor element. The sensing device is electrically connected to a conductive trace. An encapsulant extends continuously between the current path and the sensing device.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Rainer Markus Schaller, Volker Strutz
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Patent number: 11892526Abstract: Exemplary embodiments are directed to magnetoresistive sensors and corresponding fabrication methods for magnetoresistive sensors. One example of a magnetoresistive sensor includes a layer stack, wherein the layer stack includes a reference layer having a fixed reference magnetization, wherein the fixed reference magnetization has a first magnetic orientation. The layer stack furthermore includes a magnetically free system of a plurality of layers, wherein the magnetically free system has a magnetically free magnetization, wherein the magnetically free magnetization is variable in the presence of an external magnetic field, and wherein the magnetically free magnetization has a second magnetic orientation in a ground state. The magnetically free system has two ferromagnetic layers and an interlayer, wherein the interlayer is arranged between the two ferromagnetic layers and includes magnesium oxide.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Bernhard Endres, Klemens Pruegl
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Patent number: 11891925Abstract: A camshaft phaser, including: an input element arranged to receive a first rotational torque and rotatable about an axis of rotation; an output element rotatable about the axis of rotation, rotatable with respect to the input element, arranged to non-rotatably connect to a camshaft, and arranged to transmit the first rotational torque to the camshaft; and a trigger wheel non-rotatably connected to the output element, arranged to identify a rotational position of the output element around the axis of rotation, and including a magnetic material with at least one segment having a first magnetic charge, and with at least one segment having a second magnetic charge, opposite the first magnetic charge.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2020Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventor: Andrew Mlinaric
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Patent number: 11892906Abstract: A method for storing data bits in memory cells, in which the data bits have at least one byte-filling bit, where at least one predefined functionality for a subset of the data bits is coded in the at least one byte-filling bit, and in which the data bits are stored in the memory cells. A method for reading data bits from memory cells, in which the data bits have at least one byte-filling bit, where at least one predefined functionality for a subset of the data bits is coded in the at least one byte-filling bit, and in which the data bits are read from the memory cells based on the coded predefined functionality. Corresponding apparatuses and memories are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Thomas Kern, Thomas Rabenalt, Michael Goessel
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Patent number: 11894757Abstract: A coil system, including: pairs of planar coils vertically stacked in a vertical direction, each pair of planar coils including a first planar coil including a first outer turn and a second planar coil including a second outer turn overlapping the first outer turn and laterally offset from the first outer turn; and pairs of vertically stacked thermal conductor tracks, each pair of thermal conductor tracks including a first track and a second track overlapping the first track, laterally offset from the first track, and overlapping the first outer turns of the pairs of planar coils. The pairs of thermal conductor tracks are DC isolated from pairs of planar coils. The first outer turns and the second outer turns of the pairs of planar coils form a first comb-like structure. The plurality of pairs of thermal conductor tracks form a second comb-like structure engaged with the first comb-like structure.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2019Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventor: Joerg Kegeler
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Patent number: 11893821Abstract: A sensor device including a fingerprint sensor and an antenna. The a fingerprint sensor has a silicon-based area sensor, a sensor area, and an electrically conductive contact region arranged laterally adjacent to the sensor area and configured to be touched upon the contact area being touched by a finger in order to bring the finger to a predetermined potential. The antenna is coupled to the fingerprint sensor to inductively couple the fingerprint sensor to a booster antenna.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Jens Pohl, Frank Pueschner
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Patent number: 11891035Abstract: A method of implementing autonomous emergency braking (AEB) for advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), the method includes receiving one or more first inputs and identifying one or more targets external to a host vehicle based on the one or more first inputs. The method further includes receiving one or more second inputs related to a turning status of the host vehicle and detecting a U-turn state associated with the host vehicle based on the one or more second inputs. The AEB algorithm may be modified in response to the detected U-turn state, wherein the AEB algorithm initiates an AEB event as necessary to avoid collisions with the one or more identified targets.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Aptiv Technologies AGInventors: Zhuyong Yang, Vidya Chidanand Mansur, Wen-Yu Kuo, Mingda Yang
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Patent number: 11892319Abstract: An inertial measurement unit (IMU) self-test system includes an IMU and a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to receive IMU data collected by the IMU and inputs from systems external to the IMU indicative of mechanical stimulus, wherein the control circuit utilizes IMU data collected in response to the mechanical stimulus to determine IMU validity.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Aptiv Technologies AGInventors: Christopher David Ruppel, David Jerold Imboden, Jerry Keith Fennell
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Patent number: 11892634Abstract: An image projection system includes a first transmitter configured to generate first light beams; a first collimation lens configured to receive the first light beams and generate first collimated light beams to be projected onto an eye to render a first projection image perceived at a first projection plane; a second transmitter configured to generate second light beams; a second collimation lens configured to receive the second light beams and generate second collimated light beams to be projected onto the eye to render a second projection image perceived at a second projection plane; a first beam combiner configured to transmit the first and the second collimated light beams on a combined transmission path; and a scanner configured to steer the first and the second collimated light beams according to a scanning pattern to render the first projection image and the second projection image onto the eye.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventor: Boris Kirillov
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Patent number: 11892036Abstract: A bearing track cage includes a plurality of retention elements, wherein each retention element includes at least a first axial side and a second axial side, and wherein each adjacent pair of retention elements of the plurality of retention elements defines a rolling element pocket configured to retain a rolling element. A first support is slidably coupled to each of the plurality of retention elements on the first axial side thereof and a second support is slidably coupled to each of the plurality of retention elements on the second axial side thereof.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Dennis Roffe, Michael Heaton, Guihui Zhong
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Patent number: 11892963Abstract: A device is configured to receive, from a controller, an instruction requesting data for the device and determine a comparison result value based on a comparison of the data for the device and a reference value. The device is further configured to determine whether to respond to the instruction based on the comparison result value and, in response to a determination to respond to the instruction, output, to the controller, the comparison result value, wherein, to output the comparison result value, the device is configured to refrain from outputting the data for the device.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Markus Ekler, Christian Walther, Christian Heiling
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Publication number: 20240035470Abstract: The disclosure relates to an electric-motor-driven hydraulic pump actuator with two plate-like housing elements which are connected sealingly to one another with the interposition of an intermediate plate in order to form a housing in which a drive shaft is rotatably mounted. In order to improve the functionality and/or simplify manufacture of the electric-motor-driven hydraulic pump actuator, a bearing device for the drive shaft is secured in one of the housing elements by means of a spring device that passes through the intermediate plate via a through-hole through which the drive shaft extends.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2022Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventor: Michael Bohnert
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Publication number: 20240035553Abstract: The disclosure relates to a threaded nut of a ball screw, the threaded nut having an inner sleeve made of sheet metal and an outer sleeve made of sheet metal, which are nested axially in one another to form a nut sleeve. The nut sleeve is provided with a thread, which is formed helically about a longitudinal axis of the threaded nut and which forms, on the inner circumference of the nut sleeve, a ball groove wound helically about the longitudinal axis of the threaded nut and, and on the outer circumference of the nut sleeve, a helically wound outer ridge.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2021Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Mario Kreutzer, Richard Baier, Claus Pfeffer, Thomas Kandler
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Publication number: 20240034545Abstract: A torque converter includes an impeller having an impeller shell and an impeller hub attached to a radially extending end of the impeller shell. The torque converter further includes a cap slidably engageable with the impeller hub. The cap includes a base and an inner ring portion. The inner ring portion is configured to be received by the impeller hub and includes an end spaced from the base. The end is configured to extend radially outside of an inner surface of the impeller hub in an installed position.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2022Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Scott Angel, Melissa Blischak, Nigel Gurney
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Publication number: 20240035555Abstract: A drive wheel, comprising a drive disk, which has a traction-means connection region; and a shaft connection region, which can be rotated relative to the traction-means connection region against damping action of a torsional vibration damping device having a spring accommodation chamber. The spring accommodation chamber is filled with lubrication medium and is closed via a cover. The cover has a groove facing the drive disk and containing a sealing means.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2021Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Andreas Stuffer, Yile Wu, Fritz Kornmeier
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Publication number: 20240037908Abstract: In an embodiment, a method includes: receiving raw data from a millimeter-wave radar sensor; generating a first radar-Doppler image based on the raw data; generating a first radar point cloud based on the first radar-Doppler image; using a graph encoder to generate a first graph representation vector indicative of one or more relationships between two or more parts of the target based on the first radar point cloud; generating a first cadence velocity diagram indicative of a periodicity of movement of one or more parts of the target based on the first radar-Doppler image; and classifying an activity of a target based on the first graph representation vector and the first cadence velocity diagram.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2022Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Souvik Hazra, Avik Santra
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Publication number: 20240039526Abstract: A method of driving a transistor between switching states includes controlling a transition of a gate voltage at a gate terminal of a transistor during each of a plurality of turn-off switching events to turn off the transistor, wherein the transistor is configured to be turned off according to a desaturation time during each of the plurality of turn-off switching events; measuring a transistor parameter indicative of a voltage slew rate of the transistor for a first turn-off switching event during which the transistor is transitioned from an on state to an off state; and regulating a duration of the desaturation time for a next turn-off switching event based on the measured transistor parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2022Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Guang ZENG, Franz-Josef NIEDERNOSTHEIDE, Mark-Matthias BAKRAN, Zheming LI
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Publication number: 20240038612Abstract: A package is disclosed. In one example, the package includes a first main face for mounting a heat sink and an opposing second main face for being mounted on a mounting base. The package comprises a carrier, an electronic component mounted at the carrier, and an encapsulant encapsulating at least part of the electronic component and at least part of the carrier. Electrically insulating material covers electrically conductive material of the carrier at said first main face. The encapsulant comprises at least one step at the first main face.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2023Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Edward FUERGUT, Chii Shang HONG, Teck Sim LEE, Bernd SCHMOELZER, Ke Yan TEAN, Lee Shuang WANG
