Patents by Inventor Alexander Fink

Alexander Fink 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).

  • Patent number: 7532447
    Abstract: An electronic circuit configuration for connecting an active rotary speed sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE Systems fur Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Günther Gschossmann, Alexander Fink
  • Patent number: 7487670
    Abstract: A method determines a direction of rotation of a rotating body about its axis of rotation by measuring two acceleration signals x and y with an acceleration sensor. The two acceleration signals x and y are at a 90° angle to each other, are oriented not parallel to the axis of rotation, and both a centrifugal acceleration generated by a circular movement and a gravitational acceleration are taken into account. The measured acceleration signals x and y are differentiated mathematically. The differentiated x acceleration signal is differentiated a further time and correlated with a y signal that has been differentiated once for obtaining a correlation function. The differentiated y acceleration signal can be differentiated a further time and correlated with the x signal that has been differentiated once for obtaining a second correlation function. The method determines the direction of rotation of rotating tires of a motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Alexander Fink, Oliver Nelles
  • Publication number: 20080191855
    Abstract: A tire monitoring system in or for a vehicle for determining tire-specific parameters has a distributed bus architecture. At least one intelligent receiving device is configured to receive transmit signals of a wheel electronic system. The receiving device has a signal processing device that carries out an evaluation of the received transmit signals and/or an evaluation of received signals of another subscriber of the bus architecture. The invention also relates to methods for operating the intelligent receiving devices of a distributed bus architecture of the novel tire monitoring or tire pressure system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2008
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Applicant: VDO AUTOMOTIVE AG
    Inventors: Alexander Fink, Frank Fischer, Gregor Kuchler
  • Publication number: 20080154560
    Abstract: A method for stimulating wheel electronics systems of single tires of at least one tire group in a motor vehicle. The wheel electronics systems are stimulated with a low frequency trigger signal, as follows: a trigger signal is emitted from an LF trigger to the wheel electronics systems of the relevant tire group at a variably adjustable first transmission field strength. Radio frequency signals are transmitted from those wheel-side wheel electronics systems, at which a sufficiently high transmission field strength of the trigger signal has arrived containing an item of trigger information, to a vehicle-side receiving unit. A determination is made of the number of RF signals received by the vehicle-side receiving unit, each containing one item of trigger information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2007
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Applicant: SIEMENS VDO AUTOMOTIVE AG
    Inventors: Alexander Fink, Frank Fischer, Gregor Kuchler
  • Publication number: 20080129478
    Abstract: A method for localizing individual wheels and/or wheel identifiers of individual wheels of a double wheel of a motor vehicle includes the following steps: determining the axle of the respective double wheel; determining the motor vehicle side of the respective double; determining the position of the respective double wheel by the position of the axle and the position of the motor vehicle side; determining the direction of travel of the motor vehicle; determining the direction of rotation of the individual wheels and/or wheel identifiers of the respective double wheel; localization of the individual wheels and/or wheel identifiers of the individual wheels by the position of the associated double wheel, the direction of travel of the motor vehicle and the rotational directions of the individual wheels and/or wheel identifiers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Applicant: SIEMENS VDO AUTOMOTIVE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Alexander Fink, Frank Fischer, Gregor Kuchler
  • Publication number: 20070274013
    Abstract: An electronic circuit configuration for connecting an active rotary speed sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2004
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventors: Gunther Gschossmann, Alexander Fink
  • Patent number: 7265955
    Abstract: The protective circuit for analog sensors has transistors respectively located in a power supply voltage line and in a ground line. The control electrode of said circuit is located between the supply voltage and the ground via a voltage divider. The sensor output line is connected to the ground potential of the control device via a pull-down resistor. During normal operation, both transistors are connected. Both transistors switch off when the ground line is disconnected. This prevents a current from flowing to the sensor output line via the power supply voltage line, the voltage divider or via the sensor. The sensor output line is, in fact, pulled to the ground potential by the pull-down resistor. This prevents the appearance of a defective signal that could emulate a wanted signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2007
    Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventor: Alexander Fink
  • Publication number: 20060235641
    Abstract: A method determines a direction of rotation of a rotating body about its axis of rotation by measuring two acceleration signals x and y with an acceleration sensor. The two acceleration signals x and y are at a 90° angle to each other, are oriented not parallel to the axis of rotation, and both a centrifugal acceleration generated by a circular movement and a gravitational acceleration are taken into account. The measured acceleration signals x and y are differentiated mathematically. The differentiated x acceleration signal is differentiated a further time and correlated with a y signal that has been differentiated once for obtaining a correlation function. The differentiated y acceleration signal can be differentiated a further time and correlated with the x signal that has been differentiated once for obtaining a second correlation function. The method determines the direction of rotation of rotating tires of a motor vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2006
    Publication date: October 19, 2006
    Inventors: Alexander Fink, Oliver Nelles
  • Publication number: 20060114626
    Abstract: The protective circuit for analog sensors has transistors respectively located in a power supply voltage line and in a ground line. The control electrode of said circuit is located between the supply voltage and the ground via a voltage divider. The sensor output line is connected to the ground potential of the control device via a pull-down resistor. During normal operation, both transistors are connected. Both transistors switch off when the ground line is disconnected. This prevents a current from flowing to the sensor output line via the power supply voltage line, the voltage divider or via the sensor. The sensor output line is, in fact, pulled to the ground potential by the pull-down resistor. This prevents the appearance of a defective signal that could emulate a wanted signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2003
    Publication date: June 1, 2006
    Applicant: KNORR-BREMSE SYSTEME FUER NUTZFAHRZEUGE GMBH
    Inventor: Alexander Fink
  • Patent number: D273001
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 13, 1984
    Inventor: Alexander Fink