Patents by Inventor Andreas Eckhardt

Andreas Eckhardt 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: 11128726
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for communicating machine control data of a mechatronic system in a network having publisher and subscriber network users that send control data via the network using a data interchange standard that supports a publish/subscribe communication model. In order to make such a method simple, fast and robust, it is proposed that a machine controller of the mechatronic system can be configured indiscriminately as a subscriber or publisher network user to communicate the control data, As a publisher, the machine controller provides the control data with a message identifier, encodes them as a network message using the data interchange standard and sends the network message via the network. As subscriber, the machine controller receives a network message intended therefor using a message identifier via the network and decodes the network message as control data using the data interchange standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Eckhardt, Sebastian Mueller
  • Publication number: 20200099762
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for communicating machine control data of a mechatronic system in a network having publisher and subscriber network users that send control data via the network using a data interchange standard that supports a publish/subscribe communication model. In order to make such a method simple, fast and robust, it is proposed that a machine controller of the mechatronic system can be configured indiscriminately as a subscriber or publisher network user to communicate the control data, As a publisher, the machine controller provides the control data with a message identifier, encodes them as a network message using the data interchange standard and sends the network message via the network. As subscriber, the machine controller receives a network message intended therefor using a message identifier via the network and decodes the network message as control data using the data interchange standard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Andreas Eckhardt, Sebastian Mueller
  • Patent number: 7570245
    Abstract: A control unit and a method are provided to reduce an interference pattern in the display of an image on a screen with a pixel frequency. The image is described by pixel data and provided to the screen by a control unit. During the generation of pixel data, the clock signals used in the generation of the pixel data are varied or the pixel frequency is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Oliver Engelhardt, Andreas Eckhardt
  • Publication number: 20050212793
    Abstract: A control unit and a method are provided to reduce an interference pattern in the display of an image on a screen with a pixel frequency. The image is described by pixel data and provided to the screen by a control unit. During the generation of pixel data, the clock signals used in the generation of the pixel data are varied or the pixel frequency is changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2005
    Publication date: September 29, 2005
    Inventors: Oliver Engelhardt, Andreas Eckhardt