Patents by Inventor Armin Lenk

Armin Lenk 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).

  • Procedure and a switching arrangement for triggering a load element using an electronic switching element in a load circuit
    Patent number: 8035363
    Abstract: A procedure for triggering a load element using an electronic switch element is presented, in which voltage on the load element is controlled with a maximum specified increase. The increase does not remain constant, but is controlled via the switching procedure in dependence on the effectively occurring power loss or a value which is dependant on it (Ua/Ubat), preferably in several phases, whereby preferably at the beginning and the end of the switch-over procedure in the phase where the output voltage changes, the increase is selected as being low relative to the increase in the middle phase, since as a result, the power loss is only insignificantly raised, yet the high-frequency interferences can be noticeably dampened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Conti Temic Microelectronic, GmbH
    Inventors: Uli Joos, Armin Lenk
  • Procedure and a switching arrangement for triggering a load element using an electronic switching element in a load circuit
    Publication number: 20070103133
    Abstract: A procedure for triggering a load element using an electronic switch element is presented, in which voltage on the load element is controlled with a maximum specified increase. The increase does not remain constant, but is controlled via the switching procedure in dependence on the effectively occurring power loss or a value which is dependant on it (Ua/Ubat), preferably in several phases, whereby preferably at the beginning and the end of the switch-over procedure in the phase where the output voltage changes, the increase is selected as being low relative to the increase in the middle phase, since as a result, the power loss is only insignificantly raised, yet the high-frequency interferences can be noticeably dampened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2004
    Publication date: May 10, 2007
    Inventors: Uli Joos, Armin Lenk