Patents by Inventor Dietmar Spitzer

Dietmar Spitzer 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).

  • Rotation sensor
    Patent number: 10718633
    Abstract: A system is provided with a magnetic field sensor being positioned in a magnetic field of a magnet that is coupled to a rotatable driving shaft. The magnetic field sensor is configured to sense a rotation of the magnetic field in response to a rotation of the rotatable driving shaft, and generate an angle sensor signal based on an orientation angle of the magnetic field. The angle sensor signal includes angular values that represent an absolute orientation angle of the rotatable driving shaft. The system includes a memory storing a mapping of values of a patterned signal to the angular values, electronic circuitry configured to generate, based on the angular values and the stored mapping, the patterned signal, and a signal generator circuit configured to generate a signal representing the absolute orientation angle of the rotatable driving shaft based on the angle sensor signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Dietmar Spitzer, Peter Slama, Harald Witschnig, Leo Aichriedler, Friedrich Rasbornig
  • ROTATION SENSOR
    Publication number: 20190178682
    Abstract: A system is provided with a magnetic field sensor being positioned in a magnetic field of a magnet that is coupled to a rotatable driving shaft. The magnetic field sensor is configured to sense a rotation of the magnetic field in response to a rotation of the rotatable driving shaft, and generate an angle sensor signal based on an orientation angle of the magnetic field. The angle sensor signal includes angular values that represent an absolute orientation angle of the rotatable driving shaft. The system includes a memory storing a mapping of values of a patterned signal to the angular values, electronic circuitry configured to generate, based on the angular values and the stored mapping, the patterned signal, and a signal generator circuit configured to generate a signal representing the absolute orientation angle of the rotatable driving shaft based on the angle sensor signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicant: lnfineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Dietmar Spitzer, Peter Slama, Harald Witschnig, Leo Aichriedler, Friedrich Rasbornig
  • Rotation sensor
    Patent number: 10222234
    Abstract: A sensor device is provided with a magnetic field sensitive element being positioned in a magnetic field of a magnet. The magnet is positioned on an end face of a shaft. The magnetic field sensitive element is configured to sense an orientation angle of the magnetic field in the range between 0° and 360°. The shaft is one of a shaft of a transmission of a vehicle or a shaft of a brushless DC motor or a shaft of a wheel axle of a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Dietmar Spitzer, Peter Slama, Harald Witschnig, Leo Aichriedler, Friedrich Rasbornig
  • ANGLE BASED SPEED SENSOR DEVICE
    Publication number: 20170315146
    Abstract: A sensor device is provided with a magnetic field sensitive element being positioned in a magnetic field of a magnet. The magnetic field sensitive element is configured to sense an orientation angle of the magnetic field in the range between 0° and 360° and generate a sensing signal. The electronic circuitry is configured to receive and process the sensing signal from the magnetic field sensitive element to generate an angle signal indicating the orientation angle of the magnetic field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventors: Helmut Koeck, Leo Aichriedler, Dirk Hammerschmidt, Andrea Monterastelli, Friedrich Rasbornig, Peter Slama, Dietmar Spitzer, Tobias Werth, Harald Witschnig
  • ROTATION SENSOR
    Publication number: 20150362335
    Abstract: A sensor device is provided with a magnetic field sensitive element being positioned in a magnetic field of a magnet. The magnet is positioned on an end face of a shaft. The magnetic field sensitive element is configured to sense an orientation angle of the magnetic field in the range between 0° and 360°. The shaft is one of a shaft of a transmission of a vehicle or a shaft of a brushless DC motor or a shaft of a wheel axle of a vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventors: Dietmar Spitzer, Peter Slama, Harald Witschnig, Leo Aichriedler, Friedrich Rasbornig