Patents by Inventor Dirk Hobein

Dirk Hobein 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: 7249418
    Abstract: A wheel angle determining device includes a position sensor being provided on a vehicle wheel assembly to directly measure a wheel angle. The wheel assembly having a first portion being fixedly connected to a vehicle and a second portion being rotatable about an axis formed in a plane substantially perpendicular to a vehicle travel direction. The second portion of the vehicle wheel assembly including a vehicle wheel. The position sensor having a first end operatively connected to the first portion of the vehicle wheel assembly and a second end operatively connected to the second portion of the vehicle wheel assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignees: Hella KG a.A. Hueck & Co., Hella Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Manfred Bartscht, Steffen Hoppe, Dirk Hobein, Steven Lietaert
  • Publication number: 20060101656
    Abstract: A wheel angle determining device includes a position sensor being provided on a vehicle wheel assembly to directly measure a wheel angle. The wheel assembly having a first portion being fixedly connected to a vehicle and a second portion being rotatable about an axis formed in a plane substantially perpendicular to a vehicle travel direction. The second portion of the vehicle wheel assembly including a vehicle wheel. The position sensor having a first end operatively connected to the first portion of the vehicle wheel assembly and a second end operatively connected to the second portion of the vehicle wheel assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2004
    Publication date: May 18, 2006
    Applicants: Hella KGaA Hueck & Co., HELLA ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dirk Hobein, Manfred Bartscht, Steffen Hoppe, Steven Lietaert
  • Patent number: 6384598
    Abstract: Described is an inductive position sensor, in particular for a motor vehicle, which has an oscillator circuit that generates a periodic alternating voltage signal and couples into an exciting coil, several receiving coils each of which forms a periodically repeating lap winding structure and whose overall arrangement forms a receiving geometry, an evaluation circuit for evaluating the signals induced in the receiving coils, and a movable inductive coupling element which influences the strength of the inductive coupling between the excitation coil and the receiving coils. The position sensor exhibits two receiving geometries and two coupling elements, the periodicity of the loop structures of the receiving coils is different in the two receiving coils, and over the total measuring range of the position sensor the numbers of periodic repetitions in the lap winding structures of the receiving coils of the two receiving geometries exhibit a non-integer ratio in relation to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2002
    Assignee: Hella KG Hueck & Co.
    Inventors: Dirk Hobein, Henning Irle, Norbert Kost, Franz-Josef Schmidt