Patents by Inventor Eckart HOENE

Eckart HOENE 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).

  • Publication number: 20220005795
    Abstract: The present application provides an integrated device, and a power switching device comprising the integrated device. The integrated device comprises a substrate, a die arranged inside the substrate, at least one capacitor arranged on a surface of the substrate, wherein the die and the at least one capacitor are electrically connected. The power switching device comprises at least one integrated device according to the aforementioned embodiments of the present application. The compact design of the integrated device enables a high frequency, high efficiency, high power density power switching device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Zhixiang HU, Yujian LIN, Zhihua LIU, Eckart HOENE, Wei TAN
  • Publication number: 20170166303
    Abstract: The discovery concerns a rotor hub cover for a helicopter, whereby the rotor hub cover has been constructed as a rotational body with a dome-shaped cover and the rotor hub cover has performance and control electronic components, characterized by the arrangement of the performance electronic components and the control electronic components on a surface of the internal side or the dome-shaped cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Steffen HARTMANN, Thomas Auspitzer, Daniel FÜRST, Jürgen GÖTTE, Carsten WINTJEN, Andre HAUSBERG, Eckart HOENE, Oleg ZEITER
  • Publication number: 20160094150
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to an electrical assembly (1) for converting a direct voltage into an alternating voltage, comprising a first supply voltage area (10) for distributing a first DC supply voltage, and a second supply voltage area (12) for distributing a second DC supply voltage. The electrical assembly (1) comprises at least one first power semiconductor (24) having an input terminal connected to the first supply voltage area (12) and an output terminal (28) connected to an alternating voltage output (20a) of the assembly. The electrical assembly (1) further comprises at least one second power semiconductor (26) having an input terminal (32) connected to the second supply voltage area (12) and an output terminal connected to the alternating voltage output (20a) of the assembly, wherein the first supply voltage area (10) extends on the side of the first power semiconductor (24) facing the input voltage terminal of the first power semiconductor (24).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Applicants: VOLKSWAGEN AG, AUDI AG
    Inventors: Andre DOMURAT-LINDE, Eckart HOENE, Tobias ENZINGER, Thomas RINKLEFF
  • Publication number: 20140312966
    Abstract: Active EMC filter connectable between an electric power source and an electric load, comprising: capacitors (C×N, C×U) connected between active conductors of said power source and a star point electric node; a filter capacitor (Cst, CstU) connected between said star point and ground; a half-bridge comprising two switching devices (T3, T4; T1, T2) connected in cascade between a positive supply voltage and a negative supply voltage; a smoothing circuit (RgN, LgN; RgU, RgU) connected between a common node of said switching devices and said star point; and a control unit (Drive_N, Drive_U) driving said switching devices (T3, T4; T1, T2) digitally either in an ON-state or in an OFF-state, such as to limit a leakage current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: Schaffner EMV AG
    Inventors: Eckart HOENE, Andre Domurat-Linde, Oleg Zeiter
  • Publication number: 20140112372
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a device for measuring a temperature of a power semiconductor, having means for applying an alternating voltage to the power semiconductor, and means for measuring an impedance between the control terminal of the power semiconductor and the channel terminal of the power semiconductor, the impedance being dependent on a temperature-dependent control resistor integrated in the power semiconductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicants: ECPE Engineering Center for Power Electronics GmbH, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Eckart HOENE, Thomas BAUMANN, Oleg ZEITER