Patents by Inventor Ekkehard Pilz

Ekkehard Pilz 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: 20070182530
    Abstract: A wheel housing unit is connected to a vehicle processing unit for each travelling wheel, which unit comprises a current supply unit connected to an on-board mains, an interface unit connected to a bus system, a control unit, a storage unit, an HF signal generator, a modulator/demodulator, an amplifier unit and at least one antenna, a transponder component is arranged in or on each tyre, which component comprises a circuit board with an electronic circuit, which incorporates at least one pressure and/or temperature sensor, an HF transponder circuit with receiving, transmitting and signal processing components and a rectifier and smoothing circuit, a coupling coil connecting the input terminals of the electronic circuit and surrounding an I-core, and a U-core magnetically coupled to the I-core, and is provided with an envelope provided with an air inlet and connected to the tyre, and where each tyre has a ring conductor which is arranged coaxially, penetrates the U-core and is thereby inductively coupled to it
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2005
    Publication date: August 9, 2007
    Inventors: Ekkehard Pilz, Bernd Gasse