Patents by Inventor Emma Abel

Emma Abel 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).

  • Sensor device with self-test capability
    Patent number: 8938364
    Abstract: A sensor device includes: a sensor module mounted on a conductor board; a sensitive element which is sensitive to a variable; a self-test control unit implementing a self-test program, the self-test control unit applying a self-test variable to the sensitive element, taking the self-test program into account; a detection unit detecting a characteristic of the sensitive element which is altered as a result of the applied self-test variable and providing an actual self-test response, taking the altered characteristic into account; and a comparator unit provided on or in the sensor module, the comparator unit comparing the actual self-test response to at least one specified setpoint self-test response and providing comparative information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Patrick Goerlich, Riad Stefo, Wolfram Bauer, Rainer Willig, Burkhard Kuhlmann, Mathias Reimann, Ermin Esch, Michael Baus, Gregor Wetekam, Michael Veith, Emma Abel, Wolfgang Fuerst
  • Method for controlling a device and a device for controlling the device
    Patent number: 8786419
    Abstract: A device for controlling a device by using a rotation-rate sensor. In order to provide a device for determining a triggering signal for a safety device which allows a particularly compact implementation of the device, the device is set up to ascertain an acceleration variable on the basis of a first sensor signal for a first seismic mass of the rotation-rate sensor and the second sensor signal for a second seismic mass of the rotation-rate sensor and to control the device as a function of the acceleration variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Ulm, Mathias Reimann, Harald Emmerich, Udo-Martin Gomez, Emma Abel
  • Sensor device and manufacturing method for a sensor device
    Publication number: 20110066396
    Abstract: A sensor device includes: a sensor module mounted on a conductor board; a sensitive element which is sensitive to a variable; a self-test control unit implementing a self-test program, the self-test control unit applying a self-test variable to the sensitive element, taking the self-test program into account; a detection unit detecting a characteristic of the sensitive element which is altered as a result of the applied self-test variable and providing an actual self-test response, taking the altered characteristic into account; and a comparator unit provided on or in the sensor module, the comparator unit comparing the actual self-test response to at least one specified setpoint self-test response and providing comparative information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2010
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Inventors: Patrick Goerlich, Riad Stefo, Wolfram Bauer, Rainer Willig, Burkhard Kuhlmann, Mathias Reimann, Ermin Esch, Michael Baus, Gregor Wetekam, Michael Veith, Emma Abel, Wolfgang Fuerst
  • METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A DEVICE AND A DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING THE DEVICE
    Publication number: 20100225500
    Abstract: A device for controlling a device by using a rotation-rate sensor. In order to provide a device for determining a triggering signal for a safety device which allows a particularly compact implementation of the device, the device is set up to ascertain an acceleration variable on the basis of a first sensor signal for a first seismic mass of the rotation-rate sensor and the second sensor signal for a second seismic mass of the rotation-rate sensor and to control the device as a function of the acceleration variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2009
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Inventors: Markus ULM, Mathias Reimann, Harald Emmerich, Udo-Martin Gomez, Emma Abel