Patents by Inventor Felix Hoehne

Felix Hoehne 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: 20240069158
    Abstract: Various technologies described herein pertain to a radar sensor system including a signal generator that generates a clock signal, start of modulation signal, and local oscillator signal. The radar sensor system includes first and second radar chips. The first radar chip synchronizes a first clock engine in frequency based on the clock signal and the first clock engine in time based on the start of the modulation signal. The first radar chip provides a first radar signal based on the local oscillator signal; the first radar signal is synchronized with the first clock engine. The second radar chip synchronizes the second clock engine in frequency based on the clock signal and the second clock engine in time based on the start of modulation signal. The second radar chip provides a second radar signal based on the local oscillator signal; the second radar signal is synchronized with the second clock engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Gustavo Adolfo Guarín Aristizabal, Benedikt Sanftl, Felix Hoehne, Richard Johann Körber, Bernhart Pelger-Alzner, Markus Klose, Johannes Grüner
  • Publication number: 20230314600
    Abstract: A low phase noise radar system is disclosed. The system has a signal generator having a stable oscillator that outputs a first lower-frequency signal, a direct digital synthesis circuit that outputs an analog waveform, and a mixer to receive the first lower-frequency signal, and the analog waveform, the mixer to mix the first lower-frequency signal and the analog waveform to generate a signal generator output signal. The system further includes an up converter coupled with the signal generator to filter and to increase frequencies of the signal generator output signal to generate a filtered and frequency multiplied signal to be transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventors: Benedikt Sanftl, Florian von Detten, Richard Koerber, Felix Hoehne, Markus Klose, Mehmet Serhat Ay, Gustavo Adolfo Guarin Aristizabal
  • Patent number: 11346827
    Abstract: An electronic device comprises a gas sensor sensitive to a target gas and arranged inside a housing of the electronic device or attached thereto, to detect a concentration of the target gas in an environment of the electronic device. A processing unit is provided and configured to determine a concentration of the target gas outgassed from one or more components of the housing or inside the housing dependent on one or more first measurement results supplied by the gas sensor in response to one or more first measurements, and to determine the environmental target gas concentration dependent on the determined outgassed target gas concentration and dependent on a second measurement result (ROM) supplied by the gas sensor in response to a second measurement (OM). Outgassing is understood as the release of chemical substances from the one or more components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: SENSIRION AG
    Inventors: Marcel Koller, Felix Hoehne
  • Patent number: 11187686
    Abstract: A gas sensor includes a sensing element of a material including metal oxide and is sensitive to a target gas and to a recalibration gas different from the target gas. For recalibrating the gas sensor, a resistance of the sensing element is measured as an updated recalibration gas baseline resistance in a recalibration environment showing a recalibration gas baseline concentration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: SENSIRION AG
    Inventors: Daniel Egli, Tobias Schoch, Felix Hoehne
  • Publication number: 20210278383
    Abstract: An electronic device comprises a gas sensor sensitive to a target gas and arranged inside a housing of the electronic device or attached thereto, to detect a concentration of the target gas in an environment of the electronic device. A processing unit is provided and configured to determine a concentration of the target gas outgassed from one or more components of the housing or inside the housing dependent on one or more first measurement results supplied by the gas sensor in response to one or more first measurements, and to determine the environmental target gas concentration dependent on the determined outgassed target gas concentration and dependent on a second measurement result (ROM) supplied by the gas sensor in response to a second measurement (OM). Outgassing is understood as the release of chemical substances from the one or more components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicant: SENSIRION AG
    Inventors: Marcel KOLLER, Felix HOEHNE
  • Publication number: 20210088488
    Abstract: A gas sensor includes a sensing element of a material including metal oxide and is sensitive to a target gas and to a recalibration gas different from the target gas. For recalibrating the gas sensor, a resistance of the sensing element is measured as an updated recalibration gas baseline resistance in a recalibration environment showing a recalibration gas baseline concentration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2018
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: Sensirion AG
    Inventors: Daniel EGLI, Tobias SCHOCH, Felix HOEHNE
  • Patent number: 10942141
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a sensor for detecting and/or analysing a gas. The sensor comprises a substrate, a recess or opening arranged in the substrate, a first bridge structure and a second bridge structure. The first bridge structure and the second bridge structure extend over said recess or opening and are anchored in the substrate. The first bridge structure forms a first hotplate and comprises a first patch of sensing material, in particular of a metal oxide material, arranged on the first hotplate, electrodes adapted to measure an electrical property of the first patch and a heater adapted to heat the first hotplate. The second bridge structure comprises a temperature sensor. The sensor comprises circuitry for driving the heater and for processing signals from the electrodes and the temperature sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: SENSIRION AG
    Inventors: Matthias Merz, Mark Hornung, Felix Hoehne
  • Patent number: 10816641
    Abstract: A device and a method for determining the position of an object, in particular of a moving object, in a three dimensional space is made available. Here the device comprises at least two switchable transmitting antenna arrays having different vertical beam alignments and a number of receiving antennas arranged in a row. The transmitting antennas are arranged spaced apart by a distance that corresponds to the distance between the outer phase centers of the receiving antennas. Otherwise the transmitting antennas can be positioned arbitrarily around the receiving antenna. The horizontal beam sweep over a wide angle range is implemented by the “digital beam forming” method. The vertical object position is measured by comparing the amplitude of the received signals with sequentially operated transmitting antennas having different vertical beam directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: ASTYX GmbH
    Inventors: Richard Koerber, Felix Hoehne
  • Publication number: 20190293590
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a sensor for detecting and/or analysing a gas. The sensor comprises a substrate, a recess or opening arranged in the substrate, a first bridge structure and a second bridge structure. The first bridge structure and the second bridge structure extend over said recess or opening and are anchored in the substrate. The first bridge structure forms a first hotplate and comprises a first patch of sensing material, in particular of a metal oxide material, arranged on the first hotplate, electrodes adapted to measure an electrical property of the first patch and a heater adapted to heat the first hotplate. The second bridge structure comprises a temperature sensor. The sensor comprises circuitry for driving the heater and for processing signals from the electrodes and the temperature sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: SENSIRION AG
    Inventors: Matthias MERZ, Mark HORNUNG, Felix HOEHNE
  • Publication number: 20140306840
    Abstract: A device and a method for determining the position of an object, in particular of a moving object, in a three dimensional space is made available. Here the device comprises at least two switchable transmitting antenna arrays having different vertical beam alignments and a number of receiving antennas arranged in a row. The transmitting antennas are arranged spaced apart by a distance that corresponds to the distance between the outer phase centres of the receiving antennas. Otherwise the transmitting antennas can be positioned arbitrarily around the receiving antenna. The horizontal beam sweep over a wide angle range is implemented by the “digital beam forming” method. The vertical object position is measured by comparing the amplitude of the received signals with sequentially operated transmitting antennas having different vertical beam directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: Astyx GmbH
    Inventors: Richard Koerber, Felix Hoehne