Patents by Inventor Filippo Grillotti

Filippo Grillotti 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: 20230213547
    Abstract: A control circuit for a wheel speed sensor is provide. The control circuit includes an input interface configured to receive high-resolution wheel speed data and low-resolution wheel speed data; and circuitry configured to determine information on a functional state of the wheel speed sensor using the high-resolution data and the low-resolution data. The circuitry is configured to detect a failure state of the wheel speed sensor if a number of signal events which are signaled by the high-resolution wheel speed data between a first signal event and a second signal event deviates from an expected number. The first signal event and the second signal event are signaled by the low-resolution wheel speed data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2023
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Simone FONTANESI, Filippo GRILLOTTI, Alessandro PETRI, Massimiliano ZILLI
  • Patent number: 11614458
    Abstract: A control circuit is provided for a sensor that determines a sensed property. The control circuit includes an input interface configured to receive high-resolution data and low-resolution data for the sensed property. The control circuit further includes circuitry configured to determine information on a functional state of the sensor using the high-resolution data and the low-resolution data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Simone Fontanesi, Filippo Grillotti, Alessandro Petri, Massimiliano Zilli
  • Patent number: 11391602
    Abstract: A periodic sensor signal representing a varying rotation angle detected by a rotation angle sensor is compared to a number of thresholds to detect threshold crossings of the periodic sensor signal. An output signal including a pulse pattern at the time of a threshold crossing may be generated only if the direction of rotation has not changed since an immediately preceding threshold crossing. A number of consecutive threshold crossings which take place without a change in the direction of rotation may be counted and an update of the offset register is performed only if the number of consecutive threshold crossings which take place without a change in the direction of rotation is equal to or higher less than the number of thresholds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Inventors: Alessandro Petri, Simone Fontanesi, Filippo Grillotti, Andrea Possemato, Massimiliano Zilli
  • Publication number: 20210356489
    Abstract: A control circuit is provided for a sensor that determines a sensed property. The control circuit includes an input interface configured to receive high-resolution data and low-resolution data for the sensed property. The control circuit further includes circuitry configured to determine information on a functional state of the sensor using the high-resolution data and the low-resolution data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Applicant: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Simone FONTANESI, Filippo GRILLOTTI, Alessandro PETRI, Massimiliano ZILLI
  • Publication number: 20210096002
    Abstract: A periodic sensor signal representing a varying rotation angle detected by a rotation angle sensor is compared to a number of thresholds to detect threshold crossings of the periodic sensor signal. An output signal including a pulse pattern at the time of a threshold crossing may be generated only if the direction of rotation has not changed since an immediately preceding threshold crossing. A number of consecutive threshold crossings which take place without a change in the direction of rotation may be counted and an update of the offset register is performed only if the number of consecutive threshold crossings which take place without a change in the direction of rotation is equal to or higher less than the number of thresholds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Alessandro PETRI, Simone FONTANESI, Filippo GRILLOTTI, Andrea POSSEMATO, Massimiliano ZILLI
  • Patent number: 10606794
    Abstract: A slave device may receive a clock signal from a master device via a bus. The slave device may detect a first pulse of the clock signal. The first pulse indicates that a bit is to be written to a slave shift register of the slave device. The slave device may identify a timeout threshold associated with the clock signal. The slave device may determine that the timeout threshold expired without a second pulse from the clock signal being detected. The slave device may reset, based on the timeout threshold expiring, the slave shift register to synchronize the slave shift register with a master shift register of the master device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Benjamin Kollmitzer, Filippo Grillotti, Richard Heinz, Stephan Leisenheimer