Patents by Inventor Frank Gottwald

Frank Gottwald 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).

  • Patent number: 6693581
    Abstract: A device for data transmission in a motor vehicle and/or from a motor vehicle in its vicinity includes a first transceiver unit in or on the motor vehicle and a second transceiver unit. which is provided in at least one transponder unit whose spatial position relative to the vehicle may be variable or any desired position. In the first transceiver unit is a radar unit equipped for distance measurement, expanded by adding a two-channel data transmission system. The second transceiver unit is also a two-channel data transmission unit, and the microwave frequencies for two-channel communication of the data transmission system are selected so that their difference yields an intermediate frequency which is processable using conventional components in a heterodyne receiver in the reception part of each of the first and second transceiver units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Gottwald, Klaus Voigtlaender, Slava Tihovsky, Stefan Gaier, Elmar Giehler, Peter Crowhurst
  • Publication number: 20030142004
    Abstract: A device for data transmission in a motor vehicle and/or from a motor vehicle in its vicinity has a first transceiver unit (1) in or on the motor vehicle and a second transceiver unit (2) which is provided in at least one transponder unit whose spatial position relative to the vehicle may be variable or any desired position; it is characterized in that the first transceiver unit (1) is a radar unit equipped for distance measurement, expanded by adding a two-channel data transmission system; the second transceiver unit (2) is also a two-channel data transmission unit, and the microwave frequencies (f1, f2) for two-channel communication of the data transmission system are selected so that their difference |f1-f2| yields an intermediate frequency (fIF) which is processable using conventional components in a heterodyne receiver in the reception part of each of the first and second transceiver units (1, 2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2002
    Publication date: July 31, 2003
    Inventors: Frank Gottwald, Klaus Voigtlaender, Slava Tihovsky, Stefan Gaier, Elmar Giehler, Peter Crowhurst
  • Publication number: 20020130810
    Abstract: A radar device and a method of suppressing interference in a radar device in which signals are transmitted with a carrier frequency, and the signals are transmitted as pulsed signals with a pulse repetition frequency, the pulse repetition frequency or the carrier frequency being varied during operation of the radar device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2002
    Publication date: September 19, 2002
    Inventors: Frank Gottwald, Klaus Voigtlaender, Tore Toennesen