Patents by Inventor Frank Michels
Frank Michels 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).
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Publication number: 20140156634Abstract: A system includes reception of a request conforming to a modeled query and join filter criteria, the request comprising a first subrequest associated with a search attribute view and a second subrequest associated with an analytical view, definition of a join between the search attribute view and the analytical view based on one or more view attributes of the search attribute view, and filtering of a result set associated with the first subrequest based on the join and on the join filter criteria.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2012Publication date: June 5, 2014Inventors: Daniel Buchmann, Waldemar Porscha, Marco Pesarese, Frank Michels, Florian Kresser, Christian Münkel
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Patent number: 8714904Abstract: An array of objects stands on a flexible web on a horizontal support, and a frame at the accumulation region gathers the objects at the downstream end into a group having a plurality of transverse rows. A transport element formed as a blind has an end edge and is shifted shiftable atop the web upstream in the direction between a ready position with the end edge spaced from the group standing on the web and a pickup position underlying the entire group. A lifting element underneath the web moves jointly with the transport element such that the web is raised immediately upstream of the end edge of the transport element to raise downstream edges of the objects and the transport element is engageable between the objects in the group and the web so the transport element can slide underneath the objects in the group.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2011Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: MSK-Verpackungs-Systeme GmbHInventor: Frank Michels
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Patent number: 8704508Abstract: Method in which the current is measured inside an integrated PWM control circuit using at least one A/D converter which is likewise integrated in the circuit is described. The PWM controller is provided for the purpose of driving inductive loads and is arranged, in particular, in an electronic circuit of an electronic controller for a motor vehicle braking system. Before determining the actual current of the PWM controller, which is determined using the at least one A/D converter, the current is smoothed using a low-pass filter. A circuit arrangement for carrying out the above method and its use in electronic motor vehicle control systems is also described herein.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2007Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHGInventors: Wolfgang Fey, Micha Heinz, Wolfgang Joeckel, Peter Oehler, Axel Schmitz, Frank Michel
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Patent number: 8664936Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic motor vehicle control system having at least one valve actuating circuit which controls a load current by means of pulse width modulation. The actuating circuit has at least one electronic current measuring circuit which has at least one measurement path with at least one analog/digital converter. The analog/digital converts an analog measurement signal of the load current into a digital measurement signal of the load current and is actuated or designed in such a way as to carry out a plurality of current measurements per PWM period. The at least one measurement path of the current measurement circuit has a signal conservation circuit which provides the analog measurement signal of the load current substantially unchanged, and independent of the actual load current, for at least a defined hold time (toff->on, ton->off).Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2009Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHGInventors: Peter Oehler, Frank Michel, Micha Heinz, Axel Schmitz
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Patent number: 8578258Abstract: Disclosed is a method of improving the immunity to interference of an integrated circuit (16) having error signals transferred between a microprocessor chip or multiple processor ?C (1) and an additional component (2). For the transfer, a minimum pulse length that is independent of the clock frequency of the microprocessor or the microprocessors is defined, starting from which a signal on an error line having a defined pulse length is interpreted as an error. Also disclosed is an integrated circuit, which is designed so that the above method is implemented. The circuit has a microprocessor chip or multiple processor microcontroller (1) or microprocessor module and an additional component (2) having separately arranged power elements. The circuit also has pulse extending devices and/or signal delaying devices for the output of error pulses (6, 6?) one after the other through at least one error line (3, 4).Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2005Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co., OHGInventors: Wolfgang Fey, Micha Heinz, Adrian Traskov, Frank Michel
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Publication number: 20130255421Abstract: A transmission, in particular a coaxial transmission or linear transmission, comprising a toothing, a tooth holder in which a plurality of tooth segments are accommodated to engage with the toothing, wherein the tooth segments are borne to be radially shiftable relative to the tooth holder, a drive element having a profiling for radially driving the tooth segments borne in a radially shiftable manner, wherein the transmission has inner initial stress.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2013Publication date: October 3, 2013Applicant: Wittenstein AGInventors: MICHAEL SCHMIDT, HEIKO SCHREIBER, FRANK MICHEL, THOMAS BAYER
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Patent number: 8493703Abstract: An integrated circuit arrangement on a common chip or chip support, for safety critical applications, in particular for use in control and regulation units for a motor vehicle braking system, including at least one microprocessor system module, which has at least one core processor, provided with at least one ROM and at least one RAM, at least one power module for controlling external users and at least one monitoring module for monitoring at least parts and/or part systems of the circuit arrangement, the circuit arrangement including at least one temperature sensor for recording a chip temperature.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2008Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHGInventors: Andreas Kirschbaum, Mario Engelmann, Frank Michel, Luc van Dijk, Wolfgang Fey, Adrian Traskov, Micha Heinz
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Patent number: 8356965Abstract: A device for lifting a plurality of rows of containers has a base and a lifter with a transport surface formed like a blind and displaceable parallel to the base and provided with a frame. The surface slipped under the layer by feeding the containers into the frame. Prior to raising the layer, the lifter is moved toward the layer so that the transport surface is located with its front edge in front of the first row of the layer and is then moved underneath the layer into its lifting position by relative movement with respect to the containers. A partial region of the base is underneath every container at any point in time and the edge of the transport surface is shifted downward to form a clearance is given between the bottoms of the containers of the row and the base.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2007Date of Patent: January 22, 2013Assignee: Msk-Verpackungs-Systeme GmbHInventor: Frank Michels
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Publication number: 20120225748Abstract: A machine element, in particular ring gear for a transmission (1, 31) having an internal toothing arrangement (40), wherein the machine element is divided, in a plane perpendicular to an axis (22) of the machine element, into at least two component pieces (11, 12) which can be displaced relative to one another and which are mounted on a common carrier element (20), having an actuator (15-18) for displacing a first of the component pieces (11, 12) relative to the carrier element (20).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2012Publication date: September 6, 2012Applicant: WITTENSTEIN AGInventors: Frank Michel, Thomas Wimmer
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Patent number: 8212698Abstract: An electronic circuit for correcting at least one digital measurement signal (??n, ??1, ??2) comprising at least one measurement channel having a sigma-delta modulator and a correction circuit. The sigma-delta modulator changes an analog measurement signal into a digital measurement signal in the form of a binary value sequence. The correction circuit corrects the digital measurement signal (??n, ??1, ??2) as a function of at least one correction datum (trim), wherein the correction circuit comprises at least one adding element and at least one multiplexer. The digital measurement signal is corrected in that the correction datum (trim) is weighted by means of the multiplexer and the adding element as a function of the digital measurement signal (??n, ??1, ??2).Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2008Date of Patent: July 3, 2012Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHGInventors: Frank Michel, Peter Oehler, René Trapp
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Patent number: 8154837Abstract: Circuit arrangement (2,3,4,5) in an electronic control device which is connected to at least one wheel speed sensor channel (6,7,8,9) transmitting wheel speed information, in particular in the form of a current signal, the circuit arrangement (2,3,4,5) having at least one monitoring module (U1,U2,U3,U4) for the at least one wheel speed sensor channel (6,7,8,9), where this at least one monitoring module (U1,U2,U3,U4) is suitable for monitoring an excess current fault on at least one wheel speed sensor channel (6,7,8,9), in which, when an excess current fault is detected by the at least one monitoring module (U1,U2,U3,U4) the respective wheel speed sensor channel(s) (6,7,8,9) is/are blocked by a blocking circuit (10,11,12,13) of the circuit arrangement (2,3,4,5), and/or in which the circuit arrangement (2,3,4,5) causes the blocking of the respective wheel sensor channel or channels (6,7,8,9) from outside the circuit arrangement (2,3,4,5).Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2006Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co, OHGInventors: René Trapp, Frank Michel
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Patent number: 8131439Abstract: An electronic controller for motor vehicle control systems having at least one valve actuation circuit is described herein. The electronic controller uses pulse width modulation to control the load current (iL) flowing through an essentially inductive load (L), and has at least one electronic current measuring circuit which has at least one analog/digital converter which converts an analog measurement signal for the load current (iL) into a digital measurement signal for the load current (iL). The at least one analog/digital converter is a sigma-delta modulator. A method for measuring current using sigma-delta modulation and to the use of the electronic controller in a motor vehicle brake system is also described herein.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2007Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHGInventors: Peter Oehler, Axel Schmitz, Micha Heinz, Frank Michel
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Publication number: 20110286825Abstract: An array of objects stands on a flexible web on a horizontal support, and a frame at the accumulation region gathers the objects at the downstream end into a group having a plurality of transverse rows. A transport element formed as a blind has an end edge and is shifted shiftable atop the web upstream in the direction between a ready position with the end edge spaced from the group standing on the web and a pickup position underlying the entire group. A lifting element underneath the web moves jointly with the transport element such that the web is raised immediately upstream of the end edge of the transport element to raise downstream edges of the objects and the transport element is engageable between the objects in the group and the web so the transport element can slide underneath the objects in the group.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2011Publication date: November 24, 2011Inventor: Frank MICHELS
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Publication number: 20110259144Abstract: Gearing (1), in particular single-stage gearing having a transmission ratio of greater than 1 to 10, having an internal gear (2) with an internal toothing (5), a first toothed ring with radially movable first teeth (6) for engaging into the internal toothing (5), a second toothed ring with radially movable second teeth (7) for engaging into the internal toothing (5), an inner shaft (21) on which is fastened a first cam disk (16) for the radial drive of the first teeth (6) and a second cam disk (17) for the radial drive of the second teeth (7), and a load dividing device for dividing a torque transmitted via the toothed rings between the toothed rings.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2011Publication date: October 27, 2011Applicant: WITTENSTEIN AGInventors: Frank Michel, Michael Schmidt, Thomas Bayer, Heiko Schreiber, Lars Estermann
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Publication number: 20110256997Abstract: An apparatus for making a box from a foldable blank having a central polygonal floor panel and a plurality of outwardly projecting side panels has a frame, a supply on the frame holding the blank, a folder on the frame above the supply, and a feeder having a grab engageable with the blank in the supply and movable to a position above the folder. The feeder picks up the blank with the grab, moves the picked-up blank and grab up to above the folder, and deposits the picked-up blank in the folder that folds the deposited blank into a box.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2011Publication date: October 20, 2011Inventor: Frank MICHELS
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Publication number: 20110057645Abstract: Method in which the current is measured inside an integrated PWM control circuit using at least one A/D converter which is likewise integrated in the circuit is described. The PWM controller is provided for the purpose of driving inductive loads and is arranged, in particular, in an electronic circuit of an electronic controller for a motor vehicle braking system. Before determining the actual current of the PWM controller, which is determined using the at least one A/D converter, the current is smoothed using a low-pass filter. A circuit arrangement for carrying out the above method and its use in electronic motor vehicle control systems is also described herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2007Publication date: March 10, 2011Inventors: Markus Jäger, Peter Oehler, Frank Michel, Micha Heinz, Wolfgang Fey, Axel Schmitz, Wolfgang Joeckel
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Publication number: 20110057644Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic motor vehicle control system having at least one valve actuating circuit which controls a load current by means of pulse width modulation. The actuating circuit has at least one electronic current measuring circuit which has at least one measurement path with at least one analog/digital converter. The analog/digital converts an analog measurement signal of the load current into a digital measurement signal of the load current and is actuated or designed in such a way as to carry out a plurality of current measurements per PWM period. The at least one measurement path of the current measurement circuit has a signal conservation circuit which provides the analog measurement signal of the load current substantially unchanged, and independent of the actual load current, for at least a defined hold time (toff->on, ton->off).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2009Publication date: March 10, 2011Applicant: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHGInventors: Peter Oehler, Frank Michel, Micha Heinz, Axel Schmitz
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Publication number: 20100254058Abstract: An integrated circuit arrangement on a common chip or chip support, for safety critical applications, in particular for use in control and regulation units for a motor vehicle braking system, including at least one microprocessor system module, which has at least one core processor, provided with at least one ROM and at least one RAM, at least one power module for controlling external users and at least one monitoring module for monitoring at least parts and/or part systems of the circuit arrangement, the circuit arrangement including at least one temperature sensor for recording a chip temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2008Publication date: October 7, 2010Applicant: CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO. OHGInventors: Andreas Kirchbaum, Mario Engelmann, Frank Michel, Luc van Dijk, Wolfgang Fey, Adrian Traskov, Micha Heinz
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Publication number: 20100231427Abstract: An electronic circuit for correcting at least one digital measurement signal (??n, ??1, ??2) comprising at least one measurement channel having a sigma-delta modulator and a correction circuit. The sigma-delta modulator changes an analog measurement signal into a digital measurement signal in the form of a binary value sequence. The correction circuit corrects the digital measurement signal (??n, ??1, ??2) as a function of at least one correction datum (trim), wherein the correction circuit comprises at least one adding element and at least one multiplexer. The digital measurement signal is corrected in that the correction datum (trim) is weighted by means of the multiplexer and the adding element as a function of the digital measurement signal (??n, ??1, ??2).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2008Publication date: September 16, 2010Applicant: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHGInventors: Frank Michel, Rene Trapp, Peter Oehler
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Publication number: 20100182725Abstract: Circuit arrangement (2,3,4,5) in an electronic control device which is connected to at least one wheel speed sensor channel (6,7,8,9) transmitting wheel speed information, in particular in the form of a current signal, the circuit arrangement (2,3,4,5) having at least one monitoring module (U1,U2,U3,U4) for the at least one wheel speed sensor channel (6,7,8,9), where this at least one monitoring module (U1,U2,U3,U4) is suitable for monitoring an excess current fault on at least one wheel speed sensor channel (6,7,8,9), in which, when an excess current fault is detected by the at least one monitoring module (U1,U2,U3,U4) the respective wheel speed sensor channel(s) (6,7,8,9) is/are blocked by a blocking circuit (10,11,12,13) of the circuit arrangement (2,3,4,5), and/or in which the circuit arrangement (2,3,4,5) causes the blocking of the respective wheel sensor channel or channels (6,7,8,9) from outside the circuit arrangement (2,3,4,5).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2006Publication date: July 22, 2010Applicant: CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO. OHGInventors: Rene Trapp, Frank Michel