Patents by Inventor Franz Seifert

Franz Seifert 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: 6666080
    Abstract: The tire comprises a radially inner carcass (1), a base layer (2) which is applied to said carcass radially, externally; a profile comprising numerous profile elements (3, 4, 5) applied radially, externally to said base layer (2); and a sensor (6) which is located in the base layer (2) and associated with one profile element (5) selected from said profile elements (3, 4, 5) and which is used to determine a maximum force exerted on said selected profile element (5). The selected profile element (5) is mechanically separate from all of the other profile elements (3, 4). The method for determining a wear value for a tire of this type that turns and rolls on a base surface (10) provides that the maximum force is measured while the tire is rolling and that the wear value is determined from this maximum force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2003
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolf-Eckhart Buist, Alfred Pohl, Franz Seifert, Reinhard Steindl
  • Publication number: 20030005760
    Abstract: The tire comprises a radially inner carcass (1), a base layer (2) which is applied to said carcass radially, externally; a profile comprising numerous profile elements (3, 4, 5) applied radially, externally to said base layer (2); and a sensor (6) which is located in the base layer (2) and associated with one profile element (5) selected from said profile elements (3, 4, 5) and which is used to determine a maximum force exerted on said selected profile element (5). The selected profile element (5) is mechanically separate from all of the other profile elements (3, 4). The method for determining a wear value for a tire of this type that turns and rolls on a base surface (10) provides that the maximum force is measured while the tire is rolling and that the wear value is determined from this maximum force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2002
    Publication date: January 9, 2003
    Inventors: Wolf-Eckhart Bulst, Alfred Pohl, Franz Seifert, Reinhard Steindl
  • Patent number: 6418133
    Abstract: This transmission method serves to transmit information between a base station (BS) and a multiplicity of subscriber stations (MS) in transmission channels of a broadband signal. The transmission channels can be distinguished by different codes (Cs, C1, . . . , Cq) which modulate the broadband signal and which themselves are each modulated by the information to be transmitted in the respective transmission channel and are superimposed in the broadband signal. In this context, there is provision for at least one of the transmission channels (for example Cs) to be emphasized, as a prioritized transmission channel, in comparison with the other transmission channels (C1, . . . , Cq), in that its phase angle is shifted by a fixed amount in comparison with the phase angle of the other transmission channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2002
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Zhongping Zhang, Franz Seifert, Robert Weigel
  • Patent number: 6318147
    Abstract: A wear monitor suitable in particular for monitoring the wear and tear of rider rings (7) on the pistons (5) of horizontally operating reciprocating compressors presents a sensor (9) that monitors the thickness of the rider ring (7) at least indirectly, is arranged in the area of the rider ring (7) in such a way as to move together with it and can be interrogated without contact via a motionless interrogation unit (16), which communicates with an evaluation unit (18). The sensor (9) preferably presents a passive surface acoustic wave element (23), whose electromagnetic reflection behavior depends on the thickness of the rider ring (7) consequent upon the degree of wear and tear thereof and which communicates with a sensor antenna (19) moving together with it, while the interrogation unit (16) presents a communicating interrogation antenna (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Assignee: Hoerbiger Ventilwerke GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Steinrück, Franz Seifert, Wolfgang Zeppelzauer, Alfred Pohl
  • Patent number: 6144332
    Abstract: In a passive surface wave sensor for measured value determination, a measured value is transmitted by radio from a remote measuring location to an interrogation device, which transmits energy by radio to a sensor element as an interrogation pulse. The surface wave sensor is suitable for contactless measured value acquisition. A surface wave configuration is the sensor element and a surface wave reference element is provided for phase discrimination and/or propagation time measurement. As a further development, a sensor operated with chirped transmitting signals and having chirped reflectors is provided, in which the configuration has a reference function in place of the reference element. A sensor constructed in such a way that it has a chirped function has the characteristics of an imminently temperature-compensated sensor for measuring other physical or similar variables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2000
    Assignee: Siemensn Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Leonhard Reindl, Folkhard Muller, Clemens Ruppel, Wolf-Eckhart Bulst, Franz Seifert
  • Patent number: 5910779
    Abstract: A radio scanning system using acoustical surface waves (SW radio scanning system) includes a transceiver unit and sensor elements defining at least one parameter to be scanned. The transceiver unit has a transmitter transmitting question signals to the sensor elements and a receiver receiving and evaluating answer signals transmitted back by the sensor elements. The transmitter and the sensor elements are constructed in such a way that the question signals and the answer signals are chronologically inverse to one another. The sensor elements have different SW transit times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1999
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolf-Eckhart Bulst, Clemens Ruppel, Leonhard Reindl, Franz Seifert
  • Patent number: 5872520
    Abstract: An identification and/or sensor system includes a sensor that queries an identification and/or sensor configuration which contains resonators. A receiver receives an answer signal from the identification and/or sensor configuration. The receiver includes a phase-locked loop for converting a resonator decay signal into a signal of constant frequency and constant envelope curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1999
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Franz Seifert, Alfred Pohl, Gerald Ostermayer