Patents by Inventor Gerhard Hinkel

Gerhard Hinkel 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: 10793158
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for operating a motor vehicle that includes a drive unit, an output unit, and a clutch arranged between the drive unit and the output unit and configured to transmit a torque. A detection unit detects an operating state of the drive unit. When the operating state of the drive unit is in an overrun mode, a control unit controls a clutch slip, which results in adjustment of the torque that can be transmitted as a function of a speed of the motor vehicle. The disclosure further relates to a device for operating a motor vehicle, and to a motor vehicle that includes such a device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Vitesco Technologies Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Knoll, Rainer Ertel, Gerhard Hinkel, Lars Nitz
  • Publication number: 20200271486
    Abstract: A method for producing an electric component, including at least one component assembly, wherein the component assembly includes a mounting support and at least one electrically conductive metal wire. In order to form the component assembly the at least one electrically conductive metal wire is mounted on and/or in the mounting support, and the at least one component assembly is covered at least in sections with plastic, in particular is injection moulded at least in sections, in a plastic casting method, in particular in a plastic injection-moulding method. The invention further relates to an electric component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: Vitesco Technologies Germany GMBH
    Inventors: Alexander Taege, Gerhard Hinkel, Benjamin Lang
  • Publication number: 20170183012
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for operating a motor vehicle that includes a drive unit, an output unit, and a clutch arranged between the drive unit and the output unit and configured to transmit a torque. A detection unit detects an operating state of the drive unit. When the operating state of the drive unit is in an overrun mode, a control unit controls a clutch slip, which results in adjustment of the torque that can be transmitted as a function of a speed of the motor vehicle. The disclosure further relates to a device for operating a motor vehicle, and to a motor vehicle that includes such a device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: Conti Temic Microelectronic GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Knoll, Rainer Ertel, Gerhard Hinkel, Lars Nitz
  • Patent number: 9126481
    Abstract: In a motor vehicle with an adjustable coupling (intermediate device) between the (crank)shaft and floor contact elements (wheels), wherein the coupling is set in trailing throttle mode in such a way that the rotational speed of the shaft is reduced, in particular is adjusted to a predefined value, in order to reduce the internal losses of the drive, in particular an internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignees: AUDI AG, CONTI TEMIC MICROELECTRONIC GMBH
    Inventors: Josef Winkler, Rainer Ertel, Gerhard Hinkel, Lars Nitz, Bernd Schafer
  • Publication number: 20140200783
    Abstract: In a motor vehicle with an adjustable coupling (intermediate device) between the (crank)shaft and floor contact elements (wheels), wherein the coupling is set in over trailing throttle mode in such a way that the rotational speed of the shaft is reduced, in particular is adjusted to a predefined value, in order to reduce the internal losses of the drive, in particular an internal combustion engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2011
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Inventors: Josef Winkler, Rainer Ertel, Gerhard Hinkel, Lars Nitz, Bernd Schafer
  • Patent number: 8427136
    Abstract: A magnetic displacement sensor, where, in order to achieve an improved measurement behavior, magnets are formed in a direction of an x-axis such that a z-component (Bz) of the flux density has an essentially linear characteristic curve in a region of travel and/or the magnets are formed in a direction of a y-axis such that the z-component (Bz) is essentially constant in a region of a transversal offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Conti Temic Microelectronic GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Hinkel, Michael Nagel, Andreas Schulze, Roger Pohlmann, Bernd Seitz
  • Publication number: 20110043195
    Abstract: A magnetic displacement sensor, where, in order to achieve an improved measurement behavior, magnets are formed in a direction of an x-axis such that a z-component (Bz) of the flux density has an essentially linear characteristic curve in a region of travel and/or the magnets are formed in a direction of a y-axis such that the z-component (Bz) is essentially constant in a region of a transversal offset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2009
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Applicant: Conti Temic Microelectronic GmgH
    Inventors: Gerhard Hinkel, Michael Nagel, Andreas Schulze, Roger Pohlmann, Bernd Seitz