Patents by Inventor Heidrun Hacker

Heidrun Hacker 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: 6982628
    Abstract: A mechanism for assigning an actuator to a device. It includes a transmitter on the device side for transmitting a scanning signal as well as a processing unit on the actuator side which include means for receiving scanning signals and which emits a contact signal when a scanning signal matches a previously defined reference signal. The processing system emits the contact signal only at the end of a predetermined time delay, which is characteristic for a specific actuator, after receiving the scanning signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Heidrun Hacker, Stephan Schmitz
  • Patent number: 6522240
    Abstract: A telecontrol device has a base station and control elements for influencing the base station. A storage arrangement is provided in control elements and in base station, information that assigns a control element to the base station being stored in the storage arrangement. A wireless signal-transmission link is formed between base station and control elements for carrying out telecontrol without contact. One control element is configured as the main control element. If it is in the range of the signal-transmission link, the assignment information stored in the storage arrangement can be changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Karl-Ernst Weiss, Heidrun Hacker, Stephan Schmitz
  • Patent number: 6304968
    Abstract: A method and a device for allocating an authentication device to a base station, with the base station delivering a search signal which is received by the authentication device and is compared with a previously stored reference signal assigned to a base station. If the search signal matches a reference signal, the authentication device sends a response signal. If they do not match, the authentication device checks whether the search signal matches another previously stored reference signal allocated to another base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Heidrun Hacker, Stephan Schmitz