Patents by Inventor Henryk Frenzel

Henryk Frenzel 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: 11811156
    Abstract: A battery pole terminal, having an annular section, which surrounds a cylindrical or conical receiving space at least in sections in a circumferential direction, the annular section having an interruption with respect to the circumferential direction with two opposite edges. A gripping section for a clamping mechanism is provided at each of the edges. Furthermore, the battery pole terminal has a clamping mechanism which acts on the gripping sections and can exert a clamping force on the edges, pushing the opposite edges toward each other. A force limiting mechanism is provided which, when a minimum distance between the edges is reached, prevents an increase in the clamping force on the gripping sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Inventor: Henryk Frenzel
  • Patent number: 11656284
    Abstract: A method for operating a battery sensor having at least one measuring resistor and at least one voltage capture device for capturing a voltage drop across the measuring resistor and for outputting at least one measured value dependent on the captured voltage drop and an evaluation circuit. The method including determining a correction value for the measured value by the evaluation circuit, and determining a first temperature value of the measuring resistor on the basis of the determined correction value by the evaluation circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Inventors: Henryk Frenzel, Andreas Aumer
  • Patent number: 11470736
    Abstract: A potted electronic module includes an electronic assembly with a conductor such as a shunt that is arranged in a housing, and includes an electrical contact guided out through the housing wall, and a potting compound within the housing. The module may be produced by removing a protective layer from an area of the conductor by ablation, and then introducing a potting or casting compound into the housing, so that the potting compound covers a location at which the electrical contact passes through the housing wall, and the potting compound adheres directly onto the exposed conductor at the area at which the protective layer was removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Henryk Frenzel, Dietmar Huber, Jakob Schillinger, Jörg Möstl, Karl-Heinz Scherf, Georg Weber
  • Patent number: 11209490
    Abstract: A method for operating a battery sensor and a battery sensor, having an acquisition device for capturing a battery parameter and outputting a battery value dependent on the battery parameter, an evaluation circuit determines a corrected battery value from the battery value and from a correction value, a correction value determination device captures an influencing value of an influencing parameter of the correction value. Storing in the correction value determination device a pre-determined relationship between the influencing parameter and a correction factor for at least two value ranges of the influencing parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Henryk Frenzel, Martin Schramme
  • Publication number: 20210135183
    Abstract: A battery pole terminal, having an annular section, which surrounds a cylindrical or conical receiving space at least in sections in a circumferential direction, the annular section having an interruption with respect to the circumferential direction with two opposite edges. A gripping section for a clamping mechanism is provided at each of the edges. Furthermore, the battery pole terminal has a clamping mechanism which acts on the gripping sections and can exert a clamping force on the edges, pushing the opposite edges toward each other. A force limiting mechanism is provided which, when a minimum distance between the edges is reached, prevents an increase in the clamping force on the gripping sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventor: Henryk Frenzel
  • Publication number: 20200408841
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a connector assembly for a battery sensor or a battery pole terminal with a connector segment for making contact with the battery sensor or the battery pole terminal. The connector segment includes a fastening element and a contact bolt. The contact bolt includes a socket for the fastening element and can be mounted at the fastening element. The contact bolt includes a contact surface which, when the contact bolt is in the mounted state at the fastening element, lies at the connector segment, and provides an electrical contact between the contact bolt and the connector segment. The disclosure further relates to a battery pole terminal and to a battery sensor having such a connector assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventor: Henryk Frenzel
  • Patent number: 10677847
    Abstract: A current sensor device for measuring a current, in particular for measuring a battery current in motor vehicles. The device includes a clamping device for fixing the current sensor device to a maintaining body, an electric resistance element on which the current can be measured by means of a voltage, and an electric mass element by means of which the current sensor device can be electrically coupled to a zero potential. The clamping device, the resistance element and the mass element are integrally formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Henryk Frenzel, Vinzenz Sauerer, Michael Weinacht, Christine Spörl, Manfred Frimberger, Wolfgang Weigert
  • Patent number: 10641828
    Abstract: A sensor device for measuring a current flow, having a sensor element for detecting the current flow, a first contact element for connecting the sensor element to the current source, a ground contact element for connecting the sensor element to a ground, wherein the ground contact element includes a first and second electrically conductive connector element, wherein the first connector element has a hole-like opening and wherein the second connector opening has a connector point, which can be pressed into the hole-like opening of the first connector element, such that the second connector element is fastened to the first connector element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventor: Henryk Frenzel
  • Publication number: 20200116794
    Abstract: A method for operating a battery sensor, wherein the battery sensor has at least one measuring resistor and at least one voltage capture device for capturing a voltage drop across the measuring resistor and for outputting at least one measured value dependent on the captured voltage drop and an evaluation circuit, having the following steps of: determining, a correction value for the measured value by the evaluation circuit, and determining a first temperature value of the measuring resistor on the basis of the determined correction value by the evaluation circuit. A battery sensor which is designed to carry out such a method is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Henryk Frenzel, Andreas Aumer
  • Publication number: 20200116795
    Abstract: A method for operating a battery sensor and a battery sensor, having an acquisition device for capturing a battery parameter and outputting a battery value dependent on the battery parameter, an evaluation circuit determines a corrected battery value from the battery value and from a correction value, a correction value determination device captures an influencing value of an influencing parameter of the correction value. Storing in the correction value determination device a pre-determined relationship between the influencing parameter and a correction factor for at least two value ranges of the influencing parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Henryk Frenzel, Martin Schramme
  • Patent number: 10387735
    Abstract: A monitoring unit for monitoring an environment outside of a motor vehicle includes a camera with an imaging sensor that has both color pixels and monochrome pixels. Pixel groups each include one or two color pixels and respectively three or two monochrome pixels. The pixel groups are arranged in a repeating pattern of partial color encoding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Henryk Frenzel, Thorsten Koehler, Stephan Voltz, Ulrich Wagner
  • Publication number: 20190204367
    Abstract: A method for measuring an electric current supplied by a vehicle battery and conducted across a shunt includes detecting a measurement voltage drop across the shunt. The method also includes determining a difference in temperature between two temperature points between which at least part of the shunt is located and which are at a distance from one another in the direction of flow of the electric current. The method further includes determining the electric current on the basis of the detected measurement voltage and the determined difference in temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Applicant: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Henryk Frenzel, Andreas Aumer
  • Publication number: 20190075670
    Abstract: A potted electronic module includes an electronic assembly with a conductor such as a shunt that is arranged in a housing, and includes an electrical contact guided out through the housing wall, and a potting compound within the housing. The module may be produced by removing a protective layer from an area of the conductor by ablation, and then introducing a potting or casting compound into the housing, so that the potting compound covers a location at which the electrical contact passes through the housing wall, and the potting compound adheres directly onto the exposed conductor at the area at which the protective layer was removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Henryk Frenzel, Dietmar Huber, Jakob Schillinger, Joerg Moestl, Karl-Heinz Scherf, Georg Weber
  • Publication number: 20180357497
    Abstract: A monitoring unit for monitoring an environment outside of a motor vehicle includes a camera with an imaging sensor that has both color pixels and monochrome pixels. Pixel groups each include one or two color pixels and respectively three or two monochrome pixels. The pixel groups are arranged in a repeating pattern of partial color encoding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Henryk FRENZEL, Thorsten KOEHLER, Stephan VOLTZ, Ulrich WAGNER
  • Patent number: 10136533
    Abstract: A method is provided for producing an electronic module that includes an electronic assembly with a conductor which is arranged in a housing, and which includes an electrical contact guided out through the housing wall. In the method, a protective layer is removed from an area of the conductor by ablation, and then a potting or casting compound is introduced into the housing, so that the potting compound covers a location at which the electrical contact passes through the housing wall, and the potting compound adheres directly onto the exposed conductor at the area at which the protective layer was removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignees: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG, Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Henryk Frenzel, Dietmar Huber, Jakob Schillinger, Joerg Moestl, Karl-Heinz Scherf, Georg Weber
  • Patent number: 10055654
    Abstract: A monitoring unit for monitoring an environment outside of a motor vehicle includes a camera with an imaging sensor that has both color pixels and monochrome pixels. Pixel groups each include one or two color pixels and respectively three or two monochrome pixels. The pixel groups are arranged in a repeating pattern of partial color encoding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Henryk Frenzel, Thorsten Koehler, Stephan Voltz, Ulrich Wagner
  • Publication number: 20180217211
    Abstract: A sensor device for measuring a current flow, having a sensor element for detecting the current flow, a first contact element for connecting the sensor element to the current source, a ground contact element for connecting the sensor element to a ground, wherein the ground contact element includes a first and second electrically conductive connector element, wherein the first connector element has a hole-like opening and wherein the second connector opening has a connector point, which can be pressed into the hole-like opening of the first connector element, such that the second connector element is fastened to the first connector element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventor: Henryk Frenzel
  • Patent number: 9704048
    Abstract: An imaging system for imaging an environment outside of a motor vehicle combines color-coded pixels and non-color-coded pixels in a single imaging sensor of a camera. Pixel groups each include at least one color-coded pixel and at least two non-color-coded pixels. The pixel groups are arranged in a repeating pattern of partial color encoding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Henryk Frenzel, Thorsten Koehler, Stephan Voltz, Ulrich Wagner
  • Publication number: 20170164493
    Abstract: Production method for an electronic module, comprising a housing and at least one electronic assembly, wherein the electronic assembly is arranged, in particular at least partially, in an interior chamber of the housing, wherein, however, electrical contacts are guided through the housing wall, out of the interior chamber of the housing, to an outer face of the housing, wherein the interior chamber of the housing is filled with a casting compound at least in such a way that the casting compound covers passage points in the housing wall at which the electrical contacts are guided through the housing wall, wherein a layer of the at least one assembly is removed at least in the region of the passage points in the housing wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Henryk FRENZEL, Dietmar HUBER, Jakob SCHILLINGER, Joerg MOESTL, Karl-Heinz SCHERF, Georg WEBER
  • Patent number: 9524439
    Abstract: A monitoring unit for the exterior in the direction of travel of a motor vehicle includes at least one camera system with an image recording sensor. The sensor has color encoding in some regions and, otherwise, monochrome encoding. An assist system is also provided with such a monitoring unit, in particular a traffic sign and/or lane recognition assist system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Henryk Frenzel, Thorsten Köhler, Stephan Voltz, Ulrich Wagner