Patents by Inventor Joerg Frank

Joerg Frank 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: 9166145
    Abstract: A magnetic field sensor device having a semiconductor body, whereby the semiconductor body has a top side and a bottom side, and whereby the semiconductor body has a substrate layer and a passivation layer formed above the substrate on the top side of the semiconductor body, and one or more integrated electronic components are formed in the substrate layer of the semiconductor body, and a Hall plate is provided on the top side of the semiconductor body above the passivation layer, and the Hall plate is formed of a graphene compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Micronas GmbH
    Inventor: Joerg Franke
  • Patent number: 9153772
    Abstract: A device for increasing the magnetic flux density includes a semiconductor body and a first magnetic sensor integrated into the semiconductor body, whereby a housing section, which forms a cavity, is arranged above the sensor on the semiconductor surface and the cavity is filled with a ferromagnetic material and the material comprises a liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Micronas GmbH
    Inventor: Joerg Franke
  • Patent number: 9038676
    Abstract: A conveying device for free-flowing fine-particle solids, in particular for powdery and/or granular (mixed) material, especially plastic granulate, includes a vertically arranged and flexibly mountable telescopic pipe for the conveyance of, preferably, polymer granulates, for example in a plant for the filling of polymer granulates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Bayer MaterialScience AG
    Inventors: Herbert Ungerechts, Hans-Joerg Frank, Dieter Scholten, Markus Hagedorn
  • Patent number: 8981508
    Abstract: A magnetic field sensor having a support with a top side and a bottom side, whereby a Hall plate is provided on the top side of the support and the Hall plate comprises a carbon-containing layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Micronas GmbH
    Inventor: Joerg Franke
  • Patent number: 8957668
    Abstract: An integrated current sensor is provided, having a semiconductor body arranged on a metal substrate, having a first surface with a passivation layer embodied on the first surface and a magnetic field concentrator embodied in a flat manner under the semiconductor body, a first Hall-effect sensor embodied under the passivation layer in the semiconductor body, a second Hall-effect sensor embodied under the passivation layer in the semiconductor body, wherein a first conductor is provided embodied on the first surface between the first Hall-effect sensor and the second Hall-effect sensor, and the magnetic field concentrator is embodied under the first Hall-effect sensor and under the second Hall-effect sensor and under the first conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Micronas GmbH
    Inventor: Joerg Franke
  • Patent number: 8878529
    Abstract: A method for monitoring the function of a sensor module including sensor which generates a measurement signal for a physical quantity to be determined and applies the measurement signal to an output terminal in an unchanged form or in processed form. In addition, a test signal is generated whose spectrum lies outside the spectrum of the measurement signal. The test signal is supplied at a place in the sensor from which it reaches the output terminal in unchanged form or in processed form only in the case of a functional sensor. An output signal present at the output terminal is compared with the test signal and a diagnosis signal is generated, which indicates whether the test signal is present at the output terminal. The test signal is filtered out of the output signal and the remaining signal is applied as the measurement signal at an output of the sensor module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Micronas GmbH
    Inventors: Dieter Baecher, David Muthers, Joerg Franke
  • Patent number: 8841906
    Abstract: A current sensor having a magnetic field sensor, and a variable current source connected to the magnetic field sensor, and a first differential amplifier, connected to the magnetic field sensor, for amplifying a first sensor voltage. A second differential amplifier is provided and the second differential amplifier is connected to the first differential amplifier and to the current source. In the case of the first sensor voltage, a first operating current is present at the magnetic field sensor and in the case of a second sensor voltage, a second operating current is present, whereby the second Hall voltage is smaller than the first sensor voltage and the second operating current is greater than the first operating current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Micronas GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Heberle, Joerg Franke
  • Patent number: 8836063
    Abstract: An integrated passive component having a semiconductor body, arranged on a metal substrate and having a first surface, and a plurality of metal surfaces formed on the surface, a passivation layer formed on the surface, an integrated circuit formed near the surface of the semiconductor body, whereby the integrated circuit is connected to metal surfaces via traces formed below the passivation layer, a part of the metal surfaces is connected to pins via bonding wires, and a first coil formed above the passivation layer, whereby the first coil with a plurality of turns has a longitudinal axis formed substantially parallel to the surface of the semiconductor body, and in a lower part of the first coil, said part which is formed substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the coil on the surface of the semiconductor body, parts of a plurality of turns are formed as sections of traces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Micronas GmbH
    Inventor: Joerg Franke
  • Patent number: 8836062
    Abstract: An integrated passive component having a semiconductor body, arranged on a metal substrate and having a first surface, and a plurality of metal surfaces formed on the surface, and an integrated circuit formed on the surface of the semiconductor body, whereby the integrated circuit is connected by traces to the metal surfaces, and having a dielectric passivation layer formed on the surface, and the metal surfaces are connected to pins by bonding wires, and a first coil former, formed above the dielectric layer, with a winding, whereby the winding has a first connector and a second connector, and whereby the winding is formed as a wire or litz wire and the first connector of the winding is connected to a first metal surface and the second connector to a second metal surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Micronas GmbH
    Inventor: Joerg Franke
  • Patent number: 8783465
    Abstract: A mobile classifier (deduster) has docking devices, flushing devices and control for the dedusting of granules, in particular polymer granules, with preference polycarbonate granules. The mobile classifier can be set up at different locations underneath silos. To perform its function, the mobile classifier is technically connected to stationary pipelines, filters and fans.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Bayer MaterialScience AG
    Inventors: Herbert Ungerechts, Hans-Joerg Frank, Dieter Scholten, Juergen Janssen, Markus Hagedorn
  • Patent number: 8680847
    Abstract: In a method for generating pulse edges, assigned synchronously to the movement of a mechanical part, a magnetic field is generated. At least two measuring signals phase-shifted to one another for the magnetic field are detected. The magnetic field is changed as a function of the movement of the mechanical part in such a way that the measuring signals are modulated. A first measuring signal is compared with at least one first reference value. A second measuring signal is compared with at least one second reference value and/or the value of the first measuring signal is compared with the value of the second measuring signal. When at least one of these comparisons produces an agreement or the result of the relevant comparison changes its sign, a pulse edge is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Micronas GmbH
    Inventors: Joerg Franke, Klaus Heberle
  • Publication number: 20140059823
    Abstract: A tool-changing carrier, that is to say a tool turret (1) with a rotary turret unit having at least two tool mounts (9) and arranged such that it can be rotated relative to a basic turret body (12), has radiation-transmission means which are provided for passing electromagnetic radiation through the tool-changing carrier or along the same. A tool system comprises such a tool-changing carrier and at least two tool heads (3, 5, 15, 17, 18, 27, 34, 40, 43), intended for fixing on the tool mounts (9), wherein at least one tool head is an optical tool head (3, 15, 17, 18) which is suitable for exposing a workpiece (11) to electromagnetic radiation and has a tool optics unit (23) for deflecting and/or forming the electromagnetic radiation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2012
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicants: A. MONFORTS WERKZEUGMASCHINEN GmbH, FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FĂ–RDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
    Inventors: Joerg Frank, Sascha Bausch, Dominic Deutges
  • Patent number: 8624191
    Abstract: A measuring device for analyzing a lubricant of a bearing. The measuring device has an electromagnetic radiation emitter, a receiving element and a test area that is arranged between the emitter and the receiving element. The measuring device allows for current information on the condition of the lubricant in the bearing to be obtained. At least some sections of the test area are inside the bearing and the receiving element supplies a spectrum of electromagnetic radiation captured by the test area. Also, a bearing and a seal for the bearing and a method for detecting and monitoring the condition of the lubricant of a bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Joerg Franke, Joachim Hering, Martin Kram, Joachim Schleifenbaum, Alexander Weiss, Gerhard Roehner, Sven Floesser, Marcel Schreiner, Thomas Otto, Thomas Gessner
  • Patent number: 8622187
    Abstract: A conveying device for free-flowing fine-particle solids (bulk material), in particular for powdery and/or granular (mixed) material, especially plastic granulate, includes a vertically arranged and flexibly mountable pipe for the conveyance of, preferably, polymer granulates, for example in a plant for the filling of polymer granulates. The transport pipe may be included on a mobile work platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Bayer MaterialScience AG
    Inventors: Herbert Ungerechts, Hans-Joerg Frank, Markus Hagedorn
  • Patent number: 8594225
    Abstract: The invention relates to an integrated circuit arrangement with connection contacts for the serial exchange of data and/or signals with external components and apparatuses and with a control apparatus and/or a serial interface for the clocked receiving of data by means of a signal voltage on such a connection contact, which voltage is modulated between at least one low, one middle and one high voltage state. The control apparatus and/or the interface are designed in such a manner that data is sent in a sending mode via the connection contact in that the switching apparatus, after having received a slope changing in particular from the middle voltage state into in particular the higher or the lower voltage state, pulls the voltage state into the in particular opposite lower or higher voltage state. Furthermore, the invention relates to an apparatus and a process for operating such a circuit arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Micronas GmbH
    Inventors: Thilo Rubehn, Joachim Ritter, Gert Umbach, Dieter Baecher, Wolfgang Horn, Joerg Franke
  • Patent number: 8593136
    Abstract: A measuring apparatus for detecting a relative movement between at least one magnetic field sensor array integrated into a semiconductor chip and a transmitter for the sensor array is provided. The transmitter and the sensor array are exposed to the magnetic flux of a magnet. The transmitter has teeth that can be moved past the sensor array during the relative movement, or the transmitter has magnet poles that can be moved past the sensor array during the relative movement. The magnetic field sensor includes a differential magnetic field sensor which comprises a first measuring plate and a second measuring plate that are offset in relation to one another in a direction of the relative movement. The magnetic field sensor also includes a sensor element which is designed to measure the absolute magnetic field and comprises a third measuring plate that is arranged between the first measuring plate and the second measuring plate in the direction of the relative movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Micronas GmbH
    Inventors: Joerg Franke, Klaus Heberle
  • Patent number: 8508216
    Abstract: A monolithic sensor arrangement includes a housing, a sensor integrated in the housing, and two or three connecting contacts deployed on the housing so as to provide a contact with the sensor. The housing also includes an integrated digital circuit includes a freely programmable digital processor, a program memory and a data memory, which are used to control and/or process the functionalities and/or the measured data of the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Micronas GmbH
    Inventors: Reiner Bidenbach, Joerg Franke, Joachim Ritter
  • Patent number: 8453505
    Abstract: Acceleration and/or tilt sensor having a ferromagnetic fluid that is located in a receptacle, and the receptacle constitutes a neutral position for the fluid, and the fluid is permanently magnetized, and a magnetic field detector arrangement is located at the receptacle to detect a displacement of the fluid, wherein a portion of the fluid can be displaced relative to the receptacle from the neutral position to an operating position by an external force while maintaining a continuous surface with the portion of the fluid remaining in the neutral position, and the fluid returns to the neutral position after removal of the external force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Micronas GmbH
    Inventors: Gilbert Erdler, Joerg Franke
  • Publication number: 20120217597
    Abstract: A device for increasing the magnetic flux density includes a semiconductor body and a first magnetic sensor integrated into the semiconductor body, whereby a housing section, which forms a cavity, is arranged above the sensor on the semiconductor surface and the cavity is filled with a ferromagnetic material and the material comprises a liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Inventor: Joerg Franke
  • Publication number: 20120137777
    Abstract: Acceleration and/or tilt sensor having a ferromagnetic fluid that is located in a receptacle, and the receptacle constitutes a neutral position for the fluid, and the fluid is permanently magnetized, and a magnetic field detector arrangement is located at the receptacle to detect a displacement of the fluid, wherein a portion of the fluid can be displaced relative to the receptacle from the neutral position to an operating position by an external force while maintaining a continuous surface with the portion of the fluid remaining in the neutral position, and the fluid returns to the neutral position after removal of the external force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Inventors: Gilbert Erdler, Joerg Franke