Patents by Inventor Jurgen Spotka

Jurgen Spotka 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: 9555671
    Abstract: In a method for determining identifiers of wheel units and positions relative to the vehicle of the wheels on which the wheel units are fitted, the vehicle is equipped with a speed sensor for each wheel and elements for transmitting at a predetermined angular position of the corresponding wheel about its axis a message including the identifier of the wheel unit. A central processing unit receives the message and information from the speed sensors. The method includes a) counting, for each identifier, of a number “nt” of receptions of the identifier, b) statistical processing of the numbers “nt” to determine candidate identifiers of a wheel unit of the vehicle, until the number of candidate identifiers at least equals the number of wheels, and c) determining that a candidate identifier is the identifier of a wheel unit if the candidate identifier meets a predetermined criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignees: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE FRANCE, CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Alexander Fink, Nicolas Guinart, Gregor Kuchler, Jürgen Spotka, Marc Pflugmann
  • Publication number: 20140019035
    Abstract: Method for determining identifiers of wheel units of a vehicle and positions relative to the vehicle of the wheels on which the wheel units are fitted, the vehicle being equipped with a speed sensor for each wheel, and each wheel unit is equipped with elements for transmitting at a predetermined angular position of the corresponding wheel about its axis a message including the identifier of the wheel unit. A central processing unit receives the message and information from the speed sensors. The method includes: a) counting, for each identifier, of a number “nt” of receptions of the identifier, b) statistical processing of the numbers “nt” to determine candidate identifiers of a wheel unit of the vehicle, until the number of candidate identifiers at least equals the number of wheels, c) determining that a candidate identifier is the identifier of a wheel unit if the candidate identifier meets a predetermined criterion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicants: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH, CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE FRANCE
    Inventors: Alexander Fink, Nicolas Guinart, Gregor Kuchler, Jürgen Spotka, Marc Pflugmann
  • Patent number: 7397352
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for localising the position of at least two emission units, especially for monitoring at least one parameter for a plurality of wheels pertaining to a motor vehicle. The average power of the reception signals of a central evaluation and control unit (5) is detected. The aim of the invention is to improve the reliability of a correct localisation. To this end, at least two association criteria are used to associate the reception signals or emission units with positions or regions, when the examination of a reliability criterion for the first association criterion does not produce a sufficiently high reliability for the association carried out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Frank Fischer, Jürgen Spotka
  • Patent number: 6980099
    Abstract: The arrangement for monitoring at least one parameter for a number of motor vehicle wheels uses at least one receiver antenna that features a directional characteristic such that at least the signals which are transmitted by detector units located at two different vehicle wheels can be uniquely assigned to the relevant wheel positions as a result of the different receive level. The use of a number of receiver antennas allows either the number of distinguishable detector units to be increased or a redundancy to be created to improve the reliability of the detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2005
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Johannes Kroitzsch, Jürgen Spotka, Martin Prenninger
  • Publication number: 20040008108
    Abstract: The arrangement for monitoring at least one parameter for a number of motor vehicle wheels uses at least one receive antenna that features a directional characteristic such that at least the signals which are transmitted by detector units located at two different vehicle wheels can be uniquely assigned to the relevant wheel positions as a result of the different receive level. The use of a number of receive antennas allows either the number of distinguishable detector units to be increased or a redundancy to be created to improve the reliability of the detection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventors: Johannes Kroitzsch, Jurgen Spotka, Martin Prenninger