Patents by Inventor Manfred Knuefelmann

Manfred Knuefelmann 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: 4481912
    Abstract: A device for the angular adjustment of a camshaft of a combustion engine according to speed and load conditions and to the angular position of the camshaft with respect to a driving wheel being controlled by an adjustable mechanism. The technical problem is the angular adjustment of the single or multiple camshafts with respect to the crankshaft according to speed and load conditions. Tooth pulses, or counting pulses, corresponding to the angular position of the crankshaft (2) and reference pulses corresponding to a particular angular reference position (singular tooth) are generated by a transducer, or pulse generator, controlled by the toothed ring associated with the crankshaft and the ignition circuit (13). An address counter (10) is reset by the reference pulses and incremented by the tooth pulses so that the output of the counter provides digital address signals corresponding to the actual angular position of the crankshaft (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1982
    Date of Patent: November 13, 1984
    Assignee: Firma Atlas Fahrzeugtechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Stwiorok, Dieter Stojek, Reinhold Blauhut, Burkhard Brandner, Manfred Knuefelmann
  • Patent number: 4379239
    Abstract: Circuit for generating a trigger pulse delayed within a period of a periodical motion of variable periodic time, the phase lag relative to a zero phase being dependent on the periodic time and other parameters, a zero pulse and angle pulses starting at zero 5 phase being generated, the pulse frequency being inversely proportional to the periodic time, the angle pulses being fed into a counter and correcting data being generated within every period during a constant-time window. The technical problem the invention relates to is to design the circuit so that a single sequence of angle pulses may be evaluated and no control pulses are necessary except a reference pulse for defining a reference phase. According to the invention the following solution to the problem is proposed: during a constant-time window the angle pulses are varied under control so that each single pulse may be duplicated, counted normally, or suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1983
    Assignee: Firma Atlas Fahrzeugtechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Knuefelmann, Burkhard Brandner, Reinhold Blauhut