Patents by Inventor Manuel Gaertner

Manuel Gaertner 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).

  • Publication number: 20260163422
    Abstract: Rotor of an electric machine, comprising a rotor body (3) rotatable about a rotor axis (2), comprising a plurality of rotor poles (4) each with a pole center (5), wherein the rotor body (3) comprises a rotor main body (8) which at its outer periphery has a plurality of indentations (9), which are distributed over the outer periphery and into each of which at least one magnet (10), in particular permanent magnet, and a separate pole segment (11) are inserted in order to form one of the rotor poles (4), a V-shaped, U-shaped or arcuate magnet pocket (12) being formed between each pole segment (11) and the corresponding indentation (9) in the rotor main body (8) said magnet pockets each having two pocket openings (15) towards the outer periphery of the rotor body (3) and serving to receive the at least one magnet (10), the rotor body (3) being enclosed by a rotor sleeve (16), characterized in that the rotor sleeve (16) is a cured fiber-composite bandage, the matrix material (16.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Publication date: June 11, 2026
    Inventors: Andreas Herzberger, Benedikt Lahl, Christian Prag, Christoph Hammer, Claus-Christian Oetting, Florian Herzog, Harald Laue, Konstantin Lindenthal, Manuel Gaertner, Niklas Schroeder
  • Patent number: 12526169
    Abstract: A vehicle communication network includes electronic control units arranged in a plurality of groups. The electronic control units pertaining to the same group are coupled to each other via a respective dedicated communication bus. A central controller is coupled to the plurality of local controllers. Electrical loads are coupled to one of the electronic control units. Each of the electronic control units is configured to decode the received CAN frame to produce the actuation signal for a respective electrical load in response to a CAN frame being received from the respective local controller and transmit a CAN wake-up frame to the respective local controller and encode the feedback signal into a CAN frame for transmission to the respective local controller in response to the feedback signal being received from the respective electrical load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2026
    Assignees: STMicroelectronics (ALPS) SAS, STMicroelectronics Application GMBH, STMicroelectronics S.R.L.
    Inventors: Fred Rennig, Giovanni Luca Torrisi, Manuel Gaertner, Philippe Sirito-Olivier, Fritz Burkhardt, Aldo Occhipinti
  • Publication number: 20250357802
    Abstract: Rotor (1) of an electric machine, in particular an electrically excited synchronous machine, comprising a rotor shaft (3) which can be rotated about a rotor axis (2), in particular which is a hollow shaft, comprising multiple separate salient poles (4) arranged around a circumferential direction of the rotor (1), which are anchored in a rotor yoke (5), in particular interlockingly, characterized in that the rotor yoke (5) is formed in the motor shaft (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Publication date: November 20, 2025
    Inventors: Bastian Vogt, Dietmar Uhlenbrock, Lin Feuerrohr, Manuel Gaertner, Michael Knorpp, Andreas Herzberger, Gert Jansen, Jannik Stammler, Julian Mueller, Matthias Steinle
  • Publication number: 20250337219
    Abstract: An electronic module for generating light pulses includes an electronic card or interposer, a LASER-diode lighting module, and a LASER-diode driver module. The interposer has an edge recess in which the lighting module is completely inserted. The driver module is arranged on top of the interposer and the lighting module. The electrical connections for driving the LASER diodes are obtained without resorting to wire bonding in order to reduce the parasitic inductances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2025
    Publication date: October 30, 2025
    Applicants: STMicroelectronics S.r.l., STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SAS, STMicroelectronics Application GmbH
    Inventors: Romeo LETOR, Roberto TIZIANI, Alfio RUSSO, Antoine PAVLIN, Nadia LECCI, Manuel GAERTNER
  • Patent number: 12381372
    Abstract: An electronic module for generating light pulses includes an electronic card or interposer, a LASER-diode lighting module, and a LASER-diode driver module. The interposer has an edge recess in which the lighting module is completely inserted. The driver module is arranged on top of the interposer and the lighting module. The electrical connections for driving the LASER diodes are obtained without resorting to wire bonding in order to reduce the parasitic inductances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignees: STMicroelectronics S.r.l., STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SAS, STMicroelectronics Application GmbH
    Inventors: Romeo Letor, Roberto Tiziani, Alfio Russo, Antoine Pavlin, Nadia Lecci, Manuel Gaertner
  • Publication number: 20240171424
    Abstract: A vehicle communication network includes electronic control units arranged in a plurality of groups. The electronic control units pertaining to the same group are coupled to each other via a respective dedicated communication bus. A central controller is coupled to the plurality of local controllers. Electrical loads are coupled to one of the electronic control units. Each of the electronic control units is configured to decode the received CAN frame to produce the actuation signal for a respective electrical load in response to a CAN frame being received from the respective local controller and transmit a CAN wake-up frame to the respective local controller and encode the feedback signal into a CAN frame for transmission to the respective local controller in response to the feedback signal being received from the respective electrical load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Fred Rennig, Giovanni Luca Torrisi, Manuel Gaertner, Philippe Sirito-Olivier, Fritz Burkhardt, Aldo Occhipinti
  • Patent number: 11889594
    Abstract: A system includes lighting devices coupled to output supply pins, a microcontroller circuit, and a driver circuit, which receives data therefrom, and switches coupled in series to the lighting devices. The driver circuit includes output supply pins and selectively propagates a supply voltage to the output supply pins to provide respective pulse-width modulated supply signals at the output supply pins. The driver circuit computes duty-cycle values of the pulse-width modulated supply signals as a function of the data received from the microcontroller circuit. The lighting devices include at least one subset coupled to the same output supply pin. The microcontroller individually controls the switches via respective control signals to individually adjust a brightness of the lighting devices in the at least one subset of lighting devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignees: STMicroelectronics (Grenoble 2) SAS, STMicroelectronics S.r.l., STMicroelectronics Application GMBH
    Inventors: Manuel Gaertner, Philippe Sirito-Olivier, Giovanni Luca Torrisi, Thomas Urbitsch, Christophe Roussel, Fritz Burkhardt
  • Publication number: 20220312566
    Abstract: A system includes lighting devices coupled to output supply pins, a microcontroller circuit, and a driver circuit, which receives data therefrom, and switches coupled in series to the lighting devices. The driver circuit includes output supply pins and selectively propagates a supply voltage to the output supply pins to provide respective pulse-width modulated supply signals at the output supply pins. The driver circuit computes duty-cycle values of the pulse-width modulated supply signals as a function of the data received from the microcontroller circuit. The lighting devices include at least one subset coupled to the same output supply pin. The microcontroller individually controls the switches via respective control signals to individually adjust a brightness of the lighting devices in the at least one subset of lighting devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Manuel Gaertner, Philippe Sirito-Olivier, Giovanni Luca Torrisi, Thomas Urbitsch, Christophe Roussel, Fritz Burkhardt
  • Publication number: 20220214430
    Abstract: An electronic module for generating light pulses includes an electronic card or interposer, a LASER-diode lighting module, and a LASER-diode driver module. The interposer has an edge recess in which the lighting module is completely inserted. The driver module is arranged on top of the interposer and the lighting module. The electrical connections for driving the LASER diodes are obtained without resorting to wire bonding in order to reduce the parasitic inductances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicants: STMicroelectronics S.r.l., STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SAS, STMicroelectronics Application GmbH
    Inventors: Romeo LETOR, Roberto TIZIANI, Alfio RUSSO, Antoine PAVLIN, Nadia LECCI, Manuel GAERTNER
  • Publication number: 20220161019
    Abstract: Disclosed is a minimally invasive miniaturized percutaneous mechanical circulatory support system. The system may be placed across the aortic valve via a single femoral arterial access point. The system includes a low profile axial rotary blood pump carried by the distal end of a catheter. The system can be percutaneously inserted through the femoral artery and positioned across the aortic valve into the left ventricle. The device actively unloads the left ventricle by pumping blood from the left ventricle into the ascending aorta and systemic circulation. A magnetic drive and encased motor housing allows for purgeless operation for extended periods of time to treat various ailments, for example more than six hours as acute therapy for cardiogenic shock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Marvin Mitze, Hans Christof, Vladimir Popov, Martin Schwarz, Leon Wenning, Johannes Bette, Attila Fabiunke, Sina Gerlach, Johannes Stigloher, Julian Görries, Jan Schöfer, Valentin Rex, Johannes Berner, Bernhard Ehni, Johannes Ferch, Hans-Baldung Luley, Tom Döhring, Jens Burghaus, Inga Schellenberg, Hardy Baumbach, Annika Bach, Ingo Stotz, Julian Kassel, Armin Schuelke, Stefan Henneck, David Minzenmay, Thomas Alexander Schlebusch, Tobias Schmid, Tjalf Pirk, Martina Budde, Ricardo Ehrenpfordt, Marc Schmid, Ahmad Mansour, Niko Baeuerle, Ralf Strasswiemer, Uwe Vollmer, Manuel Gaertner, Fabian Eiberger, Tobias Baechle, Karin Schneider, Peter Wassermann
  • Patent number: 10813187
    Abstract: An integrated device for driving a lighting load, such as a LED, has a first memory element, configured to store a nominal duty-cycle at a nominal supply voltage. An actual voltage acquisition element is configured to detect an actual supply voltage. A processing unit is coupled to the first memory element and to the actual voltage acquisition element and configured to calculate a voltage compensated duty-cycle. A driver unit is coupled to the processing unit and is configured to be supplied according to the voltage compensated duty-cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignees: STMicroelectronics S.R.L., STMicroelectronics Application GMBH
    Inventors: Manuel Gaertner, Sergio Lecce, Giovanni Luca Torrisi
  • Patent number: 10499547
    Abstract: A thermal control process for an electronic power device including a multi junction integrated circuit may include defining a first and at least one second groups of junctions, with each group including one first and at least one second junctions, and associating a thermal detector with each group. A first group control may be executed which detects group electric signals representative of the temperature detected by the thermal detectors, processes the group electric signals with reference to a group critical thermal event, identifies a critical group when the corresponding group electric signal detects the critical group thermal event, and generates group deactivating signals suitable for selectively deactivating the first and the at least one second junctions of the identified critical group with respect to the remaining junctions of the integrated circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignees: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L., STMICROELECTRONICS APPLICATION GMBH
    Inventors: Domenico Massimo Porto, Giovanni Luca Torrisi, Manuel Gaertner, Sergio Lecce
  • Patent number: 10492281
    Abstract: The power supply device comprises a supply transistor commanded by a command signal and providing electric power to a lighting module, and a driving means configured to selectively generate, depending on an instruction signal representative of the structure of said at least one lighting module, a first command signal able to command the supply transistor into an ohmic regime, a second command signal able to command the supply transistor into a pulse width modulation regime involving an alternation of ohmic regimes and blocked regimes, and a third command signal able to command the supply transistor into a saturated regime.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignees: STMicroelectronics (Alps) SAS, STMicroelectronics Application GmbH, STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Philippe Sirito-Olivier, Giovanni Luca Torrisi, Manuel Gaertner, Fritz Burkhardt
  • Publication number: 20190306941
    Abstract: An integrated device for driving a lighting load, such as a LED, has a first memory element, configured to store a nominal duty-cycle at a nominal supply voltage. An actual voltage acquisition element is configured to detect an actual supply voltage. A processing unit is coupled to the first memory element and to the actual voltage acquisition element and configured to calculate a voltage compensated duty-cycle. A driver unit is coupled to the processing unit and is configured to be supplied according to the voltage compensated duty-cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Manuel Gaertner, Sergio Lecce, Giovanni Luca Torrisi
  • Patent number: 10375774
    Abstract: An integrated device for driving a lighting load, such as a LED, has a first memory element, configured to store a nominal duty-cycle at a nominal supply voltage. An actual voltage acquisition element is configured to detect an actual supply voltage. A processing unit is coupled to the first memory element and to the actual voltage acquisition element and configured to calculate a voltage compensated duty-cycle. A driver unit is coupled to the processing unit and is configured to be supplied according to the voltage compensated duty-cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignees: STMicroelectronics S.r.l., STMicroelectronics Application GMBH
    Inventors: Manuel Gaertner, Sergio Lecce, Giovanni Luca Torrisi
  • Publication number: 20190191536
    Abstract: The power supply device comprises a supply transistor commanded by a command signal and providing electric power to a lighting module, and a driving means configured to selectively generate, depending on an instruction signal representative of the structure of said at least one lighting module, a first command signal able to command the supply transistor into an ohmic regime, a second command signal able to command the supply transistor into a pulse width modulation regime involving an alternation of ohmic regimes and blocked regimes, and a third command signal able to command the supply transistor into a saturated regime.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicants: STMicroelectronics (Alps) SAS, STMicroelectronics Application GmbH, STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Philippe SIRITO-OLIVIER, Giovanni Luca TORRISI, Manuel GAERTNER, Fritz BURKHARDT
  • Publication number: 20190159369
    Abstract: A thermal control process for an electronic power device including a multi junction integrated circuit may include defining a first and at least one second groups of junctions, with each group including one first and at least one second junctions, and associating a thermal detector with each group. A first group control may be executed which detects group electric signals representative of the temperature detected by the thermal detectors, processes the group electric signals with reference to a group critical thermal event, identifies a critical group when the corresponding group electric signal detects the critical group thermal event, and generates group deactivating signals suitable for selectively deactivating the first and the at least one second junctions of the identified critical group with respect to the remaining junctions of the integrated circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Domenico Massimo Porto, Giovanni Luca Torrisi, Manuel Gaertner, Sergio Lecce
  • Patent number: 10257917
    Abstract: The power supply device comprises a supply transistor commanded by a command signal and providing electric power to a lighting module, and a driving means configured to selectively generate, depending on an instruction signal representative of the structure of said at least one lighting module, a first command signal able to command the supply transistor into an ohmic regime, a second command signal able to command the supply transistor into a pulse width modulation regime involving an alternation of ohmic regimes and blocked regimes, and a third command signal able to command the supply transistor into a saturated regime.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignees: STMicroelectronics (Alps) SAS, STMicroelectronics S.r.l., STMicroelectronics Application GmbH
    Inventors: Philippe Sirito-Olivier, Giovanni Luca Torrisi, Manuel Gaertner, Fritz Burkhardt
  • Patent number: 10231365
    Abstract: A thermal control process for an electronic power device including a multi junction integrated circuit may include defining a first and at least one second groups of junctions, with each group including one first and at least one second junctions, and associating a thermal detector with each group. A first group control may be executed which detects group electric signals representative of the temperature detected by the thermal detectors, processes the group electric signals with reference to a group critical thermal event, identifies a critical group when the corresponding group electric signal detects the critical group thermal event, and generates group deactivating signals suitable for selectively deactivating the first and the at least one second junctions of the identified critical group with respect to the remaining junctions of the integrated circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignees: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L., STMICROELECTRONICS APPLICATION GMBH
    Inventors: Domenico Massimo Porto, Giovanni Luca Torrisi, Manuel Gaertner, Sergio Lecce
  • Publication number: 20180310390
    Abstract: The power supply device comprises a supply transistor commanded by a command signal and providing electric power to a lighting module, and a driving means configured to selectively generate, depending on an instruction signal representative of the structure of said at least one lighting module, a first command signal able to command the supply transistor into an ohmic regime, a second command signal able to command the supply transistor into a pulse width modulation regime involving an alternation of ohmic regimes and blocked regimes, and a third command signal able to command the supply transistor into a saturated regime.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicants: STMicroelectronics (Alps) SAS, STMicroelectronics S.r.l., STMicroelectronics Application GmbH
    Inventors: Philippe SIRITO-OLIVIER, Giovanni Luca TORRISI, Manuel GAERTNER, Fritz BURKHARDT