Patents by Inventor Olaf Bock

Olaf Bock 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: 6373241
    Abstract: In a sensor device including a magnetic field sensor which is arranged in stationary fashion and configured as a Hall sensor and is magnetically coupled to at least one stationary magnetic flux conductor which senses a variable magnetic field and delivers it to the Hall sensor, the Hall sensor delivering to an electronic control circuit an electrical signal which depends on the change in the magnetic field, in order to achieve a reduction in the space required for the electronic control circuit and the Hall sensors it is proposed the at least one Hall sensor, combined with at least one element of the electronic control circuit into an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), be arranged in an electronic component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2002
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Weber, Norbert Knab, Christoph Klappenbach, Guenther Riehl, Martin Hager, Friedrich-Wilhelm Dreier, Michael Soellner, Olaf Bock
  • Patent number: 6097122
    Abstract: A drive unit has an electric motor having a motor shaft, an electrically disenageable arresting mechanism including a hub connectable with the motor shaft, a plurality of arresting teeth radially projecting from the hub, and at least one arresting pin for electrical disengagement of an element composed of windings of an electrically conductive wire and for disengagement of electrical current, the arresting piece being composed of a magnetically conductive material, the at least one arresting pin being arranged stationary and forming a component of a permanent-magnetic circuit relative to whose poles the arresting teeth are oriented one after the other, the electrically conductive wire being wound to form a magnetic coil which forms at least a partial length of the permanent-magnetic circuit so as to provide a temporary at least partial compensation of a permanent magnetic flux of the permanent-magnetic circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2000
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Olaf Bock
  • Patent number: 6043576
    Abstract: An electric motor with a sensor, in particular an rpm sensor, is proposed. The sensor contains at least one means (20), generating a magnetic field, as the signal emitter, at least one magnetic field sensor (28, 30) as the signal receiver, and signal conducting means (22, 24, 26). The signal conducting means (22, 24, 26) contain magnetically conducting material and conduct the signal of the at least one magnetic field-generating means (20) to the at least one magnetic field sensor (28, 30). At least one current conducting means (40, 42, 44) is arranged essentially along the signal conducting means (22, 24, 26).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Weber, Guenther Riehl, Kurt Schindler, Olaf Bock