Patents by Inventor Olivier Kukawka

Olivier Kukawka 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: 20160231198
    Abstract: A clutch sensor system includes a clutch part that is rotatable about and axially displaceable along an axis of rotation, and a sensor device having at least one sensor element configured to detect a rotary movement parameter of the clutch part. A circumferential transmitter structure is disposed on a circumference of the clutch part, and has a first sub-structure and at least one second sub-structure that follow each other in alternating fashion in a circumferential direction. The sub-structures are separated by structure transitions that move past a detection area of the sensor element as the clutch part rotates, whereby the sensor device generates a sensor signal that includes information about the rotary movement parameter. A circumferential distance between successive structure transitions depends on an axial displacement of the clutch part, such that the sensor signal also includes information about the axial displacement position of the clutch part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Inventors: Udo Kaess, Thorsten Droigk, Peter Weiberle, Olivier Kukawka
  • Patent number: 8729888
    Abstract: A magnetic transducer configuration may include a permanent magnet element magnetized in its longitudinal direction having a pole transition. The permanent magnet element has a cross section in the pole transition section, which is larger than the cross section of the permanent magnet element in an area outside of the pole transition section. A magnetic position sensor may include a magnetic field sensor array and magnetic transducer configuration. The magnetic field sensor array and the magnetic transducer configuration are situated displaceably in the longitudinal direction in a plane-parallel manner. The magnetic field sensor array has at least one magnetic field sensor lying in a path along which the permanent magnet element moves during displacement of the magnetic transducer configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen Herderich, Steffen Waldenmeier, Patrick Calandrini, Andrea Deflorio, Olivier Kukawka
  • Publication number: 20110234207
    Abstract: A magnetic transducer configuration is described having at least one permanent magnet element, which is magnetized in its longitudinal direction and has a pole transition of the longitudinal section having a pole transition. The permanent magnet element has a cross section in the pole transition of the longitudinal section, which is larger than the cross section of the permanent magnet element in an area outside of the pole transition of the longitudinal section. A magnetic position sensor is also described having a magnetic field sensor array and the magnetic transducer configuration according to the present invention. The magnetic field sensor array and the magnetic transducer configuration are situated displaceably in the longitudinal direction to one another in a plane-parallel manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen HERDERICH, Steffen Waldenmeier, Patrick Calandrini, Andrea Deflorio, Olivier Kukawka