Patents by Inventor Patrick Vögeli

Patrick Vögeli 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).

  • Tire pressure monitoring unit with expandable program library and method for supplementing a program library of a tire pressure monitoring unit
    Patent number: 10664291
    Abstract: A tire pressure monitoring unit includes a pressure sensor, a temperature sensor, a transmitter for wireless transmission of pressure and temperature data HF signals, a receiver for receiving wireless control LF signals, a microcontroller containing a program memory and a data storage device containing a library of control programs to control the measurement and transmission activity of the tire pressure monitoring unit. The microcontroller selects from this library, on the basis of control signals that are received, a control program and then writing it into its program memory. When a loading program is activated by a control signal, it causes the microcontroller to transfer into the data storage device an additional control program that is received by the receiver. A method includes adding, to a library of control programs in a data storage device connected to a microcontroller of a tire pressure monitoring unit, an additional control program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: HUF BAOLONG ELECTRONICS BRETTEN GMBH
    Inventors: Markus Wagner, Patrick Vögeli, Peter Brand
  • TIRE PRESSURE MONITORING UNIT WITH EXPANDABLE PROGRAM LIBRARY AND METHOD FOR SUPPLEMENTING A PROGRAM LIBRARY OF A TIRE PRESSURE MONITORING UNIT
    Publication number: 20190188011
    Abstract: A tire pressure monitoring unit includes a pressure sensor, a temperature sensor, a transmitter for wireless transmission of pressure and temperature data HF signals, a receiver for receiving wireless control LF signals, a microcontroller containing a program memory and a data storage device containing a library of control programs to control the measurement and transmission activity of the tire pressure monitoring unit. The microcontroller selects from this library, on the basis of control signals that are received, a control program and then writing it into its program memory. When a loading program is activated by a control signal, it causes the microcontroller to transfer into the data storage device an additional control program that is received by the receiver. A method includes adding, to a library of control programs in a data storage device connected to a microcontroller of a tire pressure monitoring unit, an additional control program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Markus Wagner, Patrick Vögeli, Peter Brand