Patents by Inventor Peter Drebinger

Peter Drebinger 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: 4369427
    Abstract: A method and a circuit arrangement for determining the entry and/or exit of a vehicle into or out of a predetermined monitoring zone, which is defined by at least one inductive measuring loop whose change in inductance, which occurs as a result of the entry of a vehicle into the monitoring zone or the exit of a vehicle out of the monitoring zone, is used to control the oscillation frequency of an oscillator circuit is disclosed. In this method a measuring signal which corresponds to the oscillation frequency of the oscillator circuit and a reference signal which corresponds to a reference oscillation frequency are subtracted from one another. The difference signal thus formed is processed in an analysis device for display purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1980
    Date of Patent: January 18, 1983
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Drebinger, Heinz Merkle
  • Patent number: 4303905
    Abstract: A traffic-dependently controllable signaling system utilizing the lengths of the time intervals between two successive vehicles for terminating the green light duration for the involved flow of traffic, in which each time interval is compared with a first, larger theoretical time limit value. If the first theoretical time limit value is reached, the green light signal for such traffic flow is terminated. In addition, all time gaps are compared with a second smaller theoretical time limit value and if this second theoretical time limit value is exceeded by two successive time intervals or at least two of a group of time intervals, the green light signal for the particular flow of traffic is likewise terminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1981
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Peter Drebinger
  • Patent number: 4290136
    Abstract: A circuit arrangement for monitoring the state of signal systems, particularly traffic light systems monitors different signal states as to the admissability or inadmissibility thereof in a simple manner without the necessity of carrying out manual wiring manipulations given a change of the signal conditions in adaptation to changed conditions or given an expansion of the signal system to be monitored. For this purpose, test signals which indicate test signal states are fixed in a memory and are processed with the signals indicating the respectively existing actual signal state of the signal transmitters in at least one microprocessor in such a manner that each signal indicating an actual state is compared with all test signals which are called up step-by-step in succession from the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1981
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Heinrich Brunner, Peter Drebinger, Peter Hoehne, Johann Hoisl, Guenter Kochanowski, Walter Wimmer