Patents by Inventor Rainer Kling

Rainer Kling 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: 12050103
    Abstract: A rotational angle sensor device and a corresponding method are provided. Two signals which have a phase offset with respect to one another are generated based on a modulated magnetic field using a sensor arrangement. Three signals which have a phase offset with respect to one another are generated from the signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Rainer Kling, Stephan Leisenheimer, Severin Neuner, Monika Pfeifer, Dragos Vocurek, Hans-Joerg Wagner
  • Patent number: 11883903
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for cutting dielectric or semiconducting material with a laser. The method includes the following steps: emission of a laser beam including at least one burst of N femtoseconds laser pulses; spatial separation of the laser beam into a first split beam having a first energy, and respectively, a second split beam having a second energy; spatial concentration of energy of the first split beam in a first zone of the material, respectively, of the second split beam in a second zone of the material, the first zone and the second zone being separate and staggered by a distance dx; and adjustment of the distance between the first zone and the second zone in such a way as to initiate a straight micro-fracture oriented between the first zone and the second zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignees: AMPLITUDE, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUX, ALPHANOV INSTITUT D'OPTIQUE D'AQUITAINE
    Inventors: Konstantin Mishchik, John Lopez, Rainer Kling, Clémentine Javaux-Leger, Guillaume Duchateau, Ophélie Dematteo-Caulier
  • Patent number: 11824478
    Abstract: A sensor device includes a first sensor element that generates a first sensor signal based on a varying magnetic field; a second sensor element that generates a second sensor signal based on the varying magnetic field; a signal processing circuit configured to generate a first pulsed signal based on the first sensor signal and generate a second pulsed signal based on the second sensor signal; a fault detector that detects a fault and generates an error signal indicating the fault; and an output generator that receives the error signal based on a first condition that the fault detector detects the fault, and simultaneously outputs a first output signal and a second output signal. In response to the first condition being satisfied, the output generator maintains the first output signal in a steady state and outputs the second pulsed signal as the second output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Stephan Leisenheimer, Konrad Kapser, Rainer Kling, Sebastian Maerz, Romain Peron
  • Publication number: 20220290968
    Abstract: A rotational angle sensor device and a corresponding method are provided. Two signals which have a phase offset with respect to one another are generated based on a modulated magnetic field using a sensor arrangement. Three signals which have a phase offset with respect to one another are generated from the signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Rainer KLING, Stephan LEISENHEIMER, Severin NEUNER, Monika PFEIFER, Dragos VOCUREK, Hans-Joerg WAGNER
  • Publication number: 20220014131
    Abstract: A sensor device includes a first sensor element that generates a first sensor signal based on a varying magnetic field; a second sensor element that generates a second sensor signal based on the varying magnetic field; a signal processing circuit configured to generate a first pulsed signal based on the first sensor signal and generate a second pulsed signal based on the second sensor signal; a fault detector that detects a fault and generates an error signal indicating the fault; and an output generator that receives the error signal based on a first condition that the fault detector detects the fault, and simultaneously outputs a first output signal and a second output signal. In response to the first condition being satisfied, the output generator maintains the first output signal in a steady state and outputs the second pulsed signal as the second output signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Stephan LEISENHEIMER, Konrad KAPSER, Rainer KLING, Sebastian MAERZ, Romain PERON
  • Publication number: 20210351708
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling a series resonant converter (110), wherein the series resonant converter (110) comprises a primary circuit (112) and a secondary circuit (114), wherein the primary circuit (112) or the secondary circuit (114) comprises a series resonant oscillating circuit (118), wherein the series resonant oscillating circuit (118) comprises at least one capacitance C1 and at least one inductance Li, wherein a link voltage Udc is applied to the primary circuit (112), and wherein the secondary circuit (114) provides an average output current ?out, wherein the control of the series resonant converter (110) is carried out by adjusting an averaged value of the output current ?out using a transfer function, wherein the transfer function is a function of the link voltage Udc, the output voltage UCout, the inductance Li, a switching period tp and a duty cycle D, wherein at least the switching period tp and/or the duty cycle D are adjusted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Applicant: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
    Inventors: Michael Heidinger, Wolfgang Heering, Rainer Kling
  • Publication number: 20190283178
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for cutting dielectric or semiconducting material with a laser. The method includes the following steps: emission of a laser beam including at least one burst of N femtoseconds laser pulses; spatial separation of the laser beam into a first split beam having a first energy, and respectively, a second split beam having a second energy; spatial concentration of energy of the first split beam in a first zone of the material, respectively, of the second split beam in a second zone of the material, the first zone and the second zone being separate and staggered by a distance dx; and adjustment of the distance between the first zone and the second zone in such a way as to initiate a straight micro-fracture oriented between the first zone and the second zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Konstantin MISHCHIK, John LOPEZ, Rainer KLING, Clémentine JAVAUX-LEGER, Guillaume DUCHATEAU, Ophélie DEMATTEO-CAULIER
  • Publication number: 20160368086
    Abstract: A method for forming features in a substrate includes irradiating a substrate with a beam of laser pulses, wherein the laser pulses have a wavelength selected such that the beam of laser pulses is transmitted into an interior of the substrate through a first surface of the substrate. The beam of laser pulses is focused to form a beam waist at or near a second surface of the substrate, wherein the second surface is spaced apart from the first surface along a z-axis direction, and the beam waist is translated in a spiral pattern extending from the second surface of the substrate toward the first surface of the substrate. The beam of laser pulses is characterized by a pulse repetition rate in a range from 20 kHz to 3 MHz, a pulse duration, a pulse overlap, and a z-axis translation speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Geoffrey Lott, Nicolas Falletto, Rainer Kling
  • Publication number: 20140306602
    Abstract: The invention relates to a high-frequency lamp with a glass bulb and a device for supplying a high-frequency signal. High-frequency lamps known in the prior art either have been limited to a narrow selection of substances in the glass bulb or have relied on a heating process using a spiral-wound filament or the like. The aim of the invention is to provide an inexpensive and more efficient high-frequency lamp. This is to be achieved in particular in that the glass bulb is made, for example from window glass, so as to be heatable by the heat losses of the high-frequency signal in the glass bulb such that even metal halogenides for example can be evaporated without an additional heating process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2012
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: Dritte Patentportfolio Beteiligungsgesellschaft MBH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Holger Heuermann, Rainer Kling, Stepfan Holtrup
  • Patent number: 8247988
    Abstract: In various embodiments, an electrodeless high intensity discharge lamp is provided, which may include a bulb containing a fill mixture for generating a light emission when excited by microwave energy; and at least two applicator arms for coupling the microwave energy to the fill mixture, the at least two applicator arms being separated by at least one delay line, the at least one delay line comprising a stripline structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Karlsruher Institut fuer Technologie
    Inventors: Rainer Kling, Michael Meisser, Klaus Stockwald
  • Patent number: 7973482
    Abstract: A high-pressure discharge lamp with an axial symmetry axis and metal halogenide filling has electrodes with shafts designed as pins with a diameter of 0.5 to 1.15 mm. The halogen for the halogenide is composed of iodine and possibly bromine components, iodine being used alone or in combination with bromine, and the bromine/iodine atomic ratio amounting to maximum 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: OSRAM Gesellschaft mit beschraenkler Haftung
    Inventors: Michael Brinkhoff, Hans-Jürgen Keck, Rainer Kling
  • Publication number: 20100253237
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide an electrodeless high intensity discharge lamp (EHID), including: a bulb containing a fill mixture for generating a light emission when excited by microwave energy; and at least two applicator arms for coupling the microwave energy to the fill mixture, the at least two applicator arms being separated by at least one delay line, the at least one delay line introducing a delay of ?/4, wherein ? is the wavelength of the microwave energy, wherein each of the at least two applicator aims are coupled to each other via an open loop structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Applicant: OSRAM GESELLSCHAFT MIT BESCHRAENKTER HAFTUNG
    Inventors: Michael Meisser, Rainer Kling, Klaus Stockwald
  • Publication number: 20100244722
    Abstract: In various embodiments, an electrodeless high intensity discharge lamp is provided, which may include a bulb containing a fill mixture for generating a light emission when excited by microwave energy; and at least two applicator arms for coupling the microwave energy to the fill mixture, the at least two applicator arms being separated by at least one delay line, the at least one delay line comprising a stripline structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: OSRAM GESELLSCHAFT MIT BESCHRAENKTER HAFTUNG
    Inventors: Rainer Kling, Michael Meisser, Klaus Stockwald
  • Patent number: 7748867
    Abstract: A deflection component for a luminaire is hollow and consists of two sections, of which a first section is parallel to the axis and a second section in contrast runs obliquely outwards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: OSRAM Gesellschaft mit beschraenkter Haftung
    Inventors: Michael Brinkhoff, Hans-Jürgen Keck, Rainer Kling
  • Publication number: 20090052188
    Abstract: A deflection component for a luminaire is hollow and consists of two sections, of which a first section is parallel to the axis and a second section in contrast runs obliquely outwards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2006
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: Patent- Treuhand Gesellschaft Fur Elektrische Glulampen MBH
    Inventors: Michael Brinkhoff, Hans-Jurgen Keck, Rainer Kling
  • Patent number: 7411349
    Abstract: A UV radiator has an essentially tubular discharge vessel designed to produce dielectric barrier discharges at one end and sealed in a gas-tight manner at both ends, and in each case at least one elongate inner and outer electrode which is oriented parallel to the longitudinal axis of the discharge vessel. If it is imagined that the tubular part of the discharge vessel is split into two equal halves by an imaginary longitudinal section, the at least one inner electrode is arranged on the inside of the first imaginary tube half, and the at least one outer electrode is arranged on the outside of the second imaginary tube half, and essentially diametrically with respect to one another. As a result, and as a result of the shape and number and arrangement of the outer electrode(s), directional radiation characteristics are achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2008
    Assignee: Patent-Treuhand-Gesellschaft fuer Elektrische Gluehlampen mbH
    Inventors: Rainer Kling, Markus Roth, Reinhold Wittkötter
  • Publication number: 20070200504
    Abstract: A high-pressure discharge lamp with an axial symmetry axis and metal halogenide filling has electrodes with shafts designed as pins with a diameter of 0.5 to 1.15 mm. The halogen for the halogenide is composed of iodine and possibly bromine components, iodine being used alone or in combination with bromine, and the bromine/iodine atomic ratio amounting to maximum 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2005
    Publication date: August 30, 2007
    Applicant: PATENT-TREUHAND-GESELLSCHAFT FUR ELEKTRISCHE GLUHL
    Inventors: Michael Brinkhoff, Hans-Jurgen Keck, Rainer Kling
  • Patent number: 7224111
    Abstract: An elongated dielectric barrier discharge lamp with outer and inner electrodes has a tube that is arranged on the lamp stand end of the discharge vessel and that surrounds the lamp stand. The tube serves to receive a seal in order to install the lamp in a process chamber in a gastight manner. Power supply of the outer electrodes is separated from the power supply for the inner electrodes coming out of the lamp stand by means of the above-mentioned tube. This makes it possible to prevent effectively parasitic discharges between the power supplies which are applied at different potentials during operation also in process chambers under negative pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2007
    Assignee: Patent-Treuhand-Gesellschaft für Elektrishe Glühlampen mbH
    Inventors: Rainer Kling, Reinhold Wittkötter
  • Publication number: 20050218775
    Abstract: An elongated dielectric barrier discharge lamp with outer and inner electrodes has a tube that is arranged on the lamp stand end of the discharge vessel and that surrounds the lamp stand. The tube serves to receive a seal in order to install the lamp in a process chamber in a gastight manner. Power supply of the outer electrodes is separated from the power supply for the inner electrodes coming out of the lamp stand by means of the abovementioned tube. This makes it possible to prevent effectively parasitic discharges between the power supplies which are applied at different potentials during operation also in process chambers under negative pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2003
    Publication date: October 6, 2005
    Applicant: PATENT-TREUHAND-GESELLSCHAFT FUR ELEKTRISCHE GLUHLAMPEN MBH
    Inventors: Rainer Kling, Reinhold Wittkotter
  • Publication number: 20050029948
    Abstract: A UV radiator has an essentially tubular discharge vessel designed to produce dielectric barrier discharges at one end and sealed in a gas-tight manner at both ends, and in each case at least one elongate inner and outer electrode which is oriented parallel to the longitudinal axis of the discharge vessel. If it is imagined that the tubular part of the discharge vessel is split into two equal halves by an imaginary longitudinal section, the at least one inner electrode is arranged on the inside of the first imaginary tube half, and the at least one outer electrode is arranged on the outside of the second imaginary tube half, and essentially diametrically with respect to one another. As a result, and as a result of the shape and number and arrangement of the outer electrode(s), directional radiation characteristics are achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2004
    Publication date: February 10, 2005
    Inventors: Rainer Kling, Markus Roth, Reinhold Wittkotter