Patents by Inventor Rainer Strohmaier

Rainer Strohmaier 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: 6544394
    Abstract: A sensor for determining gas components and concentrations in a gas mixture that is particularly suitable for analyzing HC, NOx and CO in exhaust gases of internal combustion engines in the sensor, an outer electrode, that is separated from an MOx electrode by an electrolyte layer, is applied on a substrate. In this context, the outer electrode and the MOx electrode are in communication with the gas mixture to be analyzed. In addition, the outer electrode contains a region that is in contact with a gas-permeable tunnel layer which in turn contains a region that is directly exposed to the gas mixture to be analyzed, so that the gas to be analyzed can be supplied to the outer electrode via the gas-permeable tunnel layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Strohmaier, Carsten Springhorn, Detlef Heimann, Thomas Wahl, Margret Schuele, Bernd Schumann, Bernhard Bloemer
  • Patent number: 6540892
    Abstract: A sensor determines the concentration of gas components in a gas mixture with at least one measuring electrode exposed to the gas mixture and a reference electrode and with a heating device for controlling the temperature of at least one measuring electrode and the reference electrode. A measurement signal taken off the at least one measuring electrode can be changed via a corrective value, which is dependent upon the heating power of the heating device necessary to reach a pregiven value of the heating resistance of at least one heating element of the heating device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Rainer Strohmaier
  • Patent number: 6352631
    Abstract: A gas sensor in the form of a mixed-potential sensor in which the influence of temperature-dependent interference is reduced. An improved temperature control is provided with the help of a temperature sensor mounted on the surface of the electrolytic substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2002
    Assignee: Robert Bosch, GmbH
    Inventors: Bernhard Bloemer, Rainer Strohmaier, Carsten Springhorn, Detlef Heimann, Margret Schuele, Bernd Schumann
  • Publication number: 20020021120
    Abstract: A method and a device are described for evaluating a signal from an ionic current sensor of an internal combustion engine. Based on a signal from the ion current sensor, at least one quantity characterizing the combustion in the internal combustion engine is determined. At least one quantity characterizing a combustion start and/or a combustion quality is determined by conditioning the signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2001
    Publication date: February 21, 2002
    Inventors: Franz Raichle, Joachim Berger, Rainer Strohmaier, Wolfgang Fischer
  • Publication number: 20010017055
    Abstract: A method and a device for analyzing a signal from an ion current sensor of an internal combustion engine. At least one torque quantity characterizing the torque produced by the internal combustion engine is determined on the basis of a signal from the ion current sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2001
    Publication date: August 30, 2001
    Inventors: Franz Raichle, Joachim Berger, Rainer Strohmaier, Wolfgang Fischer