Patents by Inventor Ralph Böbel

Ralph Böbel 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: 6888126
    Abstract: An optoelectronic position measuring device includes an encoder disk having a coding with a digital code and an analog coded track. The analog track includes segments which are in a series and whose width changes. An illuminator images the coding onto a sensor having transducers. The sensor determines the width of the analog track at a given position of the disk relative to the sensor as a function of the number of transducers upon which the analog track is optically imaged onto. The analog track is part of a continuous reference code track which has central symmetry in which the segments have a code length corresponding to the smallest resolution step of the digital coding. The layout of the segments and the resolving power of the sensor are matched such that movement of the disk along the code length is resolvable into at least two defined steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Assignee: Leopold Kostal GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Frank Blasing, Ralph Böbel