Patents by Inventor Reinhard NOPPER

Reinhard NOPPER 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: 8707793
    Abstract: A sensor system includes: an at least partially magnetoelastic deformation element for measuring pressures, caused by a fluid, that are able to be applied to the magnetoelastic deformation element; and a magnetic circuit formed via a magnetic flux feedback and having a sensor unit and an evaluation unit. The sensor unit is positioned at the deformation element and the evaluation unit having an evaluation coil is structurally separated from, yet inductively coupled to, the sensor unit. The sensor unit has a sensor coil positioned on the deformation element and the evaluation unit has the evaluation coil that is inductively coupled to the sensor coil, the sensor coil forms a resonant circuit, using its own parasitic capacitance or using an additional capacitance, which is able to be energized by the evaluation coil in free resonance with strong or weak inductive coupling by a magnetic circuit enclosing the two coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Reinhard Nopper, Denis Gugel, Andreas Arlt, Klaus Walter, Frank Schatz, Janpeter Wolff
  • Publication number: 20100134123
    Abstract: A sensor system is provided having an at least partially magnetoelastic deformation element for measuring pressures, caused by a fluid, that are able to be applied to the magnetoelastic deformation element, having a magnetic circuit formed via a magnetic flux feedback and having a sensor unit and an evaluation unit. The sensor unit is positioned at the deformation element and the evaluation unit having an evaluation coil is structurally separated from, yet inductively coupled to the sensor unit. The sensor unit has a sensor coil positioned on the deformation element and the evaluation unit has the evaluation coil that is inductively coupled to the sensor coil, the sensor coil forms a resonant circuit, using its own parasitic capacitance or using an additional capacitance, which is able to be energized by the evaluation coil in free resonance with strong or weak inductive coupling by a magnetic circuit enclosing the two coils.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Inventors: Reinhard NOPPER, Denis Gugel, Andreas Arlt, Klaus Walter, Frank Schatz, Janpeter Wolff