Patents by Inventor Reinhold Pieper
Reinhold Pieper 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).
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Patent number: 11955278Abstract: A magnetizing device includes a magnet and a magnetic field concentrator. The magnet has a magnetic field forming a magnetization region in which a magnetizable security element is exposed to a magnetic field strength having a defined magnetic field direction. The magnetic field concentrator is formed of a ferromagnetic material. The magnetic field concentrator is arranged in the magnetic field and amplifies and focuses the magnetic field in the magnetization region.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Reinhold Pieper, Armin Meisenberg, Axel Bartos
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Patent number: 11774229Abstract: An Eddy current sensor device includes a sender member emitting a magnetic field and two sensing members. A central position sensing member includes a pair of central sense coils each being formed by a plurality of turns, and an edge position sensing member includes a pair of edge sense coils each being formed by a plurality of turns.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: TE Connectivity Sensors Germany GmbHInventors: Axel Bartos, Reinhold Pieper, Armin Meisenberg
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Publication number: 20220282997Abstract: An inductive angle sensor includes an exciter coil, an oscillator circuit, a plurality of receiver coils, an evaluation circuit evaluating a plurality of signals induced in the receiver coils, and a coupling element that is movable and influences a strength of an inductive coupling between the exciter coil and the receiver coils. The coupling element has a first encoder element and a second encoder element. The coupling element has a third encoder element formed as a conducting extension with an asymmetric geometry. The asymmetric geometry influences the strength of the inductive coupling between the exciter coil and the receiver coils only in a part of a plurality of periodically repeating loop structures of the receiver coils.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: TE Connectivity Sensors Germany GmbHInventors: Armin Meisenberg, Reinhold Pieper, Axel Bartos
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Publication number: 20220170729Abstract: An Eddy current sensor device includes a sender member emitting a magnetic field and two sensing members. A central position sensing member includes a pair of central sense coils each being formed by a plurality of turns, and an edge position sensing member includes a pair of edge sense coils each being formed by a plurality of turns.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2021Publication date: June 2, 2022Applicant: TE Connectivity Sensors Germany GmbHInventors: Axel Bartos, Reinhold Pieper, Armin Meisenberg
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Publication number: 20200227193Abstract: A magnetizing device includes a magnet and a magnetic field concentrator. The magnet has a magnetic field forming a magnetization region in which a magnetizable security element is exposed to a magnetic field strength having a defined magnetic field direction. The magnetic field concentrator is formed of a ferromagnetic material. The magnetic field concentrator is arranged in the magnetic field and amplifies and focuses the magnetic field in the magnetization region.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2020Publication date: July 16, 2020Applicant: TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Reinhold Pieper, Armin Meisenberg, Axel Bartos
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Patent number: 10109131Abstract: A measuring device for measuring magnetic properties of the surroundings of the device includes at least one magnetoresistive element extending in a line direction, and a support field device generating a magnetic support field in an area over the line direction. A pre-magnetization device of one or more magnets is arranged at a distance from the sensor line in a direction vertical to the line direction and extending parallel to the line direction. The pre-magnetization device is arranged relative to the sensor line such that the fields of the pre-magnetization device and the support magnetic field overlap to provide an overlapping magnetic field with a field strength component pointing in the line direction that is greater at one location on the sensor line than the strength of a field component pointing vertically toward the line direction and not in the direction of the height of the magnetoresistive element.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2016Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: TE Connectivity Sensors Germany GmbHInventors: Axel Bartos, Armin Meisenberg, Reinhold Pieper
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Patent number: 10008064Abstract: A measuring device for measuring magnetic properties in a vicinity of the measuring device, in connection with a sensor line having sensor elements, includes a magnetization device for generating a magnetic field substantially homogeneous in a region of the sensor line, the field direction of the magnetic field, in the region of the sensor line, being at an angle of greater than 0° and less than 90° to the direction of the sensor line.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2013Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: TE Connectivity Sensors Germany GmbHInventors: Armin Meisenberg, Axel Bartos, Reinhold Pieper
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Publication number: 20170109956Abstract: A measuring device for measuring magnetic properties of the surroundings of the device includes at least one magnetoresistive element extending in a line direction, and a support field device generating a magnetic support field in an area over the line direction. A pre-magnetization device of one or more magnets is arranged at a distance from the sensor line in a direction vertical to the line direction and extending parallel to the line direction. The pre-magnetization device is arranged relative to the sensor line such that the fields of the pre-magnetization device and the support magnetic field overlap to provide an overlapping magnetic field with a field strength component pointing in the line direction that is greater at one location on the sensor line than the strength of a field component pointing vertically toward the line direction and not in the direction of the height of the magnetoresistive element.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2016Publication date: April 20, 2017Inventors: Axel Bartos, Armin Meisenberg, Reinhold Pieper
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Patent number: 9482725Abstract: A measuring device for measuring magnetic properties of the surroundings of the device includes at least one magnetoresistive element extending in a line direction, and a support field device generating a magnetic support field in an area over the line direction. A pre-magnetization device of one or more magnets are arranged at a distance from the sensor line in a direction vertical to the line direction and extending parallel to the line direction. The pre-magnetization device is arranged relative to the sensor line such that the fields of the pre-magnetization device and the support magnetic field overlap to provide an overlapping magnetic field with a field strength component pointing in the line direction that is greater at one location on the sensor line than the strength of a field component pointing vertically toward the line direction not in the direction of the height of the magnetoresistive element.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2012Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: MEAS Deutschland GmbHInventors: Axel Bartos, Armin Meisenberg, Reinhold Pieper
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Patent number: 9297634Abstract: The invention relates to a device for generating a sensor signal, the profile thereof depending on the position of a magnetic field-generating element relative to the device, with at least two magnetically sensitive sensors disposed along a measurement path, wherein a support field device, which generates a magnetic support field in the magnetically sensitive sensors, has at least in the magnetically sensitive sensors an essentially identical direction and an essentially homogeneous field strength.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2011Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: MEAS DEUTSCHLAND GMBHInventors: Axel Bartos, Reinhold Pieper, Francois Limouzineau, Andreas Voss, Armin Meisenberg
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Publication number: 20150348349Abstract: A measuring device for measuring magnetic properties in a vicinity of the measuring device, in connection with a sensor line having sensor elements, includes a magnetization device for generating a magnetic field substantially homogeneous in a region of the sensor line, the field direction of the magnetic field, in the region of the sensor line, being at an angle of greater than 0° and less than 90° to the direction of the sensor line.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2013Publication date: December 3, 2015Inventors: Armin Meisenberg, Axel Bartos, Reinhold Pieper
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Publication number: 20140312894Abstract: A measuring device for measuring magnetic properties of the surroundings of the device includes at least one magnetoresistive element extending in a line direction, and a support field device generating a magnetic support field in an area over the line direction. A pre-magnetization device of one or more magnets are arranged at a distance from the sensor line in a direction vertical to the line direction and extending parallel to the line direction. The pre-magnetization device is arranged relative to the sensor line such that the fields of the pre-magnetization device and the support magnetic field overlap to provide an overlapping magnetic field with a field strength component pointing in the line direction that is greater at one location on the sensor line than the strength of a field component pointing vertically toward the line direction not in the direction of the height of the magnetoresistive element.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2012Publication date: October 23, 2014Inventors: Axel Bartos, Armin Meisenberg, Reinhold Pieper
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Publication number: 20130200887Abstract: The invention relates to a device for generating a sensor signal, the profile thereof depending on the position of a magnetic field-generating element relative to the device, with at least two magnetically sensitive sensors disposed along a measurement path, wherein a support field device, which generates a magnetic support field in the magnetically sensitive sensors, has at least in the magnetically sensitive sensors an essentially identical direction and an essentially homogeneous field strength.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2011Publication date: August 8, 2013Applicant: MEAS DEUTSCHLAND GMBHInventors: Axel Bartos, Reinhold Pieper, Francois Limouzineau, Andreas Voss, Armin Meisenberg
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Patent number: 5750961Abstract: In a method for controlling the actual temperature of an intermittently operated heating means, at least one operating parameter is measured for a predetermined measuring time period (T) during a switch-on interval (86) of the heating means. On the basis of the measured value of the at least one operating parameter, the actual temperature of the heating element is detected. The length of the current switch-on interval (86) is changed in dependence on the result of a comparison between the actual temperature and a predetermined desired temperature. The minimum length of each switch-on interval (86) is equal to the measuring time period (T). The measuring time period (T) is selected to provide that, during the length of the measuring time period (T), the thermal energy supplied to the heating means is less than the thermal energy emitted during the following switch-off interval (88) extending up to the next switch-on interval (86).Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 1995Date of Patent: May 12, 1998Assignee: Imation Corp.Inventors: Heinrich Schug, Reiner Schlickhoff, Reinhold Pieper
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Patent number: 4260240Abstract: In an electrostatic copier including a device for the electrostatic transfer of a toner image disposed on an electrophotographic recording material to an image receiving material whose rear side is chargeable by a corona discharge device composed of an elongate electrically conductive shielding housing and at least one corona discharge wire clamped in an insulated manner between the housing ends, there are provided: a carrier to which the corona discharge device is fixed; a slide member supporting the carrier and with respect to which the carrier is movable between two end positions for setting the distance between the corona discharge device and the surface of the recording material; a control member connected for moving the carrier between its end positions; guide rails extending parallel to the recording material surface and fixed to the copier; and guide elements fixed to the slide member and arranged to travel along the rails to guide the movement of the slide member, the guide elements being removable fType: GrantFiled: November 5, 1979Date of Patent: April 7, 1981Assignee: Olympia Werke AGInventor: Reinhold Pieper