Patents by Inventor Reinhold Roedel

Reinhold Roedel 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).

  • Publication number: 20240147862
    Abstract: A method for producing a microelectromechanical oscillation system. A carrier substrate having a first surface is provided. A circumferential first trench is produced, which extends from the first surface at least partially through the carrier substrate. A passivation layer is applied to the first surface of the first carrier substrate and the first circumferential trench is at least partially filled with the passivation layer. A first polysilicon layer is grown on the passivation layer and/or the first surface of the carrier substrate. A transducer element of the microelectromechanical oscillation system is arranged on a second surface of the first polysilicon layer. A second trench is produced through the carrier substrate in the direction of the transducer element, which extends up to the passivation layer so that the oscillatable transducer plate of the microelectromechanical oscillation system is produced adjacent to the second trench using the first polysilicon layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Isabelle Raible, Jan David Brehm, Johannes Baader, Reinhold Roedel, Timo Schary
  • Patent number: 11959802
    Abstract: A spectrometer device includes an optical interference filter which is designed to filter specific wavelength ranges of an incident light beam on passage through the optical interference filter. The spectrometer device also includes a detector device which is designed to detect the filtered light beam. Further, the spectrometer device includes a focusing device with a reflective surface. The focusing device is designed to focus the filtered light beam onto the detector device by reflection on the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Noltemeyer, Martin Husnik, Eugen Baumgart, Marc Schmid, Reinhold Roedel, Benedikt Stein, Christoph Schelling, Christoph Daniel Kraemmer
  • Patent number: 11754445
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an interferometer element for use in a spectrometer which includes a micromechanical Fabry-Perot filter element, which has at least a first mirror element, a second mirror element, and a third mirror element. Each of the first mirror element, the second mirror element, and the third mirror element are arranged in series in an optical path of the interferometer element, and at least one of a first distance between the first and second mirror elements, and a second distance between the second and third mirror elements is modifiable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Noltemeyer, Benedikt Stein, Christian Huber, Christoph Schelling, Christoph Daniel Kraemmer, Reinhold Roedel
  • Patent number: 11709354
    Abstract: A micromechanical mirror device, a mirror system, and a method for producing a micromechanical mirror device are disclosed. The mirror device comprises a first mirror element, which is flat, and a second mirror element, which is flat. The first and second mirror elements are arranged substantially plane-parallel. An intermediate space between the first and second mirror elements has a lower index of refraction than one or both of the first mirror element and second mirror element. The first and second mirror elements are locally spaced apart from each other by at least one support structure. The support structure overlaps with the first and second mirror elements in an axial direction, which is perpendicular to the first and second mirror elements. The support structure includes a material that is different from a material from which one or both of the first and second mirror elements are formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Huber, Marc Schmid, Reinhold Roedel, Christoph Schelling, Christoph Daniel Kraemmer
  • Patent number: 11604093
    Abstract: A spectrometer device includes a Fabry-Perot interferometer unit, which comprises a first carrier substrate, wherein the first carrier substrate is arranged on a lower side of the Fabry-Perot interferometer unit and includes an optical aperture. The spectrometer includes at least one of a first substrate, which is arranged on an upper side of the Fabry-Perot interferometer unit, which faces away from the lower side, and a second substrate with the first carrier substrate arranged with the lower side on the second substrate. The spectrometer further includes a photodetector device arranged on or in the at least one of the second substrate and the first substrate. A first electrical connection region of the photodetector device and a second electrical connection region of the Fabry-Perot interferometer unit are electrically contacted from the same direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Husnik, Christian Huber, Reinhold Roedel, Benedikt Stein, Christoph Schelling
  • Publication number: 20230009789
    Abstract: An ultrasound transducer of a vehicle system includes a support member that attaches to and connects to the bottom portion of a membrane of the ultrasound transducer and supports the membrane, wherein the support member includes one or more cantilevers with a first end attaching to the membrane and a second end attaching to a support portion of the support member that attaches to the substrate, wherein the cantilever extends across and floats above the substrate, wherein the first end of the cantilever includes a stub extending away from a surface of the cantilever, wherein the stub extends away from the surface without contacting the substrate, wherein the one or more cantilevers includes one or more piezoelectric layers on the surface of the cantilever.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Seow Yuen YEE, Vladimir PETKOV, Matthias BOECKER, Timo SCHARY, Reinhold ROEDEL
  • Patent number: 11391629
    Abstract: An interferometer includes a holding element having an actuation recess, a first mirror element arranged on the holding element opposite the actuation recess, and a second mirror element arranged opposite the first mirror element at a mirror distance, to form an optical slit. The first mirror element is arranged between the second mirror element and the holding element and the optical slit is spatially separated from the actuation recess by the first mirror element. The interferometer further includes an electrode pair including a first actuation electrode in one of the mirror elements and a second actuation electrode on a side of the actuation recess opposite the first actuation electrode. The mirror distance can be varied by applying an electrical voltage to the electrode pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Noltemeyer, Christian Huber, Reinhold Roedel, Benedikt Stein, Christoph Schelling, Christoph Daniel Kraemmer
  • Publication number: 20220221709
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a mirror device for an interferometer device including a first mirror layer and a second mirror layer, which are arranged in parallel on top of one another and spaced apart from one another by a mirror layer spacing. The mirror layer spacing forms an intermediate space between the first and the second mirror layer. The intermediate space includes a gas or a vacuum, and at least one spacing structure which extends at least partially between the first and the second mirror layer. The spacing structure has a material that is the same as or different from the first and/or second mirror layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Christoph Schelling, Christoph Daniel Kraemmer, Reinhold Roedel
  • Patent number: 11346721
    Abstract: An interferometer device includes an interferometer unit with at least two mirrors disposed in parallel, wherein at least one of the mirrors is actuatable parallel to the other mirror and a first distance between the two mirrors is alterable. The interferometer device further includes at least one deflection mirror disposed downstream of the interferometer unit in a light transmission direction of light from the interferometer unit and a detector device, onto which the light is able to be aligned by the deflection mirror. The detector device includes at least two differently sensitive detection regions for transmitted wavelengths or wavelength ranges of the light, which detection regions are spatially separated from one another and able to be irradiated separately by the deflection mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Daniel Kraemmer, Maximilian Busch, Michael Kutschbach, Reinhold Roedel
  • Publication number: 20220042847
    Abstract: A spectrometer device includes an optical interference filter which is designed to filter specific wavelength ranges of an incident light beam on passage through the optical interference filter. The spectrometer device also includes a detector device which is designed to detect the filtered light beam. Further, the spectrometer device includes a focusing device with a reflective surface. The focusing device is designed to focus the filtered light beam onto the detector device by reflection on the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Ralf Noltemeyer, Martin Husnik, Eugen Baumgart, Marc Schmid, Reinhold Roedel, Benedikt Stein, Christoph Schelling, Christoph Daniel Kraemmer
  • Publication number: 20220003534
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an interferometer including a substrate, and an intermediate layer region applied on the substrate. A first mirror device and a second mirror device are aligned plane-parallel with one another and are separated from one another by a first distance and are framed in or on the intermediate layer region, the intermediate layer region removed in at least one of an inner region below the first mirror device and below the second mirror device. A laterally structured electrode including a first subregion and a second laterally separated subregion which are configured to be connected to different electrical potentials. The electrode arranged at a second distance from the first or the second mirror device, the first subregion extending in the inner region and arranged on the intermediate layer region and the second subregion extending in an outer region of the intermediate layer region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Benedikt Stein, Martin Husnik, Christoph Schelling, Thomas Buck, Christoph Daniel Kraemmer, Reinhold Roedel
  • Publication number: 20210356321
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an interferometer element for use in a spectrometer which includes a micromechanical Fabry-Perot filter element, which has at least a first mirror element, a second mirror element, and a third mirror element. Each of the first mirror element, the second mirror element, and the third mirror element are arranged in series in an optical path of the interferometer element, and at least one of a first distance between the first and second mirror elements, and a second distance between the second and third mirror elements is modifiable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Ralf Noltemeyer, Benedikt Stein, Christian Huber, Christoph Schelling, Christoph Daniel Kraemmer, Reinhold Roedel
  • Publication number: 20210262858
    Abstract: An interferometer includes a holding element having an actuation recess, a first mirror element arranged on the holding element opposite the actuation recess, and a second mirror element arranged opposite the first mirror element at a mirror distance, to form an optical slit. The first mirror element is arranged between the second mirror element and the holding element and the optical slit is spatially separated from the actuation recess by the first mirror element. The interferometer further includes an electrode pair including a first actuation electrode in one of the mirror elements and a second actuation electrode on a side of the actuation recess opposite the first actuation electrode. The mirror distance can be varied by applying an electrical voltage to the electrode pair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Ralf Noltemeyer, Christian Huber, Reinhold Roedel, Benedikt Stein, Christoph Schelling, Christoph Daniel Kraemmer
  • Publication number: 20210164836
    Abstract: A spectrometer device includes a Fabry-Perot interferometer unit, which comprises a first carrier substrate, wherein the first carrier substrate is arranged on a lower side of the Fabry-Perot interferometer unit and includes an optical aperture. The spectrometer includes at least one of a first substrate, which is arranged on an upper side of the Fabry-Perot interferometer unit, which faces away from the lower side, and a second substrate with the first carrier substrate arranged with the lower side on the second substrate. The spectrometer further includes a photodetector device arranged on or in the at least one of the second substrate and the first substrate. A first electrical connection region of the photodetector device and a second electrical connection region of the Fabry-Perot interferometer unit are electrically contacted from the same direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Martin Husnik, Christian Huber, Reinhold Roedel, Benedikt Stein, Christoph Schelling
  • Publication number: 20210033847
    Abstract: A micromechanical mirror device, a mirror system, and a method for producing a micromechanical mirror device are disclosed. The mirror device comprises a first mirror element, which is flat, and a second mirror element, which is flat. The first and second mirror elements are arranged substantially plane-parallel. An intermediate space between the first and second mirror elements has a lower index of refraction than one or both of the first mirror element and second mirror element. The first and second mirror elements are locally spaced apart from each other by at least one support structure. The support structure overlaps with the first and second mirror elements in an axial direction, which is perpendicular to the first and second mirror elements. The support structure includes a material that is different from a material from which one or both of the first and second mirror elements are formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Christian Huber, Marc Schmid, Reinhold Roedel, Christoph Schelling, Christoph Daniel Kraemmer
  • Publication number: 20210010866
    Abstract: An interferometer device includes an interferometer unit with at least two mirrors disposed in parallel, wherein at least one of the mirrors is actuatable parallel to the other mirror and a first distance between the two mirrors is alterable. The interferometer device further includes at least one deflection mirror disposed downstream of the interferometer unit in a light transmission direction of light from the interferometer unit and a detector device, onto which the light is able to be aligned by the deflection mirror. The detector device includes at least two differently sensitive detection regions for transmitted wavelengths or wavelength ranges of the light, which detection regions are spatially separated from one another and able to be irradiated separately by the deflection mirror.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Christoph Daniel Kraemmer, Maximilian Busch, Michael Kutschbach, Reinhold Roedel
  • Patent number: 9845063
    Abstract: Motor vehicle is provided with a first onboard power supply with a first voltage source which provides a first onboard power supply voltage and with a second onboard power supply with a second voltage source which provides a second onboard power supply voltage different from the first onboard power supply voltage, wherein the two onboard power supply voltages are direct-current voltages, wherein at least one power supply isolating device connects a connection point of the first onboard power supply and a connection point of the second onboard power supply, wherein the power supply isolating device includes at least one semiconductor device, wherein the power supply isolating device has a reverse direction and a forward direction, and wherein the forward direction of the power supply isolating device is directed from the first onboard power supply into the second onboard power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Reinhold Rödel
  • Publication number: 20160144810
    Abstract: Motor vehicle is provided with a first onboard power supply with a first voltage source which provides a first onboard power supply voltage and with a second onboard power supply with a second voltage source which provides a second onboard power supply voltage different from the first onboard power supply voltage, wherein the two onboard power supply voltages are direct-current voltages, wherein at least one power supply isolating device connects a connection point of the first onboard power supply and a connection point of the second onboard power supply, wherein the power supply isolating device includes at least one semiconductor device, wherein the power supply isolating device has a reverse direction and a forward direction, and wherein the forward direction of the power supply isolating device is directed from the first onboard power supply into the second onboard power supply.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Inventor: Reinhold Rödel
  • Patent number: 6545439
    Abstract: An electric motor for driving a component, such as a vehicle window lifter or a machine tool, functions as a generator, when the motor drive voltage is switched off and the motor is short circuited. The motor keeps running due to inertia or other influences. During this period after switch-off a generator voltage and respective generator current are produced. The generator current is measured for various purposes, preferably in combination with a measured r.p.m. signal. The generator current signal alone, or in combination with the r.p.m. signal, is evaluated to provide information regarding the motion of the driven component including information regarding the motion direction and position of the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Georg Kaeufl, Erwin Kessler, Erich Liepold, Werner Pollersbeck, Reinhold Roedel, Wolfgang Schulter, Klaus Spreng
  • Publication number: 20020008483
    Abstract: An electric motor for driving a component, such as a vehicle window lifter or a machine tool, functions as a generator, when the motor drive voltage is switched off and the motor is short circuited. The motor keeps running due to inertia or other influences. During this period after switch-off a generator voltage and respective generator current are produced. The generator current is measured for various purposes, preferably in combination with a measured r.p.m. signal. The generator current signal alone, or in combination with the r.p.m. signal, is evaluated to provide information regarding the motion of the driven component including information regarding the motion direction and position of the component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2001
    Publication date: January 24, 2002
    Inventors: Georg Kaeufl, Erwin Kessler, Erich Liepold, Werner Pollersbeck, Reinhold Roedel, Wolfgang Schulter, Klaus Spreng