Patents by Inventor Steffen Schnabel

Steffen Schnabel 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: 20020125942
    Abstract: A comparator circuit and voltage level detector comprising such comparator circuit including a first operational amplifier having a differential input, first and second voltage dividers being coupled to, respectively, a variable and a constant voltage source, outputs thereof being coupled to the differential input for supplying a differential input voltage thereto. The first operational amplifier having an output being coupled to its differential input and providing an output voltage stepwise varying between first and second voltage levels at an inversion of the differential input voltage. In order to lower power consumption and increase the accuracy of level detection, one of the first and second voltage dividers is being provided with a stepwise variable voltage dividing factor, which is controlled by the output voltage of the first operational amplifier to increase the magnitude of the differential input voltage by a step value upon such inversion of the differential input voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2002
    Publication date: September 12, 2002
    Inventors: Joachim Dunnebacke, Steffen Schnabel