Patents by Inventor Steffen Waldenmeier

Steffen Waldenmeier 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: 10873141
    Abstract: An electrical contact assembly for connecting a press-in contact to an electronic circuit includes a circuit board, which is provided with the electronic circuit, a receiving opening for pressing in a press-in contact, which receiving opening is continuously provided with an electrically conductive inner wall, and at least one conducting track of the circuit board, which conducting track is electrically connected to the inner wall and to the electronic circuit. The receiving opening is formed on a contact body electrically connected to the conducting track, which contact body is applied to a component side of the circuit board as an SMT-capable component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Steffen Waldenmeier, Uwe Katzenwadel
  • Publication number: 20200052423
    Abstract: An electrical contact assembly for connecting a press-in contact to an electronic circuit includes a circuit board, which is provided with the electronic circuit, a receiving opening for pressing in a press-in contact, which receiving opening is continuously provided with an electrically conductive inner wall, and at least one conducting track of the circuit board, which conducting track is electrically connected to the inner wall and to the electronic circuit. The receiving opening is formed on a contact body electrically connected to the conducting track, which contact body is applied to a component side of the circuit board as an SMT-capable component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Steffen Waldenmeier, Uwe Katzenwadel
  • Patent number: 8863576
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a sensor, in particular for recording rotational speed. At least one stamped grid is provided for electrically contacting the sensor, in particular a sensor element of the sensor. In addition, at least one homogenization plate is provided for influencing a magnetic field, the stamped grid and the homogenization plate being connected by at least one holder. The holder fixes the stamped grid and the homogenization plate in place positively and/or non-positively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Mai, Steffen Waldenmeier, Uwe Katzenwadel, Martin Gerhaeusser
  • Patent number: 8729888
    Abstract: A magnetic transducer configuration may include a permanent magnet element magnetized in its longitudinal direction having a pole transition. The permanent magnet element has a cross section in the pole transition section, which is larger than the cross section of the permanent magnet element in an area outside of the pole transition section. A magnetic position sensor may include a magnetic field sensor array and magnetic transducer configuration. The magnetic field sensor array and the magnetic transducer configuration are situated displaceably in the longitudinal direction in a plane-parallel manner. The magnetic field sensor array has at least one magnetic field sensor lying in a path along which the permanent magnet element moves during displacement of the magnetic transducer configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen Herderich, Steffen Waldenmeier, Patrick Calandrini, Andrea Deflorio, Olivier Kukawka
  • Publication number: 20120125106
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a sensor, in particular for recording rotational speed. At least one stamped grid is provided for electrically contacting the sensor, in particular a sensor element of the sensor. In addition, at least one homogenization plate is provided for influencing a magnetic field, the stamped grid and the homogenization plate being connected by at least one holder. The holder fixes the stamped grid and the homogenization plate in place positively and/or non-positively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2010
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Inventors: Frank Mai, Steffen Waldenmeier, Uwe Katzenwadel, Martin Gerhaeusser
  • Publication number: 20110234207
    Abstract: A magnetic transducer configuration is described having at least one permanent magnet element, which is magnetized in its longitudinal direction and has a pole transition of the longitudinal section having a pole transition. The permanent magnet element has a cross section in the pole transition of the longitudinal section, which is larger than the cross section of the permanent magnet element in an area outside of the pole transition of the longitudinal section. A magnetic position sensor is also described having a magnetic field sensor array and the magnetic transducer configuration according to the present invention. The magnetic field sensor array and the magnetic transducer configuration are situated displaceably in the longitudinal direction to one another in a plane-parallel manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen HERDERICH, Steffen Waldenmeier, Patrick Calandrini, Andrea Deflorio, Olivier Kukawka
  • Patent number: 7608346
    Abstract: A magnetic field sensor, in particular an rpm sensor and/or rotational direction sensor and/or position sensor for the drive train of a motor vehicle, has a sensor array, with a sensor element that responds to a magnetic field, and optionally with a permanent magnet, the latter being sheathed with plastic jointly with the sensor array and parts of terminal conductor tracks, and the conductor tracks are embodied in one piece with a fixing element for the permanent magnet and the sensor array as a stamped grid, wherein stamped grid is shaped as a three-dimensional structure which carries the sensor array and optionally embraces the permanent magnet in the manner of a mount, and the mount and the terminal conductor tracks are first stamped out from a metal sheet as a gridlike developed form, and then deformed to form the mount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Braun, Andreas Herzberger, Steffen Waldenmeier
  • Publication number: 20080315681
    Abstract: A device and a method for recovering energy during a braking operation of a hybrid vehicle which includes an electric machine in addition to an internal combustion engine, as well as a hydraulic or pneumatic brake system which is operated by a foot brake pedal). The recovery device includes a pedal position transducer which detects at least an actuation of the foot brake pedal in an initial range, and an electronic system which evaluates the signal of the pedal position transducer and activates the electric machine accordingly in generator mode when the driver actuates the foot brake pedal in the initial range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2006
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventors: Steffen Waldenmeier, Peter Ahner, Klaus Beulich
  • Publication number: 20060132126
    Abstract: A magnetic field sensor, in particular an rpm sensor and/or rotational direction sensor and/or position sensor for the drive train of a motor vehicle, has a sensor array, with a sensor element that responds to a magnetic field, and optionally with a permanent magnet, the latter being sheathed with plastic jointly with the sensor array and parts of terminal conductor tracks, and the conductor tracks are embodied in one piece with a fixing element for the permanent magnet and the sensor array as a stamped grid, wherein stamped grid is shaped as a three-dimensional structure which carries the sensor array and optionally embraces the permanent magnet in the manner of a mount, and the mount and the terminal conductor tracks are first stamped out from a metal sheet as a gridlike developed form, and then deformed to form the mount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2005
    Publication date: June 22, 2006
    Inventors: Alexander Braun, Andreas Herzberger, Steffen Waldenmeier