Patents by Inventor Thomas Janz
Thomas Janz 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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Publication number: 20210355999Abstract: A torsional vibration damper comprising an input part arranged about an axis of rotation and an output part arranged such that it can rotate relative to same, about the axis of rotation and against the effect of a spring unit is provided. The spring unit is impacted in the peripheral direction respectively on the input side and the output side, and a torque-limiting unit, including a flange part impacting the spring unit on the output side and lateral parts arranged on both sides of the flange part and forming a frictional connection with same by means of an axial clamping, is arranged between the spring unit and a driven part of the output part. The flange part is clamped between a first and a second lateral part by a disc spring axially supported on a counter bearing of the first lateral part and axially pretensioning the second lateral par against the flange part.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2019Publication date: November 18, 2021Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Thomas Janz, Pascal Strasser, Sascha Büchner
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Patent number: 10476712Abstract: Various embodiments relate to accelerating ramp-down of a modulated signal. In one embodiment, an antenna driver signal is defined and asserted to accelerate ramp-down. The accelerating ramp-down driver signal may include a series of sinusoidal-like pulses asserted at a driver output. The sinusoidal-like pulse may be synchronized by phase to a declining antenna current. Signal properties—such as phase, amplitude, delay, shape and frequency—of the sinusoidal-like pulse may be adopted to affect the ramp-down of the modulated signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2018Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: Microchip Technology IncorporatedInventors: Werner Blatz, Thomas Janz, Robert Dvorszky
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Publication number: 20190190749Abstract: Various embodiments relate to accelerating ramp-down of a modulated signal. In one embodiment, an antenna driver signal is defined and asserted to accelerate ramp-down. The accelerating ramp-down driver signal may include a series of sinusoidal-like pulses asserted at a driver output. The sinusoidal-like pulse may be synchronized by phase to a declining antenna current. Signal properties—such as phase, amplitude, delay, shape and frequency—of the sinusoidal-like pulse may be adopted to affect the ramp-down of the modulated signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2018Publication date: June 20, 2019Inventors: Werner Blatz, Thomas Janz, Robert Dvorszky
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Patent number: 10158336Abstract: In some implementations, an automatic gain control (AGC) circuit comprises: a pre-divider circuit operable to pre-divide an input signal according to a pre-divider circuit setting and output a pre-divided signal; a pre-amplifier operable to pre-amplify the pre-divided signal and output a pre-amplified signal; a post-divider circuit operable to post-divide the pre-amplified signal according to a post-divider circuit setting; an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) operable to generate a digital data stream from the post-divided signal; logic operable to sample the digital data stream; determine a pre-divider circuit setting and a post-divider circuit setting based on the sampled data stream; set the pre-divider circuit and the post-divider circuit based on the determined settings; and generate a received signal strength value based on the pre-divider circuit setting and the post-divider circuit setting.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2017Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: Atmel CorporationInventors: Werner Blatz, Michael Sagebiel, Thomas Janz, Martin Fischer, Daniel Moser, Jan Knopf
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Patent number: 10138951Abstract: A dual clutch having a first clutch which has a first pressure plate that is movable axially relative to a first counterplate for coupling a first clutch disk that is connected to a first output shaft, a second clutch, which has a second pressure plate that is axially movable relative to a second counterplate for coupling a second clutch disk that is connected to a second output shaft, a torsional vibration damper situated in the direction of flux force between the input shaft and the first counterplate wherein the torsional vibration damper includes a dual mass flywheel with a bow spring running in the circumferential direction to transmit torque, where the flux of force is introducible radially on the outside from the input shaft to the first counterplate into the dual mass flywheel, and is dispersible radially on the inside to the bow spring.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2012Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Florian Krebs, Olaf Werner, Nils Fischer, René Daikeler, Philippe Schwederle, Thomas Janz
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Publication number: 20180041179Abstract: In some implementations, an automatic gain control (AGC) circuit comprises: a pre-divider circuit operable to pre-divide an input signal according to a pre-divider circuit setting and output a pre-divided signal; a pre-amplifier operable to pre-amplify the pre-divided signal and output a pre-amplified signal; a post-divider circuit operable to post-divide the pre-amplified signal according to a post-divider circuit setting; an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) operable to generate a digital data stream from the post-divided signal; logic operable to sample the digital data stream; determine a pre-divider circuit setting and a post-divider circuit setting based on the sampled data stream; set the pre-divider circuit and the post-divider circuit based on the determined settings; and generate a received signal strength value based on the pre-divider circuit setting and the post-divider circuit setting.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2017Publication date: February 8, 2018Applicant: Atmel CorporationInventors: Werner Blatz, Michael Sagebiel, Thomas Janz, Martin Fischer, Daniel Moser, Jan Knopf
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Publication number: 20180025303Abstract: A method of behavior assessment or performance prediction, comprising: acquiring a video stream of an interviewee responding to a set of interview prompts or a corpus of documents of a subject; analyzing at least the semantic content of the video stream or corpus; statistically processing, with at least one automated processor, the semantic content according to a correspondence of the interviewee's response or subject's corpus to a set of classified exemplar responses, and a context, to classify the interviewee or subject with respect to the context; and generating at least one output selectively dependent on the classification of the interviewee or subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2017Publication date: January 25, 2018Inventor: John Thomas Janz
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Patent number: 9729119Abstract: In some implementations, an automatic gain control (AGC) circuit comprises: a pre-divider circuit operable to pre-divide an input signal according to a pre-divider circuit setting and output a pre-divided signal; a pre-amplifier operable to pre-amplify the pre-divided signal and output a pre-amplified signal; a post-divider circuit operable to post-divide the pre-amplified signal according to a post-divider circuit setting; an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) operable to generate a digital data stream from the post-divided signal; logic operable to sample the digital data stream; determine a pre-divider circuit setting and a post-divider circuit setting based on the sampled data stream; set the pre-divider circuit and the post-divider circuit based on the determined settings; and generate a received signal strength value based on the pre-divider circuit setting and the post-divider circuit setting.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2016Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: Atmel CorporationInventors: Werner Blatz, Michael Sagebiel, Thomas Janz, Martin Fischer, Daniel Moser, Jan Knopf
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Patent number: 9685925Abstract: In some implementations, an automatic gain control (AGC) circuit comprises: a pre-divider circuit operable to pre-divide an input signal according to a pre-divider circuit setting and output a pre-divided signal; a pre-amplifier operable to pre-amplify the pre-divided signal and output a pre-amplified signal; a post-divider circuit operable to post-divide the pre-amplified signal according to a post-divider circuit setting; an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) operable to generate a digital data stream from the post-divided signal; logic operable to sample the digital data stream; determine a pre-divider circuit setting and a post-divider circuit setting based on the sampled data stream; set the pre-divider circuit and the post-divider circuit based on the determined settings; and generate a received signal strength value based on the pre-divider circuit setting and the post-divider circuit setting.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2016Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: Atmel CorporationInventors: Werner Blatz, Michael Sagebiel, Thomas Janz, Martin Fischer, Daniel Moser, Jan Knopf
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Patent number: 9294300Abstract: A battery management and protection system includes a string of battery management and protection integrated circuit devices that may be connected to one another in a daisy chain configuration. Some of the devices can be electrically connected to one or more battery cells. Each device includes an inter-device communication interface comprising a daisy chain line driver. The system includes a controller external to the string of devices and a bi-directional connection lines connecting each device in the string to an upstream and/or downstream device in the string. The system can allow the external controller to access any single one of the devices in the daisy chain, any subset of the devices in the daisy chain, or all the devices in the daisy chain using a single command that is transmitted from one device to the next over a bi-directional connection line.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2012Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: Atmel CorporationInventors: Thomas Janz, Christian Bechter, Alexander Scholz
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Publication number: 20130265009Abstract: A battery management and protection system includes a string of battery management and protection integrated circuit devices that may be connected to one another in a daisy chain configuration. Some of the devices can be electrically connected to one or more battery cells. Each device includes an inter-device communication interface comprising a daisy chain line driver. The system includes a controller external to the string of devices and a bi-directional connection lines connecting each device in the string to an upstream and/or downstream device in the string. The system can allow the external controller to access any single one of the devices in the daisy chain, any subset of the devices in the daisy chain, or all the devices in the daisy chain using a single command that is transmitted from one device to the next over a bi-directional connection line.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2012Publication date: October 10, 2013Applicant: ATMEL CORPORATIONInventors: Thomas Janz, Christian Bechter, Alexander Scholz
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Patent number: 8552899Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a first analog signal at a first input; receiving a second analog signal at a second input; mixing the first analog signal with a first oscillator signal having a first frequency; mixing the second analog signal with a second oscillator signal having a second frequency; converting a sum signal to a digital signal; generating a first control signal based on a first digital value of a first function and the digital signal; and generating a second control signal based on a second digital value of a second function and the digital signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2011Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: Atmel Automotive GmbHInventors: Lourans Samid, Johannes Schaefer, Thomas Janz
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Publication number: 20120075135Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a first analog signal at a first input; receiving a second analog signal at a second input; mixing the first analog signal with a first oscillator signal having a first frequency; mixing the second analog signal with a second oscillator signal having a second frequency; converting a sum signal to a digital signal; generating a first control signal based on a first digital value of a first function and the digital signal; and generating a second control signal based on a second digital value of a second function and the digital signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2011Publication date: March 29, 2012Inventors: Lourans Samid, Johannes Schaefer, Thomas Janz