Patents by Inventor Thomas Ostertag

Thomas Ostertag 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: 6121892
    Abstract: An SAW identification or sensor configuration or ID tag operating with surface acoustic waves for information systems, includes acousto-electrically active components disposed in different acoustic tracks on a piezoelectric substrate. A diverter acoustically couples the components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2000
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Leonhard Reindl, Thomas Ostertag, Werner Ruile
  • Patent number: 6104181
    Abstract: Voltmeter for medium/high-voltage devices, which has a surface-wave device (21) as the voltmeter element proper. This surface-wave device is incorporated into an impedance voltage divider (5, 6), of a type known in principle, in such a way that both electrical high-voltage insulation is ensured and power supply problems of the voltmeter element which is at high potential are ruled out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2000
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellchaft
    Inventors: Ansgar Muller, Reinhard Maier, Wolf-Eckhart Bulst, Thomas Ostertag
  • Patent number: 6084503
    Abstract: Radio-interrogated surface-wave technology sensor, in which the sensitive element (12) is an impedance which is electrically connected as termination to a surface-wave structure (26) of the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2000
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Werner Ruile, Gerd Scholl, Thomas Ostertag, Leonhard Reindl, Valentin Magori
  • Patent number: 6081729
    Abstract: An encapsulated tubular conductor having at least two antenna elements disposed on the capsule thereof for maintaining therebetween wireless information transmission in a transmitting-receiving direction, and a transmitting-receiving device located outside the capsule and assigned to one of the antenna elements includes another transmitting/receiving device also disposed outside the capsule and assigned to the other of the antenna elements, the antenna elements being directed towards an interior space of the capsule, the interior space serving as a transfer path via which information is transferable between the transmitting-receiving devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2000
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Bauerschmidt, Ottmar Beierl, Gerd Scholl, Oliver Sczesny, Wolf-Eckhart Bulst, Valentin Magori, Thomas Ostertag, Leonhard Reindl, Dieter Lorenz
  • Patent number: 6020821
    Abstract: A method for detecting the position of a switching device and an encapsulated switching installation having at least one switching device. A transmitted signal is emitted into the interior of an encapsulation to make it possible to easily detect the position of a switching device in an encapsulated switching installation. A resultant reflection signal is received and stored. After a repetition of this process, the two received reflection signals are compared with one another. In the event of any discrepancy, a message signal is produced for the new switching state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2000
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Bauerschmidt, Ottmar Beierl, Wolf-Eckhart Bulst, Valentin Magori, Thomas Ostertag, Leonhard Reindl, Gerd Scholl, Oliver Sczesny, Dieter Lorenz
  • Patent number: 6014083
    Abstract: A metalclad switchgear assembly for high or medium voltage, having a cladding, includes at least one sensor arranged in an interior space of the cladding for detecting a condition variable within the cladding, the sensor having an antenna; and a transmitting and receiving antenna directed towards the interior space, the transmitting and receiving antenna serving for performing a wireless information interchange with the sensor, and for simultaneously detecting electromagnetically partial discharges in the interior space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2000
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Bauerschmidt, Ottmar Beierl, Wolf-Eckhart Bulst, Valentin Magori, Thomas Ostertag, Leonhard Reindl, Gerd Scholl, Oliver Sczesny, Dieter Lorenz
  • Patent number: 5966008
    Abstract: A radio-interrogated, surface-wave technology current transformer for high/medium-voltage systems includes a magnetosensitive element connected to a surface-wave structure of a surface-wave configuration as a termination of the surface-wave structure. A response signal of the surface-wave configuration is information regarding current strength/direction and phase of the current instantaneously flowing through the system, which is evaluated by a ground station. By virtue of the radio transmission, there is no electrical insulation problem, and the use of a radio-interrogated surface-wave configuration makes that part of the overall current transducer which is at high potential into a passive element of the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1999
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Reinhard Maier, Wolf-Eckhart Bulst, Thomas Ostertag, Oliver Sczesny, Wolfgang Schelter, Leonhard Reindl, Werner Ruile, Gerd Scholl, Jurgen Michel
  • Patent number: 5841214
    Abstract: An identification mark operating with acoustical surface waves includes at least one reflector having higher reflectivity than a reflectivity of other reflectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1998
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Frank Schmidt, Valentin Magori, Leonhard Reindl, Thomas Ostertag
  • Patent number: 5739419
    Abstract: An apparatus for monitoring the vacuum of a vacuum switch having at least one vacuum switch tube with a switch chamber and switch contacts is provided. The apparatus has a remotely interrogatable pressure measurement sensor in the form of a piezocrystal or surface acoustic (SAW) device arranged in the interior of the vacuum switch tube and a remote interrogation device placed external to the vacuum switch for monitoring the vacuum via the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1998
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Reinhard Maier, Wolf-Eckhart Bulst, Thomas Ostertag, Oliver Sczesny
  • Patent number: 5691698
    Abstract: An identification and/or sensor system includes an identification and/or sensor configuration having resonators for determining at least one parameter to be interrogated. The resonators have a quality being good enough to effect a storage of energy in the resonators. A transmitting and receiving apparatus transmits interrogation signals by radio to the identification and/or sensor configuration and receives and evaluates reply signals transmitted back from the identification and/or sensor configuration. The transmitting and receiving apparatus is a broadband device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 25, 1997
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Gerd Scholl, Leonhard Reindl, Werner Ruile, Thomas Ostertag