Patents by Inventor Thomas Schuermann

Thomas Schuermann 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: 20260133231
    Abstract: An impedance measurement system including: a signal generator including a memory and arranged to generate a digital test signal and at least one digital demodulation signal based on the memory, wherein the digital test signal has a first frequency and the at least one digital demodulation signal has the first frequency; a single pin for providing to a Device Under Test (DUT), an analogue test signal based on the digital test signal and measuring, in response to providing the analogue test signal to the DUT, an analogue input signal; and a demodulator configured to obtain: a first filtered digital signal based on the input signal; and the at least one digital demodulation signal to produce at least one digital demodulated signal indicative of the impedance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2024
    Publication date: May 14, 2026
    Applicant: Renesas Electronics America Inc.
    Inventors: Norbert GREITSCHUS, Thomas SCHUERMANN
  • Patent number: 9766097
    Abstract: In a monitoring unit for monitoring position signals of incremental position-measuring devices, at least two position signals are applied on the input side that result from the scanning of an incremental graduation track by a scanning unit and that are out-of-phase with each other. The monitoring unit includes a signal logic unit with which at least two position-dependent status data words are able to be generated from different position signals, and an evaluation unit to which the status data words are supplied, in which invalid statuses are ascertainable by comparing the status data words, and an error signal is able to be generated in response to an ascertained invalid status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: DR. JOHANNES HEIDENHAIN GMBH
    Inventors: Ingo Joachimsthaler, Thomas Mueller, Thomas Schuermann
  • Patent number: 8825439
    Abstract: A multiturn rotary encoder includes a singleturn code disk which is joined in rotatably fixed manner to a shaft and which has a code track that is scannable by a singleturn scanning unit to ascertain the absolute position within one revolution of the shaft, a multiturn unit for measuring revolution data which are suitable for ascertaining the number of revolutions performed by the shaft, and an evaluation unit which is connected to the multiturn unit via at least two digital interfaces for transmitting the revolution data. The revolution data include at least two data words which have a different rate of change during rotation of the shaft, the interface for transmitting the data word having the highest rate of change to the evaluation unit is a parallel interface, and the interface for transmitting the data word having the lowest rate of change to the evaluation unit is a serial interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Dr. Johannes Heidenhain GmbH
    Inventors: Elmar Mayer, Thomas Schuermann, Michael Walter
  • Publication number: 20120136625
    Abstract: In a monitoring unit for monitoring position signals of incremental position-measuring devices, at least two position signals are applied on the input side that result from the scanning of an incremental graduation track by a scanning unit and that are out-of-phase with each other. The monitoring unit includes a signal logic unit with which at least two position-dependent status data words are able to be generated from different position signals, and an evaluation unit to which the status data words are supplied, in which invalid statuses are ascertainable by comparing the status data words, and an error signal is able to be generated in response to an ascertained invalid status.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Inventors: Ingo Joachimsthaler, Thomas Mueller, Thomas Schuermann
  • Publication number: 20110196648
    Abstract: A multiturn rotary encoder includes a singleturn code disk which is joined in rotatably fixed manner to a shaft and which has a code track that is scannable by a singleturn scanning unit to ascertain the absolute position within one revolution of the shaft, a multiturn unit for measuring revolution data which are suitable for ascertaining the number of revolutions performed by the shaft, and an evaluation unit which is connected to the multiturn unit via at least two digital interfaces for transmitting the revolution data. The revolution data include at least two data words which have a different rate of change during rotation of the shaft, the interface for transmitting the data word having the highest rate of change to the evaluation unit is a parallel interface, and the interface for transmitting the data word having the lowest rate of change to the evaluation unit is a serial interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Inventors: Elmar Mayer, Thomas Schuermann, Michael Walter
  • Patent number: 7770304
    Abstract: A position-measuring device includes a code and a scanning unit. The code includes a sequence of code elements arranged one after the other in a measuring direction, at least two successive code elements in each case forming one code word having position information. The scanning unit includes a lighting unit for emitting directed light in the direction of the code for imaging at least the code elements forming code word onto a detector unit, the detector unit having in measuring direction at least two detector elements per code element forming code word, as well as an evaluation unit in which the code word having the instantaneous position information is ascertainable from the detector signals of the detector elements. The scanning unit and the code are arranged in a manner allowing movement relative to each other in measuring direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Dr. Johannes Heidenhain GmbH
    Inventors: Johann Oberhauser, Thomas Schuermann
  • Publication number: 20090161121
    Abstract: A position-measuring device includes a code and a scanning unit. The code includes a sequence of code elements arranged one after the other in a measuring direction, at least two successive code elements in each case forming one code word having position information. The scanning unit includes a lighting unit for emitting directed light in the direction of the code for imaging at least the code elements forming code word onto a detector unit, the detector unit having in measuring direction at least two detector elements per code element forming code word, as well as an evaluation unit in which the code word having the instantaneous position information is ascertainable from the detector signals of the detector elements. The scanning unit and the code are arranged in a manner allowing movement relative to each other in measuring direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2008
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Inventors: Johann OBERHAUSER, Thomas Schuermann