Patents by Inventor Tobias Quintern

Tobias Quintern 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).

  • Method of communication between a vehicle and a wayside control unit for controlling an inductive energy transfer to the vehicle, a vehicle, a wayside control unit and an arrangement of a vehicle and a wayside control unit
    Patent number: 10173541
    Abstract: A method of detecting a correct position and/or orientation of a secondary winding structure of a secondary unit relative to a primary winding structure of a primary unit of a system for inductive power transfer to a vehicle, wherein the vehicle includes the secondary unit for receiving an alternating electromagnetic field which is generated by the primary unit, wherein the vehicle includes at least a first transmitter for transmitting a first signal and a second transmitter for transmitting a second signal, wherein a wayside control unit includes at least one receiving means for receiving the first and the second signal, and wherein the correct position and/or orientation of the secondary winding structure of the secondary unit relative to the primary winding structure of the primary unit is detected depending on the first and the second signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Bombardier Primove GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Wierse, Tobias Quintern, Thoralf Schnarr
  • Method of Communication Between a Vehicle and a Wayside Control Unit for Controlling an Inductive Energy Transfer to the Vehicle, A Vehicle, A Wayside Control Unit and an Arrangement of a Vehicle and a Wayside Control Unit
    Publication number: 20160347187
    Abstract: A method of detecting a correct position and/or orientation of a secondary winding structure of a secondary unit relative to a primary winding structure of a primary unit of a system for inductive power transfer to a vehicle, wherein the vehicle includes the secondary unit for receiving an alternating electromagnetic field which is generated by the primary unit, wherein the vehicle includes at least a first transmitter for transmitting a first signal and a second transmitter for transmitting a second signal, wherein a wayside control unit includes at least one receiving means for receiving the first and the second signal, and wherein the correct position and/or orientation of the secondary winding structure of the secondary unit relative to the primary winding structure of the primary unit is detected depending on the first and the second signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventors: Ralf Wierse, Tobias Quintern, Thoralf Schnarr