Patents by Inventor Tore Toennesen

Tore Toennesen 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: 7663533
    Abstract: A radar system for motor vehicles, having a least one radar sensor having a range of less than 50 m for monitoring traffic in an adjacent lane, wherein the radar sensor has a phase-controlled antenna and a control device for setting a plurality of radar lobes having different geometries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Tore Toennesen, Frank Gottwald, Thomas Binzer
  • Publication number: 20080278393
    Abstract: In an antenna system, lens elements are provided in or on the radome for beam formation and/or for influencing the gain of the antenna system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2005
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Inventors: Frank Gottwald, Klaus Voigtlander, Tore Toennesen, Thomas Binzer
  • Patent number: 7363194
    Abstract: A control/evaluation system for a set of sensors, in particular in motor vehicles, has a plurality of areas, each of which has at least one controller and a plurality of sensor devices connected thereto; the controllers may be connected to each other for a common application function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2008
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Schlick, Juergen Hoetzel, Uwe Zimmermann, Rainer Moritz, Bernhard Lucas, Tore Toennesen, Hermann Winner, Martin Hueppauff, Werner Uhler, Joachim Bulla, Dirk Schmid
  • Publication number: 20070222662
    Abstract: A radar system for motor vehicles, having a least one radar sensor having a range of less than 50 m for monitoring traffic in an adjacent lane, wherein the radar sensor has a phase-controlled antenna and a control device for setting a plurality of radar lobes having different geometries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2004
    Publication date: September 27, 2007
    Inventors: Tore Toennesen, Frank Gottwald, Thomas Binzer
  • Patent number: 7167125
    Abstract: A pulse radar system has a high-frequency source, which supplies a continuous high-frequency signal and is connected on the one side with a transmission-side pulse modulator and on the other side with two separately controllable pulse modulators in at least one receive path. Mixers are situated downstream from pulse modulators, respectively. The mixers evaluate a radar pulse reflected by an object together with the signal of the high-frequency source. The pulse radar system allows different modes of operation that may be changed in a simple manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2007
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Gottwald, Michael Schlick, Tore Toennesen, Jens Haensel
  • Patent number: 7148762
    Abstract: A method for tuning a resonator in an oscillator is provided. A dielectric serving as a resonator in the oscillator is trimmed in a targeted manner by laser pulses until a target frequency for the resonator is reached. The lasers used may be excimer lasers or solid-state lasers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Walter, Tore Toennesen, Gilbert Moersch
  • Patent number: 7145505
    Abstract: An apparatus 1 for detecting and evaluating objects in the vicinity of a vehicle, having transmitting and receiving means for electromagnetic radiation in the Gigahertz range, includes at least one antenna protected by a radome 11a, 11b. The radome 11a, 11b is designed as lens-shaped in such a way that beam focusing and/or beam pivoting of the broadcast electromagnetic radiation is made possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2006
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Gottwald, Tore Toennesen, Dirk Steinbuch
  • Patent number: 7019707
    Abstract: In a microwave antenna a dielectric carrier having a strip line is provided. A funnel-shaped or horn shaped waveguide radiator is integrated into a metallic cover, and it is situated above the strip line. A transformation element is provided for the transition from the strip line to the aperture of the waveguide radiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Gottwald, Tore Toennesen, Dirk Steinbuch
  • Patent number: 7012569
    Abstract: The present invention provides an antenna array for ascertaining the distance between vehicles and their speed, which includes devices for receiving or transmitting signal waves, a multi-layer carrier situated underneath the devices, a first potential surface, which is at ground and which is situated on the surface of the carrier facing the devices, coupling devices located in the first potential surface, electrical connecting sections disposed as closely as possible underneath the first potential surface, and a second potential surface which is located underneath the connecting sections and is at mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2006
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Gottwald, Klaus Voigtlaender, Tore Toennesen, Andreas Moeller, Jens Haensel
  • Patent number: 7012561
    Abstract: In order to refine a device and a method for registering, detecting, and/or analyzing at least one object, a registration range and/or at a detection gate being displaced at a scanning speed over a measuring range, in such a way that a target-unique velocity measurement is ensured in continuous detection operation with low latency time and resistance to fluctuations, it is provided that, the receive circuit be divided into at least two channels, which are operable separately from one another, in particular using at least one power divider unit connected downstream from the output terminal of the I/Q mixing unit, of which the first channel of the receive circuit is designed for the purpose of displacing the registration range and/or the detection gate at a constant scanning speed over the entire measuring range, and the second channel of the receive circuit is designed for the purpose of displacing the registration range and/or the detection gate at a variable, in particular reducible scanning speed over the m
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2006
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Tore Toennesen, Martin Reiche
  • Patent number: 6975265
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for operating a radar sensor system with a number of adjacent individual sensors (3, 4, 5, 6), extensively synchronized with one another, for determining the position of a target object (15) are proposed. In one measurement cycle, the transit time of the radar signal emitted from one individual sensor and reflected by the target object to this individual sensor (3, 4, 5, 6) (direct echo (13, 14)) and to a different individual sensor (3, 4, 5, 6) (cross echo (16)) is evaluated. From the evaluation of the direct and cross echoes (13, 14, 16), at least the position of the target object (15) is determined, and a detection quality signal (Q) is ascertained, and once a predetermined amount of the detection quality signal (Q) is reached for a target object (15), a calibration is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2005
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Schlick, Juergen Hoetzel, Rainer Moritz, Berndhard Lucas, Tore Toennesen, Hermann Winner, Werner Uhler, Dirk Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20050116855
    Abstract: In order to refine a device and a method for registering, detecting, and/or analyzing at least one object, a registration range and/or at a detection gate being displaced at a scanning speed over a measuring range, in such a way that a target-unique velocity measurement is ensured in continuous detection operation with low latency time and resistance to fluctuations, it is provided that, the receive circuit be divided into at least two channels, which are operable separately from one another, in particular using at least one power divider unit connected downstream from the output terminal of the I/Q mixing unit, of which the first channel of the receive circuit is designed for the purpose of displacing the registration range and/or the detection gate at a constant scanning speed over the entire measuring range, and the second channel of the receive circuit is designed for the purpose of displacing the registration range and/or the detection gate at a variable, in particular reducible scanning speed over the m
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2004
    Publication date: June 2, 2005
    Inventors: Tore Toennesen, Martin Reiche
  • Publication number: 20050105075
    Abstract: An apparatus 1 for detecting and evaluating objects in the vicinity of a vehicle, having transmitting and receiving means for electromagnetic radiation in the Gigahertz range, includes at least one antenna protected by a radome 11a, 11b. The radome 11a, 11b is designed as lens-shaped in such a way that beam focusing and/or beam pivoting of the broadcast electromagnetic radiation is made possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2003
    Publication date: May 19, 2005
    Inventors: Frank Gottwald, Tore Toennesen, Dirk Steinbuch
  • Publication number: 20050104780
    Abstract: In a microwave antenna a dielectric carrier having a strip line is provided. A funnel-shaped or horn shaped waveguide radiator is integrated into a metallic cover, and it is situated above the strip line. A transformation element is provided for the transition from the strip line to the aperture of the waveguide radiator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2004
    Publication date: May 19, 2005
    Inventors: Frank Gottwald, Tore Toennesen, Dirk Steinbuch
  • Patent number: 6867730
    Abstract: A radar device and a method of suppressing interference in a radar device in which signals are transmitted with a carrier frequency, and the signals are transmitted as pulsed signals with a pulse repetition frequency, the pulse repetition frequency or the carrier frequency being varied during operation of the radar device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2005
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Gottwald, Klaus Voigtlaender, Tore Toennesen
  • Publication number: 20050035899
    Abstract: A pulse radar system has a high-frequency source, which supplies a continuous high-frequency signal and is connected on the one side with a transmission-side pulse modulator and on the other side with two separately controllable pulse modulators in at least one receive path. Mixers are situated downstream from pulse modulators, respectively. The mixers evaluate a radar pulse reflected by an object together with the signal of the high-frequency source. The pulse radar system allows different modes of operation that may be changed in a simple manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2002
    Publication date: February 17, 2005
    Inventors: Frank Gottwald, Michael Schlick, Tore Toennesen, Jen Haensel
  • Publication number: 20040189514
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for operating a radar sensor system with a number of adjacent individual sensors (3, 4, 5, 6), extensively synchronized with one another, for determining the position of a target object (15) are proposed. In one measurement cycle, the transit time of the radar signal emitted from one individual sensor and reflected by the target object to this individual sensor (3, 4, 5, 6) (direct echo (13, 14)) and to a different individual sensor (3, 4, 5, 6) (cross echo (16)) is evaluated. From the evaluation of the direct and cross echoes (13, 14, 16), at least the position of the target object (15) is determined, and a detection quality signal (Q) is ascertained, and once a predetermined amount of the detection quality signal (Q) is reached for a target object (15), a calibration is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2004
    Publication date: September 30, 2004
    Inventors: Michael Schlick, Juergen Hoetzel, Rainer Moritz, Berndhard Lucas, Tore Toennesen, Hermann Winner, Werner Uhler, Dirk Schmid
  • Publication number: 20040160283
    Abstract: A method for tuning a resonator in an oscillator is described. A dielectric serving as a resonator in the oscillator is trimmed in a targeted manner by laser pulses until a target frequency is reached. The lasers used are preferably excimer lasers or solid-state lasers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2004
    Publication date: August 19, 2004
    Inventors: Thomas Walter, Tore Toennesen, Gilbert Moersch
  • Publication number: 20040113840
    Abstract: The present invention provides an antenna array for ascertaining the distance between vehicles and their speed, which includes devices for receiving or transmitting signal waves, a multi-layer carrier situated underneath the devices, a first potential surface, which is at ground and which is situated on the surface of the carrier facing the devices, coupling devices located in the first potential surface, electrical connecting sections disposed as closely as possible underneath the first potential surface, and a second potential surface which is located underneath the connecting sections and is at mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2003
    Publication date: June 17, 2004
    Inventors: Frank Gottwald, Klaus Voigtlaender, Tore Toennesen, Andre Moeller, Jens Haensel
  • Publication number: 20030187519
    Abstract: A control/evaluation system 1 for a set of sensors, in particular in motor vehicles 11, has a plurality of areas 2, 3, 4, each of which has at least one controller 5 and a plurality of sensor devices 6 connected thereto; the controllers 5 may be connected to each other for a common application function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2003
    Publication date: October 2, 2003
    Inventors: Michael Schlick, Juergen Hoetzel, Uwe Zimmermann, Rainer Moritz, Bernhard Lucas, Tore Toennesen, Hermann Winner, Martin Hueppauff, Werner Uhler, Joachim Bulla, Dirk Schmid