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).
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Patent number: 7663533Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 6, 2004Date of Patent: February 16, 2010Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Tore Toennesen, Frank Gottwald, Thomas Binzer
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Publication number: 20080278393Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2005Publication date: November 13, 2008Inventors: Frank Gottwald, Klaus Voigtlander, Tore Toennesen, Thomas Binzer
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Patent number: 7363194Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 21, 2002Date of Patent: April 22, 2008Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Michael Schlick, Juergen Hoetzel, Uwe Zimmermann, Rainer Moritz, Bernhard Lucas, Tore Toennesen, Hermann Winner, Martin Hueppauff, Werner Uhler, Joachim Bulla, Dirk Schmid
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Publication number: 20070222662Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2004Publication date: September 27, 2007Inventors: Tore Toennesen, Frank Gottwald, Thomas Binzer
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Patent number: 7167125Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 21, 2002Date of Patent: January 23, 2007Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Frank Gottwald, Michael Schlick, Tore Toennesen, Jens Haensel
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Patent number: 7148762Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 17, 2002Date of Patent: December 12, 2006Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Thomas Walter, Tore Toennesen, Gilbert Moersch
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Patent number: 7145505Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 5, 2003Date of Patent: December 5, 2006Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Frank Gottwald, Tore Toennesen, Dirk Steinbuch
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Patent number: 7019707Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 12, 2004Date of Patent: March 28, 2006Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Frank Gottwald, Tore Toennesen, Dirk Steinbuch
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Patent number: 7012569Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 18, 2001Date of Patent: March 14, 2006Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Frank Gottwald, Klaus Voigtlaender, Tore Toennesen, Andreas Moeller, Jens Haensel
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Patent number: 7012561Abstract: 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 mType: GrantFiled: October 29, 2004Date of Patent: March 14, 2006Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Tore Toennesen, Martin Reiche
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Patent number: 6975265Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 6, 2002Date of Patent: December 13, 2005Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Michael Schlick, Juergen Hoetzel, Rainer Moritz, Berndhard Lucas, Tore Toennesen, Hermann Winner, Werner Uhler, Dirk Schmidt
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Publication number: 20050116855Abstract: 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 mType: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2004Publication date: June 2, 2005Inventors: Tore Toennesen, Martin Reiche
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Publication number: 20050105075Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2003Publication date: May 19, 2005Inventors: Frank Gottwald, Tore Toennesen, Dirk Steinbuch
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Publication number: 20050104780Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2004Publication date: May 19, 2005Inventors: Frank Gottwald, Tore Toennesen, Dirk Steinbuch
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Patent number: 6867730Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 22, 2002Date of Patent: March 15, 2005Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Frank Gottwald, Klaus Voigtlaender, Tore Toennesen
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Publication number: 20050035899Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2002Publication date: February 17, 2005Inventors: Frank Gottwald, Michael Schlick, Tore Toennesen, Jen Haensel
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Publication number: 20040189514Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2004Publication date: September 30, 2004Inventors: Michael Schlick, Juergen Hoetzel, Rainer Moritz, Berndhard Lucas, Tore Toennesen, Hermann Winner, Werner Uhler, Dirk Schmid
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Publication number: 20040160283Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2004Publication date: August 19, 2004Inventors: Thomas Walter, Tore Toennesen, Gilbert Moersch
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Publication number: 20040113840Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2003Publication date: June 17, 2004Inventors: Frank Gottwald, Klaus Voigtlaender, Tore Toennesen, Andre Moeller, Jens Haensel
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Publication number: 20030187519Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2003Publication date: October 2, 2003Inventors: Michael Schlick, Juergen Hoetzel, Uwe Zimmermann, Rainer Moritz, Bernhard Lucas, Tore Toennesen, Hermann Winner, Martin Hueppauff, Werner Uhler, Joachim Bulla, Dirk Schmid