Patents by Inventor Volker Detert

Volker Detert 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: 10313040
    Abstract: To solve the problem of still being able to use an inexpensive network controller which can store only a single transmission time, even when telegrams from a plurality of application modules need to be sent in synchronized fashion and the transmission times thereof need to be reliably ascertained and reliably associated with the respective telegrams, provided is a communication device for the synchronized sending of telegrams, a communication system including such a communication device, and a method for the synchronized sending of telegrams. The communication device comprises a coordination device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Christoph Rotter, Volker Detert
  • Publication number: 20180013506
    Abstract: To solve the problem of still being able to use an inexpensive network controller which can store only a single transmission time, even when telegrams from a plurality of application modules need to be sent in synchronized fashion and the transmission times thereof need to be reliably ascertained and reliably associated with the respective telegrams, provided is a communication device for the synchronized sending of telegrams, a communication system including such a communication device, and a method for the synchronized sending of telegrams. The communication device comprises a coordination device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventors: Christoph ROTTER, Volker DETERT
  • Patent number: 9677920
    Abstract: An automation device is provided, which comprises an operating system having a first system clock and a communication system having a second system clock. The first system clock is intended to control a system time cycle of the operating system, and the second system clock is intended to control a system time cycle of the communication system. Furthermore, the first system clock and the second system clock are synchronized in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Volker Detert, Christoph Rotter
  • Publication number: 20160048156
    Abstract: An automation device is provided, which comprises an operating system having a first system clock and a communication system having a second system clock. The first system clock is intended to control a system time cycle of the operating system, and the second system clock is intended to control a system time cycle of the communication system. Furthermore, the first system clock and the second system clock are synchronized in time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Inventors: Volker DETERT, Christoph ROTTER
  • Patent number: 6421710
    Abstract: An arrangement for coupling bus subscribers and bus masters in a master-slave bus system which has a ring topology and in which the bus subscribers are coupled actively without subscriber addresses and in which the bus subscribers are each allocated a bypass element which causes a brief interruption in data interchange and makes the bus master to interrogate addresses for restructuring purposes when the associated slave subscriber is decoupled and coupled. The bypass elements each have an address store which can be selected only in the event of the address interrogation and which is inactive during data interchange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2002
    Assignee: Pheonix Contract GmbH & Co
    Inventors: Jurgen Jasperneite, Kai Fechner, Volker Detert