Patents by Inventor Volker Eisenhardt

Volker Eisenhardt 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).

  • Capacitive sensor
    Patent number: 10666252
    Abstract: A capacitive sensor for detecting at a surface that an object is approaching which is designed to be flexurally rigid and/or torsionally rigid. The capacitive sensor includes a circuit carrier and/or a spacer element and/or a carrier. In this case, the circuit carrier is designed to be flexurally rigid and/or torsionally rigid and/or the spacer element is designed to be flexurally rigid and/or torsionally rigid and/or the carrier is designed to be flexurally rigid and/or torsionally rigid. The circuit carrier is in the form of a circuit board and is used for making electrical contact with the electrically conductive surfaces of the capacitive sensor. The spacer element is situated between the electrically conductive surfaces and the circuit carrier. The carrier is designed for connecting the capacitive sensor to a machine part, in particular to a machine part of an industrial robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Dietrich Schupp, Joachim Frangen, Volker Eisenhardt, Norbert Wenzel, Volker Hartmann, Frank Gaesslein
  • CAPACITIVE SENSOR
    Publication number: 20170257094
    Abstract: A capacitive sensor for detecting at a surface that an object is approaching which is designed to be flexurally rigid and/or torsionally rigid. The capacitive sensor includes a circuit carrier and/or a spacer element and/or a carrier. In this case, the circuit carrier is designed to be flexurally rigid and/or torsionally rigid and/or the spacer element is designed to be flexurally rigid and/or torsionally rigid and/or the carrier is designed to be flexurally rigid and/or torsionally rigid. The circuit carrier is in the form of a circuit board and is used for making electrical contact with the electrically conductive surfaces of the capacitive sensor. The spacer element is situated between the electrically conductive surfaces and the circuit carrier. The carrier is designed for connecting the capacitive sensor to a machine part, in particular to a machine part of an industrial robot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Dietrich Schupp, Joachim Frangen, Volker Eisenhardt, Norbert Wenzel, Volker Hartmann, Frank Gaesslein
  • Method of decoding coded image data utilizing transmission error detection to interrupt decoding and up-dating
    Patent number: 5117288
    Abstract: A method of decoding coded image data, preferably coded according to CCITT Recommendsation H. 261, wherein the data stream is continuously monitored for transmission errors by utilizing the residual redundancy of the data stream, and pixel values reconstructed after the detection of a transmission error are not entered into the predicted-image memory until a subsequent starting code word for a frame or field has appeared.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1992
    Assignee: Licentia Patent-Verwaltungs-GmbH
    Inventors: Volker Eisenhardt, Georg Kummerfeldt, Franz May, Winfried Wolf