Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Joeckel
Wolfgang Joeckel 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: 11150261Abstract: A method for producing sensor information depends on a rotational speed, using a rotational speed sensor which is adapted to output rotational speed pulses in predetermined angular positions of a physical sensor field that rotates at the rotational speed. In order to increase resolution, a digital angle signal each is determined between the pulses. A defined number of most significant bits of said angle information is output to determine the rotational speed so that the interval between two pulses is subdivided into a defined number of subintervals. An angle value which can be unambiguously interpreted by means of the sinusoidal signal can be determined from the cosine signal by using two phase shift sinusoidal signals and an arccos function. The device optionally outputs the angle signal below a threshold value and an impulse signal above the threshold value to determine speed.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2017Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHGInventors: Wolfgang Jöckel, Timo Dietz, Bernhard Schmid, Roland Hilser
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Patent number: 10241153Abstract: The invention relates to a device for measuring an electric current between a vehicle battery and an electrical consumer connected to the vehicle battery. The claimed device includes a bus bar which picks up the electric current in the vehicle battery and guides it further to the electrical consumer, on which a first current sensor and a second current sensor which is different from the first current sensor are arranged, the current sensors being designed to measure, independently from each other, the electric current circulating in the bus bar.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2012Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHGInventors: Klaus Rink, Wolfgang Jöckel
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Patent number: 10132907Abstract: A method for calibrating a current sensor which is configured to determine, in a vehicle's onboard power system, an electric operating current which flows through a measuring resistor, based on comparison of a voltage drop at the measuring resistor caused by the operating current and based on a rule which is dependent on the measuring resistor, including: determining an operating voltage drop brought about at the measuring resistor by the operating current; impressing a known electric calibration current into the measuring resistor, detecting an overall voltage drop brought about at the measuring resistor by the calibration current and the operating current, filtering the operating voltage drop from the overall voltage drop, such that a calibration voltage drop which is brought about by the calibration current remains, and calibrating the rule, dependent on the measuring resistor, based on the comparison of the calibration current and the calibration voltage drop.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2015Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignees: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG, Continental Automotive GmbHInventors: Martin Schramme, Wolfgang Jöckel
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Patent number: 9897498Abstract: A method for detecting a phase angle difference between a first periodic measurement signal and a second periodic measurement signal, wherein, for the purpose of determining a torque applied to a shaft, the two periodic measurement signals describe a rotation of the shaft at an axial distance from one another including superimposing a periodic auxiliary signal which simulates a previously known rotational speed for the shaft on the first periodic measurement signal in order to form a superimposition signal, and determining the phase angle difference on the basis of the superimposition signal and the second measurement signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2013Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHGInventors: Bernhard Schmid, Wolfgang Jöckel, Klaus Rink
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Patent number: 9796348Abstract: The invention relates to a circuit for conducting an electric current, by an electrical component, between a vehicle battery and an electrical network component that can be connected to the vehicle battery. The circuit includes a first electrical line segment and a second line segment that is separated from the first line segment by a spacer. The line segments are connected to one another by the electrical component.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2012Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHGInventors: Jakob Schillinger, Dietmar Huber, Klaus Rink, Wolfgang Jöckel, Martin Haverkamp
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Patent number: 9780811Abstract: The invention relates to a method for synchronizing sensors in a sensor array, including at least one electronic control unit and at least one sensor, which are connected to each other by a first and a second line, wherein the sensor is supplied with electric power by the first and second lines, and additionally at least one data signal (a) is transmitted by the first and second lines from the sensor to the electronic control unit, wherein the electronic control unit transmits a defined supply voltage signal having varying polarity as a synchronization signal (b, c) to the sensor, whereupon the sensor transmits at least one data signal (a) to the electronic control unit, after the polarity of the synchronization signal has been reversed.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2011Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHGInventors: Wolfgang Jöckel, Otmar Simon
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CALIBRATION OF CURRENT SENSORS BY MEANS OF REFERENCE CURRENT DURING CURRENT MEASUREMENT (AS AMENDED)
Publication number: 20170269184Abstract: A method for calibrating a current sensor which is configured to determine, in a vehicle's on-board power system, an electric operating current which flows through a measuring resistor, based on comparison of a voltage drop at the measuring resistor caused by the operating current and based on a rule which is dependent on the measuring resistor, including: determining an operating voltage drop brought about at the measuring resistor by the operating current; impressing a known electric calibration current into the measuring resistor, detecting an overall voltage drop brought about at the measuring resistor by the calibration current and the operating current, filtering the operating voltage drop from the overall voltage drop, such that a calibration voltage drop which is brought about by the calibration current remains, and calibrating the rule, dependent on the measuring resistor, based on the comparison of the calibration current and the calibration voltage drop.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2015Publication date: September 21, 2017Inventors: Martin Schramme, Wolfgang Jöckel -
Patent number: 9746503Abstract: A method for adjusting a current sensor with a measuring element having a broken rational current-voltage characteristic curve, including:—changing the broken rational profile of the broken rational current-voltage characteristic curve of the measuring element on the basis of at least one predetermined condition.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2013Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHGInventors: Klaus Rink, Wolfgang Jöckel
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Publication number: 20170160303Abstract: A method for producing sensor information depends on a rotational speed, using a rotational speed sensor which is adapted to output rotational speed pulses in predetermined angular positions of a physical sensor field that rotates at the rotational speed. In order to increase resolution, a digital angle signal each is determined between the pulses. A defined number of most significant bits of said angle information is output to determine the rotational speed so that the interval between two pulses is subdivided into a defined number of subintervals. An angle value which can be unambiguously interpreted by means of the sinusoidal signal can be determined from the cosine signal by using two phase shift sinusoidal signals and an arccos function. The device optionally outputs the angle signal below a threshold value and an impulse signal above the threshold value to determine speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2017Publication date: June 8, 2017Applicant: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHGInventors: Wolfgang Jöckel, Timo Dietz, Bernhard Schmid, Roland Hilser
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Patent number: 9651586Abstract: A method for checking the plausibility of a measurement result for an electric current by a current sensor connected to an electrical circuit, the method including: making a predetermined change to the switching state of the electrical circuit; detecting, by the current sensor, a change to the electric current resulting from the change to the switching state as a measurement result; and checking the plausibility of the measurement result by contrasting the change to the switching state and the change to the electric current.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2013Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHGInventors: Jörg Eckrich, Wolfgang Jöckel, Klaus Rink, Martin Haverkamp, Torsten Martin, Jens Herchenröder
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Publication number: 20160077135Abstract: A method for the measurement of an electric current by an electrical conductor in a vehicle, the electrical conductor having two conductor sections, between which a shunt is connected, the method including determining an electrical measuring voltage delivered via the shunt; recording a first corrective voltage in the direction of the electric current up-circuit of a given point on the shunt; recording a second corrective voltage in the direction of the electric current down-circuit of the point on the shunt; and determining the electric current based upon the electrical measuring voltage recorded and a difference between the first corrective voltage and the second corrective voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2015Publication date: March 17, 2016Inventors: Wolfgang Jöckel, Henrik Antoni
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Patent number: 9239342Abstract: A sensor arrangement for measuring an electric voltage (Uterm), wherein the potential point, at which the electric voltage relative to a defined electric potential, in particular relative to earth, is intended to be measured, is connected to a capacitor, to which a comparator unit is connected which ascertains whether a first defined threshold voltage (Uref) is present at the capacitor, wherein the sensor arrangement is configured such that it provides an output signal which is dependent on at least one charging process of the capacitor and includes at least the information of the charging time for charging the capacitor to the first defined threshold voltage.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2012Date of Patent: January 19, 2016Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHGInventors: Wolfgang Jöckel, Timo Dietz, Thomas Gaertner, Helge Grasshoff
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Publication number: 20150362388Abstract: A method for detecting a phase angle difference between a first periodic measurement signal and a second periodic measurement signal, wherein, for the purpose of determining a torque applied to a shaft, the two periodic measurement signals describe a rotation of the shaft at an axial distance from one another including superimposing a periodic auxiliary signal which simulates a previously known rotational speed for the shaft on the first periodic measurement signal in order to form a superimposition signal, and determining the phase angle difference on the basis of the superimposition signal and the second measurement signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2013Publication date: December 17, 2015Inventors: Bernhard Schmid, Wolfgang Jöckel, Klaus Rink
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Publication number: 20150346312Abstract: A method for setting up a current sensor having an internal resistance which is dependent on the current which is to be measured, wherein the internal resistance is set to a setpoint voltage drop as part of a regulation of an actual voltage drop across the current sensor, including calibration or checking the plausibility of operation of the current sensor based on a characteristic curve, in which the current which is to be measured is compared to a variable which is dependent on the internal resistance or to the internal resistance.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2013Publication date: December 3, 2015Inventors: Jörg Eckrich, Wolfgang Jöckel, Klaus Rink, Torsten Martin, Martin Haverkamp, Jens Herchenröder
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Publication number: 20150323607Abstract: A method for adjusting a current sensor with a measuring element having a broken rational current-voltage characteristic curve, including:—changing the broken rational profile of the broken rational current-voltage characteristic curve of the measuring element on the basis of at least one predetermined condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2013Publication date: November 12, 2015Inventors: Klaus Rink, Wolfgang Jöckel
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Publication number: 20150219696Abstract: A method for checking the plausibility of a measurement result for an electric current by a current sensor connected to an electrical circuit, the method including: making a predetermined change to the switching state of the electrical circuit; detecting, by the current sensor, a change to the electric current resulting from the change to the switching state as a measurement result; and checking the plausibility of the measurement result by contrasting the change to the switching state and the change to the electric current.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2013Publication date: August 6, 2015Applicant: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHGInventors: Jörg Eckrich, Wolfgang Jöckel, Klaus Rink, Martin Haverkamp, Torsten Martin, Jens Herchenröder
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Publication number: 20140239711Abstract: The invention relates to a circuit for conducting an electric current, by an electrical component, between a vehicle battery and an electrical network component that can be connected to the vehicle battery. The circuit includes a first electrical line segment and a second line segment that is separated from the first line segment by a spacer. The line segments are connected to one another by the electrical component.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2012Publication date: August 28, 2014Applicant: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHGInventors: Jakob Schillinger, Dietmar Huber, Klaus Rink, Wolfgang Jöckel, Martin Haverkamp
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Publication number: 20140210479Abstract: The invention relates to a device for measuring an electric current between a vehicle battery and an electrical consumer connected to the vehicle battery. The claimed device includes a bus bar which picks up the electric current in the vehicle battery and guides it further to the electrical consumer, on which a first current sensor and a second current sensor which is different from the first current sensor are arranged, the current sensors being designed to measure, independently from each other, the electric current circulating in the bus bar.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2012Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO. OHGInventors: Klaus Rink, Wolfgang Jöckel
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Patent number: 8704508Abstract: Method in which the current is measured inside an integrated PWM control circuit using at least one A/D converter which is likewise integrated in the circuit is described. The PWM controller is provided for the purpose of driving inductive loads and is arranged, in particular, in an electronic circuit of an electronic controller for a motor vehicle braking system. Before determining the actual current of the PWM controller, which is determined using the at least one A/D converter, the current is smoothed using a low-pass filter. A circuit arrangement for carrying out the above method and its use in electronic motor vehicle control systems is also described herein.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2007Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHGInventors: Wolfgang Fey, Micha Heinz, Wolfgang Joeckel, Peter Oehler, Axel Schmitz, Frank Michel
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Publication number: 20140015513Abstract: A sensor arrangement for measuring an electric voltage (Uterm), wherein the potential point, at which the electric voltage relative to a defined electric potential, in particular relative to earth, is intended to be measured, is connected to a capacitor, to which a comparator unit is connected which ascertains whether a first defined threshold voltage (Uref) is present at the capacitor, wherein the sensor arrangement is configured such that it provides an output signal which is dependent on at least one charging process of the capacitor and includes at least the information of the charging time for charging the capacitor to the first defined threshold voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2012Publication date: January 16, 2014Applicant: CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO. OHGInventors: Wolfgang Jöckel, Timo Dietz, Thomas Gaertner, Helge Grasshoff