Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Nxp B.v.

Michael Doescher

Abdellatif Zanati

Holger Mahnke

Jan-Peter Schat

Cicero Silveira Vaucher

Reinhard Buchhold

Gennaro Gentile

Christine Marie Michele Calmels

Apparatus for prediction of failure of a functional circuit

Embodiments of a method and a device are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for operating a radar system is disclosed. The method involves generating a chirp signal having a repeating pattern of chirps, each chirp in the repeating pattern of chirps having a base frequency and a chirp bandwidth, wherein the repeating pattern of chirps includes at least two chirps that differ from each other in at least one of base frequency and chirp bandwidth, transmitting a radar signal according to the chirp signal, receiving radio frequency energy that includes a reflected portion of the radar signal, and selecting for processing from the received radio frequency energy a signal that matches the repeating pattern of chirps of the chirp signal.

Radar systems and methods for operating radar systems

An apparatus comprising a hand-portable electronic device including a detection-and-ranging element configured to provide spatial information of one or more physical objects in a space around the hand-held portable electronic device for collision avoidance, the detection-and-ranging element configured to transmit one or more electromagnetic, wireless detection signals and configured to detect one or more reflections of said one or more electromagnetic, wireless detection signals from the one or more objects.

Apparatus and associated methods for collision avoidance

An apparatus includes a processor configured to receive first sensor data from a sensor system of the first entity and a receiver. The receiver is configured to receive second sensor data from a second entity in the vehicle to vehicle network over a communication network and provide the second sensor data to the processor. The second sensor data comprises a first type of sensor data having a first bandwidth requirement. The processor is further configured to determine an available bandwidth of the communication system; and when the first bandwidth requirement exceeds the communication bandwidth, select a second type of sensor data having a second bandwidth requirement. The second bandwidth requirement is less than the first bandwidth requirement. The processor is further configured to process the first and second sensor data to at least partially determine an environment surrounding the first entity.

Sensor data network

An RFID tag is attached to or embedded in an object and used for determining the position of the object. The RFID tag includes a controller and an energy harvester coupled to the controller. The controller provides object position information to a host device by sending ping signals to the host device. The energy harvester harvests RF energy from WLANs, converts the RF energy to DC power, and supplies the DC power to the RFID tag.

System and method for determining location of object using RFID tag

To refine an electrical or electronic component having at least one discrete or integrated device formed from a wafer, in plate or disk form, of semiconductive or insulating material, the front face of which device has at least one protruding electrode and is encapsulated by at least one front-face encapsulant, the side faces of which device are at least partly encapsulated by at least one side-face encapsulant, and the rear face of which device is encapsulated by at least one rear-face encapsulant, and to refine a method of producing the same, in such a way that, with the aim of widening the possible uses and applications, electrical contact is made not solely with the front face of the device that is to be housed in the plastics package of very small dimensions, it is proposed that both the side-face encapsulant and the rear-face encapsulant be formed at least partly of layers, but with the layers connected, of electrically conductive material.

Electrical or electronic component and method of producing same

To refine an electrical or electronic component () having at least one discrete or integrated device () formed from a wafer (), in plate or disk form, of semiconductive or insulating material, the front face () of which device () has at least one overhanging and/or protruding and in particular ball-shaped or spherical electrode () and is encapsulated by at least one front-face encapsulant (), the side faces () of which device () are at least partly encapsulated by at least one side-face encapsulant (), and the rear face () of which device () is encapsulated by at least one rear-face encapsulant (), and to refine a method of producing the same, in such a way that, with the aim of widening the possible uses and applications, electrical contact is made not solely with the front face () of the device () that is to be housed in the plastics package () of very small dimensions, it is proposed that both the side-face encapsulant () and the rear-face encapsulant () be formed at least partly and/or at least of layers, but with the parts and/or layers connected, of electrically conducting or electrically conductive material.

A magnetoresistive sensor has at least one strip-shaped conductor that is formed from a magnetoresistive material and that is designed to determine its electrical resistance, which can be influenced by an external magnetic field, and/or to be acted on by an electric current. In order to construct a magnetoresistive sensor of this type in such a way that a further reduction in the hysteresis and an improved linearity are obtained, at least one screening strip is provided according to the invention that is disposed at least substantially parallel to and at a predetermined spacing from the conductor and is electrically separated from it.

Magnetoresistive sensor having a strip-shaped conductor and a screening strip

The invention relates to an angle sensor comprising at least two angle-offset anisotropic magnetoresistive sensor units comprising anisotropic magnetoresistive elements, in which the angle sensor comprises at least a device for increasing the anisotropic field strength of the sensor units. The invention also relates to a method of increasing the anisotropic field strength of a sensor unit of an angle sensor comprising magnetoresistive elements, in which a magnetic supporting field present in a preferred direction of the magnetoresistive elements is generated.

Angle sensor and method of increasing the anisotropic field strength of a sensor unit of an angle sensor

An arrangement is described for detecting motion of an encoder which comprises magnetically active areas arranged along a main surface subtended at least substantially by a second spatial co-ordinate aligned in the direction of movement of the encoder and by a first spatial co-ordinate aligned at least substantially perpendicularly to the direction of movement of the encoder, which magnetically active areas are subdivided in a predetermined sequence along the second spatial co-ordinate, the arrangement comprising a magnetoresistive sensor element arranged in front of the main surface of the encoder in the direction of a third spatial co-ordinate aligned at least substantially perpendicularly to the main surface of the encoder, and a magnetic field-generating device for generating a magnetic field which permeates the magnetoresistive sensor element with field lines which are aligned at least substantially in a plane subtended by the first and the third spatial co-ordinate, the arrangement being adapted to generate a field line deflection, determined by the position of the encoder with respect to the magnetoresistive sensor element and the magnetic field-generating device, of the magnetic field generated by the magnetic field-generating device in the direction of the second spatial co-ordinate with a periodical recurrence determined by the predetermined sequence of the magnetically active areas and to supply an output signal having signal edges which rise and fall with said periodical recurrence and are produced by the magnetoresistive sensor element on the basis of the influence by this field line deflection, the arrangement being further adapted to generate a field line deflection, likewise determined by the position of the encoder, of the magnetic field also in the direction of the first spatial co-ordinate in said periodical recurrence, and a signal-processing circuit for detecting the slopes of consecutive signal edges in the output signal and for supplying a motion direction signal in dependence upon the values and/or the sequence of values of the slopes of consecutive signal edges.

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Michael Doescher