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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2016
Applicant:
Robert Bosch Gmbh, Stuttgart, DE;
Inventors:
Daniel Seiz, Magstadt, DE;
Joachim Frangen, Heilbronn, DE;
Assignee:
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/08 (2006.01); H03K 17/955 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/088 (2013.01); H03K 17/955 (2013.01); H03K 2217/945 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for operating a sensor system having at least three sensor elements that can be attached on the surface of machines or components, the sensor elements having electrodes for forming electrical fields between electrodes having different electrical potential, the electrical fields changing upon the approach and/or contact of a body or an object, the electrodes acting as transmit electrode and/or as receive electrode, and the sensor elements being controlled in succession by a control device in a particular temporal or positional sequence.