System for the wireless transmission of information and/or energy between a removable vehicle seat and the vehicle body

• US 6,882,162 B2
• Filed: 05/25/2002
• Issued: 04/19/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Kazmierczak, Harald, Schirmer, Juergen
• Primary Examiner(s): Le, N.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Dole, Timothy J.
• Application Number:
  US10/333,899
• Publication Number:
  US 20040008036A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,060 Days
• Field of Search: 324/654, 324/656, 324/691, 324/713, 296/65.03, 297/217.3, 307/10.1
• US Class Current: 324/656
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/01088 wireless
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/01184 Fault detection or diagnostic circuits in power circuits B60R2021/01129
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/01554 Seat position sensors

Abstract

A system for the wireless transmission of information and energy between a removable vehicle seat and the vehicle body, in which the vehicle seat is detected by measuring the inductance. In this connection, the period of an oscillating circuit is determined, in which the winding of the primary side, and thus the inductance, is connected. In this context, the frequency of the resonance voltage is determined as a function of time. In this context, the zero crossings of the resonance voltage is measured. Alternatively, the secondary side impedance is additionally measured on the primary side by a forced oscillation, namely by a voltage decay in a resonance circuit in which the winding is connected as inductance. A monitoring of the performance reliability of a firing pellet is thereby implemented.

Claims

1. A system for wireless transmission of at least one of information and energy between a removable vehicle seat and a vehicle body, comprising:

an inductive transformer including a primary side in the vehicle body and a secondary side in the removable vehicle seat, the inductive transformer configured to transmit information and energy;

an arrangement on the primary side configured to measure an inductance of the inductive transformer to detect the removable vehicle seat; and

a second arrangement on the primary side that is configured to determine an impedance on the secondary side.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the second arrangement measures an impedance of a firing circuit and includes a generator, a resistor and a capacitor, the resistor and the capacitor being connected in series with a winding of the primary side;

and a second voltage across one of the resistor and the capacitor is used as a measure for the impedance of the firing circuit.

3. The system of claim 2, further comprising:

a comparator that compares the second voltage with a reference voltage.

4. A system for wireless transmission of at least one of information and energy between a removable vehicle seat and a vehicle body, comprising:

an inductive transformer including a primary side in the vehicle body and a secondary side in the removable vehicle seat, the inductive transformer configured to transmit information and energy; and

an arrangement on the primary side configured to measure an inductance of the inductive transformer to detect the removable vehicle seat, wherein the arrangement, at a winding on the primary side, includes a switch that is periodically closed so as to connect a loaded capacitor in series with the winding, a first voltage being measured across the loaded capacitor in response to closing the switch as a function of time in order to determine therefrom an inductance of the winding.

5. The system of claim 4, further comprising:

a second arrangement configured to count zero crossings of the first voltage in order to ascertain a period of the first voltage, and the inductance of the winding therefrom, the inductance being compared to a threshold value to detect the removable vehicle seat.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein the second arrangement includes at least one comparator.