Apparatus and method for generating coded high-frequency signals

US6747573B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• EnOcean GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Horst Gerlach · Bethesda, US
• Franz Kammerl · Holzheim, DE
• Gerd Scholl · Hersbruck, DE
• Thomas Ostertag · Ulm, DE
• Frank Schmidt · Zorneding, DE
• Wolf-Eckhart Bulst · Munich, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 12, 1999
• Grant date: Jun 8, 2004
• Expiry date: Aug 12, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H10N15/10
• WIPO field: Telecommunications
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

An apparatus and method for generating coded high-frequency signals, having a converter, which converts non-electrical primary energy available from the surroundings into electrical energy, an element with a nonlinear characteristic curve, which is coupled to the converter, and a coding device coupled to the element with a nonlinear characteristic curve.