US 12,008,432 B2
Passive micromechanical counter
Philip Schmitt, Bochum (DE); and Martin Hoffmann, Bochum (DE)
Assigned to Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum (DE)
Appl. No. 17/636,942
Filed by Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum (DE)
PCT Filed Aug. 20, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/073425
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 21, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/032859, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 25, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 102019122671.6 (DE), filed on Aug. 22, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0277185 A1, Sep. 1, 2022
Int. Cl. G06M 1/10 (2006.01); B81B 3/00 (2006.01)
CPC G06M 1/108 (2013.01) [B81B 3/0064 (2013.01); B81B 2201/0292 (2013.01); B81B 2203/04 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A passive micromechanical counter for counting and storing a number of mechanical pulses, comprising at least one memory cell,
the memory cell comprising a cell input, a latching mechanism and an electromechanical coding unit,
the cell input being designed to mechanically transmit the mechanical pulse to the latching mechanism,
the latching mechanism being designed to store the number of transmitted mechanical pulses by means of its discrete latching position,
wherein an electrical digital and binary signal can be generated without an analog-to-digital converter by applying an electrical voltage to the electromechanical coding unit, wherein the electrical digital and binary signal represents the discrete latching position of the latching mechanism.