Patents by Inventor Gero Nenninger

Gero Nenninger has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9941551
    Abstract: A battery cell, in particular a lithium-ion battery cell, is described, which comprises a negative electrode (25), a separator (24) and a positive electrode (23), wherein the battery cell has a touch sensor element (1) for detecting elements resting on the touch sensor element (1) or exerting pressure on the touch sensor element (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gero Nenninger, Anselm Berg
  • Publication number: 20150171483
    Abstract: A battery cell, in particular a lithium-ion battery cell, is described, which comprises a negative electrode (25), a separator (24) and a positive electrode (23), wherein the battery cell has a touch sensor element (1) for detecting elements resting on the touch sensor element (1) or exerting pressure on the touch sensor element (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: Gero Nenninger, Anselm Berg
  • Patent number: 8712659
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for preventing tip-over of a motor vehicle in the lateral direction, in which a finite number of predefined driving states is specified; in which a determination is made as to which of the predefined driving states the vehicle is in instantaneously, the predefined driving state thus determined being dependent on sensor signals and on that predefined driving state in which the vehicle was most recently; and as a function of the predefined driving state instantaneously present, at least one braking intervention is carried out in order to prevent the tip-over.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Kieren, Gero Nenninger, Matthew Nimmo, Flavio Nardi, Wadim Napolskich, Andris Samsons
  • Patent number: 7706946
    Abstract: A safety system for occupants of a vehicle having, e.g., acceleration sensors and/or pressure sensors for sensing a side crash. The safety system also includes a detector to detect the lateral velocity of the vehicle. The control of the restraining devices of the safety system is able to be influenced by the detected lateral velocity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Willig, Pascal Kocher, Urs Caduff, Armin Verhagen, Thomas Huber, Michael Schmid, Mario Kroeninger, Stephan Hoenle, Michael Bunse, Gero Nenninger, Volker Mehl, Joerg-Dieter Huber, Ulf Kleuker, Roland Pitteroff, Petra Schiebel
  • Publication number: 20100063666
    Abstract: In a method for identifying a trailering mode in the context of a towing vehicle, in particular as part of a vehicle dynamics control system having a trailer roll logic function for stabilizing the combination of towing vehicle and trailer, and a control device for carrying out the method, identification of the trailering mode is accomplished by a comparison of an actual signal characterizing the vehicle state with a corresponding target signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2007
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Inventors: Andreas Schumann, Lars Berding, Rolf-Hermann Mergenthaler, Daniel Fellke, Gero Nenninger, Michael Brander
  • Publication number: 20090306861
    Abstract: In a method for identifying a trailering mode in the context of a towing vehicle, in particular as part of a vehicle dynamics control system having a trailer roll logic function for stabilizing the combination of towing vehicle and trailer, that identification of the trailering mode is accomplished by a comparison of an actual signal characterizing the vehicle state with a corresponding target signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2007
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Inventors: Andreas Schumann, Lars Berding, Rolf-Hermann Mergenthaler, Daniel Fellke, Gero Nenninger, Michael Brander
  • Publication number: 20090187323
    Abstract: A method for improving the overturn behavior of vehicles in which in an imminent or predictably expected overturn risk at least the rear wheel on the outside of the curve is braked, in an imminent or predictably expected overturn risk the rear wheel on the outside of the curve being braked using a braking force which is a function of the transverse acceleration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2007
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Inventors: Ernst Schermann, Daniel Fellke, Gero Nenninger, Matthew Nimmo
  • Publication number: 20080208413
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a safety system for occupants of a vehicle 1, having means such as, in particular, acceleration sensors and/or pressure sensors for sensing a side crash. The safety system 20 also includes means for detecting the lateral velocity vQ of vehicle 1. The control of the restraining devices of the safety system is able to be influenced by the detected lateral velocity. A method for the control of a safety system is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2005
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Rainer Willig, Pascal Kocher, Urs Caduff, Armin Verhagen, Thomas Huber, Michael Schmid, Mario Kroeninger, Stephan Hoenle, Michael Bunse, Gero Nenninger, Volker Mehl, Joerg-Dieter Huber, Ulf Kleuker, Roland Pitteroff, Petra Schiebel
  • Patent number: 7302332
    Abstract: A method for stabilizing a vehicle combination composed of a towing vehicle and a trailer or semitrailer, in which when a snaking motion of the trailer or semitrailer is detected, braking interventions are implemented for damping the snaking motion, in which symmetrical braking interventions are implemented first, and asymmetrical braking interventions are implemented if the desired subsidence behavior of the snaking motion is not achieved through the symmetrical braking interventions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Gero Nenninger
  • Publication number: 20070078581
    Abstract: A method for rollover stabilization of a vehicle in critical driving situations, in which a rollover stabilization algorithm intervenes in the driving operation in a critical situation, using an actuator in order to stabilize the vehicle. Different loading states of the vehicle may be taken into consideration in that the vehicle mass as well as the characteristic speed and the ratio of the contact patch forces of the wheels are ascertained, and the rollover stabilization algorithm is executed as a function of the vehicle mass and the estimated vehicle center of gravity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2004
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventors: Gero Nenninger, Matthew Nimmo, Gerald Graf, Laszlo Brooks
  • Publication number: 20060265108
    Abstract: An arrangement relating to a device and a method for stabilizing a vehicle in a situation critical to rollover, where various controller input variables are measured by a sensor system, and a rollover-stabilization algorithm intervenes in the vehicle operation with the aid of an actuator, in order to stabilize the vehicle. In order to be able to take different loading conditions of the vehicle into account, a rollover tendency of the vehicle is estimated from the relationship between a variable describing the steering behavior of the vehicle and a variable describing the roll behavior of the vehicle, and the rollover tendency is taken into account in rollover stabilization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2004
    Publication date: November 23, 2006
    Inventors: Martin Kieren, Gero Nenninger, Matthew Nimmo
  • Publication number: 20050065694
    Abstract: A device for damping the snaking motion of a trailer towed by a road vehicle is described, including snaking motion detection means by which the trailer's snaking motion and the motion's intensity are detected based on a variable into which there enters at least one variable describing the transverse vehicle dynamics, and snaking damping means which, when an intensity limiting value is exceeded by the intensity of the snaking motion, damp the snaking motion on the basis of driver-independent braking interventions in the road vehicle and/or a driver-independent throttling of the engine torque. The main object is characterized in that steering angle analyzing means are present which determine at least one parameter from the shape of the curve over time of the steering angle, and the intensity limiting value, in response to whose exceeding by the intensity of the snaking motion, the snaking motion is damped, is a function of the parameter determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2004
    Publication date: March 24, 2005
    Inventor: Gero Nenninger
  • Publication number: 20040249547
    Abstract: A method for stabilizing a vehicle combination composed of a towing vehicle and a trailer or semitrailer, in which when a snaking motion of the trailer or semitrailer is detected, braking interventions are implemented for damping the snaking motion, in which symmetrical braking interventions are implemented first, and asymmetrical braking interventions are implemented if the desired subsidence behavior of the snaking motion is not achieved through the symmetrical braking interventions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2004
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Inventor: Gero Nenninger