Patents by Inventor Kai WIPPLINGER

Kai WIPPLINGER 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).

  • Method for Operating a GNSS Receiver
    Publication number: 20190339397
    Abstract: A method for operating a GNSS receiver includes starting a search for GNSS satellites. The search is terminated in response to a first termination condition being met after a first searching time. The search is terminated in response to a second termination condition, different from the first termination condition, being met after a second searching time that is longer than the first searching time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Achim Brenk, Joachim Schurr, Kai Wipplinger, Michael Heigl
  • Method for operating a common-rail system of a motor vehicle having a redundant common-rail-pressure sensor
    Patent number: 9863358
    Abstract: A method for operating a common-rail system of a motor vehicle that includes a common-rail-pressure sensor configuration having at least two signal paths, and that can be operated at a maximally permissible common-rail pressure and at a minimally permissible common-rail pressure. Sensor signals are read out in each case in response to a pressure measurement in a common rail of the common-rail system via the at least two signal paths, and a signal deviation value is ascertained that characterizes a deviation between the pressure values that are each determined on the basis of the sensor signals. The method includes reducing the maximally permissible common-rail pressure by a correction value to a maximally permissible emergency common-rail pressure and/or increasing the minimally permissible common-rail pressure by a correction value to a minimally permissible emergency common-rail pressure in response to the signal deviation value exceeding a predefined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Bernd Becker, Rene Zieher, Andreas Sommerer, Kai Wipplinger, Guenter Veit
  • METHOD FOR OPERATING A COMMON-RAIL SYSTEM OF A MOTOR VEHICLE HAVING A REDUNDANT COMMON-RAIL-PRESSURE SENSOR
    Publication number: 20160053706
    Abstract: A method for operating a common-rail system of a motor vehicle that includes a common-rail-pressure sensor configuration having at least two signal paths, and that can be operated at a maximally permissible common-rail pressure and at a minimally permissible common-rail pressure. Sensor signals are read out in each case in response to a pressure measurement in a common rail of the common-rail system via the at least two signal paths, and a signal deviation value is ascertained that characterizes a deviation between the pressure values that are each determined on the basis of the sensor signals. The method includes reducing the maximally permissible common-rail pressure by a correction value to a maximally permissible emergency common-rail pressure and/or increasing the minimally permissible common-rail pressure by a correction value to a minimally permissible emergency common-rail pressure in response to the signal deviation value exceeding a predefined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventors: Bernd BECKER, Rene ZIEHER, Andreas SOMMERER, Kai WIPPLINGER, Guenter VEIT