Patents by Inventor Michael Henne
Michael Henne 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).
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Patent number: 6959244Abstract: A relatively uncomplicated process for generating collision signals that describe various collision processes involving motor vehicles. The process involves deriving a core signal by low-pass filtering from a collision signal actually measured, splitting this core signal into several signal segments, simulating each signal segment by a transmission function, then combining all the transmission functions into one overall transmission function, and forming one or more new collision signals by varying at least one parameter of the overall transmission function.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 1997Date of Patent: October 25, 2005Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Marko Maschek, Michael Henne
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Patent number: 6487482Abstract: A method and a device for deploying a restraint system, which avoids false deployments at the least possible expense by using an acceleration sensor arrangement that includes two sensitivity axes oriented in different directions. An acceleration measured with respect to one of the two sensitivity axes is used for a plausibility check of a deployment decision, which is determined from an acceleration measured with respect to the other sensitivity axis. A trigger signal is only generated if a deployment decision signal and a plausibility signal are present at the inputs of an AND logic circuit at the same time.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2000Date of Patent: November 26, 2002Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Bernhard Mattes, Jörg Heckel, Arno Schaumann, Michael Henne, Peter Meissner
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Patent number: 6424897Abstract: So that an arrangement may decide to trigger a safety device in as error-free and reliable a manner as possible, provision is made for a first arrangement, which derives a first decision criterion for triggering a safety device from the measured turning rate at least about the longitudinal axis of the vehicle and/or from the measured accelerations at least in the direction of the transverse axis and the vertical axis of the vehicle. In addition, a second arrangement is present, which, independent of the first arrangement, derives a second decision criterion. A circuit arrangement then generates a triggering signal for the safety device, when both decision criteria are satisfied at the same time.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2000Date of Patent: July 23, 2002Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Bernhard Mattes, Volker Breunig, Michael Henne, Lothar Groesch
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Patent number: 6353783Abstract: A method and/or a device for forming a robust and reliable deployment criterion for a restraint system in a motor vehicle is formed with the help of a fuzzy classifier which receives at least two input quantities. The first input quantity is an operating time which begins when the measured acceleration exceeds a predetermined threshold; and a second input quantity takes into account the change in vehicle speed determined from the measured acceleration.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2000Date of Patent: March 5, 2002Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Michael Henne, Lothar Groesch, Sigrid Hafner, Torsten Baumann
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Patent number: 6141604Abstract: In order to allow a vehicle rollover to be detected in timely fashion and with high reliability, acceleration sensors are provided which measure the accelerations of the vehicle in the direction of its yaw axis, its roll axis, and its pitch axis. In addition, at least one rotation rate sensor is provided which measures the angular velocity of the vehicle with respect to its roll axis and optionally also with respect to its pitch axis.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 1999Date of Patent: October 31, 2000Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Bernhard Mattes, Walter Seyfang, Michael Henne
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Patent number: 6100797Abstract: To assure that the safety device is triggered at the right time in the event of a lateral collision of the vehicle with a curb, a first comparing device (1) compares a rotation rate (.omega.x) measured relative to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle, or a variable derived from this rotation rate, with a rotation rate threshold value. A second comparing device (2) compares an acceleration (ay), measured in the direction of the transverse axis of the vehicle, with a lateral acceleration threshold value. If both threshold comparing device (1, 2) simultaneously signal that their threshold values are being exceeded, a trigger signal (as1) for the safety device is output.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 1999Date of Patent: August 8, 2000Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Bernhard Mattes, Volker Breunig, Michael Henne, Lothar Groesch
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Patent number: 5737224Abstract: An apparatus for tripping a system for the protection of occupants of a vehicle has a first sensor (10) for sensing the acceleration of the vehicle in its direction of forward motion and a second sensor (12) for sensing the acceleration of the vehicle in a direction transverse to its direction of forward motion. The two sensors are under the control of control means (14,16) which triggers the occupant protection system in dependence upon the signals from the first and second sensors (10,12).Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1995Date of Patent: April 7, 1998Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Edmund Jeenicke, Bernhard Mattes, Claus Condne, Michael Henne
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Patent number: 5483447Abstract: An apparatus for tripping a system for the protection of occupants of a vehicle has a first sensor (10) for sensing the acceleration of the vehicle in its direction of forward motion and a second sensor (12) for sensing the acceleration of the vehicle in a direction transverse to its direction of forward motion. The two sensors are under the control of control devices (14,16) which trigger the occupant protection system in dependence upon the signals from the first and second sensors (10,12).Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 1991Date of Patent: January 9, 1996Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Edmund Jeenicke, Bernhard Mattes, Claus Condne, Michael Henne
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Patent number: 5440913Abstract: An electronic device, in particular a system for safeguarding vehicle occupants, comprises at least two acceleration-sensitive sensors arrangements. To test the readiness for operation of the sensor arrangements, output signals from the sensor arrangements are compared. Output signals, which occur as the result of accelerations arising during normal operation of the vehicle, are also drawn upon when the comparison is made.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 1993Date of Patent: August 15, 1995Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Norbert Crispin, Michael Henne, Bernhard Mattes, Hartmut Schumacher
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Patent number: 5014810Abstract: In a method for controlling the release of a passenger restraint system in a vehicle, an acceleration signal is measured and integrated with respect to time to obtain a velocity signal. A release threshold value for the velocity signal is determined. If the velocity signal then falls below the release threshold value, thus indicating a vehicle collision, the passenger restraint system is released. The release threshold value is controlled depending on the type of accident situation and upon the operating parameters of the vehicle to increase the release sensitivity of the passenger restraint system. For example, the release threshold value is adjusted based on the value of the velocity signal. If the velocity signal decreases in value, then the release threshold is lowered to a more sensitive value.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 1989Date of Patent: May 14, 1991Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Bernhard Mattes, Werner Nitschke, Willi Kuhn, Wolfgang Drobny, Hugo Weller, Peter Taufer, Edmund Jeenicke, Klaus Reischle, Michael Henne, Wilfried Burger
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Patent number: RE36122Abstract: In a method for controlling the release of a passenger restraint system in a vehicle, an acceleration signal is measured and integrated with respect to time to obtain a velocity signal. A release threshold value for the velocity signal is determined. If the velocity signal then falls below the release threshold value, thus indicating a vehicle collision, the passenger restraint system is released. The release threshold value is controlled depending on the type of accident situation and upon the operating parameters of the vehicle to increase the release sensitivity of the passenger restraint system. For example, the release threshold value is adjusted based on the value of the velocity signal. If the velocity signal decreases in value, then the release threshold is lowered to a more sensitive value.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 1997Date of Patent: March 2, 1999Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Bernhard Mattes, Werner Nitschke, Willi Kuhn, Wolfgang Drobny, Hugo Weller, Peter Taufer, Edmund Jeenicke, Klaus Reischle, Michael Henne, Wilfried Burger