Patents by Inventor Reinhard Drews

Reinhard Drews 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 and apparatus for optimizing the driving characteristics of a vehicle
    Patent number: 4913457
    Abstract: For optimizing the driving characteristics of a vehicle, especially a motor vehicle, there is proposed a method and an apparatus, wherein the monetary wheel-load is preferably continuously determined and the level of the car body and/or the damping-characteristics of a shock-absorber are regulated in dependence of these signals of momentary wheel load, which is continuously determined by a single force-measuring-cell integrated in each of the shock-absorbers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 3, 1990
    Assignee: Pfister GmbH and Bayrische Motoren Werke AG
    Inventors: Hans W. Hafner, Reinhard Drews