Patents by Inventor Thomas EBERL

Thomas EBERL 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).

  • Publication number: 20240190263
    Abstract: A control device for operating a road-coupled all-wheel drive vehicle, includes at least one electronic control unit, at least one first electric drive motor as a primary motor assigned to a primary axle and at least one second electric drive motor as a secondary motor assigned to a secondary axle. The control unit has a torque-limiting module which, if an expected change of the all-wheel drive factor is detected which can lead to a transition from single-axle operation to dual-axle operation on the basis of a defined signal that runs ahead the filtered driver's request signal, the torque limits for the individual target torques of the electric drive motors can be preset in a sudden manner according to the predetermined changed all-wheel drive factor before the individual target torques per se are set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Inventors: Thomas EBERL, Florian SCHNAPPAUF
  • Publication number: 20240158284
    Abstract: A glass pane, especially to a glass pane obtained by singularization from a preferably floated glass strip formed by hot forming, is provided. The glass pane is a borosilicate glass with a top side, a bottom side, and a thickness the top and bottom surfaces of at least 1.75 mm and at most 7 mm. The glass pane has a magnitude of the sum total of refractions from the top side and the bottom side within a square area Mb of 500 mm by 500 mm for light incident perpendicularly on the glass pane for a 99.9% quantile of 0 mdpt to less than 1.7 mdpt in at least one direction parallel to the surface of the glass pane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: SCHOTT Technical Glass Solutions GmbH
    Inventors: Juliane Brandt-Slowik, Thomas Schmiady, Stefan Eberl, Andreas Sprenger, Armin Vogl, Michael Meister, Tommy Schröder, Michael Reinl
  • Patent number: 11760199
    Abstract: A system and method for speed/traction/slip control influences a driving engine torque of the vehicle. The method includes: calculating an idealized nominal engine torque from a linear control law applied to the speed/slip error; calculating an idealized setpoint for the speed/slip by applying a reference model to the idealized nominal engine torque; calculating a linearizing feedback with properties of compensating the nonlinearities in the road surface contact, compensating the inertia in the powertrain, and damping the powertrain; using for feedback the engine rotational speed, numerically determined derivation of engine speed, average speed of the driven axis, numerically determined derivative of the rotational speed of the driven axis, actual engine torque, and applying the driving engine torque to the engine vehicle to influence the traction and stability of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Eberl, Dirk Odenthal, Elias Reichensdoerfer, Alexander Zech
  • Publication number: 20230211742
    Abstract: A system for fixing the loading floor in a motor vehicle, including a loading floor support and at least one loading floor. The loading floor support includes at least one latching element, and the loading floor has at least one molded element which is adapted to latch onto the at least one latching element of the loading floor support. The system is adapted, based on the latching, to lock the loading floor on the loading floor support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Manuel AMLER, Thomas EBERL
  • Publication number: 20220080942
    Abstract: A control unit for a motor vehicle which includes at least one electric machine for driving one or more wheels of the vehicle and at least one friction brake is provided. The control unit is configured to determine that a one-pedal feel function is to be provided via an acceleration pedal of the vehicle and/or a creep function is to be provided via a brake pedal of the vehicle. Additionally, the control unit is configured to operate the electric machine at least temporarily in combination with the friction brake in order to provide the one-pedal feel function and/or the creep function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas EBERL, Werner FOAG, Andreas RANK, Florian SCHNAPPAUF, Ralf SEIBERT, Georg SOYER
  • Patent number: 11021158
    Abstract: A vehicle dynamics control system in a motor vehicle includes an electronic vehicle dynamics control unit which is connected to at least one drive control unit and is configured so as to: determine at least one setpoint slip or a setpoint slip corridor and an actual vehicle speed as a reference speed, and transmit the at least one setpoint slip or the setpoint slip corridor together with the reference speed to the at least one drive control unit. The drive control unit, in accordance with the transmitted values and by way of a function module, determines setpoint rotational speed values at a motor level and carries out a rotational speed control process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Torsten Mueller, Thomas Eberl, Andreas Baier, Marc Espenhain
  • Publication number: 20210114457
    Abstract: A system and method for speed/traction/slip control influences a driving engine torque of the vehicle. The method includes: calculating an idealized nominal engine torque from a linear control law applied to the speed/slip error; calculating an idealized setpoint for the speed/slip by applying a reference model to the idealized nominal engine torque; calculating a linearizing feedback with properties of compensating the nonlinearities in the road surface contact, compensating the inertia in the powertrain, and damping the powertrain; using for feedback the engine rotational speed, numerically determined derivation of engine speed, average speed of the driven axis, numerically determined derivative of the rotational speed of the driven axis, actual engine torque, and applying the driving engine torque to the engine vehicle to influence the traction and stability of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Thomas EBERL, Dirk ODENTHAL, Elias REICHENSDOERFER, Alexander ZECH
  • Publication number: 20180257652
    Abstract: A vehicle dynamics control system in a motor vehicle includes an electronic vehicle dynamics control unit which is connected to at least one drive control unit and is configured so as to: determine at least one setpoint slip or a setpoint slip corridor and an actual vehicle speed as a reference speed, and transmit the at least one setpoint slip or the setpoint slip corridor together with the reference speed to the at least one drive control unit. The drive control unit, in accordance with the transmitted values and by way of a function module, determines setpoint rotational speed values at a motor level and carries out a rotational speed control process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: Torsten MUELLER, Thomas EBERL, Adreas BAIER, Marc ESPENHAIN