Patents by Inventor Thomas Führer

Thomas Führer 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: 20180097316
    Abstract: A plug-in connector part for connection to a mating plug-in connector part includes: a housing part; at least one electrical contact element, which is arranged on the housing part, for establishing electrical contact with the mating plug-in connector part; and a temperature-monitoring device including at least one sensor device for detecting a rise in temperature of the at least one contact element. The temperature-monitoring device includes a support element that extends over an entire surface thereof along a plane and includes at least one opening and one contact surface arranged at the at least one opening, the at least one contact element extending through the at least one opening such that the at least one contact element abuts the contact surface, and the at least one sensor device being arranged on the support element so as to detect a rise in temperature of the at least one contact element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventors: Markus Rose, Thomas Fuehrer
  • Patent number: 9915538
    Abstract: In a method for operating a vehicle, a location assigned to a driving route of the vehicle is transmitted from the vehicle to an external server, and the server checks whether a zone is assigned to the transmitted location for which navigation data exist for at least partially automated vehicle driving within the zone. The navigation data are transmitted from the server to the vehicle when such a zone is assigned to the transmitted location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Thomas Fuehrer
  • Patent number: 9904656
    Abstract: A method for establishing a driving profile includes recording a value of an operating characteristic of a motor vehicle with the aid of a sensor situated in the motor vehicle at a first point in time, linking the value to a piece of location information indicating a position of the motor vehicle to obtain a linked piece of information, transferring the linked piece of information to a server, evaluating a plurality of linked pieces of information to ascertain a driving profile which includes location-dependent values of the operating characteristic, transferring the driving profile to the motor vehicle, and ascertaining a deviation between a value of the operating characteristic of the motor vehicle and a value of the operating characteristic included in the driving profile at a position of the motor vehicle at a second point in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Thomas Fuehrer
  • Patent number: 9802613
    Abstract: A driver assistance system for motor vehicles, having a velocity regulation function for regulating the velocity of the subject vehicle to a nominal velocity, and having an adjacent-lane monitoring function, characterized by a turning assistance function which, when the velocity regulation function is active and an incoming signal indicates an imminent turning process that requires crossing an adjacent lane, monitors the traffic in the adjacent lane with the aid of the adjacent-lane monitoring function, and, as a function of locations and velocities of traffic participants in the adjacent lane, determines a spatial and temporal window for moving into the adjacent lane and adapts the nominal velocity to this window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Thomas Fuehrer
  • Patent number: 9806459
    Abstract: A plug connector part fix a plug connector includes a housing part; a plug portion which is arranged on the housing part for plug-in connection to another plug connector part; a latching element which is arranged in a movable manner on the housing part and has a latching portion that locks to the other plug connector part, the latching element being movable between a first, locking position for establishing locking between the plug connector part and the other plug connector part and a second, unlocking, position for unlocking the plug connector part from the other plug connector part; and a fixing device to fix the latching element in the first, locking position. The fixing device releases a fixing provided by the fixing device in the first, locking position by applying a force to the latching element that is greater than a predetermined fixing force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT E-MOBILITY GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Fuehrer, Robert Babezki
  • Publication number: 20170278394
    Abstract: A method for monitoring automatic parking of a vehicle, at least one video image of an execution of the automatic parking of the vehicle being captured and transmitted to a mobile terminal device. A corresponding apparatus, a corresponding system and a parking system, are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventor: Thomas Fuehrer
  • Publication number: 20170237205
    Abstract: A plug connector part for connection to a mating plug connector part includes: at least one electrical contact element for carrying an electrical current and establishing electrical contact with at least one other contact element of a mating plug connector part; and a temperature sensor device for recording an increase in temperature of the plug connector part, the temperature sensor device including at least one sensor element, which is designed to detect infrared radiation emitted by the at least one electrical contact element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Thomas FUEHRER, Markus ROSE, Bodo FINKEN
  • Publication number: 20170229820
    Abstract: In an embodiment, the present invention provides a plug connector part for connection to a mating plug connector part, including a plurality of electrical contact elements for carrying an electrical current and establishing electrical contact with contact elements of a mating plug connector part, the plurality of electrical contact elements including a plurality of temperature sensors, each of which is arranged on one associated contact element, respectively, of the plurality of contact elements, to detect a change in a temperature of the associated contact element, the temperature sensors being connected to a common sensor line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2015
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: Thomas Fuehrer, Markus Rose
  • Patent number: 9625263
    Abstract: A method is provided for ascertaining at least one road-related information item, including the following steps: ascertaining a position of a location on a road, starting from which a mobile user device of a communication network crossed the road, based on the position data of the user device, ascertaining a waiting time during which the user device had to wait at the location before the user device crossed the road, ascertaining a position of a light signal system as a road-related information item, based on the ascertained waiting time and the ascertained position. A corresponding system is also provided, as well as a corresponding computer program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Thomas Fuehrer
  • Patent number: 9583879
    Abstract: An electrical component (1) having a housing (2) and having a plurality of plug contacts (3, 4,5, 6). In this case, the plug contact (3-6) is held in a floating manner on a contact mount (7), and the contact mount (7) is held in a floating manner on the housing (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Karsten Krome, Manuel Tünker, Jens Andresen, Ralf Feldner, Thomas Führer, Jens Franke
  • Publication number: 20170015241
    Abstract: A method for operating a motor vehicle, in which an imminent rollover of the motor vehicle is detected, depending on the status values of the motor vehicle, at least one countermeasure being initiated and/or at least one warning message being output when an imminent rollover is detected. It is provided that, when an imminent rollover is detected, at least one of the instantaneous status values and/or the warning message is/are transmitted to a central database, where it is/they are made available for other motor vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventor: Thomas Fuehrer
  • Publication number: 20160359264
    Abstract: A plug connector part fix a plug connector includes a housing part; a plug portion which is arranged on the housing part for plug-in connection to another plug connector part; a latching element which is arranged in a movable manner on the housing part and has a latching portion that locks to the other plug connector part, the latching element being movable between a first, locking position for establishing locking between the plug connector part and the other plug connector part and a second, unlocking, position for unlocking the plug connector part from the other plug connector part; and a fixing device to fix the latching element in the first, locking position. The fixing device releases a fixing provided by the fixing device in the first, locking position by applying a force to the latching element that is greater than a predetermined fixing force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Thomas Fuehrer, Robert Babezki
  • Patent number: 9466214
    Abstract: A method for supplying a collision signal pertaining to a vehicle collision includes: generating a collision signal that represents at least one characteristic of a collision involving at least one crashed vehicle and position data of the collision, using collision-relevant sensor data of the crashed vehicle; and outputting the collision signal via an interface to a central collision data administration device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Thomas Fuehrer
  • Patent number: 9331425
    Abstract: The subject matter of the invention is a cable connector (1) for electrically connecting an electric vehicle to a charging apparatus, wherein the cable connector (1) is designed to form an electric connection to a device connector (2) associated with the electric vehicle or the charging apparatus, the cable connector (1) has a latching means (4) which is designed in such a manner that a pair of cable connectors (1) and device connectors (2) connected to each other can be latched to each other by means of the latching means (4), and the cable connector (1) has a counter-contour (10) which is designed in such a manner that a locking means (8) associated with the device connector (2) for locking the latching means (4) against being unlatched can be prevented from being unlocked by the counter-contour (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Fuehrer, Marco Seelig
  • Patent number: 9323718
    Abstract: A method for operating a driver assistance system of a vehicle, includes providing and using data for making a decision as to whether or not the driver assistance system is to provide a driver assistance function, detecting a vehicle position when the driver assistance function is provided, and assigning the detected vehicle position to the used data to create a set of driver assistance system data. A device for operating a driver assistance system of a vehicle, as well as a vehicle system for a vehicle and a computer program are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Thomas Fuehrer
  • Publication number: 20160082971
    Abstract: A driver assistance system for motor vehicles, having a velocity regulation function for regulating the velocity of the subject vehicle to a nominal velocity, and having an adjacent-lane monitoring function, characterized by a turning assistance function which, when the velocity regulation function is active and an incoming signal indicates an imminent turning process that requires crossing an adjacent lane, monitors the traffic in the adjacent lane with the aid of the adjacent-lane monitoring function, and, as a function of locations and velocities of traffic participants in the adjacent lane, determines a spatial and temporal window for moving into the adjacent lane and adapts the nominal velocity to this window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventor: Thomas FUEHRER
  • Patent number: 9257046
    Abstract: A method for navigation by road users in the area of a traffic congestion, includes the steps of determining a group of road users in the area of the traffic congestion, who are users of a predetermined service, the capturing of travel data of the members of the group, the determining of driving maneuvers for the members of the group based on the captured driving data and the outputting the driving maneuvers to the associated members of the group. The driving maneuvers are coordinated with one another, in order to reduce the effects of the traffic congestion for the members of the group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Thomas Fuehrer
  • Patent number: 9238417
    Abstract: In one aspect, a plug connector for electrically connecting an electric vehicle to a charging device is provided. The plug connector is designed to establish an electrical connection to a second plug connector associated to the electric vehicle or the charging device. The plug connector includes an actuator which can be driven by an electrical pulse, adapted for locking and unlocking the plug connectors. The plug connector includes an energy source for generating the electrical pulse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Thomas Führer
  • Patent number: 9224524
    Abstract: A cable termination device includes a housing and an insertion opening for a cable in order to terminate the cable end so that it is safe to touch. The housing includes a sealing cap and a screw-on unit cooperating therewith. The insertion opening for receiving at least one cable end is provided on the screw-on unit, and the sealing cap has a rounded design toward the outer end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Jens Franke, Thomas Fuehrer
  • Publication number: 20150330794
    Abstract: A method is provided for ascertaining at least one road-related information item, including the following steps: ascertaining a position of a location on a road, starting from which a mobile user device of a communication network crossed the road, based on the position data of the user device, ascertaining a waiting time during which the user device had to wait at the location before the user device crossed the road, ascertaining a position of a light signal system as a road-related information item, based on the ascertained waiting time and the ascertained position. A corresponding system is also provided, as well as a corresponding computer program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2015
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Inventor: Thomas FUEHRER