Patents by Inventor Tobias KRANZ

Tobias KRANZ 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).

  • Patent number: 11423784
    Abstract: A method of controlling a parking operation of a vehicle by a parking assista?ce system involves: capturing the position of a vehicle user located close to but outside of the vehicle; determining a provisional target position and a provisional motion path for the vehicle based on a vehicle starting position and the position of the vehicle user; checking whether the provisional target position and/or the motion of the vehicle into the provisional target position along the provisional motion path would cause a collision with the vehicle user; and if a result of the checking is affirmative, then changing the provisional target position and/or the provisional motion path so that no collision with the vehicle user will occur at the changed target position and/or along the changed motion path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Frank Edling, Tobias Kranz, Robert Obermaier
  • Publication number: 20210290351
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a method for the manufacture of a multilayer blank, having a lowermost layer and a topmost layer, of a ceramic material, where layers of different compositions are introduced layer-by-layer into a mold, compressed and then sintered and where individual layers contain at least one coloring oxide, wherein as a first coloring oxide as the one coloring oxide at least one oxide from the group Co, Mn, Ni, Cr is used, the proportion of which in the lowermost layer containing the first coloring oxide is lower than in the topmost layer containing the first coloring oxide: and at least one oxide from the group Pr, Er, Fe, Ti, V, Bi, Cu, Tb is used as the second coloring oxide, the proportion of which in the lowermost layer containing the second coloring oxide is greater than that in the topmost layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: DENTSPLY SIRONA Inc.
    Inventors: Lothar VOELKL, Stefan FECHER, Martin KUTZNER, Tanja OEFNER, Christian KOHLER, Tobias KRANZ, Andreas GEBHARDT, Martin HAIZMANN, Heiner HOERHOLD, Andrea BURNS
  • Publication number: 20200324816
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling a parking operation of a vehicle (1) by means of a parking assistance system (4), comprising the following steps: capturing the position of a vehicle user (2) who is located close to but outside of the vehicle; determining a provisional vehicle target position (PTP) and a provisional vehicle motion path (PMP) on the basis of the vehicle starting position (VSP) and the position of the vehicle user (2); checking if the provisional vehicle target position (PIP) and/or the motion of the vehicle into the provisional vehicle target position (PTP) on the provisional vehicle motion path (PMP) causes a collision with the vehicle user (2); changing the provisional vehicle target position (PTP) into a changed vehicle target position (CTP) and/or changing the provisional vehicle motion path (PMP) into a changed vehicle motion path (CMP) if a collision with the vehicle user (2) occurs at the provisional vehicle target position (PTP) or during the motion of the vehicle (
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventors: Frank EDLING, Tobias KRANZ, Robert OBERMAIER