Patents by Inventor Ulrich Wuttke

Ulrich Wuttke 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: 8326492
    Abstract: A park-steering assistance system and method for operating a park-steering assistance system includes a switch-on and switch-off logic, which is provided to activate the park-steering assistance system as a function of a signal of a control element and to deactivate the park-steering assistance system as a function of a velocity value of the motor vehicle and as a function of a specified first velocity threshold value, a specified second velocity threshold value existing, which is lower than the first velocity threshold value, and the switch-on and switch-off logic being arranged to switch the park-steering assistance system from the activated state to a temporarily deactivated state or from the temporarily deactivated state to the activated state as a function of a comparison of the variables of the velocity value and the second velocity threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Volkswagen AG
    Inventors: Volkmar Schoening, Ulrich Wuttke, Frank Schwitters
  • Publication number: 20110301814
    Abstract: An obscured state of a vehicle, in which a distance measuring sensor of an assistance system is obscured by a part of the vehicle, is automatically detected. If the obscured state is present, a steering intervention of the assistance system into a steering system of the vehicle during a parking or parking-bay-exiting process of the vehicle using the assistance system is automatically deactivated or prevented. Furthermore, to avoid a collision of the vehicle using the assistance system, a notification of an obscured state is automatically generated when the obscured state is present.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Inventors: Ulrich Wuttke, Philipp Hueger, Mehmet Terkes, Stefan Bruening
  • Publication number: 20110004375
    Abstract: In a method and a device for assisted parking of a motor vehicle into a parking space or assisted pulling out of a motor vehicle from a parking space, a predetermined maximum speed is given for each parking phase of the single step or multiple step parking or pulling out action consisting of several parking phases, wherein when exceeding the predetermined speed during a parking phase a limitation of the speed of the motor vehicle to the maximum speed allowed for the parking phase is carried out.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2010
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Inventors: Philipp Hueger, Ulrich Wuttke, Kai Koenig
  • Publication number: 20100070138
    Abstract: A method for operating a park-steering assistance system and a park-steering assistance system provide an improved switch-on and switch-off logic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2007
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Inventors: Volkmar Schoening, Ulrich Wuttke, Frank Schwitters