Patents by Inventor Andreas Pape

Andreas Pape 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: 9371793
    Abstract: A method for operating a fuel vapor recirculation system in a motor vehicle having a fuel tank. In the method, in the operating strategy of the fuel vapor recirculation system, predictive route data of the motor vehicle are taken into account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Blumenstock, Andreas Pape
  • Patent number: 9297717
    Abstract: In a venting system, in particular for a fuel tank of a motor vehicle, which has a sorption filter for temporarily storing fuel evaporating from the fuel tank and a fluid-conveying conveying device situated between the sorption filter and an air supply or an intake manifold of an internal combustion engine, according to the present system, the conveying device is a bidirectional conveying device which is switchable in a first conveying direction in the direction of the internal combustion engine for regenerating the sorption filter and in a second conveying direction in the direction of the sorption filter for carrying out a fuel tank leak diagnosis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Silke Haag, Helmut Denz, Andreas Pape, Manfred Franz
  • Patent number: 9212633
    Abstract: A device for selectively regenerating and performing tank leakage diagnosis of a tank ventilation system has a sorption filter and a pump. The sorption filter is configured to temporarily store fuel evaporating from a fuel tank. The pump is arranged at a fresh-air side of the sorption filter and is connected in fluid-conducting fashion to the sorption filter. The pump is configured to generate a fluid flow to regenerate the sorption filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Silke Haag, Helmut Denz, Andreas Pape, Manfred Franz
  • Patent number: 9194314
    Abstract: A method and a device for controlling a fuel-operated internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle having a tank venting system associated with a fuel tank and having at least two operating states, in which the internal combustion engine is shut off automatically according to a shut-off strategy. The shut-off strategy takes into account the instantaneous operating state of the tank venting system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Helmut Zell, Andreas Pape
  • Patent number: 9198208
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling a network system, the network system including a wireless network to which a client is wirelessly connected, and a backbone network which is connected to the wireless network, having the following steps: (i) Establishing a tunnel between a client control device connected to the backbone network and the client for transmitting data between the client control device and the client, (ii) Sending status information from the client to the client control device via the tunnel, (iii) Evaluating the transmitted status information using the client control device, and (iv) Sending a control signal for controlling the client, which depends on the evaluated status information, from the client control device to the client via the tunnel. The invention further relates to a network system and a computer program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Pape, Juergen Weczerek
  • Publication number: 20140373813
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system (1) for venting a fuel tank (3). The system (1) has a gas vessel (9), a first line (11), and a second line (13). The gas vessel (9) is designed to receive fuel vapor (7) from the fuel tank (3). The first line (11) connects the gas vessel (9) to an air supply path (21) of an internal combustion engine (19). The second line (13) connects the gas vessel (9) to a fuel supply path (30) of the internal combustion engine (19).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Georg Mallebrein, Martin Klenk, Werner Haeming, Marko Lorenz, Hartmut Krueger, Timm Hollmann, Dennis Glemser, Stefan Gollnisch, Peter Schroepfer, Martina Homeyer, Franz Raichle, Wolfgang Fischer, Andreas Pape, Andreas Gutscher, Juergen Schwarz, Thomas Keller, Andreas Posselt, Georg Kurz
  • Publication number: 20140109882
    Abstract: A method for monitoring the leak tightness of a fuel tank system is provided, the fuel tank system being provided for supplying fuel to a supercharged internal combustion engine. A pressure accumulator is filled from the supercharged intake manifold area of the internal combustion engine. The pressure from the pressure accumulator is transferred to the fuel tank system, which includes in particular the fuel tank and, if necessary, an activated carbon filter. The pressure curve in the closed fuel tank system is observed. A leak in the fuel tank system may be inferred on the basis of the pressure curve, if necessary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Johannes Hoegl, Silke Haag, Guenther Koessler, Andreas Pape, Thomas Herges, Cam Lai Ngo, Guido Schock
  • Patent number: 8660012
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and system for diagnosing communication connections in a communication system. The invention enables the provision of a plurality of first diagnosis units and at least one second diagnosis unit, wherein the first and second diagnosis units each are assigned to a communication connection of the communication system and are configured for determining a value of a diagnosis variable of the respectively assigned communication connections, and provides for determining a value of at least one diagnosis variable by each of the first diagnosis units, determining a value of at least one diagnosis variable by the at least one second diagnosis unit, transferring the values determined by the first diagnosis units to an evaluation unit, statistically evaluating the transferred values by the evaluation unit, and diagnosing the values determined by the at least one second diagnosis unit depending on the statistical evaluation by the evaluation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Pape, Thorsten Behr, Friedrich Wegener
  • Publication number: 20140052361
    Abstract: A method for operating a fuel vapor recirculation system in a motor vehicle having a fuel tank. In the method, in the operating strategy of the fuel vapor recirculation system, predictive route data of the motor vehicle are taken into account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2013
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas BLUMENSTOCK, Andreas PAPE
  • Publication number: 20140013944
    Abstract: A device for selectively regenerating and performing tank leakage diagnosis of a tank ventilation system has a sorption filter and a pump. The sorption filter is configured to temporarily store fuel evaporating from a fuel tank. The pump is arranged at a fresh-air side of the sorption filter and is connected in fluid-conducting fashion to the sorption filter. The pump is configured to generate a fluid flow to regenerate the sorption filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2011
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GMBH
    Inventors: Silke Haag, Helmut Denz, Andreas Pape, Manfred Franz
  • Publication number: 20130319378
    Abstract: In a venting system, in particular for a fuel tank of a motor vehicle, which has a sorption filter for temporarily storing fuel evaporating from the fuel tank and a fluid-conveying conveying device situated between the sorption filter and an air supply or an intake manifold of an internal combustion engine, according to the present system, the conveying device is a bidirectional conveying device which is switchable in a first conveying direction in the direction of the internal combustion engine for regenerating the sorption filter and in a second conveying direction in the direction of the sorption filter for carrying out a fuel tank leak diagnosis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2011
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GMBH
    Inventors: Silke Haag, Helmut Denz, Andreas Pape, Manfred Franz
  • Patent number: 8529659
    Abstract: A method is provided for diagnosing the operability of fuel vapor intermediate stores (4), in particular of activated carbon filters, in tank-venting systems with at least one tank (3) and at least one fuel vapor intermediate store (4). In this case an actual change degree of filling of the fuel vapor intermediate store (4) is determined as a consequence of absorption or desorption processes of gaseous hydrocarbons in the fuel vapor intermediate store (4). The actual change in degree of filling is compared with a desired change in degree of filling and, from the comparison, a conclusion about the operability of the fuel vapor intermediate store (4) is drawn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Streib, Andreas Pape, Andreas Baumann, Werner Haeming
  • Patent number: 8418525
    Abstract: A method for testing the operability of a tank shutoff valve of a fuel tank system which is controlled by valves includes performing defined triggering of the tank shutoff valve and simultaneous introduction of an overpressure or partial vacuum into the fuel tank system via a pressure source, and the operability of the tank shutoff valve is determined on the basis of a variable which characterizes the introduction of the overpressure or partial vacuum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Silke Haag, Andreas Pape, Carsten Kluth, Uwe Nusser
  • Patent number: 8381705
    Abstract: A method for checking the operational capability of a fuel tank ventilation valve (7) of a fuel tank ventilation system of a motor vehicle with an internal combustion engine (1) having an intake manifold pressure-based detection of filling levels is thereby characterized in that the fuel tank ventilation valve (7) is selectively activated to open or close and in correlation to this the operational capability of the fuel tank ventilation valve (7) is suggested from the thereby resulting intake manifold pressure (ps).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Kuentzle, Uwe Neumann, Achim Jung, Andreas Pape
  • Patent number: 8274997
    Abstract: The invention relates to a transmission method in which at least two Ethernet data frames are combined to form one Ethernet telegram and the Ethernet telegram is transmitted via a communications network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Juergen Weczerek, Andreas Pape, Gunnar Lessmann
  • Publication number: 20110196952
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling a network system, the network system including a wireless network to which a client is wirelessly connected, and a backbone network which is connected to the wireless network, having the following steps: (i) Establishing a tunnel between a client control device connected to the backbone network and the client for transmitting data between the client control device and the client, (ii) Sending status information from the client to the client control device via the tunnel, (iii) Evaluating the transmitted status information using the client control device, and (iv) Sending a control signal for controlling the client, which depends on the evaluated status information, from the client control device to the client via the tunnel. The invention further relates to a network system and a computer program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Applicant: Phoenix Contact GmbH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Pape, Juergen Weczerek
  • Publication number: 20110170434
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and system for diagnosing communication connections in a communication system. The invention enables the provision of a plurality of first diagnosis units and at least one second diagnosis unit, wherein the first and second diagnosis units each are assigned to a communication connection of the communication system and are configured for determining a value of a diagnosis variable of the respectively assigned communication connections, and provides for determining a value of at least one diagnosis variable by each of the first diagnosis units, determining a value of at least one diagnosis variable by the at least one second diagnosis unit, transferring the values determined by the first diagnosis units to an evaluation unit, statistically evaluating the transferred values by the evaluation unit, and diagnosing the values determined by the at least one second diagnosis unit depending on the statistical evaluation by the evaluation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2010
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Pape, Thorsten Behr, Friedrich Wegener
  • Patent number: 7945159
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for determining the bandwidths of optical fibers, wherein the method provides the coupling of light with a first optical power and a first modulation frequency into an optical fiber, as well as measuring a first signal level as a function of the optical power of the light of the first modulation frequency, coupling light with the second optical power and a second modulation frequency into the optical fiber, measuring a second signal level as a function of the optical power of the light of the second modulation frequency, and determining the bandwidths of the optical fibers as a function of the first and second coupled optical [power and/or] the measured first and second signal levels while using a predetermined specification that describes the frequency-dependent attenuation response of the optical fiber, wherein the first and the second modulation frequencies have essentially the same value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Andreas Pape
  • Publication number: 20110100210
    Abstract: A method is provided for diagnosing the operability of fuel vapor intermediate stores (4), in particular of activated carbon filters, in tank-venting systems with at least one tank (3) and at least one fuel vapor intermediate store (4). In this case an actual change degree of filling of the fuel vapor intermediate store (4) is determined as a consequence of absorption or desorption processes of gaseous hydrocarbons in the fuel vapor intermediate store (4). The actual change in degree of filling is compared with a desired change in degree of filling and, from the comparison, a conclusion about the operability of the fuel vapor intermediate store (4) is drawn.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2008
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GMBH
    Inventors: Martin Streib, Andreas Pape, Andreas Baumann, Werner Haeming
  • Publication number: 20110067487
    Abstract: A method for testing the operability of a tank shutoff valve of a fuel tank system which is controlled by valves includes performing defined triggering of the tank shutoff valve and simultaneous introduction of an overpressure or partial vacuum into the fuel tank system via a pressure source, and the operability of the tank shutoff valve is determined on the basis of a variable which characterizes the introduction of the overpressure or partial vacuum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2010
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Inventors: Silke Haag, Andreas Pape, Carsten Kluth, Uwe Nusser