Patents by Inventor Andreas Schwenger

Andreas Schwenger 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: 6424901
    Abstract: Within the scope of the method for including the temperature in the calculation of the definite, operating-point dependent maximum and minimum adjustment speeds in a continuously variable belt-drive transmission, the actual limiting values for the maximum possible adjustment gradient are continuously calculated in every operating state by a physical-mathematical pattern wherein the hydraulic routes of the variator, the clutches integrated in the transmission and the lubrication are modeled as laminar inserts and the route of the control unit leakage as coupled laminar and turbulent hydraulic transmission elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2002
    Assignee: ZF Batavia L.L.C.
    Inventors: Ralf Vorndran, Wolfgang Danz, Friedrich Reiter, Andreas Piepenbrink, Andreas Schwenger
  • Patent number: 6418366
    Abstract: Within the scope of the method for ratio control of a continuously variable automatic transmission of a motor vehicle by means of a control loop structure which contains a non-linear compensation member for the variator and controllers for the pressures of both hydraulic routes of the variator pulleys and the variator routes, the control loop structure contains an interference variable observer which generates an interference force FL that reproduces the pattern precision wherein the interference force together with the set value for the adjustment gradient which is limited as result of external standards, forms the compensation member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2002
    Assignee: ZF Batavia, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Wolfgang Danz, Andreas Piepenbrink, Andreas Schwenger
  • Patent number: 6311113
    Abstract: A method for ratio control for a continuously variable belt drive transmission with electrohydraulic control by means of a control loop with a linear PID controller with the theoretical ratio of the variator iv_theor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Assignee: ZF Batavia, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Wolfgang Danz, Andreas Piepenbrink, Andreas Schwenger