Patents by Inventor Arno Hafner

Arno Hafner 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: 7725230
    Abstract: A method and a computer system for operating at least two interconnected control units. The control units access sensor data and each execute at least one computer program for controlling operational sequences, in particular in a vehicle. The control units exchange synchronization information with one another. In order to design and refine a computer system in a way that will enable even especially complex operational sequences, as required in a modern motor vehicle, for example, to be controlled and/or regulated simply and cost-effectively with the aid of the computer system, using conventional control units, the control units execute the same computer program time-synchronously using a settable time lag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Eckehard Knoefler, Tobias Lang, Peter Fink, Martin Lunt, Bernd Illg, Arno Hafner
  • Publication number: 20060235594
    Abstract: A method and a computer system for operating at least two interconnected control units. The control units access sensor data and each execute at least one computer program for controlling operational sequences, in particular in a vehicle. The control units exchange synchronization information with one another. In order to design and refine a computer system in a way that will enable even especially complex operational sequences, as required in a modern motor vehicle, for example, to be controlled and/or regulated simply and cost-effectively with the aid of the computer system, using conventional control units, the control units execute the same computer program time-synchronously using a settable time lag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2003
    Publication date: October 19, 2006
    Inventors: Eckehard Knoefler, Tobias Lang, Peter Fink, Martin Lunt, Bernd Illg, Arno Hafner
  • Patent number: 5960627
    Abstract: A method and a device for controlling an internal combustion engine, in which first device meters fuel to the internal combustion engine that is burned in the internal combustion engine. Second device performs an exhaust gas aftertreatment. A post-injection takes place, in the case of which, following the combustion, the first device meters fuel which reacts in the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1999
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Krampe, Arno Hafner