Patents by Inventor Bernd Jordan

Bernd Jordan 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).

  • Method for the damping force adjustment of motor vehicles as a function of output signals of a transmitter arranged at the vehicle body
    Patent number: 4821189
    Abstract: In a method for the damping force adjustment of motor vehicles in dependence of output signals of a transmitter arranged at the vehicle body which are processed and are compared with a predetermined threshold value and which produce a signal for changing the damping force when exceeding/dropping below this threshold value, the changes of these output signals are added at equal intervals with respect to time and determined over a measuring period which is considerably larger than the natural period (reciprocal resonance frequency) of the vehicle wheels and are compared with a threshold value which is dependent on the load of the vehicle. A drift-free indication about the damping force adjustment to be selected becomes possible therewith without frequency analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 11, 1989
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke A.G.
    Inventors: Dieter Hennecke, Eugen Herb, Udo Ochner, Bernd Jordan