Patents by Inventor Dieter Eppinger

Dieter Eppinger 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 and control unit for determining the probability of failure of a motor-vehicle component
    Patent number: 6873917
    Abstract: A method and control unit for determining the failure probability of a component of a motor-vehicle. Data in the form of damage-relevant influence parameters, which affect the failure probability of the component, are measured and stored during the operation of the component. To ascertain the failure probability, a collective loading is calculated as a determining influence parameter for establishing the fatigue limit of the component. To determine the collective loading as realistically as possible and therefore determine the failure probability as accurately as possible, the influence parameters may be evaluated during the operation of the component, in a control unit of the motor-vehicle for determining the failure probability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2005
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Dieter Ulrich, Dieter Eppinger, Wolfgang Haydn, Andreas Scheffold, Manfred Bacher-Hoechst
  • Method and control unit for determining the probability of failure of a motor-vehicle component
    Publication number: 20040034504
    Abstract: A method and control unit for determining the failure probability of a component of a motor-vehicle. Data in the form of damage-relevant influence parameters, which affect the failure probability of the component, are measured and stored during the operation of the component. To ascertain the failure probability, a collective loading is calculated as a determining influence parameter for establishing the fatigue limit of the component. To determine the collective loading as realistically as possible and therefore determine the failure probability as accurately as possible, the influence parameters may be evaluated during the operation of the component, in a control unit of the motor-vehicle for determining the failure probability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2003
    Publication date: February 19, 2004
    Inventors: Dieter Ulrich, Dieter Eppinger, Wolfgang Haydn, Andreas Scheffold, Manfred Bacher-Hoechst