Patents by Inventor Eugene Ziegler

Eugene Ziegler 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: 12164036
    Abstract: A control system is suitable for use in a motor vehicle and is configured and intended for detecting a position and/or a speed of an object in the surroundings of the host motor vehicle according to determined objects and/or according to driving-related information concerning other motor vehicles, based on surroundings data from at least one surroundings sensor situated on the host motor vehicle and provided to the control system. Based on these surroundings data, an object in the surroundings of the host motor vehicle is detected, and a virtual position and/or a virtual speed are/is associated with this object. The virtual position and/or speed associated with the object are/is adapted based on the driving-related information concerning another motor vehicle and/or based on driving-related information concerning the host motor vehicle, in order to determine an instantaneous position and/or an instantaneous speed of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: ZF Active Safety GmbH
    Inventors: Johannes Stiller, Eugen Ziegler
  • Patent number: 11358600
    Abstract: A control system is suitable for use in a motor vehicle and is configured and intended for using information concerning objects and/or driving-related information about another motor vehicle in order to distinguish real objects in the surroundings of the motor vehicle from erroneously detected objects, based on surroundings data that are obtained from at least one surroundings sensor situated on the motor vehicle and provided to the control system. Based on these surroundings data, an object in the surroundings of the motor vehicle is detected, and a distance and/or a relative speed and/or an angle between the motor vehicle and the object are/is determined. The object is then classified as an actually existing object or as an erroneously detected object, based on the determined distance and/or based on the determined relative speed and/or based on the determined angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: ZF ACTIVE SAFETY GMBH
    Inventors: Eugen Ziegler, Johannes Stiller
  • Publication number: 20200174134
    Abstract: A control system is suitable for use in a motor vehicle and is configured and intended for detecting a position and/or a speed of an object in the surroundings of the host motor vehicle according to determined objects and/or according to driving-related information concerning other motor vehicles, based on surroundings data from at least one surroundings sensor situated on the host motor vehicle and provided to the control system. Based on these surroundings data, an object in the surroundings of the host motor vehicle is detected, and a virtual position and/or a virtual speed are/is associated with this object. The virtual position and/or speed associated with the object are/is adapted based on the driving-related information concerning another motor vehicle and/or based on driving-related information concerning the host motor vehicle, in order to determine an instantaneous position and/or an instantaneous speed of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Johannes Stiller, Eugen Ziegler
  • Publication number: 20200172108
    Abstract: A control system is suitable for use in a motor vehicle and is configured and intended for using information concerning objects and/or driving-related information about another motor vehicle in order to distinguish real objects in the surroundings of the motor vehicle from erroneously detected objects, based on surroundings data that are obtained from at least one surroundings sensor situated on the motor vehicle and provided to the control system. Based on these surroundings data, an object in the surroundings of the motor vehicle is detected, and a distance and/or a relative speed and/or an angle between the motor vehicle and the object are/is determined. The object is then classified as an actually existing object or as an erroneously detected object, based on the determined distance and/or based on the determined relative speed and/or based on the determined angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Eugen Ziegler, Johannes Stiller
  • Publication number: 20200021090
    Abstract: A modular skid assembly is disclosed. The modular skid assembly includes a skeletal framework configured to house electrical equipment components and support power cables routed between the electrical equipment components, wherein the skeletal framework is configured to house electrical components in two parallel rows with an aisle between the two parallel rows, the skeletal framework including an upper superstructure, a lower superstructure, and one or more vertical columns connected between the upper superstructure and the lower superstructure. The upper superstructure includes a first horizontal support and a second horizontal support. The upper superstructure includes a lower cable tray having a plurality of tray supports fixed to at least one of the first horizontal support and the second horizontal support and extending over the aisle from the first horizontal support towards the second horizontal support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: William Eugene Ziegler, Michael Thomas Sweet
  • Patent number: 5912523
    Abstract: A carbon-segment face commutator assembly for an electric motor includes an annular array of copper conductor sections stamped from a single copper blank. The annular array is overmolded with an electrical-conducting resin-bonded carbon composition which mechanically interlocks the conductor sections and defines a circular commutating surface. During overmolding, radial grooves are formed in a bottom surface of the carbon overmold opposite the commutating surface. An annular hub is then formed by overmolding an insulator material around and under the carbon overmold and the conductor section array. The hub insulator material flows into the radial grooves of the carbon overmold and leaves only the circular commutating surface exposed. The carbon overmold is formed into an annular array of eight electrically-isolated carbon segments by machining radial slots inward from the commutating surface of the carbon overmold to the underlying radial grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1999
    Assignee: McCord Winn Textron Inc.
    Inventors: William Eugene Ziegler, William A. Bauer
  • Patent number: 4366029
    Abstract: A pivoting back one-spot coke quenching car for use in coke batteries having a coke bench structure with clearances which make the use of one-spot cars impractical. The novel structure of the present invention permits the car to have sufficient volume to receive coke in one-spot while providing a pivoting back that allows the car to tilt, travel and dump in coke batteries that have close clearances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1982
    Assignee: Koppers Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert P. Bixby, Eugene Ziegler