Patents by Inventor Florian Pohl

Florian Pohl 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).

  • Publication number: 20260145588
    Abstract: An adjustment mechanism for a motor vehicle, in particular for a vehicle seat, the adjustment mechanism having two actuating elements and an electric motor, by means of which the actuating elements can be adjusted relative to one another during operation, wherein, repeatedly during operation, at least one stored adjustment position of the actuating elements is moved to and/or a current adjustment position is assumed over a resting time. In the event of repeatedly moving to the stored adjustment position (P), a varying target position is moved to or, proceeding from the current adjustment position, a varying target position is moved to if the resting time exceeds a predefined duration. This means that the load on parts of the adjustment mechanism can be kept low.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2024
    Publication date: May 28, 2026
    Inventors: Florian POHL, Alexander CZEMPIK
  • Publication number: 20260145589
    Abstract: It is provided a vehicle seat comprising a plurality of electrical drive units, two or more components which can each be adjusted by means of one of the electrical drive units, and a control system coupled to the electrical drive units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: May 28, 2026
    Inventors: Alexander CZEMPIK, Alexander MÜLLER, Florian POHL, Stefan DIESTLER, Alex KROMER
  • Publication number: 20260103118
    Abstract: A vehicle seat comprising a seat part assembly, a floor assembly carrying the seat part assembly, and a height adjustment device for adjusting a distance between the seat part assembly and the floor assembly by means of a drive device. The vehicle seat furthermore comprises a control system coupled to the drive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Publication date: April 16, 2026
    Inventors: Alexander CZEMPIK, Alexander MÜLLER, Alex KROMER, Florian POHL, Stefan SCHULZE
  • Patent number: 12559996
    Abstract: A method of operating a motor vehicle locking system including an electric drive for providing a locking function, a central battery of the motor vehicle supplies electrical energy to the electric drive during normal operation, an auxiliary energy supply supplies electrical energy to the central battery and is arranged in a closure arrangement of the motor vehicle, the closure element is configured to assume an open and a closed position. Access to the auxiliary energy supply is blocked by the closure element in the closed position and cleared in the open position. The central battery is monitored by a control unit to check whether an emergency operation criterion is satisfied. The closure element is locked in the closed position by means of a lock unit, and when the emergency operation criterion is satisfied, the lock unit is actuated by the control unit to unlock the closure element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2026
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Bamberg
    Inventors: Florian Pohl, Alexander Müller
  • Publication number: 20260043891
    Abstract: A sensor system for providing a vehicle access functionality of a motor vehicle, which sensor system comprises multiple UWB modules which are arranged with a mutual spacing at predetermined positions on the vehicle, and a control assembly for actuating the UWB modules and for providing the vehicle access functionality by the UWB modules, wherein at least one of the UWB modules is arranged as a moveable UWB module on a hatch of the motor vehicle which is adjustable by means of a hatch kinematic function, such that the moveable UWB module, upon an adjustment of the hatch, is adjustable relative to the remainder of the motor vehicle. The control assembly can be designed to execute a positional determination of the moveable UWB module relative to the remainder of the vehicle, and to provide the vehicle access functionality according to the position of the moveable UWB module thus determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Publication date: February 12, 2026
    Inventors: Markus Rosenthal, Philipp Konarski, Florian Pohl
  • Patent number: 12545230
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to a method for driving an ego vehicle in a defined speed range, wherein the ego vehicle has at least one drive unit, and for the at least one drive unit there is provided a characteristic curve specific to the drive unit for a speed-dependent maximum torque, wherein for the at least one drive unit of the ego vehicle a performance-specific characteristic curve depending on the characteristic performance class of the ego vehicle is established for a speed-dependent performance-specific characteristic torque which is less than the maximum torque, and a supplemental torque is established for the ego vehicle when driving in the defined speed range of the ego vehicle in addition to the performance-specific characteristic torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2026
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Dieter Cottyn, Florian Pohl, Michael Wein
  • Patent number: 12479336
    Abstract: It is provided a drive apparatus for adjusting an interior assembly of a vehicle comprises an electromotive adjustment drive for producing an adjustment force, a self-locking adjustment kinematic mechanism for transmitting an adjustment force produced by the adjustment drive to the interior assembly, which adjustment kinematic mechanism can be driven by means of the adjustment drive, and a control device for controlling the adjustment drive. The control device is configured to activate an adjustment mode for adjustment of the interior assembly depending on at least one trigger criterion and, when the adjustment mode is activated, to actuate the adjustment drive with a support current of a magnitude such that the interior assembly can put into motion by means of a user force produced manually on the interior assembly by a user, overcoming the self-locking of the adjustment kinematic mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2025
    Assignee: BROSE FAHRZEUGTEILE SE & CO. KOMMANDITGESELLSCHAFT, BAMBERG
    Inventors: Florian Pohl, Christian Herrmann, Peter Horn, Harald Keller, Alex Kromer, Alexander Müller, Markus Rosenthal
  • Publication number: 20250340153
    Abstract: It is provided a drive device for adjusting an interior assembly of a vehicle, having, at least comprising, a motor-type adjusting drive for generating an adjusting force, a kinematic adjusting mechanism to be driven by the adjusting drive for transmitting an adjusting force generated by the adjusting drive to the interior assembly, a control device for controlling the adjusting drive, and an electronic detection device for detecting an adjustment event, in which at least one external force acts on the drive device and/or the interior assembly. The control device is configured to generate an opposing force via the motor-type adjusting drive in response to the detection of the adjustment event, which counteracts an adjustment of the interior assembly due to the external force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Publication date: November 6, 2025
    Inventors: Florian POHL, Alex KROMER, Alexander MÜLLER, Alexander CZEMPIK
  • Patent number: 12460453
    Abstract: A control assembly for a motor vehicle lock system including a first and a second motor vehicle lock are associated with a closure element of a motor vehicle, the motor vehicle locks each can be brought into a main locking position for a retaining engagement between a lock latch of the motor vehicle lock and a locking part and into an opened position, the motor vehicle lock system comprises a sensor assembly which determines sensor values for the respective positions of the motor vehicle locks, the first and the second motor vehicle lock each have a closing assembly, the motor vehicle lock system has at least one electric closing drive for the closing assemblies, the control assembly triggers a closing routine on fulfilment of a starting criterion by the sensor values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2025
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Bamberg
    Inventors: Florian Pohl, Christian Herrmann, David Rosales
  • Patent number: 12421769
    Abstract: A control assembly for operating a motor vehicle locking system, including an electric drive motor for providing a motorized locking function. The control assembly including a control circuit for controlling the electric drive in an adjustment routine, the control circuit is electrically disconnected from a chargeable energy store, and in an emergency operating mode, responsive to the reception of an operating signal, the control assembly connects the chargeable energy store to the control circuit to provide electrical energy for the adjustment routine, the control assembly includes a monitoring assembly monitoring a state of charge variable of the chargeable energy store in a monitoring routine. The control assembly includes a trigger circuit which, responsive to satisfying a predefined trigger criterion and irrespective of the reception of the operating signal, connects the chargeable energy store to the monitoring assembly to provide electrical energy for the monitoring routine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2025
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft
    Inventors: Florian Pohl, Alexander Müller, Mehdi Jaouhari, Rene Bekendam
  • Publication number: 20250034917
    Abstract: A control arrangement for operating a vehicle locking system, the vehicle locking system having a drive with an electric drive motor, the control arrangement actuating the drive in response to a trigger signal transmitted by an operating element to provide a motorized locking function for an adjustable closure element of the motor vehicle, the control arrangement having an electrical energy store and a supply circuit associated with the energy store, the supply circuit, during emergency operation in response to the trigger signal being received by the supply circuit, providing an emergency supply voltage to the drive via the energy store. The control arrangement has a limiting member for the forwarding of the trigger signal from the operating element to the supply circuit, and that the limiting member is designed to suppress the forwarding of the trigger signal after a maximum actuation time has elapsed following beginning of the trigger signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventor: Florian Pohl
  • Publication number: 20240424958
    Abstract: It is provided a drive apparatus for adjusting an interior assembly of a vehicle comprises an electromotive adjustment drive for producing an adjustment force, a self-locking adjustment kinematic mechanism for transmitting an adjustment force produced by the adjustment drive to the interior assembly, which adjustment kinematic mechanism can be driven by means of the adjustment drive, and a control device for controlling the adjustment drive. The control device is configured to activate an adjustment mode for adjustment of the interior assembly depending on at least one trigger criterion and, when the adjustment mode is activated, to actuate the adjustment drive with a support current of a magnitude such that the interior assembly can put into motion by means of a user force produced manually on the interior assembly by a user, overcoming the self-locking of the adjustment kinematic mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: Florian POHL, Christian HERRMANN, Peter HORN, Harald KELLER, Alex KROMER, Alexander MÜLLER, Markus ROSENTHAL
  • Publication number: 20240381546
    Abstract: It is provided a plug-in connecting device for a motor vehicle, comprising a housing comprising a plug-in opening, a printed circuit board that is arranged in the housing and comprises a plug-in portion in the region of an edge of the printed circuit board, and a plug-in connector part, which can be plugged into the plug-in opening in the housing in a plug-in direction such that it electrically contacts the plug-in portion of the printed circuit board. In this case, it is provided that the plug-in connector part comprises at least one stop which strikes at least one stop on the housing in the plug-in direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventors: Katharina WOLFAHRT, Jochen HOFMANN, Rene SCHEEDE, Alexander CZEMPIK, Jens WINTER, Stefan HIELTSCHER, Steve EBERLEIN, Florian POHL, Thorsten KUHNEN
  • Publication number: 20240318474
    Abstract: A control assembly for operating a motor vehicle locking system, the motor vehicle locking system comprising an electric drive having an electric drive motor to provide a motor-powered locking function for an adjustable closure element of a motor vehicle; the control assembly being equipped with a control circuit for controlling the electric drive in an adjustment routine; the control circuit being electrically insulated from a chargeable energy accumulator of the control assembly, and, in emergency operation, when an operating signal is received, the control assembly switching on the chargeable energy accumulator of the control circuit in order to provide electrical energy for the adjustment routine; and the control assembly having a monitoring assembly which monitors a state-of-charge variable of the chargeable energy accumulator in a monitoring routine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Bamberg
    Inventors: Florian POHL, Alexander MÜLLER, Mehdi JAOUHARI, Rene BEKENDAM
  • Patent number: 12023996
    Abstract: A door assembly, with at least one vehicle door, a carrier component, which is provided in the vehicle door and carries at least one functional component of the vehicle door, a window pane, which is adjustable in relation to the carrier component, for a window opening on the vehicle door, a window-side receiver unit for the wireless reception of energy and/or data, and a carrier-component-side transmitter unit for the wireless transmission of energy and/or data to the window-side receiver unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft
    Inventors: Florian Pohl, Mark Wagner, Thomas Salhoff, Manfred Stenzel
  • Publication number: 20240208372
    Abstract: A drive device for adjusting an interior assembly of a vehicle includes an electromotive adjustment drive configured to adjust the interior assembly and a controller configured to control the adjustment drive. The controller is further configured to control the adjustment drive in a servo operation for providing a supporting force during a manual adjustment of the interior assembly by a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Applicant: BROSE FAHRZEUGTEILE SE & CO. KOMMANDITGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Christian HERRMANN, Alex KROMER, Alexander CZEMPIK, Florian POHL, Peter HORN, Harald KELLER, Alexander MÜLLER, Markus ROSENTHAL
  • Patent number: 11976507
    Abstract: A method for allocating operating parameters to at least two local control units intended to control a door movement for a motor vehicle, wherein: a plurality of parameter records of operating parameters is stored in each local control unit; a plurality of values of a detection criterion is stored in each local control unit, said detection criterion being based on at least two values of an electric variable; for at least one local control unit, a value of the detection criterion is prepared using the electric variable; in each local control unit the detection criterion is queried; and, a parameter record is selected in accordance with the value of the detection criterion determined during the query, and the corresponding operating parameters are allocated to the local control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Bamberg
    Inventors: Florian Pohl, Udo Geuther, Thomas Fischer, René Bekendam
  • Publication number: 20230295977
    Abstract: The proposed solution in particular relates to a method for generating a haptic feedback on a vehicle part including an operating element that is accessible for a user for manual actuation, and in response to an electronically detected actuation of the operating element, a feedback haptically perceptible for the user is generated in that the vehicle part and the operating element is adjusted back and forth in a power-operated way or is put into vibration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: BROSE FAHRZEUGTEILE SE & CO. KOMMANDITGESELLSCHAFT, BAMBERG
    Inventors: Florian POHL, Christian HERRMANN, Thomas LIEDTKE, Bernd HERTHAN, Christian WEIDENBACHER
  • Patent number: 11639127
    Abstract: A vehicle seat arrangement, a control device in the seat arrangement, and a method for activating a plurality of massage units integrated in a vehicle seat, including the following steps: playing back an acoustic entertainment signal by means of a playback device of a vehicle; and controlling the plurality of massage units based on the acoustic entertainment signal by means of the control device; in which at least one of the plurality of massage units is activated so as to vibrate in a frequency range, in which the at least one of the plurality of massage units only brings about noise emission which is externally imperceptible to a person other than a person sitting on the vehicle seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. KG (Coburg)
    Inventors: Christian Mergl, Wojciech Falinski, Christian Karl, Martin Juergenliemk, Wolfgang Uebel, Christian Herrmann, Florian Pohl
  • Publication number: 20230128709
    Abstract: A method of operating a motor vehicle locking system including an electric drive for providing a locking function, a central battery of the motor vehicle supplies electrical energy to the electric drive during normal operation, an auxiliary energy supply supplies electrical energy to the central battery and is arranged in a closure arrangement of the motor vehicle, the closure element is configured to assume an open and a closed position. Access to the auxiliary energy supply is blocked by the closure element in the closed position and cleared in the open position. The central battery is monitored by a control unit to check whether an emergency operation criterion is satisfied. The closure element is locked in the closed position by means of a lock unit, and when the emergency operation criterion is satisfied, the lock unit is actuated by the control unit to unlock the closure element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Bamberg
    Inventors: Florian POHL, Alexander MÜLLER