Patents by Inventor Frank Baehrle-Miller

Frank Baehrle-Miller 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 Operating a Brake System of a Motor Vehicle, and Control Unit and Brake System
    Publication number: 20190375388
    Abstract: A method for operating a brake system of a motor vehicle includes actuating at least one of a first actuation device and a second actuation device of the brake system, and, in the event of a fault in a hydraulic brake device of the brake system, producing an electromechanical braking force via an electromechanical brake device of the brake system for decelerating the motor vehicle, irrespective of which of the first actuation device and the second actuation device is actuated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: Christian Meister, Edith Mannherz, Frank Baehrle-Miller, Mike Huff
  • Method for operating at least one parking brake of a motor vehicle
    Patent number: 10493960
    Abstract: A method for operating a hill hold controller of a motor vehicle including at least one parking brake. The parking brake is disengaged according to an actuation of a gas pedal of the motor vehicle. The disengagement of the parking brake is released according to a variable representing a road gradient. The release to disengage the parking brake is granted, independently of the variable and/or the availability of the variable, when the gas pedal of the motor vehicle reaches or exceeds a predefinable release position by way of the actuation thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Baehrle-Miller, Helmut Wolff
  • Braking System for a Vehicle having a Hydraulic Vehicle Brake and an Electromechanical Braking Device
    Publication number: 20190344768
    Abstract: A braking system for a vehicle includes a hydraulic vehicle brake with an electric actuator and an electromechanical braking device. The braking system further includes a locking mechanism configured to lock the electric actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Inventors: Frank Baehrle-Miller, Edith Mannherz, Julia Chen, Karl-Josef Weiss, Zhizhong Wang
  • Braking device for a motor vehicle, and method for controlling the braking device
    Patent number: 10471946
    Abstract: A method of applying an automated parking brake of a motor vehicle includes at least two phases. In a first preceding phase, no clamping force is produced by the parking brake. In a second following phase, a clamping force is produced by the parking brake via a controllable parking brake actuator configured to produce the clamping force. The method further includes detecting a transition from the first phase to the second phase based on a temporal progression of a specific parameter of a control of the parking brake actuator. A control unit is configured to perform according to the method, and a parking brake is configured to perform according to the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Baehrle-Miller, Dieter Blattert, Tobias Putzer
  • Method and device for operating a braking device, braking device
    Patent number: 10466734
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for operating a braking device, in particular a parking brake device, which comprises an actuator having an electric motor that displaces an actuator element as desired into a brake application position or into a brake release position, wherein the electric motor is controlled in dependence upon a motor constant and an electrical resistance of the electric motor, characterized in that as the actuator element is displaced a prevailing motor input voltage and a prevailing motor current are ascertained, and that the motor constant and the electrical resistance are determined in dependence upon the ascertained motor input voltage and the ascertained motor current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Baehrle-Miller, Ullrich Sussek, Simon Fleischer, Peter Blessing
  • Method for controlling a parking brake in a vehicle
    Patent number: 10449935
    Abstract: In a method for controlling a parking brake in a vehicle, in order to set a clearance between the brake pad and the brake disk, a supply voltage is first applied to an electric motor, after which the supply voltage is switched off before the brake pad comes into contact with the brake disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Baehrle-Miller, Andreas Englert, Tobias Putzer
  • Method for checking the braking force in a vehicle
    Patent number: 10435006
    Abstract: A method for checking the braking force in a vehicle includes adjusting a brake piston with a vehicle hydraulic brake that has a braking force booster and with an electromechanical braking device that has a brake motor so as to generate a braking force. The hydraulic braking medium volume that corresponds to the displacement of the brake piston via the brake motor is compared to a hydraulic reference volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Baehrle-Miller, Dieter Blattert
  • Brake System Control Device for a Vehicle
    Publication number: 20190270440
    Abstract: A brake system control device for a vehicle that has a hydraulic vehicle brake and an electromechanical brake device with at least one electric brake motor includes a microcontroller for actuating at least one active brake component. The brake system control device further includes a system ASIC for detecting wheel revolution rate signals and a brake motor ASIC for actuating the electric brake motor of the electromechanical brake device. The brake motor ASIC includes wheel revolution rate signals that are configured to be detected and the microcontroller is connected to the system ASIC and the brake motor ASIC via communications interfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: Frank Baehrle-Miller, Peter Rebholz-Goldmann
  • Method for braking a vehicle with a hydraulic vehicle brake and an electromechanical braking device
    Patent number: 10377361
    Abstract: A method for braking a vehicle includes at least reducing a hydraulic brake pressure in at least one wheel brake device disposed on a vehicle axle in response to an at least partial failure of a brake boosting of a hydraulic brake with at least one first brake circuit and at least one second brake circuit. The method further includes operating an electric brake motor of an electromechanical braking device to produce a braking force on the at least one wheel brake device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Dieter Blattert, Edith Mannherz, Frank Baehrle-Miller, Helmut Wolff
  • Method for actuating a parking brake in a vehicle
    Patent number: 10343666
    Abstract: A method of actuating a parking brake for a vehicle having an electromechanical brake device in a situation whereat driving dynamics state information is not available in the vehicle and whereat a driver operates the parking brake includes producing an electromechanical braking force with a magnitude that is less than a maximum braking force of the parking brake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Edith Mannherz, Frank Baehrle-Miller, Lars Roters, Matthieu Weinum, Ullrich Sussek
  • Method for Checking the Braking Force in a Vehicle
    Publication number: 20190202426
    Abstract: A method is used for checking the braking force in a vehicle, which has a hydraulic vehicle brake having a brake booster and an electromechanical brake device having a brake motor. In order to build up a braking force, first of all the brake booster is activated, and subsequently an electromechanical braking force is generated by application of the brake motor. If a pressure drop occurring in the brake fluid is outside a permissible value range, a fault signal is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Frank Baehrle-Miller, Edith Mannherz
  • Method for automatic adjustment of the steering angle in a steering system of a vehicle
    Patent number: 10293850
    Abstract: A method is used to automatically adjust a steering angle in a steering system of a vehicle. The method includes activating a steering actuator after parking the vehicle such that the steering wheel and the steerable wheels adopt a neutral position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Frank Baehrle-Miller
  • Method for Operating an Electromechanical Brake Device
    Publication number: 20190135255
    Abstract: A method for operating an electromechanical brake device transmits the rotational motion of the electric brake motor to the brake piston by way of an axially movable transmitting element. In the instance that the brake piston lies at a distance relative to an associated brake pad, a hydraulic brake pressure is produced in a hydraulic vehicle brake.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Frank Baehrle-Miller, Helmut Wolff
  • Method and device for carrying out a driver-independent brake force holding function in a motor vehicle when the motor vehicle is at a standstill on a roadway that is inclined in the vehicle longitudinal direction
    Patent number: 10279787
    Abstract: A method for carrying out a driver-independent brake force holding function in a motor vehicle when the motor vehicle is at a standstill on a roadway that is inclined in the vehicle longitudinal direction. The brake force, maintained independently of the driver, is reduced when a release condition is met. In the method, the uphill distance, which corresponds to the spacing or the distance from the neighboring vehicle in the uphill direction, is ascertained with the aid of a first distance sensor system. If the uphill distance falls below a predetermined limiting value, the brake force is reduced before the release condition is met, so that the motor vehicle moves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Frank Baehrle-Miller
  • Method for maintaining a brake system having a hydraulic vehicle brake and electromechanical brake device
    Patent number: 10260582
    Abstract: A method for maintaining a brake system in a vehicle with a hydraulic vehicle brake and an electromechanical brake device with an electric brake motor includes preparing the brake system for maintenance operations by actuating the electric brake motor to displace a transmission member into a retracted position that is remote from a brake starting position in which a brake lining is located adjacent to a brake disk of the wheel brake device. The method further includes actuating the electric brake motor to displace the transmission member in the direction of the brake starting position after completion of the maintenance operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Dieter Blattert, Edith Mannherz, Frank Baehrle-Miller, Helmut Wolff
  • Brake system control unit for a vehicle
    Patent number: 10246070
    Abstract: A brake system control unit for a vehicle having a hydraulic vehicle brake and electromechanical brake device comprises a microcontroller, a system ASIC and a brake motor ASIC, wherein the microcontroller is connected to the system ASIC and the brake motor ASIC via communication interfaces. In the brake motor ASIC, an interrogation signal sequence for interrogating the switched state of an actuation switch of the electromechanical brake device is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Baehrle-Miller, Peter Rebholz-Goldmann
  • Method for providing the application force generated by a parking brake
    Patent number: 10239503
    Abstract: In a method for providing the application force generated by a parking brake, which is at least partially generated by an electromechanical brake device having an electric brake motor, a retensioning process is terminated in the event that (i) the motor current exceeds a limit value or (ii) the rotational speed of the motor drops below a limit value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Frank Baehrle-Miller, Dieter Blattert, Tobias Putzer
  • Method for Operating a Brake System with an Automated Parking Brake
    Publication number: 20190054903
    Abstract: A method for operating a brake system with an automated parking brake for a motor vehicle, includes detecting a defined fault. The method further includes activating a parking mode of the parking brake automatically when the defined fault is detected. The automated parking brake is operable in different operating modes, a first operating mode corresponding to a drive mode and a second operating mode corresponding to the parking mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Dieter Blattert, Frank Baehrle-Miller
  • Brake system control unit for a vehicle
    Patent number: 10207693
    Abstract: The brake system control unit for a vehicle having a hydraulic vehicle brake and an electromechanical brake device including at least one electric brake motor includes a microcontroller configured to actuate at least one active brake component of the vehicle. The control unit further includes a system ASIC configured to acquire sensor signals in the vehicle. The control unit further includes a brake motor ASIC configured to actuate an electric brake motor of an electromechanical brake device and acquire pedal travel transducer signals of the brake pedal of the vehicle. The control unit includes a plurality of communication interfaces to connect the microcontroller to the system ASIC and to the brake motor ASIC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Baehrle-Miller, Peter Rebholz-Goldmann
  • Method for Providing a Brake Force in a Vehicle
    Publication number: 20190023247
    Abstract: A method for providing a brake force in a vehicle includes actuating an electric brake motor, which overrides an idling function, generating a hydraulic braking power, and re-actuating the electric brake motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Frank Baehrle-Miller, Dieter Blattert, Helmut Wolff, Edith Mannherz