Patents by Inventor Franz Roth

Franz Roth 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 pedestrian protection system and a motor vehicle
    Patent number: 8798867
    Abstract: A method for operating a pedestrian protection system in a motor vehicle for reducing the severity of an accident in a frontal collision with pedestrians includes evaluating the measurement data from at least one detection device depending on at least one trigger condition, wherein the trigger condition includes a height criterion evaluating whether a height of a collision object determined from measurement data from an optical detection device exceeds a height threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventors: Johann Stoll, Franz Roth, Carlos Garcia de Caceres, Verena Horz
  • Process for fitting structural units to vehicles
    Patent number: 6539332
    Abstract: A process for installing axle springs on vehicles having different spring supported bodies and components mounted on such bodies, generally consisting of creating a database comprising loads of each of such bodies and components, identifying the body and components of each of such vehicles, accessing the database to retrieve data representing the composite load of the identified body and components, identifying axle springs having load capacity ranges sufficient to support the identified load and installing the identified axle springs on the vehicle body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2003
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventors: Anton Müller, Franz Roth