Patents by Inventor Frederic Heidinger

Frederic Heidinger 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: 20230158920
    Abstract: A method for operating a vehicle electrical system, which includes an energy store. The energy store is assigned a sensor processing unit, and an electronic load distributor. At least one measured variable is detected using the sensor processing unit, and a parameter of the energy store is calculated taking the at least one measured variable into account. A plausibility check of the at least one measured variable is carried out, and a plausibility check of the calculation is carried out, for which purpose the electronic load distributor is used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Inventors: Juergen Motz, Nils Draese, Oliver Dieter Koller, Patrick Van Bergen, Sebastian Kaspar, Frederic Heidinger, Marco Blach, Markus Woerz, Martin Schneider
  • Patent number: 11361598
    Abstract: A method for monitoring a motor vehicle including an automated driving function, including differing modes of operation for bringing the motor vehicle to a standstill, at least one energy store, in particular a battery, supplying at least one consumer which is able to bring the vehicle to a standstill, a respective load profile being assigned to the respective mode of operation, which usually occurs in this mode of operation upon activation of the consumer, at least one characteristic variable of the energy store being predicted as a function of at least one of the load profiles, and the mode of operation associated with the load profile and/or the automated driving function being unblocked, blocked, left or influenced as a function of the predicted characteristic variable of the energy store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Oliver Dieter Koller, Patrick Muenzing, Juergen Motz, Marco Meissner, Martin Andreas Lohrmann, Frederic Heidinger
  • Publication number: 20220148341
    Abstract: In a number of embodiments, mathematical certainty and confidence to the prediction of battery failure due to a predicted future temperature drop is provided. A connected service may be used by a vehicle to obtain an accurate temperature forecast that will help predict a discrepancy between needed and available cold cranking amps to start a vehicle engine. If a determination is made, based at least upon a temperature forecast and battery health, that the battery will yield insufficient cranking amps to start a vehicle engine in the near future and may not be sufficiently rechargeable, a recommendation that the battery be replaced may be made in advance of the battery's end of life.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Pascal Stephan Martin, Troy Schilling, Juergen Motz, Clemens Hermann Schmucker, Oliver Dieter Koller, Frederic Heidinger
  • Publication number: 20210339652
    Abstract: A method for monitoring an energy store in an on-board electrical system of a motor vehicle. At least one instantaneous parameter of the energy store is determined, and this at least one parameter is forwarded to a forecast model. The forecast model determines future values for the at least one parameter from the instantaneous value for the at least one parameter. The future value of the at least one parameter is provided to a voltage predictor which calculates a minimum voltage of the energy store to be expected for a selected function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Frederic Heidinger, Juergen Motz, Oliver Dieter Koller
  • Publication number: 20200051345
    Abstract: A method for monitoring a motor vehicle including an automated driving function, including differing modes of operation for bringing the motor vehicle to a standstill, at least one energy store, in particular a battery, supplying at least one consumer which is able to bring the vehicle to a standstill, a respective load profile being assigned to the respective mode of operation, which usually occurs in this mode of operation upon activation of the consumer, at least one characteristic variable of the energy store being predicted as a function of at least one of the load profiles, and the mode of operation associated with the load profile and/or the automated driving function being unblocked, blocked, left or influenced as a function of the predicted characteristic variable of the energy store.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Oliver Dieter Koller, Patrick Muenzing, Juergen Motz, Marco Meissner, Martin Andreas Lohrmann, Frederic Heidinger