Patents by Inventor Gabriel Wetzel

Gabriel Wetzel 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: 6311111
    Abstract: A method and a device serve to detect a tendency of a vehicle to roll over about a vehicle axis oriented in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle. To do so, a variable describing the wheel rpm is determined for at least one wheel. Furthermore, at least one variable representing the transverse dynamics of the vehicle is determined. For at least one wheel, a variable describing the wheel behavior quantitatively is determined at least as a function of the variable describing the wheel rpm of the corresponding wheel and one of the variables representing the transverse dynamics of the vehicle. Whether the vehicle has a tendency to roll over about a vehicle axis oriented in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle is determined at least as a function of the variable determined for at least one wheel, describing the wheel behavior of this wheel quantitatively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus-Dieter Leimbach, Gabriel Wetzel
  • Publication number: 20010032043
    Abstract: A device and method for stabilizing a combination of a tractor vehicle and at least one semitrailer or trailer, the brakes of the at least one semitrailer or trailer being set automatically as a function of the yaw rate of the tractor vehicle and the setpoint yaw rate of the tractor vehicle, or as a function of the yaw rate of the tractor vehicle, the speed of the combination and the steering angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2000
    Publication date: October 18, 2001
    Inventors: Gabriel Wetzel, Ian Faye, Klaus-Dieter Leimbach, Falk Hecker, Oliver Jundt
  • Publication number: 20010018630
    Abstract: A device and a method for stabilizing a combination of a tractor vehicle and at least one semitrailer or trailer is described, where the trailer or semitrailer is automatically braked if the semitrailer or trailer buckles with respect to the tractor vehicle at a buckling rate which is greater than a predetermined limit buckling rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2001
    Publication date: August 30, 2001
    Inventors: Gabriel Wetzel, Ian Faye, Klaus-Dieter Leimbach
  • Patent number: 6272420
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus relate to the detection of a tilt tendency of a vehicle about a vehicle axis oriented in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle. For this purpose, for at least one wheel, a variable describing the wheel rotation speed and at least one variable representing the transverse dynamics of the vehicle are ascertained. As a function of one of the variables representing the transverse dynamics of the vehicle, braking torques and/or drive torques are briefly generated and/or modified at at least one wheel. While the braking torques and/or drive torques at the at least one wheel are being briefly generated and/or modified, and/or after they have been briefly generated and/or modified, a variable which quantitatively describes the wheel behavior is determined for that at least one wheel, as a function of the variable describing the wheel rotation speed of that wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2001
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert Schramm, Peter Dominke, Klaus-Dieter Leimbach, Gabriel Wetzel