Patents by Inventor Hardy Haas

Hardy Haas 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: 10773759
    Abstract: A method for lateral dynamic stabilization of a single-track motor vehicle during cornering; on the left side of the vehicle, the motor vehicle including at least one first nozzle, which is mounted at a first position located between the wheels, and through which a medium situated in a first container may escape into the surroundings of the motor vehicle, with a speed component pointed in the outer direction of the left side of the vehicle; and on the right side of the vehicle, the motor vehicle including at least one second nozzle, which is mounted at a second position located between the wheels, and through which a medium situated in a second container may escape into the surroundings of the motor vehicle, with a speed component pointed in the outer direction of the right side of the vehicle; —where a presence of an unstable driving condition in a lateral direction of the vehicle is detected, and—as a function of this, with the aid of an actuator system, on only one side of the vehicle, the medium is caused
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Hardy Haas, Anja Wahl, Matthias Klews
  • Patent number: 10549733
    Abstract: A method/control unit for recognizing critical driving situations of a two-wheeled motor vehicle (MV), including: ascertaining an instantaneous slip angle (ISA) and differential slip angle (DSA) of the front/rear wheels; ascertaining an instantaneous roll angle (IRA); comparing the ascertained SAs and DSAs to predetermined values (PV) of maximum allowable slip angles (MASA) or DSAs; comparing the IRA to PVs of a maximum allowable roll angle (MARA); and generating a criticality signal when one of the ISAs is greater than the PV of the MASA, at least one of the instantaneous DSAs is greater than the PV of the maximum allowable DSA, and the IRA is greater than the PV of the MARA. Critical driving situations are recognized with the method, and measures for stabilizing the two-wheeled MV or other safety-enhancing measures may be performed. Special driving situations (driving over low-? patches or braking while negotiating a curve) may be considered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Hardy Haas
  • Publication number: 20190283722
    Abstract: A method/control unit for recognizing critical driving situations of a two-wheeled motor vehicle (MV), including: ascertaining an instantaneous slip angle (ISA) and differential slip angle (DSA) of the front/rear wheels; ascertaining an instantaneous roll angle (IRA); comparing the ascertained SAs and DSAs to predetermined values (PV) of maximum allowable slip angles (MASA) or DSAs; comparing the IRA to PVs of a maximum allowable roll angle (MARA); and generating a criticality signal when one of the ISAs is greater than the PV of the MASA, at least one of the instantaneous DSAs is greater than the PV of the maximum allowable DSA, and the IRA is greater than the PV of the MARA. Critical driving situations are recognized with the method, and measures for stabilizing the two-wheeled MV or other safety-enhancing measures may be performed. Special driving situations (driving over low-? patches or braking while negotiating a curve) may be considered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventor: Hardy Haas
  • Publication number: 20190263460
    Abstract: A method for lateral dynamic stabilization of a single-track motor vehicle during cornering; on the left side of the vehicle, the motor vehicle including at least one first nozzle, which is mounted at a first position located between the wheels, and through which a medium situated in a first container may escape into the surroundings of the motor vehicle, with a speed component pointed in the outer direction of the left side of the vehicle; and on the right side of the vehicle, the motor vehicle including at least one second nozzle, which is mounted at a second position located between the wheels, and through which a medium situated in a second container may escape into the surroundings of the motor vehicle, with a speed component pointed in the outer direction of the right side of the vehicle; —where a presence of an unstable driving condition in a lateral direction of the vehicle is detected, and —as a function of this, with the aid of an actuator system, on only one side of the vehicle, the medium is cause
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Hardy Haas, Anja Wahl, Matthias Klews
  • Patent number: 9403575
    Abstract: A method for reducing the steering torque of a two-wheeler when negotiating curves. For the case that the front wheel is braked while negotiating a curve, the damping in an adaptive steering stamper is increased as a function of at least one state variable characterizing the negotiation of a curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Hardy Haas, Markus Lemejda, Anja Wahl
  • Publication number: 20150057888
    Abstract: A method for reducing the steering torque of a two-wheeler when negotiating curves. For the case that the front wheel is braked while negotiating a curve, the damping in an adaptive steering stamper is increased as a function of at least one state variable characterizing the negotiation of a curve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Hardy Haas, Markus Lemejda, Anja Wahl
  • Publication number: 20130066522
    Abstract: A control for a steering support system for a two-wheeled vehicle is provided. The steering support system has an actuator with the aid of which a steering torque is applied to the two-wheeled vehicle. The actuator is, for example, an electric motor which cooperates with a steering tube. The control triggers the actuator in a targeted manner to effect a desired steering torque. Furthermore, various sensors are provided for detecting vehicle dynamics parameters, such as a steering angle, a steering torque, accelerations acting on the two-wheeled vehicle, or speeds of wheels of the two-wheeled vehicle. Based on the parameters detected by the sensors, the actuator may be triggered to effect a steering torque.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Inventors: Hardy HAAS, Markus Lemejda, Peter Ziegler
  • Patent number: 7142958
    Abstract: A method of detecting a transverse-dynamically hazardous operating state of a vehicle, where a variable describing the rotational speed of at least one wheel on an axle is determined; a first variable describing the vehicle transverse dynamics is determined from at least the one variable describing the wheel rotational speed; at least one second variable describing the vehicle transverse dynamics is determined from sensor signals; and the transverse-dynamically hazardous state is detected at least as a function of the first variable describing the vehicle transverse dynamics and the second variable describing the vehicle transverse dynamics. The transverse-dynamically hazardous operating state is defined by this wheel on the axle lifting off the roadway or by an imminent danger of this wheel lifting off the roadway; and the transverse-dynamically hazardous operating state is detected as a function of the engine torque (Mmot) acting upon this axle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2006
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Hardy Haas
  • Patent number: 6904987
    Abstract: An electric drive for an electric or hybrid vehicle has an electric motor, with which a vehicle wheel is drivable, for instance via an articulated shaft. The the electric drive is embodied additionally with a mechanically actuatable wheel brake, which is actuatable by the electric motor selectively for driving the vehicle wheel via a shiftable distributor gear. The invention has the advantage that the electric motor provided for driving the vehicle wheel is simultaneously used for actuating the wheel brake (24) as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2005
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Hardy Haas, Ian Faye, Herbert Vollert
  • Patent number: 6810317
    Abstract: A system for controlling and/or regulating the driving response of a motor vehicle having at least two wheels includes at least one sensor device, which detects a wheel speed of at least two wheels, and further includes a data processing device, which determines at least one motion relationship of at least two wheels relative to one another according to the wheel speeds detected. As described, the data processing device establishes at least one cornering motion variable of the vehicle according to the at least one motion relationship determined. A corresponding method is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Sauter, Andreas Zoebele, Johannes Schmitt, Hardy Haas
  • Publication number: 20040158368
    Abstract: A method of detecting a transverse-dynamically hazardous operating state of a vehicle, where
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2004
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Inventor: Hardy Haas
  • Patent number: 6650971
    Abstract: A method for establishing the angular position of the vehicle with the aid of at least one roll or rotation rate sensor, and which is checked in the course of a plausibility inspection, to check whether the integrated rotation rate signal is able to reproduce the actual angular position of the vehicle at all or whether it lies outside the angular range which may be considered for the actual angular position of the vehicle on the basis of the driving situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2003
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Hardy Haas
  • Publication number: 20030176961
    Abstract: A system for controlling and/or regulating the driving response of a motor vehicle having at least two wheels includes at least one sensor device (12), which detects a wheel speed of at least two wheels (12), and further includes a data processing device (16), which determines at least one motion relationship of at least two wheels (10) relative to one another according to the wheel speeds detected. As described, the data processing device (16) establishes at least one cornering motion variable of the vehicle according to the at least one motion relationship determined. A corresponding method is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2002
    Publication date: September 18, 2003
    Inventors: Thomas Sauter, Andreas Zoebele, Johannes Schmitt, Hardy Haas
  • Publication number: 20030158636
    Abstract: A method and a device for detecting critical driving conditions of a vehicle are provided, in which instantaneous values of a variable describing the transverse dynamics are measured, and a critical driving condition is detected by evaluating the time characteristic of the ascertained values. In order to detect a critical driving condition, a determination is made as to whether the ascertained values exceed an upper limiting value and, subsequently, fall below a lower limiting value, or whether the ascertained values fall below a lower limiting value and, subsequently, exceed an upper limiting value. Furthermore, a determination is also made as to whether the time interval between a first time point associated with the exceeding of the upper limiting value and a second time point associated with the falling below of the lower limiting value does not meet a specifiable time threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2003
    Publication date: August 21, 2003
    Inventor: Hardy Haas
  • Publication number: 20030019675
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electric drive (10), in particular for an electric or hybrid vehicle. The electric drive (10) has an electric motor (14), with which a vehicle wheel (12) is drivable, for instance via an articulated shaft (20). The invention proposes that the electric drive (10) be embodied additionally with a mechanically actuatable wheel brake (24), which is actuatable by the electric motor (14) selectively for driving the vehicle wheel (12) via a shiftable distributor gear (16). The invention has the advantage that the electric motor (14) provided for driving the vehicle wheel (12) is simultaneously used for actuating the wheel brake (24) as well. (FIG.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: Hardy Haas, Ian Faye, Herbert Vollert
  • Patent number: 6499343
    Abstract: An automatic vehicle tire pressure measurement/adjustment system for measuring and adjusting the tire pressure of a vehicle. The system includes an automatic handling unit having a pressure attachment positionable into a tire pressure measurement/adjustment position onto a valve of a tire, a tire pressure measurement device connectable to the pressure attachment for measuring the existing tire pressure, a determination device for determining a nominal tire pressure based on at least one vehicle-specific parameter, a first communication device located in the vehicle and connectable to the determination device for input of the at least one vehicle-specific parameter into the determination device, and a tire pressure adjustment device connectable to the pressure attachment and connectable to the determination device for transmitting the nominal tire pressure to establish a transmitted nominal tire pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Hardy Haas, Hubert Moeller, Ian Faye, Herbert Vollert
  • Patent number: 6487480
    Abstract: A calibration of a system which operates in dependence on a sensor in a motor vehicle includes testing, with the use of sensors available in a motor vehicle or with the use of data representative of selected conditions or processes or signals of control devices available in the motor vehicle, whether it can be ascertained that nobody is located in a motor vehicle which can influence variables to be determined by a sensor of a system to be calibrated, and performing the calibration when the testing confirms that it can be ascertained that nobody is located in the motor vehicle which can influence variables to be detected by the sensor of the system to be calibrated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Hardy Haas
  • Publication number: 20020163437
    Abstract: A method for establishing the angular position of the vehicle with the aid of at least one roll or rotation rate sensor, and which is checked in the course of a plausibility inspection, to check whether the integrated rotation rate signal is able to reproduce the actual angular position of the vehicle at all or whether it lies outside the angular range which may be considered for the actual angular position of the vehicle on the basis of the driving situation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2002
    Publication date: November 7, 2002
    Inventor: Hardy Haas
  • Patent number: 6446435
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle hydraulic brake system with electrohydraulic brake boosting by a piston pump. In order to reduce pressure pulsations on an intake side of the multi-piston pump, the brake system embodies a multi-piston pump, for example, as a six-piston pump with stepped pistons that are driven with an alternating phase shift of 30° and 90° in relation to one another. The phase shift of the drive of the stepped pistons is selected so that the intake volume flows have a uniform phase shift, by which the total intake volume flow of the multi-piston pump has a reduced amplitude of the pressure pulsation, which reduces the repercussions on a master cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Willmann, Dietmar Baumann, Hardy Haas, Stephane Schmit, Herbert Vollert, Andreas Reppich
  • Patent number: 6422662
    Abstract: Method and device for triggering a pressure medium delivery arrangement, in particular a pump, of a brake system. The triggering signal for the triggering or regulation of the pump is formed dependent upon at least one pressure differential. In one embodiment, at least one of three different pressure differentials is used for forming the triggering signal. For this purpose, the brake circuit pressure, the master brake cylinder path, and the master brake cylinder pressure are determined and used in the formation of target values. The pump or the pump motor is then regulated using the particular pressure differentials and/or is activated through a pilot control value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2002
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Hardy Haas