Patents by Inventor Henning Raulfs

Henning Raulfs 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: 8395491
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for controlling driving stability of a vehicle wherein a number of input variables are used to control the driving speed of the vehicle to a limit speed. In order to prevent unstable driving conditions in a pre-controlled manner, a model-based stable limit speed of the vehicle is determined on the basis of measured variables that are detected by means of detection devices and represent the current steering angle and the current lateral acceleration, by including other quantities of the vehicle and/or the driving situation, and the driving speed is compared to the model-based stable limit speed of the vehicle, and based on the comparison result, the driving speed is adapted to the limit speed when the driving speed exceeds the limit speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Martin Kümmel, Schahrad Schafiyha, Henning Raulfs
  • Patent number: 7093913
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for traction control of slipping wheels of at least one driving axle, which are driven by way of an open differential gear and can be interlocked by braking intervention to a defined, predeterminable degree for effecting a differential lock function. The invention discloses that the wheel slip of the wheels is detected, that the detected wheel slip variation is compared with predetermined wheel slip patterns for recognizing and monitoring a current driving condition, and that a braking intervention effecting the differential lock function is performed when the sensed wheel slip variation coincides with at least one predetermined wheel slip pattern. The invention allows an accelerated adjustment and control of a differential lock effect depending on the respective driving condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Schahrad Schafiyha, Henning Raulfs, Carsten Dresch
  • Patent number: 6957873
    Abstract: In a method for regulating the driving stability of a vehicle pressures for individual brakes of the vehicle are determined in dependence on several input quantities so that the driving stability is enhanced by brake interventions at individual wheels. To enhance the driving stability of a vehicle, it is determined during stable driving performance whether in view of a highly dynamic steering maneuver there is a tendency to a subsequent unstable driving performance, and in this case brake pre-intervention will occur already when the vehicle exhibits a stable driving performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2005
    Inventors: Peter Wanke, Martin Kümmel, Henning Raulfs, Alexander May
  • Publication number: 20040232764
    Abstract: A method for improving the control behavior of a system for traction slip control by brake intervention (BASR), wherein a pressure value or nominal pressure referred to as a filling pulse is predetermined upon the entry into a traction slip control operation, the nominal pressure (EPnom) is determined on the basis of a PD controller according to the relation
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2004
    Publication date: November 25, 2004
    Inventors: Schahrad Schafiyha, Henning Raulfs
  • Publication number: 20040215384
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for controlling driving stability of a vehicle wherein a number of input variables are used to control the driving speed of the vehicle to a limit speed. In order to prevent unstable driving conditions in a pre-controlled manner, a model-based stable limit speed of the vehicle is determined on the basis of measured variables that are detected by means of detection devices and represent the current steering angle and the current lateral acceleration, by including other quantities of the vehicle and/or the driving situation, and the driving speed is compared to the model-based stable limit speed of the vehicle, and based on the comparison result, the driving speed is adapted to the limit speed when the driving speed exceeds the limit speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2003
    Publication date: October 28, 2004
    Inventors: Martin Kummel, Schahrad Schafiyha, Henning Raulfs
  • Publication number: 20040046447
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for regulating the driving stability of a vehicle, wherein pressures for individual brakes of the vehicle are determined in dependence on several input quantities so that the driving stability is enhanced by brake interventions at individual wheels. To enhance the driving stability of a vehicle, it is determined during stable driving performance whether in view of a highly dynamic steering maneuver there is a tendency to a subsequent unstable driving performance, and in this case brake pre-intervention will occur already when the vehicle exhibits a stable driving performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2003
    Publication date: March 11, 2004
    Inventors: Peter Wanke, Martin Kummel, Henning Raulfs, Alexander May