Patents by Inventor Horst Flechtner

Horst Flechtner 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: 7363116
    Abstract: A method for determining the mass of a motor vehicle while taking different driving situations into consideration, involving an evaluation of a vehicle acceleration, wherein apart from a driving force of a vehicle drive unit, resistance forces resulting from rotational forces, air resistance, rolling resistance, the slope descending force and a braking force are taken into consideration. Additionally, a multitude of different driving situations may be evaluated, wherein the individual results are stored and combined suitably into a collective mass value. Further, different driving situations can be weighted differently in determining the mass value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2008
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Horst Flechtner, Axel Pauly
  • Publication number: 20040181317
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining the mass of a motor vehicle while taking different driving situations into consideration, involving an evaluation of the respective vehicle acceleration, wherein apart from the driving force of a vehicle drive unit the respective resistance forces resulting from rotational forces, from the air resistance, from the rolling resistance and the slope descending force, are taken into consideration and wherein in the same approach additionally the respective braking force is taken into consideration so that a multitude of different driving situations is evaluated, wherein the individual results are stored and combined suitably into a collective mass value. Hereby different driving situations can be weighted differently.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2004
    Publication date: September 16, 2004
    Applicant: BMW AG.
    Inventors: Horst Flechtner, Axel Pauly
  • Patent number: 6332603
    Abstract: Assembly mounts are stochastically or periodically detuned by changing their spring rate in order to prevent the transient effect of stuttering vibration of the drive assembly of a motor vehicle. The adjustment of the spring rate by at least a factor of 5 takes place for a time period which corresponds to no more than one fifth of the vibration duration of the stuttering movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2001
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Karl Rotsch, Rainer Pollhammer, Norbert Peters, Felix Schramm, Thomas Kafer, Steffen Löschner, Horst Flechtner, Hans Heltmann, William Mark Horne