Patents by Inventor Jochen Konanz

Jochen Konanz 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).

  • Method and system for improving the driving behavior of a vehicle
    Patent number: 7681960
    Abstract: A method for a Sensitive Electronic Stability Program (SESP) presents a general approach for the correction of maneuvers of turning into a bend at low speed. It integrates existing methods as well as subsequent extensions. SESP supplements the standard active yaw control (AYC) function. This allows the SESP to use variables and mechanisms of AYC, on the one hand. On the other hand, AYC continues operating unimpeded in the background and will intervene as usual when SESP cannot stabilize the vehicle appropriately. When the standard AYC intervenes, SESP control operations are forbidden, or running SESP control operations are stopped. This stop can take place either abruptly or (which is more comfortable) by way of a moderate decrease of the correcting variables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Peter Wanke, Torsten Herrmann, Mario Roszyk, Thorsten Wickenhöfer, Matthias Pank, Jochen Konanz
  • Method & system for improving the driving behavior of a vehicle
    Publication number: 20060273657
    Abstract: A method for a Sensitive Electronic Stability Program (SESP) presents a general approach for the correction of maneuvers of turning into a bend at low speed. It integrates existing methods as well as subsequent extensions. SESP supplements the standard active yaw control (AYC) function. This allows the SESP to use variables and mechanisms of AYC, on the one hand. On the other hand, AYC continues operating unimpeded in the background and will intervene as usual when SESP cannot stabilize the vehicle appropriately. When the standard AYC intervenes, SESP control operations are forbidden, or running SESP control operations are stopped. This stop can take place either abruptly or (which is more comfortable) by way of a moderate decrease of the correcting variables.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2006
    Publication date: December 7, 2006
    Inventors: Peter Wanke, Torsten Herrmann, Mario Roszyk, Thorsten Wickenhofer, Matthias Pank, Jochen Konanz