Patents by Inventor Juergen Steinberger

Juergen Steinberger 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: 11866015
    Abstract: An electro-pneumatic central pressure control module having at least a single channel, and which is implemented as a component for an electro-pneumatic service brake of a vehicle, having at least one pressure control channel which is electrically controllable with regard to a brake pressure. Also described is an electronic control device of the pressure control module having a board carrying electrical and electronic components, at least one inertial sensor being arranged on or at the at least one board and being electrically conductively connected to at least several of the electrical and electronic components on the board, in which an arrangement/apparatus ensures a lower vibration load of the inertial sensor on the board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE SYSTEME FUER NUTZFAHRZEUGE GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Eisenberger, Michael Herges, Christoph Huber, Juergen Steinberger
  • Patent number: 11661044
    Abstract: A vehicle-electrical-apparatus, including: a service-brake-valve-device (SBVD) having an electropneumatic service-brake-device (ESBVD), which is an electronically-brake-pressure-regulated-brake-system (EBPRBS), having an ESBVD, a first-electronic-brake-control-device (EBCD), electropneumatic-modulators (EM) and pneumatic-wheel-brake actuators (PWBA); a sensor-device; the first-EBCD controls the EMs generating pneumatic brake-control-pressures (PBCP) for the PWBAs, and the ESBVD has a service-brake-actuation-member (SBAM) and an electrical-channel containing an electrical-brake-value-transmitter, actuate-able by the SBAM, and a second-EBCD couples brake-request signals into the first-EBCD depending on the AS, and, within a pneumatic-service-brake-circuit, a pneumatic-channel in which a control-piston of the SBVD is loaded with a first-actuation-force (AF) by actuating the service-brake-actuation-member based on a driver brake-request, and the control-piston controls a double-seat valve of the SBVD to generate
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE SYSTEME FUER NUTZFAHRZEUGE GMBH
    Inventors: Friedbert Roether, Falk Hecker, Adnan Mustapha, Frank Schwab, Juergen Steinberger
  • Patent number: 11643110
    Abstract: A steering method for an autonomously steered vehicle having a hybrid steering system, including: identifying a malfunction during an autonomous driving procedure, wherein the hybrid steering system includes a hydraulic steering assistance system, an electromechanical steering assistance system and a control unit for monitoring and controlling the autonomous driving procedure of the vehicle, and switching the steering task by the control unit to a steering braking procedure, by which the vehicle is steered by braking at least one wheel, wherein due to the braking force that is acting on the scrub radius, a steering torque is produced that causes the wheels to turn. Also described is a related a servo-assisted steering assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE SYSTEME FUER NUTZFAHRZEUGE GMBH
    Inventors: Falk Hecker, Jens-Hauke Mueller, Peter Heimbrock, Juergen Steinberger
  • Patent number: 11572044
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating non-electric control signals for a brake system, which has a first supply source, including: at least one interface configured to be connected to a pressure accumulator; and at least one interface to output the control signals; in which the apparatus is configured to be supplied via a second supply source. Also described are a related module and an electronic brake system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE SYSTEME FUER NUTZFAHRZEUGE GMBH
    Inventors: Falk Hecker, Adnan Mustapha, Oliver Jundt, Rüdiger Weis, Jürgen Steinberger
  • Publication number: 20210354675
    Abstract: An electro-pneumatic central pressure control module having at least a single channel, and which is implemented as a component for an electro-pneumatic service brake of a vehicle, having at least one pressure control channel which is electrically controllable with regard to a brake pressure. Also described is an electronic control device of the pressure control module having a board carrying electrical and electronic components, at least one inertial sensor being arranged on or at the at least one board and being electrically conductively connected to at least several of the electrical and electronic components on the board, in which an arrangement/apparatus ensures a lower vibration load of the inertial sensor on the board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Andreas Eisenberger, Michael Herges, Christoph Huber, Juergen Steinberger
  • Publication number: 20210339722
    Abstract: An electro-pneumatic central pressure control module, having at least two channels, implemented as a structural unit for an electro-pneumatic service brake of a vehicle, having at least two pressure control channels which are electrically controllable with regard to a brake pressure. A central electronic brake control device has a board, carrying electrical and electronic components, in which routines at least for controlling the brake pressure and for controlling the driving dynamics are implemented in the electrical and electronic components. At least one inertial sensor is arranged on or at the at least one board and is electrically conductively connected to at least several of the electrical and electronic components on the board so that the output signals of the at least one inertial sensor are integrated into the at least several electrical and electronic components for carrying out the control of the driving dynamics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Andreas Eisenberger, Michael Herges, Juergen Steinberger, Christoph Huber
  • Patent number: 11059462
    Abstract: A method, device and control system for controlling vehicle movement, including: reading-in the specification data from an interface with a generating apparatus, the vehicle having a vehicle movement control system having the generating apparatus for generating specification data for the vehicle movement, at least one providing apparatus for providing vehicle property(s) and an actuator element for influencing the vehicle movement, the specification data representing a driving corridor/speed profile for a route section, and the at least one vehicle property from an interface with the at least one providing apparatus; determining vehicle guide data using the specification data and the vehicle property(s), the guide data being for controlling the vehicle movement while complying with the specification data; acquiring at least one manipulated variable for the at least one actuator element using the guide data; and outputting the at least one manipulated variable to an interface with the actuator element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE SYSTEME FUER NUTZFAHRZEUGE GMBH
    Inventors: Falk Hecker, Jan Mayer, Oliver Jundt, Ulrich Guecker, Adnan Mustapha, Juergen Steinberger
  • Publication number: 20210206374
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating non-electric control signals for a brake system, which has a first supply source, including: at least one interface configured to be connected to a pressure accumulator; and at least one interface to output the control signals; in which the apparatus is configured to be supplied via a second supply source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Falk Hecker, Adnan Mustapha, Oliver Jundt, Rüdiger Weis, Jürgen Steinberger
  • Publication number: 20210129831
    Abstract: An electric equipment component of a vehicle having an electric braking/steering device, including: a) an electric steering device with/without a continuous mechanical connection between a steering wheel and a steering gear mechanism, and an electronic steering control device and an electric steering actuator; an electropneumatic service brake device having an electropneumatic service brake valve device, an electronic brake control device, electropneumatic modulators and pneumatic wheel brake actuators; and a device having the electronic evaluation device of the electropneumatic service brake valve device and generating a second activation force independently of a driver's braking request, the further device acting on the control piston in the same or opposite direction to the first activation force when a braking request, independent of the driver's request, is present; the electronic evaluation device being integrated into the electronic steering control device, or the electronic steering control device bei
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Falk Hecker, Juergen Steinberger
  • Publication number: 20210070265
    Abstract: A vehicle-electrical-apparatus, including: a) a service-brake-device having an electropneumatic service-brake-device, which is an electronically-brake-pressure-regulated-brake-system, having an electropneumatic-service-brake-valve-device (ESBVD), a first-electronic-brake-control-device (EBCD), electropneumatic-modulators and pneumatic-wheel-brake actuators; b) a sensor-device to deliver sensor-signals, including: at least one wheel-rotational-speed-sensor, a longitudinal-acceleration-sensor, a transverse-acceleration-sensor, a yaw-rate-sensor, and/or a steering-wheel-angle-sensor, wherein: c) the first-EBCD electrically controls the electropneumatic-modulators, which generate pneumatic-brake-pressures or brake-control-pressures for the pneumatic-wheel-brake-actuators, and d) the ESBVD has a service-brake-actuation-member and, within at least one electrical-service-brake-circuit, at least one electrical-channel containing at least one electrical-brake-value-transmitter, actuate-able by the service-brake-actuat
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Friedbert Roether, Falk Hecker, Adnan Mustapha, Frank Schwab, Juergen Steinberger
  • Publication number: 20210009162
    Abstract: A steering method for an autonomously steered vehicle having a hybrid steering system, including: identifying a malfunction during an autonomous driving procedure, wherein the hybrid steering system includes a hydraulic steering assistance system, an electromechanical steering assistance system and a control unit for monitoring and controlling the autonomous driving procedure of the vehicle, and switching the steering task by the control unit to a steering braking procedure, by which the vehicle is steered by braking at least one wheel, wherein due to the braking force that is acting on the scrub radius, a steering torque is produced that causes the wheels to turn. Also described is a related a servo-assisted steering assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Falk Hecker, Jens-Hauke Mueller, Peter Heimbrock, Juergen Steinberger
  • Publication number: 20190256064
    Abstract: A method, device and control system for controlling vehicle movement, including: reading-in the specification data from an interface with a generating apparatus, the vehicle having a vehicle movement control system having the generating apparatus for generating specification data for the vehicle movement, at least one providing apparatus for providing vehicle property(s) and an actuator element for influencing the vehicle movement, the specification data representing a driving corridor/speed profile for a route section, and the at least one vehicle property from an interface with the at least one providing apparatus; determining vehicle guide data using the specification data and the vehicle property(s), the guide data being for controlling the vehicle movement while complying with the specification data; acquiring at least one manipulated variable for the at least one actuator element using the guide data; and outputting the at least one manipulated variable to an interface with the actuator element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Falk Hecker, Jan Meyer, Oliver Jundt, Ulrich Guecker, Adnan Mustapha, Juergen Steinberger
  • Patent number: 8979217
    Abstract: An electropneumatic pressure regulating module, formed as a structural unit, is described for an electropneumatic brake system of a vehicle, including: at least two separately regulable pressure regulating channels, wherein a regulated working pressure, acting at at least one working pressure port, for at least one brake application device of the brake system is generated for each pressure regulating channel on the basis of working air originating from at least one compressed air store and as a function of braking demand signals of a brake transducer, in which to form pressure regulating channels having separate pneumatic circuits, each pressure regulating channel is assigned at least one dedicated storage pressure port which can be connected to a dedicated compressed air store, and in which the pneumatic flow paths of each pressure regulating channel are formed so as to be pneumatically separate, at least proceeding from the respective storage pressure port as far as the respective working pressure port, fro
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Juergen Steinberger, Péter Frank, Michael Herges, Martin Mederer
  • Patent number: 8560162
    Abstract: A monitoring device for monitoring systems of a vehicle, at least some systems of which having self-monitoring routines for self-monitoring and/or some systems of which having external monitoring routines for performing external monitoring of other systems which are not provided for the functions of their own systems or for self-monitoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Herges, Friedbert Roether, Juergen Steinberger, Péter Frank
  • Publication number: 20120080935
    Abstract: An electropneumatic pressure regulating module, formed as a structural unit, is described for an electropneumatic brake system of a vehicle, including: at least two separately regulable pressure regulating channels, wherein a regulated working pressure, acting at at least one working pressure port, for at least one brake application device of the brake system is generated for each pressure regulating channel on the basis of working air originating from at least one compressed air store and as a function of braking demand signals of a brake transducer, in which to form pressure regulating channels having separate pneumatic circuits, each pressure regulating channel is assigned at least one dedicated storage pressure port which can be connected to a dedicated compressed air store, and in which the pneumatic flow paths of each pressure regulating channel are formed so as to be pneumatically separate, at least proceeding from the respective storage pressure port as far as the respective working pressure port, fro
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2010
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Inventors: Juergen Steinberger, Péter Frank, Michael Herges, Martin Mederer
  • Publication number: 20110144855
    Abstract: A monitoring device for monitoring systems of a vehicle, at least some systems of which having self-monitoring routines for self-monitoring and/or some systems of which having external monitoring routines for performing external monitoring of other systems which are not provided for the functions of their own systems or for self-monitoring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Inventors: Michael Herges, Friedbert Roether, Juergen Steinberger, Péter Frank
  • Patent number: 6858816
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a device for selective laser sintering in which powder is introduced in layers into a jacketed design space, forming a powder cake which is consolidated layerwise by laser radiation. The design space is encircled and heated by a jacket heating device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2005
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Karsten Manetsberger, Jiafin Shen, Juergen Steinberger
  • Publication number: 20030201255
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a device for selective laser sintering in which powder is introduced in layers into a jacketed design space, forming a powder cake which is consolidated layerwise by laser radiation. The design space is encircled and heated by a jacket heating device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2003
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Inventors: Karsten Manetsberger, Jiafin Shen, Juergen Steinberger
  • Patent number: 6617546
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a device for selective laser sintering in which powder is introduced in layers into a jacketed design space, forming a powder cake which is consolidated layerwise by laser radiation. The design space is encircled and heated by a jacket heating device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2003
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Karsten Manetsberger, Jialin Shen, Juergen Steinberger
  • Patent number: 6600129
    Abstract: A device and process for sintering a powder with a laser beam, and in particular, a rapid prototyping process involving selective laser sintering (SLS), with reduction in non-homogeneities, i.e., grooves or hollows due to complete melting of powder or poor material characteristics due to insufficient melting of powder. The problem is solved by a process and a device for homogenization of the temperature distribution in the part during its manufacture. For this, the temperature of the sinter powder is detected in the sinter point and the power of the laser is controlled depending upon the detected temperature. Geometric changes of the moveable detection area, as well as the changes in the chromatic adjustment, and beam correcting errors, all of which occur depending upon the position of the detection area on the upper surface of the powder bed, are taken into consideration. Thereby a more realistic determination of the temperature values is made possible from the measured temperature values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Jialin Shen, Jürgen Steinberger