Patents by Inventor Karlheinz DOERNER

Karlheinz DOERNER 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: 9429441
    Abstract: A device for installation in a utility vehicle for warning or consideration of a utility-vehicle-relevant driving restriction. The device includes a receiving unit for receiving at least one item of utility-vehicle-relevant information, which is transmitted from an apparatus arranged on a traffic infrastructure or at least adjacent thereto and which relates to the traffic infrastructure, and a provision unit for providing the item of utility-vehicle-relevant information or an item of information based thereon to the driver of the utility vehicle. The apparatus for placement on or at least adjacent to a traffic infrastructure comprises a functional unit for storing or processing at least one item of utility-vehicle-relevant information relating to the traffic infrastructure and a transmitting unit for transmitting the item of utility-vehicle-relevant information to one or more utility vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: MAN TRUCK & BUS AG
    Inventors: Xaver Roemersperger, Karlheinz Doerner, Walter Schwertberger, Sebastian Voell, Sven Kraus, Johannes Echtler
  • Patent number: 9183745
    Abstract: A method for regulating a distance of a vehicle from a preceding vehicle (vehicle ahead) based on available information for the subject vehicle's speed, for the distance and for the speed of the vehicle ahead and on data regarding route information includes determining a fuel-saving situation for a fuel saving momentum utilization phase, and precomputing a consumption optimal speed profile for undisturbed travel. The method further precomputes an additional separation requirement to the vehicle ahead that is required to be able to fully implement the momentum utilization phase, and builds up the required additional separation prior to the fuel-saving situation, wherein the additional separation is built up, preferably substantially uniformly, over a separation build-up distance that is longer than the precomputed momentum utilization phase distance and/or is built up with a driver-acceptable, convoy-stabilizing, defined small speed reduction relative to the current speed of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: MAN TRUCK & BUS AG
    Inventors: Martin Huber, Karlheinz Doerner, Daniel Heyes, Stefan Jerg, Peter Drimml, Andreas Zimmermann
  • Publication number: 20150019117
    Abstract: A method for regulating a distance of a vehicle from a preceding vehicle (vehicle ahead) based on available information for the subject vehicle's speed, for the distance and for the speed of the vehicle ahead and on data regarding route information includes determining a fuel-saving situation for a fuel saving momentum utilization phase, and precomputing a consumption optimal speed profile for undisturbed travel. The method further precomputes additional separation requirement to the vehicle ahead that is required to be able to fully implement the momentum utilization phase, and builds up the required additional separation prior to the fuel-saving situation, wherein the additional separation is built up, preferably substantially uniformly, over a separation build-up distance that is longer than the precomputed momentum utilization phase distance and/or is built up with a driver-acceptable, convoy-stabilizing, defined small speed reduction relative to the current speed of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Applicant: MAN Truck & Bus AG
    Inventors: Martin HUBER, Karlheinz DOERNER, Daniel HEYES, Stefan JERG, Peter DRIMML, Andreas ZIMMERMANN
  • Publication number: 20140303886
    Abstract: A device for installation in a utility vehicle for warning or consideration of a utility-vehicle-relevant driving restriction. The device includes a receiving unit for receiving at least one item of utility-vehicle-relevant information, which is transmitted from an apparatus arranged on a traffic infrastructure or at least adjacent thereto and which relates to the traffic infrastructure, and a provision unit for providing the item of utility-vehicle-relevant information or an item of information based thereon to the driver of the utility vehicle. The apparatus for placement on or at least adjacent to a traffic infrastructure comprises a functional unit for storing or processing at least one item of utility-vehicle-relevant information relating to the traffic infrastructure and a transmitting unit for transmitting the item of utility-vehicle-relevant information to one or more utility vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: MAN Truck & Bus AG
    Inventors: Xaver ROEMERSPERGER, Karlheinz DOERNER, Walter SCHWERTBERGER, Sebastian VOELL, Sven KRAUS, Johannes ECHTLER