Patents by Inventor Leonard LAPIS

Leonard LAPIS 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: 11926380
    Abstract: A method may be utilized to control a steer-by-wire steering system for a motor vehicle that includes an electronically controllable steering actuator that acts on steered wheels, a control unit, a feedback actuator to which a driver's request for a steering angle can be applied by a driver via steering input means and which outputs a feedback signal to the steering input means as a reaction to the driver's request and a driving condition of the motor vehicle, and a signal transmission that transmits the driver's request to the control unit. The control unit controls the steering actuator to convert the driver's request into deflection of the steered wheels. The method may involve determining wheel slip of a front wheel, performing frequency analysis of a profile over time of a wheel slip signal of the front wheel, and determining the feedback signal based on the result of the frequency analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignees: thyssenkrupp Presta AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: Leonard Lapis, Manuel Rohrmoser
  • Publication number: 20240017734
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for operating an operating system (1.1, 1.2, 1.3) of a motor vehicle, in which a control command (M1) for controlling the motor vehicle is specified via a control element (3.1, 3.2, 3.3), the control command (M1) specified via the control element (3.1, 3.2, 3.3) is sensorially acquired and passed on from an electronic control unit (4) to an electromechanical actuator unit (5.1, 5.2, 5.3) as a control signal, wherein the actuator unit (5.1, 5.2, 5.3) implements the control command (M1) according to the control signal. The operating system (1.1, 1.2, 1.3) is monitored here for an occurrence of a deviation from a target behaviour of the actuator unit (5.1, 5.2, 5.3), wherein tactile feedback is applied to the control element (3.1, 3.2, 3.3) if a deviation is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicants: thyssenkrupp Presta AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: Robin MALSAM, Andras CSABA, Leonard LAPIS, Kristof POLMANS
  • Publication number: 20230356770
    Abstract: A method of operating a steer-by-wire steering system of a motor vehicle to convert a steering command into a steering movement of steerable wheels of a motor vehicle is disclosed. The method includes sending a control signal to an electric motor of a steering actuator and converting the received control signal into a mechanical movement of the steering actuator by the electric motor, wherein the steering actuator acts on a coupling element, and wherein the electric motor is operated in a generator mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicants: thyssenkrupp Presta AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: Leonard LAPIS, Dominik LANG, Miklós ARÁNYI, Akos DOBCSANYI
  • Patent number: 11697456
    Abstract: A method can be used to control a steer-by-wire steering system for a motor vehicle that has two axles each with two wheels. Two front wheels can be steered by front-wheel steering and two rear wheels can be steered by rear-wheel steering. The motor vehicle includes a single wheel drive that is assigned to one of the two axles and drives the two wheels of the corresponding axle via a differential. The motor vehicle comprises an inboard braking system. The method involves checking the motor vehicle speed and activating rear-axle steering when a motor vehicle speed should be slower than 40 km/hr. With rear-axle steering active, the following steps are performed: deactivating front-wheel steering and rear-wheel steering, determining a reference position of a first steering rod via a reference wheel steering angle, determining a differential drive torque between the rear wheels to reach the reference position via a control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignees: THYSSENKRUPP PRESTA AG, THYSSENKRUPP AG
    Inventors: Leonard Lapis, Kristof Polmans, Carlo Mario Miano
  • Publication number: 20230048018
    Abstract: A method can be used to control a steer-by-wire steering system for a motor vehicle that has two axles each with two wheels. Two front wheels can be steered by front-wheel steering and two rear wheels can be steered by rear-wheel steering. The motor vehicle includes a single wheel drive that is assigned to one of the two axles and drives the two wheels of the corresponding axle via a differential. The motor vehicle comprises an inboard braking system. The method involves checking the motor vehicle speed and activating rear-axle steering when a motor vehicle speed should be slower than 40 km/hr. With rear-axle steering active, the following steps are performed: deactivating front-wheel steering and rear-wheel steering, determining a reference position of a first steering rod via a reference wheel steering angle, determining a differential drive torque between the rear wheels to reach the reference position via a control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicants: thyssenkrupp Presta AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: Leonard LAPIS, Kristof POLMANS, Carlo Mario MIANO
  • Publication number: 20230012287
    Abstract: A vehicle may have actuators, including a drive device with a drive motor that can act on a drive wheel, a brake device with a brake that can act on a drive wheel, and/or a steering device with a steering sensor by way of which the steering angle of a wheel is adjustable, a vehicle movement controller, and a setpoint value input means, a setpoint value processing means for detecting setpoint value settings of the setpoint value input means, to calculate a yaw acceleration setpoint value and translational acceleration setpoint values from the setpoint value settings. The setpoint value processing means may be configured to transfer the calculated yaw acceleration setpoint value and translational acceleration setpoint values to the vehicle movement controller, which is configured to actuate one or more of the actuators such that the yaw acceleration setpoint value and the translational acceleration setpoint values are reached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Applicants: thyssenkrupp Presta AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: Leonard LAPIS, Rudolf CSIKJA, Robin MALSAM
  • Publication number: 20230001929
    Abstract: A method can be used to control a steer-by-wire steering system in an emergency steering mode. The method comprises checking a steering system for the presence of a fault state and upon detection of a fault implementing the emergency steering mode, which involves determining a setpoint position of a steering tie rod using a setpoint wheel steering angle, determining a front wheel to be braked and a brake pressure to attain the setpoint position with a control unit, transmitting the front wheel to be braked and the brake pressure to a brake system, braking the front wheel to be braked, and increasing a torque provided by a wheel drive to compensate for a loss of speed of the motor vehicle caused by the braking of the front wheel to be braked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicants: thyssenkrupp Presta AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: Leonard LAPIS, Carlo Mario MIANO, Kristof POLMANS
  • Patent number: 11505245
    Abstract: A steer-by-wire steering system for a motor vehicle with a steerable front wheel axle that has two steerable wheels. The front wheel axle includes a single wheel drive which, by means of a drive controller, individually drives wheel drives which are associated with the steerable wheels. The drive controller has a controller which determines a target speed for the left-hand wheel and a target speed for the right-hand wheel in accordance with an accelerator pedal angle and a rotational angle of a steering shaft, and which limits the target speeds to a slip-limited speed. The drive controller individually drives the wheel drives in such a way that the difference between the target speed and the actual speed for each steerable wheel is minimal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignees: thyssenkrupp Presta AG, thyssenkrupg AG
    Inventor: Leonard Lapis
  • Patent number: 11485370
    Abstract: A method for determining a wheel radius of a motor vehicle, including calculating a yaw rate of the motor vehicle by means of a wheel speed of at least one wheel and a predefined wheel radius. The calculated yaw rate is compared with a measured yaw rate. The wheel speed is adapted. The calculation of the yaw rate is input, of the at least one wheel by means of a correction factor, so that the calculated yaw rate is equal to the measured yaw rate. The correction factor and the predefined wheel radius or the wheel speed is multiplied. The calculation of the yaw rate is input, for the determination of a corrected wheel radius or of a corrected wheel speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignees: THYSSENKRUPP PRESTA AG, THYSSENKRUPP AG
    Inventor: Leonard Lapis
  • Patent number: 11390265
    Abstract: Systems and methods for preventing roll-over of a motor vehicle in the event of a transverse load change. The motor vehicle has an individual-wheel drive designed to drive a wheel that is loaded by the transverse load change independently of the at least one other wheel of the motor vehicle. One methods includes identifying a critical state of the motor vehicle in the event of a transverse load change, applying a drive torque by the individual-wheel drive to the motor vehicle wheel that is loaded by the transverse load change such that the wheel that is loaded by the transverse load change is caused to slip, and steering the motor vehicle wheel that is loaded by the transverse load change in the direction of the direction of travel such that a roll-over of the motor vehicle can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignees: THYSSENKRUPP PRESTA AG, THYSSENKRUPP AG
    Inventor: Leonard Lapis
  • Publication number: 20220097759
    Abstract: A method may be utilized to control a steer-by-wire steering system for a motor vehicle that includes an electronically controllable steering actuator that acts on steered wheels, a control unit, a feedback actuator to which a driver's request for a steering angle can be applied by a driver via steering input means and which outputs a feedback signal to the steering input means as a reaction to the driver's request and a driving condition of the motor vehicle, and a signal transmission that transmits the driver's request to the control unit. The control unit controls the steering actuator to convert the driver's request into deflection of the steered wheels. The method may involve determining wheel slip of a front wheel, performing frequency analysis of a profile over time of a wheel slip signal of the front wheel, and determining the feedback signal based on the result of the frequency analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicants: thyssenkrupp Presta AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: Leonard LAPIS, Manuel ROHRMOSER
  • Publication number: 20210261143
    Abstract: A method for determining a wheel radius of a motor vehicle, including calculating a yaw rate of the motor vehicle by means of a wheel speed of at least one wheel and a predefined wheel radius. The calculated yaw rate is compared with a measured yaw rate. The wheel speed is adapted. The calculation of the yaw rate is input, of the at least one wheel by means of a correction factor, so that the calculated yaw rate is equal to the measured yaw rate. The correction factor and the predefined wheel radius or the wheel speed is multiplied. The calculation of the yaw rate is input, for the determination of a corrected wheel radius or of a corrected wheel speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicants: thyssenkrupp Presta AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventor: Leonard LAPIS
  • Publication number: 20200339099
    Abstract: Systems and methods for preventing roll-over of a motor vehicle in the event of a transverse load change. The motor vehicle has an individual-wheel drive designed to drive a wheel that is loaded by the transverse load change independently of the at least one other wheel of the motor vehicle. One methods includes identifying a critical state of the motor vehicle in the event of a transverse load change, applying a drive torque by the individual-wheel drive to the motor vehicle wheel that is loaded by the transverse load change such that the wheel that is loaded by the transverse load change is caused to slip, and steering the motor vehicle wheel that is loaded by the transverse load change in the direction of the direction of travel such that a roll-over of the motor vehicle can be prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicants: thyssenkrupp Presta AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventor: Leonard LAPIS
  • Publication number: 20200269912
    Abstract: A method and system for rack-and-pinion position adjustment for a steer-by-wire steering system for a motor vehicle. A module provides adjustment of the rack-and-pinion position, by determining a position error from a difference between desired and estimated value(s) of the rack-and-pinion position and the rack-and-pinion speed in a feedback structure, from which a control variable is determined for controlling the rack-and-pinion and a disturbance variable compensation for the control variable is carried out in a feedforward structure by means of a rack force estimation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicants: thyssenkrupp Presta AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: Leonard LAPIS, Manuel ü ROHRMOSER
  • Publication number: 20200108866
    Abstract: A steer-by-wire steering system for a motor vehicle with a steerable front wheel axle that has two steerable wheels. The front wheel axle includes a single wheel drive which, by means of a drive controller, individually drives wheel drives which are associated with the steerable wheels. The drive controller has a controller which determines a target speed for the left-hand wheel and a target speed for the right-hand wheel in accordance with an accelerator pedal angle and a rotational angle of a steering shaft, and which limits the target speeds to a slip-limited speed. The drive controller individually drives the wheel drives in such a way that the difference between the target speed and the actual speed for each steerable wheel is minimal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Applicants: THYSSENKRUPP PRESTA AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventor: Leonard LAPIS