Patents by Inventor Markus Pantle

Markus Pantle 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 device for deciding to trigger and for triggering restraint systems of a motor vehicle
    Patent number: 7826951
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for deciding on the triggering of and controlling restraint systems of a motor vehicle, including the method steps of determining the current position of the motor vehicle; determining position-relevant environmental data of the motor vehicle; determining position-relevant reference values of the motor vehicle; determining position-relevant actual values of the motor vehicle; comparing the reference and actual values; and taking this data into account in the decision to trigger, and in the triggering of restraint systems. The invention also provides a device for this purpose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Markus Pantle
  • Method and Device for Deciding to Trigger and for Triggering Restraint Systems of a Motor Vehicle
    Publication number: 20070213903
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for deciding on the triggering of and controlling restraint systems of a motor vehicle, including the method steps of determining the current position of the motor vehicle; determining position-relevant environmental data of the motor vehicle; determining position-relevant reference values of the motor vehicle; determining position-relevant actual values of the motor vehicle; comparing the reference and actual values; and taking this data into account in the decision to trigger, and in the triggering of restraint systems. The invention also provides a device for this purpose.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2005
    Publication date: September 13, 2007
    Inventor: Markus Pantle
  • Method and device for determining a vehicle inertial position
    Patent number: 6259999
    Abstract: The inertial state can be determined independently of dynamic vehicle movements by measuring the accelerations of the vehicle in the direction of its longitudinal, transverse and vertical axes, by forming the magnitude of an acceleration vector resulting from the three acceleration components and comparing the magnitude of the acceleration vector through threshold decisions with a window that is delimited by a threshold lying above and a threshold lying below gravitational acceleration g. A current course angle of the vehicle with respect to its longitudinal axis and/or the current course angle with respect to its transverse axis is then determined only if the magnitude of the acceleration vector lies inside the window; otherwise, however, the previously determined course angles are retained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2001
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Markus Pantle