Patents by Inventor Markus Schweizer

Markus Schweizer 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).

  • Publication number: 20230377385
    Abstract: A method for validating safety precautions for vehicles moving in an at least partially automated manner, based on triggering events and safety metrics. The method includes: receiving, from one or from each of a plurality of vehicles moving in an at least partially automated manner, operating data of the vehicle present and/or recorded at the time, regarding the triggering event and/or safety metric, if at the time in the vehicle, one or at least one of a plurality of triggering events associated therewith is met and/or one or at least one of a plurality of safety metrics associated therewith exceeds or falls below a threshold value; analyzing the received operating data, correlations of triggering events, occurring at more than a predetermined frequency, and/or safety metrics being determined with respect to static and/or dynamic vehicle data of the one or of the plurality of vehicles; and providing the determined correlations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Andreas Heyl, Farzaneh Ghanbari Milani, Markus Schweizer, Peter Munk
  • Publication number: 20230266964
    Abstract: A method for controlling a robotic device. In the method, for a version of a control software which is not the initial version of the control software for which the test values delivered by the tests at least partially do not fall within predefined ranges, it is checked whether that version of the control software fulfills safety criteria that have been created for a previous version (and are fulfilled by that version) for which the test values delivered by the tests at least partially do not fall within the predefined ranges, but was safe. If this is the case, the robotic device is controlled with that version of the control software.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Markus Schweizer, Andreas Heyl, Peter Munk
  • Patent number: 11734164
    Abstract: A method for testing a, in particular safety-relevant, technical system, in particular encompassing software. The system is represented by a model encompassing at least two or more components. An assumption of a respective component regarding the safety-relevant system, and a guarantee of a respective component to the safety-relevant technical system, are specified by a safety contract. Executable program code is generated based on at least one assumption and based on at least one guarantee. The safety-relevant technical system is tested by executing the program code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Arne Nordmann, Peter Munk, Andreas-Juergen Rohatschek, Eike Martin Thaden, Lydia Gauerhof, Markus Schweizer
  • Publication number: 20230156117
    Abstract: A method for operating a management program provided to manage at least one intervention from at least one application program to at least one component of the motor vehicle. In the method, when establishing the extent of the at least one intervention, information describing a driving mode of the vehicle is taken into account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Andreas Heyl, Markus Schweizer
  • Publication number: 20230143312
    Abstract: A method for operating a management program that is provided to manage at least one intervention from at least one application program in a motor vehicle into at least one component of the motor vehicle. When establishing the extent of the at least one intervention, information being made available from outside of the vehicle is taken into account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Andreas Heyl, Markus Schweizer
  • Publication number: 20230129174
    Abstract: A method for providing a function by a group of computing units in which computation instances are executed, each computation instance implementing the function using at least one algorithm and being set up to determine at least one result in response to a call of the function. The method includes: determining an integrity level for each of the computation instances; receiving a function request from a subscriber, the function request including a quality requirement that includes an integrity requirement; selecting a plurality of the computation instances corresponding to the quality requirement, so that the integrity level of the selected computation instances corresponds to the integrity requirement; calling the function in the selected computation instances corresponding to the function request in order to determine a plurality of results; determining a response based on the results, taking into account the quality requirement; and sending the response to the subscriber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Andreas Heyl, Christian Zimmermann, Markus Schweizer, Paulius Duplys
  • Publication number: 20230127778
    Abstract: A method for providing a function via a network of processing units using multiple computing instances. Each computing instance implements the function and is configured, when it is executed, to determine at least one result in response to a call-up of the function. The method includes validating the computing instances, each being checked as to whether the computing instance corresponds to a respective predetermined state; determining a respective level of reliability for each of the processing units; starting execution of successfully validated computing instances in the processing units, which have a level of reliability that is equal/greater than a predetermined minimum level of reliability; receiving a function request from a user; calling up the function in at least a portion of the executed computing instances corresponding to the function request, in order to determine multiple results; determining a response based on the results; and sending the response to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Andreas Heyl, Christian Zimmermann, Markus Schweizer, Paulius Duplys
  • Publication number: 20220283859
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for processing data for applications in the field of cloud computing and/or edge computing, for vehicles. The method includes: providing multiple computing services using at least two different hardware resources, and using the multiple computing services.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Tobias Gehrmann, Andreas Heyl, Andreas Nauerz, Eike Martin Thaden, Markus Schweizer, Peter Munk
  • Publication number: 20220092271
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for testing an, in particular, safety-relevant, technical system, in particular including software and/or hardware components. The method includes the following steps: providing a model of the technical system; providing a set of requirements to the technical system; converting a particular requirement into at least one formal expression of at least one formal logic, the formal logic being selected from a logic set, which includes at least two formal logics, based on properties of the requirements; checking whether a particular requirement has been met by the model, the checking taking place by carrying out at least one program solver for a particular formal expression.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Arne Nordmann, Peter Munk, Andreas-Juergen Rohatschek, Eike Martin Thaden, Lydia Gauerhof, Markus Schweizer
  • Patent number: 11245549
    Abstract: A bus system, a subscriber station, and a method for configuring a static bus system for a dynamic communication are provided. The bus system has at least two subscriber stations, a communications link for connecting the subscriber stations to each other, and at least one device for the dynamic communication between the subscriber stations of the bus system; the subscriber stations and the communications link are developed for the static communication, which is directed to messages to be transmitted on the bus system that are known when the bus system is made available and are configured according to specified transmitters and receivers, and the dynamic communication is directed to messages to be transmitted on the bus system that have become known only after the subscriber stations and the communications link have been made available and are configured according to specified transmitters and receivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Jochen Ulrich Haenger, Markus Schweizer, Rakshith Amarnath, Robert Szerwinski, Thomas Heinz
  • Publication number: 20210406161
    Abstract: A method for testing a, in particular safety-relevant, technical system, in particular encompassing software. The system is represented by a model encompassing at least two or more components. An assumption of a respective component regarding the safety-relevant system, and a guarantee of a respective component to the safety-relevant technical system, are specified by a safety contract. Executable program code is generated based on at least one assumption and based on at least one guarantee. The safety-relevant technical system is tested by executing the program code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Arne Nordmann, Peter Munk, Andreas-Juergen Rohatschek, Eike Martin Thaden, Lydia Gauerhof, Markus Schweizer
  • Patent number: 11161424
    Abstract: A method and a vehicle electrical system having an inverter, an electrical energy store, an electrical machine and an AC transmission terminal. The inverter has first and second sides and is configured to transmit power between these sides. Two output terminals of the inverter are connected or connectable to the energy store on the first side of the inverter. At least two phase current terminals of the inverter are connected or connectable to the electrical machine on the second side of the inverter. At least one of the charging inputs of the vehicle electrical system is connectable to a respective inner motor phase of the electrical machine by a switching device controlled by a controller. The vehicle electrical system initially charges the electrical energy store with a first voltage, and then charges the electrical energy store with a second voltage, which second voltage is higher than the first voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Inventors: Franz Pfeilschifter, Philip Brockerhoff, Martin Brüll, Matthias Töns, Edmund Schirmer, Paul-Markus Schweizer-Berberich
  • Patent number: 11108658
    Abstract: A method for detecting data of a vehicle operated at least partially in an automated manner, including at least one sensor, in particular, a surroundings sensor, in particular, a video sensor, a radar sensor, a LIDAR sensor, an ultrasonic sensor, an infrared sensor, and/or a GNSS sensor, in particular, for receiving a GPS signal, a GLONASS signal or a Galileo signal, and/or a vehicle sensor, in particular, for engine control, for activating occupant protection means, for activating assistance functions and/or convenience functions, in particular, an acceleration sensor, a rotation rate sensor, a pressure sensor, and at least one memory, in particular, a ring memory, including detecting data of the at least one sensor; saving the data in the memory, in particular, in the ring memory; detecting an event; initially storing the content of the memory, in particular, of the ring memory, at the point in time of the detected event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Astrid Rall, Andreas Heyl, Markus Schweizer
  • Patent number: 11097626
    Abstract: A vehicle electrical system having an electrical energy store, a direct voltage converter and a direct current transmission connection is described. The direct current transmission connection is connected to the energy store via the direct voltage converter. The vehicle electrical system also has a bypass switch which connects the electrical energy store in a switchable fashion to the direct voltage transmission connection. In addition, a method, a charging system, a charging station and a further vehicle electrical system are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Franz Pfeilschifter, Philip Brockerhoff, Martin Brüll, Paul-Markus Schweizer-Berberich, Matthias Töns, Edmund Schirmer
  • Publication number: 20210183177
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for model-based analysis, in particular safety analysis, of a technical system, in particular of a control device for a semiautonomous or autonomous vehicle. The method includes: furnishing a model that characterizes the system; furnishing first information items that characterize dependences between different components and/or subsystems of the system; ascertaining at least one state that at least one component and/or subsystem of the system, and/or the system, can assume; ascertaining, in particular based on the first information items and/or on the at least one state, a method for describing a behavior of the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Ahmad Adee, Roman Gansch, Peter Munk, Lydia Gauerhof, Markus Schweizer
  • Patent number: 10571208
    Abstract: An ammunition feed device of a belted ammunition in a weapon system for delivery before a closure or before a closure head, wherein the ammunition must be drawn from the ammunition belt by a cartridge hook and delivered to the closure. To prevent a misfire, etc., the cartridge hook is integrated in the weapon system separately from the closure. The cartridge hook is carried or placed by the closure, when the closure has covered a distance to the rear or must still cover a distance forward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Rheinmetall Waffe Munition GmbH
    Inventors: Hubert Schneider, Andy Mueller, Markus Schweizer
  • Publication number: 20200044200
    Abstract: Various embodiments include an energy cell holding device for a motor vehicle comprising: a contact plate having a cutout and an overhang. The cutout and the overhang fix the energy cell to the contact plate via a casing surface of the energy cell by form fit and/or force fit and/or substance bonding. The cutout and the overhang contact an electrical terminal of the energy cell via the casing surface of the energy cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: CPT Group GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Ochs, Henry Strobel, Paul-Markus Schweizer-Berberich
  • Patent number: 10488135
    Abstract: A cocking device for a firing pin spring of a firing pin of a weapon, the firing pin being integrated into a breech. This firing pin spring is cocked during the pre-run of the control slide, by means of a cocking slide on the weapon, said cocking slide having a cocking curve, in which a pin of a cocking rocker is engaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Rheinmetall Waffe Munition GmbH
    Inventors: Andy Mueller, Hubert Schneider, Markus Schweizer
  • Patent number: 10401109
    Abstract: A cocking device for a firing pin spring of a firing pin of a weapon, the firing pin being integrated into a breech. This firing pin spring is cocked during the pre-run of the control slide, by means of a cocking slide on the weapon, said cocking slide having a cocking curve, in which a pin of a cocking rocker is engaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Rheinmetall Waffe Munition Gmbh
    Inventors: Andy Mueller, Hubert Schneider, Markus Schweizer
  • Publication number: 20190210475
    Abstract: A vehicle electrical system having an electrical energy store,, a direct voltage converter and a direct current transmission connection is described. The direct current transmission connection is connected to the energy store via the direct voltage converter. The vehicle electrical system also has a bypass switch which connects the electrical energy store in a switchable fashion to the direct voltage transmission connection. In addition, a method, a charging system, a charging station and a further vehicle electrical system are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Pfeilschifter, Philip Brockerhoff, Martin Brüll, Paul-Markus Schweizer-Berberich, Matthias Töns, Edmund Schirmer