Patents by Inventor Martin RUCHTI

Martin RUCHTI 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: 11731577
    Abstract: A device for protecting a person standing in a motor vehicle comprises numerous airbags installed in a motor vehicle, a scanner for determining where there is empty space adjacent to the person, and a control unit that is configured to only deploy those airbags that inflate into the empty space that has been determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG
    Inventor: Martin Ruchti
  • Publication number: 20220390596
    Abstract: A method for obtaining approval of a sensor system for detecting objects in a vehicle's environment includes providing a combined probability distribution for deviations between output data from a sensor system and reference data at the programming level for detecting objects by the sensor system, at the sensor level and/or at the fusion level, sampling deviation combinations and calculating occurrence probabilities for the sampled deviation combinations using the combined probability distribution, subjecting the reference data to the sampled deviation combinations, processing these reference data with a fusion unit, and obtaining fusion results, removing occurrence probabilities from the combined probability distribution from which those fusion results are obtained that satisfy a predefined condition, and obtaining a residual probability distribution, taking the integral of the residual probability distribution and obtaining an absolute error probability, and obtaining approval of the sensor system based on
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Martin RUCHTI, Thomas NĂ„GELE, Stefan RINKENAUER, Jens KLIMKE, Tobias MOERS, Dominik RAUDSZUS, Hendrik WEBER, Maike SCHOLTES, Lutz ECKSTEIN
  • Publication number: 20220371535
    Abstract: A device for protecting a person standing in a motor vehicle comprises numerous airbags installed in a motor vehicle, a scanner for determining where there is empty space adjacent to the person, and a control unit that is configured to only deploy those airbags that inflate into the empty space that has been determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventor: Martin RUCHTI