Patents by Inventor Michael SCHMALBRUCH

Michael SCHMALBRUCH 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: 12649448
    Abstract: Technologies and techniques for operating a brake system of a motor vehicle, including a friction braking device and a regenerative braking device, in which a need for cleaning of respective wheel brakes of the friction braking device of the motor vehicle is determined. A desired deceleration of the motor vehicle is determined based on a position of a brake pedal that is mechanically decoupled from the friction braking device. A braking force that is required for the desired deceleration of the motor vehicle is determined, and a first, predefined portion of this braking force being allocated to the regenerative braking device and the remainder of the required braking force being allocated among the wheel brakes of the friction braking device. The braking force to be provided may be distributed among the wheel brakes as a function of the determined need for cleaning of the respective wheel brakes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2026
    Assignee: Volskwagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Michael Schmalbruch
  • Patent number: 12623543
    Abstract: An information system for a transportation vehicle configured to output, during a journey, information to a user of the transportation vehicle about an existing or impending engagement of the transportation vehicle in a driving parameter, wherein the output of the information to the user is suppressed, wherein a value of a control parameter predefined by the user is considered in a decision to determine whether the output of the information to the user is suppressed. A method for the situational suppression of an output of information about an existing or impending engagement of a transportation vehicle in a driving parameter for driving the transportation vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Michael Schmalbruch
  • Publication number: 20240399872
    Abstract: An information system for a transportation vehicle configured to output, during a journey, information to a user of the transportation vehicle about an existing or impending engagement of the transportation vehicle in a driving parameter, wherein the output of the information to the user is suppressed, wherein a value of a control parameter predefined by the user is considered in a decision to determine whether the output of the information to the user is suppressed. A method for the situational suppression of an output of information about an existing or impending engagement of a transportation vehicle in a driving parameter for driving the transportation vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventor: Michael SCHMALBRUCH
  • Publication number: 20230192042
    Abstract: Technologies and techniques for operating a brake system of a motor vehicle, including a friction braking device and a regenerative braking device, in which a need for cleaning of respective wheel brakes of the friction braking device of the motor vehicle is determined. A desired deceleration of the motor vehicle is determined based on a position of a brake pedal that is mechanically decoupled from the friction braking device. A braking force that is required for the desired deceleration of the motor vehicle is determined, and a first, predefined portion of this braking force being allocated to the regenerative braking device and the remainder of the required braking force being allocated among the wheel brakes of the friction braking device. The braking force to be provided may be distributed among the wheel brakes as a function of the determined need for cleaning of the respective wheel brakes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventor: Michael Schmalbruch
  • Patent number: 11554761
    Abstract: A method for operating an electromechanical braking system for a transportation vehicle having a brake pedal, a brake master cylinder, and an electromechanical brake booster. The electromechanical brake booster includes an actuator motor for increasing or decreasing the pedal force on the brake master cylinder to boost or reduce the braking power accordingly. A change in the boosting force of the electromechanical brake booster is limited to avoid uncontrolled changes of the brake boosting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Inventors: Michael Schmalbruch, Adrian Szawlowski
  • Patent number: 11529938
    Abstract: A method for operating an electromechanical brake booster. A pedal force is ascertained, a brake pressure is ascertained from the pedal force by an actuator, and the brake pressure applied to frictional brakes is set, thereby producing a vehicle deceleration. The actuator has a standard configuration wherein, in response to the pedal force, a brake pressure is ascertained that produces a specified standard deceleration of the motor vehicle if a specified disturbance variable has a specified standard value. The influence of the disturbance variable on the vehicle deceleration is compensated. The actuator has at least one control parameter for setting a compensation configuration, an actual value of the disturbance variable is detected, and the compensation configuration is set based on the respective difference between the ascertained actual value and the standard value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Inventors: Frank Borchers, Michael Schmalbruch, Leo Schineller
  • Publication number: 20200353905
    Abstract: A method for operating an electromechanical braking system for a transportation vehicle having a brake pedal, a brake master cylinder, and an electromechanical brake booster. The electromechanical brake booster includes an actuator motor for increasing or decreasing the pedal force on the brake master cylinder to boost or reduce the braking power accordingly. A change in the boosting force of the electromechanical brake booster is limited to avoid uncontrolled changes of the brake boosting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Michael SCHMALBRUCH, Adrian SZAWLOWSKI
  • Publication number: 20180257617
    Abstract: A method for operating an electromechanical brake booster. A pedal force is ascertained, a brake pressure is ascertained from the pedal force by an actuator, and the brake pressure applied to frictional brakes is set, thereby producing a vehicle deceleration. The actuator has a standard configuration wherein, in response to the pedal force, a brake pressure is ascertained that produces a specified standard deceleration of the motor vehicle if a specified disturbance variable has a specified standard value. The influence of the disturbance variable on the vehicle deceleration is compensated. The actuator has at least one control parameter for setting a compensation configuration, an actual value of the disturbance variable is detected, and the compensation configuration is set based on the respective difference between the ascertained actual value and the standard value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: Frank BORCHERS, Michael SCHMALBRUCH, Leo SCHINELLER