Patents by Inventor Mike Gansler

Mike Gansler 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).

  • Device and method for monitoring a pressure sensor
    Patent number: 6678593
    Abstract: A device for monitoring a pressure sensor, which is positioned in a braking system of a vehicle. For this purpose, the device contains arrangement with which, during a braking action, a first vehicle motion variable is ascertained, which characterizes a vehicle motion in the longitudinal direction. The device further includes arrangement with which a mass variable is ascertained, which characterizes the mass of the vehicle. Using further arrangement, it is ascertained, for the monitoring of the pressure sensor, whether the first vehicle motion variable lies within a value range for the first vehicle motion variable, whose limits are ascertained as a function of the mass variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Kachel, Stefan Otterbein, Klaus Landesfeind, Mike Gansler
  • Device and method for monitoring a pressure sensor
    Publication number: 20030004625
    Abstract: The device according to the present invention relates to a device for monitoring a pressure sensor, which is positioned in a braking system of a vehicle. For this purpose, the device contains means with which, during a braking action, a first vehicle motion variable is ascertained, which characterizes a vehicle motion in the longitudinal direction. The device further includes means with which a mass variable is ascertained, which characterizes the mass of the vehicle. Using further means, it is ascertained, for the monitoring of the pressure sensor, whether the first vehicle motion variable lies within a value range for the first vehicle motion variable, whose limits are ascertained as a function of the mass variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2001
    Publication date: January 2, 2003
    Inventors: Gerhard Kachel, Stefan Otterbein, Klaus Landesfeind, Mike Gansler