Patents by Inventor Otmar Bussmann

Otmar Bussmann 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: 11618423
    Abstract: A master brake cylinder for a brake system of a vehicle having a master brake cylinder housing, a primary piston component, a secondary piston component, a primary spring device which is preloaded with a first preload force between the primary piston component and the secondary piston component, and a secondary spring device, which is preloaded with a second preload force between the secondary piston component and a wall component (of the master brake cylinder housing, with the second preload force of the secondary spring device being greater than the first preload force of the primary spring device. A brake device for a vehicle, a brake system for a vehicle, and a production method for a mater brake cylinder for a brake system of a vehicle are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Dirk Foerch, Matthias Kistner, Otmar Bussmann, Simon Hansmann, Urs Bauer
  • Publication number: 20230029398
    Abstract: In order to detect air in a brake master cylinder within a hydraulic power brake system, a brake master cylinder pressure on actuation of the brake master cylinder is compared with a comparison pressure which prevails in the brake master cylinder when it is air-free. For bleeding, brake fluid is conveyed with a power brake pressure generator through the in this case non-actuated brake master cylinder into a pressureless brake fluid reservoir, where air escapes from the brake fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Erwin Reinke, Otmar Bussmann, Carsten Thierer, Kevin Wodrich, Ralf Kinder, Tim-Philipp Jesse
  • Patent number: 11404862
    Abstract: A method is described for operating an electrical system, in particular, of a motor vehicle, which includes at least one electrical consumer, at least one energy source for electrical energy, and at least one control unit, the consumer being test activated by the control unit for the purpose of initializing a start of the system and a voltage level of an electrical voltage in the system being monitored and compared to a predefinable minimum value, and the activation being interrupted if the voltage level falls below the minimum value, and the consumer being subsequently test reactivated. It is provided that the number of the interruptions is counted and the consumer is deactivated at least for a predefinable period of time upon reaching a predefinable maximum number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Meister, Christian Michael Praetorius, Helmut Suelzle, Otmar Bussmann, Herbert Vollert, Zied Terchella
  • Publication number: 20220229098
    Abstract: A method for determining an electrical resistance of an electrical supply lead of an electrical system. The system is connected to a first and a second electrically conductive supply lead, which are electrically conductively connected on the current-source side. The system is configured to electrically connect an electrical load of the system selectably to the first or to the second supply lead. The method includes: configuring an electrical connection between the first supply lead and the load; configuring an electrical interruption between the second supply lead and electrical loads of the system; impressing a current in the first supply lead; determining a first voltage at the input of the first supply lead; determining a second voltage at the input of the second supply lead; determining a first resistance value of the first supply lead using the first and the second voltage and the impressed current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Helmut Suelzle, Otmar Bussmann
  • Publication number: 20210316709
    Abstract: For testing the functional capability of a hydraulic power vehicle braking system, a power brake pressure generator is switched on. The power brake pressure generator displaces brake fluid through the non-actuated master brake cylinder into a brake fluid reservoir, which is why no brake pressure is built up. A brake pressure build-up allows a “hidden defect” to be inferred, which has no impact during normal operation and is therefore not noticed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2019
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Carsten Thierer, Rolf-Hermann Mergenthaler, Otmar Bussmann, Peter Ziegler, Tim-Philipp Jesse
  • Publication number: 20210291800
    Abstract: To prevent the loss of any brake fluid from a hydraulic vehicle braking system after a detected leakage, a testing or a re-testing of a leak tightness of the vehicle braking system is carried out only after release, for example, after a repair of the vehicle braking system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Tim-Philipp Jesse, Otmar Bussmann, Ralf Kinder, Peter Ziegler
  • Patent number: 11110802
    Abstract: A method for operating a regenerative braking system of a vehicle by activating at least one motor employable in generator mode taking into consideration a first information with regard to a requested setpoint total braking torque and a second information with regard to an available generator braking torque which is maximally executable by the at least one motor employable in generator mode, if the setpoint total braking torque exceeds a threshold value and/or a piece of warning information regarding a transition to a backup level that is potentially imminent or has occurred of the regenerative braking system, even if the setpoint total braking torque is less than or equal to the maximally executable available generator braking torque, sufficient brake fluid is transferred via at least one hydraulic actuator to a wheel brake cylinder of the regenerative braking system that an air gap of the particular wheel brake cylinder is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Bertram Foitzik, Matthias Kistner, Otmar Bussmann, Rolf Ellwein, Urs Bauer, Robert Kaster
  • Publication number: 20210078552
    Abstract: A master brake cylinder for a brake system of a vehicle having a master brake cylinder housing, a primary piston component, a secondary piston component, a primary spring device which is preloaded with a first preload force between the primary piston component and the secondary piston component, and a secondary spring device, which is preloaded with a second preload force between the secondary piston component and a wall component (of the master brake cylinder housing, with the second preload force of the secondary spring device being greater than the first preload force of the primary spring device. A brake device for a vehicle, a brake system for a vehicle, and a production method for a mater brake cylinder for a brake system of a vehicle are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Dirk Foerch, Matthias Kistner, Otmar Bussmann, Simon Hansmann, Urs Bauer
  • Publication number: 20200059087
    Abstract: A method is described for operating an electrical system, in particular, of a motor vehicle, which includes at least one electrical consumer, at least one energy source for electrical energy, and at least one control unit, the consumer being test activated by the control unit for the purpose of initializing a start of the system and a voltage level of an electrical voltage in the system being monitored and compared to a predefinable minimum value, and the activation being interrupted if the voltage level falls below the minimum value, and the consumer being subsequently test reactivated. It is provided that the number of the interruptions is counted and the consumer is deactivated at least for a predefinable period of time upon reaching a predefinable maximum number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Christian Meister, Christian Michael Praetorius, Helmut Suelzle, Otmar Bussmann, Herbert Vollert, Zied Terchella
  • Patent number: 10328920
    Abstract: A control device for at least one electric parking brake of a vehicle brake system of a vehicle having a control instrument, to determine a setpoint variable regarding a setpoint braking torque to be generated with the parking brake and to output a control signal, the control instrument being configured to ascertain/detect, based on at least one provided signal, whether a brake booster is in at least one functionally limited or incapacitated state, and, if indicated, to determine the setpoint variable by considering at least one defined parameter regarding a requested total braking torque and to control the electric parking brake so that a corresponding actual braking torque is exertable with the parking brake. Also described is an electric parking brake for a vehicle brake system and to a vehicle brake system, and a method for operating a vehicle brake system having a brake booster and an electric parking brake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Matthias Kistner, Otmar Bussmann, Bertram Foitzik, Klaus Heyer
  • Patent number: 10214188
    Abstract: A control apparatus for hydraulic components of a braking system of a vehicle, having a control application device that is designed to establish by application of control to the hydraulic components, in consideration of the braking request, at least one brake pressure in at least one wheel brake cylinder in such a way that the braking request is satisfiable; and to execute an antilock braking function at the at least one wheel brake cylinder, the control application device additionally being designed to ascertain whether at least one furnished actual value with regard to a displacement travel (s) of a brake actuation element of the vehicle out of its initial position, and/or with regard to a simulator volume shifted out of a brake master cylinder of the vehicle into a linked simulator, lies within at least one predefined extreme value range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Rolf Ellwein, Urs Bauer, Bertram Foitzik, Otmar Bussmann, Matthias Kistner, Robert Kaster
  • Patent number: 10023168
    Abstract: A hydraulic power unit for a braking system of a vehicle, including a first sub-brake circuit or brake circuit and a second sub-brake circuit or brake circuit, a first supply line branching into a first line section having a first circuit separating valve situated therein, and a second line section having a first electrically controllable reservoir separating valve and/or first check valve situated therein, and a second supply line branching into a third line section having a second circuit separating valve situated therein and a fourth line section having a second electrically controllable reservoir separating valve and/or second check valve situated therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Otmar Bussmann, Matthias Kistner
  • Patent number: 10023163
    Abstract: A power brake system having electronic slip regulation, and a method for controlling a power brake system having electronic slip regulation. A return line is equipped with a pressure medium storage unit for storing pressure medium with a pressure that is greater than an ambient atmospheric pressure, and is equipped with a blocking device that is controllable and that is situated between the pressure medium storage device and the reservoir. In addition, there is a pressure medium connection between the pressure medium storage unit and the plunger working space. A controlling of a power brake system takes place using the blocking device in such a way that the return line is blocked relative to the reservoir as soon as a plunger piston, driven by a drive unit, has traveled a definable path in the forward direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Bertram Foitzik, Jens Wagner, Matthias Kistner, Otmar Bussmann
  • Publication number: 20180079313
    Abstract: A method for operating a regenerative braking system of a vehicle by activating at least one motor employable in generator mode taking into consideration a first information with regard to a requested setpoint total braking torque and a second information with regard to an available generator braking torque which is maximally executable by the at least one motor employable in generator mode, if the setpoint total braking torque exceeds a threshold value and/or a piece of warning information regarding a transition to a backup level that is potentially imminent or has occurred of the regenerative braking system, even if the setpoint total braking torque is less than or equal to the maximally executable available generator braking torque, sufficient brake fluid is transferred via at least one hydraulic actuator to a wheel brake cylinder of the regenerative braking system that an air gap of the particular wheel brake cylinder is closed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventors: Bertram Foitzik, Matthias Kistner, Otmar Bussmann, Rolf Ellwein, Urs Bauer, Robert Kaster
  • Patent number: 9908519
    Abstract: A braking system for a vehicle includes: a brake input element for an actuation to input a brake pressure signal by a driver; a brake master cylinder coupled to the brake input element and supplied with hydraulic fluid from a hydraulic fluid reservoir fluidically connected to the brake master cylinder; and a first brake circuit. The first brake circuit has: a switchover valve with controllable through flow rate for the hydraulic fluid; a pressure regulating valve with controllable through flow rate for the hydraulic fluid; a hydraulic pump for optionally building up an elevated hydraulic fluid pressure in the first brake circuit; at least one first wheel brake cylinder exerting a braking torque on a first vehicle wheel coupled to the wheel brake cylinder; and a first fluid line from the hydraulic fluid reservoir being fluidically connected to the pressure regulating valve and to the hydraulic pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Bertram Foitzik, Otmar Bussmann, Matthias Kistner
  • Patent number: 9889836
    Abstract: An electromechanical braking device for a braking system including a master brake cylinder including an electric motor, an adjustable output rod, and a gear, the electric motor being connected to the output rod at least via the gear so that a power transmission path is present via which a motor output is at least partially transmittable to the output rod so that the output rod is adjustable, the electromechanical braking device including at least one elastic component situated within the power transmission path which is configured so that the at least one elastic component is not compressible below a control point of the electromechanical braking device, but during the occurrence of pressure peaks in the master brake cylinder which are above the control point of the electromechanical braking device, the at least one elastic component is compressible. Also described is a braking system for a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Dirk Mahnkopf, Andreas Schlichenmaier, Stefan Seitz, Otmar Bussmann, Bertram Foitzik, Thomas Eichhorn
  • Patent number: 9884569
    Abstract: A brake control device is provided for a vehicle having an activation device, with the aid of which, at least under consideration of at least one brake demand signal provided by an on-board sensor and/or control device, at least one first control signal may be output to at least one electric drive motor of the vehicle, with which the at least one electric drive motor is controllable into a motor mode, in which a generator braking torque which is unequal to zero may be exerted on at least one wheel of the vehicle by the at least one electric drive motor, the at least one electric drive motor being controllable with the aid of the at least one first control signal into at least one overload operating mode as the motor mode, in which the generator braking torque which is unequal to zero may be exerted on the at least one wheel. A method is also provided for operating at least one electric drive motor for a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Otmar Bussmann, Urs Bauer, Frank Kaestner
  • Publication number: 20180015912
    Abstract: A power brake system having electronic slip regulation, and a method for controlling a power brake system having electronic slip regulation. A return line is equipped with a pressure medium storage unit for storing pressure medium with a pressure that is greater than an ambient atmospheric pressure, and is equipped with a blocking device that is controllable and that is situated between the pressure medium storage device and the reservoir. In addition, there is a pressure medium connection between the pressure medium storage unit and the plunger working space. A controlling of a power brake system takes place using the blocking device in such a way that the return line is blocked relative to the reservoir as soon as a plunger piston, driven by a drive unit, has traveled a definable path in the forward direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventors: Bertram Foitzik, Jens Wagner, Matthias Kistner, Otmar Bussmann
  • Patent number: 9840148
    Abstract: A control system for an electric motor usable as a generator of a vehicle includes: a first control device and a second control device each configured to define, in consideration of at least one furnished first specification signal with regard to a driver-requested or autonomously requested braking input, at least one target braking torque variable with regard to at least one generator braking torque to be exerted by way of the at least one electric motor on at least one wheel of the vehicle and/or on at least one axle of the vehicle, and to output to the at least one electric motor, and/or to at least one electronic control system of the at least one electric motor, at least one output signal corresponding to the at least one target braking torque variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Matthias Kistner, Otmar Bussmann, Bertram Foitzik, Urs Bauer, Rolf Ellwein, Robert Kaster
  • Publication number: 20160332611
    Abstract: A hydraulic power unit for a braking system of a vehicle, including a first sub-brake circuit or brake circuit and a second sub-brake circuit or brake circuit, a first supply line branching into a first line section having a first circuit separating valve situated therein, and a second line section having a first electrically controllable reservoir separating valve and/or first check valve situated therein, and a second supply line branching into a third line section having a second circuit separating valve situated therein and a fourth line section having a second electrically controllable reservoir separating valve and/or second check valve situated therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: Otmar Bussmann, Matthias Kistner