Patents by Inventor Reinhard Helldoerfer

Reinhard Helldoerfer 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: 6460943
    Abstract: A method controls brake pressure for a motor vehicle pressure medium-actuated power brake system in which the adjustment of a proportionality factor (k) between deceleration and brake pressure starting from an initial value (ko) is limited to a range bounded by a lower limit value and an upper limit value in which range the initial value (ko) is contained. This produces a warning travel of the pedal when excessive deviation of the brake pressure from the expected value occurs. The warning travel informs the driver of the braking effect which is deviating excessively from the expected degree. Methods are known in which a specific travel (sp) of the brake pedal is interpreted as a setting of a specific desired deceleration (zs) of the vehicle and the required brake pressure is set automatically if appropriate by incrementally adjusting a variable proportionality factor (k).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Assignees: DaimlerChrysler AG, Temic Telefunken Microelectronic GmbH
    Inventors: Bernhard Toepfer, Wolfgang Mueller, Michael Reiner, Reinhard Helldoerfer
  • Patent number: 5422812
    Abstract: A positioning and navigation system for land vehicles features a simple and memory-conserving route entry method. Routes on maps can be specified by the junctions traversed by the route, so that entering only the junctions in memory uses much less space than prior art digital route storage systems which stored the coordinates of each point along the route. A trip progress information display shows the route vividly by using color or brightness contrast with the rest of the map. Additional direction of travel indications can be given, for example on a Head Up Display reflected off the inside of the windshield within the operator's field of view or by acoustic signals or speech-synthesized announcements. This results in particularly easy-to-follow guide to the driver or operator. Head-up displays on motor vehicles often have double images and interfering reflections on the windshield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1995
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Knoll, Winfried Koenig, Reinhard Helldoerfer, Ulrich Kanzler, Juergen Leinberger, Wilfried Urbanski, Ruediger Mock-Hecker, Edmund Zaeuner