Patents by Inventor Reinhard Weiberle

Reinhard Weiberle 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: 9969375
    Abstract: A brake booster device for a braking system of a vehicle includes: a booster body to which a brake-boosting force is exertable by an actuator device; a first piston rod component to which the brake-boosting force is at least partially transmittable via a first contact with the booster body, the first piston rod component contacting the booster body at a first contact surface such that the first piston rod component is at least partially adjustable; and a second piston rod component to which the brake-boosting force is at least partially transmittable via a second contact with the booster body, the second piston rod component contacting the booster body at a second contact surface such that the second piston rod component is adjustable together with the first piston rod component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Reinhard Weiberle, Karl-Heinz Willmann, Andreas Birkheim, Matthias Kistner
  • Patent number: 9631918
    Abstract: A sensor device for a pedal which is set up to determine at least one actuating variable regarding an operation of the pedal by a user of a device which is actuable by means of the pedal, and to output information corresponding to the at least one determined actuating variable, the sensor device additionally being set up to determine as the at least one actuating variable, at least one variable regarding a position and/or a change in position of an input rod disposed on the pedal, which is able to be set into at least a rotary motion by operating the pedal, in relation to a specified spatial direction. Furthermore, a method for providing information regarding an operation of a pedal is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Reinhard Weiberle, Frank Hassdenteufel
  • Patent number: 9604616
    Abstract: A brake booster and related method for its operation for a vehicle, having a master brake cylinder having a first primary piston chamber that is variable using an adjustable first primary piston component, a braking force transmission component, using which at least one driver braking force is transmittable by the adjustable first primary piston component contacted by the braking force transmission component, and an adjustable second primary piston component, the master brake cylinder having a second primary piston chamber that is variable using the adjustable second primary piston component, and the brake booster has a booster force transmission component, using which a booster force from the actuator device is transmittable at least partially to the adjustable second primary piston component contacted by the booster force transmission component, and the braking force transmission component in its force-free initial position is distanced by a first free play from the first primary piston component and/or the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Reinhard Weiberle, Matthias Kistner
  • Patent number: 9592809
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hybrid brake system having a hydraulic service brake system and an electromechanical service brake system. According to the invention, a brake booster is designed as a pedal simulator, which can be used to boost power and to generate a pedal power which is counter to the direction of actuation. When the hydraulic service brake system fails, the electromechanical service brake system is used for braking and the brake booster generates a pedal power which allows or facilitates dosage of the brake actuation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert Vollert, Reinhard Weiberle
  • Patent number: 9403516
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling the activation of a brake of a hydraulic vehicle brake system of a hybrid vehicle which can be braked by the generator mode of an electric drive motor. The invention proposes equipping the vehicle brake system with an electromechanical brake booster and generating a pedal force at a brake pedal with the brake booster when braking by the generator mode of the electric drive motor occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Strengert, Reinhard Weiberle, Timo Jahnz
  • Patent number: 9267377
    Abstract: A coupling apparatus has an input piston disposable on a braking input element and an output piston disposable on a brake master cylinder, to which a driver braking force is transferable via the input piston. In a first operating mode, the input piston displaced out of its initial position over a brake application distance less than a first minimum brake application distance, is spaced apart from the output piston. In a second operating mode, the input piston displaced out of its initial position over a brake application distance less than a second minimum brake application distance, is spaced apart from the output piston, and the driver braking force is transferable via the input piston to the output piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Reinhard Weiberle, Timo Jahnz
  • Patent number: 9254827
    Abstract: The invention describes a method for operating a controllable electromechanical brake booster and the corresponding brake booster which, via a coupling element between the brake booster and pedal rod, is capable of applying a force in opposition to the pedal activation force of a driver, and can therefore be operated as a pedal simulator. For this purpose, a pedal opposing force can be set by a characteristic curve as a function of a pedal position which is predefined by the driver, and can give the driver a pedal sensation even if there is no reaction of, for example, a conventional brake system. In a further operating mode, the brake booster can be operated in its original form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Reinhard Weiberle, Timo Jahnz
  • Patent number: 9139186
    Abstract: An electromechanical brake booster is disclosed. The brake booster is constructed with two worm gears which run in opposite directions and whose axial forces compensate one another. The worm gears drive toothed rack gears which convert a rotational driving movement into a translatory output movement for activating a master brake cylinder. As a result of the provision of two gear paths, the loading of each gear path is halved and an application of force to a booster body, which forms a gear output, is symmetrical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert Vollert, Remy Garnier, Reinhard Weiberle, Timo Jahnz, Jens Kolarsky, Stephan Hoenle
  • Patent number: 9061673
    Abstract: A brake system includes: a brake actuating element; a first piston-cylinder unit having a first piston displaceable by the brake actuating element actuated by at least a predefined minimum actuation such that a first internal pressure in the first piston-cylinder unit is increased; at least one wheel brake cylinder having a brake pressure which is increased using the increased first internal pressure; a first brake booster; and a second piston-cylinder unit having a second piston displaceable by the first brake booster so that a second internal pressure in the second piston-cylinder unit is increased, and to which the at least one wheel brake cylinder is hydraulically connected such that the brake pressure of the at least one wheel brake cylinder is increased by the increased second internal pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Reinhard Weiberle, Timo Jahnz
  • Publication number: 20150115700
    Abstract: A brake assembly includes a hydraulic auxiliary-power-operated first brake system including a master brake cylinder operably connected to an electromechanical brake booster and a hydraulic wheel brake for at least one wheel, the master brake cylinder configured to be activated by muscle force, and an externally powered second brake system including a hydraulic pressure source operated by external power and operably connected to a hydraulic wheel brake for at least one other wheel. The brake assembly further includes an electric drive motor configured for operation as a generator to brake the motor vehicle by acting on the at least one other wheel and a control unit configured to reduce a braking effect of the first brake system by reducing boosting of the electromechanical brake booster, if a braking effect of the electric drive motor in a generator mode is greater than the determined braking effect of the second brake system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Herbert Vollert, Reinhard Weiberle, Michael Kunz, Jens Kolarsky
  • Publication number: 20150034438
    Abstract: A brake booster and related method for its operation for a vehicle, having a master brake cylinder having a first primary piston chamber that is variable using an adjustable first primary piston component, a braking force transmission component, using which at least one driver braking force is transmittable by the adjustable first primary piston component contacted by the braking force transmission component, and an adjustable second primary piston component, the master brake cylinder having a second primary piston chamber that is variable using the adjustable second primary piston component, and the brake booster has a booster force transmission component, using which a booster force from the actuator device is transmittable at least partially to the adjustable second primary piston component contacted by the booster force transmission component, and the braking force transmission component in its force-free initial position is distanced by a first free play from the first primary piston component and/or the
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Reinhard Weiberle, Matthias Kistner
  • Patent number: 8899696
    Abstract: A controllable brake booster and a method and a device for controlling the brake booster are disclosed. The pedal force that a driver must apply in order to convey an input element of the brake booster into an actuating position or to retain the element in an actuating position is adjusted by operating the brake booster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Reinhard Weiberle, Timo Jahnz, Jochen Mayer, Jens Kolarsky
  • Publication number: 20140345270
    Abstract: A brake booster device for a braking system of a vehicle includes: a booster body to which a brake-boosting force is exertable by an actuator device; a first piston rod component to which the brake-boosting force is at least partially transmittable via a first contact with the booster body, the first piston rod component contacting the booster body at a first contact surface such that the first piston rod component is at least partially adjustable; and a second piston rod component to which the brake-boosting force is at least partially transmittable via a second contact with the booster body, the second piston rod component contacting the booster body at a second contact surface such that the second piston rod component is adjustable together with the first piston rod component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2012
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Inventors: Reinhard Weiberle, Karl-Heinz Willmann, Andreas Birkheim, Matthias Kistner
  • Patent number: 8875848
    Abstract: In a method for displacing and storing brake fluid for a hydraulic brake system of a vehicle which brake system has at least one hydraulic accumulator, at least one brake booster and at least one brake circuit, the brake booster is configured in such a manner, that even without an action of the driver, actuation of the brake booster allows a volume of brake fluid to be automatically displaced. The brake fluid is displaced into the hydraulic accumulator and stored, by automatic actuation of the brake booster, and at least a portion of the stored brake fluid is emptied by the hydraulic accumulator into the brake circuit as a function of the operating state of the brake system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert Vollert, Reinhard Weiberle
  • Patent number: 8870300
    Abstract: A method for actuating a hydraulic vehicle brake system, includes a master brake cylinder with a preferably electromechanical brake booster and a wheel slip control device. The master brake cylinder is actuated simultaneously with the brake booster, and hydraulic pumps of the wheel slip control device are driven by an electric motor. Pressure builds more quickly in the wheel brakes of the vehicle brake system for safety and assistance functions that require high pressure build-up dynamic. The method also increases the wheel brake pressure using the pressure that can be generated by actuating the master brake cylinder with the brake booster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert Vollert, Remy Garnier, Reinhard Weiberle, Timo Jahnz, Volker Mehl, Frank Kneip, Dirk Mahnkopf, Jens Kolarsky, Stephan Hoenle
  • Patent number: 8840198
    Abstract: A method for operating a hydraulic vehicle braking system that has an anti-lock control unit is disclosed. The system includes a brake master cylinder having an electromechanical brake booster. As the pressure level of the vehicle braking system decreases during an anti-lock control, in which all vehicle wheels are controlled, the boosting force of the brake booster is reduced in an anti-lock control of this type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert Vollert, Reinhard Weiberle, Timo Jahnz, Volker Mehl, Jens Kolarsky, Stephan Hoenle, Frank Kneip
  • Patent number: 8602507
    Abstract: A method for controlling the activation of a hydraulic vehicle brake system of a hybrid vehicle, which can be braked by generator operation of an electric drive motor, includes compensating for the braking effect of the electric drive motor and reducing a wheel brake pressure in the wheel brakes of the vehicle wheels by opening brake pressure-reducing valves, which are braked with the electric drive motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert Vollert, Reinhard Weiberle
  • Publication number: 20130199364
    Abstract: A coupling apparatus has an input piston disposable on a braking input element and an output piston disposable on a brake master cylinder, to which a driver braking force is transferable via the input piston. In a first operating mode, the input piston displaced out of its initial position over a brake application distance less than a first minimum brake application distance, is spaced apart from the output piston. In a second operating mode, the input piston displaced out of its initial position over a brake application distance less than a second minimum brake application distance, is spaced apart from the output piston, and the driver braking force is transferable via the input piston to the output piston.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2011
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Inventors: Reinhard Weiberle, Timo Jahnz
  • Publication number: 20130186221
    Abstract: A sensor device for a pedal which is set up to determine at least one actuating variable regarding an operation of the pedal by a user of a device which is actuable by means of the pedal, and to output information corresponding to the at least one determined actuating variable, the sensor device additionally being set up to determine as the at least one actuating variable, at least one variable regarding a position and/or a change in position of an input rod disposed on the pedal, which is able to be set into at least a rotary motion by operating the pedal, in relation to a specified spatial direction. Furthermore, a method for providing information regarding an operation of a pedal is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2011
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Inventors: Reinhard Weiberle, Frank Hassdenteufel
  • Publication number: 20130181506
    Abstract: A brake system includes: a brake actuating element; a first piston-cylinder unit having a first piston displaceable by the brake actuating element actuated by at least a predefined minimum actuation such that a first internal pressure in the first piston-cylinder unit is increased; at least one wheel brake cylinder having a brake pressure which is increased using the increased first internal pressure; a first brake booster; and a second piston-cylinder unit having a second piston displaceable by the first brake booster so that a second internal pressure in the second piston-cylinder unit is increased, and to which the at least one wheel brake cylinder is hydraulically connected such that the brake pressure of the at least one wheel brake cylinder is increased by the increased second internal pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2011
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Inventors: Reinhard Weiberle, Timo Jahnz