Patents by Inventor Sebastian Auracher

Sebastian Auracher 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: 10029582
    Abstract: A method is provided for operating a motor vehicle which has at least one electric machine as a driving device. The method includes examining a current driving situation to determine whether a target position can be reached with a target speed by coasting; displaying a message to a driver of the motor vehicle if the target position can be reached by coasting; detecting a reaction time of the driver from the message up to the initiation of a coasting process by the driver; and actuating the electric machine as a generator to generate a deceleration torque if the reaction time exceeds a predefinable limiting value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Erik Herzhauser, Sebastian Auracher, Christoph Junker
  • Patent number: 9796387
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a vehicle with a drive device (20) which has at least one internal combustion engine (21) as a drive machine, wherein a drive torque requested by a driver of the vehicle (1) is implemented by operating at least the internal combustion engine (21) on a roadway (2), comprising the following steps: a) Monitoring the roadway (2) for road users (3) travelling ahead, by means of a surroundings sensor system (5), b) Monitoring a driver of the vehicle (1) by means of a state sensor system (8) with respect to his request to carry out an overtaking process in order to overtake a detected road user (3) travelling ahead, and if a request to carry out an overtaking process has been detected, c) Actuating the drive device (20) to prepare the overtaking process in such a way that before the overtaking process is carried out a torque reserve of the internal combustion engine (21) is built up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Erik Herzhauser, Marcel Dorn, Ingo Fecht, Adrian Thomys, Sebastian Auracher, Sven Klostermann, Karim Badawy
  • Publication number: 20170259696
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a motor vehicle comprising at least one electric machine as a driving device, said method involving the following steps: —verifying whether a current driving situation will allow the motor vehicle to reach a target position at a target speed by letting the motor vehicle coast; —displaying information to the driver of the motor vehicle if the target position can be reached by letting the motor vehicle coast; —measuring the time it takes the driver to react from the moment that the information is displayed to the moment that the driver initiates a coasting process; —actuating the electric machine as a generator in order to generate a deceleration moment if the reaction time exceeds a predefined maximum value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2015
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventors: Erik Herzhauser, Sebastian Auracher, Christoph Junker
  • Publication number: 20160214613
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a vehicle with a drive device (20) which has at least one internal combustion engine (21) as a drive machine, wherein a drive torque requested by a driver of the vehicle (1) is implemented by operating at least the internal combustion engine (21) on a roadway (2), comprising the following steps: a) Monitoring the roadway (2) for road users (3) travelling ahead, by means of a surroundings sensor system (5), b) Monitoring a driver of the vehicle (1) by means of a state sensor system (8) with respect to his request to carry out an overtaking process in order to overtake a detected road user (3) travelling ahead, and if a request to carry out an overtaking process has been detected, c) Actuating the drive device (20) to prepare the overtaking process in such a way that before the overtaking process is carried out a torque reserve of the internal combustion engine (21) is built up.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Erik Herzhauser, Marcel Dorn, lngo Fecht, Adrian Thomys, Sebastian Auracher, Sven Klostermann, Karim Badawy