Patents by Inventor Stefan Epple

Stefan Epple 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: 11524668
    Abstract: A method is provided for operating a motor vehicle brake system that includes an actuatable brake master cylinder, a hydraulic brake booster, and at least one brake circuit that has at least one hydraulically actuatable wheel brake and at least one hydraulic-pressure generator driven by electric motor. The method includes monitoring a state of actuation of the brake master cylinder is monitored, and, upon detecting a maximum state of actuation, activating the hydraulic-pressure generator to increase the hydraulic pressure adjusted by the brake master cylinder in the brake circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Reize, Dino Harrer, Stefan Epple
  • Publication number: 20200122705
    Abstract: A method is provided for operating a motor vehicle brake system that includes an actuatable brake master cylinder, a hydraulic brake booster, and at least one brake circuit that has at least one hydraulically actuatable wheel brake and at least one hydraulic-pressure generator driven by electric motor. The method includes monitoring a state of actuation of the brake master cylinder is monitored, and, upon detecting a maximum state of actuation, activating the hydraulic-pressure generator to increase the hydraulic pressure adjusted by the brake master cylinder in the brake circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Andreas Reize, Dino Harrer, Stefan Epple
  • Patent number: 9994202
    Abstract: A method is described for operating a hydraulic braking device of a vehicle, in particular a motor vehicle, including at least one brake booster, which sets a brake boost as a function of a driver's braking command. It is provided that the driver's braking command is ascertained via a vacuum sensor assigned to a pneumatic brake booster and a hydraulic brake boost is set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Stefan Epple
  • Publication number: 20170210366
    Abstract: A method is described for operating a hydraulic braking device of a vehicle, in particular a motor vehicle, including at least one brake booster, which sets a brake boost as a function of a driver's braking command. It is provided that the driver's braking command is ascertained via a vacuum sensor assigned to a pneumatic brake booster and a hydraulic brake boost is set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventor: Stefan Epple
  • Patent number: 9393937
    Abstract: A method for operating a braking system of a vehicle, particularly of a motor vehicle, is described in which an automatic braking process is triggered by the exceeding of a specifiable threshold value by a rate of change conditioned upon the operation of a brake pedal. It is provided, in this context, that the threshold value is specified/varied by the driver in an initialization operation of the braking system. Also described is a related braking system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Stefan Epple
  • Patent number: 8457851
    Abstract: In a method and a device for controlling the braking system of a vehicle having a vacuum brake booster and a vacuum source, it is provided that a variable triggering threshold value, at the exceeding of which an automatic braking procedure is triggered, is a function of the vacuum level or of the vacuum gradient of the vacuum brake booster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Epple, Jochen Wagner
  • Publication number: 20130018559
    Abstract: In a method for implementing an emergency braking operation with the aid of a brake assistance system in a vehicle, a brake actuation specified by the driver is amplified, the deactivation of the brake force amplification taking place in at least two stages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2011
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Inventors: Stefan Epple, Jochen Wagner
  • Patent number: 8315772
    Abstract: A method for shifting the braking assistant function into an activatable state, in which method: after termination of a braking force monitoring function, the braking assistant function is shifted into a non-activatable state or a non-activatable state is maintained; information about the hydraulic pressure at a predefined point in the hydraulic braking circuit is determined; and after at least one predefined condition is met by that information, the braking assistant function is shifted into an activatable state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Jochen Wagner, Stefan Epple
  • Publication number: 20110132702
    Abstract: A method for operating a braking system of a vehicle, particularly of a motor vehicle, is described in which an automatic braking process is triggered by the exceeding of a specifiable threshold value by a rate of change conditioned upon the operation of a brake pedal. It is provided, in this context, that the threshold value is specified/varied by the driver in an initialization operation of the braking system. Also described is a related braking system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Inventor: Stefan EPPLE
  • Publication number: 20100280723
    Abstract: In a method and a device for controlling the braking system of a vehicle having a vacuum brake booster and a vacuum source, it is provided that a variable triggering threshold value, at the exceeding of which an automatic braking procedure is triggered, is a function of the vacuum level or of the vacuum gradient of the vacuum brake booster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2007
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Inventors: Stefan Epple, Jochen Wagner
  • Publication number: 20090182477
    Abstract: A method for shifting the braking assistant function into an activatable state, in which method: after termination of a braking force monitoring function, the braking assistant function is shifted into a non-activatable state or a non-activatable state is maintained; information about the hydraulic pressure at a predefined point in the hydraulic braking circuit is determined; and after at least one predefined condition is met by that information, the braking assistant function is shifted into an activatable state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2005
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Inventors: Jochen Wagner, Stefan Epple