Patents by Inventor Thilo Klostermann

Thilo Klostermann 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: 12109985
    Abstract: An electropneumatic control module has a trailer control unit, which has a trailer brake pressure port and a trailer feed pressure port, a holding brake unit, which has a spring-type actuator port and a holding brake pilot control unit, and an electronic control unit, which switches a holding brake pilot control unit into a ventilation position, wherein a second holding brake pilot control port is connected in pressure-conducting manner to a first holding brake pilot control port and the spring-type actuator port is connectable to a vent. The holding brake unit is connected to a redundancy port and is configured to output a first holding brake pressure at the spring-type actuator port when the holding brake pilot control unit is in the ventilation position and a redundancy pressure is provided. The trailer control unit outputs a brake pressure at the trailer brake pressure port when a redundancy pressure is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: ZF CV Systems Europe BV
    Inventors: Thilo Klostermann, Julian van Thiel
  • Publication number: 20240109524
    Abstract: An electropneumatic valve assembly is for activating a parking brake function of an electropneumatic brake system. The valve assembly has a pilot control unit and a main valve unit configured to actuate a parking brake pressure at least at one spring-accumulator connection. The valve assembly has a service brake connection for receiving a service brake pressure and a safety valve. The safety valve, by receiving a safety control pressure, is switchable from a venting position, in which the safety valve connects the pilot control unit to a vent, to a supply position, in which the safety valve supplies the pilot control valve with reservoir pressure, the safety valve remaining in the supply position or switching to the venting position as a function of an actuated pressure. The service brake connection is connected to the safety valve control connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Thilo Klostermann, Robert Otremba, Julian van Thiel
  • Publication number: 20230303045
    Abstract: A compressed-air braking system of a tractor vehicle includes two service-brake circuits and a parking-brake circuit. A trailer control valve has a control input connected to a brake control line connected to a brake line of one of the service-brake circuits and an inverted control input connected to a further brake control line routed to a brake line of the parking-brake circuit. A valve device for braking a coupled trailer vehicle independently of the foot-brake valve has an electronically controllable valve unit arranged in the further brake control line routed to the inverted control input of the trailer control valve. Via the valve unit, the portion of the further brake control line on the trailer control-valve side can be connected alternately to the portion on the parking-brake valve side or to a depressurizing output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Thilo Klostermann, Florian Schwagmeyer
  • Patent number: 11679748
    Abstract: An electronically controlled pneumatic brake system (2) for a vehicle 100, with a supply coupling head (24), a control coupling head (26), and an electronically controlled trailer control module (28) includes a first supply port (28.1), a trailer supply connection (28.2) for providing a trailer supply pressure (pT) to the supply coupling head (24), a trailer control connection (28.3) for providing a trailer control pressure (pB) to the control coupling head (26), an electro-pneumatic trailer control valve arrangement (40) for providing the trailer control pressure (pB), and a tractor protection valve electronic control unit (42). The electro-pneumatic trailer control valve arrangement (40) is configured to only supply a trailer control pressure (pB) to the trailer control connection (28.3) when compressed air is supplied to the trailer supply connection (28.2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: ZF CV Systems Europe BV
    Inventors: Joachim Amtsfeld, Henning Förster, Thilo Klostermann, Florian Schwagmeyer
  • Publication number: 20230182694
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for securing a vehicle, preferably a commercial vehicle, in an emergency braking situation, wherein the vehicle has a vehicle bus system and a braking system, the method having the following steps: monitoring signals on the vehicle bus system; detecting an emergency brake signal provided by a driver assistance system on the vehicle bus system; ascertaining whether the vehicle is at a standstill; bringing a braking device of the braking system into a braking position if a standstill of the vehicle is ascertained. The disclosure also relates to a control unit for a vehicle, a computer program, a braking system for a vehicle, and a vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Thilo Klostermann, Ruediger Meyer, Gerd Roters, Thomas Schmidt, Alexander Wendlandt
  • Patent number: 11565681
    Abstract: A method for testing a pressure-medium-operated electronic brake system of a vehicle having a valve and sensor device including a control pressure inlet, a control pressure outlet, a plurality of valves selected from electrically activated inlet valves, outlet valves, redundancy valves, and pressure valves, an actual pressure sensor for measuring an actual control pressure, a setpoint pressure sensor for measuring a setpoint control pressure, and an electronic control unit, which has a signal-conducting connection to the electrically activated valves and pressure sensors, for receiving pressure signals and actuating the electrically activated valves, includes testing the setpoint pressure sensor while the control unit is in a passive operating mode, passing the setpoint control pressure directly through to the control pressure outlet, measuring the actual pressure at the control pressure outlet using a sensor, and transmitting the measured value to the control unit for plausibility checking against the setpoi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: WABCO GmbH
    Inventors: Dominika Dombek, Thilo Klostermann, Jann Löll, Jakob Friedrich Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20220227342
    Abstract: An electropneumatic control module has a trailer control unit, which has a trailer brake pressure port and a trailer feed pressure port, a holding brake unit, which has a spring-type actuator port and a holding brake pilot control unit, and an electronic control unit, which switches a holding brake pilot control unit into a ventilation position, wherein a second holding brake pilot control port is connected in pressure-conducting manner to a first holding brake pilot control port and the spring-type actuator port is connectable to a vent. The holding brake unit is connected to a redundancy port and is configured to output a first holding brake pressure at the spring-type actuator port when the holding brake pilot control unit is in the ventilation position and a redundancy pressure is provided. The trailer control unit outputs a brake pressure at the trailer brake pressure port when a redundancy pressure is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Thilo Klostermann, Julian van Thiel
  • Publication number: 20220032891
    Abstract: An electronically controlled pneumatic brake system (2) for a vehicle 100, with a supply coupling head (24), a control coupling head (26), and an electronically controlled trailer control module (28) includes a first supply port (28.1), a trailer supply connection (28.2) for providing a trailer supply pressure (pT) to the supply coupling head (24), a trailer control connection (28.3) for providing a trailer control pressure (pB) to the control coupling head (26), an electro-pneumatic trailer control valve arrangement (40) for providing the trailer control pressure (pB), and a tractor protection valve electronic control unit (42). The electro-pneumatic trailer control valve arrangement (40) is configured to only supply a trailer control pressure (pB) to the trailer control connection (28.3) when compressed air is supplied to the trailer supply connection (28.2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Joachim Amtsfeld, Henning Förster, Thilo Klostermann, Florian Schwagmeyer
  • Publication number: 20200139953
    Abstract: A method for testing a pressure-medium-operated electronic brake system of a vehicle having a valve and sensor device including a control pressure inlet, a control pressure outlet, a plurality of valves selected from electrically activated inlet valves, outlet valves, redundancy valves, and pressure valves, an actual pressure sensor for measuring an actual control pressure, a setpoint pressure sensor for measuring a setpoint control pressure, and an electronic control unit, which has a signal-conducting connection to the electrically activated valves and pressure sensors, for receiving pressure signals and actuating the electrically activated valves, includes testing the setpoint pressure sensor while the control unit is in a passive operating mode, passing the setpoint control pressure directly through to the control pressure outlet, measuring the actual pressure at the control pressure outlet using a sensor, and transmitting the measured value to the control unit for plausibility checking against the setpoi
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Dominika DOMBEK, Thilo KLOSTERMANN, Jann LÖLL, Jakob Friedrich SCHMIDT
  • Patent number: 9327694
    Abstract: In a vehicle combination including a hydraulically braked towing vehicle and a pneumatically braked trailer, a brake module serving as a trailer control valve has an electropneumatic pressure regulating module with an electronic controller that converts pressure signals from a sensor at a hydraulic pressure line from a hydraulically-actuated service brake master cylinder into control pulses for electromagnetic control valves in the regulating module. The control valves are connected via a pneumatic supply pressure inlet to a compressed air reservoir, and via a pneumatic control pressure outlet to a control pressure coupling head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: WABCO GmbH
    Inventors: Thilo Klostermann, Frank Zielke
  • Publication number: 20150239441
    Abstract: In a vehicle combination including a hydraulically braked towing vehicle and a pneumatically braked trailer, a brake module serving as a trailer control valve has an electropneumatic pressure regulating module with an electronic controller that converts pressure signals from a sensor at a hydraulic pressure line from a hydraulically-actuated service brake master cylinder into control pulses for electromagnetic control valves in the regulating module. The control valves are connected via a pneumatic supply pressure inlet to a compressed air reservoir, and via a pneumatic control pressure outlet to a control pressure coupling head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: Thilo Klostermann, Frank Zielke