Patents by Inventor Thomas Form

Thomas Form 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: 11360490
    Abstract: A parking robot system for a transportation vehicle having wheels and a method for operating a parking robot system. The parking robot system includes a main robot and secondary robots and a method for operating a parking robot system. The secondary robots each have a pair of wheel support arms and each move up autonomously, with the wheel support arms folded in, from outside next to one of the wheels of the transportation vehicle. The secondary robots each lift up the respective wheel by folding out the respective pair of wheel support arms. The main robot accompanies the secondary robot with the lifted up transportation vehicle during travel to a prescribed target position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Inventors: Daniel Schütz, Thomas Form
  • Publication number: 20200183421
    Abstract: A parking robot system for a transportation vehicle having wheels and a method for operating a parking robot system. The parking robot system includes a main robot and secondary robots and a method for operating a parking robot system. The secondary robots each have a pair of wheel support arms and each move up autonomously, with the wheel support arms folded in, from outside next to one of the wheels of the transportation vehicle. The secondary robots each lift up the respective wheel by folding out the respective pair of wheel support arms. The main robot accompanies the secondary robot with the lifted up transportation vehicle during travel to a prescribed target position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Daniel SCHÜTZ, Thomas FORM
  • Patent number: 7760889
    Abstract: A speech support system for a vehicle with a first microphone and second microphone and a third microphone, as well as with a first loudspeaker, a second loudspeaker and a third loudspeaker, in which, by means of the speech support system, can maintain one communication path each from the first microphone to the second loudspeaker and/or from the first microphone to the third loudspeaker, as well as from the second microphone to the third loudspeaker and from the third microphone to the second loudspeaker. By means of the speech support system, a communication path can selectively be maintained from the first microphone to a telephone, and a communication path from telephone to the first loudspeaker, while maintaining communication path from the second microphone to the third loudspeaker and the communication path from the third microphone to the second loudspeaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Volkswagen AG
    Inventors: Thomas Form, Carsten Bergmann
  • Publication number: 20100131135
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an associated device for simulating the driving characteristics of a drive concept to be developed for a motor vehicle. The aim of the invention is to provide a method and an associated device for simulating the driving characteristics of a drive concept to be developed for a motor vehicle, using which the longitudinal dynamics and the energy requirements of designed concepts are simulated, compared with one another and validated during an actual driving operation. According to the invention, in order to simulate the driving characteristics of a drive concept to be developed for a motor vehicle during an actual driving operation for a production vehicle, the engine and transmission control are influenced by means of an additional control unit in such a way that the longitudinal dynamics of the production vehicle correspond to that of a designed hybrid drive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2008
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: IAV GMBH Ingenieurgesellschaft Auto und Verkehr
    Inventors: Daniel Jaensch, Wilfried Nietschke, Wolfgang Reimann, Thomas Form
  • Publication number: 20060034466
    Abstract: A speech support system for a vehicle with a first microphone and second microphone and a third microphone, as well as with a first loudspeaker, a second loudspeaker and a third loudspeaker, in which, by means of the speech support system, can maintain one communication path each from the first microphone to the second loudspeaker and/or from the first microphone to the third loudspeaker, as well as from the second microphone to the third loudspeaker and from the third microphone to the second loudspeaker. By means of the speech support system, a communication path can selectively be maintained from the first microphone to a telephone, and a communication path from telephone to the first loudspeaker, while maintaining communication path from the second microphone to the third loudspeaker and the communication path from the third microphone to the second loudspeaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2005
    Publication date: February 16, 2006
    Inventors: Thomas Form, Carsten Bergmann