Patents by Inventor Thomas Schonhaar

Thomas Schonhaar 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: 6134496
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the control of the shifting process of a vehicle with electro-hydraulically actuatable friction elements for the shifting-over between different transmission stages in a vehicle with at least in addition a drive engine in which a current actual value is determined for at least one magnitude characterizing the shift process in each shifting process; the actual value is compared with an establishable and/or storable desired value; on deviation of the actual value from the desired value, the control pressure for the at least indirect influencing of the magnitude characterizing the switching process is adaptively changed by a determinable, calculatable or prescribable first correction value for the achieving of an optimal shifting behavior and the course of the altered magnitude is storable in each case as new characteristic curve of the desired values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2000
    Assignee: Voith Turbo GmbH & Co. K.G.
    Inventors: Erwin Rotter, Thomas Schonhaar, Wilfried Maier, Friedrich Haberle, Herbert Depping
  • Patent number: 6095948
    Abstract: A process is provided for operating a vehicle transmission with preferably electrohydraulically actuatable friction elements for shifting between different transmission steps, in a vehicle with at least one drive engine in which an actual value of at least one of the quantities characterizing the shift process is determined for each shift process, which actual value is compared with a theoretical value that can be established and stored. When the actual value deviates from the theoretical value, a regulated quantity for at least direct influencing is changed by a correction value that can be established. For each shift process, the time duration for the output of a gear shift signal up to the beginning of the synchronization process and/or the change of the drive rpm during this time period is determined as a first and/or second actual value of the quantity characterizing the process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2000
    Assignee: Playtex Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Herbert Depping, Wilfried Maier, Erwin Rotter, Friedrich Haberle, Thomas Schonhaar