Patents by Inventor Tobias Franke

Tobias Franke 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: 11976727
    Abstract: A cup-shaped cover of a pedal travel simulator, hydraulic accumulator, or a damper chamber, using a radially resilient connecting ring, which protrudes into a groove of the cover and into an opposing groove of a receptacle of a hydraulic block of a traction slip controller of a hydraulic vehicle braking system, to fasten inseparably at the hydraulic block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Kaserer, Andreas Weh, Martin Hagspiel, Florian Breyer, Tobias Franke
  • Patent number: 11926303
    Abstract: A non-return valve for a vehicle hydraulic-power brake system. The non-return valve has a valve-seat part in the form of an apertured disk, onto which is pressed a valve cage in which a valve ball is disposed as shut-off member and a helical compression spring is disposed as valve spring. A bowl-shaped filter is secured in a depression in the valve-seat part opposite the valve cage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Tobias Franke, Andreas Weh, Martin Hagspiel
  • Publication number: 20220055585
    Abstract: A non-return valve for a vehicle hydraulic-power brake system. The non-return valve has a valve-seat part in the form of an apertured disk, onto which is pressed a valve cage in which a valve ball is disposed as shut-off member and a helical compression spring is disposed as valve spring. A bowl-shaped filter is secured in a depression in the valve-seat part opposite the valve cage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Tobias Franke, Andreas Weh, Martin Hagspiel
  • Publication number: 20210254713
    Abstract: A cup-shaped cover of a pedal travel simulator, hydraulic accumulator, or a damper chamber, using a radially resilient connecting ring, which protrudes into a groove of the cover and into an opposing groove of a receptacle of a hydraulic block of a traction slip controller of a hydraulic vehicle braking system, to fasten inseparably at the hydraulic block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Kaserer, Andreas Weh, Martin Hagspiel, Florian Breyer, Tobias Franke
  • Publication number: 20150321653
    Abstract: A switchover method for a solenoid valve, operated in analogized form, in an electrohydraulic brake system, in which method the solenoid valve can assume a closed position, an open position and a multiplicity of intermediate positions in accordance with electrical actuation or regulation, and wherein the actuation or regulation is performed as a function of a known current-pressure characteristic curve of the solenoid valve. Upon a switchover of the solenoid valve, a pressure-dependent and/or current-dependent magnetic hysteresis characteristic of the solenoid valve is compensated directly without prior modification of the present hysteresis characteristic. An electrohydraulic brake system and the use of the brake system is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Inventors: Andreas Neu, Ralph Gronau, Holger Kollmann, Jörg Berntheusel, Tobias Franke
  • Patent number: 8577506
    Abstract: A control valve conditioning method in an electrohydraulic pressure control unit comprising at least one electrically triggered solenoid valve that is controlled in an analog manner. The solenoid valve is operated at a specific operating current according to a functional correlation or characteristic diagram between the valve current and the differential pressure characteristic curve when the pressure is controlled, said functional correlation or characteristic diagram being stored in the pressure control unit. The method comprises the following steps: a) temporarily applying at least one anti-hysteresis pulse to the solenoid valve during which a current is set far below or far above the operating current in the valve; b) applying the anti-hysteresis pulse at the desired operating current before or during controlled operation, and c) applying the anti-hysteresis pulse wherein the duration is limited in such a way that the anti-hysteresis pulse has largely no influence on the brake pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Andreas Neu, Ralph Gronau, Holger Kollmann, Peter Leska, Jörg Berntheusel, Tobias Franke, Michel Wagner, Jusuf Muratoski, Artur Kost, Dieter Burkhard
  • Publication number: 20100332038
    Abstract: A control valve conditioning method in an electrohydraulic pressure control unit comprising at least one electrically triggered solenoid valve that is controlled in an analog manner. The solenoid valve is operated at a specific operating current according to a functional correlation or characteristic diagram between the valve current and the differential pressure characteristic curve when the pressure is controlled, said functional correlation or characteristic diagram being stored in the pressure control unit. The method comprises the following steps: a) temporarily applying at least one anti-hysteresis pulse to the solenoid valve during which a current is set far below or far above the operating current in the valve; b) applying the anti-hysteresis pulse at the desired operating current before or during controlled operation, and c) applying the anti-hysteresis pulse wherein the duration is limited in such a way that the anti-hysteresis pulse has largely no influence on the brake pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: Continental Teves AG & Co., oHG
    Inventors: Andreas Neu, Ralph Gronau, Holger Kollmann, Peter Leska, Jörg Berntheusel, Tobias Franke, Michel Wagner, Jusuf Muratoski, Artur Kost, Dieter Burkhard