Patents by Inventor Tobias STROBEL

Tobias STROBEL 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: 11884277
    Abstract: A method provided for producing a model of the surroundings of a vehicle, wherein a lane is determined on the basis of objects, free space boundaries and/or roadway limitations. The lane indicates the zone around the vehicle in which the vehicle can drive freely. The lane includes at least one lane segment, the lane segment comprising at least one lane segment boundary, in particular a front lane segment boundary, a rear lane segment boundary, a left lane segment boundary and a right lane segment boundary. The distance from the vehicle to the lane segment boundary is determined, and the lane is made available to a driver assistance system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martin Buchner, Tobias Strobel, Klaus Dollinger
  • Patent number: 11846938
    Abstract: A parking assistance system is remote-controlled for automated parking and exiting from a parking space. The parking assistance system has a receiver for receiving a movement direction of the vehicle selected by the user. A control device which is coupled to the receiver is configured to decide independently, without the user making any specification about the presence of a parking situation or parking-space-exiting situation, whether there is a parking situation or parking-space-exiting situation. If the control device decides that the parking situation is present, the vehicle is parked in the parking space in accordance with the received selected movement direction by forward driving or driving in reverse. Otherwise, if the control device decides that the parking-space-exiting situation is present, the vehicle is made to exit the parking space in accordance with the received selected movement direction by forward driving or driving in reverse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martin Kramer, Tobias Strobel
  • Patent number: 11752834
    Abstract: A vehicle heater includes a burner assembly unit (12) with a combustion chamber (18) to be fed with combustion air (V) and fuel (B) and a flame tube (24). A heat exchanger assembly unit (14) includes an inner heat exchanger housing (28) with an inner circumferential wall (30) and an outer heat exchanger housing (34) with an outer circumferential wall (36). A heat transfer medium flow space (40) is between the inner and outer heat exchanger housings, which are elongated in a longitudinal axis (L) direction. A waste gas backflow space (44), between the inner circumferential wall (30) and the flame tube, opens towards an exhaust gas outlet. A catalytic converter device (52) is provided in the waste gas backflow space associated with an energizable heating unit (58), or/and insulation material (64) is provided on an outer side (62) facing away from the heat transfer medium flow space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Eberspächer Climate Control Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Bauer, Tobias Strobel, Günter Eberspach, Walter Blaschke
  • Publication number: 20210213804
    Abstract: A vehicle heater includes a burner assembly unit (12) with a combustion chamber (18) to be fed with combustion air (V) and fuel (B) and a flame tube (24). A heat exchanger assembly unit (14) includes an inner heat exchanger housing (28) with an inner circumferential wall (30) and an outer heat exchanger housing (34) with an outer circumferential wall (36). A heat transfer medium flow space (40) is between the inner and outer heat exchanger housings, which are elongated in a longitudinal axis (L) direction. A waste gas backflow space (44), between the inner circumferential wall (30) and the flame tube, opens towards an exhaust gas outlet. A catalytic converter device (52) is provided in the waste gas backflow space associated with an energizable heating unit (58), or/and insulation material (64) is provided on an outer side (62) facing away from the heat transfer medium flow space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Thomas BAUER, Tobias STROBEL, Günter EBERSPACH, Walter BLASCHKE
  • Publication number: 20200401127
    Abstract: A parking assistance system is remote-controlled from outside a motor vehicle and has a remote-controlled parking function for automated parking and exiting from a parking space with at least automated longitudinal guidance into and respectively out of a parking space. The parking assistance system permits parking in the forward parking direction or rearward parking direction depending on the position of the parking space with respect to the vehicle in question. The parking assistance system has a receiver for receiving a movement direction of the vehicle selected by the user. The receiver can receive as the movement direction (selected by the user), a selected forward driving movement direction for driving the vehicle forwards or a rearward driving movement direction for driving the vehicle in reverse depending on the user's choice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2019
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Martin KRAMER, Tobias STROBEL
  • Publication number: 20170101097
    Abstract: A method provided for producing a model of the surroundings of a vehicle, wherein a lane is determined on the basis of objects, free space boundaries and/or roadway limitations. The lane indicates the zone around the vehicle in which the vehicle can drive freely. The lane includes at least one lane segment, the lane segment comprising at least one lane segment boundary, in particular a front lane segment boundary, a rear lane segment boundary, a left lane segment boundary and a right lane segment boundary. The distance from the vehicle to the lane segment boundary is determined, and the lane is made available to a driver assistance system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventors: Martin BUCHNER, Tobias STROBEL, Klaus DOLLINGER