Patents by Inventor Werner Pöchmüller
Werner Pöchmüller 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).
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Patent number: 11427227Abstract: A safety device for use in a vehicle which is configured to be operated at least intermittently in an automated driving mode, in which the vehicle drives in an automated manner, and which includes a first data source which is designed as a human machine interface and configured to output data about a driving status, including computing device and a first data interface, the safety device being configured to receive data about the driving status from the first data source via the first data interface, the safety device being configured to receive data about the driving status from a second data source different from the first data source, and the safety device being configured to output pieces of information about the driving status to a driver, using an information output device and based on the data received from the first data source and the second data source.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2020Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Achim Henkel, Andreas Hoertling, Guido Funcke, Hartmut Loos, Werner Poechmueller
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Patent number: 11332156Abstract: An information device is provided for informing a driver about a driving state of a motor vehicle drivable in an automated manner, the information device including a first control device for controlling automated driving of the motor vehicle and a second control device for controlling the automated driving of the motor vehicle, a first human-machine interface unit for communicating a driving state of the automated driving of the motor vehicle to the driver and a second human-machine interface unit for communicating the driving state of the automated driving of the motor vehicle to the driver, the first control device being designed for transmitting the driving state of the automated driving to the first human-machine interface unit and the second control device being designed for transmitting the driving state of the automated driving to the second human-machine interface unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2019Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Achim Henkel, Andreas Hoertling, Guido Funcke, Hartmut Loos, Werner Poechmueller
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Patent number: 11061562Abstract: A method for providing haptic feedback to an operator of a touch-sensitive display device. The method includes providing an operator interface to be represented in the display device as image data; the operator interface having at least one button assigned to a function to be controlled, graphically displayed in the operator interface, and graphically delimited from the rest of the operator interface; analyzing the image data for a presence and a position of shapes for representing a button; determining an intended display region of a shape, which is to be represented and is identified as a button; representing the image data of the operator interface in the touch-sensitive display device; outputting haptic feedback in response to detection of contact with the touch-sensitive display device in the region of a surface of the touch-sensitive display device which is assigned to a display region of a shape identified as a button.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2018Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Holger Kussmann, Ingo Hermanns, Markus Langenberg, Werner Poechmueller
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Publication number: 20200264772Abstract: A method for providing haptic feedback to an operator of a touch-sensitive display device. The method includes providing an operator interface to be represented in the display device as image data; the operator interface having at least one button assigned to a function to be controlled, graphically displayed in the operator interface, and graphically delimited from the rest of the operator interface; analyzing the image data for a presence and a position of shapes for representing a button; determining an intended display region of a shape, which is to be represented and is identified as a button; representing the image data of the operator interface in the touch-sensitive display device; outputting haptic feedback in response to detection of contact with the touch-sensitive display device in the region of a surface of the touch-sensitive display device which is assigned to a display region of a shape identified as a button.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2018Publication date: August 20, 2020Inventors: Holger Kussmann, Ingo Hermanns, Markus Langenberg, Werner Poechmueller
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Publication number: 20200239028Abstract: A safety device for use in a vehicle which is configured to be operated at least intermittently in an automated driving mode, in which the vehicle drives in an automated manner, and which includes a first data source which is designed as a human machine interface and configured to output data about a driving status, including computing device and a first data interface, the safety device being configured to receive data about the driving status from the first data source via the first data interface, the safety device being configured to receive data about the driving status from a second data source different from the first data source, and the safety device being configured to output pieces of information about the driving status to a driver, using an information output device and based on the data received from the first data source and the second data source.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2020Publication date: July 30, 2020Inventors: Achim Henkel, Andreas Hoertling, Guido Funcke, Hartmut Loos, Werner Poechmueller
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Publication number: 20200198656Abstract: An information device is provided for informing a driver about a driving state of a motor vehicle drivable in an automated manner, the information device including a first control device for controlling automated driving of the motor vehicle and a second control device for controlling the automated driving of the motor vehicle, a first human-machine interface unit for communicating a driving state of the automated driving of the motor vehicle to the driver and a second human-machine interface unit for communicating the driving state of the automated driving of the motor vehicle to the driver, the first control device being designed for transmitting the driving state of the automated driving to the first human-machine interface unit and the second control device being designed for transmitting the driving state of the automated driving to the second human-machine interface unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2019Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventors: Achim Henkel, Andreas Hoertling, Guido Funcke, Hartmut Loos, Werner Poechmueller
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Patent number: 10089877Abstract: A method for warning other road users in response to a vehicle traveling in a wrong direction, the method including advance detection, setting-up, detection, and provision. In the step of advance detection, a potential of a possible instance of wrong-way travel of the vehicle is detected in advance. In the step of setting-up, a communication path to at least one road user endangered by the instance of wrong-way travel is set up, if the wrong-way travel potential is greater than an advance warning value. In the step of detection, the instance of wrong-way travel of the vehicle is detected. In the step of provision, an information item about the instance of wrong-way travel is provided for the endangered road user via the communication path set up, when the possible instance of wrong-way travel is detected as an actual instance of wrong-way travel.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2016Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Andreas Offenhaeuser, Werner Poechmueller
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Publication number: 20180218608Abstract: A method for warning other road users in response to a vehicle traveling in a wrong direction, the method including advance detection, setting-up, detection, and provision. In the step of advance detection, a potential of a possible instance of wrong-way travel of the vehicle is detected in advance. In the step of setting-up, a communication path to at least one road user endangered by the instance of wrong-way travel is set up, if the wrong-way travel potential is greater than an advance warning value. In the step of detection, the instance of wrong-way travel of the vehicle is detected. In the step of provision, an information item about the instance of wrong-way travel is provided for the endangered road user via the communication path set up, when the possible instance of wrong-way travel is detected as an actual instance of wrong-way travel.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2016Publication date: August 2, 2018Inventors: Andreas Offenhaeuser, Werner Poechmueller
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Patent number: 9994223Abstract: A method is provided for operating a vehicle, wherein during coasting of the vehicle, in order to reach a route position of a driving route that is still to be travelled, at a desired speed that is less than a vehicle speed at the start of coasting, a vehicle actual speed is compared with a vehicle target speed and an action is performed in dependence on the comparison. This renders possible a continuous adaptation of the driving resistance, so the desired speed is reliably reached. Interfering variables such as wind or gradient may be compensated for. A device is provided for operating a vehicle, and to a computer program.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2013Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Werner Poechmueller, Volkmar Denner
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Patent number: 9836968Abstract: A method to warn of a vehicle moving in the wrong direction of travel, wherein in a provision step, a third-party warning message is provided for other road users when at least one wrong-way-driver signal signals wrong-way travel of the wrongly moving vehicle sensed using a wrong-way-driver sensing method, and in an output step, a self-warning message is output for a driver of the vehicle moving in the wrong direction of travel when the wrong-way-driver signal signals the sensed wrong-way travel and at least one further wrong-way-driver signal signals the wrong-way travel of the wrongly moving vehicle sensed using a further wrong-way-driver sensing method, the further wrong-way-driver sensing method differing from the wrong-way-driver sensing method.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2016Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Werner Poechmueller, Andreas Offenhaeuser
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Patent number: 9785612Abstract: A method for determining a range of a vehicle, the vehicle having an electric motor to supply driving power and/or to recuperate braking energy, and a weight of the vehicle is determined on the basis of an acceleration and/or recuperation behavior as a function of a torque and/or a rotational speed of the electric motor, the range of the vehicle being determined on the basis of the ascertained vehicle weight.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2011Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GmbHInventors: Werner Poechmueller, Fanny Kobiela, Bettina Rentel, Michael Laedke, Guido Stuebner, Thorsten Mausbach, Andreas Engelsberg
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Patent number: 9610942Abstract: A device for operating a vehicle includes: a vehicle movement module for forming control signals for a control unit of an actuating system of the vehicle; an energy management module for managing energy which is available for a vehicle operation, the energy management module being configured to form further control signals for the control unit as a function of the available energy, and a prioritizer for prioritizing the control signals over the further control signals as a function of a vehicle position and/or a vehicle movement state for stabilizing the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2012Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Werner Poechmueller, Stefan Nordbruch, Andreas Lapp, Michael Knoop, Tino Sommer, Wolfgang Stolz
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Publication number: 20170018178Abstract: A method to warn of a vehicle moving in the wrong direction of travel, wherein in a provision step, a third-party warning message is provided for other road users when at least one wrong-way-driver signal signals wrong-way travel of the wrongly moving vehicle sensed using a wrong-way-driver sensing method, and in an output step, a self-warning message is output for a driver of the vehicle moving in the wrong direction of travel when the wrong-way-driver signal signals the sensed wrong-way travel and at least one further wrong-way-driver signal signals the wrong-way travel of the wrongly moving vehicle sensed using a further wrong-way-driver sensing method, the further wrong-way-driver sensing method differing from the wrong-way-driver sensing method.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2016Publication date: January 19, 2017Inventors: Werner Poechmueller, Andreas Offenhaeuser
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Patent number: 9227631Abstract: In a method for safely parking a vehicle, it is checked whether an emergency situation is present, and the vehicle is driven by the driver assistance system to a road shoulder upon recognition of an emergency situation. In controlling the driving operation, information is requested from an external database and taken into account by the driver assistance system.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2012Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Soeren Kammel, Jan Becker, Werner Poechmueller, Stefan Nordbruch, Gunther Schaaf, Peter Busch, Kurt Eckert
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Publication number: 20150298699Abstract: A method is provided for operating a vehicle, wherein during coasting of the vehicle, in order to reach a route position of a driving route that is still to be travelled, at a desired speed that is less than a vehicle speed at the start of coasting, a vehicle actual speed is compared with a vehicle target speed and an action is performed in dependence on the comparison. This renders possible a continuous adaptation of the driving resistance, so the desired speed is reliably reached. Interfering variables such as wind or gradient may be compensated for. A device is provided for operating a vehicle, and to a computer program.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2013Publication date: October 22, 2015Inventors: Werner POECHMUELLER, Volkmar DENNER
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Patent number: 8948923Abstract: A method and system provide an interface in a vehicle for connecting to a mobile computing device for exchanging data between the interface and the mobile computing device, the interface being connected to a vehicle data bus for exchanging data with at least one vehicle system. The data exchange between the mobile computing device and the interface occurs according to a first data protocol and the data exchange between the interface and the at least one vehicle system occurs according to a second data protocol that differs from the first data protocol.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2008Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Wolf-Henning Scheider, Werner Poechmueller
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Publication number: 20150019042Abstract: A device for operating a vehicle includes: a vehicle movement module for forming control signals for a control unit of an actuating system of the vehicle; an energy management module for managing energy which is available for a vehicle operation, the energy management module being configured to form further control signals for the control unit as a function of the available energy, and a prioritizer for prioritizing the control signals over the further control signals as a function of a vehicle position and/or a vehicle movement state for stabilizing the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2012Publication date: January 15, 2015Inventors: Werner Poechmueller, Stefan Nordbruch, Andreas Lapp, Michael Knoop, Tino Sommer, Wolfgang Stolz
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Publication number: 20150006012Abstract: In a method for safely parking a vehicle, it is checked whether an emergency situation is present, and the vehicle is driven by the driver assistance system to a road shoulder upon recognition of an emergency situation. In controlling the driving operation, information is requested from an external database and taken into account by the driver assistance system.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2012Publication date: January 1, 2015Inventors: Soeren Kammel, Jan Becker, Werner Poechmueller, Stefan Nordbruch, Gunther Schaaf, Peter Busch, Kurt Eckert
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Patent number: 8812650Abstract: A method for transmitting useful data from a data source to a data sink, the data source being connected to a locating unit, the useful data in the data source being assigned supplementary data derived from information of the locating unit connected to the data source, which are transmitted to the data sink together with the useful data, wherein the received useful data in the data sink are assigned additional supplementary data, which are derived from additional information of a locating unit connected to the data sink.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2006Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Werner Poechmueller, Friedhelm Pickhard
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Publication number: 20140005879Abstract: A method for determining a range of a vehicle, the vehicle having an electric motor to supply driving power and/or to recuperate braking energy, and a weight of the vehicle is determined on the basis of an acceleration and/or recuperation behavior as a function of a torque and/or a rotational speed of the electric motor, the range of the vehicle being determined on the basis of the ascertained vehicle weight.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2011Publication date: January 2, 2014Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GmbHInventors: Werner Poechmueller, Fanny Kobiela, Bettina Rentel, Michael Laedke, Guido Stuebner, Thorsten Mausbach, Andreas Engelsberg