MICHAEL SCHNEIDER, M.A., LPC
Social Work in Livonia, MI

6513882, Feb 4, 2003

Aug 7, 2000

09/633213

Michael John Schneider - Bloomfield Township MI
Dale Scott Crombez - Livonia MI

Ford Global Technologies, Inc. - Dearborn MI

B60T 852

303112

A brake assembly for use within an electric vehicle and which allows the vehicle to be selectively decelerated in substantially the same manner as is an internal combustion engine type vehicle upon the release of an accelerator pedal member or the depression of a brake member.

7093912, Aug 22, 2006

Sep 1, 2004

10/932132

Todd Allen Brown - Dearborn MI, US
Michael John Schneider - Bloomfield Township MI, US

Ford Motor Company - Dearborn MI

B60T 8/60, B60T 8/64

303146, 303152

The present invention is a method and system to control regenerative braking during the operation of a yaw stability control system. The method and system use feedback control algorithms to monitor and dynamically modify regenerative and non-regenerative braking. The controller can use a simple proportional-integral-derivative feedback controller. A vehicle yaw stability control system can determine if a vehicle is experiencing an oversteer or understeer condition. The controller compares actual brake balance to a desired brake balance. The controller determines if the front axle wheels are overbraked relative to the rear axle wheels or if the rear axle wheels are overbraked relative to the front axle wheels as compared to the desired brake balance. The controller can adjust regenerative braking and non-regenerative braking levels according to the determinations.

5553930, Sep 10, 1996

Sep 6, 1995

8/524271

Robert M. Rivard - West Bloomfield MI
Michael J. Schneider - Bloomfield Township MI
Tamas I. Pattantyus - Elyria OH
Kenneth S. Towers - Granger IN
Jack R. Phipps - Bristol TN

AlliedSignal Inc. - Morristown NJ

B60T 832

303174

Improvements in vehicle antilock braking systems of the type having an operator controlled master cylinder (11) and a second source (55, 57) of pressurized hydraulic fluid for selectively supplying rebuild pressure after an antilock event are disclosed. The improved system is selectively operable in one of three braking modes, a normal braking mode (119) where braking force is proportional to an operator brake pedal pressure, an enhanced anti-skid braking mode (69) where braking force may be maintained at a maximum nonskid level, and a conventional anti-skid braking mode (71) where braking force follows a cyclic pattern of fluid pressure bleed and build. The system includes circuitry (17, 19, 35, 37, 93, 95) for determining the speed of each wheel and an arrangement (59) operable independently of any vehicle wheels for determining vehicle deceleration. This comparison normally invokes the enhanced anti-skid braking mode. In the enhanced mode, the system is continually searching for an optimum wheel speed reference (39) by determining (119) on which side of the peak of a mu-slip curve the vehicle is operating, for example, by calculating the sign of the slope of the mu-slip curve at the current vehicle operating point, and then incrementing (88) a prior wheel speed reference by a value (79) which changes the wheel speed reference toward the peak (75) of the mu-slip curve thereby calculating an updated wheel speed reference to control appropriately the braking system.

2008007, Apr 3, 2008

Aug 15, 2006

11/464547

Michael Schneider - Bloomfield Twp MI, US
John Joyce - West Bloomfield MI, US

FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC - Dearborn MI

B60T 8/64

303152

The present invention provides a regenerative system and method for determining the occurrence of a braking imbalance between at least two wheels. In the event of a braking imbalance a vehicle controller generates signals that cause a reduction in the regenerative braking force and a corresponding increase in friction braking force being applied to the vehicle wheels.

2006029, Dec 28, 2006

Jun 24, 2005

11/165813

Michael Schneider - Bloomfield Twp MI, US
Dale Crombez - Livonia MI, US

G05B 11/01, G05B 13/02

700072000, 700071000, 700033000, 700014000

A system and method that compensates for the time delay between a sensed oscillatory signal and an oscillatory input control signal TCare provided. Initially, an oscillation signal is detected and/or a need for time delay compensation is determined. An algorithm is performed on the TCto provide an actuator output signal, TC. In a preferred embodiment when TChas peaked and has begun to be reduced from the peak by a delta amount, the actuator output TCis commanded immediately to a central value of the oscillation. In another preferred embodiment, when the control signal TChas peaked and has begun to be reduced from the peak by a delta amount, the actuator output TCis commanded immediately to an alternate value with an offset large enough to drive the TCpast the central value of the oscillation and toward an opposite peak.

6099089, Aug 8, 2000

Nov 1, 1997

8/942041

Michael John Schneider - Bloomfield Hills MI

Ford Motor Company - Dearborn MI

B60T 864

303152

A method and apparatus for providing regenerative and friction braking on a vehicle having one or more wheels driven by a drive motor includes a master cylinder (28), a hydraulic control unit (30), a brake control unit (38), a drive motor control unit (52) and a drive motor (18). The drive motor control unit determines a coast down regenerative torque signal in response to an acceleration signal and a driver brake command regenerative torque signal in response to a pressure signal and a drive motor deceleration signal and commands the drive motor to regeneratively brake the driven left and right wheels in response thereto, thereby providing a desirable proportioning of front to rear braking.

5487594, Jan 30, 1996

Nov 30, 1994

8/346726

Michael J. Schneider - Bloomfield Township MI

AlliedSignal Inc. - Morristown NJ

B60T 800

303155

A method and apparatus for controlling an anti-skid braking system that uses wheel speed and wheel cylinder pressure to maximize braking power during an antilock stop. The pressure is adjusted to hold the wheel to a wheel speed reference and that wheel speed reference is adjusted to maximize braking power. Braking power may be viewed as the product of wheel cylinder pressure and wheel velocity. An algorithm to maximize braking power is then employed to control the application of braking force to the wheel.

6325470, Dec 4, 2001

Oct 1, 1997

8/942042

Michael John Schneider - Bloomfield Hills MI

Visteon Global Technologies, Inc. - Dearborn MI

B60T 864

303152

A method and apparatus for providing regenerative and friction braking on a vehicle having one or more wheels driven by a drive motor includes a master cylinder (28), a hydraulic control unit (30), a brake control unit (38), a drive motor control unit (52) and a drive motor (18). The drive motor control unit determines a coast down regenerative torque signal and a driver brake command regenerative torque signal and commands the drive motor to regeneratively brake the driven left and right wheels in response to whichever of the coast down regenerative torque signal and the driver brake command regenerative torque signal is greatest, thereby maintaining a desirable proportioning of front to rear braking.

6179395, Jan 30, 2001

Oct 1, 1997

8/942039

Michael John Schneider - Bloomfield Hills MI

Visteon Global Technologies, Inc. - Dearborn MI

B60T 864

303152

A method and apparatus for providing regenerative and friction braking on a vehicle having one or more wheels driven by a drive motor includes a master cylinder (28), a hydraulic control unit (30), a brake control unit (38), a drive motor control unit (52) and a drive motor (18). The brake control unit commands build and dump valve pairs (31, 35) such that brake forces generated at the driven left and right wheels (14, 16) are a combination of the regenerative braking and hydraulic braking, the hydraulic braking being gradually reduced and the regenerative braking being gradually increased during transitions from anti-skid braking control to wheel speed based proportioning and regenerative braking control.