Patents Assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH
  • Patent number: 11985491
    Abstract: The invention relates to an evaluation device (6) for analysing a public address system (1), the public address system (1) comprising at least one loudspeaker (3a-3d) and at least one audio signal output unit (4), the loudspeaker (3a-3d) having an impedance plot (10), the evaluation device (6) comprising a neural network (11), the neural network (11) being trained to determine a loudspeaker type on the basis of an impedance plot (10), the evaluation device (4) being provided with the impedance plot (10) of the loudspeaker (3a-3d) and an additional parameter, and the evaluation device being designed to analyse the loudspeaker (3a-3d) and/or determine the loudspeaker type by means of the neural network (11) on the basis of the provided impedance plot (10) and the additional parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Bastian Huber
  • Patent number: 11982530
    Abstract: A sensor array. The sensor array includes a gyroscope device, including: a MEMS gyroscope including a seismic mass which is excitable to carry out oscillations; a driver circuit for exciting and maintaining an oscillating movement of the seismic mass; and a sensing unit. The sensor array further includes a control unit for selecting one of at least two different predefined operating modes of the gyroscope device, at least one sensing operating mode, in which rotation rate sensor signals are detected and/or preprocessed, and at least one stand-by operating mode, in which no rotation rate sensor signals are detected and/or preprocessed, being predefined as operating modes. The sensor array further includes a further sensor device for detecting further sensor signals; and a digital data processing unit for the rotation rate sensor signals and the further sensor signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Andrea Visconti, Francesco Diazzi
  • Patent number: 11982742
    Abstract: An object recognition device for vehicles, including a sensor, a filter device and an analysis device. Signals from an object are detectable by the sensor. The detected signals are filterable by the filter device and then feedable to the analysis device. The analysis device is configured to recognize the object by analyzing the filtered signals. The filter device includes an averaging unit, which averages the profile of the amplitudes of the detected signals, and a non-linear filter unit, which is provided based on a linear low-pass filter with a variable time constant and filters the detected signals. A value profile corresponding to the difference between the averaged amplitude profile and the filtered signals is feedable to the analysis device for analyzing and recognizing the object. The variable time constant is establishable based on the difference between the filtered signals and the detected signals and based on the averaged amplitude profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Udo Sieber, Ulrich Bauer
  • Patent number: 11985628
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a first vehicle terminal (NN1; NN2, NN3; NN4) for a wireless communications network, the method comprising: determining a resource pattern within a resource pool, the resource pattern comprising a plurality of wireless resources of a data channel within the resource pool; and sending, on a control channel, an item of control information which indicates the resource pattern and a group of at least two vehicle terminals associated with the resource pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Sambale, Nadia Brahmi
  • Patent number: 11984743
    Abstract: A battery pack having a specified number of battery cells connected to one another and having a monitoring unit, in particular of the type of an SCM circuit, for the individual battery cells. The monitoring unit has a passive input circuit, and is designed to recognize various electrical faults within the passive input circuit using a time measuring unit allocated to the monitoring unit, in particular on the basis of a measurement of rise times of a voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Christoph Klee, Juergen Mack, Mickael Segret
  • Patent number: 11983895
    Abstract: A method for determining an eye position using a laser device for a set of smart glasses. The method includes emitting light for scanning an eye along at least one scan line; detecting a plurality of reflection beams of the light reflected along the scan line in order to obtain a plurality of light intensity values, the light intensity values representing intensities of the reflection beams; generating a two-dimensional image of the eye along the scan line using the light intensity values, a high light intensity value being assigned or being assignable to a reflection beam reflected at the retina and a light intensity value low in comparison to the high intensity value being assigned or being assignable to a reflection beam reflected outside the retina of the eye; and determining the eye position of the eye within the image using amplitudes of the light intensity values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Johannes Meyer, Patrick Schlachter
  • Patent number: 11980973
    Abstract: A weld analytics system and method of tracking weld quality for a group of sequential welds. In one example, a weld analytics system receives a welding plan for a plurality of welds being performed by at least one welding machine. The weld analytics system determines an overall weld quality for the plurality of welds, based at least upon weld data from the at least one welding machine; and transmits a signal indicative of the overall weld quality of the plurality of welds to an interactive user terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Matteo Dariol, Benjamin Menz, Scott Hibbard, Yaozhong Chen
  • Patent number: 11981011
    Abstract: A hand-held power tool, in particular an impact drill, is disclosed. The hand-held power tool includes a housing in which a drive unit for driving an output spindle is arranged. A catch mechanism is associated with the drive unit. The catch mechanism has a first crown disk which is connected to the output spindle for conjoint rotation, and a second crown disk which is arranged in the housing for conjoint rotation. In a first position, the first and second crown disks contact each other via associated catch geometries. In a second position, the second crown disk is arranged spaced apart from the first crown disk along a rotation axis of the output spindle. An annular friction element is arranged without friction in the first position, and generates a specified frictional force between the first and second crown disk in the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Windsheimer, Suresh Subramaniam, Thomas Hampel
  • Patent number: 11981012
    Abstract: A hand-held power tool includes a housing in which a drive unit and an impact-mechanism unit are arranged. The hand-held power tool further includes a tool-receiver interface configured to releasably connect with a tool receiver, the tool receiver configured as a stirrer-basket receiver. A user interface is configured to set at least one of a rotary-hammer mode and a stirring mode for the hand-held power tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Timo Bayha, Jan Koalick, Lars Schmid, Michael Weiss, Nadine Mutlu, Patrick Heinen
  • Patent number: 11985470
    Abstract: A method is for determining a wearing state of earphones. The method includes determining an onto-ears event or off-ears event experienced by the earphones on the basis of first data indicating motion of the earphones. The method further includes determining a first wearing state of the earphones on the basis of second data indicating proximity of the earphones to a user's skin. The method additionally includes determining the wearing state of the earphones on the basis of the determined onto-ears event or off-ears event and the first wearing state. This increases the accuracy of detection of the wearing state of the earphones. Based on this more accurately determined wearing state, the earphones can switch appropriately between a low power consumption mode and a normal operating mode, thereby improving the energy consumption of the earphones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Chunlei Dai, Tongtong Jiao, Ji Chen, Bin Du
  • Patent number: 11982766
    Abstract: A lidar device having an integrated optics that has a beam deflecting unit having an optical phase array that has a multiplicity of antennas that are set up to emit electromagnetic radiation at a prespecified angle of radiation. The angle of radiation covers a prespecified field of view of the lidar device. The angle of radiation has a first angle of radiation subregion, in which electromagnetic radiation is emitted having a polarization A, and has a second angle of radiation subregion, in which electromagnetic radiation is emitted having a polarization B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Jan Niklas Caspers, Simon Schneider
  • Patent number: 11980947
    Abstract: A power tool, in particular a hand-held power tool, includes a tool-holding device that rotates about an output axis. The tool-holding device is configured to hold a tool device on the power tool such that the output axis and a tool rotation axis substantially coincide. The tool-holding device has at least a driver device and a clamping device that is movable relative to the driver device. To transfer a driving force to the tool device, the driver device has at least one torque transfer region that is arranged at a distance from the output axis. The driver device and the clamping device are configured to reach through a cut-out of the tool device, which cut-out extends through the entire material thickness of the tool device, and to clamp the tool device via the clamping device, which is movable substantially in a direction radial to the output axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Willi Fellmann, Bruno Luescher, Aldo Di Nicolantonio, Andreas Zurbruegg, Bruno Sinzig, Laurent Quebatte, Marcus Schuller
  • Patent number: 11981302
    Abstract: To prevent occurrence of contamination at the time of press-inserting and fixing a guide ring that guides sliding of a piston. In a brake hydraulic pressure control apparatus (1) including: a base body (2) having a cylinder hole (3); a piston (5) fitted to the cylinder hole (3) in a freely slidable manner; and a guide ring (8) attached to an opening (9) of the cylinder hole (3) and guiding sliding of the piston (5), the guide ring (8) has: a flange portion (8e) in a lower surface (8b) opposing the cylinder hole (3), the flange portion (8e) expanding in a radial direction of the guide ring (8); and bulged portions (8c) arranged at equally-spaced intervals to an outer circumferential surface (8d) of the guide ring (8) and each bulged outward in the radial direction of the guide ring (8) when compared to the flange portion (8e).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Shogo Miyoshi
  • Patent number: 11982744
    Abstract: An operating method for a LIDAR system. An optical multipulse signal with multiple temporally separate peaks and temporally superimposed peak flanks of temporally directly succeeding peaks is generated on the transmitter side, and is emitted into a visual field as an optical transmission signal. A corresponding control unit, a LIDAR system, and a working device, in particular a vehicle, are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Markus Hippler, Martin Kastner
  • Patent number: 11981305
    Abstract: An electromechanically drivable brake pressure generator for a hydraulic brake system of a vehicle. The brake pressure generator including a spindle drive unit for converting a rotary movement on the drive side into a translational movement for the purpose of actuating a piston of a hydraulic piston-and-cylinder unit. A gear unit is arranged between the spindle drive unit and an electric drive motor. A drive motor axis and an axis of the spindle drive unit are arranged radially offset from one another. The piston-and-cylinder unit and the electric drive motor are arranged on axially opposite sides of the gear unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Claus Oehler, Mark Boehm
  • Patent number: 11982760
    Abstract: A MIMO radar sensor includes: an antenna arrangement including first and second arrays, in each of which a respective plurality of antennas are offset relative to one another in a first direction, the first and second arrays being offset from each other in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction, the antennas of the first and second arrays being more strongly focused in the second direction than in the first direction in each case, and, in each of at least one of the first and second antenna arrays, at least two of the antennas of the respective array being offset from one another in the second direction and the antennas of the respective array being symmetrically arranged relative to an axis running in the second direction; a high frequency element; and a control and evaluation device for evaluating output from the high frequency element regarding the antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Arthur Hipke, Benedikt Loesch
  • Patent number: 11981304
    Abstract: A multi-circuit, hydraulically open brake system includes a first pressure generator assigned to a main system with a first energy supply and a first evaluation and control unit (ECU), and is connectable via a first shut-off valve to wheel brake(s) of a first brake circuit and via a second shut-off valve to wheel brake(s) of a second brake circuit. A second pressure generator is assigned to a secondary system which includes a second energy supply and a second ECU, and is connectable via a third shut-off valve to wheel brake(s) of the first brake circuit and via a fourth shut-off valve to wheel brake(s) of the second brake circuit. The second ECU controls the second pressure generator. Components of the modulation unit for individual brake pressure modulation are assigned to the main system, and the components are controlled by the first ECU and are supplied by the first energy supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Friedrich, Dirk Drotleff, Ralf Kleemann, Daniel Brenndoerfer, Bernd Hienz
  • Patent number: 11981303
    Abstract: A vehicle braking system includes a first wheel cylinder, a second wheel cylinder, a master cylinder including a first master cylinder chamber in fluid communication with the first wheel cylinder via a first circuit and a second master cylinder chamber in fluid communication with the second wheel cylinder via a second circuit, and an electronically controlled pressure generating unit separate from the master cylinder. The vehicle braking system is operable to provide braking in a first configuration in which the electronically controlled pressure generating unit pressurizes fluid, through the master cylinder, in the first circuit, to the first wheel cylinder. In the first configuration, the electronically controlled pressure generating unit pressurizes fluid in the second circuit to the second wheel cylinder, bypassing the master cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Timothy J. Albert, Ryan A. Kuhlman, James Timpa, Robin Raumer
  • Patent number: 11982061
    Abstract: A method for the operation of a cleaning vehicle, in particular a street sweeper capable of being operated in automated fashion, by a control device. A trajectory is calculated and control commands are produced for a longitudinal guiding and transverse guiding of the cleaning vehicle during travel of the calculated trajectory. Measurement data are received from at least one sensor in order to ascertain a cleaning region. At least one actuator is controlled, based on the received measurement data, in order to position a cleaning device of the cleaning vehicle in the longitudinal direction and/or transverse direction relative to a direction of travel of the cleaning vehicle, in order to clean the cleaning region. A control device, a computer program, and a machine-readable storage medium are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Holger Mielenz
  • Patent number: 11981493
    Abstract: A packaging material for packaging a device, particularly a microfluidic device, includes a desiccant container, particularly a desiccant pouch. The desiccant container is fixed in place by melting patches of a material of the packaging material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Jochen Rupp