Patents by Inventor Bernd Tepass
Bernd Tepass 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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Publication number: 20240019273Abstract: A sensor arrangement for redundant determination of an angle of rotation of a body about an axis of rotation includes at least one circuit carrier, a first sensor device having a first ECU and a second ECU. A magnet of the first sensor device and a coupling device of the second sensor device are each coupled in a rotationally fixed manner to the rotatable body. The first ECU is designed to receive signals caused by the rotational movement of the magnet and to generate at least one first electrical measurement signal which represents the current angle of rotation of the rotatable body. The second ECU is designed to receive signals caused by the rotary movement of the coupling device and to generate at least one redundant second electrical measurement signal which represents the current angle of rotation of the rotatable body.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2023Publication date: January 18, 2024Inventors: Andreas Baumgartner, Bernd Tepass, Peter Muehlbeyer, Sina Fella, Stefan Kuntz
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Patent number: 10794927Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for operating a rotational speed sensor of a motor vehicle with a signal encoder ring having a plurality of magnet elements arranged uniformly over its circumference with alternating orientation, and with a signal receiver having at least two sensor elements arranged uniformly apart from one another for sensing magnetic fields of the magnets. Information bits are generated based on magnetic field strengths detected by the sensor elements and made available as a rotational speed information signal. At a low rotational speed, an additional rotational speed information signal is generated and added to the rotational speed information signal. The additional signal comprises additional rotational speed pulses inserted between two normal rotational speed pulses. As a result, a plurality of rotational speed pulses are available per period of the encoder ring and a higher resolution of determination of the speed becomes possible.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2016Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Bernd Tepass, Wolfgang Welsch, Oliver Hahn
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Patent number: 10549802Abstract: A method for controlling a drive for displacing a saddle into a travel or a mounting position, comprising measuring an acceleration and a lateral inclination of the two-wheeled vehicle continuously within a first time interval and a speed of the two-wheeled vehicle after the first time interval; carrying out a first acceleration comparison, which checks whether the acceleration is greater than a minimum positive acceleration, at least for a second time interval; carrying out a first speed comparison if the first acceleration comparison is positive, the first speed comparison checks whether the speed is higher than a minimum speed; displacing the saddle into the travel position if the first speed comparison is positive; and carrying out a second acceleration comparison if the first acceleration comparison is negative, the second acceleration comparison checks whether the acceleration is less than a minimum negative acceleration at least for a third time interval.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2016Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Bernd Tepass
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Patent number: 10509050Abstract: A sensor housing for a wheel-sensor device for a vehicle includes a first receiving aperture, a second receiving aperture, a first rotational-speed sensor, a rotary transducer, and a second rotational-speed sensor. The first sensor is configured to be inserted into the first aperture, and the sensor housing with the inserted first sensor is configured to be mounted on the vehicle. The rotary transducer is configured to co-rotate with a vehicle wheel and to trigger a change in a first physical quantity. The second sensor is configured to be inserted adjacent to the first sensor in the first aperture or in the second aperture, and the sensor housing, with the inserted first and second sensors, is configured to be mounted on the vehicle. The rotary transducer co-rotating with the rotating wheel triggers the change in the first physical quantity and a change in a second physical quantity.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Wolfgang Welsch, Bernd Tepass, Oliver Hahn, Mirko Scheer, Robert Remus
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Publication number: 20190313532Abstract: A sensor device for a vehicle, in particular a motor vehicle, includes at least one sensor module and at least one connecting line connected to the sensor module for making electrical contact with the sensor module. The sensor module has at least one sensor. The sensor module is positioned on the connecting line, which is in the form of a conductor foil, and is encased by an overmolding which at least partially encloses the conductor foil.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2017Publication date: October 10, 2019Inventors: Bernd Tepass, Marlon Ramon Ewert, An Leurs, Daniel Schoenfeld
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Patent number: 10408854Abstract: A sensor arrangement for measuring a speed of a rotating component includes a rotary encoder and sensor unit. The encoder is coupled to the component, and has a magnetic surface code with alternating North and South poles. The sensor unit has a housing, connecting cable, at least one sensitive measuring element, and contacting arrangement. The element is positioned in the sensor unit such that a main detection direction of the element is angled relative to a main extension direction of the sensor unit. The contacting arrangement electrically connects the element to the cable within the housing. Rotational movement of the encoder changes a magnetic field generated by the code at the element, which is configured to detect the change over a first direction parallel to the main extension direction or over a second direction perpendicular to the main extension direction in order to determine the speed of the component.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2016Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Bernd Tepass
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Publication number: 20180210004Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for operating a rotational speed sensor of a motor vehicle with a signal encoder ring having a plurality of magnet elements arranged uniformly over its circumference with alternating orientation, and with a signal receiver having at least two sensor elements arranged uniformly apart from one another for sensing magnetic fields of the magnets. Information bits are generated based on magnetic field strengths detected by the sensor elements and made available as a rotational speed information signal. At a low rotational speed, an additional rotational speed information signal is generated and added to the rotational speed information signal. The additional signal comprises additional rotational speed pulses inserted between two normal rotational speed pulses. As a result, a plurality of rotational speed pulses are available per period of the encoder ring and a higher resolution of determination of the speed becomes possible.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2016Publication date: July 26, 2018Inventors: Bernd Tepass, Wolfgang Welsch, Oliver Hahn
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Publication number: 20180106824Abstract: A sensor arrangement for measuring a speed of a rotating component includes a rotary encoder and sensor unit. The encoder is coupled to the component, and has a magnetic surface code with alternating North and South poles. The sensor unit has a housing, connecting cable, at least one sensitive measuring element, and contacting arrangement. The element is positioned in the sensor unit such that a main detection direction of the element is angled relative to a main extension direction of the sensor unit. The contacting arrangement electrically connects the element to the cable within the housing. Rotational movement of the encoder changes a magnetic field generated by the code at the element, which is configured to detect the change over a first direction parallel to the main extension direction or over a second direction perpendicular to the main extension direction in order to determine the speed of the component.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2016Publication date: April 19, 2018Inventor: Bernd Tepass
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Publication number: 20180105222Abstract: A method for controlling a drive for displacing a saddle into a travel or a mounting position, comprising measuring an acceleration and a lateral inclination of the two-wheeled vehicle continuously within a first time interval and a speed of the two-wheeled vehicle after the first time interval; carrying out a first acceleration comparison, which checks whether the acceleration is greater than a minimum positive acceleration, at least for a second time interval; carrying out a first speed comparison if the first acceleration comparison is positive, the first speed comparison checks whether the speed is higher than a minimum speed; displacing the saddle into the travel position if the first speed comparison is positive; and carrying out a second acceleration comparison if the first acceleration comparison is negative, the second acceleration comparison checks whether the acceleration is less than a minimum negative acceleration at least for a third time interval.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 29, 2016Publication date: April 19, 2018Inventor: Bernd TEPASS
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Publication number: 20180024156Abstract: A sensor housing for a wheel-sensor device for a vehicle includes a first receiving aperture, a second receiving aperture, a first rotational-speed sensor, a rotary transducer, and a second rotational-speed sensor. The first sensor is configured to be inserted into the first aperture, and the sensor housing with the inserted first sensor is configured to be mounted on the vehicle. The rotary transducer is configured to co-rotate with a vehicle wheel and to trigger a change in a first physical quantity. The second sensor is configured to be inserted adjacent to the first sensor in the first aperture or in the second aperture, and the sensor housing, with the inserted first and second sensors, is configured to be mounted on the vehicle. The rotary transducer co-rotating with the rotating wheel triggers the change in the first physical quantity and a change in a second physical quantity.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2016Publication date: January 25, 2018Inventors: Wolfgang WELSCH, Bernd TEPASS, Oliver HAHN, Mirko SCHEER, Robert REMUS
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Patent number: 8639977Abstract: The control device has a receiving device, an output stage, a checking device and a reset device. The receiving device is used to receive at least one data block including control commands from a data bus, the output stage is used to output an output signal in response to the control commands, the checking device is used to output an error signal if the at least one received data block is faulty and/or if no data block is received within a predetermined time, and the reset device is used to reset the output stage in a predefined state if the checking device outputs the error signal. The control device is thus able to react automatically to faultily transmitted data blocks without having to wait for return messages from a transmitting central processor unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2007Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Bernd Tepass, Bernd Nottebom
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Publication number: 20120017113Abstract: The control device has a receiving device, an output stage, a checking device and a reset device. The receiving device is used to receive at least one data block including control commands from a data bus, the output stage is used to output an output signal in response to the control commands, the checking device is used to output an error signal if the at least one received data block is faulty and/or if no data block is received within a predetermined time, and the reset device is used to reset the output stage in a predefined state if the checking device outputs the error signal. The control device is thus able to react automatically to faultily transmitted data blocks without having to wait for return messages from a transmitting central processor unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2007Publication date: January 19, 2012Inventors: Bernd Tepass, Bernd Nottebom
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Patent number: 7225094Abstract: An electronic circuit for detecting measured quantities has a sensor unit for generating an analog measurement signal and a signal detecting unit (120) with a first analog/digital converter for digitizing the analog measurement signal. Differences in the fluctuations of the supply voltages that are supplied to the sensor unit and the signal detecting unit essentially result in the generation of undesirable fluctuations in the measurement signal. To minimize these effects or compensate for them, the digitized measurement signal is corrected In response to a voltage signal (U) that represents the imprecision x1 of the first supply voltage (VS1).Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2004Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Manfred Kirschner, Reiner Schweinfurth, Johannes Meiwes, Alex Grossmann, Eberhard Klein, Bernd Tepass, Torsten Baumann
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Publication number: 20050235028Abstract: An electronic circuit for detecting measured quantities, having a sensor unit for generating an analog measurement signal and having a signal detecting unit (120) with a first analog/digital converter for digitizing the analog measurement signal. Differences in the fluctuations of the supply voltages that are supplied to the sensor unit and the signal detecting unit essentially result in the generation of undesirable fluctuations in the measurement signal. To minimize these effects or compensate for them, the digitized measurement signal is corrected in response to a voltage signal (U) that represents the imprecision x1 of the first supply voltage (VS1).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2004Publication date: October 20, 2005Inventors: Manfred Kirschner, Reiner Schweinfurth, Johannes Meiwes, Alex Grossmann, Eberhard Klein, Bernd Tepass, Torsten Baumann
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Patent number: 5964854Abstract: In the case of a card cage for an electronic control unit having signal-processing analog and/or digital components, high-speed digital components, as well as components having both signal-processing functional parts, as well as high-speed digital functional parts and power components, which are arranged on a multilayer printed-circuit board and are electroconductively connected to a shared ground plane, the signal-processing components of each module having a shared connection to the common ground plane, the radiated interference from the control unit produced by high-frequency interference currents can be reduced, and high current densities in the ground plane and resultant potential shifts can be prevented from adversely affecting the signal processing, in that the signal-processing components are combined into signal-processing modules having at least one shared function, and the ground connections of all components of such a functional module are routed in each case via conductor connections to a commonType: GrantFiled: August 27, 1997Date of Patent: October 12, 1999Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Herman Roozenbeek, Bernd Tepass
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Patent number: 5675069Abstract: The invention is directed to a circuit for processing a signal (UL) of a lambda probe having a probe signal terminal on which the signal (UL) is outputted and a probe ground terminal. The circuit includes a voltage source having a plus pole and having a minus pole connected to the probe ground terminal. A first network of passive components is connected between the plus pole and the probe signal terminal for dividing the voltage between the plus pole and the probe signal terminal in a pregiven ratio thereby providing a divided potential as a first analog signal. An analog-to-digital converter has an input and is connected to a chassis ground at a ground potential different than the ground potential at the probe ground terminal. A second network of passive components is connected to the plus pole for supplying a potential proportional to the potential on the plus pole as a second analog signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 1996Date of Patent: October 7, 1997Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Richard Schleupen, Hans-Dieter Schray, Bernd Tepass, Walter Grote