Patents by Inventor Christian Ohl

Christian Ohl 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).

  • Publication number: 20130070863
    Abstract: A method for supplying at least one bus user via a control unit, in which data are transmitted to at least one bus user during at least one phase for data transmission and power is transmitted during at least one phase for power transmission, the at least one phase for data transmission and the at least one phase for power transmission being provided alternately, and the lengths of the phases for data transmission and/or the lengths of the phases for power transmission being set variably.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2011
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Inventor: Christian Ohl
  • Publication number: 20120144915
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a micromechanical component is described, the micromechanical component having a medium. The medium has settable and changeable volume-elastic properties and generally completely encloses a sensor module and/or a module housing. The medium preferably has a low-pass response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Inventors: Wolf-Ingo RATZEL, Christian Ohl, Juergen Kurle
  • Publication number: 20120125097
    Abstract: A sensor device includes an outer casing, a first sensor module and a second sensor module. The outer casing encloses the first sensor module and the second sensor module at least partially. The first sensor module is enclosed at least partially by a first medium, and the second sensor module is enclosed at least partially by a second medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2011
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Inventors: Christian OHL, Dirk Ullmann
  • Patent number: 8177465
    Abstract: An accident sensor having a fastening arrangement is provided, the fastening arrangement allowing an affixation of the accident sensor on a wall in a vehicle. The accident sensor has at least one bore hole, which has a stud in an elastic sleeve as a fastening arrangement. The stud with the sleeve is configured so that the accident sensor having the stud with the sleeve is affixed in the wall by a clamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Tobby Brandt, Christian Ohl, Boris Adam, Martin Schuerer
  • Patent number: 8158894
    Abstract: A housing having at least one electrical component situated therein and at least one electrical feed line, the housing having at least one through-opening, the electrical feed line being guided through the through-opening from an external environment into the interior of the housing, and there being an electrical connection between the electrical component and the electrical feed line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Ohl, Alexander Steinert
  • Patent number: 8148187
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a micromechanical component is described, the micromechanical component having a medium. The medium has settable and changeable volume-elastic properties and generally completely encloses a sensor module and/or a module housing. The medium preferably has a low-pass response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Wolf-Ingo Ratzel, Christian Ohl, Juergen Kurle
  • Patent number: 8106788
    Abstract: A sensor for obtaining data is described, including at least one sensitive module for quantitatively detecting a parameter to be determined, at least one data transmitting unit for transmitting the obtained data, and at least one signal path between the sensitive module and the data transmitting unit, also including a control logic unit which defines at least one transmission parameter of the signal path and/or of the data transmitting unit, as a function of at least one output variable of the sensitive module, and an associated method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Ohl, Boris Adam
  • Patent number: 8106763
    Abstract: A sensor has a transmitter module for transferring data via a line, the sensor receiving power via the line. At a point in time in which the sensor receives a first power level, it transmits the data for a first time interval. A second sensor which is connected to the line in parallel to the first sensor then transmits its data for a second time interval after the first time interval. A timing sequence control system in the two sensors which is triggered by the point in time of reception of the power ensures the subsequent transmission by the first and second sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Jens Otterbach, Christian Ohl, Oliver Kohn, Jochen Schomacker, Michael Ulmer
  • Patent number: 8074523
    Abstract: An air pressure sensor for sensing a side impact includes fastening means for fastening the air pressure sensor on a vehicle wall, the fastening means having a single aperture for accommodating a single fastening element, the fastening element being used for fastening the air pressure sensor on the vehicle wall. Furthermore, the fastening means have a structure on the pressure inlet channel which passes through an aperture in the vehicle door. The at least one structure is shaped in such a way that the at least one structure makes it possible for the air pressure sensor to be hooked on the vehicle wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Henzler, Tobby Brandt, Christian Ohl, Boris Adam, Martin Schuerer
  • Patent number: 7827377
    Abstract: A method is described for reading out sensor data from an intermediate memory written by at least one sensor to the intermediate memory at a data-transfer rate (Tpas). A sampling rate (Tsg) is selected in such a way as to avoid an overflow of the intermediate memory and all buffered sensor data is read into a control unit memory at the predetermined sampling rate (Tsg), the intermediate memory generating a message (RBE) if no new sensor data is present in the intermediate memory at the time of sampling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Ohl, Andreas Fink, Maike Moldenhauer
  • Publication number: 20100271787
    Abstract: A sensor module includes a housing and a chip system disposed therein, the chip system being disposed on a substrate and being embedded in a sealing layer deposited on the substrate. The chip system is disposed in a window region of a frame structure disposed on the substrate, the frame structure featuring substantially the same thermal expansion properties as the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Inventors: Martin Holzmann, Christian Ohl, Harald Emmerich
  • Patent number: 7791891
    Abstract: A module includes an electrical component having an inner enclosure which surrounds the electrical component and which has first electrical contact means at least on one outer side; having an outer enclosure in the interior of which the inner enclosure is situated, the outer enclosure having second electrical contact means, the second electrical contact means extending from the interior to at least one outer side of the outer enclosure. The first and second contact means are interconnected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Ohl, Frieder Haag, Juergen Kurle, Ingbert Gerngross
  • Patent number: 7786853
    Abstract: A method for transmitting data from at least one sensor to a control unit is described, a value range, which is available for encoding the data to be transmitted, being divided into three portions. The first portion is used for the sensor values. The second portion is used for status signals and error signals, and the third portion is used for sensor identification data, the three portions being separated from one another and following in succession.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Ohl, Oliver Kohn, Jochen Schomacker, Michael Ulmer
  • Patent number: 7787582
    Abstract: A control unit in which at least one inertial sensor and a processor are accommodated in a housing. The data transmission between the inertial sensor and the control unit is performed digitally. The transmission may be provided with error bits or status bits. The data transmission is configured to be bidirectional in particular. Four lines are provided between the control unit and the sensor, one of the lines being used for selecting the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Eckard Steiger, Christian Ohl, Hartmut Schumacher
  • Publication number: 20100140419
    Abstract: An accident sensor having a fastening arrangement for a vehicle is provided, for the fastening of the accident sensor, the fastening arrangement allowing an insertion into an opening in a wall and a rotation up to a final position defined by a stop, the fastening arrangement preventing a turning back of the accident sensor in the final position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2008
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Inventors: Tobby Brandt, Christian Ohl, Boris Adam, Martin Schuerer
  • Patent number: 7673494
    Abstract: A device for testing at least one pressure sensor, by applying a pressure signal, the device testing the operativeness of the pressure sensor as a function of the pressure signal. In addition, it is provided that the device tests the tightness of the pressure sensor as a function of the pressure signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Ohl, Oliver Schatz, Boris Adam
  • Patent number: 7664609
    Abstract: A device for impact sensing having at least two pressure sensors is described, where pressure values are communicated from the pressure sensors to a processor, and the processor performs impact sensing on the basis of the pressure value. The processor communicates the pressure values to additional vehicle systems, which use them to fulfill their own functions, or at least to carry out a plausibility check of their own pressure values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Boris Adam, Christian Ohl
  • Publication number: 20090308159
    Abstract: With a sensor having a centrifugal mass in the form of a balancing rocker which is deflectable in the z-direction, to avoid asymmetrical clipping in the case of lever arms of the balancing rocker that are of different lengths, a limit-stop device, which shortens the possible deflection, is provided on the side of the shorter lever arm, or, in the case of lever arms of equal length, at least one additional mass disposed on the side on one lever arm is provided, so that the maximum mechanical deflection of the centrifugal mass is of equal magnitude on both sides of the asymmetrical balancing rocker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2007
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Inventors: Volker Frey, Christian Ohl, Holger Wolfmayr, Harald Emmerich
  • Publication number: 20090293629
    Abstract: An air pressure sensor for sensing a side impact includes fastening means for fastening the air pressure sensor on a vehicle wall, the fastening means having a single aperture for accommodating a single fastening element, the fastening element being used for fastening the air pressure sensor on the vehicle wall. Furthermore, the fastening means have a structure on the pressure inlet channel which passes through an aperture in the vehicle door. The at least one structure is shaped in such a way that the at least one structure makes it possible for the air pressure sensor to be hooked on the vehicle wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2008
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Inventors: Stephan Henzler, Tobby Brandt, Christian Ohl, Boris Adam, Martin Schuerer
  • Publication number: 20090238657
    Abstract: An accident sensor having a fastening arrangement is provided, the fastening arrangement allowing an affixation of the accident sensor on a wall in a vehicle. The accident sensor has at least one bore hole, which has a stud in an elastic sleeve as a fastening arrangement. The stud with the sleeve is configured so that the accident sensor having the stud with the sleeve is affixed in the wall by a clamp.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2008
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Inventors: Tobby Brandt, Christian Ohl, Boris Adam, Martin Schuerer