Patents by Inventor Jochen Fassnacht

Jochen Fassnacht 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: 20240022187
    Abstract: The invention relates to a circuit assembly for better decelerating a rotating electric machine by means of a three-point inverter. For this purpose, an electrical resistor is supplied between a central terminal and an outer terminal of the three-point inverter. This electrical resistor allows some of the electrical energy generated during the deceleration of the electric machine to be converted into thermal energy as needed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventor: Jochen Fassnacht
  • Publication number: 20230223879
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle drive train and to a method for operating a drive train with an electromotive drive (4), wherein a rotational speed and a drive torque of the drive (4), which are convertible via a toothed transmission stage (12) for an output (19), and the drive (4) is controlled by means of a control signal (40), wherein the control signal (40) has superimposed thereon a periodic torque change signal (5), which is in phase with a tooth stiffness change of the toothed transmission stage (12), wherein a signal strength of the torque change signal (5) is lower with decreasing tooth stiffness than with increasing tooth stiffness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: David Gaenzle, Jochen Fassnacht, Maximilian Manderla
  • Patent number: 11175678
    Abstract: A method for laterally stabilizing a single-tracked motor vehicle, driven with the aid of an electric motor, that is in a vertically aligned state and at a standstill. The front wheel of the motor vehicle has a steering angle in which the electric motor is controlled in such a way that it exerts drive torques on the motor vehicle that act in alternation in the forward direction and in the reverse direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Georg Widmaier, Alessandro Moia, Silas Klug, Jochen Fassnacht, Klaus Beulich
  • Patent number: 11072299
    Abstract: A method for determining an electrical capacitance in an intermediate circuit of an electric drive system. The electric drive system includes at least one first electrical energy source, which feeds the intermediate circuit, a drive unit, which has an inverter and an electrical load, the inverter being electrically connected on the input side with the intermediate circuit and on the output side with the electrical load, and a DC voltage converter, which is electrically connected with the intermediate circuit and measures a voltage in the intermediate circuit by high frequency sampling. The electrical capacitance in the intermediate circuit is determined from the voltage in the intermediate circuit measured by the DC voltage converter. Also described is a motor vehicle, which includes an electric drive system for implementing the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Jochen Fassnacht, Tunan Shen
  • Publication number: 20200238931
    Abstract: A method for determining an electrical capacitance in an intermediate circuit of an electric drive system. The electric drive system includes at least one first electrical energy source, which feeds the intermediate circuit, a drive unit, which has an inverter and an electrical load, the inverter being electrically connected on the input side with the intermediate circuit and on the output side with the electrical load, and a DC voltage converter, which is electrically connected with the intermediate circuit and measures a voltage in the intermediate circuit by high frequency sampling. The electrical capacitance in the intermediate circuit is determined from the voltage in the intermediate circuit measured by the DC voltage converter. Also described is a motor vehicle, which includes an electric drive system for implementing the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Jochen Fassnacht, Tunan Shen
  • Publication number: 20200004271
    Abstract: A method for laterally stabilizing a single-tracked motor vehicle, driven with the aid of an electric motor, that is in a vertically aligned state and at a standstill. The front wheel of the motor vehicle has a steering angle in which the electric motor is controlled in such a way that it exerts drive torques on the motor vehicle that act in alternation in the forward direction and in the reverse direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Georg Widmaier, Alessandro Moia, Silas Klug, Jochen Fassnacht, Klaus Beulich
  • Publication number: 20190014715
    Abstract: A control system for an agricultural work system having at least one mobile work machine, which is developed to carry out a predefined work task in an autonomous manner, including an arrangement for the work machine for orientation purposes and/or for a collision avoidance. It is provided that the arrangement includes a multitude of markers which are able to be placed/are placed on objects in an operating range, and at least one device, which is able to be mounted/is mounted on the work machine and designed to detect the markers and to output an item of information to the work machine as a function of a detected marker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: Gernot Becker, Jochen Fehse, Jochen Fassnacht, Steffen Rose
  • Patent number: 10160411
    Abstract: In a vehicle electrical system, a method supplies a number of consumers of the system, which consumers are classified with different safety classifications, the differently classified consumers being supplied power from either one or more of a plurality of electrical subsystems according to their classifications or lack of classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Jochen Fassnacht
  • Patent number: 9983267
    Abstract: The invention relates to a DC-DC converter which is designed to supply a low-voltage network comprising a low-voltage battery and a battery sensor circuit with a low voltage, having a pulse generation device which is designed to feed electrical pulses into the low-voltage network in order to test the low-voltage battery using the battery sensor circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Jochen Fassnacht, Clemens Schmucker
  • Patent number: 9948093
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device and method for discharging an energy accumulator (C), in particular an intermediate circuit capacitor, in a high-voltage grid (3), in particular in a direct current intermediate circuit in a motor vehicle, having a direct current converter (5) connected downstream of the high-voltage grid (3), a low-voltage grid (4) connected downstream of the direct current converter (5), an power grid (7) connected downstream of the direct current converter (5) and parallel to the low-voltage grid (4) for supplying energy to a control circuit (9) of the direct current converter (5), and a first controllable switching element (S) which is connected to the connecting line between the direct current converter (5) and the low-voltage grid (4) and by means of which, in the event of a disturbance of the low-voltage grid (4), the direct current converter (5) and the power grid (7) can be disconnected from the low-voltage grid (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Peuser, Jochen Fassnacht
  • Publication number: 20170297517
    Abstract: In a vehicle electrical system, a method supplies a number of consumers of the system, which consumers are classified with different safety classifications, the differently classified consumers being supplied power from either one or more of a plurality of electrical subsystems according to their classifications or lack of classification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventor: Jochen Fassnacht
  • Patent number: 9776518
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system (100) with a battery charging device (20) with output terminals and an vehicle electrical system power supply stage (10). The vehicle electrical system power supply stage has a step-up/step-down converter (12), which is designed to raise an input voltage of the vehicle electrical system power supply stage to an intermediate circuit voltage, a direct current intermediate circuit (13), which is coupled to the step-up/step-down converter (12) at intermediate circuit nodes (14a, 14b), and a vehicle electrical system d.c.-d.c. converter (11), which is coupled to the direct voltage intermediate circuit at the intermediate circuit nodes, and which is designed to convert the intermediate circuit voltage into a direct voltage for a vehicle electrical system (1, 2), the output terminals of the battery charging device (20) being coupled to the direct voltage intermediate circuit (13) via the intermediate circuit nodes (14a, 14b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Erik Weissenborn, Jochen Fassnacht
  • Patent number: 9701188
    Abstract: A method for operating a drive device of a vehicle, in particular a motor vehicle, which has an internal combustion engine, at least one electric machine, and at least one heatable electric accumulator, in particular a lithium ion battery, power being drawn from the electric accumulator for starting the internal combustion engine with the aid of the electric machine. It is provided that, after the start of the internal combustion engine and until the heated electric accumulator reaches a predefined minimum temperature, the electric accumulator is operated without load. Furthermore, a drive device for a vehicle, in particular for carrying out the above-described method is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Jochen Fassnacht, Rainer Kern
  • Patent number: 9577441
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for charging energy storage cells of an energy storage device with a plurality of energy storage modules which are connected in series in an energy supply line, each energy storage module comprising an energy storage cell module which has at least one energy storage cell and comprising a coupling device with coupling elements. The coupling elements are designed to selectively connect the energy storage cell module in the energy supply line or to bridge the energy storage cell module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Jochen Fassnacht, Martin Kessler, Erik Weissenborn, Peter Feuerstack
  • Patent number: 9475437
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system (2) for high-voltage disconnection in a vehicle having at least two high-voltage carrying components (10, 12a, b, 14, 16, 18, 20), each component having a housing (11), at least one connecting element for a data bus (4) and at least one connecting element for a high-voltage supply (9), each high-voltage carrying component (10, 12a, b, 14, 16, 18, 20) being designed to detect locally an event which is intended to trigger a high-voltage disconnection, wherein said system is characterized in that each high-voltage carrying component (10, 12a, b, 14, 16, 18, 20) is designed locally to trigger a high-voltage disconnection of the high-voltage carrying component (10, 12a, b, 14, 16, 18, 20) as a reaction to the detection of the event. As an advantageous development, access to components having a hazardous voltage is possible only after the connecting element of the data bus has been removed, the removal or disruption of which leads to rapid disconnection of the electric system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Jochen Fassnacht
  • Patent number: 9193272
    Abstract: In a jump-starting method between an electric vehicle providing a jump-start and an electric vehicle receiving a jump-start, the electrical systems of the two electric vehicles are temporarily interconnected electrically during the time of the jump-starting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Jochen Fassnacht, Roland Norden
  • Patent number: 9190869
    Abstract: A circuit is described for operating an auxiliary unit for starting internal combustion engines via a starter battery. The circuit is configured to receive a state-of-function signal, a state-of-charge signal and/or a state-of-health signal from a battery-management system. The respective signals indicate whether the starter battery is capable of operating the auxiliary unit, what state of charge the starter battery has and whether the starter battery is damaged. The circuit is configured to draw electrical energy from a high-voltage battery, connected to the circuit, when the state-of-function signal indicates that operation of the auxiliary unit by the starter battery is not possible, when the state-of-charge signal indicates that the state of charge of the starter battery is too low to operate the auxiliary unit and/or when the state-of-health signal indicates that the starter battery is damaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Jochen Fassnacht, Torsten Heidrich
  • Patent number: 9156466
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for power management of an electrical drive for a hybrid vehicle, wherein the method comprises the following steps: detecting (S1) an adjustable power requirement for the electrical drive device and an available electrical battery capacity of the electrical energy store by means of a detecting unit (21); comparing (S2) the detected adjustable power requirement to the detected available electrical battery capacity by means of a control unit (22); and deactivating (S3) at least one of the electrical consumers in dependence on criteria specified by the control unit for one or a plurality of specified time intervals by the control unit (22), if the comparison results in a lower available electrical battery capacity than the adjustable power requirement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Huber, Jochen Fassnacht, Michael Lehner, Cornelius Liebenow
  • Publication number: 20150219725
    Abstract: The invention relates to a DC-DC converter which is designed to supply a low-voltage network comprising a low-voltage battery and a battery sensor circuit with a low voltage, having a pulse generation device which is designed to feed electrical pulses into the low-voltage network in order to test the low-voltage battery using the battery sensor circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2013
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: Jochen Fassnacht, Clemens Schmucker
  • Patent number: 9059584
    Abstract: A circuit arrangement for de-exciting an excitation winding of a synchronous machine in the event of a fault, including a control circuit for controlling a current flow through the excitation winding, it being possible to apply a positive control voltage to the excitation winding for excitation and a negative control voltage for rapid de-excitation, and including a protective circuit which is parallel-connected to the excitation winding and which does not permit a current flow over the protective circuit in the event of rapid de-excitation and which forms a current path for limiting the voltage and de-exciting the excitation winding if at least one connecting line between the control circuit and the excitation winding is interrupted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Stefan Spannhake, Jochen Fassnacht, Hans-Peter Mueller