Patents Assigned to Bosch GmbH
  • Patent number: 12351142
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a sensor assembly for a vehicle, comprising: a speed sensor for each vehicle wheel that detects an rpm-dependent and/or rotational-speed-dependent physical variable, which is used to ascertain speed information; a primary control unit, which analyses the speed information to perform first braking functions; and a secondary control unit, which analyses the speed information to perform second braking functions. A control unit is positioned close to each of the vehicle wheels, and is connected to the speed sensor associated with the corresponding wheel and receives a sensor signal and determines the speed information for the corresponding vehicle wheel, the primary control device and a further control device receiving the speed information for analysis in real time, and the control devices making the speed information available in the form of first sensor data to a central network over a databus for distribution in the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Fei Xie, Bernd Stoehr, Stefan Hoess
  • Patent number: 12355585
    Abstract: A subscriber station for a serial bus system. The subscriber station has a communication control device for controlling a communication of the subscriber station with at least one other subscriber station of the bus system. The communication control device generates a transmit signal according to a frame and inserts a field having an edge into the frame after a second communication phase. The field has, before the edge, a predetermined length corresponding to a time period that is longer than the time period of a bit time of a first communication phase. The edge is provided for synchronization to the communication on the bus for a communication control device of the at least one other subscriber station of the bus system whose transceiver device is switched, before the predetermined time period, into an operating mode for transmitting and receiving the frame in the first communication phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Arthur Mutter, Florian Hartwich, Franz Bailer, Christian Horst
  • Patent number: 12351079
    Abstract: A method for operating electrical drive units of seat components in a motor vehicle during a detected pre-crash situation. The method moves a passenger to a target position for an impending crash based on an actual position of the passenger. The method also determines a control strategy for coordinating an adjustment of the seat components in order to actuate at least two of the drive units simultaneously or immediately successively such that the required power of the drive units is minimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Bjoern Andrews, Jens Schrader, Jochen Moench, Juri Hartmann, Rainer Berger
  • Patent number: 12351141
    Abstract: A power piston in a power cylinder borehole of a hydraulic block of a hydraulic power unit of a hydraulic power vehicle braking system is only guided radially in an axially delimited guide section. The power cylinder borehole is configured with a larger diameter axially outside the guide section. A brake fluid channel extends through the guide section up to an opening of a brake fluid line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Weh, Martin Hagspiel, Matthias Mayr, Stefan Kaserer
  • Patent number: 12354332
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of training a generator for transforming a given image according to a given target foreground domain is disclosed. A generator, discriminator, Mapping network, and a Style-Content encoder are trained. Furthermore, a method of image to image translation according to a given target foreground domain by the trained generator is provided. The generator may be trained to generate images depicting defects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Ruyu Wang, Sabrina Hoppe, Eduardo Monari
  • Patent number: 12350847
    Abstract: A method for controlling a robot for manipulating, in particular picking up, an object. The method includes: creating an image which depicts the object; generating a manipulation-quality image from the image, in which, for each pixel which represents a point on the surface of the object, the pixel value of the pixel provides an assessment of how well the object may be manipulated at the point; recording descriptors of points of the object which should be used during the manipulation and/or of points which should be avoided during the manipulation; mapping the image onto a descriptor image; generating a manipulation-preference image by comparing the recorded descriptors of points to the descriptor image; selecting a point for manipulating the object taking into account the pixel values of the manipulation-quality image and the pixel values of the manipulation-preference image; and controlling the robot to manipulate the object at the selected point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Andras Gabor Kupcsik, Christian Graf, Miroslav Gabriel, Philipp Christian Schillinger
  • Publication number: 20250218290
    Abstract: A method for an infrastructure-based assistance of a motor vehicle during a journey through an infrastructure includes determining whether the motor vehicle requires the infrastructure-based assistance for the journey through the infrastructure. When the motor vehicle requires the infrastructure-based assistance for the journey through the infrastructure, the method includes the following steps: determining an infrastructure assistance data for the journey of the motor vehicle through the infrastructure, generating a periodic message including the infrastructure assistance data, and transmitting the periodic message including the infrastructure assistance data to the motor vehicle. When the motor vehicle does not require infrastructure-based assistance for the journey through the infrastructure, the method includes the following steps: generating a periodic message without an infrastructure assistance data, and transmitting the periodic message without the infrastructure assistance data to the motor vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2025
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Nordbruch, Adwait Sanjay Kale, Leonard Hoffmann, Jacqueline Erhart, Gottfried Allmer
  • Patent number: 12344245
    Abstract: The present invention obtains a controller and a control method capable of appropriately assisting with driving by a rider. In the controller and the control method according to the present invention, an acquisition section of a controller (60) acquires lateral acceleration information of a traveling straddle-type vehicle (100), and in a control mode in which behavior control operation to make the straddle-type vehicle (100) automatically decelerate or automatically accelerate is performed, an execution section of the controller (60) changes the behavior control operation according to the lateral acceleration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Yoshihide Igari, Yuki Oshida
  • Patent number: 12344220
    Abstract: Examples provide a system for a vehicle. The system includes a set of sensors and an electronic processor in communication with the set of sensors and a set of vehicle brakes. The electronic processor receives a braking request indicative of a first braking force, determines a speed of the vehicle, determines a rack force of the vehicle, and determines whether a set of selective braking conditions are met. The selective braking conditions include a determination that the speed of the vehicle is less than a vehicle speed threshold and a determination that the rack force is greater than a rack force threshold. When the set of selective braking conditions are met, the electronic processor selectively controls a first brake according to the first braking force and a second brake according to a second braking force. The second braking force is less than the first braking force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Richard Scott Green
  • Patent number: 12346071
    Abstract: A method for the automated selection of data sets for a method for machine learning for detecting operating variables of a motor vehicle, in which methods, measuring signal sequences for particular operating variable ranges of the motor vehicle, are detected during the operation of the motor vehicle. In the method, the operating variable ranges are assigned memory areas, each including multiple slots, each of which is configured to store a data set containing a detected measuring signal sequence, and data sets already stored in the slots being overwritable with data sets newly detected instantaneously for the same memory area in each case. For each slot of a memory area in which a data set is stored, an estimated slot error value is formed and stored together with the measuring signal sequence. The data sets, whose estimated slot error value is comparatively low, are preferably overwritten.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Simon Weissenmayer, Daniel Stuemke
  • Patent number: 12347841
    Abstract: A housing assembly (11) for a battery module (10), comprising an electronics housing (12) for electronics components having an electronics cooling channel opening (13), and comprising a battery housing (15) for battery cells having a first battery cooling channel opening (16) and a second battery cooling channel opening (17), wherein, in an assembled state of the housing assembly (11), the electronics cooling channel opening (13) is positioned adjacently to the first battery cooling channel opening (16), and a drip edge (20) partially surrounding the electronics cooling channel opening (13) is formed on the electronics cooling channel opening (13), wherein the drip edge (20) extends beyond the electronics cooling channel opening (13) in an opening direction of the electronics cooling channel opening (13). The invention also relates to an electronics housing (12), a battery housing (15), and a battery module (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Schmitt, Benjamin Kopp, Ralph Glemser
  • Patent number: 12347901
    Abstract: A device (1) for determining the H2 concentration of a fluid in an exhaust gas line (12) of a fuel cell system (100) includes a sensor (14) arranged in a pipe section (2), and the pipe section has an inflow opening (4) and an outflow opening (6). An installation element (8) divides exhaust gas arriving through the inflow opening (4) into a first volumetric flow which flows through a first pipe volume (V1) and at least one additional volumetric flow which flows through at least one additional pipe volume (V2). A purge line (41) opens into the first pipe volume (V1) between the inflow opening (4) and the H2 sensor (14). The sensor (14) measures the H2 concentration of the exhaust gas in the first pipe volume (V1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Timo Bosch, Tobias Falkenau
  • Patent number: 12348116
    Abstract: A rotor for an electric motor includes a rotor core having a radius and a peripheral outer surface. The rotor further includes at least one air deflector element associated with the peripheral outer surface. The at least one air deflector element has at least one slope arranged at a predetermined angle to the radius. The at least one air deflector element is designed to deflect an air flow which occurs during a rotation of the rotor and flows along the peripheral outer surface counter to a direction of rotation of the rotor, at least partially in a flow direction oriented at least approximately perpendicularly to the peripheral outer surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Marco Eitzert, Soenke Schuch
  • Patent number: 12347247
    Abstract: A method for determining a fault tolerant time interval (FTTI) of an autonomous driving assistance system is disclosed. The method includes (i) receiving an emulation result and/or a vehicle test result, wherein the emulation result and/or the vehicle test result includes a relationship between a sensitive parameter and a fault duration, (ii) receiving a controllability study result; and (iii) determining the fault tolerant time interval (FTTI) from a database including the emulation result and/or the vehicle test result and the controllability study result on the basis of a safety target related to the sensitive parameter. An apparatus for determining a fault tolerant time interval (FTTI) of an autonomous driving assistance system, a computer storage medium, and a computer program product are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Yingjie Yu
  • Patent number: 12345257
    Abstract: A dynamic vortex disk for a compressor includes a dynamic substrate with a first side and a second side, and a dynamic vortex wall, which is integrally molded with the dynamic substrate, and extends around an axis of the dynamic substrate at the first side and away from the axis. The dynamic vortex wall further has an end surface opposite to the first side and away from the second side, and a groove deviating from a centerline of the dynamic vortex wall and formed on the end surface. The groove has a proximal end close to the axis of the dynamic substrate and an opposing distal end. An air supply channel is configured to extend along the axis through an interior of the dynamic vortex wall until it opens to the second side. The groove and the air supply channel are connected at the distal end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Devin Yang, Haixiang Wang, Xiaofeng Gu
  • Patent number: 12347701
    Abstract: A molding device for producing a molded module. The molding device has one tool part and one further tool part, which together enclose a cavity. At least one of the tool parts has at least one dividing web arranged and configured to subdivide the cavity into at least a low-pressure sub-cavity and a high-pressure sub-cavity. The tool part has at least two feed channels, of which a low-pressure feed channel opens into the low-pressure sub-cavity and has a smaller cross-section at least over a longitudinal portion than a high-pressure feed channel opening into the high-pressure sub-cavity. The low-pressure feed channel is configured to become pressure-resistantly blocked through hardening of the molding compound once a predetermined time interval has elapsed or during the interval. The high-pressure feed channel is configured to conduct a molding pressure into the cavity for a longer time interval than the low-pressure feed channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Martin Fleischmann
  • Patent number: 12347246
    Abstract: A system of diagnosing vehicle component health. One example includes a component of a vehicle installed within a vehicle, and a sensor coupled to the component of the vehicle. The sensor is configured to obtain operational data and output a signal including the operational data. The system also includes a communication device configured to receive the signal and wirelessly transmit the operational data to an electronic processor located on a server external to the vehicle. The electronic processor is configured to analyze the operational data via a machine learning algorithm, generate a state-of-health of the component, and in response to the generated state-of-health, transmit, from the electronic processor to an external device, the state-of-health of the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Jatavalaba Vijay Kumar Srikanth, Abhijith Cheradiyaniyil Sabu
  • Patent number: 12347895
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fuel cell stack (100) having at least one fuel cell (101) which has a membrane (CCM) for separating an anode side (A) of the fuel cell (101) from a cathode side (K) of the fuel cell (101), an anode-side gas diffusion layer (GDLA), a cathode-side gas diffusion layer (GDLK) and a bipolar plate (BPP) for separating the fuel cell (101) from an adjacent fuel cell (101) or a housing. According to the invention, the membrane (CCM) protrudes beyond the anode-side gas diffusion layer (GDLA) and the cathode-side gas diffusion layer (GDLK) in an edge region (R) located outside an active area (AF) of the membrane (CCM), and the membrane (CCM) has a centering dam (10) in the edge region (R) of the anode side (A) or of the cathode side (K).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Arnold Gente, Eberhard Maier
  • Patent number: 12344069
    Abstract: A thermal management system is provided for a vehicle that includes a traction battery. The thermal management system includes refrigerant and cooling subsystems. The cooling subsystem includes a cabin coolant loop that provides thermal management of a passenger cabin of the vehicle, a battery coolant loop that provides thermal management of the traction battery and a drivetrain coolant loop that provides thermal management of a drivetrain and power electronics of the vehicle. The cabin, battery and the drivetrain coolant loops are interconnected via coolant proportional valves and fluid lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Manning, Dana Nicgorski
  • Patent number: 12339402
    Abstract: A method for operating a photodiode. In the method, a voltage made up of a sum of a constant first voltage and a second voltage having a fixed frequency is applied to the photodiode and an output signal of the photodiode is detected. A spectral composition of the output signal is subsequently detected and at least one coefficient of a non-linear term of a gain of the photodiode is ascertained on the basis of the spectral composition. An adapted first voltage is then applied to the photodiode, the first voltage being adapted based on the coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Mirko Hattass