Patents Assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH
  • Patent number: 10399833
    Abstract: A vehicle lift adapter system in one embodiment includes a central support bar including a mounting portion configured to be removably mounted on a jack arm of a floor jack, a first outer support arm supported by the central support bar, a first wheel capture base with a first middle portion located between a first and a second base end portion, the first wheel capture base operably connected to the first outer support arm, a first wheel capture arm configured to be supported by the first end portion, and a second wheel capture arm configured to be supported by the second end portion, wherein the first end portion and the second end portion are arranged such that a weight applied to the first wheel capture arm and the second wheel capture arm is substantially centered on the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignees: Bosch Automotive Service Solutions Inc., Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Robert J. Kochie, Robert A. Jensen
  • Patent number: 10400728
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electromagnetically actuable intake valve for a high-pressure pump of a fuel injection system, in particular of a common-rail injection system, comprising a reciprocating valve closure element (2) that engages with a valve seat (1) and is loaded in the closing direction by the spring force of a valve spring (3) which is supported on a spring plate (4) connected to the valve closure element (2), further comprising a reciprocating armature (6) that engages with an electromagnet (5) and is loaded in the direction of the valve closure element (2) by the spring force of an armature spring (7) which is larger than that of the valve spring (3). According to the invention, the spring plate (4) has a first abutment face (9) for limiting the opening travel of the valve closure element (2) and a second abutment face (10) for mechanically coupling to the armature (6). The invention also relates to a high-pressure pump having such an intake valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Hans Heber, Stefan Kolb
  • Patent number: 10400473
    Abstract: An apparatus for detecting the position of window handles or door handles, the apparatus including a magnetic-field sensor and a microcontroller unit, the microcontroller unit being designed to read out data from the magnetic-field sensor, to record a magnetic fingerprint for at least one window-handle/door-handle position, and to detect the at least one window-handle/door-handle position by comparing data of the magnetic-field sensor with the recorded magnetic fingerprint. An operating method for such a window handle or door handle is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Fernando Suarez Lainez, Christoph Volk, Frank Schindler, Juan Nogueira-Nine, Wolf-Bastian Poettner
  • Patent number: 10400731
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for testing an electrically activated actuator in a fuel delivery device (10) of an internal combustion engine, wherein the electrical actuator is a controllable valve (15) that is arranged on the inlet side of a high-pressure pump (16). The high-pressure pump (16) conveys fuel into a fuel store (17) having a pressure controller (20). The fuel store (17) is connected to at least one injector (23).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Patrick Weiss, Yiping Chen
  • Patent number: 10400948
    Abstract: An apparatus (1) for regulating at least one fluid flow in a vehicle (5), having a first fluid regulation unit (20), in particular a pump or a valve, for regulating a first fluid flow, and a first holder (20) with a receiving region (22) for the first fluid regulation unit (10) and with a first fastening means (28), wherein the first fluid regulation unit (10) is arranged in the receiving region (22) of the first holder (20), and wherein the first fastening means (28) is provided for fastening the holder (20) to the vehicle (5). The first holder (20) has at least one connecting means (26) for connecting the first holder (20) to a second holder (70).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Fatih Yilmaz, Bernd Hein, Jerome Thiery
  • Patent number: 10400881
    Abstract: A gear housing includes a first receptacle, a second receptacle, an elongated receptacle, a connecting portion, and a mounting arm. The first receptacle is configured to house a worm wheel. The second receptacle is configured to house an output gear. The elongated receptacle is configured to house a first portion of a shaft of a drive assembly. The elongated receptacle extends at least partly alongside the first receptacle and the second receptacle. The connecting portion is connectable to another housing that houses a second portion of the shaft of the drive assembly. The mounting arm extends outward from the first receptacle. The mounting arm is disposed between circumferentially adjacent fastening components along a periphery of the first receptacle. The first fastening component is disposed at a juncture between the first receptacle and the second receptacle. The second fastening component overlaps a part of the elongated receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Luis Angel Ramirez Ortiz, Andrea Elena Tejeda Geurrero
  • Patent number: 10399547
    Abstract: A pressure variation damper for a slip-regulated, hydraulic vehicle brake system includes a damper housing and a tubular damper element. The damper element is disposed in the damper housing and configured for elastic deformation. The damper element is subjected on an inside and/or on an outside to a fluid. Possible pressure variations of the fluid are to be damped. The damper element comprises a corrugation on the outside and a corrugation on the inside configured to reduce a change in a wall thickness of the damper element owing to the corrugation on the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Oliver Gaertner, Alexander Geilfuss
  • Patent number: 10400727
    Abstract: A piston fuel pump for an internal combustion engine includes a pump cylinder and a pump piston that is configured to be axially displaced in the pump cylinder. A working chamber is defined by the pump piston. A seal is provided on the pump cylinder, which seals the working chamber counter to a low pressure region. The seal is applied directly to the pump piston by an injection molding method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Jochen Kaesser, Bernd Beiermeister, Soeren Stritzel, Wolfgang Ochs, Ralf Assmann, Heiko Jahn, Christian Preissner, Achim Laub, Peter Ropertz, Stefan Zaensch
  • Patent number: 10402739
    Abstract: A method for creating a Gaussian process model as a data-based functional model for an output quantity that is to be modeled, based on training data in an input data space, including providing training data having training data points and output values, assigned to the training data points, of one or more output quantities; ascertaining a point density that is a function of the position of the training data points in the input data space; ascertaining a length scale function for each input quantity of the training data as a function of the point density; and generating a Gaussian process model from the training data and the output data of the output quantity to be modeled, based on the ascertained length scale functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Ernst Kloppenburg
  • Patent number: 10404195
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for controlling an electric machine, having an encoder wheel which has a multiplicity of teeth and at least one reference marking, having the steps: detecting the dynamics of the electric machine, detecting the positions of the teeth on the encoder wheel in relation to the at least one reference marking if the electric machine exhibits low dynamics, calculating a rotational speed of the electric machine on the basis of at least the detected positions, and controlling the electric machine on the basis of at least the calculated rotational speed. Furthermore, the present invention discloses a drivetrain and a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Peter Groeter, Klaus Ries-Mueller
  • Patent number: 10401486
    Abstract: A method for locating objects using an FMCW radar in which a ramp-shaped frequency-modulated radar signal is transmitted whose modulation pattern has a plurality of successive ramps having different gradients, received radar echoes are mixed down with the transmitted signal into a baseband, the baseband signal is recorded ramp-by-ramp and transformed into a respective spectrum, for each signal peak found in the spectrum, a noise estimation is carried out in order to distinguish between radar targets and noise or clutter, and by comparing the frequency positions of the mutually corresponding signal peaks in the spectra obtained for various ramp gradients, the distances and relative velocities of the radar targets are determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Michael Schoor
  • Patent number: 10400726
    Abstract: A piston fuel pump for an internal combustion engine includes a pump cylinder, a pump piston, a seal, and a cover. The pump piston is axially displaceable in the pump cylinder. The seal is arranged on a periphery of the pump piston. The cover is placed on the piston pump to axially maintain a position of the seal, in particular via an axial bias.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Soeren Stritzel, Heiko Jahn
  • Patent number: 10402170
    Abstract: A processing device including a primary processing unit and at least one secondary processing unit, the primary processing unit being designed to subject primary digital input data to a predefinable first data processing, the secondary processing unit being designed to subject secondary digital input data to a predefinable second data processing, the processing device being designed to delay the second data processing by the at least one secondary processing unit at least intermittently in relation to the first data processing by the primary processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Paulius Duplys, Benjamin Glas, Hamit Hacioglu
  • Publication number: 20190263370
    Abstract: A valve assembly, for controlling a fluidic connection between a brake master cylinder and a pedal simulator of a brake system of a motor vehicle, includes a first control valve and a second control valve, the second control vale being positioned between the first control valve and a pedal simulator and including first and second flow controllers to control flow volumes of hydraulic fluid that differ between first and second flow directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Andrej Gardt, Christoph Eisele, Valentin Schubitschew, Volker Edelmann
  • Patent number: 10391568
    Abstract: A power tool system comprises (i) at least one power tool, in particular a circular saw, having at least one tool support unit for supporting a tool during machining and at least one displaceably mounted tool guiding unit, and (ii) at least one power tool separation device which is arranged on the tool guiding unit. The power tool separation device comprises at least one cutting unit and at least one guide unit for guiding the cutting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Rudolf Fuchs
  • Patent number: 10392157
    Abstract: A cutting tooth (101) of a cutting device is disclosed as part of a closure device for opening a container covering for the first time. The shape of the cutting tooth (101) with a blunted tooth tip (1011) with a cutting edge (1012) leads to improved cutting results, wherein the container covering is notched or nicked. Here, each cutting tooth (101) has a robust tooth tip (1011) without edges which cuts into the container covering as a result of rotation of a cap of the closure device, wherein the cutting device is moved along with it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Dan Barron
  • Patent number: 10391988
    Abstract: A method for operating an automated parking brake in a motor vehicle, having a hydraulic actuator for producing a hydraulic force component and an electromechanical actuator for producing an electromechanical force component, includes superimposing the hydraulic force component and the electromechanical force component to obtain a total clamping force for a parking brake operation, and maintaining the total clamping force by self-locking of the parking brake. The method further comprises during the parking brake operation, setting at least one defined hydraulic pressure level using the hydraulic actuator, and locking-in a defined hydraulic pressure level with a valve when the at least one defined hydraulic pressure level is reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Englert, Tobias Putzer
  • Patent number: 10392029
    Abstract: A method for output of haptic information to a driver of a motor vehicle via a brake pedal includes ascertaining, based on signals of an environment-sensor system, imminence of a traffic situation that poses a potential risk to the motor vehicle, and modifying, during a driving of the motor vehicle, independent of a driver input, and in response to the ascertained imminence of the traffic situation, a characteristic of the brake pedal of the motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Alessandro Moia, Armin Verhagen, Laszlo Boros, Simon Hansmann, Thomas Friedrich
  • Patent number: 10396423
    Abstract: A device and a method for transmitting a high-frequency signal. The device is designed to include a carrier, through which a passage is formed; a transmitting element on a first surface of the carrier, to which the high-frequency signal may be applied; and a receiving element on a second surface of the carrier, which is galvanically isolated from the transmitting element, the high-frequency signal being transmittable as an electromagnetic wave through the passage to the receiving element with the aid of the transmitting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Elena Pancera, Juergen Hasch
  • Patent number: 10395527
    Abstract: A method and a control and detection device for a plausibility check of a wrong-way driving incident of a motor vehicle at a junction of a unidirectional roadway of a road, in which the plausibility check is activated by recognizing a direction feature of a roadway of the junction, and in which it is determined whether a current driving direction of the motor vehicle leads in the direction of a roadway having at least one prohibition sign, indicating that entry is prohibited, and/or in which it is determined whether a predicated driving route of the motor vehicle leads in the direction of a roadway having at least one prohibition sign.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Volker Hofsaess, Martin Rous