Patents Assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH
  • WIPER BLADE ADAPTER DEVICE
    Publication number: 20140033467
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wiper blade adapter device having a wiper arm adapter (10) and a wiper blade adapter (12). The wiper blade adapter device comprises a pivot bearing unit (14) which is provided to rotatably mount the wiper arm adapter (10) and the wiper blade adapter (12) in an assembly process relative to each other around a longitudinal axis (16) of the wiper blade adapter (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GmbH
    Inventors: Mike Obert, Andreas Benner, Eckhard Lichtenthaler
  • METHOD FOR PRODUCING A BONDING PAD FOR THERMOCOMPRESSION BONDING, AND BONDING PAD
    Publication number: 20140035167
    Abstract: A method produces a bonding pad for thermocompression bonding. The method includes providing a carrier material having semiconductor structures, wherein an outermost edge layer of the carrier material is a wiring metal layer configured to make electrical contact with the semiconductor structures. The method also includes depositing a single-layered bonding metal layer directly on a surface of the wiring metal layer to produce the bonding pad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Schelling, David Borowsky
  • REAGENT VESSEL INSERT, REAGENT VESSELS, METHOD FOR THE CENTRIFUGING OF AT LEAST ONE MATERIAL AND METHOD FOR THE PRESSURE TREATMENT OF AT LEAST ONE MATERIAL
    Publication number: 20140038307
    Abstract: A reagent vessel insert for a reagent vessel for a centrifuge and/or a pressure varying device includes an insert housing formed such that the reagent vessel insert is insertable in a reagent vessel for a centrifuge and/or for a pressure varying device. The reagent vessel insert also includes at least one agitating element arranged in at least one interior volume such that a place and/or position of the at least one agitating element is changeable with respect to the insert housing. The reagent vessel insert is configured such that at least one material filled into the at least one interior volume is agitatable and such that, during an adjustment, at least one subunit of the at least one agitating element contacting at least one holding structure, by which the at least one agitating element is held in at least one semi-stable place and/or at least one semi-stable position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Martina Daub, Guenter Roth, Ame Kloke, Juergen Steigert, Felix von Stetten, Nils Paust
  • Method and device for monitoring a vehicle occupant
    Publication number: 20140039788
    Abstract: A method, a corresponding device, and a corresponding computer program for monitoring a vehicle occupant, including the following: detecting multiple objects in the vehicle surroundings with the aid of a surroundings detection device, detecting a viewing direction of the vehicle occupant with the aid of a gaze detection device, and automatically associating the detected viewing direction with one of the detected objects with the aid of an association device for a determination regarding which object of the multiple objects the vehicle occupant has viewed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas FUEHRER
  • WIPER BLADE ADAPTER DEVICE
    Publication number: 20140033466
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wiper blade adapter device having a wiper arm adapter (10) and a wiper blade adapter (12). The wiper blade adapter device comprises a pivot bearing unit (14) which is provided to rotatably mount the wiper arm adapter (10) and the wiper blade adapter (12) in an assembly process relative to each other around a vertical axis (16).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Mike Obert, Andreas Benner, Eckhard Lichtenthaler
  • HYDROSTATIC AXIAL PISTON MACHINE
    Publication number: 20140033911
    Abstract: A hydrostatic axial piston machine of swash plate design includes a pivot cradle configured to be pivoted by a regulating valve. The movement of the pivot cradle is fed back to the regulating valve via a return spring. The return spring is attached to the pivot cradle in the region between its end section on the regulating-valve side and an end section which is remote from the regulating valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ruslan Rudik, Timo Nafz
  • METHOD FOR MONITORING A BATTERY PACK, BATTERY WITH A MONITORING MODULE AND A MOTOR VEHICLE WITH A CORRESPONDING BATTERY
    Publication number: 20140035592
    Abstract: A method is used for monitoring a battery pack to check claims under guarantee that could possibly be invalid due to incorrect opening of the battery pack. The battery pack includes at least one electrochemical cell. When the battery pack is monitored, whether the battery pack has been opened is detected and any details relating to an event of opening are recorded in a non-erasable storage medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicants: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd., Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Wickert, Prashant Sharma
  • Method for determining a phase position of an adjustable camshaft
    Publication number: 20140034000
    Abstract: A method for determining a phase position of an adjustable camshaft of an internal combustion engine having a sensor wheel and a camshaft adjuster. The phase position of the camshaft is determined on the basis of phase flank interrupts triggered by the sensor wheel and a model which depends on at least one performance characteristic of the camshaft adjuster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Torsten BAUMANN, Oliver Krannich, Andreas Lassl
  • Filter device, in particular fluid filter, with a heater
    Patent number: 8641896
    Abstract: Disclosed is a filter device having a filter element disposed in a filter housing and a heater for heating a medium flowing through the filter device. The heater is disposed in the interior of the filter housing and is mounted on the filter element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Carlos J. Blasco Remacha, Cesar Garcia Benitez, Juan Luis Marquez Gavilan
  • Method and control unit for rectifying a camera image
    Patent number: 8644641
    Abstract: A method for rectifying a camera image includes: receiving a plurality of distorted pixels of a distorted camera image; receiving a compressed rectifying rule, via an interface; and performing a decompression of the compressed rectifying rule, in order to obtain a decompressed rectifying rule for rectifying the distorted camera image. A plurality of rectified pixels of a distorted camera image is determined from the plurality of distorted pixels, using the decompressed rectifying rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Steffen Abraham, Axel Wendt
  • Lockout forward flip lever for power saw
    Patent number: 8640345
    Abstract: A saw assembly includes a housing, a drive member, a motor, a switch, a trigger, a lockout lever, a stop structure, and a lock-on member. The housing defines an interior space, and has a forward housing portion defining a forward housing opening and a rearward housing portion defining a rearward housing opening. The drive member extends through the forward housing opening, and is configured to be moved in a repeating pattern. The motor is positioned in the interior space and is configured to move the drive member in the repeating pattern. The switch is positioned in the interior space and has an actuator movable between an actuated and a deactuated position. When the switch is in the actuated position, the motor moves the drive member in the repeating pattern, and when the switch is in the deactuated position, the motor does not move the drive member in the repeating pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Jaime Moreno
  • Rechargeable battery
    Patent number: 8642197
    Abstract: A rechargeable battery including an electrode assembly including a positive electrode and a negative electrode; a case containing the electrode assembly; a terminal electrically connected to the electrode assembly; a current collecting member fixed to the electrode assembly; and a connection member electrically connecting the electrode assembly and the terminal, and the connection member includes a first end fixed to one of the current collecting member or the terminal, a second end spaced apart from the first end and contacting the other of the current collecting member or the terminal, and a fuse portion between the first end and the second end, the fuse portion having a smaller cross-sectional area than a surrounding portion of the connection member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignees: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd., Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: In Kim, Duk-Jung Kim, Hyung-Sik Kim, Zin Park
  • Tool fastenable to a drive shaft of a hand-held power tool driveable in an oscillating manner
    Patent number: 8640580
    Abstract: A tool is configured with a centering element and a fastening portion with form-locking elements for axial mounting and fastening onto a drive shaft of a hand-held power tool. The centering element and the form-locking elements are arranged in a first tool part. The form-locking elements are located radially outside the centering element and are configured with a quadrangular cross section that corresponds to a trapezoidal cross section, which is perpendicular to an axis of the drive shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Ulrich Bohne
  • Safety detection and protection system for power tools
    Patent number: 8640583
    Abstract: A detection system for detecting a dangerous condition for an operator using a power tool of the type which has an exposed blade relative to a work surface and a protection system for minimizing, if not eliminating the possibility of a user being injured by contacting the blade. In one preferred embodiment of the present invention, a proximity detection system is capable of detecting the presence of a user near the blade of a table saw and a protection system that can either retract the blade below the work surface of the table saw or terminate the drive torque to the blade which can result in rapid stopping of the saw blade by a work piece that is being cut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Wojciech T. Pierga, Thomas R. Siwek, Ahmad R. Shishegar
  • Sliding bearing, process for producing a sliding bearing and use of a sliding bearing
    Patent number: 8641285
    Abstract: A sliding bearing (10) having a bearing body (11) which receives a shaft (1) in a guide bore (26) and is fabricated by a noncutting production process, wherein the bearing body (11) serves for at least indirect arrangement in a preferably fixedly arranged element (2), in particular a housing. According to the invention, it is provided that the bearing body (11) is provided on its outer circumference with a receptacle (14) for an elastic bearing element (12) for bearing against the fixed element (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Uwe Roessler
  • Rechargeable battery
    Patent number: 8642196
    Abstract: A rechargeable battery according to an exemplary embodiment includes an electrode assembly having a positive electrode and a negative electrode, a case in which the electrode assembly is installed, a cap plate coupled with the case, a short-circuit member provided in a short-circuit hole formed in the cap plate and deformed to electrically connect the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and a valve member provided under the short-circuit hole and controlling connection between an internal space of the case and the short-circuit hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignees: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd., Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Min-Hyung Guen
  • Tool-less blade clamping apparatus for a reciprocating tool
    Patent number: 8641049
    Abstract: Several preferred embodiments are disclosed for a tool-less blade clamping apparatus for a reciprocating tool of the type which has a reciprocating plunger which has a tool attachment receiving slot for receiving a tool attachment of the type that has a shank portion. The clamping apparatus has an unclamped position and a clamped position. In the unclamped position, a tool attachment can be easily inserted and when it is in its clamped position, the tool attachment is securely retained. The preferred embodiments have at least one spring biasing the apparatus toward the clamped position, a releasable retaining mechanism for holding the apparatus in its unclamped position after being placed in that position. When the blade shank portion is inserted into the slot a predetermined distance, the shoulders of the shank portion release the retaining mechanism to move it to its clamped position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Marc Vincent Marini, Vance E. Roe, Matthew Carr, Gary Sinclair, Gavin Wright
  • Brake booster having atmosphere chamber void of springs
    Patent number: 8640599
    Abstract: A brake booster includes an atmosphere chamber, a working chamber, a valve assembly, and an air passageway. The atmosphere chamber includes an air inlet, and the working chamber is in fluid communication with the atmosphere chamber. The valve assembly is positioned between the atmosphere chamber and the working chamber, and the valve assembly includes a plunger configured to cooperate with a valve seat to selectively enable or prevent fluid flow from the atmosphere chamber to the working chamber. The air passageway is defined within the atmosphere chamber between the air inlet and the valve assembly. The air passageway is void of any springs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Darryl C. Price
  • Method and device for operating a particle sensor
    Patent number: 8640526
    Abstract: A method for operating a particle sensor (10). The particle sensor (10) has at least two inter-digital electrodes (12, 13) which engage one in the other and to which a sensor voltage U(IDE) (21) is applied in order to determine loading of the particle sensor (10) with soot particles (16). A sensor current I(IDE) (31) across the electrodes (12, 13) is measured and evaluated. In order to remove the loading with soot, a heating element (14) heats the particle sensor (10) in a regeneration phase. The method characterized in that the sensor current I(IDE) (31) is determined, and a shunt diagnosis of the particle sensor (10) is carried out in accordance with the measured sensor current I(IDE) (31).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ariel Di Miro, Enno Baars, Johannes Grabis, Alexander Hetznecker, Mathias Klenk, Bernhard Kamp, Bastian Roetzler, Henrik Schittenhelm
  • Method and device for supplying operating voltage to a control unit of a motor vehicle
    Patent number: 8643210
    Abstract: A method for supplying operating voltage to a control unit of a motor vehicle, the control unit being continuously supplied by a vehicle battery, and a device for implementing the method. In the case of a method for supplying a control unit of a motor vehicle with operating voltage, where the power supply to the control unit is reliably ensured in the off and non-running state, respectively, during vehicle start-up, while entailing minimal outlay for circuitry, a potential of the vehicle battery is connected to the control unit at all times via at least one of the lines that are connected to the control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Kirschner, Dieter Buchholz