Patents Assigned to Robert Bosch
  • Drive unit with a housing
    Patent number: 7656065
    Abstract: A drive unit, in particular for adjusting movable parts in a motor vehicle, has a housing including an opening to the surrounding, in which a gas-permeable, liquid-impermeable diaphragm is installed, the housing includes a first housing part with a circumferential collar, and a second housing part which closes off the first housing part, on the second housing part the opening is integrally formed with a circumferential mating surface, which presses the diaphragm against the collar of the first housing part after the housing is closed, and a sealing element located between the diaphragm and the mating surface is integrally non-detachably formed on the first and/or second housing part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Rico Lampert, Thomas Huck, Marco Krauth, Diyap Bueyuekasik, Tarek Mili
  • Impact drill with swivel device
    Patent number: 7654339
    Abstract: An impact drill that includes a drive motor located in a motor housing, an impact mechanism, and a tool fitting. The tool fitting and the impact mechanism are components of a swivel device that is located such that the swivel device may swivel relative to the motor housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Rudolf Fuchs
  • Control circuit for an arrangement having at least two direct current motors that are connectable in parallel to a direct voltage system
    Patent number: 7656107
    Abstract: The invention relates to a control circuit for an arrangement having at least two DC motors (10, 12), which can be connected in parallel to a DC voltage system (16, 18), in particular a circuit for controlling at least two motors of a motor vehicle fan. In this case, the DC motors (10, 12) can be connected to the DC voltage system (16, 18), on the one hand, during starting, jointly via in each case one series resistor (22, 24) having a low resistance value and a common semiconductor switching element (26) and, on the other hand, during operation, via separate semiconductor switching elements (32, 34), the series circuit comprising the separate series resistors (22, 24) and the common semiconductor switching element (26) being arranged in parallel with the separate semiconductor switching elements (30, 32) for controlling the motors during operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Stefan Koch
  • Contacting plug-and-socket connection with contact force independent of contact carrier thickness
    Patent number: 7654845
    Abstract: Disclosed is a contacting connector (53) comprising a contacting plug (25) and a contacting socket (97) which is assigned, preferably joined in a defined position, to a contact carrier (17), particularly a printed board (16). The contacting plug (25) is fitted with at least one contact element (58) while the contact carrier (17) is provided with at least one contact surface (127), preferably a land (126) or a strip conductor. A receiving direction (a) that corresponds to a plug-in direction is defined between the contacting plug (25) and the contact carrier (17) while the contact element (58) lies on the contact carrier (17) with a certain contact force (FK). The inventive contacting connector (53) is characterized in that the contact force (FK) is independent of a force (F) acting between the contacting socket (97) and the contact carrier (17).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Hartmut Buschle, Ulrich Schmatz
  • DRIVE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MONITORING A HYDROSTATIC DRIVE
    Publication number: 20100018384
    Abstract: The invention relates to a drive system and to a method for monitoring a hydrostatic drive (1). The hydrostatic drive (1) has at least one hydrostatic piston engine (2) on which a control unit (6, 6?), which controls the hydrostatic piston engine (2, 2?), is arranged, wherein the control unit (6, 6?) is connected to a central control device (13), which controls the drive system (1), via a first interface (14). Control signals for controlling the drive system (1) can be transmitted using the first interface (14). The central control device (13) is additionally connected to the control unit (6) via a second interface (26, 26?), and a switch-off signal can be transmitted from the control unit (6, 6?) to the central control device (13) and/or from the central control device (13) to the control unit (6, 6?) using the second interface (26, 26?).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2007
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Michael Brand, Hubert Stratmann, Hans-Joachim Vagt, Reinhart Rueckert, Grit Geissler
  • PASSIVE NETWORK FOR ELECTROSTATIC PROTECTION OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS
    Publication number: 20100020455
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide an electrostatic discharge protection device or network for an integrated circuit. The network includes a first circuit branch and a second circuit branch connected in a parallel configuration. The first branch has a first inductance, a first resistance, and includes a first capacitive component. The second branch has a second inductance, a second resistance, and includes a second capacitive component. A first end of the first circuit branch and a first end of the second circuit branch are coupled to a first node, and a second end of the first circuit branch and a second end of the second circuit branch are coupled to zero-voltage reference level. The network is capable of providing a low impedance path away from a terminal of the integrated circuit during an electrostatic discharge event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2009
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Cyrous F. Rostamzadeh, Paul Janos
  • Multilayer Microstripline Transmission Line Transition
    Publication number: 20100019859
    Abstract: A microstripline transmission line arrangement carries a signal having a fundamental frequency. The arrangement includes a first microstripline transmission line, a second microstripline transmission line, and a coaxial electrically conductive conduit interconnecting the first transmission line and the second transmission line. The conduit includes a signal conductor and an electrically grounded shield substantially surrounding the signal conductor. The conductor and the shield are positioned relative to each other to thereby comprise a means for lowpass filtering the signal. A cutoff frequency of the lowpass filtering is less than a third harmonic of the fundamental frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2008
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Applicants: Bosch Security Systems, Inc., Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Lance Dion Lascari
  • METHOD FOR DETECTING AN ERROR IN A COMPONENT ASSEMBLY
    Publication number: 20100023200
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for detecting an error in a component assembly of a motor vehicle, the component assembly having a functional control unit and at least one function module to be controlled by the functional control unit as components. According to the method, a check is made by the functional control unit to determine whether a combination of individual errors is present for at least one component of the component assembly. When the combination of individual errors is thereby present, an occurrence of the error is verified by the functional control unit and a signal for implementing an emergency functional strategy is transmitted by said control unit to an engine control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2009
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Bernhard KURRLE, Marc CHAINEUX, Andreas FELDGES
  • WIPER LEVER COMPRISING A WIPER ARM AND A WIPER BLADE WHICH IS CONNECTED TO THE SAME IN AN ARTICULATED MANNER, FOR CLEANING WINDOWS, ESPECIALLY WINDOWS PERTAINING TO MOTOR VEHICLES
    Publication number: 20100017995
    Abstract: Wiper lever (10) with a driven wiper arm (12) and a wiper blade (14) linked to it for cleaning the windows of motor vehicles in particular, which is provided with a band-like, long-stretched-out, elastic supporting element (22) that is curved in the longitudinal direction over its band surfaces (26, 28), which features a rubber elastic wiper strip (30) that can be applied to the window on its concave curved band surface (26), on whose convex curved band surface (28) a coupling element (20) sits to connect the wiper blade to a coupling piece (18) of the wiper arm and the articulated connection is covered by a cap (100) that is held on the wiper blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2009
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Hubert Verelst, Eric Windmolders, Christian Wilms, Hans Beelen, Robert Vertongen
  • MACHINE TOOL MONITORING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20100018830
    Abstract: The invention relates to a machine tool monitoring device. It is proposed that the machine tool monitoring device comprises at least one signal unit for an ultra wide band operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2007
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Reiner Krapf, Heiko Braun, Michael Mahler, Alexander Werner Hees
  • ARRANGEMENT FOR EVALUATING THE MEASURED VALUES OF A MEASURED-VALUE CONVERTER
    Publication number: 20100023304
    Abstract: The object of the invention is to implement an arrangement that enables maximally flexible linkage of measured-value sensing systems 12 to automation devices. This object is achieved in that an arrangement for evaluating the measured values of a measured-value converter 12 is provided, which arrangement encompasses an evaluation means 13 and a connecting means 18 for linking the evaluation means 13 to the measured-value transducer 12. Connecting means 18 in turn encompasses means 14, 15, 16, 17a, b that are at least in part electrically configurable, by means of parameters, in such a way that a linkage of evaluation means 13 to measured-value converters 12 that differ in terms of measured-value data transfer can be implemented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2009
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Gerhard Bund
  • Device for image detecting objects, people or similar in the area surrounding a vehicle
    Patent number: 7652686
    Abstract: A device for detecting objects, persons or the like, including, for example, in the surroundings of a vehicle, has a stereo-sensitive image recording unit which includes at least two image sensors and an evaluation unit to evaluate the signals, supplied by the image sensors, using which, in a simple manner, a three-dimensional geometry of the surroundings of a vehicle is variably recordable at a desired operating range and at a desired viewing angle, and in which the optical axes of the image sensors are changeably alignable relative to each other and/or relative to vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Christoph Stiller
  • Microcontroller system and operating method for secure device locking using counter and timer
    Patent number: 7653837
    Abstract: A microcontroller system includes a microcontroller, a device which is controllable by the microcontroller, and a monitoring device. Under the control of a normal operation program, the microcontroller outputs a normal operation indicating signal. If the normal operation indicating signal is absent, the monitoring device transfers the device into a secured state and, if it is absent over a predefined period of time, locks the device in that state. When predefined exceptional conditions occur, the microcontroller changes to an operation preparation program, and the monitoring device increments a register. If the contents of the register reach a predefined value, the monitoring device locks the device in the secured state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gotthilf Koerner, Berthold Fehrenbacher
  • Control unit and acceleration sensor system
    Patent number: 7653468
    Abstract: Described is a control unit and an acceleration sensor system, the control unit having an electronic safety switch which, as a function of a signal of an acceleration sensor system, releases output stages for actuating passenger protection means independently of a processor and the processor actuates the output stages as a function of the signal. The safety switch analyzes an integrated acceleration signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Wellhoefer, Volker Frese
  • DRIVE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING AT LEAST ONE SERIES CIRCUIT OF LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES
    Publication number: 20100013411
    Abstract: A device for at least one series circuit of multiple light-emitting diodes, having a voltage regulation unit for regulating an operating voltage for the at least one series circuit of the light-emitting diodes. A current regulation unit for regulating the current through the particular series circuit of light-emitting diodes is provided for each series circuit of light-emitting diodes, and the current regulation unit is connected to the voltage regulation unit in order to transmit a current regulation signal to the voltage regulation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2007
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Krespach, Stephan Wenk
  • IN-LINE NOISE FILTERING DEVICE FOR FUEL SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20100012091
    Abstract: A fuel injection system includes a fuel supply rail, a fuel injector configured to control the delivery of fuel from the fuel supply rail, and a noise filtering device engaging an upstream end of the fuel injector and/or positioned at least partially within the fuel injector. The noise filtering device defines a fuel passage configured to direct fuel from the fuel supply rail into the fuel injector. The noise filtering device can include one or more of several features including a pocket, a wrap-around shape to conform to the inlet end of the fuel injector, a face-sealing portion, a compression section, and a plurality of parallel restriction passages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2009
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Venkatesh Kannan, Michael U. Fischer, William G. Klisz, John P. Casari, Jason L. Kramer, Norbert Mueller, Markus Friedrich
  • CONTROL UNIT FOR PASSENGER PROTECTION AND METHOD FOR TRIGGERING PASSENGER PROTECTION MEANS
    Publication number: 20100017065
    Abstract: In a control unit for passenger protection and a method for triggering passenger protection devices, a Manchester-coded signal is supplied by an interface and the Manchester-coded signal is decoded by a coding unit, so that an analyzer unit performs the triggering of passenger protection devices as a function of the decoded signal. The decoding unit uses a shift register structure for decoding and oversampling for the Manchester-coded signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2008
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Timo Weiss
  • IMAGE RECORDING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20100013928
    Abstract: An image recording system having a CCD camera or CMOS camera for picking up the surroundings of a vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2006
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Karsten Haug
  • Connector for windshield wiper blade
    Patent number: D608717
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Hans-Peter Aglassinger
  • Connector for windshield wiper blade
    Patent number: D609159
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Hans-Peter Aglassinger