Patents Assigned to Robert
  • Patent number: 11366207
    Abstract: A method is accordingly provided for operating an ultrasonic sensor, a plurality of measuring cycles being successively carried out. In each measuring cycle—an electroacoustic transducer of the ultrasonic sensor is excited using an excitation pulse, causing it to mechanically oscillate, as a result of which a measuring signal is transmitted by the transducer, an echo signal is received by the transducer, and a piece of object information is ascertained from the echo signal. The frequency curve of the excitation pulse is differentiated into two measuring cycles successively carried out at least at the end of the frequency curve. The ascertained pieces of object information from at least two measuring cycles are compared with one another and an interference is identified as a function of the result of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Michael Schumann
  • Patent number: 11366463
    Abstract: A method for assessing a control loop. In the method, the control loop is assigned one degree of fulfillment each with respect to at least three quality criteria. The surface area of a polygon having a geometry defined by the degrees of fulfillment is determined. An overall control quality of the control loop is evaluated on the basis of the surface area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Patrik Zips, Markus Gurtner, Adrian Trachte, Daniel Seiler-Thull, Julian Ophey, Muhammed Atak
  • Patent number: 11364906
    Abstract: The present invention provides a control system and a control method capable of appropriately supporting driving of a motorcycle by a rider. The control system includes a control amount setting unit that sets a control amount in auto cruise operation, an execution unit that causes the motorcycle to execute the auto cruise operation, and further including a lane position information acquiring unit that acquires relative position information of a lane boundary with respect to the motorcycle during traveling, and a limitation determining unit that determines to provide a limitation on the auto cruise operation in a case where a determination reference is satisfied, in which the determination reference includes a condition that the lane position information acquired by the lane position information acquiring unit satisfies a prescribed condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Lars Pfau
  • Patent number: 11366173
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to systems and methods by which the lifetime, e.g., remaining life or amount of life used, of variable use items, such as rechargeable batteries, battery relays, vehicles and power tools, can be determined that takes into account the conditions of the use of the item. The systems and methods involve an algorithm that can be described as accumulating points based on the real time utilization of the item, e.g., rechargeable battery, battery relay, vehicle, or power tool, and when an agreed-upon number of points have been accumulated, the item can be considered to be at end of life or end of warranty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Mark Kotik
  • Patent number: 11366911
    Abstract: A cryptography module for at least temporarily controlling an operation of at least one computing device. The cryptography module is designed to check at least one memory area of a memory unit capable of being accessed by the computing device, and to control the operation of the at least one computing device as a function of the check. The cryptography module is designed to receive a first control command from the computing device, which characterizes at least one memory area of the memory unit to be checked, and to check the memory area characterized by the first control command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Juergen Schramm, Alexander Meurer, Ramona Jung, Christoph Lenz, Andreas Weber, Florian Ziegler, Frederic Stumpf, Ilias Sagar
  • Patent number: 11366987
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of determining an explainability mask for classification of an input image by a trained neural network. The trained neural network is configured to determine the classification and classification score of the input image by determining a latent representation of the input image at an internal layer of the trained neural network. The method includes accessing the trained neural network, obtaining the input image and the latent representation thereof and initializing a mask for indicating modifications to the latent representation. The mask is updated by iteratively adjusting values of the mask to optimize an objective function, comprising i) a modification component indicating a degree of modifications indicated by the mask, and ii) a classification score component, determined by applying the indicated modifications to the latent representation and determining the classification score thereof. The mask is scaled to a spatial resolution of the input image and output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Andres Mauricio Munoz Delgado
  • Patent number: 11368673
    Abstract: A device for detecting a soiling of a transparent cover of at least one transmitting window and/or one receiving window of an optical sensor. The device includes at least one hologram structure, an image sensor, and a processing unit. The at least one hologram structure is designed to at least partially deflect light beams incident through the transparent cover, or light beams reflected by an inner side of the transparent cover, in the direction of the image sensor. The image sensor is designed to detect at least one image signal as a function of the deflected light beams, and the processing unit is designed to detect a soiling of the transparent cover as a function of the at least one detected image signal. An optical sensor including the device, and a method for detecting a soiling of the transparent cover, are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Annette Frederiksen, Stefanie Hartmann
  • Patent number: 11364879
    Abstract: A wiper arm adapter device with at least one fluid channel (44a, 46a; 44b, 46b) for conducting a fluid, and with at least one connecting unit (48a; 48b) for connecting the fluid channel (44a, 46a; 44b, 46b) to a fluid line element (36a; 36b) of a wiper arm and/or to a wiper blade adapter (30a; 30b), wherein the connecting unit (48a; 48b) has at least one connecting element (52a, 54a; 52b, 54b) which at least partially delimits the fluid channel (44a, 46a; 44b, 46b). The connecting unit (48a; 48b) has at least one valve element (56a, 58a; 56b, 58b) which is arranged on the connecting element (52a, 54a; 52b, 54b) and is configured to form the fluidic connection of the fluid channel (44a, 46a; 44b, 46b) to the wiper blade adapter (30a; 30b) in a closeable manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Andrija Terentic, Harald Rapp
  • Patent number: 11365709
    Abstract: A component for a fuel injection system, in particular a high-pressure fuel injection system, includes a base body which is implemented in a tube-shaped manner at least sectionally. A tubular section of the base body is implemented having a longitudinal bending along a longitudinal axis of the tubular section which perpendicularly intersects the cross sections of the tubular section. At the longitudinal bending of the tubular section, the base body is implemented in such way that an ovality of the cross sections of the tubular section is reduced and/or smaller than 8% at the longitudinal bending.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Rehwald, Atanas Dimitrov, John Seifert, Klaus Lang, Waldemar Nussbaecher
  • Patent number: 11365871
    Abstract: A portable work light is disclosed having a light fixture with one or more rotational degrees of freedom that are automatically actuated such that a light thereof can maintain optimal lighting for a target person in a jobsite environment. Particularly, the portable work light is advantageously configured to track a target person's location within the jobsite environment and automatically reorient the light fixture as needed to maintain optimal illumination of the jobsite for the target person. In this way, the non-value-added work of repositioning or reorienting the work light is eliminated, thus enhancing the productivity of the target person at the jobsite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Eric R. Laliberte
  • Patent number: 11364968
    Abstract: A pressure modulator for an anti-lock braking system of a bicycle. The pressure modulator includes a cylinder, and a piston having a through opening for hydraulic fluid, the piston being situated inside the cylinder and subdividing the cylinder into a first accumulator chamber and a second accumulator chamber, the first and second accumulator chambers being connectable to each other via the through opening. The pressure modulator further includes a valve system, which includes a closing element and an actuating device for the closing element, the closing element being situated in the through opening, and the actuating device being situated at a bottom of the cylinder, and an actuator for moving the piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Alessandro Moia
  • Patent number: 11367550
    Abstract: A circuit includes a rectifier, e.g., including four diodes; a semiconductor switch; a coil that is chargeable, is dischargeable, and has (a) a first terminal connected to a first output terminal of the rectifier and (b) a second terminal connected via the semiconductor switch to a second output terminal of the rectifier; a first resistor via which a control terminal of the semiconductor switch is connected to the first output terminal of the rectifier; a second resistor connected between the second output terminal of the rectifier and the control terminal of the semiconductor switch; and a discharge unit connected between the second terminal of the coil and the control terminal of the semiconductor switch. The charging and discharging is implemented by, respectively, connecting both of, and disconnecting one or both of, first and second input terminals of the rectifier to/from the voltage source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Klemens Strauss, Tobias Kirchner
  • Patent number: 11364616
    Abstract: A rechargeable battery pack interface device includes: at least one connecting unit that is designed to detachably mechanically connect a rechargeable battery pack to a consumer, the mechanical connection being detachable using a relative movement of the rechargeable battery pack relative to the consumer; and a retaining unit that is designed in such a way that, in a non-activated state of the retaining unit, the mechanical connection is detachable using the relative movement of the rechargeable battery pack with respect to the consumer and, in an activated state of the retaining unit, the mechanical connection is detachable using another relative movement which differs from the relative movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Wolf Zahn, Florian Kneer, Josef Baumgartner
  • Patent number: 11366938
    Abstract: A method for operating a bus system, in which a message of the bus system is received and its validity is ascertained, wherein, if it was ascertained that the message is “malicious”, a new message is sent to the designated receiver of this “non-malicious” message, the content of the new message having been previously rated as “non-malicious.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Benjamin Herrmann, Liem Dang, Antonio La Marca, Timo Gentner
  • Patent number: 11366279
    Abstract: A method for joining a camera module, which includes a base plate on which an image sensor is situated, and an objective holder in which an objective of the camera module is accommodated. The base plate and the objective holder are aligned relative to each other in a connection region and a connecting pin is guided through a recess of the base plate and/or the objective holder so that the connecting pin protrudes on the outside, and the at least one free end of the connecting pin is widened by a forming die using a radially acting deformation force such that the base plate and the objective holder are pressed against each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Nikolai Bauer, Andreas Moehrle, Moritz Winkler, Michael Gockel
  • Patent number: 11365774
    Abstract: A brake-system damping device includes a first chamber, to which hydraulic pressure is to be applied, a second chamber, in which there is a compressible medium, and a first separating element for separating the first chamber from the second chamber. The brake-system damping device includes a third chamber, in which there is a compressible medium, and a second separating element for separating the second chamber from the third chamber. The second chamber is connected, for medium conduction, to the third chamber by means of a passage formed in the second separating element. A closure element is to be moved with the first separating element, by means of which closure element the passage is to be closed as soon as the hydraulic pressure has reached predefined pressure value in the first chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Yakup Navruz, Edgar Kurz, Wolfgang Schuller, Holger Kurz
  • Patent number: 11366194
    Abstract: A method is provided for correcting a positional probability distribution, at least two mobile systems each ascertaining a positional probability distribution through respective GNSS receivers, at least one mobile system ascertaining a distance to at least one second mobile system, the at least two mobile systems exchanging the ascertained positional probability distribution among themselves through a communication link, and by using the at least two ascertained positional probability distributions and the distance between the at least two mobile systems, an improvement of the positional probability distributions being calculated. Furthermore, a method for providing at least one correction term is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Maxim Dolgov, Thomas Michalke, Florian Wildschuette, Hendrik Fuchs, Ignacio Llatser Marti
  • Patent number: 11365783
    Abstract: Disclosed is a transverse segment for a drive belt with a stack of rings and with a number of the transverse segments, which transverse segment includes a base part and two pillar parts that respectively extend from a respective axial side of the base part in radial outward direction, defining a central opening of the transverse segment between them, and that are each provided with a hook portion extending over a part of the central opening in the general direction of the respectively opposite pillar part. A width dimension of one of the pillar parts of the transverse segment is less than a width dimension of the respective other pillar part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Yuji Takahashi, Geert Lamers, Kouhei Toyohara, Michael Keersmaekers, Makoto Momoi, Takeshi Kimura
  • Patent number: 11360208
    Abstract: A sensor system for a vehicle, including a control unit, which is situated in the vehicle; multiple sensor units, which are situated on or in the vehicle and connected to the control unit, at least one of the sensor units being connected via a bidirectional connecting line for signal exchange or via a bidirectional connecting line and via a synchronization line to the control unit and being configured to receive a synchronization signal from the central control unit via the bidirectional connecting line or via the synchronization line to be operated by the control unit at a predefined point in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Marcel Mayer, Klaus Baur, Michael Schoor
  • Patent number: 11360443
    Abstract: A model calculation unit for calculating a gradient with respect to a certain input variable of input variables of a predefined input variable vector for an RBF model with the aid of a hard-wired processor core designed as hardware for calculating a fixedly predefined processing algorithm in coupled functional blocks, the processor core being designed to calculate the gradient with respect to the certain input variable for an RBF model as a function of one or multiple input variable(s) of the input variable vector of an input dimension, of a number of nodes, of length scales predefined for each node and each input dimension, and of parameters of the RBF function predefined for each node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Andre Guntoro, Heiner Markert, Martin Schiegg