Patents Assigned to Robert
  • Patent number: 12382247
    Abstract: A vehicle side target location method includes receiving a request, via a first wireless connection, for the vehicle to travel to a location, in response to the vehicle being less than a predetermined distance from the location, receiving RF packets, via a second wireless connection having a multiple antenna radio frequency (RF) transceiver having an identification (ID), from a target at the location, identifying packets based on the ID of the RF transceiver, extracting channel state information (CSI) from received signals associated with the identified packets, determining a phase difference of subcarrier phase data of the received signals between each of the multiple antennae, filtering noise of the phase difference of subcarriers based on subcarrier selection to obtain multiple robust phase difference signals, and feeding the multiple robust phase difference signals to a classifier to obtain a side of the vehicle associated with the location of the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Sirajum Munir, Hongkai Chen
  • Patent number: 12377840
    Abstract: A method for generating a lateral offset trajectory for an at least partially automated mobile platform. The method includes: providing a target lateral offset; inverting a provided dynamic model of the mobile platform; providing at least one limit of a system variable of the dynamic model for determining the lateral offset trajectory; determining a time sequence of lateral offset trajectory points for the inverted dynamic model with a state variable filter, based on the limit(s) of the system variable, and the target lateral offset as an input signal; and determining a time sequence of values of at least one manipulated variable for the mobile platform, using the inverted dynamic model and the time sequence of the lateral offset trajectory points as an input signal for the inverted dynamic model, to generate the lateral offset trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Christian Loeffler, Steffen Joos, Timm Florian Gloger
  • Patent number: 12370645
    Abstract: A hand-held grinding machine includes at least one grinding device for receiving or forming a grinding means, a drive device for driving the grinding device, at least one actuating element for controlling the drive device, and a drive housing, which receives the drive device and has a longitudinal-axis portion arranged about a longitudinal axis at least substantially perpendicular to an axis of rotation of the drive device. The drive housing further includes a front portion, which surrounds a region of an intersection point of the axis of rotation and the longitudinal axis. The front portion includes a dome-shaped grip surface, within which the actuating element is arranged on a side, facing away from the longitudinal-axis portion, of a plane which is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and includes the axis of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Florian Esenwein
  • Patent number: 12373331
    Abstract: A method for testing a data processing distributed to multiple programs. The method includes executing an event simulator which, according to a predefined test scenario for testing multiple programs, generates test events for each program, and a replay unit, which is connected to the event simulator, and for each program starts a data processing by the program during a start-test event for the program, receives output data generated by the program and forwards them to one or to multiple of the other programs during an output-data-visibility event, and ends the data processing by the program during an ending-test event for the program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Fabian Franzelin, Jochen Kokemueller
  • Patent number: 12369764
    Abstract: A suction apparatus includes a suction apparatus housing, including a filter for cleaning a suction flow, wherein the suction apparatus housing has at least one filter fastening element for securing the filter to the suction apparatus housing, and including a filter cleaning device for mechanically cleaning the filter. The filter, the filter fastening element and the filter cleaning device are arranged within the suction apparatus housing. The filter cleaning device includes an actuation device and a hammer device. The actuation device and the hammer device interact such that the hammer device can be actuated by using the actuation device and, when actuated, the hammer device applies at least one pulse to the filter securing element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Rothweiler, Patrick Schlauch
  • Patent number: 12374964
    Abstract: An electrically controllable drive assembly including an electric motor having a rotor capable of being driven to execute a rotational movement, a motor shaft connected in rotationally fixed fashion to the rotor, and a signal transmitter of a sensor device for the electronic acquisition and evaluation of the angle of rotation of the motor shaft. The signal transmitter is indirectly anchored on the motor shaft via a holding element. The holding element is a hollow cylinder that has an open first end with which the holding element is fastened on the motor shaft and a second end, situated facing away from the motor shaft, and at least one holding element region that extends into the open cross-section of the holding element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Erwin Sinnl
  • Patent number: 12370679
    Abstract: A method for controlling a robot to perform a task. The method includes acquiring a target image data element comprising at least one target image from a perspective of an end-effector of the robot at a target position of the robot in which the robot has performed the task, acquiring an origin image data element comprising at least one origin image from the perspective of the end-effector of the robot at an origin position of the robot, supplying the origin image data element and the target image data element to a machine learning model configured to derive a delta movement between the origin current position and the target position and controlling the robot to move according to the delta movement to perform the task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Oren Spector, Dotan Di Castro, Vladimir Tchuiev
  • Patent number: 12371028
    Abstract: To provide an occupant determination device capable of improving reliability in results of determining an occupant's physique. An occupant determination device includes a tentative-determination processing unit provided in a seat of a vehicle and classifying a physique of an occupant seated on the seat by comparing a determination value set based on sensor values of a plurality of load sensors for detecting loads applied to the seat with predetermined load threshold values, and a determination processing unit determining the physique of the occupant by using tentative determination results by the tentative-determination processing unit, in which, when the number of the tentative determination results classified into a given class becomes equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold value in the tentative determination results of a predetermined number of samples, the determination processing unit determines the physique of the occupant to be the given class.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Joan Marc Berga Cabello
  • Patent number: 12371123
    Abstract: To achieve a brake hydraulic pressure control system for a straddle-type vehicle which makes it possible to reduce its size as compared to existing ones. A brake hydraulic pressure control system (70) according to the present invention including: a substrate (80); a motor (40) which is a brushless motor configured to drive a pump device (31); a housing (85) which is connected to the substrate (80); and a detection mechanism (60) which is configured to detect the rotation state of an output shaft (45) of the motor (40), in which the motor (40) is disposed in a space surrounded by the substrate (80) and the housing (85), and a bearing (46) of the motor (40) is inserted into a concave part (84) formed in the substrate (80).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Hiroaki Atsushi, Mikiya Kotaka, Kosaku Sagayama
  • Patent number: 12373927
    Abstract: A method for reducing image artifacts in a display of the environment of a vehicle. The method includes: capturing at least one current camera image of the environment of the vehicle; detecting an object in the environment of the vehicle; ascertaining the position and/or movement of the object relative to the vehicle; ascertaining a movement of the vehicle; storing at least a partial area of the captured camera image as historical image data which depicts a predetermined area of the environment of the vehicle, wherein the current position relative to the vehicle is assigned to the historical image data, wherein an object area of the currently captured camera image which corresponds to the ascertained position and/or movement of the detected object is not stored as historical image data; adapting the position relative to the vehicle assigned to the stored image data depending on the ascertained movement of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Jose Domingo Esparza Garcia
  • Patent number: 12375012
    Abstract: A safety braking device for a machine tool for braking a processing tool driven by an electric motor via an output unit, more particularly an output shaft, includes at least one braking device which is provided to halt rotation of the output unit in a braking process. The braking device has at least a first braking stage and a second braking stage. The disclosure further relates to a machine tool having the safety braking device and to a method for operating a safety braking device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Juergen Wiker, Daniel Dennis, Florian Esenwein
  • Patent number: 12369763
    Abstract: A method for controlling a suction device, in which the suction device includes at least one electric motor at least for generating a suction function, includes at least detecting vibration data on a suction hose of the suction device, evaluating the vibration data by comparing it with comparison data and generating a comparison result, and controlling the electric motor in accordance with the comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Christian Schwille, Wolfgang Herberger
  • Patent number: 12371053
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling an autonomous vehicle. One system includes an electronic processor and a sensor configured to detect a dynamic object in an environment. The electronic processor is configured to generate a dynamic object list including dynamic object information associated with the detected dynamic object. The electronic processor is also configured to receive a static occupancy grid including a plurality of cells storing occupancy information and occupancy probabilities associated with a static object in the environment. The electronic processor is further configured to superimpose the dynamic object information on the static occupancy grid, determine an overlap of the detected dynamic object and the static object, determine a dynamic object existence probability associated with the detected dynamic object based on the overlap, and classify the detected dynamic object as a ghost object based on the dynamic object existence probability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Oliver F. Schwindt, Stephan Reuter, Christos Zalidis, Tobias Berling
  • Patent number: 12370988
    Abstract: A control method is for a braking system that includes an electronically controlled mechanical brake with a first motor and a second motor. The method includes detecting a pedal stroke and determining a total required braking torque based on a pedal stroke/total braking torque curve, distributing the total braking torque to the first motor and the second motor to determine a target torque for the first motor and a target torque for the second motor, and driving the first motor and the second motor to operate based on the target torques. The method further includes monitoring an operating current and a rotational speed of the first motor and the second motor, and using motor characteristic curves of the first motor and the second motor to calculate a first computed output torque and a second computed output torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Xiaokun Zhang
  • Patent number: 12371033
    Abstract: An operating method for a redundant sensor arrangement of a vehicle system including a primary controller, a secondary controller and multiple sensors, wherein the individual sensors, in a normal mode of the vehicle system, are each coupled to the primary controller and, in an emergency mode of the vehicle system, are each coupled to the secondary controller and are supplied with power, wherein the controller that is coupled to the sensors receives and evaluates signals from the individual sensors, includes applying an operating voltage to both controllers and coupling the sensors to the primary controller and checking the coupled sensors with the primary controller. The secondary controller, in the decoupled state, checks its internal voltage supply and at least one internal signal path. Then, the secondary controller is connected to the sensors to checking their power supply. The system initialization is concluded when no errors have occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Sven Plecko, Fei Xie, Florian Koebl, Daniel Ruiz Duran
  • Patent number: 12366608
    Abstract: A method detects electrical fault states of a removable battery pack and/or an electrical device, in particular a charging device, a diagnostic device or an electrical consumer, that can be connected to the removable battery pack, using a first monitoring unit integrated in the removable battery pack. The method includes measuring a charging or discharge current using a first current measuring apparatus integrated in the electrical device and transmitting the measured current directly or as a converted voltage value to the first monitoring unit of the removable battery pack, and determining, using the first monitoring unit, based on the charging or discharge current and/or the voltage value calculated therefrom, whether the removable battery pack is operating in a permissible operating range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Klee, Holger Wernerus, Marc-Alexandre Seibert, Tim Brecht
  • Patent number: 12367989
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing an electrically conductive conductor strand (1) which comprises at least one carbon conductor (3), having the steps of: a) producing or providing a conductor strand (1) as an intermediate product comprising at least one carbon conductor (3), which comprises in particular graphite, pyrolytic graphite, graphene, graphin, and/or carbon nanotubes, b) introducing the conductor strand (1) and one or more intercalating substances (2), in particular either one or more metal halides or one or more organoalkali metals, into a gas phase or liquid phase of a reactor volume (5), the intercalating substance being suitable for intercalation into the material of the at least one carbon conductor (3) of the conductor strand (1), and c) carrying out a thermal treatment of the conductor strand (1), in which the reactor volume (5) is brought to a process temperature to initiate an intercalation (4), in which atoms or molecules of the intercalating substance (2) are embedded in t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Martin Koehne
  • Patent number: 12366332
    Abstract: The invention relates to a shut-off valve comprising: a housing which has an inlet opening, an outlet opening and a control opening, wherein the housing defines an inner space extending along a longitudinal axis and has a partition which divides the inner space into an outlet chamber and a control chamber and has a guide hole which extends between the outlet chamber and the control chamber; an electrical coil which is accommodated in the partition and surrounds the guide hole; a servo valve needle which is arranged in the control chamber, is preloaded along the longitudinal axis into a closed position in which it seals the control opening, and can be moved, by means of a magnetic field which can be generated by the coil, into an open position in which it exposes the control opening and abuts the partition, wherein the servo valve needle has a connecting channel which connects the control chamber to the guide hole in the open position of the servo valve needle; and a main valve needle which is movably guided i
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Rau, Joachim Soubari, Udo Schaich
  • Patent number: 12365352
    Abstract: A method for determining an object's position using different items of sensor information includes: a) reading the sensor information into a Kalman filter, b) merging the sensor information with the Kalman filter, with the Kalman filter supplying as a result estimated values for states and information associated with the estimated values regarding the accuracy of the estimates, c) monitoring the results of the Kalman filter by estimating a probability of accuracy, with which the estimation error lies within an error band, with the probability of accuracy being determined on the basis of a plurality of conditional probabilities, the conditions for which each relate to estimation errors from at least one earlier series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Doris Pflueger
  • Patent number: D1085838
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignees: Robert Bosch Tool Corporation, Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Mark Vignocchi, Balazs Nagy, Agustin Monroy Aripez, Daniel Schadegg, Andreas Bell, Patricia Howes