Patents Assigned to Robert
  • Highly automated control of a motor vehicle
    Patent number: 10788823
    Abstract: A method for controlling a motor vehicle includes guiding the motor vehicle on a road independently of a driver; receiving a driving instruction transmitted wirelessly from a device in a vicinity of the motor vehicle; outputting an indication of the driving instruction to a driver of the motor vehicle; determining that, for longer than a predetermined time, the driver has not taken over the guidance of the motor vehicle; and executing the driving instruction independently of the driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Stefan Nordbruch
  • Method for operating a vehicle
    Patent number: 10787171
    Abstract: A method for operating a vehicle includes detecting an object state using a surroundings sensor system of the vehicle at a first point in time, detecting an object state using the surroundings sensor system at a later second point in time, and adapting an activation state of a semi-automated or fully-automated driving function of the vehicle based on the detected object states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Schroeder, Oliver Pink
  • Method for optimizing nitrogen oxide emissions and carbon dioxide emissions of a combustion engine
    Patent number: 10787944
    Abstract: A method for simultaneous optimization of nitrogen oxide emissions and carbon dioxide emissions of a combustion engine with an exhaust gas aftertreatment system of a motor vehicle. The method comprises the following steps: at the start a prediction horizon (PH) is selected (100), then a nitrogen oxide limit value (mNOx_max) is specified (101). Minimisation (102) of a cost function (K) comprising the nitrogen oxide emissions and the carbon dioxide emissions is carried out, wherein the nitrogen oxide limit value (mNOx_max) is complied with. Then actuators of the combustion engine are set (105) to a setpoint value (S) that is determined when minimizing (102) the cost function (K). Finally, the steps of the method are repeated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Fritsch, Daniel Michael Ruff
  • Monitoring module, monitoring module arrangement, monitoring installation and method
    Patent number: 10791303
    Abstract: Extensive monitoring areas must often be monitored for security-related monitoring. Particularly the installation and calibration of the cameras is complex. A monitoring module 4 for the visual monitoring of a monitoring area 5 is proposed, having at least three cameras 6 to monitor the monitoring area 5, wherein the monitoring module 4 is configured as strip-shaped and/or bar-shaped, wherein the cameras 6 are arranged at defined camera intervals along a longitudinal extension L of the monitoring module 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Christian Perwass
  • Control device and method for controlling a DC-to-DC converter having input interference
    Patent number: 10790745
    Abstract: The invention relates to a control system for a DC-to-DC converter. Variations in the input voltage of the DC-to-DC converter are compensated by an estimated value being calculated for the variations, and a control variable being determined for the DC-to-DC converter based on the estimated values of the input voltage. The estimated values for the input voltage can, for example, be determined on the basis of a polynomial, for example using a Lagrange expansion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Gholamabas Esteghlal
  • Adjustable magnetic valve
    Patent number: 10787160
    Abstract: An adjustable magnetic valve includes a magnet assembly and a guide sleeve in which a static component is arranged fixedly and a valve armature is arranged so as to be axially displaceable therein. The magnet assembly is pushed onto the static component and the guide sleeve. The static component forms an axial stop for the valve armature, which either forces a closing element into a valve seat or lifts the closing element from the valve seat depending on the direction in which the valve armature is driven. The valve armature and the static component are each formed as plastic components. The valve armature has a magnet receptacle that receives a permanent magnet, which is polarized in terms of its movement direction such that the permanent magnet is arranged within the magnet assembly regardless of the armature stroke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Edgar Kurz, Massimiliano Ambrosi, Michael Eisenlauer, Wolf Stahr, Wolfgang Schuller
  • Method and device for safeguarding a movement of a motor vehicle on an inclined ramp
    Patent number: 10787169
    Abstract: A method for safeguarding a movement of a motor vehicle on an inclined ramp. Downhill from the motor vehicle, one or multiple collision object(s) is/are moved into a travel path specified by the ramp, so that in the event of a downhill movement of the motor vehicle on the travel path, a collision of the one or multiple collision object(s) with the motor vehicle reduces a speed of the motor vehicle while it is still on the ramp. Also described are a corresponding device, a parking facility, and a computer program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Christophe Bonnet, Gerrit Quast, Martin Moser, Roland Schweiger, Stefan Nordbruch
  • Handheld light-emitting device, in particular a work light
    Patent number: 10788171
    Abstract: A handheld light-emitting device having a housing and a radio module is described, the radio module being designed to receive information from at least one external interface and/or transmit it to at least one external interface. Provision is made that the radio module is disposed in the housing of the handheld light-emitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Manuela Paetz, Anja Koenig, Thorsten Schaal
  • Method for detecting an error in a generator unit
    Patent number: 10788527
    Abstract: A method for detecting an error in a generator unit which has an electric machine (100) with a rotor winding (110) and a stator winding (120) and a rectifier (130) connected thereto, via which rectifier the electric machine (100) is connected to an electrical system (150) of a motor vehicle, the excitation current (IE) flowing through the rotor winding (110) of the electric machine (100) being plotted and it being concluded that there is an error in the generator unit depending on whether a frequency component (A) of a frequency spectrum of the plot of the excitation current (IE) in a frequency range above a lower speed limit (SW) is larger than a threshold value (S).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Manuel Mueller, Miriam Riederer, Paul Mehringer, Sebastian Paulus, Zoltan Ersek
  • Terminal arrangement for an energy storage device
    Patent number: 10790495
    Abstract: A battery pack includes a two-dimensional or three-dimensional array of battery cells, each cell having a polygonal (i.e, rectangular) shape and a “three side-and-one side” terminal configuration. In some embodiments, the terminal configuration allows the cells to be electrically connected in any configuration, series, parallel, or series parallel simply by changing the orientation of the cell relative to adjacent cells and applying pressure to maintain contact. For a rectangular cell shape, this is achieved by providing three like charged terminals (such as positive) on three respective sides of the cell and one oppositely charged terminal (such as negative) on a fourth side of the cell while maintaining a neutral charge on both of the end surfaces of the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Mehul Botadra, Robert Schoenherr
  • Table saw with electrically isolated arbor shaft
    Patent number: 10786854
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a table saw assembly includes a motor assembly, an electrically conductive belt operably connected to the motor assembly, an arbor shaft operably connected to the belt, a drop arm assembly rotatably supporting the arbor shaft, and a first pulley rotatably supporting the belt, the first pulley including an inner bore and an outer surface, the first pulley configured to electrically isolate the inner bore from the outer surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignees: Robert Bosch Tool Corporation, Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Robert S. Doumani, Eric Laliberte, Timothy Szweda, Brian Taylor
  • Switching device for a portable power tool, in particular a hammer drill and/or chisel hammer
    Patent number: 10786893
    Abstract: A switching device for a portable power tool includes at least one operating mode selection unit, which has at least one movably mounted operating element for selecting an operating mode of the portable power tool. The switching device also has at least one locking unit for locking the operating element in at least one movement position of the operating element. The locking unit has at least one movably mounted locking element which, depending on a locking position of the locking element, triggers an electric and/or electronic signal for switching an operating mode of the portable power tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Daniel Nitsch, Jan-Simon Blind, Charlotte Meiser, Hardy Schmid, Rudi Habermann
  • Component having a micromechanical sensor module
    Patent number: 10788387
    Abstract: A sensor carrier having a main plane of extension, a first side parallel to the main plane of extension, a second side parallel to the main plane of extension, which is situated opposite the first side, and at least one electrical contact surface situated on the second side. At least one stress-measuring structure is embedded in the sensor carrier. A sensor module having such a sensor carrier as well as to a component having a sensor module having such a sensor carrier, are also described. A method for calibrating a sensor module and a method for operating a sensor module are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Uwe Hansen
  • CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENT FOR THE TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT ACTUATION OF A SWITCHING ELEMENT
    Publication number: 20200304121
    Abstract: The invention relates to a circuit arrangement (100) for the temperature-dependent actuation of a first switching element (S1), comprising an input terminal (EA) for accepting an input potential, an output terminal (AA) for transferring an output potential to a first control terminal (G1) of the first switching element (S1), and a temperature-dependent component (RT) which is connected between the input terminal (EA) and the output terminal (AA).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Peter SINN, Timo BARTSCH
  • Levelling Apparatus Having an Oscillating Light Generation Unit
    Publication number: 20200300625
    Abstract: A levelling apparatus includes a housing, a light generation unit, at least one first lens, a second lens, and a holding apparatus. The light generation unit is arranged in the housing, is mounted in an oscillating manner relative to the housing and has at least one light source, to which the at least one first lens for generating a first light plane and the second lens for generating a second light plane are assigned. The holding apparatus includes a first holding element and a second holding element for arranging the at least one first lens and the second lens. The at least one first lens is arranged on the first holding element and the second lens is arranged on the second holding element. The holding apparatus is configured to orient the at least one first lens and the second lens at least substantially perpendicular to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Eric YUEN, Philip CHEUNG, John JIANG
  • METHOD FOR DETERMINING AN ATTITUDE OF AN AT LEAST PARTIALLY AUTONOMOUSLY MOVING VEHICLE USING SPECIALLY SELECTED LANDMARKS TRANSMITTED FROM A BACK-END SERVER
    Publication number: 20200298883
    Abstract: A method for determining an attitude of an at least partially autonomously moving vehicle using landmarks, a back-end server being provided, by which landmark data of the landmarks are transmitted from a map to a vehicle control system of the vehicle. According to the system and method, landmark data to be transmitted are selected as a function of environmental influences and a transmission of landmark data from the back-end server to the vehicle control system is limited to the selection made.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicants: Robert Bosch GmbH, Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Holger Mielenz, Jan Rohde
  • Hand tool device
    Patent number: 10780562
    Abstract: A hand tool device has a tool spindle and a hammer mechanism which includes a hammer and at least one curve guide driving the hammer at least during a hammer drilling operation. The tool spindle has at least one bearing surface on which the hammer is movably supported in at least one operating state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Tobias Herr
  • Method for setting a camera
    Patent number: 10783664
    Abstract: A method for setting a camera, in particular of a monitoring device, comprising a recording of an image of a region to be monitored, an analysis of the recorded image to associate at least one image region of the image with an object, identification of the object on the basis of the acquired image region and ascertainment of a size of the object by access to stored size information of the identified object and a scaling of the image region associated with the object in the recorded image to scale the remaining acquired image and/or to determine a distance of the camera to the acquired object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gregor Blott, Jan Rexilius
  • Injector testing device
    Patent number: 10782208
    Abstract: An injector testing device includes a fluid pump, which is configured to convey a test oil; a motor, which is connected mechanically to the fluid pump and is configured to drive the fluid pump; at least one injector holding device for mounting at least one injector to be tested; and a rail, which is configured to receive the test oil conveyed by the fluid pump and to fluidly connect to at least one injector to be tested. In this context, the rail is mounted in the injector testing device in such a manner, that it may be swiveled with respect to the at least one injector holding device, in order to align it with the injector to be tested.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Reinhard Hoss, Armin Batha, Daniel Strack
  • Hammer drill
    Patent number: D897178
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Vincent Hasenmayer, Vlada Nikolic