Patents Assigned to Robert
  • Patent number: 10741068
    Abstract: A method for recognizing an environment of a vehicle that has at least one environment sensor for furnishing information items regarding features of the environment includes evaluating a first information item that represents at least one feature of a first feature set in order to recognize whether a first situation of the vehicle exists and evaluating a second information item that represent at least one feature of a second feature set in order to recognize whether a second situation of the vehicle, differing from the first situation, exists, where the first and second feature sets have no common features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Roland Langhans, Bernd Mueller, Peter Sautter
  • Patent number: 10739373
    Abstract: A micromechanical spring for a sensor element, including at least two spring sections formed along a sensing axis, the at least two spring sections each having a defined length, and the at least two spring sections having different defined widths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Monika Koster, Rudy Eid
  • Patent number: 10737651
    Abstract: A method of determining an accident time parameter for evaluating an accident situation of a motor vehicle, including a) determining at least two of the following values: (i) a current value of a measured acceleration, (ii) a first integral of the measured acceleration, or (iii) a second integral of the measured acceleration, and b) determining an accident time parameter from the at least two values determined in step a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Josef Kolatschek
  • Patent number: 10738893
    Abstract: A valve armature for a solenoid valve includes a main body and a tappet that interacts with a valve seat. The main body and the tappet are connected to one another via a connecting apparatus. The connecting apparatus has at least one first latching element that is arranged on the tappet and at least one second latching element that is arranged on the main body. The latching elements are configured for a positively locking and/or non-positive latching connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Bernd Haeusser
  • Patent number: 10737674
    Abstract: A method for operating a vehicle brake system, including activation of a electrohydraulic brake booster device when there is an actuation of a brake actuating element, so a brake pressure increase is brought about in a wheel brake cylinder, and decoupling of the wheel brake cylinder from a master brake cylinder of the brake system by closing a separating valve, it being ascertained, before the closing of the separating valve, whether a first quantity relating to an actuation speed of the actuation of the brake actuating element and/or a second quantity relating to a master brake cylinder pressure increase is within at least one specified normal value range, and, if warranted, the separating valve being closed without a delay, whereas otherwise the closing of the separating valve is delayed taking into account the second quantity and/or a third quantity relating to the brake pressure increase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Krautter
  • Patent number: 10741080
    Abstract: A method for operating a motor vehicle driving driverlessly within a parking facility, including detecting, by way of a surrounding-area sensor suite of the motor vehicle, a surrounding area of the motor vehicle, in order to ascertain surrounding-area data corresponding to the detected surrounding area; checking motor vehicle-internally, based on the ascertained surrounding-area data, whether the surrounding area of the motor vehicle is devoid of an object that might, with a predetermined probability, collide with the motor vehicle; and continuing driverless driving only when the motor vehicle-internal check has indicated that the surrounding area of the motor vehicle is devoid of a corresponding object, so that the motor vehicle automatically halts if the motor vehicle-internal check has indicated that a corresponding object is located in the surrounding area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Stefan Nordbruch
  • Patent number: 10741069
    Abstract: A method for controlling a motor vehicle, including steps of scanning an object in the area of the motor vehicle; of determining a present specific embodiment of the object; of comparing the present specific embodiment with different predetermined specific embodiments of the object; of selecting a predetermined specific embodiment that corresponds to the present specific embodiment; and of determining the local area in which the motor vehicle is located on the basis of a local area that is associated with the selected specific embodiment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Karsten Muehlmann, Achim Feyerabend, Dominik Maucher
  • Patent number: 10741894
    Abstract: A metal/air battery includes an oxygen management system that delivers oxygen to the battery during a discharge cycle. The oxygen management system includes an oxygen separations unit and an oxygenated gas supply reservoir that are fluidly coupled to a positive electrode of the battery via a valve system. The valve system selectively places the oxygen separations unit and the oxygenated gas supply reservoir in fluid communication with the positive electrode during the discharge cycle. The oxygen management system also includes a compressor with an outlet fluidly coupled to the oxygenated gas supply reservoir and an inlet fluidly connected to the oxygen separations unit via the valve system. The valve system selectively places the oxygen separations unit in fluid communication with the oxygenated gas supply reservoir during one or more of the discharge cycle and a charge cycle of the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: John F. Christensen, Aleksandar Kojic, Boris Kozinsky
  • Patent number: 10738866
    Abstract: An actuator provides linear motion between two points, and includes a motor, a spindle assembly and a gear assembly that connects the motor to a spindle of the spindle assembly and drives the spindle to rotate about a spindle axis. The gear assembly includes a gear housing that encloses gears and a portion of the spindle. The gear assembly including the gear housing is modular in that it includes features that allow it to be easily adapted by a rearrangement of components, and/or by substitution of certain components, to accommodate the requirements of multiple different applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignees: Robert Bosch Mexico Sistemas Automotrices S.A. de C.V., Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ivan Colin Nunez, Allan Dassaev Cadena Lopez
  • Patent number: 10734677
    Abstract: A new class of electrolyte salts that contain substituted imidazole or benzimidazole groups is described. The salts can be used in non-aqueous electrolytes in lithium or other alkali battery cells. When used with a lithium metal anode, the salts are electrochemically stable up to 5V vs. Li/Li+.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Jin Yang, Hany Basam Eitouni, Malar Azagarsamy, Boris Kozinsky, Georgy Samsonidze, Nicola Molinari
  • Patent number: 10734752
    Abstract: A grommet 2 for sealing a cable 4 in a cable bushing 3. The grommet comprises a sleeve body 6, wherein the sleeve body 6 has an inner sealing lip 14 for sealing the cable 4 in the sleeve body 6 and an outer sealing lip 12 for sealing the sleeve body 6 in the cable bushing 3, wherein the sleeve body 6 comprises at least two body parts 7, 7a, 7b, wherein the sleeve body 6 has a detached state and an aligned state, whereby in the detached state the at least two body parts 7, 7a, 7b are detached to insert the cable 4, whereby in the aligned state the at least two body parts 7, 7a, 7b are aligned to form the inner sealing lip 14 and the outer sealing lip 12.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Francisco Homem, Berry van Hoof, Jakub Dzierzak
  • Patent number: 10730746
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a micromechanical inertial sensor, including: forming a movable MEMS structure in a MEMS wafer; connecting a cap wafer to the MEMS wafer; forming an access opening into the cavity, the access opening to the cavity being formed from two opposing sides; a defined narrow first access opening being formed from one side of the movable MEMS structure and a defined wide second access opening being formed from a surface of the MEMS wafer, the second access opening being formed to be wider in a defined manner than the first access opening; and closing the first access opening while enclosing a defined internal pressure in the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Jochen Reinmuth, Martin Rambach
  • Patent number: 10730528
    Abstract: A method for determining a safety-critical yawing motion of a vehicle includes comparing a specification signal representing an ascertained setpoint yaw rate of the vehicle for an anticipated trajectory of the vehicle to a measuring signal representing an instantaneous yaw rate of the vehicle measured based on an actual trajectory of the vehicle, thereby generating a comparison signal; checking whether an amplitude of the comparison signal exceeds a first threshold value and whether a frequency of the comparison signal exceeds a second threshold value; and, in response to the amplitude exceeding the first threshold and the frequency exceeding the second threshold, outputting a yawing-motion signal indicating presence of the safety-critical yawing motion of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Chengxuan Fu, Solomon Devakiruba Selvakumar
  • Patent number: 10735660
    Abstract: A method for object identification is described, the method initially including a step of reading in, in which input data signals, as well as a determined camera control parameter for adjusting a recording feature of a camera are read in. The input data signals in this case represent the images of the object to be identified that are recorded by at least one camera. Finally, the method includes a step of identification, in which the object is identified in a neural network using the determined camera control parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gregor Blott, Robert Borchers
  • Patent number: 10730556
    Abstract: A method for controlling an automated parking operation in which a motor vehicle is controlled autonomously on a route between a drop zone and a parking space includes steps of detecting that a person is on board the motor vehicle during an autonomous driving process, determining that permission does not exist for transporting the person on the trip, and carrying out one or more actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Rolf Nicodemus, Stefan Nordbruch
  • Patent number: 10732005
    Abstract: A multimodal visual time aware graphical display system provides point of interest inquiry controllable and dynamic graphical effects on visualization such that when time and traffic condition aware graphics is enabled. The system processes traffic information based on current and past traffic data and visualize the geographical boundaries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Liu Ren
  • Patent number: 10731611
    Abstract: A fuel injection system includes a fuel rail, and a damper that is disposed inside the fuel rail. The damper includes outwardly protruding first barbs formed integrally on one end of the damper and outwardly protruding second barbs formed integrally on an opposed end of the damper. The first barbs and the second barbs each engage the fuel rail inner surface, whereby the damper is located and retained within the fuel rail. The first barbs and the second barbs may be generally triangular in profile and each extend at an acute angle relative to the damper longitudinal axis. In addition, the first barbs and the second barbs are each oriented in the same direction relative to the longitudinal direction, whereby the damper is asymmetric when viewed in side view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignees: Robert Bosch LLC, Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Alfonso Emmanuel Guzman Escalante, Josue Israel Chavez Mendoza, John Casari
  • Patent number: 10730175
    Abstract: A portable power tool, in particular an angle grinder, includes at least one electromotive drive, a first housing, and a rechargeable battery. The electromotive drive, in particular an electronically commutated motor, acts on a drive shaft, and is configured to drive a tool spindle. The first housing has at least one first housing half shell, at least one first housing part configured to receive the electromotive drive, and a second housing part that forms a handle. The battery is configured as a power source for the portable power tool. A ratio of a diameter of the electromotive drive to a diameter of the second housing part is between 0.6 and 1.1, preferably between 0.7 and 0.8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Johannes Wolperding, Joachim Schadow, Florian Esenwein
  • Patent number: 10734618
    Abstract: A battery module incorporates features of both prismatic housings and metal foil laminate pouch housings, and is configured to receive and support electrochemical cells. The battery module housing includes a rigid tubular frame and flexible cover elements that are joined to the frame and close the open ends of the frame. The frame has an inner surface that faces the cells, an outer surface that is opposed to the inner surface, a first edge that joins the inner surface to the outer surface at one open end of the frame, and a second edge that joins the inner surface to the outer surface at the opposed open end of the frame. The first cover element overlies and closes the one open end of the frame and the second cover element overlies and closes the other open end of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignees: Robert Bosch Battery Systems LLC, Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Christopher Millon
  • Patent number: 10733234
    Abstract: Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices and/or systems for simplifying tree expressions, such as for pattern matching, are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Robert T. and Virginia T. Jenkins as Trustees of the Jenkins Family Trust Dated Feb. 8. 2002
    Inventor: Jack J. LeTourneau