Patents Assigned to Robert
  • Patent number: 12157207
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for operating a handheld power tool having an electric motor, the method comprising: S1 providing at least one model signal waveform that is associated with a work progress of the handheld power tool; S2 determining a signal of an operating variable of the electric motor; S3 comparing the signal of the operating variable with the model signal waveform and determining a conformity evaluation on the basis thereof; S4 identifying the work progress at least partially using the conformity evaluation; S5 executing a first routine of the handheld power tool at least partially on the basis of the work progress identified in method step S4. The disclosure also relates to a handheld power tool, in particular an impact driver, comprising an electric motor and a control unit, wherein the control unit is designed to carry out a method according to the disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Jens Blum, Stefan Mock, Florian Hoelscher, Dietmar Saur, Simon Erbele, Wolfgang Herberger, Tobias Herr
  • Patent number: 12160215
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a piezoelectric resonator. The method includes: depositing a piezoelectric layer and forming a recess in a lateral area in such a way that a silicon functional layer is exposed inside the recess, forming a silicide layer on a surface of the silicon functional layer exposed inside the recess, forming a diffusion barrier layer on the silicide layer, depositing and structuring a first and second metallization layer in such a way that a supply line and two connection elements are formed, forming the oscillating structure by structuring the silicon functional layer, the silicon functional layer of the oscillating structure being able to be electrically contacted via the first connection element and forming a lower electrode of the resonator, the first metallization layer of the oscillating structure being able to be electrically contacted via the second connection element and forming an upper electrode of the resonator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Friedjof Heuck, Marcus Pritschow, Markus Kuhnke, Peter Schmollngruber, Ricardo Zamora, Sebastien Loiseau, Stefan Majoni, Stefan Krause, Viktor Morosow
  • Patent number: 12157438
    Abstract: A wiper blade apparatus with at least one spring strip having at least one wiper strip unit, which comprises at least one wiper lip and at least one wiper base body, which bounds at least one recess to a receptacle of the at least one spring strip and at least one damping cavity that is separate from the recess, and having at least one wind deflector unit, which at least partially overlaps with the wiper base body of the wiper strip unit and which comprises at least two guide bars, which extends to both sides of the wiper base body. It is proposed that the wiper strip unit comprise at least one resilient support elements arranged on the wiper base body and supported between the wiper base body and at least one of the guide bars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Christian Wilms
  • Patent number: 12158734
    Abstract: Methods for ascertaining a control strategy for a technical system using a Bayesian optimization method. The control strategy is created based on model parameters of a control model and is executable. The method includes providing a quality function whose shape corresponds to a regression function and that evaluates a quality of a controlling of the technical system based on model parameters; carrying out a Bayesian optimization method based on the quality function in order to iteratively ascertain a model parameter set having model parameters within a model parameter domain that indicates the permissible value ranges for the model parameters; and determining the model parameter domain for at least one of the model parameters as a function of an associated maximum a posteriori estimated value of the quality function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Lukas Froehlich, Christian Daniel, Edgar Klenske
  • Patent number: 12157143
    Abstract: A UV irradiation apparatus for coating systems that coat rigid or film-like workpieces, in particular furniture parts, having a transport apparatus for transporting workpieces provided with coating material from an inlet to an outlet through the UV irradiation apparatus, a UV light source arranged above the transport apparatus that irradiates the coated workpieces with UV light in an irradiation region between the inlet and the outlet, and a reflector or cover which shields the UV light source upward. A housing covers the irradiation region and the UV light source, which generally extends above the transport apparatus. A sensor of a measuring apparatus for direct or indirect automated measurement of radiant flux of the UV light source is arranged in the housing, and the sensor is in particular fitted fixed or movably on the housing or a holder. A method for quality assurance using this UV irradiation apparatus is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bürkle GmbH
    Inventor: Oliver Meisriemel
  • Patent number: 12159447
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for training a classifier for classifying an input signal, the input signal comprising image data, the classifier comprising an embedding part configured to determine an embedding depending on the input signal inputted into the classifier and a classification part configured to determine a classification of the input signal depending on a the embedding. The method includes: providing a first training data set of training samples, each training sample comprising an input signal and a corresponding desired classification out of a plurality of classes, providing, in a knowledge graph, additional information associated with at least one of the target classifications, providing a knowledge graph embedding method of the knowledge graph, providing a knowledge graph embedding of the knowledge graph obtained by use of a knowledge graph embedding method, training the embedding part depending on the knowledge graph embedding and the first training data set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Sebastian Monka, Lavdim Halilaj, Stefan Schmid
  • Patent number: 12158521
    Abstract: A radar sensor for motor vehicles. The radar sensor includes an antenna arrangement having multiple antenna elements linearly arranged at uniform distances along a connecting line, the distance between each two adjacent antenna elements being equal to half of the mean wavelength ? of the emitted radar signal, and the arrangement including at least one triple of adjacent antenna elements, in which the two antenna elements located on the outside in the triple, on the one hand, and the interposed antenna element, on the other hand, originate in opposite directions from the connecting line. The antenna arrangement includes at least one pair of antenna elements which originate in opposite directions from the connecting line and whose distance from one another is an integer multiple of the wavelength ?, so that one of these antenna elements has a negative amplitude taper in relation to the antenna elements of the triple.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Klaus Baur, Michael Klar, Michael Schoor, Osama Khan
  • Patent number: 12160173
    Abstract: A circuit (100) for use in voltage supply for an electrical device, having a first input (111) configured for connecting with a first voltage source, a second input (121) configured for connecting with a second voltage source, and a common output (133) configured for connecting with an input of the electrical device, comprising a first voltage converter (110) with an input connected to or being the first input (111), and configured to provide DC voltage at a first voltage level (V1) at an output (113), further comprising a second voltage converter (120) with an input connected to or being the second input (121), and configured to provide DC voltage at a second voltage level (V2) at an output (123), wherein the second voltage converter (120) is configured not to operate when a voltage level present at its output (123) is higher than a stop threshold, and to operate when a voltage level present at its output (123) is lower than a start threshold, the stop threshold is equal to or higher than the second voltage
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Luc Schluper
  • Patent number: 12157439
    Abstract: A wiper blade (10), in particular for a motor vehicle, is proposed with a wiping strip (16) mounted between a first spring bar portion (34) and a second spring bar portion (36) by a fastening portion (24) and having a substantially triangular lip portion (18). According to the invention, between the fastening portion (24) and the lip portion (18), a cavity portion (22) is provided, on which dampening means (52) are provided, in particular fastened thereto or formed in one piece therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Adam Angyal, Christian Wilms, Marcel Ekermans, Marcello Bubba, Nicolaas Gotzen, Peter Kuypers, Thomas Belmans, Wim Buseyne
  • Patent number: 12157494
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling an autonomous vehicle. One system includes an electronic processor and a memory configured to store an occupancy grid map. The occupancy grid map includes a set of cells associated with respective positions in an environment. A sensor is configured to output sensed occupancy information associated with positions in the environment. The electronic processor is configured to determine a position of the autonomous vehicle within the environment, and receive, from a server, a high density map. The high density map contains occupancy information. The electronic processor initializes the cells with occupancy information based on the high density map. The electronic processor confirms, based on the sensed occupancy information, a state of the set of the cells of the occupancy grid map, and controls vehicle movement based on the occupancy grid map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Oliver F. Schwindt, Stephan Reuter, Marcel Brueckner
  • Patent number: 12158390
    Abstract: A method for operating a control unit for an exhaust gas sensor, in particular for a broadband lambda sensor for an internal combustion engine, in particular, of a motor vehicle, or for another sensor device. The control unit is designed to electrically activate the exhaust gas sensor. The control unit is, in particular, implemented in the form of an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC). The method includes: specifying a measuring sequence and/or a starting point in time, in particular, for an operation of the control unit and/or of the exhaust gas sensor, with the aid of a computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Tobias-Gerhard Zobel, Bernhard Ledermann, Claudius Bevot, Florian Mezger
  • Patent number: 12157453
    Abstract: A method for determining a rotational frequency of a wheel, in particular of a motor vehicle, uses a rate of rotation sensor that has a rotary sensor assigned to the wheel and a sensor element assigned to the rotary sensor. The rotary sensor has pulse generators that are arranged in a manner distributed over its circumference and spaced evenly from one another and whose edges are recorded by the sensor element so as to determine the rotational frequency of the rotary sensor. There is provision to use an optimal filter in order to compensate a modulation caused by an eccentricity, and to adapt modulation parameters of the optimal filter through a sequential least-squares method. A time-equidistant frequency signal is subjected to short-term averaging, for example using a PT1 filter, and the modulation is modelled as sinusoidal interference and compensated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Jan Scheuing
  • Patent number: 12157442
    Abstract: A drivetrain for a vehicle includes a drive motor, an axle differential, and a friction brake. The drive motor is configured to drive the axle differential. The friction brake is positioned in a transmission path between the drive motor and the axle differential, and is configured to generate a braking torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Baehrle-Miller, Hubertus Wienken
  • Patent number: 12158129
    Abstract: A fluid distributor. The fluid distributor includes a base body, a high pressure output, and a connecting piece which is joined to the base body and is used for the high pressure output. The base body is formed by a forging operation. An interior space of the base body is formed at the base body by a machining operation after the forging operation. The connecting piece is processed by a machining operation. A holding element is provided, that, as a result of the machining operation, an accommodating opening, which leads from an outer side of the connecting piece through a wall of the connecting piece and is used for at least partially accommodating the holding element, and an accommodating space, into which, during assembly, a connector of an injector is at least partially insertable in a mounting direction, are formed at the connecting piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Rehwald, Ralf Weber
  • Patent number: 12155636
    Abstract: A method for controlling an energy grid. In this method, first pieces of information about the past behavior of at least one user at the energy grid are ascertained by a processing unit assigned to the user, homomorphically encrypted and transferred homomorphically encrypted to a first data memory. An external processing unit reads the homomorphically encrypted first pieces of information, calculates as a function thereof second, homomorphically encrypted pieces of information about a predicted, future behavior of the user and stores the second, homomorphically encrypted pieces of information on a second data memory. The second, homomorphically encrypted pieces of information are read out from the second data memory and decrypted by the processing unit assigned to the user. A control of the energy grid takes place as a function of the decrypted second pieces of information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Jared Weinfurtner, Christian Heise
  • Patent number: 12153063
    Abstract: A micromechanical inertial sensor. The inertial sensor includes a first sensor element for measuring an inertial variable in a first frequency band, and a second sensor element for measuring a periodic acceleration in a second frequency band. The second frequency band is at least partially above the first frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Klaus Petzold, Reinhold Wolpert, Sebastian Guenther, Zoltan Szkupien
  • Patent number: 12156385
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electronic assembly (1) comprising: a base plate (2); an electronic component (3) having a plurality of pins (30) which each extend parallel to a press-in axis (4); a printed circuit board (5) which is pressed onto the pins (30) along the press-in axis (4); a cooling region (6) which is formed between the electronic component (3) and the base plate (2); and a sealing arrangement (7) which is located between the base plate (2) and the electronic component (3) and is designed to seal the cooling region (6), wherein the sealing arrangement (7) has a seal support (71) and at least one seal (72), the seal support (71) has a plurality of press-in domes (75) projecting parallel to the press-in axis (4), and the electronic component (3) is supported by means of the press-in domes (75) of the seal support (71) in order to absorb a press-on force (40) when the printed circuit board (5) is pressed onto the pins (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Rene Kloetzig, Thomas Maerz
  • Patent number: 12151958
    Abstract: A desalination battery includes a working intercalation electrode in a first compartment, a counter intercalation electrode in a second compartment, both compartments including saline water solution with an elevated concentration of dissolved salts, an ion exchange membrane arranged between the compartments, a voltage source arranged to supply voltage to the electrodes, and a sacrificial compound configured to neutralize charge within the first compartment at a predetermined voltage while being consumed by oxidation or reduction reactions upon an activation of the working electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Metzger, Soo Kim, Saravanan Kuppan, Sondra Hellstrom, Christina Johnston, Nathan Craig, Jake Christensen
  • Patent number: 12153728
    Abstract: An optical system for a virtual retina display and a gesture detection of a user of the virtual retina display. The optical system includes a projector unit, an image source, and an image processing unit. The projector unit includes a first, second, and a third light source, and a first controllable deflection unit for scanning deflection of first, second, and third light beams. The optical system further includes a second deflection unit designed to transmit the first and second scanned light beams and to deflect the third light beam into a gesture detection area of the user. The optical system further includes a deflection unit, onto which the image content is projectable and which is configured to direct the projected image content and the second light beam onto an eye of a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Johannes Fischer, Johannes Meyer
  • Patent number: 12151679
    Abstract: A method for controlling a safety device of a vehicle. The safety device reacts to an imminent collision by an intervention in a longitudinal and/or lateral guidance of the vehicle. The method includes reading in environment data and trip data regarding the collision object in an environment of the vehicle and the vehicle, and seat occupancy data regarding an occupancy state of at least one seat of the vehicle; ascertaining: an expected impingement side of the collision object on the vehicle; a velocity change of the vehicle in the context of the collision; and a seat occupancy distribution in the vehicle, using the seat occupancy data; executing an evaluation of the velocity change with regard to a threshold value and/or of the seat occupancy distribution relative to the expected impingement side; generating, depending on a result of the evaluation, a control signal for the safety device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Christian Weiss, Gyorgy Csaba, Heiko Kim, Joram Berger, Nina Braunert, Heiko Freienstein