Patents Assigned to Robert
  • Camera module, method for manufacturing a camera module
    Patent number: 12072612
    Abstract: A camera module that includes an objective lens with an electrical interface and a device for electrically contacting the objective lens in the area of the electrical interface. The device for electrically contacting are also connected to an electronics system, in particular to a circuit board, of the camera module. The electrical interface is formed at the objective lens on the outer circumferential side, and the device for electrical contacting includes an annular body situated on the objective lens on the outer circumferential side, with contacts formed on the inner circumferential side. A method for manufacturing a camera module is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Moehrle, Daniel Beurer, Moritz Winkler, Nikolai Bauer, Peter Diesel
  • Method and device for attenuating oscillations on bus lines of a bus system based on differential voltage signals
    Patent number: 12074578
    Abstract: An attenuating device for a bus of a controller area network bus system based on differential voltage signals. The bus has first and second bus lines, having an attenuating circuit that provides a variable electrical resistance value between the first and second bus lines and that is operable in at least three circuit states. In a first circuit state, the first and second bus lines are connected via an attenuating resistor having a first resistance value. In a second circuit state, the first and second bus lines are connected via an attenuating resistor having a second resistance value. In a third circuit state, the first and second bus lines are connected via an attenuating resistor having a third resistance value. The first resistance value is lower than the second resistance value. The second resistance value is lower than the third resistance value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Sebastian Stegemann, Steffen Walker
  • LIDAR device including an accelerated runtime analysis
    Patent number: 12072446
    Abstract: A LIDAR device for scanning a scanning area. The LIDAR device includes a transmitting unit for generating beams and for deflecting the beams along the scanning area, and a receiving unit including at least one detector for receiving reflected beams. Individual sections of the detector are consecutively activatable at defined intervals for the detection of the reflected beams, or the reflected beams being deflectable onto individual sections of the detector by a deflector at a changing deflection angle. A control unit and a receiving unit are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Norman Haag
  • Plug connector
    Patent number: 12074394
    Abstract: A plug connector for connecting to a mating plug connector along an insertion direction. The plug connector includes a housing including an interior and a contact element situated in the interior. The plug connector further includes a connector position assurance. The housing includes a pressure equalization element for equalizing the pressure of the interior with respect to the exterior of the housing. The CPA is situated at the housing and is movable between a first position and a second position relative to the housing, a sealing element being provided at CPA, the pressure equalization element being sealed with respect to the exterior by the sealing element in the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Rolf Wittmann
  • Loudspeaker accessory tray
    Patent number: 12075204
    Abstract: An accessory tray for a loudspeaker includes a main portion defining a perimeter and a base surface configured to support an accessory within the perimeter. An anchor portion extends under the base surface of the main portion, the anchor portion configured to engage a portion of the loudspeaker. The main portion has a tapering height from a rear to a front thereof, forming a rake angle in side view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Michael D. Kasten, Andrew Grunloh, Nicholas Sulzer, Shawn Filipek, Andrew Cho
  • Automated key frame selection
    Patent number: 12073602
    Abstract: Identifying key frames of a video for use in training a machine learning model is provided. Object detection is performed to identify frames of a video including target classes of objects of interest. Feature extraction is performed on the identified frames to generate raw feature vectors. The feature vectors are compressed into lower dimension vectors. The compressed feature vectors are compressed into a plurality of clusters. The clustered compressed feature vectors are filtered to identify the key frames from each of the plurality of clusters. The key frames may be provided as a representative data set of the video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Chun-Hao Liu, Jayanta Kumar Dutta, Naveen Ramakrishnan
  • Lane biasing to indicate an intended movement of a vehicle
    Patent number: 12071137
    Abstract: A method for automated control of a vehicle includes automatically navigating a vehicle within a current lane of travel with a driving assistance system, and predetermining a steering maneuver during the automatic navigation with the driving assistance system. The method also includes, prior to performing the predetermined steering maneuver, biasing the vehicle within the current lane of travel with an offset from a center of the current lane of travel using the driving assistance system, the offset in a direction of the predetermined steering maneuver, and performing the predetermined steering maneuver with the driving assistance system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Veli Kivanc Temel, Scott Fohey
  • Transceiver for a user station of a serial bus system and method for communicating in a serial bus system
    Patent number: 12074627
    Abstract: A transceiver for a user station of a serial bus system. The transceiver has a transmit module for sending a transmit signal onto a bus of the bus system; a receive module for receiving the signal from the bus and designed to generate a digital receive signal from the received signal; and a communication module for determining the communication standard according to which the messages are exchanged between user stations of the bus system. The communication module has a block with which the communication standard for the transmit module and the receive module is able to be changed from a first communication standard to a second communication standard, so that the transmit module and the receive module are implemented either according to a first communication standard or according to a second communication standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Steffen Walker, Felix Lang
  • Brake hydraulic pressure control apparatus
    Patent number: 12065119
    Abstract: Examples herein include a brake hydraulic pressure control apparatus including a base body formed with a channel of a brake fluid, a motor assembly having a rotor and a stator accommodated in a motor housing, and a control board of a controller that controls the motor assembly. The control board is arranged on a rotation axis of the rotor. A permanent magnet is attached to the motor assembly and rotates with the rotor, and a coil is wound around the stator. A feeding terminal is connected to the coil and the control board, and is used when being supplied with electric power from the control board. A positioning mechanism extends between and contacts the motor assembly and the control board to position the motor assembly and the control board. A detection sensor is mounted on the control board and detects a magnetic field generated by the permanent magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Atsushi Yoshida, Katsunori Koike
  • Method and circuit for simple measurement of the phase shift between two digital clock signals having the same frequency
    Patent number: 12066487
    Abstract: A method for simple measurement of phase shift between a first clock signal and a second clock signal is described, each clock signal having a period T0. The method includes: feeding the first clock signal into a first input of a mixer; feeding the second clock signal into a second input of the mixer; feeding the output signal of the mixer into a low pass filter; and measuring the output signal of the low pass filter, with the aid of an output voltage that is normalized to operating voltage of the mixer. A circuit for implementing the method includes a mixer and a low pass filter. The mixer includes a first input for feeding in the first clock signal, and a second input for feeding in the second clock signal. The output of the mixer is connected to the input of the low pass filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Andreas Schubert
  • Method for coupling and coupling up a sensor, and communication network
    Patent number: 12069141
    Abstract: A communication network for a vehicle includes a control device, a network switch and at least one sensor. The control device transmits at least one service provision message for configuring a sensor to a control interface of the network switch. The network switch outputs the service provision message at a sensor interface of the network switch that is associated with the service provision message. The sensor transmits at least one service search query to the sensor interface of the network switch, receives the service provision message from the sensor interface, and teaches a configuration by using the service provision message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Arpad Krakovszki
  • Holding device for a counter element
    Patent number: 12065208
    Abstract: A holding device including at least one first tilting lever element rotatably mounted at a first pivotal point. This tilting element is connected to a spring element, which may be tensioned with a spring. The tilting lever element includes a first hook, which may be moved into a first position and a second position. In the first position, the first hook may engage, for holding or fixing, in a receptacle of the counter element. In the second position, the first hook releases the counter element again, so that it may be removed from the holding device. The first pivotal point of the mount of the tilting lever element is situated outside the axis of the spring. The spring of the spring element may be tensioned in one position and essentially untensioned in the other position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Peter Kunert
  • Battery pack
    Patent number: 12068494
    Abstract: The disclosure describes a battery pack including at least one battery cell, an outer housing that has at least one first housing element, and a cell holder configured to receive the at least one battery cell. In this case the first housing element is constituted by a two-component part that includes at least one first hard component element, one second hard component element and at least one soft component element, the first hard component element and the second hard component element fixedly connected to each other via the at least one soft component element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Florian Schmehl
  • Method for filling a hydrogen tank of a motor vehicle comprising a fuel cell drive and motor vehicle
    Patent number: 12066153
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for filling a hydrogen tank (2) of a motor vehicle (1) comprising a fuel cell drive, wherein the method comprises the steps: (a) determining a first operating time at which the motor vehicle (1) is to be started up and an expected first operating location at which the motor vehicle (1) is to be started up, (b) ascertaining a predicted maximum ambient temperature (TU,max) at the first operating location at the first operating time, and (c) filling the hydrogen tank with hydrogen (3) until a tank pressure (p) in the hydrogen tank (2) reaches a maximum permissible tank pressure (pmax) at a tank temperature (T), wherein the following applies for the tank temperature (T): tank temperature (T)=[maximum ambient temperature (TU,max); maximum ambient temperature (TU,max)+10 K].
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Helerson Kemmer
  • Vehicle service cart with external tow features
    Patent number: 12065005
    Abstract: A service cart and associated apparatus that is suitable for servicing electric vehicles and vehicle batteries. The service cart may comprise a frame having a number of members that may be arranged in a compact configuration. The service cart may comprise a number of support pads that may be adjustably arranged with respect to the frame. The support pads may comprise an overload protection mechanism having a break pin. The service cart may comprise a detachable handle operable to selectively disengage a number of brakes on the cart. The service cart may comprise a tow hitch suitable for detachably coupling an external tow device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignees: Bosch Automative Service Solutions Inc., Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Corday Peterson, Joseph Lee
  • Hybrid evaluation of radar data for classifying objects
    Patent number: 12066570
    Abstract: A method for classifying objects based on measured data recorded by at least one radar sensor. In the method, a frequency spectrum of time-dependent measured data of the radar sensor is provided; from this frequency spectrum, locations from which reflected radar radiation has reached the radar sensor are ascertained; at least one group of such locations belonging to one and the same object is ascertained; for each location in this group, a portion of the frequency spectrum that corresponds to the radar radiation reflected from this location is ascertained; all these portions for the object are aggregated and are fed to a classifier; the object is assigned by the classifier to one or multiple classes of a predefined classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Kilian Rambach, Lisa-Kristina Morgan, Adriana-Eliza Cozma
  • Method for identifying a measure that is not provided for by the manufacturer on or using a removable battery pack and removable battery pack for carrying out the method
    Patent number: 12066494
    Abstract: A method identifies a measure that is not provided for by a manufacturer on or using a removable battery pack having at least one energy storage cell and a monitoring unit. The method includes detecting and storing a voltage of the removable battery pack and/or a cell voltage of the at least one energy storage cell using the monitoring unit before the monitoring unit is set to a quiescent state or when the removable battery pack is set to a state other than a charging operating state. The method also includes comparing the detected voltage of the removable battery pack and/or the detected cell voltage with a previously-stored voltage of the removable battery pack or a previously-stored cell voltage using the monitoring unit when the monitoring unit is set to an operating state or when the removable battery pack is in the state other than the charging operating state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Christoph Klee
  • Method for operating a GNSS sensor of a vehicle
    Patent number: 12061269
    Abstract: A method for operating a GNSS sensor of a vehicle having control operations influenceable via an electronic control unit includes receiving satellite data, evaluating the satellite data, and deactivating at least one operating mode of the GNSS sensor when at least a portion of the satellite data is unsuitable for determining the position of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Marlon Ramon Ewert
  • Electromechanical brake pressure generator including a gear and method for manufacturing a gear for an electromechanical brake pressure generator
    Patent number: 12060045
    Abstract: An electromechanical brake pressure generator for a hydraulic braking system of a vehicle. The electromechanical brake booster includes at least one gear for transferring a torque of the electric motor for brake pressure generation. The gear in this case includes a planetary carrier for supporting planetary wheels, planetary wheels pins which are connected to the planetary carrier and on which the planetary wheels are rotatably fastenable, and a pinion for transferring a drive torque or output torque, which is rotatably fixedly connected to the planetary carrier at a side thereof opposite the planetary wheel pins. At least the part of the planetary carrier that includes the planetary wheel pins is materially integrally formed with the latter from the same material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Christoph Oehler, Claus Oehler, Mark Boehm, Martin Uhlig, Sebastian Martin Reichert
  • Lawnmower
    Patent number: D1040189
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gavin Ben Armstrong, Lajos Mitro, Vlada Nikolic