Patents Assigned to Robert
  • Patent number: 11943068
    Abstract: A user station for a serial bus system and a method for error signaling for a message received in a serial bus system are provided. The user station includes a communication control unit for creating a message to be transmitted serially to at least one further user station of the bus system, or for reading a message, received serially from at least one further user station, and a transceiver device for transmitting the created message on a bus line or for receiving a message from the bus line, the communication control unit and/or the transceiver device provide an ACK time window for an ACK signal and/or a NACK time window for a NACK signal in the message to be transmitted for a signaling of whether or not at least one further user station has identified an error in the transmitted message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Florian Hartwich
  • Patent number: 11943426
    Abstract: A method for assessing a camera calibration. In the method, a first quality measure is ascertained, a systematic error having to be assessed using the first quality measure, the assessment being carried out with respect to errors remaining after a calibration, an overall calibration object including at least one calibration object being virtually segmented into calibration objects, a detector noise being estimated for each calibration object, which are combined to form an overall estimate, which is compared with an estimate of the detector noise of the overall calibration object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Annika Hagemann, Moritz Michael Knorr
  • Patent number: 11939981
    Abstract: A rotary disc valve is used in a fluid delivery system to control flow of fluid between multiple ports of a valve housing. The valve housing may include a valve body and a lid that closes an open end of the valve body. In addition, the valve may include a diverter and seal assembly that are disposed in the valve housing. The diverter is configured to rotate about a rotational axis and to control fluid flow through the valve housing. The seal assembly provides a dynamic seal that is fluid tight within a plane that is perpendicular to the rotational axis. The diverter, the valve body and the seal assembly cooperate to define a fluid passageway that is coaxial with the rotational axis and passes through the seal assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignees: Robert Bosch LLC, Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Chapman
  • Patent number: 11940350
    Abstract: Method for diagnosing at least one exhaust gas sensor (22;24;26) of an internal combustion engine (10) disposed in an exhaust duct (21), where ambient air (12) is actively introduced into the exhaust duct (21) by means of a device (27), when an operating state is present in which the internal combustion engine (10) does not produce an exhaust gas mass flow, and the diagnosis of the at least one exhaust gas sensor (22;24;26) disposed in the exhaust duct (21) is subsequently carried out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Kraewer, Magnus Labbe, Maik Unverricht, Simon Fass
  • Patent number: 11940346
    Abstract: A micromechanical pressure sensor device including a semiconductor base substrate of a first doping type on which an intermediate layer of the first doping type is situated, a cavity sealed by a sealing layer of a second doping type and including a reference pressure, a first grating of the second doping type, suspended inside the cavity on a buried connection region of the second doping type, the buried connection region laterally extending away from the cavity into the semiconductor base material, a second grating of the second doping type, situated on a side of the diaphragm region pointing to the cavity and suspended on the diaphragm region, the first grating and the second grating being electrically insulated from each other and forming a capacitance, a first connection electrically connected to the first grating via the buried connection region, and a second connection electrically connected to the second grating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Johannes Meckbach, Thomas Friedrich
  • Patent number: 11941846
    Abstract: A method for ascertaining the pose of an object. The method includes recording a first and a second camera image of the object, ascertaining a correspondence between camera pixels of the camera images and vertices of a 3D model of the object, and ascertaining the pose of the object from a set of poses by minimizing, across the set of poses, a loss function, the loss function for a pose being provided by accumulation of distance measures between projections of the object in the pose onto the respective camera image plane and the corresponding pixels of the respective camera image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Markus Spies
  • Patent number: 11939903
    Abstract: A method for operating an exhaust burner with a secondary air system downstream of a combustion engine of a motor vehicle. The method includes: activating an ignition device as a function of a release condition, the ignition device being heated up to a specifiable target temperature; metering fuel at a first time point into a combustion chamber of the exhaust burner at a first injection frequency using an injection valve, and the combustion chamber not being actively supplied with air; setting a first target air-mass flow using a secondary air system at a further, second time point, wherein the air-mass flow is increased strictly monotonically; controlling the air-fuel ratio to a first target air-fuel ratio as a function of a lambda sensor starting from the second time point, and metering fuel at a second injection frequency; setting a second target air-mass flow at a further, third time point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Christian Disch, Patrick Hoff, Torsten Kunz, William Krein
  • Patent number: 11940469
    Abstract: A circuit system for measuring an electrical voltage. The circuit system includes a voltage divider, an integrating element and an evaluating unit. The voltage divider receives, at an input, a first signal that represents the electrical voltage to be measured, and has a first switching element and a second switching element, and is capable of assuming a first state, in which the first switching element is conductive and the second switching element is non-conductive, and a second state in which the first switching element is non-conductive and the second switching element is conductive, and outputs a second signal at an output that is situated between the first switching element and the second switching element. The integrating element is designed to receive the second signal and to output a third signal. The evaluating unit being set up to accept and to evaluate the third signal in order to determine a value for the electrical voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Volker Frese
  • Patent number: 11943623
    Abstract: A coupling of two electronic apparatuses for a wireless information exchange. The coupling is authenticated through the evaluation of motion patterns previously executed by the apparatuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Amin Jemili, Johannes Classen, Falk Roewer, Gregor Wetekam, Ruslan Khalilyulin
  • Patent number: 11940101
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fusible link (100) for installation in a through-opening (4) in a gas tank (1000), having a tension rod (1), a guide sleeve (2) with at least one fluid-guiding duct (2a) for guiding gas out of the gas tank (1000) into the environment of the gas tank (1000), and a fusible sheath (3), wherein the guide sleeve (2) is formed in a ring around the tension rod (1) at least in some sections, and the fusible sheath (3) surrounds the guide sleeve (2) in a sheath-like manner at least in some sections, wherein the tension rod (10) has a tapered section (1a) which tapers in a direction away from the gas tank (1000) when installed in the gas tank (1000), the guide sleeve (2) has at least one predetermined breaking section (2b) which, when the fusible link (100) is installed into the through-opening (4), breaks to introduce fusible material (3a) into the at least one fluid-guiding duct (2a), as a result of which fused material (3a) from the fusible sheath (3) can pass into at least some sections o
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Max Seitter
  • Patent number: 11941888
    Abstract: A method for generating training data for a recognition model for recognizing objects in sensor data of a sensor. Objects and object attributes are recognized in auxiliary sensor data of an auxiliary sensor mapping at least one overlapping area using a trained auxiliary recognition model, and the object attributes of the objects recognized in the overlapping area being transferred to the sensor data mapping at least the overlapping area in order to generate training data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Heinz Hertlein, Joscha Liedtke
  • Patent number: 11938880
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting low impact collisions for a vehicle (100). The system includes at least one sensor (99, 110, 111, 115, 120-123, 125-136, 140, 141) and an electronic controller (150). The electronic controller (150) is configured to receive sensor data from the sensor (99, 110, 111, 115, 120-123, 125-136, 140, 141) and determine one or more features of the sensor data received from the at least one sensor. The electronic controller (150) is further configured to determine if a collision has occurred based upon the one or more features of the sensor data, and take at least one action in response to determining that the collision has occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Robert Jones, Michael Vincent Masserant, Rameez Ahmad, Ulrich Christian Michelfeit, Dean Eiger
  • Patent number: 11938934
    Abstract: A cruise control system for a motor vehicle. The system includes a setpoint value generator for generating a setpoint value determining the vehicle speed, and an actuating device that controls the speed of the vehicle to a setpoint speed through intervention into the drive and/or braking system. The system automatically adapts the setpoint speed to a predicted roadway curvature. The setpoint value generator includes at least two modules working independently from one another, including a base module for generating a base setpoint value and a curve module for generating a curve setpoint value that represents a maximum speed at which a curve having a given curvature may be negotiated without exceeding a predefined limiting value for the lateral acceleration of the vehicle, and includes a fusion module that forms a final setpoint value for the actuating device from the base setpoint value and the curve setpoint value through minimum selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Axel Gruender, Simon Holeczek, Marco Desiderio
  • Patent number: 11942934
    Abstract: A level converter and circuit arrangement comprising such level converters. The level converter comprises a transistor, an impedance converter, an input voltage connection, an output voltage connection, and a power supply connection. The input voltage connection is connected to a gate terminal of the transistor. The output voltage connection is connected to a source terminal of the transistor and to the power supply connection. A first input terminal of the impedance converter is connected to the source connection or to the gate terminal of the transistor. An output terminal of the impedance converter is connected to the drain terminal of the transistor. The power supply connection is equipped to receive a current from a constant current source. The impedance converter is equipped to keep a source-drain voltage of the transistor at a predefined value using a reference voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Rudolf Ritter
  • Patent number: 11940467
    Abstract: A sensor arrangement includes at least one sensor which is connected to a first control unit and a second control unit. The at least one sensor has two sensor connections, and each of the sensor connections of the at least one sensor is electrically connected to an assigned node. Each node is respectively connected downstream of a control unit input of the first control unit and respectively connected upstream of a control unit input of the second control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Rebholz-Goldmann, Oda Limbach, Sven Plecko
  • Patent number: 11938944
    Abstract: A driver assistance system includes a first measuring device for determining the distances to a water surface, which includes at least two distance sensors. A first distance sensor measures a first distance to a water surface, in that the distance is determined perpendicularly downward from the first sensor to the water surface, and the second distance sensor measures a second distance to a water surface, in that the distance is also determined perpendicularly downward from the second sensor to the water surface. A second measuring device determines an instantaneous pitch angle of the vehicle. A processing unit is coupled to the first and second measuring devices. The processing unit determines an instantaneous water surface plane as a function of the first distance, the second distance, and the instantaneous pitch angle of the vehicle. A display unit indicates the instantaneous water surface plane in relation to the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Jesse Sharp
  • Patent number: 11938968
    Abstract: A vehicle for collecting image data of a target object for generating a classifier. The vehicle includes an image sensor and an electronic processor. The electronic processor is configured to determine a plurality of potential trajectories of the vehicle, determine, for each of the plurality of potential trajectories of the vehicle, a total number of views including the target object that would be captured by the image sensor as the vehicle moved along the respective trajectory, and determine a key trajectory of the vehicle from the plurality of potential trajectories based on the total number of views including the target of the key trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Luiz Ricardo Douat, Michael Erz, Jayanta Kumar Dutta, Marc Naumann, Naveen Ramakrishnan
  • Patent number: 11940100
    Abstract: The invention relates to a tank device (1) for a gaseous medium, comprising a valve device (2) and a tank (10), wherein the valve device (2) has a valve housing (20) with a longitudinal axis (11). The valve housing (20) is equipped with an inner chamber (7), in which a main valve element (16) is arranged in a movable manner along the longitudinal axis (11), said main valve element (16) interacting with a first valve seat (40) and thus forming a main valve (43). An actuation valve element (18) which can be moved along the longitudinal axis (11) is arranged coaxially to the main valve element (16), said actuation valve element (18) interacting with a second valve seat (41) in order to open and close an inlet opening (160) and thus forming an actuation valve (44). The valve device (2) additionally comprises a magnet coil (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Rau
  • Patent number: 11940618
    Abstract: A micromechanical component. The micromechanical component includes: a mount; a displaceable part; and a first serpentine spring and a second serpentine spring which is embodied mirror-symmetrically with respect to the first serpentine spring in terms of a first plane of symmetry; a first actuator device and a second actuator device being embodied in such a way that by way of the first actuator device and the second actuator device, periodic deformations, mirror-symmetrical in terms of the first plane of symmetry, of the first serpentine spring and of the second serpentine spring are excitable; the micromechanical component also encompassing a first torsion spring and a second torsion spring that each extend along a rotation axis; and the displaceable part being displaceable, at least by way of the periodic and mirror-symmetrical deformations of the first serpentine spring and of the second serpentine spring, around the rotation axis with respect to the mount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Alexander Eberspaecher, Frank Schatz, Janine Riedrich-Moeller, Joerg Muchow, Josip Mihaljevic, Kerrin Doessel, Ralf Boessendoerfer, Timo Schary
  • Patent number: 11939703
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing graphene fibres, comprising the following steps: a. providing single- or multi-layer graphene or graphene oxide platelets based on graphene or graphene oxide; b applying a transition metal or a transition metal oxide to the graphene or graphene oxide platelets by means of a deposition method; c. spinning, in particular wet-spinning or dry-spinning, a graphene fibre or graphene oxide fibre by injecting a spinning solution, in which the graphene or graphene oxide platelets obtained in step b) are dispersed; d.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Martin Koehne