Patents Assigned to Robert
  • Method for controlling a vehicle
    Patent number: 11909726
    Abstract: A method for applying control to a vehicle. The method includes: receiving, by way of a second control unit of a second vehicle to which control is to be applied, a signal encompassing a message encrypted using a valid symmetrical key of a first control unit of a first vehicle; ascertaining, by way of the second control unit, a decryptability of the encrypted message using a valid symmetrical key of the second control unit or a symmetrical reserve key of the second control unit ascertained by way of the second control unit; ecrypting the encrypted message, depending on the ascertained decryptability, by way of the second control unit using the valid symmetrical key of the second control unit or the symmetrical reserve key of the second control unit; and applying control, based on the decrypted message, to the second vehicle to which control is to be applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Soheil Gherekhloo, Jan-Felix Van Dam, Ralf Prenzel
  • Frame screening unit, user station for a serial bus system, and method for communicating in a serial bus system
    Patent number: 11909553
    Abstract: A frame screening unit for a user station of a serial bus system, a user station for a serial bus system, and a method for communicating in a serial bus system. The frame screening unit includes a screen block for generating a select signal that selects whether or not a communication control device of the user station is allowed to receive a reception signal that has been generated from a frame received serially at that time from the bus for a message, and a reception signal selection block for screening the reception signal, as a function of the select signal generated by the screen block, so that the reception signal is not transmitted to the communication control device of the user station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Arthur Mutter, Steffen Walker
  • Computer-implemented simulation method and system for testing control units
    Patent number: 11904873
    Abstract: A computer-implemented simulation method is described for testing a driving program for the at least partial autonomous guidance of a test vehicle. The test vehicle is moved by the driving program on a simulated road. A second vehicle in the simulation method is moved as a function of control commands of a user. The test vehicle and the second vehicle are displayed to the user including the road, data relating to the guidance of the test vehicle being collected and stored during the simulation method. A system is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Boliang Yi, Patrick Weber
  • Heat sink with carbon-nanostructure-based fibres
    Patent number: 11906254
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heat sink (1) having a main body (2) and a plurality of carbon-nanostructure-based fibres (CNB, 3), more particularly carbon nano tubes (CNT, 4) or graphene fibres, of which at least some are attached to the main body (2). According to the invention, the fibres (3, 4), by adhering to or supporting one another, form a volume structure (12), more particularly in the manner of cotton wool, felt or a spun yarn, or the fibres (3, 4) form loops (6) or a three-dimensional woven fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Christine Arenz, Giuseppe Buttice, Reiner Ramsayer, Ulrike Groeger
  • Hydraulic block for a hydraulic power unit of a hydraulic power vehicle braking system
    Patent number: 11904823
    Abstract: For fastening an mounting part to a hydraulic block of a hydraulic power unit of a hydraulic power vehicle braking system, holes are configured in a fastening flange of the mounting part with collars, which are clampingly inserted in mounting holes of the hydraulic block. A perforated disk is situated on the fastening flange as a fastening part and is fastened by screws screwed into the mounting holes of the hydraulic block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Roos, Markus Berktold, Maximilian Wilhelm
  • Control device for a fuel cells stack
    Patent number: 11909081
    Abstract: The invention relates to a control device (10) for a fuel cell stack (14), the control device being set up to actuate the fuel cell stack (14) using a predetermined current (IV) and to measure the resulting voltage (U) and to compare this with a reference voltage (UR). The predetermined current (IV) depends on the reference voltage (UR) by means of a sum of at least two exponential functions whose argument in each case contains the reference voltage (UR). The control device (10) is designed to ascertain the reference voltage (UR) by approximately reversing the correlation between the predetermined current and the reference voltage (UR) using an iterative approximation algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Antonius Bader
  • Housing of an electric machine having an optimized sealing ring
    Patent number: 11909298
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a housing of an electric machine (1), comprising a hollow cylindrical housing element (5), in particular housing jacket, and at least one housing cover (6), which is attached to the end of the housing element (5), a cooling channel (8) being formed in the housing, the housing element (5) having at least two cooling channel sections (8.1) of the cooling channel (8), which each extend from a channel end opening (13) in an end face (11) of the housing element (5) in an axial direction relative to a housing axis (100) into the housing element (5). Two adjacent cooling channel sections (8.1) are flow-connected to each other via a deflection section (8.2) formed in the housing cover (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thieu Huy Vuong, Camilo Andres Carrillo Estupinan, Stephan Geise
  • Verification of computer vision models
    Patent number: 11908178
    Abstract: Reducing the number of parameters in a visual parameter set based on a sensitivity analysis of how a given visual parameter affects the performance of a computer vision model to provide a verification parameter set having a reduced size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Christoph Gladisch, Christian Heinzemann, Matthias Woehrle
  • Method for producing a gear worm which is located in particular on an armature shaft, and such a gear worm
    Patent number: 11904381
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a gear worm (12) which is located in particular on an armature shaft (14) of an electromotive drive unit (10), wherein firstly a worm gear (20) having screw flanks (22) axially opposite one another on a longitudinal axis (18) is formed by means of a rolling tool, and subsequently a groove structure (24) which is concentric about the longitudinal axis (18) is formed on the screw flanks (22) by means of an additional process step. The invention also relates to a gear worm (12) produced according to the method according to the invention, and to a transmission drive unit (10) containing such a gear worm (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Jie Bao, Bernhard De Graaff, Daniel Cettier, Guang Qiao, Holger Thoene, Otmar Hertwig, Volker Hertweck
  • Controller and control method for adjusting cornering during cruise control of a straddle-type vehicle
    Patent number: 11904859
    Abstract: The present invention obtains a controller and a control method capable of achieving appropriate cornering during cruise control of a straddle-type vehicle. In the controller and the control method according to the present invention, during the cruise control, in which acceleration/deceleration of the straddle-type vehicle is automatically controlled without relying on an accelerating/decelerating operation by a driver, a vehicle speed of the straddle-type vehicle is restricted to be equal to or lower than an upper limit speed at the time of turning, an exit of a curved road is detected on the basis of a predicted route of the straddle-type vehicle, and a magnitude of the deceleration of the decelerated straddle-type vehicle is reduced at a time point before the straddle-type vehicle reaches the exit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Kazuhiko Hirakuri
  • Method for operating voltage converters connected in parallel
    Patent number: 11909319
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods (100) and to a device (200) for operating voltage transformers (210, 220) connected in parallel, wherein the voltage transformers (210, 220) are operated in different operating modes (120, 130) as a function of a determined temperature (Tist) in order to avoid overheating of an individual voltage transformer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gholamabas Esteghlal, Markus Klein
  • Method, artificial neural network, device, computer program, and machine-readable memory medium for the semantic segmentation of image data
    Patent number: 11908142
    Abstract: A method for the computing and memory resource-conserving semantic segmentation of image data of an imaging sensor with the aid of an artificial neural network, in particular, a convolutional neural network, the artificial neural network including an encoder path and a decoder path. The method includes: dividing an input tensor into at least one first slice tensor and at least one second slice tensor as a function of a division function, the input tensor being dependent on the image data; outputting the at least one first slice tensor to the decoder path of the neural network; connecting the at least one first slice tensor to the at least one second slice tensor as a function of a connecting function to obtain an output tensor; and outputting the output tensor to the encoder path of the artificial neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Ferran Diego Andilla, Dimitrios Bariamis, Masato Takami, Uwe Brosch
  • System and method for domain-independent terminology linking
    Patent number: 11907662
    Abstract: An automatic terminology linking system includes a candidate generator configured to identify candidate nodes for each terminology that is to be linked to a node of the knowledge base. A pseudo-candidate generator is configured to identify pseudo-candidate nodes for candidate-less terminologies. A candidate scorer is configured to respectively score the candidate nodes and the pseudo-candidate nodes by collective inference using occurrence statistics and co-occurrence statistics for these nodes. The pseudo-candidate generator is configured to identify knowledge base nodes that are semantically-related to candidate-less terminology as the pseudo-candidate nodes for the candidate-less terminology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Haibo Ding, Yifan He, Lin Zhao, Kui Xu, Zhe Feng
  • Method and apparatus for operating an electric motor for an electric braking device
    Patent number: 11904825
    Abstract: A method for operating an electric motor for an electric braking device, in particular for an electric parking brake of a vehicle, in particular a motor vehicle, in which the braking device can be put into a first operational state by operation of the electric motor in a first direction of rotation and into a second operational state by operation of the electric motor in a second direction of rotation different from the first direction of rotation, includes determining a quantity which characterizes an internal resistance of the electric motor, comparing the first quantity with a predeterminable first threshold value, controlling the electric motor for a predeterminable first control duration according to the direction of rotation which corresponds to a current operational state of the braking device when the result of the comparison is that the first quantity exceeds the first threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Baehrle-Miller, Hubertus Wienken, Steffen Zechmeister, Norbert Kearney
  • Stator of an electric machine
    Patent number: 11909288
    Abstract: A stator of an electric machine is already known, comprising stator teeth and grooves formed between the stator teeth, in which electrical conductor elements of an electrical individual coil winding are provided as individual coils, wherein an interconnection is provided on at least one end side of the stator, which has a ring section and multiple, in particular a number corresponding to the number of stator teeth, tooth sections protruding from the ring section in the radial direction. The interconnection ring comprises multiple bus bars for interconnecting the electrical individual coils of the electrical winding. The individual coils are produced from a conventional conductor material, e.g. copper. In the stator according to the invention, an electrical winding made of CNT conductor elements is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Roepke, Jens Sauermann, Juergen Kujath
  • Wiper blade, in particular for a motor vehicle
    Patent number: 11904815
    Abstract: A wiper blade (10), in particular for a motor vehicle, is proposed. This comprises a wiping bar (12) and a heating element (32). According to the invention, the heating element (32) is self-regulating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Depondt, Mathijs Sinnaeve
  • Procedure for operating an electrical energy storage unit and also corresponding apparatus, computer program, machine-readable storage medium and electrical energy storage unit
    Patent number: 11909211
    Abstract: An apparatus, computer program, storage medium and electrical energy storage system for operating an electrical energy storage unit. The procedure includes ascertaining at least one predefined first condition being checked which represents a use of the electrical energy storage unit and/or an accuracy of a mathematical model of the electrical energy storage unit. If the predefined first condition is satisfied, at least one value of a parameter of the mathematical model is ascertained and subsequently this parameter value is changed in the mathematical model. The electrical energy storage unit is subsequently operated with the changed mathematical model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Girish Yergol, Christel Sarfert, Vincent Scharff
  • Hand-held machine tool
    Patent number: 11904395
    Abstract: There is a hand-held machine tool, in particular a saber saw, with a housing, a drive motor with an output shaft, a spindle for receiving a tool, in particular a saw blade, and a motion converter for converting a rotational motion of the drive shaft into a reciprocating motion of the spindle. The motion converter comprises an eccentric element driven by the output shaft rotationally about an axis of rotation with a driver part arranged eccentrically to the axis of rotation, and a pendulum element which is mounted pivotably about a bearing point and is connected via a coupling point to the spindle. The pendulum element has a guide element for guiding the driver part. In one embodiment, the guide element is arranged between the bearing point and coupling point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Zoltan Kocsis
  • Jet pump unit having an axis of a nozzle and an axis of a mixing tube offset by an angle
    Patent number: 11905977
    Abstract: The invention relates to a jet pump unit (46) for controlling a gaseous medium, in particular hydrogen, comprising a nozzle (1) and a mixing tube unit (30), said mixing tube unit (30) having a longitudinal axis (48) and the nozzle (1) a longitudinal axis (18). The longitudinal axis (48) of the mixing tube unit (48) and the longitudinal axis (18) of the nozzle (1) include an angle (?) with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Armin Richter, Hans-Christoph Magel
  • Method for dynamically assigning memory bandwidth
    Patent number: 11907550
    Abstract: A method for dynamically assigning memory bandwidth to multiple processor units, which are connected via a data connection to a shared memory unit. In an initialization phase, each of the multiple processor units are assigned an initial value of a usable memory bandwidth, and a permissible range for a mean usage of the memory bandwidth is determined. Subsequently, the assigned memory bandwidths are checked repeatedly and adjusted if needed, a present value of a mean usage of the memory bandwidth by the multiple processor units being determined, and, if this present value is outside the permissible range, the values of the usable memory bandwidth are adjusted for at least a part of the multiple processor units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Ahsan Saeed, Dakshina Narahari Dasari, Falk Rehm, Michael Pressler