Patents Assigned to Robert
  • Patent number: 11876416
    Abstract: A rotary machine, in particular electric motor, includes a position sensing means for sensing a rotational position of a pole wheel that is rotatable about an axis of rotation. The pole wheel has a circumferential edge, and the position sensing means has at least one first position sensor for sensing a change in a magnetic field, at least one magnetic element arranged on the pole wheel, and at least one circuit card on which electronic components are arranged. The first position sensor is arranged at least indirectly on the circuit card. The first position sensor extends at least partially into a space of the pole wheel that surrounded by the circumferential edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Dieter Luger, Gerhard Bund
  • Patent number: 11873040
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for monitoring a steering system, in particular during an operation in a vehicle, in which method a load characteristic of at least one steering component of the steering system is determined and is evaluated in order to determine a stress and/or a state of the steering component. According to the disclosure, the load characteristic comprises at least one load on the steering component caused by an external application of force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas John, Michael Friedel, Stefan Kersten Weber, Susanne Meyer
  • Patent number: 11875617
    Abstract: A cloud storage backend for managing data of in-vehicle sensing modules is disclosed, which is advantageous for use in the context of a shared vehicle service, such as a car rental service, an autonomous taxi service, or a ride sharing service. The in-vehicle sensing modules are configured to monitor a status of the vehicle and utilize appropriate algorithms, models, or thresholds to interpret sensor data and enrich the data with metadata and event detection. The cloud storage backend receives relevant sensor data, event data, or other metadata from the in-vehicle sensing modules and stores the data in a database which is made accessible by authorized third-parties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Philip Ventimiglia, Krisztian Bakos, Karl Holodnick, Russell Watts, George Lewis, Stefan Weissert
  • Patent number: 11875581
    Abstract: A method for generating a monitoring image. The method includes: providing an image sequence of the surroundings to be monitored with the aid of an imaging system; determining at least one monitoring area and at least one periphery area of at least one image of the image sequence with the aid of a learning-based semantic segmentation method; compressing the monitoring area of the at least one image of the image sequence with a first compression quality; and compressing the periphery area of the at least one image of the image sequence with a second compression quality to generate the compressed monitoring image, the second compression quality being lower than the first compression quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Fabian Brickwedde, Uwe Brosch, Masato Takami, Gregor Blott
  • Patent number: 11875299
    Abstract: An apparatus for and a method of operating a fleet of vehicles. The apparatus provides a set of routes for moving entities of the fleet of vehicles, provides a request for at least two stops of an entity of the fleet of vehicles including at least one pick up location and at at least one drop off location, selecting a route from the set of routes for that a measure for a distance of one or more stops included in the request to the route meets a condition, inserting the at least one pick up location and at at least one drop off location as stops into the route and instructing to operate an entity according to the route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Hans-Christian Haag, Markus Kromer, Peter Sanders, Valentin Buchhold
  • Patent number: 11875345
    Abstract: A method for conducting a transaction between a plurality of partitions of a blockchain. In the method: on the partitions, smart contracts are provided, through the contracts, state channels are anchored in the partitions, and the transaction between the partitions Ls carried out on the state channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Alexander Poddey
  • Patent number: 11872892
    Abstract: A method for operating a motor vehicle having multiple drive wheels and multiple drive machines, each drive machines being an electric machine and being allocated to a drive wheel. The method includes: acquiring a total setpoint drive torque; acquiring a current vehicle driving speed, a current steering angle, and optionally, the wheel loads of all drive wheels; determining wheel-individual movement speeds of the drive wheels over the roadway based on the current vehicle driving speed, the current steering angle, a known chassis geometry of the motor vehicle, and optionally, the wheel loads; determining a setpoint wheel speed for each drive wheel based on the determined movement speeds, and distributing the total setpoint drive torque to all drive wheels such that an actual curve path deviates from a setpoint curve path specified by the steering angle; actuating each drive machine to adjust the setpoint wheel speed at the respective drive wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Martin Nordmann, Lars Bieniek
  • Patent number: 11872703
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for planning an optimized motion path. The optimized motion path is determined applying a sampling-based motion-planning algorithm depending on a sample node set including sample nodes. The sample nodes in the sample node set are deterministically selected from a configuration node set including all obstacle free nodes. The sample nodes are selected to optimize a given dispersion criterion. The dispersion criterion selects the sample nodes so that the largest uncovered area/space within the configuration node set is as small as possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Leonard Bruns, Kai Oliver Arras, Luigi Palmieri
  • Patent number: 11876351
    Abstract: A prechamber spark plug, including center and ground electrodes, a housing having an external thread, a cap arranged on the housing and together with the housing defines a prechamber, and an insulator which electrically insulates the center electrode from the housing. The external thread has a thread length in the axial direction. The housing is fastened to the insulator at first and second fixing regions so that a first clamping force at the first fixing region acts from the housing on the insulator, and a second clamping force at the second fixing region acts from the housing on the insulator. The first and second clamping forces are directed in opposite directions to one another in the axial direction. A distance between the first and second fixing regions in the axial direction defines a clamping length. A ratio between the thread length and the clamping length is between 0.7 to 1.3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Bernd Mueller, Matthias Blankmeister, Stephan Kaske, Thomas Steidten, Ugur Yilmaz
  • Patent number: 11872995
    Abstract: A method for predicting a driving maneuver in a driver assistance system of a motor vehicle. Based on dynamic data of the vehicle detected with the aid of sensors, a history of a driving maneuver, which is not yet completed, is recorded and, based on the history, a future course of the driving maneuver is predicted. Multiple hypotheses for potentially occurring driving maneuvers are represented by respective associated sets of parameters. A theoretical history of the driving maneuver is calculated based on the parameters for each hypothesis. The recorded history is compared to at least one of the theoretical histories. Based on a similarity degree, the hypothesis which describes the presently occurring driving maneuver with the highest probability is determined and output as the prediction result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Adrien Desies, Lorenz Quack, Markus Maier, Michael Baumann, Mostafa Alavi
  • Patent number: 11876955
    Abstract: A method for qualification of a camera system and/or its image/camera signals of a partially autonomously or autonomously driving vehicle. Infrastructure information from a vehicle's surroundings is used. The image/camera signal of the camera system is monitored by a monitoring function with regard to at least the following criteria: image/camera signal in recurring, known time windows, sequence of the image/camera signals, corruption of the image/camera signals, signature checking of the camera system. Checking of the image/camera signals using unmoving land markings that are reconciled with a list is carried out and they are checked for a mapping signature. Then the image/camera signals and the infrastructure information contained in the updated map check function are communicated to an evaluation function and merged and compared in a signal fusion unit. Consequently, a qualified image/camera signal is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Holger Mindt
  • Patent number: 11875514
    Abstract: The invention relates to an analysis device (6) for analyzing image data of a camera (5), wherein the image data has a plurality of individual images B, comprising a device (7) for determining a number of persons, said device (7) for determining a number of persons being designed to determine the number of persons P in the individual images B; an image selection device (8), said image selection device (8) being designed to select individual images B on the basis of the number of persons P and provide the selected individual images B and the corresponding number of persons P as analysis data A; a device (10) for identifying persons, said device (10) for identifying persons being designed to mark persons P1, P2, P3 as image sections A1, A2 in the individual images B on the basis of the analysis data A and provide same as mask images M; and an image combination device (10), said image combination device (10) being designed to replace the marked image sections A1, A2 with corresponding image sections A1?, A2? wit
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Jan Karl Warzelhan, Michael Christern
  • Patent number: 11873216
    Abstract: A method for producing damper structures on a micromechanical wafer. The method includes: (A) providing an edge adhesive film and a molding wafer, which includes a first side having a molding structure; (B) applying the edge adhesive film to the first side of the molding wafer at a low atmospheric pressure; (C) joining the edge adhesive film to the first side of the molding wafer by increasing the atmospheric pressure; (D) filling the molding structures with an adhesive; (E) curing the adhesive to form damper structures; (F) bonding the damper structures to a second side of a micromechanical wafer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Michael Stumber
  • Patent number: 11875112
    Abstract: Methods for analyzing elements of a first text collection, and devices and methods for searching for information in a set of digital data, in particular in a computer network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Anna Constanze Haetty
  • Patent number: 11875265
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for training an artificial neural network using training data, which include features and identifiers, the features characterizing term candidates from a corpus, the corpus including a text from a domain, the identifier characterizing a degree of association to at least three classes for term candidates that differ from one another, different classes indicating different degrees of association of the term candidates to the domain, the training data including an assignment of features to identifiers. An artificial neural network, method for classifying term candidates, and computer-implemented method for generating training data, are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Anna Constanze Haetty, Michael Dorna
  • Patent number: 11876442
    Abstract: The present invention relates to advanced control for a DC-to-DC converter. For this purpose, in the determination of a controlled variable for the control of the DC-to-DC converter, the control dynamics are adjusted according to an electric current through the DC-to-DC converter. In particular, it is possible to determine the controlled variable from a combination of a first controlled variable of a voltage controller and a second controlled variable of a feedforward control. In particular, the control dynamics of the feedforward control can be adjusted according to the electric current through the DC-to-DC converter. By adjusting the control dynamics according to current, it is possible to minimize possible current ripple on the output side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Gholamabas Esteghlal
  • Patent number: 11872962
    Abstract: The invention relates to a windscreen wiper device having: at least one wiper blade adapter (32a; 32b); at least one wiper arm adapter (30a; 30b); and at least one electric connection unit (38a; 38b) for electrically connecting at least one line element (34a; 34b) of the wiper arm adapter (30a; 30b) to at least one electric attachment element (40a; 40b) of the wiper blade adapter (32a; 32b), wherein the wiper blade adapter (32a; 32b) is mounted on the wiper arm adapter (30a; 30b) via at least one bearing element (36a; 36b), in particular a bearing pin, of the wiper arm adapter (30a; 30b) so as to be movable, in particular pivotable. According to the invention, the electric connection unit (38a; 38b) comprises at least one electric connection element (42a; 42b), which is arranged on the wiper arm adapter (30a; 30b) and is mounted via the bearing element (36a; 36b) so as to be moveable, in particular rotatable or pivotable, at least relative to the wiper arm adapter (30a; 30b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Jens Maerkle, Harald Rapp
  • Patent number: 11866323
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing at least one membrane system for a micromechanical sensor for the calorimetric detection of gases. A wafer-shaped substrate is provided. At least one reference volume is introduced from a front side into the wafer-shaped substrate with the aid of a surface or volume micromechanical process while forming a reference membrane covering the reference volume at least in some areas. At least one measuring volume, which is adjacent to the at least one reference volume, is introduced into the substrate from a back side or the front side of the wafer-shaped substrate while forming a measuring membrane. A wafer-shaped cap substrate is applied onto the front side of the wafer-shaped substrate. A membrane system and a component are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Renate Mueller, Tobias Sebastian Frey
  • Patent number: 11870138
    Abstract: A MIMO radar sensor for motor vehicles, having an antenna assemblage on a rectangular circuit board whose edges define a y direction and a z direction. The antenna assemblage includes at least two arrays of transmitting antennas and at least two arrays of receiving antennas. Transmitting antennas within each array are offset from one another in a z direction, and the two arrays of the transmitting antennas are offset from one another in a y direction. The receiving antennas within each array are offset from one another in a y direction, and the two arrays of the receiving antennas are offset from one another in a z direction. A high-frequency module is disposed in a central region of the circuit board between the arrays of the transmitting and receiving antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Benedikt Loesch, Michael Schoor
  • Patent number: D1011158
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Vincent Hasenmayer, Kay Zaß