Patents Assigned to Robert
  • Electrical contacting and method for producing an electrical contacting
    Patent number: 11897758
    Abstract: An electrical contacting between a surrounding wiring and a conductor region. The conductor region is situated in a conductor layer above an SOI wafer or SOI chip. A cover layer is situated above the conductor layer and below the surrounding wiring. The cover layer has a contacting region. The contacting region is insulated from the rest of the cover layer by a first configuration of recesses. An opening is formed at least in the contacting region. A metallic material is situated in the opening. The metallic material connects the surrounding wiring and the conductor region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Jochen Reinmuth, Markus Kuhnke, Stefan Majoni, Timo Schary
  • Method for producing a precursor material for an electrochemical cell
    Patent number: 11901547
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a precursor material (10) for an electrochemical cell. The method comprises the steps of adding a matrix material (18) to a fluidized bed (40), and adding a carrier medium (48) and a de-agglomerated carbon nanotube material (22) to the fluidized bed (40), so that the carbon nanotube material (22) and the carrier medium (48) is applied to the matrix material (18) and the latter is granulated therewith, wherein the carbon nanotube material (22) has been suspended and de-agglomerated prior to addition to the carrier medium (48), and/or the carbon nanotube material (22) present in de-agglomerated form in the fluidized bed (40) dissolving with the carrier medium (48) in the fluidized bed (40).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Harald Bauer, Wolfgang Weydanz
  • Quick identification of hazardous or at-risk objects in the surroundings of a vehicle
    Patent number: 11900685
    Abstract: A method for identifying potentially hazardous or at-risk objects in the surroundings of a vehicle. The method includes detecting an area of the surroundings using at least one event-based sensor, the event-based sensor including light-sensitive pixels, and a relative change of the light intensity incident upon a pixel by at least a predefined percentage prompting the sensor to output an event assigned to this pixel. The method also includes assigning events output by the sensor to objects in the area; analyzing, for at least one object to which events are assigned, the events assigned to the object with respect to present movements of the object; and ascertaining an impending movement of the object, and/or an impending change of state, of the object from the present movements. An associated computer program is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Michael Pfeiffer, Jochen Marx, Oliver Lange
  • Multi-hypothesis object tracking for automated driving systems
    Patent number: 11897511
    Abstract: Methods and systems for multi-hypothesis object tracking for automated driving systems. One system includes an electronic processor configured to receive environment information and generate pseudo-measurement data associated with an object within an environment of the vehicle. The electronic processor is also configured to determine, based on the environment information and the pseudo-measurement data, a set of association hypotheses regarding the object. The electronic processor is also configured to determine, based on the set of association hypotheses, an object state of the object. The electronic processor is also configured to control the vehicle based on the determined object state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Theresa Veronika Kienle, Thomas Benjamin Gussner, Oliver F. Schwindt, Stephan Reuter, Andreas Heyl
  • Method for detecting an unauthorized physical access to a bus system
    Patent number: 11899785
    Abstract: A method for detecting an unauthorized physical access to a bus system. The method including: acquiring a measuring signal which assumes a first state when the voltage signal lies above a threshold voltage and a second state when the voltage signal does not; detecting a test-level sequence in the voltage signal; forming a measuring-signal pattern based on the measuring signal; comparing the measuring-signal pattern to a reference pattern that is assigned to the detected test-level sequence and was determined based on a reference measuring signal for the test-level sequence in a state of the bus system in which no unauthorized physical access was present; and determining that a possible unauthorized physical access is present if the measuring-signal pattern and the reference pattern differ from each other in one or more predetermined properties by more than a specific tolerance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Axel Aue, Eugen Becker
  • Fuel injector valve seat assembly including insert locating and retention features
    Patent number: 11898526
    Abstract: A fuel injector (1) including a fuel injector housing (2), a valve seat (4) formed at one end of the fuel injector housing, and a valve body (10) disposed in the fuel injector housing and operable to open and close a spray hole (20) in the valve seat. The valve seat includes a base portion (16) and insert portion (26) having spray holes (8) that is secured to the base portion (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Guenter Dantes, Todd Wallace Helsel, Manoj Menon, John Seifert, Thomas Stach, Ryan Cary, Sudhir Srinivasan, Fabian Lischke, Juergen Lander, Sebastian Wieschollek, James Doetsch, Peter Glibota
  • Procedure for detecting a transmission backlash in a power tool, in particular a hand-held power tool, and power tool
    Patent number: 11901852
    Abstract: A method for detecting a transmission backlash in a hand-held power tool, the hand-held power tool comprising a drive motor that has a drive shaft, a tool spindle, and a transmission that, in respect of drive, connects the drive shaft to the tool spindle, includes actuating, in a first actuation, the drive motor at least until the value of a first variable, representing a drag torque, is at least approximately constant. The method includes, during the first actuation, determining a value of a second variable which is associated with the rotation of the drive shaft of the drive motor during the first actuation, and determining a value of a third variable, representing a transmission backlash, based upon a change in the second variable during the first actuation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Hardy Schmid, Axel Kuhnle, Hagen Philipp Keinath, Matthias Tauber, Sebastian Maier
  • Augmentation and processing of radar data with machine learning
    Patent number: 11899131
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for converting source radar data of a source configuration of a radar system target radar data of a target configuration. The method comprises: providing a source array of grid cells for source reflex locations; determining, for each respective grid cell in the source array, a probability or frequency that source reflex locations are located in the respective grid cell; forming a source tensor including the source array populated with the probability or frequency for each grid cell; transforming the source tensor into a target tensor including a target array of grid cells for the target reflex locations and indicating the probabilities or frequencies of the target reflex locations for each respective grid cell; and generating the target radar data by sampling the location coordinates of the target reflex locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Andrej Junginger, Michael Johannes Oechsle, Thilo Strauss
  • Controllable actuator device, braking device for an electrically operated vehicle, and method for operating a braking device
    Patent number: 11897440
    Abstract: A controllable actuator unit (1) having an electronic connecting device (AN). The actuator device (1) is connectable to a drive axle of an electrically operated vehicle (2), such that a braking or locking effect for a rotary movement of the drive axle can be produced. The actuator device (1) is controllable by a control device (SE) via the electronic connecting device (AN).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Friedrich, Heinz-Bernd Haiser
  • Method for evaluating sensor data, including expanded object recognition
    Patent number: 11900691
    Abstract: A method for evaluating sensor data. The sensor data are ascertained by scanning a surrounding area, using at least one sensor. On the basis of the sensor data, object detection is carried out for determining objects from the sensor data. Object filtering is carried out. Surface characteristics of at least one object are identified, and/or the surface characteristics of at least one object are ascertained with the aid of access to a database. A control unit is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Dominik Maucher, Heinz Hertlein
  • Distributed secure multi party computation
    Patent number: 11902429
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for providing a distributed data processing service for performing a secure multiparty computation of a function on at least first and second items of private input data using at least a first and a second computing engine communicatively coupled via a communication network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Hanna Modica, Sebastian Becker, Sven Trieflinger, Vadim Raskin, Volker Suschke
  • Method for operating a control unit when testing software of the control unit, and method for operating a test computer when testing software of a control unit
    Patent number: 11899561
    Abstract: A method for operating a control unit when testing software of the control unit. The control unit includes a processor for executing the software and a memory for storing the software. The method includes: receiving test requests, generated by a test computer, in the control unit; executing a test program for testing the software based on the test requests, by executing a first binary file, which is stored in the memory, by the processor, the first binary file encoding a test version of the software which includes at least one test module necessary for executing the test program; sending test results from the control unit to the test computer; and receiving a second binary file, executable by the processor, in the control unit and storing the second binary file in the memory when the test computer has determined, based on the test results, that the software is fit for operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Antoni Lacasta I Sulla
  • Brushless electrical machine
    Patent number: 11901781
    Abstract: A brushless electrical machine, in particular, a brushless d.c. motor, having a housing, at least one rotor, which is positioned on a shaft rotationally mounted in the housing, and a stator attached to the housing; the rotor being assigned a rotor position detection device, which operates contactlessly and includes a multipole magnetic ring positioned on the shaft in a rotatably fixed manner and at least one sensor, which is sensitive to magnetic fields and is attached to the housing radially with respect to the outer circumference of the magnetic ring. The number of pole pairs of the rotor and the number of pole pairs of the magnetic ring are coprime.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Christian Binder, Oliver Fuchs
  • Batch of spark plugs
    Patent number: 11901704
    Abstract: A batch of spark plugs. Each spark plug has a longitudinal axis, a central electrode oriented in the direction of the longitudinal axis, a ground electrode oriented at an angle to the longitudinal axis, such that a spark gap is formed between a tip of the central electrode and a tip of the ground electrode, and an outer thread for screwing the spark plug in the longitudinal direction into an inner thread of a cylinder head of a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine, and has an annular contact surface oriented perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis and intended for bringing the spark plug to rest against the cylinder head. After the spark plugs have been screwed into the inner thread of the cylinder head, the ground electrodes have the same orientation with regard to a rotation about the longitudinal axis of the spark plug relative to the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Matthias Blankmeister, Matthias Budde, Stephan Kaske, Ugur Yilmaz, Ulrich Stockmeier, Philipp Rottmann
  • Filter housing for a fuel filter
    Patent number: 11898523
    Abstract: A fuel system that provides fuel to an internal combustion engine includes a fuel tank and a fuel pump configured to receive fluid from the fuel tank and supply pressurized fluid to the engine via a fuel filter. The filter receives fuel from the pump and provides filtered fuel to the engine. The filter is disposed in a filter chamber of a filter housing. The filter housing includes a fuel inlet that directs fuel received from the fuel pump into the filter chamber, a fuel outlet that directs filtered fuel received from the fuel filter to the fuel supply line, and a bypass outlet that directs fuel not drawn into the fuel filter by the internal combustion engine to a fuel pressure regulator. The regulator receives the unfiltered fuel from the bypass outlet and returns the unfiltered fuel to the fuel tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Paul Mason, Alberto Levi Rossano Ruiz, David Toutant
  • Micromechanical device with contact pad
    Patent number: 11897756
    Abstract: A micromechanical device that includes a MEMS substrate and a cap substrate that enclose at least one first cavity, with at least one contact pad that is situated outside the first cavity. A MEMS structure is situated in the first cavity and connected to the contact pad with the aid of a strip conductor, the strip conductor extending at least partially in the MEMS substrate. The contact pad is situated at a surface of the cap substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Jochen Reinmuth, Martin Rambach
  • Internal short detection and mitigation in batteries
    Patent number: 11901516
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and techniques for identifying a dendrite material within a battery. The method comprising receiving, by a battery management system, an output from sensing circuitry within the battery indicative of a first voltage level, detecting, by the battery management system, a change from the first voltage level to a second voltage level that is indicative of an internal short within a sensing sheet, determining by the battery management system, a resistance and a two-dimensional position of the internal short within the sensing sheet, and identifying, by the battery management system, a dendrite material based on the resistance of the internal short.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: John F. Christensen, Aleksandar Kojic
  • Hydraulic unit and control units for hydraulic brake systems
    Patent number: 11892092
    Abstract: In a hydraulic unit, which is for a hydraulic brake system, that has a hydraulic block and at least one valve device, the valve device includes a hydraulic cartridge with a valve seat and with a movable closing body for blocking and opening the valve seat, and a magnet assembly with a magnet coil for generating a magnetic force for moving the closing body. The magnet assembly is integrated into the hydraulic block, and the valve device has a permanent magnet in order to assist the movement of the closing body by means of magnetic force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Harald Speer, Edgar Kurz, Wolfgang Schuller
  • Motor assembly comprising a position sensor
    Patent number: 11894731
    Abstract: A motor assembly includes a rotor and a sensor arrangement. The sensor arrangement has a sensor and a target. The target is applied to a surface of the rotor and the sensor is mounted on a bearing shield of the motor opposite the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Sinz, Konstantin Haberkorn, Patrick Budaker, Lothar Detels, Marc Micke, Klaus Lerchenmueller
  • Power hammer
    Patent number: D1014213
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignees: Bosch Power Tools (China) Co., LTD., Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Wei Gu