Patents Assigned to Robert
  • Patent number: 11926303
    Abstract: A non-return valve for a vehicle hydraulic-power brake system. The non-return valve has a valve-seat part in the form of an apertured disk, onto which is pressed a valve cage in which a valve ball is disposed as shut-off member and a helical compression spring is disposed as valve spring. A bowl-shaped filter is secured in a depression in the valve-seat part opposite the valve cage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Tobias Franke, Andreas Weh, Martin Hagspiel
  • Patent number: 11927230
    Abstract: A friction brake body for a friction brake of a motor vehicle, in particular a brake disk, includes a base body made in particular from gray cast iron and having at least one wear resistant layer formed on a friction contact surface of the base body. The wear resistant layer is made from ferritic-austenitic steel and includes an incorporated hard material particle, in particular finely distributed hard material particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ilja Potapenko, Christian Schnatterer, Thomas Pfeiffer, Kangjian Wu, Simon Loskyll
  • Patent number: 11926373
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for operating a steering system, wherein the steering system has at least one electrical three-phase machine, at least one control circuit for actuating the electrical three-phase machine and at least one compensation device, which is operatively connected to the control circuit, for reducing a torque ripple of the electrical three-phase machine, wherein at least one compensation parameter of the compensation device is determined. It is proposed that during the determination of the at least one compensation parameter, at least one operating variable correlated with a pre-commutation angle of the electrical three-phase machine and/or with a supply voltage of the electrical three-phase machine is taken into consideration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Stefan Ehlert
  • Patent number: 11928902
    Abstract: A method for situation-based processing of sensor data from a motor vehicle. Sensor data generated by sensors relating to the situation in the surroundings of the motor vehicle is transferred to a processing unit via a bus. The processing unit takes into account the transferred sensor data to determine an information requirement, and generates a request for additional sensor data on the basis of the determined information requirement and the load on the bus, and sends this request to the sensors. A corresponding device is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Leon Zhao, Benneth Sturm
  • Patent number: 11927691
    Abstract: A portable vehicle sensor calibration apparatus having an anchor mechanism such that the apparatus may be mounted upon a surface. The anchor mechanism may comprise a suction cup mechanism. The vehicle sensor calibration apparatus may comprise a second anchor mechanism. The vehicle sensor calibration apparatus may be operable to mount onto a body of a support vehicle other than the vehicle having sensors requiring calibration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Robert Meitzler, Michael Shevela, Richard Martin
  • Patent number: 11928448
    Abstract: A system provides a framework/platform for development and distribution of solutions related to vehicles. A processor is configured to render a plurality of modules in at least one terminal device based on an access request. The plurality of modules is displayable on a display interface of the at least one terminal device. The processor is further configured to execute instructions generated from the plurality of modules for development of the solutions. The instructions are generated by a user of the at least one terminal device, which is in communication with a server. The plurality of modules is accessible through an input unit of the at least one terminal device, each of the plurality of modules is usable alone and in combination. The processor stores the developed solutions in the server for distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignees: Robert Bosch GmbH, Bosch Limited
    Inventors: Anantha Prashanth, Ramachandra Pradeep
  • Patent number: 11926348
    Abstract: A method for controlling applications distributed between a vehicle and a cloud. A supervision of communication channels between the vehicle and the cloud is carried out. Based on the supervision, a control and adaptation of a component of the applications operated in the vehicle or of a component of the applications operated in the cloud are carried out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Erik Walossek, Frederik Blank, Kurt Eckert, Alexander Geraldy, Behzad Benam, Jan Wolter, Jens Schwardmann, Karl Theo Floess
  • Patent number: 11929631
    Abstract: A method for operating a battery module, including multiple battery cells. The method includes: a) ascertaining cell voltages of the individual battery cells at a starting point in time; b) ascertaining at the starting point in time an average cell voltage from the cell voltages of the battery cells ascertained at the starting point in time; c) estimating the cell voltage of at least one battery cell at an operating point in time if the cell voltage of the battery cell is not measurable at the operating point in time, taking into account the cell voltage of the battery cell ascertained at the starting point in time, the average cell voltage ascertained at the starting point in time, and an average cell voltage ascertained at the operating point in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Christoph Woll, Alexander Schmidt, Tunan Shen
  • Patent number: 11928278
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a user input surface configured to receive a user touch location and a user force input, one or more sensors positioned relative to the user input surface and configured to detect a force applied to the user input surface, and a controller in communication with the one or more sensors. The controller is configured to detect a first sensor response utilizing a first force applied to the user input surface via the one or more sensors and a first position of the first force applied, wherein the first position is relative to the user input surface, simulate a multi-finger force being applied by utilizing at least the first sensor response to form simulated multi-finger data, and deploy a model associated with the multi-finger force, wherein the model is utilized to output a predicted force and predicted location of an applied force relative to the input surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Carlos Cunha, Ingo Hermanns
  • Patent number: 11926341
    Abstract: A method for determining a driving maneuver of a vehicle with a control unit includes receiving a measurement data relating to a traffic situation from a sensor, determining a current detection area of the sensor by evaluating the measurement data, and creating a sensor model based on the measurement data. An estimated detection area of the sensor from the measurement data is modelled through forward simulation based on a vehicle position of the vehicle. A change in the estimated detection area of the sensor due to a driving maneuver is determined along with the driving maneuver that causes an increase in the estimated detection area due to the sensor model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignees: Mercedes-Benz Group AG, Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Chunki Park, Benjamin Ulmer, Jan KleinDieck, Dominik Maucher, Felix Kunz, Jinsung Kwon
  • Patent number: 11928104
    Abstract: A method for operating a decentralized application by users of a blockchain. In the method, a first user proposes a state change on a state channel anchored in a blockchain. If a confirmation of the state change by the other users on the state channel does not occur, the first user prompts the other users to confirm within a predefined time span on the blockchain. If the confirmation also does not occur on the blockchain, the state change is carried out at the blockchain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Alexander Poddey, Fredrik Kamphuis
  • Patent number: 11927192
    Abstract: A pump apparatus has a rotor shaft, a pump impeller connected to the rotor shaft, at least one axial bearing which rotatably supports the rotor shaft at a side facing the pump impeller, a magnetic pump stator, a magnetic pump rotor which is connected to the rotor shaft, a containment can which extends between the stator and the rotor, and at least one central support element which is mounted in the region of the pump impeller. The pump apparatus has an elastomer disk which is arranged between the support element and the axial bearing. The stator and the rotor are arranged with an axial offset with respect to each other. The stator and the rotor are provided as a result of the axial offset to produce an axial force F in the direction of the elastomer disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Johannes Walter, Claudius Muschelknautz, Gerald Zierer, Hannes Butscher, Pierre Werny, Ralf Herrmann, Thomas Eckerle
  • Patent number: 11922291
    Abstract: A convolutional neural network system includes a sensor and a controller, wherein the controller is configured to receive an image from the sensor, divide the image into patches, each patch of size p, extract, via a first convolutional layer, a feature map having a number of channels based on a feature detector of size p, wherein the feature detector has a stride equal to size p, refine the feature map by alternatingly applying depth-wise convolutional layers and point-wise convolutional layers to obtain a refined feature map, wherein the number of channels in the feature map and the size of the feature map remains constant throughout all operations in the refinement; and output the refined feature map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignees: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Asher Trockman, Jeremy Kolter, Devin T. Willmott, Filipe J. Cabrita Condessa
  • Patent number: 11919563
    Abstract: A sleeve of a steering column includes (i) an outer tube and an inner tube that are movable relative to each other, and (ii) an adjustment system. The adjustment system includes a screw for adjusting the axial position along an adjustment axis constrained to move in translation with a first of the two elements by at least two guide bearings for rotationally guiding the adjusting screw about the adjustment axis. At least one of the bearings supporting the adjusting screw is a guide bearing with axial force take-up for blocking the translational movement of the adjusting screw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignees: Robert Bosch Automotive Steering Vendome, Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Laurent Fevre, Eddy Dupont
  • Patent number: 11919564
    Abstract: A steering column sleeve includes (i) a translationally movable outer tube and inner tube, and (ii) an adjusting system for adjusting the relative position of the tubes. The adjusting system includes a screw for adjusting the axial position of the two elements. The adjusting system further includes an adjusting device for adjusting a resistance force opposing the relative movement between the tubes. The adjusting device has a friction pad and a clamping surface against which the friction pad moves between operating and adjustment positions. The adjusting system also includes a kinematic chain so that, beyond a threshold resistance torque transmitted by the screw to a single motor that it drives, its torque is transmitted to the adjusting device so as to move the friction pad from its operating position to its adjustment position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch Automotive Steering Vendome
    Inventors: Laurent Fevre, Eddy Dupont
  • Patent number: 11923532
    Abstract: A pre-lithiated silicon-based anode includes a silicon-based anode, lithium disposed on a surface or in an interior of the silicon-based anode, and a protective coating on the surface of the silicon-based anode. The pre-lithiated silicon-based anode allows subsequent processing to be performed safely in the atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Rongrong Jiang, Jingjun Zhang, Yuqian Dou, Lei Wang, Chuanling Li, Yunhua Chen, Xiaogang Hao, Qiang Lu
  • Patent number: 11919495
    Abstract: A method for operating a brake system of a motor vehicle. The brake system includes a master brake cylinder operable by a user and a pressure generator driven by an electric motor, for generating a hydraulic system pressure, and includes at least one hydraulically operable friction brake. On the inlet side, the at least one friction brake is assigned a proportioning valve acted upon by the system pressure, to adjust a hydraulic actuating pressure for the friction brake. The pressure generator is given a setpoint value for carrying out a testing operation. The setpoint value is selected so as to be smoothed by a logistical growth function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Mike Huff, Anatoly Malkin, Wadim Henning
  • Patent number: 11920679
    Abstract: The invention relates to parking brake device (10) for a vehicle transmission (GT) comprising a driveshaft (AW) and a first actuator (F1), via which the driveshaft (AW) can be rotated; a pawl (2), which can be lockingly engaged in the vehicle transmission (GT); a rotary mechanism (1), which is connected to the driveshaft (AW) and comprises an engaging mechanism, an insert spring (16) and a permanent magnet (PM), wherein the pawl (2) and the rotary mechanism (1) can be moved with the permanent magnet (PM) between a locking position (P) and a neutral position (nP) for the vehicle transmission (GT), wherein the rotary mechanism (1) can be pretensioned via the insert spring (16) and the neutral position (nP) can be adopted; wherein the parking brake device (10) also comprises: a second actuator (F2), via which the engaging mechanism can be triggered when the insert spring (16) is pretensioned and, as a result, the locking position (P) can be entered via an application of force of the insert spring (16) on the rot
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Gerhard Wetzel
  • Patent number: 11921817
    Abstract: A computer-implemented unsupervised learning method of training a video feature extractor. The video feature extractor is configured to extract a feature representation from a video sequence. The method uses training data representing multiple training video sequences. From a training video sequence of the multiple training video sequences, a current subsequence; a preceding subsequence preceding the current subsequence; and a succeeding subsequence succeeding the current subsequence are selected. The video feature extractor is applied to the current subsequence to extract a current feature representation of the current subsequence. A training signal is derived from a joint predictability of the preceding and succeeding subsequences given the current feature representation. The parameters of the video feature extractor are updated based on the training signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Mehdi Noroozi, Nadine Behrmann
  • Patent number: 11919566
    Abstract: An X-axis steering column includes a cap, a U-shaped tab attached to the cap, and an upper tube that slides relative to a lower tube. An attachment for attaching the cap to the U-shaped tab includes two screws and at least one stop in contact with at least one lateral groove. The at least one stop is configured to absorb lateral loads without any longitudinal movement of the steering column being impeded, including during adjustment of the steering column or during an impact due to a collision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch Automotive Steering Vendome
    Inventors: Nicolas Genet, Thomas Jorigne, Fredie Gouge