Patents Assigned to Robert
  • Method for operating a radar system in the event of possible concealment of the target object and radar system for performing the method
    Patent number: 8514124
    Abstract: In a method for operating a radar system and a radar system for performing the method, in particular a microwave radar system for applications in or on motor vehicles, in which at least one target object and at least one possible concealing object are detected using radar technology, it is provided in particular that a detection is made of whether a concealment situation of the at least one target object by the at least one concealing object exists, and in the case of a detected concealment situation a loss of the target object is not automatically assumed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ruediger Jordan, Oliver Schwindt
  • Detection device of a motor vehicle and a corresponding detection method
    Patent number: 8511164
    Abstract: A detection device of a motor vehicle having a functional unit for transmitting and receiving signals. The functional unit has at least one first and one additional functional element, the signal inputs of which are subject to a comparison to determine an associative signal occurrence, and if the signals are absent in one of the functional elements, a configuration of its transmission/reception range to a road surface to be detected is performed in such a way that the corresponding functional element is forced to received signal reflections if it is functioning. A corresponding method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Klee, Wei-Chia Lee
  • Transmission drive unit
    Patent number: 8511194
    Abstract: A transmission drive unit (1) comprising a drive motor (2) having an output shaft (3) and an output toothing (4), a threaded spindle (8) having a worm wheel (5) that is in engagement with the output toothing (4), a first housing part (6) produced from plastic, having axial bearing locations (65, 66) and radial bearing locations (63, 64) for supporting the threaded spindle (8), and a second housing part (7) produced from metal, having a through opening (75) for the through passage of the threaded spindle (8), and at least one coupling region (76, 77) for fixing the transmission drive unit (1) to a component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Christof Angerer
  • Suction jet pump
    Patent number: 8511340
    Abstract: Suction jet pumps include a driving line which leads via a jet outlet into a suction chamber, where the suction chamber has a suction opening which interacts with a valve element and through which fluid is sucked into the suction chamber. The valve element together with the suction opening forms a suction valve. The suction jet pump is driven by a driving stream flowing via the driving line. The suction jet pump is arranged in a storage tank and sucks fuel out of a fuel tank into the storage tank. The driving line has a bypass opening which leads into the suction chamber and is arranged in such a manner that the bypass stream thereof acts on the valve element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Pavel Smid, Radek Malec, Karsten Scholz, Jiri Kadlec
  • Cord wrap handle
    Patent number: 8511212
    Abstract: A miter saw includes a base, a table rotatably mounted on the base, a blade and motor assembly pivotally coupled to a frame support that is attached to the table, and a power cord coupled to the blade and motor assembly. The frame support, the base, and/or the blade and motor assembly also comprises a handle portion that includes a grip with an opening disposed at an outer end thereof, with the grip also having a pair of arcuate surfaces disposed at opposing sides thereof for retaining the power cord when wrapped around both surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Jan Koegel
  • Brake disk
    Patent number: 8511442
    Abstract: A brake disk is described that has a friction ring and a disk pot that is connected to the friction ring via connecting elements. On the webs of the friction ring, bearer webs are fashioned into which the connecting elements extend. In addition, the bearer webs are fashioned in such a way that cooling air can flow around them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Hans-Walter Mueller
  • Method for stabilizing a controller and corresponding controller device
    Patent number: 8515651
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for stabilizing a controller and to the use of that method for stabilizing a controller system in an internal combustion engine. It is proposed that the stability of the controller first be established or excluded, that the control characteristic of the controller be altered and that the stability be checked again, and that those steps be repeated in a loop. For use in internal combustion engines, it is proposed that the order of precedence for the stabilization be specified and optionally made dependent on external ambient parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Stephane De Tricaud, Thomas Mueller
  • Display device for a wiper blade
    Patent number: 8510895
    Abstract: The invention relates to a display device (38) for a wiper blade (10) made up of a plastic piece with a display field (40, 42, 44) with means (52) for clipping to the wiper blade (10). According to the invention, said device has the same cross-sectional profile as a spoiler (30) for the wiper blade (10) of flat bar construction, wherein the inner profile (50) of the display device (38) matches the outer profile (32, 34, 36) of the spoiler (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Hans Beelen, Renaat Van Roelen, Dirk Herinckx
  • Data transmission method between master and slave devices
    Patent number: 8516174
    Abstract: A method for transmitting data frames between a master device and one or more slave devices via a bus system having at least one request line for transmitting request data frames from the master device to the slave devices, a response line for transmitting response data frames from the slave devices to the master device and at least one selection line for activating the slave devices, the request data frames and the response data frames being transmitted together with at least one address bit for addressing one of the slave devices, the useful data bits and at least one length-indicating bit for indicating the data frame length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Patrick Goerlich, Sabine Seemann, Ermin Esch
  • Hinge pin mounted door switch
    Patent number: 8510989
    Abstract: A door position detecting apparatus comprises a switch including a body having two electrical contacts and a through-channel. The through-channel of the switch receives a hinge pin inserted therethrough and further inserted into a door hinge. Two lever arms extend from the body. Each of the arms is attached to a respective one of the electrical contacts. The arms have a first position relative to each other wherein the contacts are electrically connected to each other, and a second position relative to each other wherein the contacts are electrically disconnected from each other. Biasing means biases the arms against a fixed door jamb and a rotatable door, respectively, such that one of the arms follows movement of the rotatable door from an open position of the door to a closed position of the door. Monitoring means monitors whether the contacts are electrically connected to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: James W. Riley, Steve Markham
  • Electrical drive machine having a stator and a rotor
    Patent number: 8513827
    Abstract: An electric drive machine having a stator and a rotor, the rotor carrying a rotor winding, in slots, which is able to be supplied with electric current by a power supply system made up of a commutator and sliding contacts, the sliding contacts pressing on the surface of the commutator having at least two pairs each made up of one positive sliding contact and one negative sliding contact, and in the case of at least one first pair of a positive sliding contact and a negative sliding contact, the positive sliding contact and the negative sliding contact being opposed at an angle ?, which deviates from 180°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Faber, Michael Bayer, Sven Hartmann, Dirk Buehler
  • Fastening assembly
    Patent number: 8511954
    Abstract: A fastening assembly using the keyhole principle is provided. For this purpose, a first component having a bolt that has a round and smooth head is guided through the larger opening of the keyhole, in order then with the head to engage behind the smaller opening of the keyhole-like cut-out for fastening. At the end of its shank, the bolt preferably features an external toothing or an external polyhedron as engagement surface for a tool for fastening the first component to the second component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Fink, Wolfgang Woernle
  • Self-governing medical peer rating system for health management content
    Patent number: 8516108
    Abstract: A self-governing medical peer rating system for evaluating and rating health management content includes a subject matter expert (SME) registration module that accepts a subscription from an SME to an application for contribution of content by entering credentials of the SME into the medical peer rating system, a SME verification module that verifies a profile of the SME created by the SME, a SME approval module that approves the SME as a verified SME based on at least one of a positive feedback, a negative feedback, and a neutral feedback from a group of verified SMEs, a community member, and a member of an editorial board. A content creator module that creates the content contributed by the SME. A content approval module that approves the content upon the content being discussed or reviewed by any of the verified SMEs, the community member, and the member of the editorial board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch Healthcare Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Rocky Shaw
  • Sensor element for capacitively measuring differential pressure
    Patent number: 8511168
    Abstract: A capacitive differential pressure sensor is described which has a simple configuration, and which provides reliable measuring results even in corrosive measuring environments. The sensor element for capacitively measuring differential pressure includes a sensor diaphragm which is implemented in a layered configuration on a semiconductor substrate and spans a cavern. A pressure connection opens into the cavern. The sensor element also includes a measuring capacitor which has a movable electrode on the sensor diaphragm, and a stationary counter electrode which is situated on the base of the cavern, opposite from the movable electrode. According to the sensor, the cavern is filled with a dielectric fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Sven Zinober, Remigius Has
  • Secondary battery having an electrode terminal penetrating through and electrically insulated from a cap plate
    Patent number: 8512895
    Abstract: A secondary battery includes an electrode assembly and an electrolyte solution in a case, a current collection unit in the case and electrically connected to the electrode assembly, a cap plate coupled to an open side of the case for sealing the case, an electrode terminal penetrating the cap plate through a terminal hole to be exposed to an exterior of the case, the electrode terminal being electrically connected to the current collection unit, and an insulation unit separating the cap plate from the electrode terminal and the current collection unit, the insulation unit being configured to block penetration of the electrolyte solution therethrough toward the cap plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignees: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd., Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Sang-Won Byun, Yong-Sam Kim, Sung-Bae Kim, Byung-Kyu Ahn
  • Method and device for determining the delivery volume of an injection pump
    Patent number: 8515693
    Abstract: By detecting the pressure time characteristic on the high-pressure side of an injection pump, the delivery volume of the pump is able to be determined without intervention in the injection system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Walter Lehle, Michael Hackner, Frederik Blank
  • Power miter saw having adjustable lower guard operating mechanism
    Patent number: 8511211
    Abstract: A power miter saw of the type which has an upper fixed blade guard and a lower swinging blade guard for covering the lower reach of an installed blade when the saw is in its rest position and for exposing the lower reach of the saw blade when moved to its operational position, the saw comprising an adjustable length elongated linkage mechanism interconnecting a frame support and the lower blade guard for moving the lower blade guard in response to movement of the saw between the rest and operational positions, such that the lower blade guard covers the lower reach of the blade when the saw is in its rest position and uncovers the blade when the saw is moved to its operational position, the linkage mechanism permitting the exposure of a blade arbor to facilitate changing of the blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Matthew Cox
  • Starter relay of a starter device for internal combustion engines
    Patent number: 8514038
    Abstract: The invention relates to a starter relay (19) for internal combustion engines, comprising a relay coil (27) and an armature (20), which interacts with a fork lever (21) by way of a driver (24) so as to toe-in a starter pinion, and comprising a contact bridge (34) which is to be actuated by the armature by way of a switch axis (32) and interacts with switch contacts (23a), wherein a coupling (33b) connects the switch axis and the armature such that they can be displaced with respect to each other to a limited extent. In order to ensure that welded contacts tear open and the neutral position of the fork lever is achieved when the relay is shut off, a pretensioned compression spring (26) is inserted between the armature (20) and the end of the fork lever (21).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Josef Weigt, Houman Ramezanian, Raphael Schymura
  • Method and control device for detecting a dangerous driving condition of a vehicle
    Patent number: 8515624
    Abstract: A method for detecting a dangerous driving condition of a vehicle located on a roadway is provided, which includes a step of receiving a first damping signal (310) via an interface, the first damping signal being suitable for representing a temporal progression of a vertical movement of a first wheel of the vehicle, a step of evaluating (312) the first damping signal in accordance with an evaluation rule, in order to obtain from the first damping signal a first probability value (314) for a departure of the first wheel from a roadway, and a step of providing an evaluation signal (316), the evaluation signal being designed to indicate a departure of the vehicle from the roadway, as a function of the first probability value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Lich, Josef Kolatschek
  • Commutation device and electric machine
    Patent number: 8513852
    Abstract: The invention relates to a commutation device (1) having a rotatable commutator (2) and at least one grinding element (16, 17, 18, 19) contacting the commutator (2). According to the invention, means (21) for removing abrasion debris (20) occurring during commutation are provided. The invention further relates to an electric machine having a commutation device (1) of said kind.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Daniel Klumpp, Erwin Sinni, Anita Seebacher