Patents Assigned to Robert
  • Patent number: 11817540
    Abstract: Disclosed is a delivery unit (3) for an anode circuit (9) of a fuel cell system (1) for delivering a gaseous medium, in particular hydrogen, from an anode region (38) of a fuel cell (2), said delivery unit (3) comprising at least one recirculation fan (8) and being at least indirectly fluidically connected to the outlet of the anode region (38) by means of at least one connection line (23) and being fluidically connected to the inlet of the anode region (38) by means of an additional connection line (25). According to the invention, in addition to the recirculation fan (8), the delivery unit (3) comprises a jet pump (4), a metering valve (6) and a separator (10) as other components, and the flow contours of the components (4, 6, 8, 10) for the gaseous medium are at least almost entirely arranged in a common housing (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Hero, Armin Merz
  • Patent number: 11814675
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, devices, and methods for nucleic acid sequencing including polynucleotide strands having a nucleotide(s) modified with a redox label(s) attached thereto or capable of receiving the modified nucleotide(s) with a redox label(s) attached thereto. The systems, devices, and methods include a dielectric member with an attached translocating protein positioned between oxidizing and reducing electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Nadezda Fomina, Christopher Johnson, Young Shik Shin, Christoph Lang
  • Patent number: 11817794
    Abstract: For an electronic circuit module (1), more particularly a circuit module that is used as an inverter for an electrical machine or as a converter, comprising at least one electronics unit (4), more particularly a power electronics unit, wherein the electronics unit (4) comprises at least one carrier substrate (5) and at least one electrical and/or electronic component (32) provided on the carrier substrate (5), at least one first connection point (10) and at least two second connection points (20) are formed on the carrier substrate (5) on a substrate top side (7) of the carrier substrate (5), the first connection point (10) is provided between the two second connection points (20), and wherein the electronic circuit module (1) further comprises at least one electrical or electronic part (8) having at least one first bus bar (12) for electrically contacting the electronic part (8) and at least one second bus bar (22) for electrically contacting the electronic part (8), the invention proposes that an electrical
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gunter Flamm, Reiner Schuetz, Wolfram Kienle
  • Patent number: 11814019
    Abstract: A hydraulic braking system for a vehicle has two sub-braking systems hydraulically separated from one another. A first sub-braking system of a first axle has a first circuit, a main system with a first power supply and a first ECU, and a secondary system with a second power supply and a second ECU. The first circuit includes first and second pressure generators assigned, respectively, to the main system and the secondary system, in parallel between a fluid container and wheel brakes. A modulation unit connects the pressure generators to the wheel brakes. A second sub-braking system of a second axle includes a second circuit and an auxiliary system with a third power supply and a third ECU. The second circuit includes a pressure generator assigned to the auxiliary system arranged between a fluid container and wheel brakes, and a modulation unit connecting the pressure generators to the wheel brakes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Friedrich, Dirk Drotleff, Ralf Kleemann, Daniel Brenndoerfer, Bernd Hienz
  • Patent number: 11814996
    Abstract: A method (200) for operating an exhaust-gas catalytic converter (130) with central coordination of heating measures that are intended to heat the exhaust-gas catalytic converter (130) to a temperature level at which the reactions to be catalyzed take place with an adequate reaction rate (so-called catalytic converter window). Through the central coordination of the heating measures on the basis of defined heating strategies, in which in each case one or more of the available heating measures are combined with one another in an expedient manner, the required outlay in terms of control can be considerably reduced, and mutual interference of the heating measures can be avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Beate Rittmann, Jan Kappa, Marcel Alexander Schneck, Michael Bachner
  • Patent number: 11817184
    Abstract: A computational method simulating the motion of elements within a multi-element system using a graph neural network (GNN). The method includes converting a molecular dynamics snapshot of the elements into a directed graph comprised of nodes and edges. The method further includes the step of initially embedding the nodes and the edges to obtain initially embedded nodes and edges. The method also includes updating the initially embedded nodes and edges by passing a first message from a first edge to a first node using a first message function and passing a second message from the first node to the first edge using a second message function to obtain updated embedded nodes and edges, and predicting a force vector for one or more elements based on the updated embedded edges and a unit vector pointing from the first node to a second node or the second node to the first node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Cheol Woo Park, Jonathan Mailoa, Mordechai Kornbluth, Georgy Samsonidze, Soo Kim, Karim Gadelrab, Boris Kozinsky, Nathan Craig
  • Patent number: 11815945
    Abstract: Element simulation is described using a machine learning system parallelized across a plurality of processors. A multi-element system is partitioned into a plurality of partitions, each partition including a subset of real elements included within the partition and ghost elements outside the partition influencing the real elements. For each processor of the plurality of processors, force vectors are predicted for the real elements within the multi-element system by making a backward pass through a graph neural network (GNN) having multiple layers and parallelized across multiple processors, the predicting including adjusting neighbor distance separately for each of the multiple layers of the GNN. A physical phenomenon is described based on the force vectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Mordechai Kornbluth, Jonathan Mailoa
  • Patent number: 11808809
    Abstract: An electrical circuit for testing primary internal signals of an ASIC. Only test pin is provided via which a selection can be made of a digital or analog signal to be observed. The electrical circuit includes a Schmitt trigger between the test pin and an output terminal of the electrical circuit. A test mode id activated when a switching threshold of the Schmitt trigger is exceeded. At least one sub-circuit is provided for the observation of a digital signal, having a resistor, an NMOS transistor, and an AND gate, at whose first input the digital signal is present. The resistor is between the test pin and the drain terminal of the NMOS transistor. The source terminal is connected to ground, and the gate terminal is connected to the output of the AND gate. The second input of the AND gate being connected to the output terminal of the electrical circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Carsten Hermann
  • Patent number: 11807242
    Abstract: A method for controlling sensors or components of a vehicle, using a control device. Measurement data of at least one sensor of the vehicle being received and evaluated. A traffic situation, in which the vehicle finds itself, is ascertained by evaluating the measurement data; and the at least one sensor and/or at least one component of the vehicle being activated, deactivated and/or set to a standby mode as a function of the ascertained traffic situation. A control device and a computer program are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Marlon Ramon Ewert
  • Patent number: 11808242
    Abstract: A high-pressure fuel pump includes a drive shaft, and a vane pump and a plunger pump which are driven by the drive shaft. The vane pump is configured to supply pre-pressurized fuel to the plunger pump. The drive shaft includes a cam configured to drive a piston rod of the plunger pump such that the plunger pump alternately executes a fuel suction stroke and a fuel discharge stroke. The drive shaft further includes a shaft portion for driving a rotor of the vane pump. The vane pump is configured such that for each fuel suction stroke of the plunger pump the vane pump provides a fuel supply cycle that is advanced by a phase angle relative to the fuel suction stroke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ziang Dong, Xiaoyan Jiang, Yingsa Huang
  • Patent number: 11808989
    Abstract: A method for producing a microoptoelectromechanical component and a corresponding microoptoelectromechanical component. The microoptoelectromechanical component is equipped with a base substrate comprising a cavity which is formed therein and is closed by a covering substrate, an optical waveguide on the covering substrate above the cavity, which optical waveguide comprises a sheathed waveguide core, an electrical contact element in the region of the surrounding covering substrate, wherein a contact pad formed by an electrically conductive polysilicon layer is arranged underneath the electrical contact element, wherein the optical waveguide and the covering substrate located thereunder are divided into a stationary portion and a deflectable portion, which can be docked to the stationary portion by electrically deflecting the corresponding portion of the covering wafer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Rafel Ferré i Tomàs
  • Patent number: 11810435
    Abstract: A method and system for detecting and localizing a target audio event in an audio clip is disclosed. The method and system use utilizes a hierarchical approach in which a dilated convolutional neural network to detect the presence of the target audio event anywhere in an audio clip based on high level audio features. If the target audio event is detected somewhere in the audio clip, the method and system further utilizes a robust audio vector representation that encodes the inherent state of the audio as well as a learned relationship between state of the audio and the particular target audio event that was detected in the audio clip. A bi-directional long short term memory classifier is used to model long term dependencies and determine the boundaries in time of the target audio event within the audio clip based on the audio vector representations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Asif Salekin, Zhe Feng, Shabnam Ghaffarzadegan
  • Patent number: 11811250
    Abstract: An electrical consumer system includes an electrical consumer with a first mating interface and a first plurality of electrical contacts, and a removable battery pack including a second mating interface and a second plurality of electrical contacts, the second mating interface configured to removably mate with the first mating interface such that the second plurality of contacts contact the first plurality of contacts. At least one of the first and second mating interfaces includes a temperature sensor configured to detect at least one of a temperature of the at least one of the first and second mating interfaces, and a temperature of the first or second electrical contacts of the at least one of the first and second mating interfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Arindam Haldar, Axel Kuhnle, Benjamin Grauer, Christian Wiedemann, Jan Breitenbach, Marcin Rejman, Tobias Mangold, Tobias Overbeck
  • Patent number: 11811552
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for processing data, which are associated with at least one message received via a communications system, such as a bus system. The method includes: determining a first variable, which characterizes a transmitting time of the at least one message; evaluating the first variable with regard to at least one time frame of possible transmitting times of the at least one message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Benjamin Herrmann, Mario Gonzalez Fernandez
  • Patent number: 11812215
    Abstract: A method for calibrating a structure-borne sound-sensitive acceleration sensor with the aid of at least one microphone. For this purpose, the acceleration sensor is situated in an intended position on the body of a user. Furthermore, at least one acceleration sensor signal and at least one microphone signal are detected, the at least one acceleration sensor signal and the at least one microphone signal being synchronized and having been caused by a vocalization of the user. A frequency analysis of the acceleration sensor signal and a frequency analysis of the microphone signal are carried out. A frequency-dependent correction function for correcting the transmission function of the acceleration sensor is ascertained on the basis of the frequency analyses of the acceleration sensor signal and the microphone signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Christian Marschall, Amin Jemili, Sergej Scheiermann
  • Patent number: 11808896
    Abstract: A method for calibrating a vehicle sensor of a motor vehicle. The method includes: ascertaining sensor data for a plurality of measuring points in time during a total measuring time period, the total measuring time period being subdivided into partial measuring time periods, and the motor vehicle moving relative to objects in surroundings of the motor vehicle; for each partial measuring time period, computing positions of the objects based on the ascertained sensor data; for each partial measuring time period, computing a partial measuring time period sinogram based on the computed positions; computing a total measuring time period sinogram by adding the partial measuring time period sinograms and correcting using a factor that is a function of the partial measuring time period sinograms; ascertaining an orientation of the vehicle sensor based on the total measuring time period sinogram; and calibrating the vehicle sensor based on the ascertained orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: David Ziegler, Stephan Dorenkamp
  • Patent number: 11807118
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for operating a voltage converter (1), in particular a DC converter, of a motor vehicle, which voltage converter has at least two parallel-connected converter strands (4, 5) which are connected between a high-voltage side (2) and a low voltage side (3) of the voltage converter (1) for converting the voltage, having at least one cooling device (8) carrying a coolant (9) and assigned to the converter strands (4, 5), wherein each of the converter strands (4, 5) is assigned at least one temperature sensor (6, 7), comprising the following steps: a) detecting an input voltage, an output voltage and an operating current of each converter strand (4, 5), b) detecting a current converter strand temperature by means of the respective temperature sensor (6, 7), c) determining a respective coolant temperature as a function of the values detected in steps a) and b), d) comparing the two determined coolant temperatures (T_1, T_2) with each other and e) determining the serviceability of the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Manfred Hellmann
  • Patent number: 11808330
    Abstract: An electromechanical brake pressure generator including a threaded drive system. The system includes a rotatable spindle nut, a axially displaceable spindle cooperating with a thread of the spindle nut, and a hydraulic piston which at least partially radially surrounds the spindle and the spindle nut and is rotatably fixedly connected to the spindle and which carries out an axial piston stroke as a result of the rotation of the spindle nut. The system includes a housing which at least partially surrounds the hydraulic piston and forms a hydraulic cylinder, and an axial recess, in the hydraulic cylinder, which forms an anti-twist protection together with a torque support formed at the hydraulic piston and using which the hydraulic piston and the spindle are secured against twisting during a rotation of the spindle nut, the recess forming a sliding surface for the torque support of the hydraulic piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Mark Boehm, Claus Oehler
  • Patent number: 11806649
    Abstract: A filter adaptor joins a canister filter to a hydraulic manifold block. The adaptor includes a hexagonal tool-receiving portion, an outflow passageway and one or more inflow passageways. The outlet flow passageway extends between opposed ends of the adaptor, and is used to direct filtered fluid from the filter to the manifold block. The inlet flow passageway(s) extend between the one end and a sealed region of the adaptor, and are used to direct fluid from the manifold block to the filter. The adaptor includes auxiliary ports formed in the tool-receiving portion that communicate with the inlet flow passageways and permit monitoring thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignees: Bosch Rexroth Corporation, Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Jim Diehl, Oliver Gerhard, Jon Frey
  • Patent number: 11811074
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fuel cell (110) comprising two gas diffusion layers (70), two electrode elements (10, 10?) and a membrane element (30). The membrane element (30) is arranged between the two gas diffusion layers (70), each electrode element (10, 10?) being embedded between a gas diffusion layer (70) and the membrane element (30). The membrane element (30) is in the form of an amorphous carbon layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Andre Neidhardt, Jan Hendrik Ohs, Stefan Grosse