Patents Assigned to Robert
  • Patent number: 7976364
    Abstract: The invention relates to a dust collection container for a hand-held power tool, especially an electric sander, having a dust extraction connection (12). Said dust collection container has an inlet connection (17) configured to be slid onto the dust extraction connection (12) and a seal (18) that is effective between the inlet connection (17) and the dust extraction connection (12), the peripheral surface (182) of said seal sealingly fitting against the inner wall (172) of the inlet connection (17). In order to facilitate an easy and jerk-free handling of the dust collection box during attachment to the hand-held power tool and during detachment of the hand-held power tool, the seal (18) has a sealing surface (181) which is oriented at a right angle to the connection axis and which is configured to sealingly fit against the free, annular face (121) of the dust extraction connection (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Heiko Roehm
  • Patent number: 7978087
    Abstract: A fire detector operating by the scattered radiation principle is described, having at least one radiation transmitter and at least one radiation receiver, whose beam paths form a scattering volume. The fire detector includes, in addition to at least one first radiation transmitter and one first radiation receiver, at least one second radiation transmitter and one second radiation receiver, whose beam paths form at least two spatially separated scattering volumes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Siber, Andreas Hensel, Ulrich Oppelt, Jack McNamara
  • Patent number: 7975798
    Abstract: A method and a device for controlling automatic emergency braking of a motor vehicle to reduce the severity of a collision of a vehicle with an object, the position and/or speed of the object with respect to the host vehicle being determined via an object detection device, and this information being sent to a collision detection device which ascertains whether a collision with an object is imminent and, on detecting a collision, triggers emergency braking and ascertains a collision instant, emergency braking being terminated after the period of time until the determined collision instant has elapsed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Bernhard Lucas, Martin Heinebrodt, Dirk Meister, Fred Oechsle, Ulf Wilhelm, Martin Randler, Paco Haffmans, Wolfgang Branz
  • Patent number: 7976689
    Abstract: The invention relates to a gas sensor for determining the oxygen concentration in a gas mixture, especially in the exhaust gas of internal combustion engines. Said gas sensor comprises a pump cell having an outer pump electrode, exposed to the gas mixture, and an inner pump electrode, exposed to the gas mixture via a diffusion barrier, and a solid electrolyte body interposed between the outer pump electrode and the inner pump electrode. The gas sensor also has a reference electrode, exposed to a reference gas, and a sensor heating device. The outer pump electrode is connected to a circuit arrangement via a pump current line, the inner pump electrode via a measuring line, the reference electrode via a reference current line and the sensor heating device via two heating lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Marcus Scheffel, Holger Reinshagen, Lothar Diehl, Thomas Seiler
  • Patent number: 7978039
    Abstract: A semiconductor module (500) for connecting to a transformer winding (132, 133; 408; 409) includes a semiconductor component (501) that is disk-shaped and disposed between two contact plates (502). One of the contact plates (502) is acted upon using a cooling fluid on its side facing away from the semiconductor component (501).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Anton Solar, Thomas Klinger, Beno Klopcic, Rado Lisjak
  • Patent number: 7979730
    Abstract: A method, a device, and a bus system for synchronizing at least two TTCAN buses having at least one bus user, there being cycle times of the basic cycles in the TTCAN buses, a global time being determined in each TTCAN bus and the deviations of the global times of the TTCAN buses which are linked together by at least one user being determined from the global times, and the deviations of the individual global times being transmitted to at least one bus user, the cycle times of the TTCAN buses, which are connected by at least one user, being mutually adjusted as a function of the deviations in the global times in such a way that the buses are synchronized with respect to the cycle times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Fuehrer, Bernd Mueller, Florian Hartwich, Robert Hugel
  • Patent number: 7975388
    Abstract: A circular power saw (10), composed of a saw assembly (12) with a housing (14, 16) that encloses a motor and a saw blade (18) capable of being driven by the motor, and that includes a handle, whereby the saw assembly (12) is pivotably supported relative to a footplate (22) such that it can be adjusted between a minimum and maximum cutting depth, is protected against kickback by the fact that, during sawing, the saw assembly (12) is decoupled from handling forces acting on the saw blade (18), in particular from the handle (24).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Fuchs, Eduard Gansel, Heiko Roehm
  • Patent number: 7975777
    Abstract: A device for impacting a fastener in one embodiment includes a drive channel, a cylinder opening at an end portion to the drive channel, a microcellular polyurethane elastomer (MPE) bumper fixedly positioned at the end portion of the cylinder, the MPE bumper including a drive bore extending therethrough and aligned with the drive channel, and an outer wall defining a plurality of grooves extending radially about the MPE bumper, and a drive mechanism including a drive blade aligned with the drive bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Harald Krondorfer, Yizhuo Zhang
  • Patent number: 7975472
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an exhaust system (1) for an internal combustion engine (3) having at least one exhaust gas line (2) that carries exhaust gas and having an injection device (4) for spraying a liquid into the exhaust gas line (2). Downstream from the injection device (4) a vaporizer device (7) which has at least one tubular sheet metal body (8) downstream from the injection device (4), said sheet metal body extending in the longitudinal direction of the exhaust gas line (2) and causing an improved vaporization of the liquid sprayed into the exhaust gas line. In addition, at least one clamp device (12) which is designed like a spring is provided, securing the vaporizer device (7) in the exhaust gas line (2) and/or bracing it elastically against the exhaust gas line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignees: J. Eberspaecher GmbH & Co. KG, Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Julia Halbei, Josef Rudelt, Felix Neumann, Sabine Meiser, Matthias Horn, Thomas Christian Hofmann
  • Patent number: 7977902
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pinch protection method and device for a motor-driven closing system. The method comprises the following steps: detecting a reduced motor speed, switching off the motor, analyzing a sensor signal for detecting a pinch situation, deciding whether a pinch situation is present, and controlling the motor depending on the detection of a pinch situation. The device for detecting a pinch situation comprises a motor, a detection unit, a control unit and at least one sensor. The device is adapted to carry out the method according to the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Fabian Batejat, Holger Pruessel
  • Patent number: 7977856
    Abstract: A spark plug for an internal combustion engine includes a ground electrode, a center electrode, an insulator, a housing, and a folded packing which is situated on an outer circumference of the housing. The folded packing has: a hollow profile in cross section; a free leg directed outwards; and a support region. The folded packing lies on a contact surface in a support region, and the free leg is situated at an angle to the support region. The folded packing is pressed together during the mounting of the spark plug, and the free leg of the folded packing is designed to bend over in the direction of the support surface during the mounting to provide a diameter enlargement of the folded packing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Detlef Hartmann, Christoph Naumann, Mario Fleischhauer, Jochen Fischer
  • Patent number: 7978040
    Abstract: The invention relates to a winding element (200) for conducting current, forming a component of a coil winding (132, 133; 408, 409), especially of a (welding) transformer winding, comprising fixing means (205) for fixing the winding element (200) to a carrier component (402, 403, 404). The invention also relates to a transformer arrangement (100; 600), especially a welding transformer arrangement, comprising a primary winding (132; 408) and a secondary winding (133; 409), the primary winding (132; 408) and/or secondary winding (133; 409) comprising at least one winding element (200) according to the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Anton Solar, Thomas Klinger, Beno Klopcic, Rado Lisjak
  • Patent number: 7978666
    Abstract: Network node control is described that includes node wakeup scheduling that reduces the energy consumption of levels of nodes and reduces the delay of information transfer through the network. The node wakeup scheduling includes a crossed ladder pattern that combines two wakeups in one level. The node wakeup scheduling also includes an adaptive version of the crossed ladder pattern that changes the wakeup patterns of the crossed ladder over time to provide uniform energy savings. The network node control also includes the use of multiple trees to transfer information through a network. This multi-parent node assignment assigns multiple parents with different wakeup schedules to each node in the network. This multi-parent assignment reduces the delay in transmission of information through the network and also increases energy efficiency in the nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Abtin Keshavarzian, Lakshmi Venkatraman, Huang Lee
  • Patent number: 7976892
    Abstract: In a method for producing a conductive coating on an insulating substrate, at least one surface of an electrically insulating substrate is equipped, in selected regions, with a coating of an electrically highly conductive first metal; the coated surface is cleaned; the coating made of the first metal on the substrate is seeded with seeds of a second metal; a layer of the second metal is deposited onto the layer thus seeded; the substrate thus coated is fired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Walter Beck, Eric Ochs, Walter Roethlingshoefer, Bernhard Bachor, Dietmar Schaible, Albert-Andreas Hoebel, Klaus-Peter Dambock, Juergen Schwaiger, Detlef Nitsche
  • Patent number: 7975539
    Abstract: A method and a device for reducing vibrations during the shutdown or startup of an engine, in particular an internal combustion engine, in which the vibration behavior of the engine is determined at least during shutdown and/or startup, a control signal is applied to at least one engine mounting whose damping properties are settable via the control signal, and the control signal is calculated in such a way that a vibration behavior of the engine materializes according to a setpoint vibration behavior in which vibrations are introduced, for example into a passenger compartment, at a level which lies below a predefined threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Jochen Laubender
  • Patent number: 7976363
    Abstract: The invention is based on a dust container of a portable power tool for receiving machining residues of a portable power tool (2), comprising a container (8) predetermining a receiving volume (14). It is proposed that the container (8) have a variation means (12) for varying the size of the receiving volume (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Doris Reich, Steffen Tiede
  • Patent number: 7975825
    Abstract: In a stop module, in particular for automated machining and conveyor systems, a stop element for objects moving in a direction of motion in a movement plane is located on a base body, and the stop element is movable by an electrical rotary drive between a first terminal position, in which the stop element protrudes into the movement plane of the objects, and a second terminal position, in which the stop element enables a motion of objects in the movement plane. The motion of the stop element in and out of the movement plane of objects is implemented by a toggle lever device cooperating with the electrical rotary drive, which toggle lever device has at least two lever elements, connected to one another via a first pivot point, and the electrical rotary drive cooperates with the first pivot point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Uwe Lindemann, Peter Ludwig
  • Publication number: 20110163187
    Abstract: A valve for atomizing fluid is specified, in particular an injection or metering valve for fuel injection or exhaust-gas systems of motor vehicles, which valve has a valve seat body (11) with a valve seat (14) which surrounds a valve opening (13), a perforated injection disc (17) which bears against the front side of the valve seat body present between the valve opening (13) and (12) downstream of the valve opening (13) and has at least one spray hole (18) which is offset radially with respect to the valve opening (13), and an inflow cavity (19) which is the at least one spray hole (18).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2009
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Joerg Heyse, Hartmut Albrodt, Kerstin Koch
  • Publication number: 20110162216
    Abstract: A guide rail for a portable power tool includes a releasable connecting device and at least two individual rails which are to be joined together to form a common rail and which can be locked together via the releasable connecting device. The releasable connecting device includes at least one connecting latch on a first individual rail of the at least two individual rails. The connecting latch is adjustable between a locking position and a release position. The connecting latch, for shifting from the locking position into the release position, performs a movement relative to the first individual rail on which the connecting latch is held. The connecting latch is engaged in the locking position with a locking counterpart arranged on a second individual rail of the at least two individual rails.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2009
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Heiner Lukas, Juergen Gairing, Steffen Weber
  • Publication number: 20110163396
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a manufacturing method for a micromechanical component, a corresponding composite component, and a corresponding micromechanical component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2009
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Hubert Benzel, Frank Henning, Armin Scharping, Christoph Schelling