Patents Assigned to Roberts Bosch GmbH
  • Patent number: 11981324
    Abstract: A method for providing a signal for actuating an at least partially automated vehicle includes receiving surroundings data; detecting a vehicle which is leaving a parking space and is initiating or executing a parking-space-exiting maneuver, on the basis of the surroundings data; predicting a maneuvering area which the vehicle which is leaving the parking space requires to execute the parking-space-exiting maneuver; and providing a signal for actuating the at least partially automated vehicle on the basis of the predicted maneuvering area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Holger Mielenz
  • Patent number: 11975701
    Abstract: To check an electrohydraulic power vehicle brake system of a passenger car traveling autonomously on public roads for air in the brake fluid, the method provides for a consecutive generation of a brake pressure using a first power brake-pressure generator and a redundant, second power brake-pressure generator. The brake pressure is intermittently lowered to ambient pressure. In the method, a comparison of the brake fluid volumes required for generating the brake pressure is provided. If the brake fluid volume required for generating the brake pressure using the second power brake-pressure generator is greater, then the presence of air in a brake fluid of the vehicle brake system is inferred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Thorsten Maucher, Xun Yao
  • Patent number: 11975692
    Abstract: A wiper blade apparatus having at least one wiper lip for wiping a window in a first wiping direction at least substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the wiper lip and a second wiping direction at least substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the wiper lip, having at least one wiper bar unit and having at least one heating unit which is arranged partially at a wiping up side, facing the first wiping direction, of the wiper bar unit and which is arranged partially at a wiping down side, facing the second wiping direction, of the wiper bar unit. It is proposed that the at least one heating unit be constructed to achieve a different heating power at the wiping up side of the wiper bar unit from at the wiping down side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Stijn Truyens, Balazs Czel, David Allard, Kristof Bams, Raf Greunlinx
  • Patent number: 11975340
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a device for dielectrophoretic capture of particles. The device includes at least one electrical contact and at least one layer. The at least one layer includes a top layer side, a bottom layer side, and a barrier structure. The barrier structure is configured such that a fluid comprising the particles can flow through the barrier structure which is disposed on the top layer side. The barrier structure spaces the top layer side apart from the bottom layer side of at least one of the same layer and a second of the at least one layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Samir Kadic, Christoph Faigle
  • Patent number: 11974567
    Abstract: A method for applying a spray, in particular a plant protection product, onto a field, including: detecting plants in a field section of the field with the aid of an optical and/or infrared detection unit; identifying at least one plant row in the detected field section; defining a plant area encompassing the at least one identified plant row and a weed area, different from the plant area, in the detected field section; ascertaining a plant identifier of the weed area; and applying spray onto the weed area, in particular onto the field section, depending on the ascertained plant identifier with the aid of a spraying device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Peter Schwaderer, Jochen Fehse, Nicolas Houis
  • Patent number: 11976870
    Abstract: A modular container such as a mobile refrigerator is configured to attach to a larger in-home refrigerator. The modular container has an attachment feature configured to selectively attach and detach from a first attachment feature of the larger refrigerator to enable the modular container to be selectively attached and detached from the interior compartment of the larger refrigerator. A door of the modular container is configured to selectively enclose an interior of the modular container. The modular container has its own dedicated refrigeration system mounted thereon, enabling the modular container to act as its own refrigerator once removed from the larger refrigerator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Seow Yuen Yee, Philip Roan
  • Patent number: 11975693
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wiper frame (10), in particular for a motor vehicle, comprising a wiper blade (14), a liquid channel (30, 32) for carrying a cleaning liquid, and a heating unit (38). According to the invention, the heating unit (38) is substantially located inside the liquid channel (30, 32).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Harald Rapp, Sascha Geissler
  • Patent number: 11976727
    Abstract: A cup-shaped cover of a pedal travel simulator, hydraulic accumulator, or a damper chamber, using a radially resilient connecting ring, which protrudes into a groove of the cover and into an opposing groove of a receptacle of a hydraulic block of a traction slip controller of a hydraulic vehicle braking system, to fasten inseparably at the hydraulic block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Kaserer, Andreas Weh, Martin Hagspiel, Florian Breyer, Tobias Franke
  • Patent number: 11975694
    Abstract: A wiper device (10a-10c) is proposed comprising at least one wind deflector unit (12a-12c) and comprising at least one channel unit (18a-18c) integrated into the at least one wind deflector unit (12a-12c), and comprising at least one wiper blade adapter (20a-20c) which includes at least one adapter attachment (24a-24c) and at least one adapter base body (22a-22c) and is configured to be coupled to at least one wiper arm (110a-110c). It is proposed that the wiper device (10a-10c) comprise a fluid supply unit (38a-38c) which is configured to supply wiper fluid to the channel unit (18a-18c) and comprises at least one coupling end piece (40a-40c) for latching connection to the at least one adapter attachment (24a-24c).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Helmut Depondt
  • Patent number: 11977507
    Abstract: A user station for a serial bus system. The user station includes a communication control device for controlling a communication of the user station with at least one other user station, and a transceiver device to serially transmit a transmission signal, generated by the communication control device, onto a bus, and serially receive signals from the bus. The communication control device generates the transmission signal according to a frame and inserts into the frame two check sums that include different bits of the frame in the computation. The communication control device inserts dynamic stuff bits into the frame in such a way that an inverse stuff bit is inserted into the bit stream of the frame after 5 identical bits in succession. The communication control device computes the two check sums so that a maximum of one of the two check sums includes the dynamic stuff bits in the computation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Arthur Mutter, Florian Hartwich, Franz Bailer
  • Patent number: 11977108
    Abstract: A monitoring set-up to detect supply-line faults for a control unit, including at least two internal current-carrying supply lines, which are redundant with respect to each other, are situated inside of the control unit, and are connected electrically, on one end, to external supply lines, respectively, and, on the other end, to a common, internal supply-potential layer of the control unit; a signal detector, which inductively picks up a flow of current through the individual internal supply lines and outputs at least one corresponding measuring signal; and an evaluation and control unit, which evaluates the at least one measuring signal to detect supply-line faults. A method of detecting supply-line faults for a control unit, using such a monitoring set-up, is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Rainer Zuschlag
  • Patent number: 11976741
    Abstract: An electrohydraulic system having an adjustment device for a valve includes a drive apparatus, a control apparatus, and a preloading apparatus. In the event of a fault, the energy stored in the preloading apparatus can be transferred to the control apparatus such that a rotational motion of the control apparatus begins, which leads to the adjustment of the valve. The preloading apparatus comprises at least one elastic element, which is arranged adjacent to a control shaft of the control apparatus, is stationarily connected to the control shaft, and applies a torque to the control shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Juergen Schneider, Alexandre Orth, Gottfried Hendrix, Oliver Gerhard
  • Patent number: 11975698
    Abstract: A method for controlling a brake system. The brake system includes an actuating device, a master brake cylinder, a brake circuit, a wheel brake, and a brake pressure generator. The brake pressure generator and the master brake cylinder are capable of being contacted, parallel to one another, to the brake circuit. A pressure generator control valve controls a first pressure medium connection between the brake pressure generator and the brake circuit. A brake circuit control valve controls a second pressure medium connection between the brake circuit and the master brake cylinder. The brake system is operated in an operating state during which the pressure generator control valve assumes an open position without a brake pressure prevailing in the brake circuit and without a buildup of brake pressure being carried out. During this operating state, the brake circuit control valve is controlled to assume an open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Bernd Klepser, Armin Frueh, Dirk Foerch
  • Patent number: 11975427
    Abstract: A method for controlling an electric motor of a power tool having a receptacle for a tool, at least a current of the electric motor and/or a rotation speed of the electric motor during an impact operating mode of the electric motor being detected as a parameter, a driving time of the electric motor for the impact operating mode being specified as a function of the detected parameter. A method is also described for controlling an electric motor of a power tool having a receptacle for a tool for unscrewing a screw from a mating part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Chi Hoe Leong, Ju-Lien Tan, Kah Hooi Tan, Moritz Stiefel, Sim Teik Yeoh
  • Patent number: 11976943
    Abstract: A method for processing continuous sensor signals of a sensor in which a sensor signal is sampled at a sampling frequency and a series of sampled values able to be classified in terms of time is generated in this way, the sampling frequency is dynamically adapted to the spectral signal properties of the sensor signal variable over time and an item of time information is allocated to the thereby generated sampled values, which allows an allocation of the sampled values in terms of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Ivan Flores Delgado
  • Patent number: 11976995
    Abstract: A micromechanical component for a capacitive sensor or switch device, having a substrate having a substrate surface, a diaphragm mounted on the substrate surface having a self-supporting region, at least one lever element and at least one first electrode connected to the at least one lever element. The at least one lever element is connected to the diaphragm in such a way that when there is a warping of the self-supporting region of the diaphragm the at least one lever element is set into a rotational movement, whereby the at least one connected first electrode is set into a first adjustment movement oriented at an angle to the substrate surface. The at least one lever element and the at least one first electrode connected to the at least one lever element are situated between the substrate surface and the diaphragm inner side of the self-supporting region of the diaphragm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Jochen Reinmuth
  • Patent number: 11975700
    Abstract: For ascertaining a future wheel brake pressure, pressure generator pressures of an external power brake pressure generator are continuously measured at measurement time intervals, the wheel brake pressure changes are ascertained therefrom, and the sum of the wheel brake pressure changes ascertained during a time period prior to the measurement is added to the last measured pressure generator pressure. The wheel brake pressure thus ascertained is considered to be the wheel brake pressure that will prevail after the time period following the measurement of the pressure generator pressure in a wheel brake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Krautter, Johannes Von Keler
  • Patent number: 11976996
    Abstract: A micromechanical component for a capacitive pressure sensor device, including a diaphragm that is stretched with the aid of a frame structure in such a way that a cantilevered area of the diaphragm spans a framed partial surface, and including a reinforcement structure that is formed at the cantilevered area. A first spatial direction oriented in parallel to the framed partial surface is definable in which the cantilevered area has a minimal extension, and a second spatial direction oriented in parallel to the framed partial surface and oriented perpendicularly with respect to the first spatial direction is definable in which the cantilevered area has a greater extension. The reinforcement structure is present at a first distance from the frame structure in the first spatial direction, and at a second distance in the second spatial direction, the second distance being greater than the first distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Friedrich, Christoph Hermes, Hans Artmann, Heribert Weber, Peter Schmollngruber, Volkmar Senz
  • Patent number: 11977478
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for static testing a software system that is decomposed into software units connected by interfaces. The method comprises receiving context information for an interface, which includes at least one postcondition for the at least one output variable of a respective first software unit and/or a precondition for the input variable of a respective second software unit; receiving a selection of a third software unit in so that a substitute decomposition appertaining thereto of the software system into the third software unit and a complement of the third software unit is produced, the third software unit and the complement forming the software system and being connected via a substitute interface; selecting, based on the item of context information a postcondition per output variable of the complement; and testing whether the selected postcondition can be forward-propagated by the third software unit with regard to a formal verification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Andrea Flexeder, Bernard Schmidt, Jochen Quante, Maximilian Schlund
  • Patent number: 11977759
    Abstract: A method for operating a cache memory having a set having multiple memory blocks configured for storing data blocks. In a write process of a data block into a memory block of the set, the data block is written into the memory block, a relevance rank value of the data block and a first access time rank value are determined. Rank data associated with the memory block are determined using a write rank mapping from the relevance rank value and the first access time rank value, and the determined rank data are stored. If no memory block of the set is free, a memory block that is to be overwritten is selected from the memory blocks of the set based on the rank data, which are associated with the memory blocks, and the data block to be stored is written into the selected memory block by using the write process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Arne Hamann, Dakshina Narahari Dasari, Dirk Ziegenbein, Falk Rehm, Michael Pressler