Patents by Inventor Bernhard De Graaff

Bernhard De Graaff has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240112018
    Abstract: A system includes a processor in communication with one or more sensors, wherein the processor is programmed to receive data including one or more of real-time current information, real-time voltage information, or real-time vibrational information from a run-time device, wherein the run-time device is an actuator or electric dive, and utilize a trained machine learning model and the data as an input to the trained machine learning model, output a sound prediction associated with estimated sound emitted from the run-time device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Ivan BATALOV, Andreas HENKE, Bernhard DE GRAAFF, Florian RIEGER, Mate FARKAS, Filipe J. CABRITA CONDESSA, Andreas KOCKLER
  • Patent number: 11904381
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a gear worm (12) which is located in particular on an armature shaft (14) of an electromotive drive unit (10), wherein firstly a worm gear (20) having screw flanks (22) axially opposite one another on a longitudinal axis (18) is formed by means of a rolling tool, and subsequently a groove structure (24) which is concentric about the longitudinal axis (18) is formed on the screw flanks (22) by means of an additional process step. The invention also relates to a gear worm (12) produced according to the method according to the invention, and to a transmission drive unit (10) containing such a gear worm (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Jie Bao, Bernhard De Graaff, Daniel Cettier, Guang Qiao, Holger Thoene, Otmar Hertwig, Volker Hertweck
  • Publication number: 20220055092
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a gear worm (12) which is located in particular on an armature shaft (14) of an electromotive drive unit (10), wherein firstly a worm gear (20) having screw flanks (22) axially opposite one another on a longitudinal axis (18) is formed by means of a rolling tool, and subsequently a groove structure (24) which is concentric about the longitudinal axis (18) is formed on the screw flanks (22) by means of an additional process step. The invention also relates to a gear worm (12) produced according to the method according to the invention, and to a transmission drive unit (10) containing such a gear worm (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Jie Bao, Bernhard De Graaff, Daniel Cettier, Guang Qiao, Holger Thoene, Otmar Hertwig, Volker Hertweck