Patents by Inventor Gerald Roos

Gerald Roos 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).

  • Patent number: 10148139
    Abstract: Electrical machine (10), and also method for producing an electrical machine, in particular for adjusting moving parts in a motor vehicle by motor, having a stator (12) into which a rotor (14) can be inserted, wherein the stator (12) has two permanent magnets (18) which are situated opposite one another and which are arranged in a pole housing (16) which forms a magnetic return path, and the pole housing (16) has flattened regions (20) between the two permanent magnets (18), the pole housing wall (26) forming two magnetic follower poles (22), which are situated opposite one another, on the said flattened regions, wherein the maximum dimension (25) of the pole housing (16) between the two flattened regions (20) which are situated opposite one another—axially in the region of the follower poles (22)—forms a width (24) across flats for the installation space of the electrical machine (10) which is equal to a maximum of 35 mm—and in particular a maximum of 30 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Detlef Lauk, Gerald Roos, Peter Kusserow, Tarek Mili
  • Patent number: 9667127
    Abstract: The invention relates to a brush-commutated electrical machine. The machine includes a rotor with rotor coils which are arranged on rotor poles. The machine also includes a commutator with commutator laminations which are electrically connected to the rotor coils, and having two brushes which are arranged offset in relation to one another, with the result that the brushes alternately commutate when the rotor moves. The machine also includes a stator having stator poles which are arranged in the circumferential direction and at least some of which are provided with stator magnets, wherein the stator poles are designed and/or arranged such that an alternating stator magnetic field which is generated by said stator poles in the circumferential direction is formed differently depending on the pole direction of the respective stator pole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Gerald Roos
  • Publication number: 20150349617
    Abstract: The invention relates to a brush-commutated electrical machine (2), comprising: —a rotor (5) with rotor coils (7) which are arranged on rotor poles (6); —a commutator (9) with commutator laminations (8) which are electrically connected to the rotor coils (7), and having two brushes (10) which are arranged offset in relation to one another, with the result that the brushes (10) alternately commutate when the rotor (5) moves; —a stator (4) having stator poles (11) which are arranged in the circumferential direction and at least some of which are provided with stator magnets (3), wherein the stator poles (11) are designed and/or arranged such that an alternating stator magnetic field which is generated by said stator poles in the circumferential direction is formed differently depending on the pole direction of the respective stator pole (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2014
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventor: Gerald Roos
  • Publication number: 20150236552
    Abstract: Electrical machine (10), and also method for producing an electrical machine, in particular for adjusting moving parts in a motor vehicle by motor, having a stator (12) into which a rotor (14) can be inserted, wherein the stator (12) has two permanent magnets (18) which are situated opposite one another and which are arranged in a pole housing (16) which forms a magnetic return path, and the pole housing (16) has flattened regions (20) between the two permanent magnets (18), the pole housing wall (26) forming two magnetic follower poles (22), which are situated opposite one another, on the said flattened regions, wherein the maximum dimension (25) of the pole housing (16) between the two flattened regions (20) which are situated opposite one another—axially in the region of the follower poles (22)—forms a width (24) across flats for the installation space of the electrical machine (10) which is equal to a maximum of 35 mm—and in particular a maximum of 30 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2013
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Inventors: Detlef Lauk, Gerald Roos, Peter Kusserow, Tarek Mili
  • Patent number: 8922149
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for detecting blocking or sluggishness (M1, M3) of a DC motor (2). The method comprises the following steps: applying a voltage pulse (Uv,t=Os) to the DC motor (2); monitoring a motor current (IMotor) flowing through the DC motor (2); detecting a maximum value of the motor current (IMotor) following the application of the voltage pulse; checking whether a change in the motor current (IMotor) after reaching the maximum value exceeds a specific amount; signalling the blocking or the sluggishness (M1, M3) of the DC motor (2) if the change in the motor current (IMotor) after reaching the maximum value exceeds the specific amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Malich, Volker Lurk, Gerald Roos, Nikolas Haberl, Frank Fischer, Christian Poddey, Michael Koerner, Jan Van Goethem, Daniel Hofacker, Tobias Stiefel
  • Patent number: 8816563
    Abstract: The invention relates to a six-pole DC machine, particularly a DC motor for use in a motor vehicle, having a stator (16) excited preferably by a permanent magnet and a rotor (20) which is rotatably supported in a pole housing (12) and which has a wave winding (23) and a commutator (24), and having a brush carrier (28) for holding the brushes (26) and preferably additional components (30, 31; 32). In contrast to a full equipping, the brush arrangement has less than six brushes (26), which are arranged on the circumference of the commutator (24) at an angular distance of approximately 60° to each other. Thus, the ripple of the rotor current, the torque oscillations, and the noise emission are clearly reduced and free space is created on the brush carrier for accommodating suppressor components (30, 31; 32).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Gerald Roos
  • Patent number: 8698370
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing the rotor winding of an electrical machine having at least four exciter poles in the stator (11) and having a commutator rotor (13) with a number of slots (N) and pole teeth (Z) which deviates from the number of exciter poles, and having a number of individual tooth coils (S) and laminations (L) which is at least twice as high as the number of pole teeth, wherein the individual tooth coils are wound, starting from the first coil (S1) onto in each case that pole tooth with the lowest angular error (Wf) in relation to a pole division (Pt).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Gerald Roos
  • Patent number: 8686612
    Abstract: An electrical machine, in particular an electric motor, has a first number (k) of commutator laminates (10, 12, 14) and brushes (16, 18), wherein the commutator laminates (10, 12, 14) are arranged distributed uniformly in the circumferential direction of a circumference of a laminate support (24). The brushes (16, 18) are arranged such that commutation times are distributed as uniformly as possible in order to reduce current ripple when using a wave winding and a number of brushes (16, 18) which is less than a number of poles (2p) in the electrical machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gerald Roos, Pierre Bernard
  • Publication number: 20140077649
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rotatory electric motor (1), comprising: a stator arrangement (2) with stator poles having permanent magnet stator poles (P) and consequent poles in an arrangement of consequent poles; and a rotor (6) having an armature made of a magnetically conductive material, with a ratio of the axial length (l) of the armature of the rotor (6) to a diameter (d) of the armature of the rotor from 1 to 2 being provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Gerald Roos
  • Publication number: 20130057187
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for detecting blocking or sluggishness (M1, M3) of a DC motor (2). The method comprises the following steps: applying a voltage pulse (Uv,t=Os) to the DC motor (2); monitoring a motor current (IMotor) flowing through the DC motor (2); detecting a maximum value of the motor current (IMotor) following the application of the voltage pulse; checking whether a change in the motor current (IMotor) after reaching the maximum value exceeds a specific amount; signalling the blocking or the sluggishness (M1, M3) of the DC motor (2) if the change in the motor current (IMotor) after reaching the maximum value exceeds the specific amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Malich, Volker Lurk, Gerald Roos, Nikolas Haberl, Frank Fischer, Christian Poddey, Michael Koerner, Jan Van Goethem, Daniel Hofacker, Tobias Stiefel
  • Publication number: 20120133240
    Abstract: An electrical machine, in particular an electric motor, has a first number (k) of commutator laminates (10, 12, 14) and brushes (16, 18), wherein the commutator laminates (10, 12, 14) are arranged distributed uniformly in the circumferential direction of a circumference of a laminate support (24). The brushes (16, 18) are arranged such that commutation times are distributed as uniformly as possible in order to reduce current ripple when using a wave winding and a number of brushes (16, 18) which is less than a number of poles (2p) in the electrical machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Gerald Roos, Pierre Bernard
  • Patent number: 8079133
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing the rotor winding of an electric machine comprising at least four exciter poles in the stator and a commutator rotor with a number of pole teeth which deviates from the number of exciter poles as well as a number of individual tooth coils and commutator segments that is at least twice as large as the number of pole teeth. In order to obtain low torque ripple and a long service life by optimally commutating the coils, a first coil is wound from an initial segment at a selectable offset angle to the initial segment on a first pole tooth, the winding wire is then fixed to another commutator segment at a predefined segment interstice length, whereupon a coil is successively wound from each segment onto the pole tooth having the lowest angular error relative the offset angle in relation to the pole separation of the stator, and the winding wire is then contacted on another segment at the same segment interstice length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Gerald Roos
  • Publication number: 20110169370
    Abstract: The invention relates to a six-pole DC machine, particularly a DC motor for use in a motor vehicle, having a stator (16) excited preferably by a permanent magnet and a rotor (20) which is rotatably supported in a pole housing (12) and which has a wave winding (23) and a commutator (24), and having a brush carrier (28) for holding the brushes (26) and preferably additional components (30, 31; 32). In contrast to a full equipping, the brush arrangement has less than six brushes (26), which are arranged on the circumference of the commutator (24) at an angular distance of approximately 60° to each other. Thus, the ripple of the rotor current, the torque oscillations, and the noise emission are clearly reduced and free space is created on the brush carrier for accommodating suppressor components (30, 31; 32).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2009
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Gerald Roos
  • Publication number: 20110127871
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing the rotor winding of an electrical machine having at least four exciter poles in the stator (11) and having a commutator rotor (13) with a number of slots (N) and pole teeth (Z) which deviates from the number of exciter poles, and having a number of individual tooth coils (S) and laminations (L) which is at least twice as high as the number of pole teeth, wherein the individual tooth coils are wound, starting from the first coil (S1) onto in each case that pole tooth with the lowest angular error (Wf) in relation to a pole division (Pt).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2008
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GMBH
    Inventor: Gerald Roos
  • Publication number: 20100187937
    Abstract: An electric machine, as well as a method for operating such a machine, particularly for motorically moving movable parts in a motor vehicle, having a stator and a rotor, slots being developed on the rotor, in which individual conductor loops of electric coils are situated, which are contacted to commutator segments of a commutator and to an evaluating unit, which ascertains rotational speed data from the ripple of a motor current signal. The number of individual conductor loops of the coils is selected in such a way that the sequence of the number of the conductor loops in the order of their commutation approximately represents a sine function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2008
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Inventors: Thomas Faber, Gerald Roos
  • Publication number: 20090309451
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical machine with at least eight exciter poles in the stator and with a commutator rotor, comprising numerous pole teeth, differing from the number of exciter poles and the pole teeth thereof carrying at least one coil each and being connected with commutator laminates being in contact with each other in pairs vie contact bridges, wherein the number of laminates is a plurality of the pole teeth. To reduce the magnetic and electric ripple of the machine the number of the commutator laminates are a plurality of half of the pole pair number of the exciter poles, but not a plurality of the whole pole pair number, wherein the pole pair number has to be an even number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Inventor: Gerald Roos
  • Patent number: 7602092
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical machine (10), and to a method for producing such an electrical machine, especially for adjusting mobile parts in a motor vehicle. Said machine comprises a rotor (20) on which a bipolar electrical winding (25) having a plurality of coils (26) is arranged. Said coils (26) are configured to give two symmetrical coil sections (27) each which are disposed symmetrical to each other relative to the axis of rotation (23) of the rotor (20), both coil sections (27) being simultaneously commutable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Gerald Roos
  • Patent number: 7560848
    Abstract: An electrical machine having at least four exciter poles in the stator and having a commutator rotor, which has a number of slots pole teeth on its circumference that is greater than the number of exciter poles, and having twice as large a number of commutator laminations, which via at least two carbon brushes serve to supply current to coils which are each wound on one of the pole teeth, and contact bridges each joined together diametrically opposed laminations. When there is an even number of slots, pole teeth and coils, the beginning and end of one coil of the coils disposed on adjacent pole teeth is connected directly to the laminations adjacent to one another, and the beginning and end of the other coil is connected via one of the contact bridges to the laminations adjacent to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gerald Roos, Michael Strupp, Gerlinde Ambach
  • Patent number: 7388313
    Abstract: An armature for a direct current motor, in particular for a permanent-magnet-excited DC motor, has an armature body, with armature teeth joined in one piece together via a short-circuit ring and offset by equal circumferential angles, each with a tooth neck for receiving an armature winding and with a tooth head that protrudes past the tooth neck in the circumferential direction. For an axial lengthening of the armature body that is simple and economical to produce, one preferably stacked flux-conducting element each, whose profile corresponds to the tooth head profile, is placed on the axially pointing end faces of the tooth heads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gerald Roos, Werner Grosch, Harold Bitzer, Guenter Kastinger, Wilhelm Braun, Gabriele Pfeiffer, Jochen Oser, Markus Rauschning
  • Publication number: 20080093943
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing the rotor winding of an electric machine comprising at least four exciter poles in the stator and a commutator rotor with a number of pole teeth which deviates from the number of exciter poles as well as a number of individual tooth coils and commutator segments that is at least twice as large as the number of pole teeth. In order to obtain low torque ripple and a long service life by optimally commutating the coils, a first coil is wound from an initial segment at a selectable offset angle to the initial segment on a first pole tooth, the winding wire is then fixed to another commutator segment at a predefined segment interstice length, whereupon a coil is successively wound from each segment onto the pole tooth having the lowest angular error relative the offset angle in relation to the pole separation of the stator, and the winding wire is then contacted on another segment at the same segment interstice length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2005
    Publication date: April 24, 2008
    Inventor: Gerald Roos