Patents by Inventor Jans Sparbert
Jans Sparbert 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).
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Patent number: 11827187Abstract: A device for acquiring a surrounding environment of a vehicle. The device includes a sensor housing and at least one sensor situated inside the sensor housing. The sensor housing has a transmit/receive window. The device has a cover made transparent for the sensor signals, and the cover is designed to cover the transmit/receive window, and thus the at least one sensor, relative to an external surrounding environment of the device. The device has a cleaning unit that is situated on an outer side of the sensor housing and is movable along the sensor housing by a drive unit. The cleaning unit is designed to remove contamination from the cover of the transmit/receive window. The cleaning unit is realized as a space that is closed relative to the external surrounding environment.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2018Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventor: Jan Sparbert
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Patent number: 11604257Abstract: A LIDAR device for optically detecting a field of view. The LIDAR device includes: a control unit for emitting at least one control signal; an electric motor, which has a motor current and is controllably rotatable about a rotational axis with the aid of the at least one control signal, and on which a switchable light source emitting light radiation is situated. The LIDAR device also includes at least one switch for suppressing the emission of the light radiation depending on a behavior of a current variable representing the motor current.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2018Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Fabian Utermoehlen, Jan Sparbert, Remigius Has, Stefan Leidich
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Patent number: 11520011Abstract: An optical assembly for a LiDAR system is described. The optical assembly includes receiver optics and transmitter optics, designed to include partially coaxial beam paths; a line light source having a line orientation, which is configured, in particular within the range of a field of view of the underlying LiDAR system; and a deflection unit in a transition region from a common coaxial region to a separate biaxial region of the beam paths of the receiver optics and of the transmitter optics for biaxially splitting off a detector-side portion of the beam path of the receiver optics. The deflection unit has a hole mirror having an elongated hole that has a greater extent in a direction of longitudinal extent and a lesser extent in a direction of transverse extent. The direction of longitudinal extent of the elongated hole is oriented orthogonally to the line orientation of the line light source.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2018Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Annemarie Holleczek, Jan Sparbert, Siegwart Bogatscher, Stefan Spiessberger, Tobias Peterseim
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Patent number: 11493603Abstract: A LIDAR sensor for detecting an object in the surroundings and a method of the LIDAR sensor includes a light source emitting electromagnetic radiation, a micromechanical deflection mirror deflecting the emitted electromagnetic radiation by at least one angle into the surroundings, and a mirror, which includes an aperture situated on a main beam axis of the light source, deflecting onto an optical receiver received electromagnetic radiation that has been reflected from the object.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2018Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Reiner Schnitzer, Siegwart Bogatscher, Jan Sparbert
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Publication number: 20220221561Abstract: A LIDAR device. The LIDAR device includes a housing; and an essentially flat first optical element formed from glass and situated in a side wall of the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2020Publication date: July 14, 2022Inventors: Jan Sparbert, Matthias Baier
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Patent number: 11373801Abstract: A device for contactless transmission of data and energy and for angle measurement, including a first disk-shaped unit and a second disk-shaped unit, which move in relation to one another around a shared rotational axis and are opposite to one another axially spaced apart with respect to the rotational axis. The first disk-shaped unit including a first annular disk-shaped recess, and the second disk-shaped unit including a first annular disk-shaped recess, which is opposite to the first annular disk-shaped recess of the first disk-shaped unit radially spaced apart with respect to the rotational axis. The first disk-shaped unit includes at least one second annular disk-shaped unit situated concentrically to the first annular disk-shaped recess of the first disk-shaped unit, and the second disk-shaped unit includes at least one second annular disk-shaped recess situated concentrically to the first annular disk-shaped recess of the second disk-shaped unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2018Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Jan Sparbert, Horst Beling, Timo Knecht
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Patent number: 11125585Abstract: A rotation angle sensor system for an optical system that includes a rotor and a stator, includes a stator-based coil system having an inductance and for generating and transmitting a magnetic alternating field, and a rotor-based target that functions as an eddy current element for receiving the magnetic alternating field and generating a magnetic eddy current field. The coil system and the target are mounted or mountable fixedly, with respect to rotation, on the stator and the rotor, respectively, in such a way that different overlaps and/or spatial proximities between the coil system and the target, with correspondingly different effects on the magnetic alternating field of the coil system, result as a function of the rotation angle and/or of the orientation between the stator and the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2018Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Fabian Utermoehlen, Jan Sparbert, Remigius Has, Stefan Leidich
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Patent number: 11099261Abstract: A scanning device includes a transmitter, a receiver, and a rotor that is configured to be mounted in a rotatable manner about an axis of rotation. The transmitter is configured to at least occasionally emit electromagnetic radiation, and the receiver is configured to sense at least part of the electromagnetic radiation reflected and/or scattered by an object. The transmitter and the receiver are arranged on the rotor in an at least partially axially overlapping manner based on the axis of rotation.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2016Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Stephen Schmitt, Siegwart Bogatscher, Ulrike Schloeder, Stefan Mark, Thorsten Balslink, Hans-Jochen Schwarz, Jan Sparbert
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Patent number: 11079477Abstract: An optical scanning system is described, including a rotor that is set up to rotate about an axis of rotation during a scanning process, an optical lens that is situated on the rotor in such a way that the lens is situated on the axis of rotation, an optical transmit unit that is situated on the rotor and is set up to send out a scanning beam in the direction of an optical axis of the lens, and an optical receive unit that is situated on the rotor and includes a detector that is set up to receive a reflected scanning beam, the detector being situated such that the reflected scanning beam is focused onto the detector by the lens.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2018Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Jan Sparbert, Siegwart Bogatscher, Juergen Hasselbach, Remigius Has
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Patent number: 11073614Abstract: A LIDAR sensor for detecting an object within a sampling space, includes a sampling unit that includes a magnetic channel, a guide element, and a movable component that is situated within the magnetic channel and is movable along the guide element under control of a control method that uses a linear drive.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2017Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Annemarie Holleczek, Jan Sparbert
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Patent number: 11022691Abstract: A 3-D lidar sensor, in particular, for motor vehicles, includes a laser beam source, an optical receiver and a scanning system for deflecting a laser beam generated by the laser beam source in two scanning directions perpendicular to each other; to increase the functionality, a further detection device for deviations from normal operation being provided in the 3-D lidar sensor. In addition, a corresponding method for operating the 3-D lidar sensor is provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2017Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Annette Frederiksen, Axel Buettner, Hans-Jochen Schwarz, Jan Sparbert, Joem Ostrinsky, Klaus Stoppel, Mustafa Kamil, Siegwart Bogatscher
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Patent number: 11016181Abstract: A lidar scanning device for use in a motor vehicle includes a lidar sensor having a predefined scanning field, the lidar sensor being configured for determining the distance of an object within the scanning field, and a pivot device for varying an alignment of the scanning field of the lidar sensor as a function of a driving direction of the motor vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2016Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Hans-Jochen Schwarz, Jan Sparbert, Joern Ostrinsky, Klaus Stoppel, Rene Adams, Mustafa Kamil
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Publication number: 20200307525Abstract: A device for acquiring a surrounding environment of a vehicle. The device includes a sensor housing and at least one sensor situated inside the sensor housing. The sensor housing has a transmit/receive window. The device has a cover made transparent for the sensor signals, and the cover is designed to cover the transmit/receive window, and thus the at least one sensor, relative to an external surrounding environment of the device. The device has a cleaning unit that is situated on an outer side of the sensor housing and is movable along the sensor housing by a drive unit. The cleaning unit is designed to remove contamination from the cover of the transmit/receive window. The cleaning unit is realized as a space that is closed relative to the external surrounding environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2018Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventor: Jan Sparbert
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Publication number: 20200294714Abstract: A device for contactless transmission of data and energy and for angle measurement, including a first disk-shaped unit and a second disk-shaped unit, which move in relation to one another around a shared rotational axis and are opposite to one another axially spaced apart with respect to the rotational axis. The first disk-shaped unit including a first annular disk-shaped recess, and the second disk-shaped unit including a first annular disk-shaped recess, which is opposite to the first annular disk-shaped recess of the first disk-shaped unit radially spaced apart with respect to the rotational axis. The first disk-shaped unit includes at least one second annular disk-shaped unit situated concentrically to the first annular disk-shaped recess of the first disk-shaped unit, and the second disk-shaped unit includes at least one second annular disk-shaped recess situated concentrically to the first annular disk-shaped recess of the second disk-shaped unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2018Publication date: September 17, 2020Inventors: Jan Sparbert, Horst Beling, Timo Knecht
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Publication number: 20200292708Abstract: A LIDAR device for optically detecting a field of view. The LIDAR device includes: a control unit for emitting at least one control signal; an electric motor, which has a motor current and is controllably rotatable about a rotational axis with the aid of the at least one control signal, and on which a switchable light source emitting light radiation is situated. The LIDAR device also includes at least one switch for suppressing the emission of the light radiation depending on a behavior of a current variable representing the motor current.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2018Publication date: September 17, 2020Inventors: Fabian Utermoehlen, Jan Sparbert, Remigius Has, Stefan Leidich
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Publication number: 20200249319Abstract: An optical assembly for a LiDAR system is described. The optical assembly includes receiver optics and transmitter optics, designed to include partially coaxial beam paths; a line light source having a line orientation, which is configured, in particular within the range of a field of view of the underlying LiDAR system; and a deflection unit in a transition region from a common coaxial region to a separate biaxial region of the beam paths of the receiver optics and of the transmitter optics for biaxially splitting off a detector-side portion of the beam path of the receiver optics. The deflection unit has a hole mirror having an elongated hole that has a greater extent in a direction of longitudinal extent and a lesser extent in a direction of transverse extent. The direction of longitudinal extent of the elongated hole is oriented orthogonally to the line orientation of the line light source.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2018Publication date: August 6, 2020Inventors: Annemarie Holleczek, Jan Sparbert, Siegwart Bogatscher, Stefan Spiessberger, Tobias Peterseim
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Patent number: 10648828Abstract: A method for determining the position of a vehicle, including sensing of multiple objects in a surround field of the vehicle, detecting a sequence of the multiple sensed objects in a digital map and determining a position of the vehicle in the digital map based on a position of the detected sequence in the digital map. An apparatus for determining the position of a vehicle, as well as to a computer program are also described.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2014Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Oliver Pink, Jan Sparbert
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Publication number: 20200049824Abstract: A 3-D lidar sensor, in particular, for motor vehicles, includes a laser beam source, an optical receiver and a scanning system for deflecting a laser beam generated by the laser beam source in two scanning directions perpendicular to each other; to increase the functionality, a further detection device for deviations from normal operation being provided in the 3-D lidar sensor. In addition, a corresponding method for operating the 3-D lidar sensor is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2017Publication date: February 13, 2020Inventors: Annette Frederiksen, Axel Buettner, Hans-Jochen Schwarz, Jan Sparbert, Joern Ostrinsky, Klaus Stoppel, Mustafa Kamil, Siegwart Bogatscher
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Publication number: 20200025891Abstract: An optical scanning system is described, including a rotor that is set up to rotate about an axis of rotation during a scanning process, an optical lens that is situated on the rotor in such a way that the lens is situated on the axis of rotation, an optical transmit unit that is situated on the rotor and is set up to send out a scanning beam in the direction of an optical axis of the lens, and an optical receive unit that is situated on the rotor and includes a detector that is set up to receive a reflected scanning beam, the detector being situated such that the reflected scanning beam is focused onto the detector by the lens.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2018Publication date: January 23, 2020Inventors: Jan Sparbert, Siegwart Bogatscher, Juergen Hasselbach, Remigius Has
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Publication number: 20190383909Abstract: A LIDAR sensor for detecting an object in the surroundings and a method of the LIDAR sensor includes a light source emitting electromagnetic radiation, a micromechanical deflection mirror deflecting the emitted electromagnetic radiation by at least one angle into the surroundings, and a mirror, which includes an aperture situated on a main beam axis of the light source, deflecting onto an optical receiver received electromagnetic radiation that has been reflected from the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2018Publication date: December 19, 2019Inventors: Reiner Schnitzer, Siegwart Bogatscher, Jan Sparbert