Patents by Inventor Ralf Machauer

Ralf Machauer 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: 10216687
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a participant station for a bus system and to a method for increasing the data rate of a bus system. The participant station comprises a device for receiving a message from at least one other participant station of the bus system via the bus system. In the bus system, an exclusive collision-free access of a participant station to a bus line of the bus system is ensured at least temporarily. The participant station also comprises a testing device for testing whether or not the received message is specified for the participant station and an error processing device for processing errors of the received message only when the test carried out by the testing device indicates that the received message is specified for the participant station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Machauer, Simon Weissenmayer
  • Patent number: 10055374
    Abstract: A participating station for a bus system and a method for data transmission in a bus system are provided. The participating station comprises a transceiver unit for transmitting a message to and/or receiving a message from a further participating station of the bus system, and a switching unit for switching a connection to at least one further participating station of the bus system between an open and a closed state, wherein the switching unit is designed for the selective connection control of the participating station to at least one further participating station of the bus system on the basis of at least a part of the message received from the transceiver unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Machauer, Simon Weissenmayer
  • Patent number: 9769023
    Abstract: A method for monitoring a communication network, which includes a plurality of processing units which communicate with one another via a communication medium, a channel of the communication medium being measured using channel estimation; from a result of the channel estimation, a characteristic variable being produced; and, with the aid of the characteristic variable, a decision is made as to whether a manipulative change of the communication network has occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Patrick Nickel, Ralf Feil, Ralf Machauer
  • Publication number: 20170011000
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a participant station for a bus system and to a method for increasing the data rate of a bus system. The participant station comprises a device for receiving a message from at least one other participant station of the bus system via the bus system. In the bus system, an exclusive collision-free access of a participant station to a bus line of the bus system is ensured at least temporarily. The participant station also comprises a testing device for testing whether or not the received message is specified for the participant station and an error processing device for processing errors of the received message only when the test carried out by the testing device indicates that the received message is specified for the participant station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Ralf Machauer, Simon Weissenmayer
  • Patent number: 9461937
    Abstract: A method and a device is provided to allow additional data to be transmitted between at least two users of a bus system. The transmitted data frames have a logic structure according to the CAN standard ISO 11898-1, and at least two additional short bits are inserted within a temporal bit length of at least some of the CAN bits such that at least for one of the two possible values of the current CAN bit, the first one of the additional bits inserted into this CAN bit is transmitted using a bus level that is the opposite of this value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Florian Hartwich, Tobias Lorenz, Christian Horst, Ralf Machauer, Frank Voetz
  • Publication number: 20160275032
    Abstract: A participating station for a bus system and a method for data transmission in a bus system are provided. The participating station comprises a transceiver unit for transmitting a message to and/or receiving a message from a further participating station of the bus system, and a switching unit for switching a connection to at least one further participating station of the bus system between an open and a closed state, wherein the switching unit is designed for the selective connection control of the participating station to at least one further participating station of the bus system on the basis of at least a part of the message received from the transceiver unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Ralf Machauer, Simon Weissenmayer
  • Patent number: 9262365
    Abstract: In a method for enabling transmission of larger data quantities relatively rapidly in a data network, the sent data frames have a logical structure according to CAN Specification ISO 11898-1, the bit length in time within a data frame being able to assume at least two different values; for a first specifiable range within the data frame, the bit length in time being greater than, or equal to a specified minimum value of approximately one microsecond and in at least one second specifiable range within the data frame the bit length in time compared to the first range is at least halved, preferably less than halved; the change of the bit length in time being implemented by using at least two different scaling factors for setting the bus time unit relative to a shortest time unit or the oscillator clock pulse during running operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Florian Hartwich, Tobias Lorenz, Christian Horst, Ralf Machauer, Frank Voetz
  • Patent number: 9178764
    Abstract: A device for connecting to a two-wire communications bus, a bus station that, while utilizing the device, is able to send messages, represented on the bus lines as dominant and recessive bus levels, to additional connected bus stations and receive same from them. The device includes (a) an arrangement setting a dominant bus level in the form of a first voltage difference between the two bus lines by driving a first electric current, and the device is suitable for the recessive bus level to set in as the second voltage difference between the two bus lines, at least partially by the flowing of a discharge current via terminating resistors connected to the bus lines; and (b) an arrangement to speed up the setting of at least one of the bus levels by driving at least one additional electric current, at least in response to the presence of a switching condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Florian Hartwich, Ralf Machauer
  • Publication number: 20150256398
    Abstract: A method for monitoring a communication network, which includes a plurality of processing units which communicate with one another via a communication medium, a channel of the communication medium being measured using channel estimation; from a result of the channel estimation, a characteristic variable being produced; and, with the aid of the characteristic variable, a decision is made as to whether a manipulative change of the communication network has occurred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Inventors: Patrick NICKEL, Ralf FElL, Ralf MACHAUER
  • Publication number: 20130343383
    Abstract: A method and a device is provided to allow additional data to be transmitted between at least two users of a bus system. The transmitted data frames have a logic structure according to the CAN standard ISO 11898-1, and at least two additional short bits are inserted within a temporal bit length of at least some of the CAN bits such that at least for one of the two possible values of the current CAN bit, the first one of the additional bits inserted into this CAN bit is transmitted using a bus level that is the opposite of this value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Inventors: Florian Hartwich, Tobias Lorenz, Christian Horst, Ralf Machauer, Frank Voetz
  • Publication number: 20130322463
    Abstract: A device for connecting to a two-wire communications bus, a bus station that, while utilizing the device, is able to send messages, represented on the bus lines as dominant and recessive bus levels, to additional connected bus stations and receive same from them. The device includes (a) an arrangement setting a dominant bus level in the form of a first voltage difference between the two bus lines by driving a first electric current, and the device is suitable for the recessive bus level to set in as the second voltage difference between the two bus lines, at least partially by the flowing of a discharge current via terminating resistors connected to the bus lines; and (b) an arrangement to speed up the setting of at least one of the bus levels by driving at least one additional electric current, at least in response to the presence of a switching condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Inventors: Florian Hartwich, Ralf Machauer
  • Publication number: 20130290580
    Abstract: In a method for enabling transmission of larger data quantities relatively rapidly in a data network, the sent data frames have a logical structure according to CAN Specification ISO 11898-1, the bit length in time within a data frame being able to assume at least two different values; for a first specifiable range within the data frame, the bit length in time being greater than, or equal to a specified minimum value of approximately one microsecond and in at least one second specifiable range within the data frame the bit length in time compared to the first range is at least halved, preferably less than halved; the change of the bit length in time being implemented by using at least two different scaling factors for setting the bus time unit relative to a shortest time unit or the oscillator clock pulse during running operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Inventors: Florian Hartwich, Tobias Lorenz, Christian Horst, Ralf Machauer, Frank Voetz
  • Publication number: 20090307400
    Abstract: A method for operating a LIN bus, whose specifications in normal operation are described by a LIN bus in which an alternative communications protocol is tunneled through the LIN protocol, for carrying out a special operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2007
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Inventors: Ralf Machauer, Ingo Mauel