Patents by Inventor Stefan Lehenberger
Stefan Lehenberger 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: 11485343Abstract: A sensor arrangement for a braking system of a vehicle is disclosed comprising a connection interface, a control unit, and a sensor. The sensor has an external interface with electrical contacts via which the sensor is connected to the control unit. The control unit is connected to and supplied with power via the connection interface and exchanges data with a higher-level unit via the connection interface. The sensor is provided power via the electrical contact points and provides electrical output signals via the electrical contact points. A first contact point provides a first electrical output signal and is connected to the connection interface via a first switching element such that the first contact point is connected to the connection interface when the first switching element is in the deenergized state and is disconnected from the connection interface when the first switching element is in the energized state.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Michael Schlitzkus, Helmut Seiband, Reinhold Wolpert, Sandra Heim, Stefan Lehenberger, Valentin Notemann
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Patent number: 10998798Abstract: A drive assembly has a housing block, on which there is arranged an electrical machine. The latter has a working shaft mounted in a shaft bore of the housing block and the rotational position of which is detected by a sensor device formed by a signal transmitter and a signal receiver comprising evaluation electronics. The shaft bore is closed by a cover, which is arranged between signal transmitter and signal receiver. The cover is formed in one piece with an electronics housing of the signal receiver. A centering device for the signal receiver is formed on the housing block on the electronics housing. The disclosed drive assembly simplifies the construction, functional testing and mounting of the signal receiver and at the same time improves the protection thereof against damaging environmental influences.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2018Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Michael Schlitzkus, Anna Wondrak, Helmut Seiband, Stefan Lehenberger, Thomas Zander, Valentin Notemann
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Patent number: 10905010Abstract: A connecting arrangement includes an electronic component and a printed circuit board, and a method includes establishing a solder connection between the component and circuit board. The component has a housing with a support area, and a contact element with a first contact area running parallel to the support area of the housing, a second contact area at a prespecified angle relative to the first contact area, and a rounded transition region formed between the first and second contact areas. The circuit board has a first surface with a soldering area including a constriction, a first section, and a second section connected to the first section via the constriction. The transition region is in a region of the constriction. The second contact area is connected to the second section via a solder connection. The support area is at an angle relative to the first surface corresponding to the prespecified angle.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2018Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Helmut Seiband, Michael Schlitzkus, Sandra Heim, Stefan Lehenberger, Valentin Notemann
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Publication number: 20200262411Abstract: A sensor arrangement for a braking system of a vehicle is disclosed comprising a connection interface, a control unit, and a sensor. The sensor has an external interface with electrical contacts via which the sensor is connected to the control unit. The control unit is connected to and supplied with power via the connection interface and exchanges data with a higher-level unit via the connection interface. The sensor is provided power via the electrical contact points and provides electrical output signals via the electrical contact points. A first contact point provides a first electrical output signal and is connected to the connection interface via a first switching element such that the first contact point is connected to the connection interface when the first switching element is in the deenergized state and is disconnected from the connection interface when the first switching element is in the energized state.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2020Publication date: August 20, 2020Inventors: Michael Schlitzkus, Helmut Seiband, Reinhold Wolpert, Sandra Heim, Stefan Lehenberger, Valentin Notemann
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Publication number: 20190140523Abstract: A drive assembly has a housing block, on which there is arranged an electrical machine. The latter has a working shaft mounted in a shaft bore of the housing block and the rotational position of which is detected by a sensor device formed by a signal transmitter and a signal receiver comprising evaluation electronics. The shaft bore is closed by a cover, which is arranged between signal transmitter and signal receiver. The cover is formed in one piece with an electronics housing of the signal receiver. A centering device for the signal receiver is formed on the housing block on the electronics housing. The disclosed drive assembly simplifies the construction, functional testing and mounting of the signal receiver and at the same time improves the protection thereof against damaging environmental influences.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2018Publication date: May 9, 2019Inventors: Michael Schlitzkus, Anna Wondrak, Helmut Seiband, Stefan Lehenberger, Thomas Zander, Valentin Notemann
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Publication number: 20180352657Abstract: A connecting arrangement includes an electronic component and a printed circuit board, and a method includes establishing a solder connection between the component and circuit board. The component has a housing with a support area, and a contact element with a first contact area running parallel to the support area of the housing, a second contact area at a prespecified angle relative to the first contact area, and a rounded transition region formed between the first and second contact areas. The circuit board has a first surface with a soldering area including a constriction, a first section, and a second section connected to the first section via the constriction. The transition region is in a region of the constriction. The second contact area is connected to the second section via a solder connection. The support area is at an angle relative to the first surface corresponding to the prespecified angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2018Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventors: Helmut Seiband, Michael Schlitzkus, Sandra Heim, Stefan Lehenberger, Valentin Notemann
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Patent number: 10018526Abstract: A connection device for a pressure sensor includes a supporting unit and a circuit board. The circuit board carries an electronic circuit having at least one of at least one electronic component and at least one electrical component. The supporting unit includes a multi-part main body that is electrically and mechanically connected to the circuit board via at least one soldered connection. The supporting unit further forms an external interface having at least one electrical contact point that enables tapping of at least one electrical output signal of the electronic circuit, and that is electrically connected to a corresponding contact point of the circuit board via an electrical connection. A pressure sensor includes such a connection device, and a method pertains to producing such a connection device.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2015Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Michael Schlitzkus, Stefan Lehenberger, Dmitriy Aranovich, Gerald Brinks, Peter Diesel
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Patent number: 9726565Abstract: A support unit for a circuit board in a sensor unit comprises a main body that defines an outer contour and includes a first joining geometry and a second joining geometry. The first joining geometry is configured to at least one of guide and electrically contact external contact elements, and includes contact receiving pockets configured to guide the external contact elements, and at least one reinforcement web that separates two adjacent contact receiving pockets. The second joining geometry is configured to join the support unit to the circuit board. The first joining geometry defines at least in part an external interface via which at least one electrical output signal of the circuit board is tapped.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2013Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Michael Schlitzkus, Stefan Lehenberger, Dmitriy Aranovich, Robert Hengler, Christian Pfleger, Philip Martin Lenk, Peter Diesel
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Patent number: 9638599Abstract: A circuit carrier for a sensor unit comprises a first interface via which at least one electrical output signal is tapped at least at one connection point of a measuring cell, a second interface via which the at least one electrical output signal of the measuring cell is applied via at least one first contact element to a circuit board with an electronic circuit, and a hollow, cylindrical main body. The main body includes an inner joining geometry defined on an inner contour which defines at least in part the first interface, an outer joining geometry which defines at least in part the second interface, and configured to electrically connect to a connection point of the measuring cell in a force-free manner. The outer joining geometry is configured as a receiving pocket with a protruding collar, and includes the at least one first contact element.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2013Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Michael Schlitzkus, Stefan Lehenberger, Dmitriy Aranovich, Robert Hengler, Christian Pfleger, Philip Martin Lenk, Peter Diesel
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Publication number: 20170010170Abstract: A connection device for a pressure sensor includes a supporting unit and a circuit board. The circuit board carries an electronic circuit having at least one of at least one electronic component and at least one electrical component. The supporting unit includes a multi-part main body that is electrically and mechanically connected to the circuit board via at least one soldered connection. The supporting unit further forms an external interface having at least one electrical contact point that enables tapping of at least one electrical output signal of the electronic circuit, and that is electrically connected to a corresponding contact point of the circuit board via an electrical connection. A pressure sensor includes such a connection device, and a method pertains to producing such a connection device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2015Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Michael Schlitzkus, Stefan Lehenberger, Dmitriy Aranovich, Gerald Brinks, Peter Diesel
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Patent number: 9140621Abstract: An arrangement for the direct contacting of contact mechanism has a first contact mechanism arranged on a contact carrier and a second contact mechanism. The second contact mechanism acts with a predetermined contact force on the first contact mechanism. The contact carrier includes a plastic injection premolding of galvanizable plastic and a nongalvanizable plastic. The galvanizable plastic has a predetermined resilient behavior and the first contact mechanism is formed by a metal layer having predetermined dimensions. The first contact mechanism can be applied onto the galvanizable plastic in a galvanic process. The resilient behavior of the galvanizable plastic and the dimensions of the metal layer form, under the predetermined contact force, a microdepression configured to guide the second contact mechanism in the first contact mechanism. A corresponding connection device for a pressure measurement cell includes such a direct contacting arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2012Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Michael Schlitzkus, Hartmut Rohde, Stefan Lehenberger, Robert Hengler, Dmitriy Aranovich, Christian Pfleger, Philip Martin Lenk, Peter Diesel
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Patent number: 9046436Abstract: A sensor unit has at least one measuring cell and a circuit mount arranged in a protective sleeve. The measuring cell detects a pressure of a hydraulic block. The circuit mount has a printed circuit board, which is positioned perpendicularly relative to the measuring cell. The printed circuit board has an electronic circuit with at least one electronic and/or electrical component. The measuring cell has at least one connection point configured to tap off at least one electrical output signal from the measuring cell. The circuit mount forms an internal interface which taps off the at least one electrical output signal from the measuring cell and applies it to the electronic circuit. An output signal from the electronic circuit can be tapped off by an external interface. The internal interface is formed at a first end and the external interface is formed at a second end of the protective sleeve.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2013Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Michael Schlitzkus, Stefan Lehenberger, Robert Hengler, Dmitriy Aranovich, Philip Martin Lenk, Peter Diesel, Christian Pfleger
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Publication number: 20150040676Abstract: A circuit carrier for a sensor unit comprises a first interface via which at least one electrical output signal is tapped at least at one connection point of a measuring cell, a second interface via which the at least one electrical output signal of the measuring cell is applied via at least one first contact element to a circuit board with an electronic circuit, and a hollow, cylindrical main body. The main body includes an inner joining geometry defined on an inner contour which defines at least in part the first interface, an outer joining geometry which defines at least in part the second interface, and configured to electrically connect to a connection point of the measuring cell in a force-free manner. The outer joining geometry is configured as a receiving pocket with a protruding collar, and includes the at least one first contact element.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2013Publication date: February 12, 2015Inventors: Michael Schlitzkus, Stefan Lehenberger, Dmitriy Aranovich, Robert Hengler, Christian Pfleger, Philip Martin Lenk, Peter Diesel
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Publication number: 20150040673Abstract: A support unit for a circuit board in a sensor unit comprises a main body that defines an outer contour and includes a first joining geometry and a second joining geometry. The first joining geometry is configured to at least one of guide and electrically contact external contact elements, and includes contact receiving pockets configured to guide the external contact elements, and at least one reinforcement web that separates two adjacent contact receiving pockets. The second joining geometry is configured to join the support unit to the circuit board. The first joining geometry defines at least in part an external interface via which at least one electrical output signal of the circuit board is tapped.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2013Publication date: February 12, 2015Inventors: Michael Schlitzkus, Stefan Lehenberger, Dmitrity Aranovich, Robert Hengler, Christian Pfleger, Philip Martin Lenk, Peter Diesel
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Publication number: 20130255391Abstract: A sensor unit has at least one measuring cell and a circuit mount arranged in a protective sleeve. The measuring cell detects a pressure of a hydraulic block. The circuit mount has a printed circuit board, which is positioned perpendicularly relative to the measuring cell. The printed circuit board has an electronic circuit with at least one electronic and/or electrical component. The measuring cell has at least one connection point configured to tap off at least one electrical output signal from the measuring cell. The circuit mount forms an internal interface which taps off the at least one electrical output signal from the measuring cell and applies it to the electronic circuit. An output signal from the electronic circuit can be tapped off by an external interface. The internal interface is formed at a first end and the external interface is formed at a second end of the protective sleeve.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2013Publication date: October 3, 2013Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Michael Schlitzkus, Stefan Lehenberger, Robert Hengler, Dmitriy Aranovich, Philip Martin Lenk, Peter Diesel, Christian Pfleger
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Publication number: 20050269869Abstract: A hydraulic brake system for a vehicle, including at least one brake circuit which connects a master cylinder to at least one wheel brake, in which for each wheel brake, one inlet valve is provided, one pump, which pumps hydraulic fluid from a return line into a reservoir, and for each brake circuit present, there is one reservoir valve and one disconnection valve; the disconnection valve is located in the brake circuit between the master cylinder and the inlet valves; and the reservoir valve is located in a line from the reservoir to the brake circuit, and the line discharges into a line region of the brake circuit between the disconnection valve and the inlet valve.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2005Publication date: December 8, 2005Inventors: Stefan Lehenberger, Frank Krueger
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Patent number: 5867884Abstract: A device for measuring the mass of a flowing medium having a temperature-dependent sensor element, which is inserted flush in a recess of a sensor carrier and is retained therein by means of an adhesive. The sensor carrier is made by bending a thin metal strip and has two elements, a frame element and a retaining element, which together form a recess, into which the sensor element is inserted flush and glued by means of an adhesive to a plateau-like protuberance of a bottom face of the retaining element. The sensor carrier is intended for a device for measuring the mass of a flowing medium for measuring the flow rate or mass of the air aspirated by internal combustion engines.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 1997Date of Patent: February 9, 1999Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Heinz Rilling, Stefan Lehenberger
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Patent number: 5723784Abstract: The invention proposes a device for measuring the mass of a flowing medium, in particular the mass of air aspirated by internal combustion engines. The device has a platelike sensor element which is accommodated in a recess of a sensor carrier, and which with a sensor region that has at least one measuring resistor is exposed to the flowing medium in order to measure its mass. The sensor element is accommodated essentially flush in the recess and is retained in the recess by being glued to a bottom face in the recess. The bottom face of the recess of the sensor carrier has a troughlike indentation, which extends at least partially along the circumference of the sensor element outside the sensor region that has the at least one measuring resistor. The device according to the invention is intended to measure the mass of a flowing medium, in particular for measuring the mass of air aspirated by internal combustion engines.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 1996Date of Patent: March 3, 1998Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Manfred Lembke, Josef Kleinhans, Hans Hecht, Helmut Bassler, Gerhard Hueftle, Alexander Kromer, Kurt Weiblen, Stefan Lehenberger, Guenther Frick, Klaus Reymann, Axel-Werner Haag, Dieter Tank, Uwe Konzelmann, Waldemar Guenther, Henninge Marberg
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Patent number: 5712425Abstract: A device for measuring the mass of a flowing medium by use of a temperature-dependent measuring resistor bathed by the flowing medium and accommodated in a measuring channel. The device has a flow obstacle, embodied in the form of a trip edge, upstream of the measuring element in the region of an inlet opening of the measuring channel, so as to create a chronologically and spatially stable separation zone in the region of the trip edge, thereby preventing chronologically and spatially unstable separation zones and makes it possible to attain a reduction in measuring signal noise. The invention is contemplated for measuring the mass of a flowing medium, especially for measuring the aspirated air mass in internal combustion engines.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 1996Date of Patent: January 27, 1998Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Hans Hecht, Heinz Rilling, Stefan Lehenberger, Uwe Konzelmann
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Patent number: 5693879Abstract: A device for measuring the mass of a flowing medium having a temperature-dependent sensor element, which is inserted flush in a recess of a sensor carrier and is retained therein by means of an adhesive. The sensor carrier is made by bending a thin metal strip and has two elements, a frame element and a retaining element, which together form a recess, into which the sensor element is inserted flush and glued by means of an adhesive to a plateaulike protuberance of a bottom face of the retaining element. The sensor carrier is intended for a device for measuring the mass of a flowing medium for measuring the flow rate or mass of the air aspirated by internal combustion engines.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 1996Date of Patent: December 2, 1997Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Heinz Rilling, Stefan Lehenberger