Patents by Inventor Steffen PETEREIT

Steffen PETEREIT 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: 10466710
    Abstract: An autonomous implement includes at least one orientation device configured to provide an orientation within a processing zone. The at least one orientation device is different from a perimeter-wire orientation device. The autonomous implement further includes at least one control and/or regulating unit configured to ascertain a travel strategy. The at least one control and/or regulating unit is configured at least to ascertain an alignment relative to a base station for a targeted docking onto an interface of the base station based on at least one orientation parameter captured using the at least one orientation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Biber, Klaus Marx, Steffen Petereit, Stefan Hensel
  • Publication number: 20190297869
    Abstract: A device for damaging weeds, having a movably arranged plunger, which has a plunger end for applying pressure to a weed to damage the weed mechanically, and to an active-substance dispensing unit, which is configured to dispense an active substance onto the plunger end of the plunger to damage chemically the mechanically damaged weed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Andreas Michaels, Steffen Petereit
  • Patent number: 9878427
    Abstract: A hand-held power tool includes a drive device in a housing. The drive device is intended to drive a tool accommodated in a tool-accommodating region. An adjusting motion of the hand-held power tool by the user is detected via a sensor device. A controlled variable for setting the drive device is generated in an open-loop or closed-loop control device in the hand-held power tool according to the detected adjusting motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Rudolf Fuchs, Amos Albert, Steffen Petereit, Christoph Koch, Istvan Szell
  • Publication number: 20170127608
    Abstract: An autonomous implement includes at least one orientation device configured to provide an orientation within a processing zone. The at least one orientation device is different from a perimeter-wire orientation device. The autonomous implement further includes at least one control and/or regulating unit configured to ascertain a travel strategy. The at least one control and/or regulating unit is configured at least to ascertain an alignment relative to a base station for a targeted docking onto an interface of the base station based on at least one orientation parameter captured using the at least one orientation device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventors: Peter Biber, Klaus Marx, Steffen Petereit, Stefan Hensel
  • Patent number: 9632489
    Abstract: An autonomous working device, in particular an autonomous lawn mower, is configured to travel across a surface that is to be worked. The working device includes a processing unit configured to divide the surface that is to be worked into at least two dynamic partial surfaces to be traveled across separately by the working device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Biber, Steffen Petereit, Christoph Koch, Amos Albert
  • Patent number: 9439348
    Abstract: An autonomous working device, in particular an autonomous lawn mower, comprising a computing unit. The autonomous working device is configured to cover a surface to be treated in strips. The computing unit is configured to adjust an overlap of the strips according to at least one parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Biber, Steffen Petereit, Christoph Koch, Amos Albert
  • Patent number: 9380742
    Abstract: An autonomous implement comprising at least one drive unit including at least one drive wheel, at least one sensor unit configured to detect at least one characteristic value, at least one location-determining unit configured to detect at least one characteristic value, and at least one evaluating unit. The at least one evaluating unit is configured to determine a slip of the at least one drive wheel from the at least one characteristic value detected by the at least one sensor unit and the at least one characteristic value detected by the at least one location-determining unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Biber, Steffen Petereit, Christoph Koch, Amos Albert
  • Patent number: 9276644
    Abstract: A system has a boundary conductor unit, which is intended to emit a boundary signal, and an at least partially independent mobile unit, which is intended to detect a boundary provided by the boundary conductor unit by means of cross-correlation. It is proposed that the mobile unit has at least one receiving unit which is intended to receive data transmitted by means of the boundary signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Steffen Petereit, Christoph Koch, Amos Albert
  • Publication number: 20140371975
    Abstract: An autonomous implement comprising at least one drive unit including at least one drive wheel, at least one sensor unit configured to detect at least one characteristic value, at least one location-determining unit configured to detect at least one characteristic value, and at least one evaluating unit. The at least one evaluating unit is configured to determine a slip of the at least one drive wheel from the at least one characteristic value detected by the at least one sensor unit and the at least one characteristic value detected by the at least one location-determining unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Biber, Steffen Petereit, Christoph Koch, Amos Albert
  • Patent number: 8892352
    Abstract: A method for detecting a position with respect to a mobile working machine includes providing a current signal in a boundary conductor, which surrounds the defined area, in accordance with a boundary signal that is provided, the boundary signal corresponding to a pseudo-accident signal; and receiving a detection signal of a magnetic field. The method further includes generating a reconstructed boundary signal from the detection signal; providing a reference signal which has a bit pattern corresponding to the boundary signal provided; carrying out a correlation method in order to determine a time-based correlation offset between the reference signal and the reconstructed boundary signal and a correlation value between the reference signal and the reconstructed boundary signal, which are displaced in relation to each other by the correlation offset determined; and determining a position inside or outside the defined area as a function of the correlation value determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Steffen Petereit, Amos Albert
  • Publication number: 20140324246
    Abstract: An autonomous working device, in particular an autonomous lawn mower, is configured to travel across a surface that is to be worked. The working device includes a processing unit configured to divide the surface that is to be worked into at least two dynamic partial surfaces to be traveled across separately by the working device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2012
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Biber, Steffen Petereit, Christoph Koch, Amos Albert
  • Publication number: 20140316634
    Abstract: An autonomous working device, in particular an autonomous lawn mower, comprising a computing unit. The autonomous working device is configured to cover a surface to be treated in strips. The computing unit is configured to adjust an overlap of the strips according to at least one parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2012
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Biber, Steffen Petereit, Christoph Koch, Amos Albert
  • Publication number: 20140242907
    Abstract: A system has a boundary conductor unit, which is intended to emit a boundary signal, and an at least partially independent mobile unit, which is intended to detect a boundary provided by the boundary conductor unit by means of cross-correlation. It is proposed that the mobile unit has at least one receiving unit which is intended to receive data transmitted by means of the boundary signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Steffen Petereit, Christoph Koch, Amos Albert
  • Publication number: 20140048298
    Abstract: A hand-held power tool includes a drive device in a housing. The drive device is intended to drive a tool accommodated in a tool-accommodating region. An adjusting motion of the hand-held power tool by the user is detected via a sensor device. A controlled variable for setting the drive device is generated in an open-loop or closed-loop control device in the hand-held power tool according to the detected adjusting motion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Rudolf Fuchs, Amos Albert, Steffen Petereit, Christoph Koch, Istvan Szell
  • Publication number: 20130154688
    Abstract: A method for detecting a position with respect to a mobile working machine includes providing a current signal in a boundary conductor, which surrounds the defined area, in accordance with a boundary signal that is provided, the boundary signal corresponding to a pseudo-accident signal; and receiving a detection signal of a magnetic field. The method further includes generating a reconstructed boundary signal from the detection signal; providing a reference signal which has a bit pattern corresponding to the boundary signal provided; carrying out a correlation method in order to determine a time-based correlation offset between the reference signal and the reconstructed boundary signal and a correlation value between the reference signal and the reconstructed boundary signal, which are displaced in relation to each other by the correlation offset determined; and determining a position inside or outside the defined area as a function of the correlation value determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Steffen Petereit, Amos Albert
  • Publication number: 20110202307
    Abstract: A method for recognizing the operating range of a mobile, autonomous implement, in which the operating range assigned to the implement is limited by a border which can be used as an electrical conductor loop, and the implement recognizes the operating range by detecting signals from the conductor loop, wherein an additional, non-wired, external signal is used for controlling the implement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2009
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Steffen Petereit, Amos Albert, Friederike Dietzel
  • Publication number: 20110139476
    Abstract: The invention relates to a garden tool having at least one working blade for performing a cutting operation. The garden tool includes a user control part for user activation of the garden tool. A drive unit generates a working motion of the at least one working blade which has a blade region for a linear and/or oscillating working motion of the at least one driven working blade An electronic unit acts upon the drive unit with at least control and/or regulating signals, and an operating voltage unit furnishes an electrical energy supply to the electronic unit. It is proposed that the drive unit includes at least one excitation actuator having a volume of excitation-active material, which actuator is electrically supplied in operation by the operating voltage unit and is controlled or regulated by the electronic unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Inventors: Jochen ROSER, Steffen PETEREIT