Patents by Inventor Thomas Bleile

Thomas Bleile 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: 11726470
    Abstract: A method of continuously determining a measure of quality for a control device of a technical device or for a system model of a technical system, from an input variable and an output variable. Time series of the input variable and the output variable are acquired up to a time step. A discrete ARMAX model structure is adapted for the ascertained, corresponding time series of the input variable and output variable, in order to determine a first set of parameters for modeling the time series of the input variable and a second set of parameters for modeling the time series of the output variable. The measure of quality is determined for the time step as a function of the first and the second set of parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Bleile, Christina Hoepfner, Rene Huck
  • Publication number: 20220128956
    Abstract: A method of continuously determining a measure of quality for a control device of a technical device or for a system model of a technical system, from an input variable and an output variable. Time series of the input variable and the output variable are acquired up to a time step. A discrete ARMAX model structure is adapted for the ascertained, corresponding time series of the input variable and output variable, in order to determine a first set of parameters for modeling the time series of the input variable and a second set of parameters for modeling the time series of the output variable. The measure of quality is determined for the time step as a function of the first and the second set of parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas Bleile, Christina Hoepfner, Rene Huck
  • Patent number: 11120590
    Abstract: Methods and systems for hierarchy detection for block diagrams. One system includes an electronic processor configured to access a block diagram. The electronic processor is also configured to identify a set of connected components in the block diagram. The electronic processor is also configured to convert a first connected component included in the set of connected components into a directed acyclic graph (DAG). The electronic processor is also configured to determine a set of candidate hierarchies included in the DAG. The electronic processor is also configured to verify the set of candidate hierarchies. The electronic processor is also configured to generate a displayable hierarchical block diagram based on the verified set of candidate hierarchies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Fabio Cecchi, Naveen Ramakrishnan, Jochen Quante, Thomas Bleile, Jeffrey L. Irion
  • Patent number: 10782656
    Abstract: A method for parameterizing a functional software of a vehicle, including: receiving information about a vehicle state, transmitting the information about the vehicle state via a communication interface addressed to a remote processing unit outside the vehicle, and receiving, at the local processing unit in the vehicle, information about at least one parameter for influencing the vehicle behavior, which was transmitted by the remote processing unit outside the vehicle, via the communication interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Potthast, Fabian Jarmolowitz, Kosmas Petridis, Matthias Bitzer, Thomas Bleile, Lars Hagen
  • Publication number: 20180341233
    Abstract: A method for parameterizing a functional software of a vehicle, including: receiving information about a vehicle state, transmitting the information about the vehicle state via a communication interface addressed to a remote processing unit outside the vehicle, and receiving, at the local processing unit in the vehicle, information about at least one parameter for influencing the vehicle behavior, which was transmitted by the remote processing unit outside the vehicle, via the communication interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Inventors: Christian Potthast, Fabian Jarmolowitz, Kosmas Petridis, Matthias Bitzer, Thomas Bleile, Lars Hagen
  • Patent number: 9874171
    Abstract: A method for diagnosing a malfunction of a sensor system in an air system of an internal combustion engine, said sensor system comprising a first air state sensor, a second air state sensor and a third air state sensor, wherein a first value and a second value of a first comparison variable are ascertained in two different ways in an overall calculation step such that the result of a comparison between the first value and the second value is a function of each of the output variables of the first, second and third air state sensors and wherein in a fault detection step, said method recognizes as a function of the comparison between said first value and said second value of the comparison variable that a fault exists in the sensor system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Bleile, Wilhelm Blumendeller, Daniel Kuhn, Julian Reichel
  • Publication number: 20170030277
    Abstract: A method for processing sensor signals in a control unit of a motor vehicle and a control unit for carrying out the method. The control unit is provided for the open-loop and/or closed-loop control of a system and acquires signals from this system. The system is modeled with the aid of a model, at least one value being ascertained for a slow signal based on the model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: Thomas Bleile, Slobodanka Lux, Wilhelm Blumendeller, Martin Hoerner, Nico Schick
  • Patent number: 9501612
    Abstract: A method for monitoring at least one part of an internal combustion engine based on a variable whose values characterize the operation of the part of the internal combustion engine during different states of the internal combustion engine, including: determining an actual pattern with the actual values of the variable during different states of the internal combustion engine which describe the actual operation of the internal combustion engine; providing a reference pattern for a known operation of the internal combustion engine, the reference pattern including reference values of the variable for different states of the internal combustion engine; and comparing the actual pattern to the reference pattern to determine a similarity between the actual operation and the known operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Bleile, Stefan Michael, Andras Montvay, Christina Hoepfner, Marc Ringeisen
  • Patent number: 9309826
    Abstract: A method for determining a modeling value of a physical variable in a gas guiding section of an engine system including an internal combustion engine, includes the following steps: operating the engine system in such a way that an air mass flow is present in the gas guiding section; determining instantaneous values of other physical variables; and determining the modeling value of the physical variable by solving a differential equation, which results as the discretization of a differential equation, with the aid of the previously ascertained instantaneous values of the other physical variables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Alexandre Wagner, Thomas Bleile, Slobodanka Lux, Christian Fleck
  • Patent number: 9228508
    Abstract: In a method for determining a low pressure exhaust gas recirculation mass flow {dot over (m)}Opt in the air system of an internal combustion engine (10) with low pressure exhaust gas recirculation, the determination of the low pressure exhaust gas recirculation mass flow {dot over (m)}Opt involves a preliminary low pressure exhaust gas recirculation mass flow {dot over (m)}EGRLPDs which is determined from a function involving, in particular, the pressure p42 upstream and the pressure p12 downstream of a low pressure side exhaust gas recirculation valve EGRVIvLP (29), the temperature TEGRVIvPUs downstream of the low pressure side exhaust gas recirculation valve (29), and the geometry arEGRVIvLP of the low pressure side exhaust gas recirculation valve (29). According to the invention, at least one mass balance based variable is also considered in the determination of the low pressure exhaust gas recirculation mass flow {dot over (m)}Opt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Wilhelm Blumendeller, Thomas Bleile, Arvid Sievert, Martin Hoerner, Rene Huck
  • Patent number: 9212612
    Abstract: A method for operating a boost pressure control in an engine system having a supercharged internal combustion engine, including the following: performing a boost pressure control based on a setpoint controller variable and an actual controller variable, ascertaining a setpoint controller variable from a provided setpoint boost pressure with a first and a second model, ascertaining an intermediate variable from a provided actual boost pressure with the first model, correcting the intermediate variable with a provided dynamic variable, which represents a dynamic change in the state of the engine system using a higher dynamics than the actual boost pressure, and ascertaining the actual controller variable from the corrected intermediate variable with the second model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Alexandre Wagner, Thomas Bleile, Sascha Eichinger
  • Patent number: 8997559
    Abstract: A method for diagnosing a blowoff valve in an engine system having a supercharged internal combustion engine, the blowoff valve being situated in a blowoff line around a compressor of a supercharging device, by performing the following: detecting a compressor rotational speed indication of the supercharging device; and determining a malfunction of the blowoff valve if the compressor rotational speed indication includes an oscillation after the blowoff valve is activated for opening the blowoff valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Brandt, Thomas Bleile, Patrick Menold, Andreas Huber
  • Patent number: 8991243
    Abstract: A method for testing a supercharger actuator for a supercharger of a supercharged internal combustion engine, including adjusting the supercharger actuator from a first position to a second position, determining a rotational speed change information, which is a function of the change of the rotational speed of the supercharger resulting from the adjustment, and establishing a malfunction of the supercharger actuator as a function of the rotational speed change information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Bleile, Patrick Menold
  • Patent number: 8788235
    Abstract: A method for diagnosing an actuator for a boost pressure system of an internal combustion engine, in which the actuator is controlled using a triggering signal, and a state variable of the boost pressure system which is at least an indirect function of the triggering signal is detected. The triggering signal is periodic, and a curve of the values of the state variable is analyzed with regard to at least one periodic characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Bleile, Thomas Oertel
  • Publication number: 20140150761
    Abstract: A drive system for a motor vehicle, having an internal combustion engine, an air and exhaust gas system, which includes at least one throttle, an exhaust gas recirculation system, which is in fluidic connection with the air and exhaust gas system at two connecting points, and a measuring device, which is designed to detect an atmospheric pressure, to detect a gas pressure at a measuring point within the air and exhaust gas system, and to ascertain a differential pressure as a function of the gas pressure and the atmospheric pressure, the measuring point being fluidically situated between the throttle and the internal combustion engine and in a region of one of the connecting points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Inventors: Wilhelm Blumendeller, Thomas Bleile
  • Publication number: 20130263653
    Abstract: A method for diagnosing a blowoff valve in an engine system having a supercharged internal combustion engine, the blowoff valve being situated in a blowoff line around a compressor of a supercharging device, by performing the following: detecting a compressor rotational speed indication of the supercharging device; and determining a malfunction of the blowoff valve if the compressor rotational speed indication includes an oscillation after the blowoff valve is activated for opening the blowoff valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Martin BRANDT, Thomas Bleile, Patrick Menold, Andreas Huber
  • Patent number: 8365761
    Abstract: A regulator unit for regulating a flap opening of a flap arranged in a mass flow line includes: an analyzer unit which is designed for providing an analysis signal on the basis of a predefined desired pressure difference and a difference between pressures upstream and downstream from the flap; a regulator which is designed for determining a trigger signal from the analysis signal according to a regulating characteristic; and a control element-regulating unit which is designed for regulating the flap opening of the flap in the mass flow line in response to the trigger signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Bleile, André Wittmer
  • Patent number: 8321172
    Abstract: A method for determining at least one air system variable in an air supply system of an internal combustion engine in successive, discrete calculation steps, a differential equation being provided with respect to the air system variable based on measured and/or modeled variables, which describe conditions in the air supply system, a difference equation being formed for the quantization of the differential equation according to an implicit method, and the difference equation being solved in each discrete calculation step, in order to obtain the air system variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Alexandre Wagner, Thomas Bleile, Slobodanka Lux, Christian Fleck
  • Publication number: 20120272938
    Abstract: In a method for determining a low pressure exhaust gas recirculation mass flow in the air system of an internal combustion engine (10) with low pressure exhaust gas recirculation, the determination of the low pressure exhaust gas recirculation mass flow involves a preliminary low pressure exhaust gas recirculation mass flow which is determined from a function involving, in particular, the pressure p42 upstream and the pressure p12 downstream of a low pressure side exhaust gas recirculation valve EGRVIvLP (29), the temperature TEGRVIvPUs downstream of the low pressure side exhaust gas recirculation valve (29), and the geometry arEGRVIvLP of the low pressure side exhaust gas recirculation valve (29). According to the invention, at least one mass balance based variable is also considered in the determination of the low pressure exhaust gas recirculation mass flow .
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GmbH
    Inventors: Wilhelm Blumendeller, Thomas Bleile, Arvid Sievert, Martin Hoerner, Rene Huck
  • Patent number: 8196569
    Abstract: In a method for operating an internal combustion engine having exhaust gas recirculation, air is supplied to at least one combustion chamber via an intake manifold at least partially closable with the aid of a final control element, and a part of the exhaust gases flowing into an exhaust pipe is conducted via an EGR channel, which is at least partially closable with the aid of an EGR valve unit, into an area of the intake manifold, which lies between the final control element and the combustion chamber. A first variable, which characterizes the mass flow of the gas conducted through the EGR channel, is ascertained from a set of state variables of the internal combustion engine, which apply for an operating state in which the engine is in overrun operation and the final control element is essentially closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Bleile, Horst Mueller