Patents by Inventor Thomas Raica
Thomas Raica 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: 9345139Abstract: The use of a control module having at least one housing part and a multi-layer printed circuit board as the electrical connection between the inner space of the housing and components that are situated outside of the housing part is described. The multi-layer printed circuit board is the carrier for the electrical components of an electronic circuit, and is at the same time the thermal contacting to a housing part and/or a cooling element, particularly a hydraulic plate of the transmission, for a transmission control installed in an automatic transmission.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2012Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Rolf Becker, Christian Lammers, Juergen Jerg, Joachim Wolff, Volker Hochholzer, Ulrich Trescher, Helmut Bubeck, Klaus Voigtlaender, Jan Benzler, Thomas Raica, Willi Kuehn, Thomas Wiesa, Michael Krapp
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Patent number: 8488324Abstract: An electrical control unit has a printed circuit board substrate, on which an electronic circuit is situated, which circuit includes multiple electrical components which are interconnected via printed conductors of the printed circuit board substrate, as well as housing parts for covering the electrical components on the printed circuit board substrate, and at least one device plug connector part situated on the printed circuit board substrate outside the section of the printed circuit board substrate covered by the housing parts. Outside the section covered by the at least one housing part and outside the section of the printed circuit board substrate provided with the device plug connector part, at least one contact point for an additional electrical component is situated on the printed circuit board substrate.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2008Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Rolf Becker, Christian Lammers, Juergen Jerg, Joachim Wolff, Volker Hochholzer, Ulrich Trescher, Helmut Bubeck, Klaus Voigtlaender, Jan Benzler, Thomas Raica, Willi Kuehn, Thomas Wiesa, Michael Krapp
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Publication number: 20120240396Abstract: The use of a control module having at least one housing part and a multi-layer printed circuit board as the electrical connection between the inner space of the housing and components that are situated outside of the housing part is described. The multi-layer printed circuit board is the carrier for the electrical components of an electronic circuit, and is at the same time the thermal contacting to a housing part and/or a cooling element, particularly a hydraulic plate of the transmission, for a transmission control installed in an automatic transmission.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2012Publication date: September 27, 2012Inventors: Rolf BECKER, Christian Lammers, Juergen Jerg, Joachim Wolff, Volker Hochholzer, Ulrich Trescher, Helmut Bubeck, Klaus Voigtlaender, Jan Benzler, Thomas Raica, Willi Kuehn, Thomas Wiesa, Michael Krapp
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Publication number: 20100202110Abstract: Electric control units are known having a printed circuit board substrate 2 on which an electronic circuit 9 is situated which includes multiple electrical components 11 which are interconnected via printed conductors 12 of the printed circuit board substrate, housing parts 3, 4 for covering the electrical components on the printed circuit board substrate and at least one device plug connector part 6 which is electrically connected to the components and situated on the printed circuit board substrate outside the section of the printed circuit board substrate 2 covered by the housing parts 3, 4, the electrical connections between the components and the device plug connector part being established via printed conductors 14 of the printed circuit board substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2008Publication date: August 12, 2010Inventors: Rolf Becker, Christian Lammers, Juergen Jerg, Joachim Wolff, Volker Hochholzer, Ulrich Trescher, Helmut Bubeck, Klaus Voigtlaender, Jan Benzler, Thomas Raica, Willi Kuehn, Thomas Wiesa, Michael Krapp
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Patent number: 7687947Abstract: Electric motor (10), in particular for adjusting moving parts in a motor vehicle, comprising an electronic unit (70) with a sandwich construction, which contains a first electrically conductive substrate (71) and a second electric conductive substrate (72), between which power components are located and electrically connected to both substrates (71, 72), and a side (84) of the second substrate (72) facing away from the first substrate (71) is equipped with additional electronic components (56), wherein the first substrate (71) is embodied as a punched grid (44), which together with the second substrate (72) is extrusion coated with a plastic body (95) in such a way that the extensions (97) of the punched grid (44) protrude from the plastic body (95), forming an electrical and/or mechanical interface (98) for connecting additional motor components (99, 38, 40, 104, 102, 80).Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2004Date of Patent: March 30, 2010Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Peter Urbach, Wolfgang Feiler, Thomas Raica, Stefan Hornung
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Publication number: 20070133183Abstract: Electric motor (10), in particular for adjusting moving parts in a motor vehicle, comprising an electronic unit (70) with a sandwich construction, which contains a first electrically conductive substrate (71) and a second electric conductive substrate (72), between which power components are located and electrically connected to both substrates (71, 72), and a side (84) of the second substrate (72) facing away from the first substrate (71) is equipped with additional electronic components (56), wherein the first substrate (71) is embodied as a punched grid (44), which together with the second substrate (72) is extrusion coated with a plastic body (95) in such a way that the extensions (97) of the punched grid (44) protrude from the plastic body (95), forming an electrical and/or mechanical interface (98) for connecting additional motor components (99, 38, 40, 104, 102, 80).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2004Publication date: June 14, 2007Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Peter Urbach, Wolfgang Feiler, Thomas Raica, Stefan Hornung
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Publication number: 20030183405Abstract: An electrical circuit on a substrate (10), having at least one component (30, 40) attached to a conductor layer (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25), is proposed; the component is surrounded by depressions (50, 51, 60) in the conductor layer. In addition, a substrate having at least one conductor layer for attaching at least one electrical component is proposed, the conductor layer having depressions to provide a flow barrier for a connecting material which is used for attaching the component; the depressions surround an area for attaching the component, and are positioned at a distance from each other such that the component has room between them, without the depressions having to be covered by the component.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2002Publication date: October 2, 2003Inventors: Albert-Andreas Hoebel, Frank Heider, Bernd Rautzenberg, Thomas Raica, Andreas Haugeneder
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Patent number: 6304455Abstract: An arrangement includes a supporting plate, at least one substrate applied thereon for electrical and/or electronic components and a plug-in part. The plug-in part includes a plurality of connector pins which are embedded in insulating material, whose first ends are provided for the connection to external plug-in devices and whose second ends are electrically connected to the substrate via bonding wires. In order to reduce the dimensions of the raster of the connector pins and to achieve a small, compact design of the arrangement, the individual connector pins are manufactured as stamped-out parts whose second ends, in each case, have end faces manufactured in the stamping process and running roughly parallel to the substrate, and the bonding wires are welded directly to the stamped-out end faces of the connector pins. In addition, there is a method for manufacturing the arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 1998Date of Patent: October 16, 2001Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Elmar Huber, Rolf Litzinger, Thomas Raica
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Patent number: 6205031Abstract: An electronic control unit having a housing, a substrate, particularly a hybrid, arranged in the housing and having an electronic control circuit. The electronic control unit also includes at least one device plug secured to the housing having contact elements that are electrically conductively connected to the control circuit of the substrate. A second substrate is arranged in the housing, spatially separated from the first substrate. At least one power component disposed in the housing and, electrically connected to the control circuit on the first substrate. One connecting printed circuit trace disposed in housing and conductively connected to the power component. The connecting printed circuit trace are conductively connected to a contact element, conducting power currents, of the device plug. Using the arrangement, in the event of a large number of contact elements in a device plug, the electrical connecting of the contact elements to the substrate can be simplified.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 1999Date of Patent: March 20, 2001Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Achim Herzog, Jürgen Spachmann, Uwe Wagner, Thomas Raica
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Patent number: 6068491Abstract: A connector arrangement of a control system with a controller in a motor vehicle is designed so that it can be manufactured advantageously and is reliable in operation.To do so, the connector arrangement and the respective controller are designed so that several separate connector sockets with externally accessible contact elements are arranged on the controller, which is mounted on the vehicle's internal combustion engine as a surface-mounted controller, some of the contact elements being designed as high-current contact elements which are connected directly to one another through busbars running inside the controller.The respective mating connectors can be connected to the connector sockets, the mating connectors being electrically connected to components of the vehicle over cable harnesses or cable segments, where a first mating connector connected to cable segments is composed of partial mating connectors which can be handled independently of one another.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 1998Date of Patent: May 30, 2000Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Werner Hofmeister, Achim Herzog, Peter Schiefer, Thomas Raica, Michael Schoenfeld, Roland Schmid, Willy Betz, Ralf Schinzel, Albert Staake, Rolf Litzinger, Hans Seitel, Edwin Eberlein, Eberhard Spengler
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Patent number: 6045411Abstract: An electrical device that is operationally reliable even under increased mechanical stresses, and which is cost-effective to manufacture. The device includes a recess on a housing for accommodating a plug-connector housing. The plug-connector housing is formed in that contact elements and a retaining element of the housing extending into the recess, as well as the segments of the housing bordering the recess, are introduced as insertion parts into a plastic injection molding die, and after the plastic injection process and the removal of the molding die, a plug-connector housing provided with contact elements is formed, fixedly positioned as an integral part on the housing of the device. The electrical device is preferably used in motor vehicles.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 1998Date of Patent: April 4, 2000Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Elmar Huber, Rolf Litzinger, Thomas Raica