Patents by Inventor Thorsten Baunach

Thorsten Baunach 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).

  • Method for operating an exhaust gas sensor and device for carrying out the method
    Patent number: 8337684
    Abstract: A method for operating an exhaust gas sensor, which has at least two electrodes, between which a pump current flows and between which a pump voltage occurs, said sensor being operated with a nominal operating temperature and a low temperature operation being intermittently provided at said sensor, wherein the temperature of the exhaust gas sensor is less with respect to the nominal operating temperature, and a device for carrying out the method are proposed. Provision is made according to the invention for the pump voltage to be acquired and for the low temperature operation to be influenced by the pump voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thorsten Baunach, Martin Buchholz, Anna Karoline Winkler, Jochen Domscheit, legal representative, Lothar Diehl
  • METHOD FOR OPERATING AN EXHAUST GAS SENSOR AND DEVICE FOR CARRYING OUT THE METHOD
    Publication number: 20100077836
    Abstract: A method for operating an exhaust gas sensor, which has at least two electrodes, between which a pump current flows and between which a pump voltage occurs, said sensor being operated with a nominal operating temperature and a low temperature operation being intermittently provided at said sensor, wherein the temperature of the exhaust gas sensor is less with respect to the nominal operating temperature, and a device for carrying out the method are proposed. Provision is made according to the invention for the pump voltage to be acquired and for the low temperature operation to be influenced by the pump voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GMBH
    Inventors: Thorsten Baunach, Martin Buchholz, Anna Karoline Winkler, Jochen Domscheit, Lothar Diehl