Robert Boschgmbh

Klaus Marx

Franz Jost

Anton Dukart

Axel Wenzler

Ulli Hoffmann

Siegbert Steinlechner

Hans Braun

Thomas Klotzbuecher

Thilo Koeder

Werner Herden

Erich Zabler

Reiner Krapf

Peter Schelhas

Stefano Delfini

Stefan Wickert

Wolfgang Ripper

Juergen Lennartz

Joachim Frangen

Achim Duesselberg

Ingo Herrmann

Asta Reichl

Rainer Strohmaier

Marcus Schneider

Bernhard Kamp

Ulrich Kuhn

Joachim Platzer

Jan Breitenbach

Peter Biber

Thomas Winkler

Carsten Diem

Hans-Juergen Herderich

Christian Neumann

Ralf Noltemeyer

Wolfgang Niehsen

Gunter Flinspach

Hans Kaiser

Henrik Siegle

Georg Stellmann

Martin Freitag

Helge Sprenger

Manfred Abendroth

Sebastian Jackisch

Michael Gerlach

Hartmut Kittel

Stefan Muelders

Steffen Petereit

Mathias Rollwage

Peter Traub

Ulrich Schulmeister

Lutz Dorfmueller

Christian Bertsch

Klaus Kuespert

Guenter Gerlach

Guenter Driedger

Thomas Ullmann

Stefan Hensel

Friedrich Bielert

David Heisenberg

Siegfried Zerbin

Rudolf Galster

Andreas Graessl

Dietmar Senghaas

Gunter Haas

Bjoern Janetzky

Achim Oberascher

Richard Schoenleber

Andreas Loewe

Tobias Hans

Alexander Stratmann

Juergen Abt

Cornelia Goldmann

Hans-Harald Stoehr

Wolfgang Schauer

Michael Reichelt

Johannes Dehn

Matthias Pfaff-Rollwagen

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.

Autonomous work device

A hand-held measuring appliance includes at least a nuclear magnetic resonance sensor, a control apparatus configured to control the measuring appliance, an evaluation apparatus configured to evaluate a measurement signal supplied by the nuclear magnetic resonance sensor, an output apparatus configured to output ascertained information, and an apparatus for energy supply. The measuring appliance is configured to examine at least one of fuel, oil, and hydraulic fluid.

Use of a measuring appliance for examining fuel, oil and/or hydraulic fluid

The disclosure relates to an electric tool, particularly a hand-held power tool, comprising a control unit which has control software with control parameters, and is provided for the purpose of controlling a drive unit. According to the disclosure, said electric tool comprises an interface unit that is provided to fundamentally update and/or modify the control software and/or the control parameters.

Electric tool

A hand-held jigsaw includes a saw blade and control element for automating a tracking the saw blade, the hand-held jigsaw, or both along layout lines. A sensor, preferably a camera unit, detects a layout line provided on a work piece.

Hand-held jigsaw

A protective device for use with table-top circular saws that operate a tool designed as a rotating, disk-shaped sawing tool includes at least one actuator unit and at least one protective unit. The at least one actuator unit moves the protective unit into a protective position on the tool.

Protective device

A device for measuring the level of a fluid in a container by means of a sound guide tube and an ultrasonic transducer disposed inside the container mounted in a fluid feeding device within the container.

Device for measuring the level of a fluid in a fuel tank of a motor vehicle

A method for optical measuring data acquisition of a component that moves in a rotary or translatory manner, in particular for optical angle, torque, or distance measurement, includes generation of a first pair of periodic line patterns extending in the movement direction of the component and a second pair of periodic line patterns extending in the movement direction of the component, which each have m periods, in particular n+1 periods, over the movement range of the moving component determination of respective phases of the line patterns of the first pair and of the second pair, determination of the phase position of the first pair of line patterns on the basis of the phases and of the second pair of line patterns on the basis of the phases, and determination of the position of the component on the basis of the phase positions.

Code (ring) with two pairs of periodic line patterns

A device for measuring an angle and/or the torque acting on a rotatable body is proposed according to the invention, whereby the rotational angle is detected by means of magnetic or optical sensors. In particular, in a preferred exemplary embodiment, two devices () are proposed, each of which comprises two optically readable code tracks. The two code tracks (or) on one device (or) are similar in design and are offset in relation to each other, so that associated sensors () output a digital signal. The rotational angle is calculated based on the lag between the two digital signals. In a further embodiment it is provided that a torsion element () having a known torsional stiffness is situated between the two devices (). Torque transferred by the rotatable body () can also be calculated therefore from the angular difference of the two devicesThe device is used preferably in the steering axle of a motor vehicle.

Device for measuring the angle and/or the angular velocity of a rotatable body and/or the torque acting upon said body

The invention proposes a connecting element ( ) with an elongated shaft ( ), in particular a screw or bolt, for connecting two bodies, wherein at least part of the shaft ( ) has a slot ( ) and a recess ( ). The invention also proposes that a component ( ) that generates a magnetic field, and spaced apart from it, a magnetically sensitive element ( ) be disposed in the vicinity of the recess ( ). The proposed connecting element is particularly suitable for detecting a force or mechanical strain acting on the seat of a motor vehicle.

Connecting element

Method and device for determining a rotation angle or a displacement

A device and a method for determining a magnetic field with respect to its intensity and direction at at least one detection location, and uses a first arrangement for superimposing an auxiliary magnetic field, known at least in intensity, on the magnetic field, and a second arrangement for measuring at least the direction of the magnetic field resulting from the superimposition of the magnetic field to be determined and of the auxiliary magnetic field at the detection location. The magnetic field is determined at the detection location in that the resultant magnetic field produced by the magnetic field to be determined and the auxiliary magnetic field is determined with respect to its direction for at least two different auxiliary magnetic fields; and the magnetic field to be determined is calculated therefrom. The method is especially suited for determining the intensity and direction of a magnetic field in the immediate vicinity of the surface of a magnet.

Device and method for determining a magnetic field as to its intensity and direction

A method for determining the instantaneous fluid level of a tank includes the steps of: designating a beginning fluid-level of the tank as an input value during the starting of the engine; ascertaining a first fluid-level value from a fluid level measured by a fluid-level measuring device, and ascertaining a second fluid-level value and a window around the second fluid-level value from the consumption of the engine and from the input value; comparing the first fluid-level value to the window around the second fluid-level value; determining whether the first or the second fluid-level value should be a new input value; displaying the new input value as the fluid level; and terminating the method if the engine is switched off or repeating the method starting from the ascertaining step when the engine is running.

Method for determining the fluid level of a tank in motor vehicles

An angle encoder for determination of an angle between a sensor device ( ) and a magnetic field, having a magnet ( ) that generates the magnetic field, a number of Hall elements ( ) disposed in the magnetic field, and flux-conducting parts ( ) made of ferromagnetic material disposed between the Hall elements and rotationally fixed in relation to them, wherein the magnet ( ) is embodied so that it can rotate in relation to the Hall elements and the flux-conducting parts, wherein at least four Hall elements ( ) are provided.

Angle encoder with four hall sensors and method for angle determination of output signals of the four hall sensors

An arrangement for detecting the angle of rotation of a rotatable element, in which, with evaluation of magnetically variable properties of a sensor arrangement, a first magnetic field, generated or varied by a rotatable element, is detectable in an evaluation circuit and usable for ascertaining the angle of rotation, wherein the sensor arrangement, utilizing the magnetoresistive effect, furnishes signals that can be associated unambiguously with one direction of the magnetic field B over a first angular range, in particular an angular range of 360&deg;, having means to for is selective application of a magnetic auxiliary field B the sensor arrangement, by means of which signals a modification of the signals that can be associated with the direction of the first magnetic field B , attainable for the sake of unambiguous association of an angle over a second angular range, in particular 360&deg;.

Arrangement for and method of detecting the angle of rotation of a rotatable element

A magnetoresistive sensor element, in particular an angle sensor element, has a first, magnetic layer ( ) whose direction of magnetization represents a reference direction, a second, nonmagnetic layer ( ) formed on the first layer ( ), a third magnetic layer ( ), formed on the second layer ( ), whose direction of magnetization can be varied by an external magnetic field, and an additional layer consisting of a current conductor ( ) for selective orientation of the direction of magnetization of the first layer ( ). A current flow direction of an electric current that passes through the current conductor ( ) can be switched to change the magnetization direction of the first magnetic layer ( ) to create different reference directions. An insulation layer ( ) for galvanic separation of the first magnetic layer ( ) from the additional layer ( ) is also provided between them.

Magnetoresistive sensor element with selective magnetization direction of the bias layer

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