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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 09, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Norbert Hog, Buehl, DE;
Assignee:
Robert Bosch GmbH GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01W 1/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01W 1/00 ;
Abstract
An apparatus and a method for operating a rain sensor (,) that outputs a sensor signal (,) as a function of the wetting of a window (,) are proposed, having a controller (,) which as a function of the sensor signal (,) outputs a control signal (,) to the rain sensor (,) for regulating the sensor signal (,); for signal evaluation, the sensor signal (,) and in addition the control signal (,) are used for tripping switching events of a device.