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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2013
Robert Bosch Gmbh, Stuttgart, DE;
Massoud Momeni, Reutlingen, DE;
Matthias Siemss, Gomaringen, DE;
ROBERT BOSCH GMBH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
An electronic control unit includes a bus connection for a connection to a bus line of a current-controlled bus, an evaluation device for sampling the current flowing through the bus connection in order to detect a digital message from a sensor which is connectable to the bus line, and a current controller for generating a predefined current pulse through the bus connection in order to induce the sensor to assume a predefined synchronization state. The current controller is set up to control the current through the bus connection in such a way that it corresponds to an operating current through the sensor.