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Re:I also filed the corners off my MacBook by eru on Thursday July 16, 2026 @03:49AM (#48931491)
Oh, Bosch makes all kinds of things.

Bosch's logo is something like a sparkplug (the thing used in internal combustion engines). To this day, the 'mobility' division is the biggest one. See https://www.bosch.com/stories/creation-of-the-bosch-logo/

Decades ago I actually had an offer to work for them as a research student working on optimising internal combustion engines.

Re:I also filed the corners off my MacBook by ce4 on Thursday July 16, 2026 @04:36AM (#48931827)
It resembles part of an electric motor, namely the windings (double t armature)
Re:I also filed the corners off my MacBook by MezzoDelCammin on Thursday July 16, 2026 @04:56AM (#48931980)
not a spark plug. They call it "armature in a circle", but that's somewhat generic.

Bosch used to do the first magnetos / dynamos in the early 1900s motorbikes / cars. The principle is similar to this day - one rotating magnetic field within one static. You can do all kinds of shenanigans and combinations of permanent magnets / coils where it's either the electric current generating a magnetic field or the magnetic field generating an electric current. Depending whether You want the movement to generate electricity or the electricity to generate movement.

In the first magnetos (the thing that uses the engine rotation in order to generate a current that then makes a spark in the spark plug) they used permanently magnetized exterior plating and a rotating winding. That's sort of what You see in the logo - two coil windings rotating in their housing.

Re:I also filed the corners off my MacBook by szszrk on Thursday July 16, 2026 @06:06AM (#48932485)
I find below article to be a cool explanation of that device, while actually showing shape Bosch uses in that logo.

https://www.da7c.co.uk/technical_torque_articles/magneto_ign...

But yeah, it's magneto ignition device, pre-sparkplug.