Abstract: In an electrical coolant pump, preferably for use as an additional water pump in a vehicle, a radial bearing of the shaft is provided by means of a radial slide bearing lubricated with coolant on the separating element which is disposed between the pump impeller and the rotor. A dry-running electric motor has a radially inner stator and a radially outer rotor is accommodated within the motor chamber. A shaft seal is disposed between the radial slide bearing and the motor chamber. The rotor is formed in a cup shape, the inner surface of which faces the shaft seal and is fixed to the shaft in an axially overlapping manner. The motor chamber has an opening to the atmosphere which is closed by a liquid-tight and vapor-permeable pressure equalizing membrane. The separating element is configured as a support flange with a separating portion and an axial projection into the motor chamber, to which the stator is attached.

Abstract: An adjustable lubrication oil conveying system for a combustion engine is proposed which comprises a screw pump for conveying lubrication oil with at least one screw rotatably accommodated in a screw chamber, wherein the screw pump is arranged such that a suction side of the screw chamber is connected with an intake path from an oil sump of the combustion engine, and a pressure side of the screw chamber is connected with a feed path to moving parts of the combustion engine. The lubrication oil conveying system is characterised in particular in that the screw pump is driven by the combustion engine; and towards the suction side of the screw chamber, an adjustable throttle valve is provided by means of which a flow cross-section of the intake path is gradually limitable between an opened position and a closed position. Therefore, the oil pressure in a combustion engine is, for the first time, adjusted by suction throttling in connection with a screw pump.

Abstract: An adjustable lubrication oil conveying system for a combustion engine is proposed which comprises a screw pump for conveying lubrication oil with at least one screw rotatably accommodated in a screw chamber, wherein the screw pump is arranged such that a suction side of the screw chamber is connected with an intake path from an oil sump of the combustion engine, and a pressure side of the screw chamber is connected with a feed path to moving parts of the combustion engine. The lubrication oil conveying system is characterised in particular in that the screw pump is driven by the combustion engine; and towards the suction side of the screw chamber, an adjustable throttle valve is provided by means of which a flow cross-section of the intake path is gradually limitable between an opened position and a closed position. Therefore, the oil pressure in a combustion engine is, for the first time, adjusted by suction throttling in connection with a screw pump.

Abstract: A temperature regulating device for regulating the temperature of a drive battery of an electric drive in a vehicle by means of a temperature regulating circuit. The temperature regulating circuit has a battery flow-through section in thermal contact with the drive battery; a cooling flow-through section in thermal contact with an ambient heat exchanger; and piping sections for connecting the temperature regulating circuit and the temperature regulating device. The temperature regulating device includes: an electric pump assembly with a pump housing for circulating a liquid heat transfer medium; electric heating means for heating the heat transfer medium; and temperature regulation control means having a pump control section; and a heating control section; A heating flow-through section for the temperature regulating circuit is in thermal contact with the electric heating means, and is arranged inside the pump housing.

Abstract: A mechanically driven coolant pump having a controllable delivery rate for a main delivery circuit from a first outlet and for a secondary delivery circuit from a second outlet of the coolant pump. The coolant pump comprising a hydraulic control circuit which is derived from the coolant pump and has an input-side auxiliary pump, an output-side proportional valve, and a regulating slide for limiting the flow of the main delivery circuit. A cylindrical portion of the regulating slide can be axially displaced in the pump chamber in order to radially shield the pump impeller by means of a pressure in the hydraulic control circuit counter to a restoring force. A regulating valve is connected to the hydraulic control circuit to limit the flow of the secondary delivery circuit, wherein actuations of the regulating slide and of the regulating valve are associated with pressure ranges in the hydraulic control circuit.

Abstract: An electrical coolant pump, preferably for use as an additional water pump in a vehicle, is characterised in that a radial bearing of the shaft, which is arranged between the pump impeller and the rotor, is provided by means of a radial sintered sliding bearing having a defined porosity lubricated by coolant, and a shaft seal is arranged between the radial sliding bearing and the motor chamber, wherein at least one coolant flow channel with a predetermined depth is provided in the sintered sliding bearing in an axial direction extending from the end of the sintered sliding bearing on the side of the pump chamber.

Abstract: An electric coolant pump is used as an auxiliary water pump in a vehicle. The pump includes radial mounting of the shaft (4) is provided by means of a coolant-lubricated radial sliding bearing (41) arranged between the pump impeller (2) and the rotor (32). A dry-running electric motor (3) with a radially inner stator (31) and a radially outer rotor (32) is accommodated in a motor chamber (13) separated from the pump chamber (10). A shaft seal (5) is between the radial sliding bearing (41) and the motor chamber (13). The rotor (32) is bell-shaped with an inner surface facing the shaft seal (5) and being fixed to the shaft seal (5) to axially overlap with the shaft (4). The motor chamber (13) has an opening to the atmosphere, which is closed by a liquid-tight pressure equalization membrane (6) that is permeable to vapor.

Abstract: An electric coolant pump (1) conveys cooling fluid in order to cool a combustion engine of a vehicle. The electric coolant pump (1) has a pump impeller (2) for accelerating the coolant to be conveyed, a rotor shaft (3) on which the pump impeller (2) is fixed, an electric motor (6), having a stator (8) and a rotor (7), for driving the rotor shaft (3). A control circuit (13) controls the electric motor (6). A pump housing (10) accommodates at least the control circuit (13) and the electric motor (6). The coolant to be conveyed is able to flow through the pump housing (10). The coolant to be conveyed thereby flows around the stator (8), the rotor (6) and the control circuit (13).

Abstract: An electrically driven gerotor pump has a gerotor which comprises a stationary outer gerotor element with an inner toothing that is axially delimited by two chamber walls, wherein each chamber-forming root section of the inner toothing is paired with a pressure valve which is connected to the outlet. The gerotor also comprises an inner gerotor element with an outer toothing which is guided in the outer gerotor element in a circumferential manner on an eccentric section of the shaft and is mounted in a rotatable manner so as to mesh with the inner toothing.

Abstract: The invention relates to a seal device for hydraulically sealing off sealing faces of components which are movable relative to each other in a translational or rotational relative movement, said device having a tough, elastic sealing device seal body (1) with at least one sliding face (10) which is assigned to at least one sealing face of one of the components, a plurality of cavities (2; 2a, 2b; 22) being formed in the at least one sliding face (10), said cavities having closed contours which are delimited from one another towards the sliding face (10). The contours of the cavities (2; 2a, 2b; 22) have a longer dimension (x) in a contour longitudinal direction (X) and a shorter dimension (y) in a contour transverse direction (Y).

Abstract: The invention relates to an oil-free vacuum pump for evacuating gaseous media, comprising: an electric motor which drives a shaft; a pump housing having a pump chamber, as well as an inlet and an outlet; a prismatic displacement piston which is accommodated in the pump chamber such that it is bidirectionally active and can be moved on a reciprocal working section; and at least one pressure valve which releases an outflow of a gaseous medium out of the pump chamber through the outlet and blocks an inflow into the pump chamber. The displacement piston has a slot into which a drive force of the shaft is introduced via a crankpin by means of a rolling bearing.

Abstract: A gerotor pump includes a rotor wherein only on the face wall of the rotor that lies adjacent to a pressure kidney and a suction kidney, a lubrication surface inclined in the direction of rotation of the rotor, relative to the surface plane of the face wall of the rotor, is disposed on each tooth, in each instance, over its tooth height, either starting directly in the center tooth plane or starting “offset” ahead of the center tooth plane in the direction of rotation of the rotor, which surface is formed from a level surface or multiple, always level partial surfaces that follow one another, which enclose an angle of inclination relative to the surface plane of the face wall of the rotor, in each instance, which angle lies in the range from 0.2° to 7°, in each instance.

Abstract: A coolant pump for an internal combustion engine (ICE) in a vehicle with a central engine control, having a pump shaft that drives an impeller for pumping a coolant. An axial piston pump operated via a wobble plate on a rear face of the impeller, conducts part of the pumped coolant away to a hydraulic circuit that extends from the axial piston pump via a proportional valve back to the pumped coolant and has a branch-off between the axial piston pump and the proportional valve as the hydraulic actuator. A regulating slide valve adjusts coolant volume flow of depending on pressure in the hydraulic circuit. A sensor detects a parameter characteristic of the coolant volume flow and outputs an actual value signal. A dedicated pump control controls the proportional valve based on the actual value signal of the sensor and a desired value signal of the central engine control.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electric coolant pump for a coolant circuit of an internal combustion engine, having a radially accelerating pump impeller and a spiral housing section of a pump housing. A control circuit is arranged about an inlet on the side of the pump housing opposing the electric engine, and is accommodated in an ECU chamber. An open side of the pump chamber and an open side of the ECU chamber are separated by a heat-exchange cover, which is opened into the pump chamber at a mouth of the inlet, wherein a material from which the ECU chamber is made has a lower heat conductivity than a material from which the heat-exchange cover is made.

Abstract: A coolant pump for an internal combustion engine (ICE) in a vehicle with a central engine control, having a pump shaft that drives an impeller for pumping a coolant. An axial piston pump operated via a wobble plate on a rear face of the impeller, conducts part of the pumped coolant away to a hydraulic circuit that extends from the axial piston pump via a proportional valve back to the pumped coolant and has a branch-off between the axial piston pump and the proportional valve as the hydraulic actuator. A regulating slide valve adjusts coolant volume flow of depending on pressure in the hydraulic circuit. A sensor detects a parameter characteristic of the coolant volume flow and outputs an actual value signal. A dedicated pump control controls the proportional valve based on the actual value signal of the sensor and a desired value signal of the central engine control.

Abstract: A gerotor pump includes a rotor wherein only on the face wall of the rotor that lies adjacent to a pressure kidney and a suction kidney, a lubrication surface inclined in the direction of rotation of the rotor, relative to the surface plane of the face wall of the rotor, is disposed on each tooth, in each instance, over its tooth height, either starting directly in the center tooth plane or starting “offset” ahead of the center tooth plane in the direction of rotation of the rotor, which surface is formed from a level surface or multiple, always level partial surfaces that follow one another, which enclose an angle of inclination relative to the surface plane of the face wall of the rotor, in each instance, which angle lies in the range from 0.2° to 7°, in each instance.

Abstract: A coolant pump for an internal combustion engine (ICE) in a vehicle with a central engine control, having a pump shaft that drives an impeller for pumping a coolant. An axial piston pump operated via a wobble plate on a rear face of the impeller, conducts part of the pumped coolant away to a hydraulic circuit that extends from the axial piston pump via a proportional valve back to the pumped coolant and has a branch-off between the axial piston pump and the proportional valve as the hydraulic actuator. A regulating slide valve adjusts coolant volume flow of depending on pressure in the hydraulic circuit. A sensor detects a parameter characteristic of the coolant volume flow and outputs an actual value signal. A dedicated pump control controls the proportional valve based on the actual value signal of the sensor and a desired value signal of the central engine control.

Abstract: A controllable coolant pump driven by a belt pulley for internal combustion engines is equipped with a valve slide. A seal is disposed on the outer edge of the wall plate between the plate and the outer cylinder of the valve slide. At least one additional flow outlet opening is disposed on the pump housing, the outlet volume stream of which openings can be additionally controlled, aside from the controllable volume stream that exits from the flow exit opening. The flow outlet opening from which the controllable outlet volume stream exits is connected with an outflow opening disposed near the rear wall of the valve slide, in the pump chamber rear wall, via an outflow channel. The outflow opening is enclosed by a ring seal disposed in the pump chamber rear wall, which enters into operative engagement with the valve slide in its rear end position.

Abstract: The invention is based on the task of developing an adjustable coolant pump driven by the engine, which pump does not require any outside energy for pressure and/or volume stream regulation, guarantees great failure safety, and is supposed to guarantee optimal warm-up of engines having great engine outputs relative to the displacement, which require coolant pumps having a very large design.

Abstract: A shaft bearing with a shaft seal, in particular for water pumps in motor vehicles, arranges a special radial shaft seal inside the outer bearing ring. The seal is made up of a stable rear wall arranged at a certain distance from the water-side of the shaft seal and fixed in the outer bearing ring, a secondary lip seal adjacent to a water-side of the rear wall, a support body solidly fixed in position in the outer bearing ring and adjacent to the secondary lip seal and a primary lip seal fixed in position adjacent to the support body on the water side, i.e. on the pressure side and opposite to the support body as well as opposite the outer bearing ring. Leakage openings are also arranged in the outer bearing ring, between the water-sided shaft seal of the shaft bearing and the rear wall which is arranged at a distance therefrom.