Patents by Inventor Andreas Weh

Andreas Weh has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20180056955
    Abstract: A method for producing a hydraulic block of a slip-controlled hydraulic non-muscular-energy vehicle brake system. For the milling operation, the hydraulic block is clamped in two setups and a pump bore, into which the hydraulic block is clamped in the second setup, is produced in the hydraulic block in the first setup, thereby making it possible to machine five sides of the hydraulic block in the second setup free of clamping arrangement. Also described is a related hydraulic block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Andreas Weh, Juergen Tandler, Matthias Mayr, Thomas Geisenberger, Wolfgang Frodl
  • Patent number: 9868423
    Abstract: A pressure generating apparatus for a braking system of a motor vehicle, a flange embodied on a second housing component adjacent to a first housing component, which flange is congruent with a flange-shaped portion of the first housing component, is mounted on the flange-shaped portion of the first housing component, and the second housing component completely surrounds a transmission gear set of the first housing component. Also described is a hydraulic assemblage for interacting with the pressure generating apparatus, to a braking system for a motor vehicle, and to a method for installing a braking system for a motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Weh, Juergen Tandler, Matthias Mayr
  • Patent number: 9835151
    Abstract: A hydraulic device includes a housing and a closure element arranged thereon. The closure element is connected to the housing by torsional welding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Berger, Andreas Weh, Holger Fischer, Bernd Lutz
  • Patent number: 9764725
    Abstract: A device is provided for operating a brake system of a motor vehicle having an electric motor, which is configured for driving a pressure generation unit in order to generate hydraulic pressure; a housing block of a hydraulic unit, which is able to be connected to the pressure generation unit and the brake system of the motor vehicle; a control unit for controlling the electric motor; and a rotary position sensor of the electric motor, the electric motor being fixed in place on a first side of the housing block of the hydraulic unit, and the control unit being fixed in place on a second side, situated opposite from the first side, of the housing block of the hydraulic unit, and the rotary position sensor of the electric motor being situated in such a way that it detects a rotational frequency and/or an angular position of a rotor of the electric motor and is connected to the control unit by an opening developed in the housing block of the hydraulic unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Bernd Lutz, Andreas Weh, Matthias Mayr, Juergen Tandler
  • Publication number: 20170259799
    Abstract: A piston assembly for a pressure-generating device of a braking system of a motor vehicle, including a piston, which is at least partially insertable into an opening formed in a hydraulic unit of the braking system and is axially displaceable therein, and including a ball screw for axially displacing the piston. The piston is connected to the axially displaceable spindle of the ball screw in such a way that the piston moves along with the axially displaceable spindle of the ball screw, the piston enclosing at least one first portion of the nut in a first, retracted position of the piston and the piston enclosing at most one second portion of the nut in a second, extended position of the piston, and the first portion is larger than the second portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventors: Andreas Weh, Matthias Mayr, Juergen Tandler
  • Patent number: 9688256
    Abstract: A hydraulic block for a hydraulic unit is configured to control the brake pressure in a slip-controlled vehicle brake system. Multiple pressure sensors are received in receptors that are defined by the hydraulic block and that are configured to place each of the pressure sensors in hydraulic contact with a respective brake circuit. The pressure sensors are configured to detect wheel brake pressures in the corresponding brake circuits. The hydraulic contact between the pressure sensors and the brake circuits is enabled by a common duct that includes a shut-off element configured to block a pressure medium connection between the brake circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Weh
  • Publication number: 20170166177
    Abstract: A pressure generating apparatus for a braking system of a motor vehicle, a flange embodied on a second housing component adjacent to a first housing component, which flange is congruent with a flange-shaped portion of the first housing component, is mounted on the flange-shaped portion of the first housing component, and the second housing component completely surrounds a transmission gear set of the first housing component. Also described is a hydraulic assemblage for interacting with the pressure generating apparatus, to a braking system for a motor vehicle, and to a method for installing a braking system for a motor vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: Andreas Weh, Juergen Tandler, Matthias Mayr
  • Publication number: 20170137005
    Abstract: A hydraulics block having a piston-cylinder unit that can be driven by an electric motor via a gear in order to generate a brake pressure for a hydraulic non-muscular-energy vehicle brake system. An annular cavity is provided which encloses a piston of the piston-cylinder unit inside a cylinder, as a leakage chamber which communicates with a reservoir. Possible drag leakage is carried away in this manner. An end shield situated between the electric motor and the gear prevents lubricant or leakage from entering the electric motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Andreas Weh, Matthias Mayr
  • Publication number: 20170130792
    Abstract: A pressure generator for a hydraulic power braking system. The pressure generator is designed to have a ball thread drive and a planetary gear, a spindle nut of the ball thread drive forming a planetary carrier for planetary wheels of the planetary gear. A sun wheel is non-rotatably fixed to a hollow shaft of an electric hollow shaft motor and together with the hollow shaft rotatably supported. The electric hollow shaft motor surrounds the ball thread drive and the planetary gear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventors: Juergen Tandler, Matthias Mayr, Andreas Weh
  • Publication number: 20170072925
    Abstract: A hydraulic block for a hydraulic assembly of a slip control system for a hydraulic vehicle brake system includes a mount for a brake circuit pressure sensor in a flat side of the hydraulic block. The mount for the brake circuit pressure sensor is configured to measure pressure in at least one brake circuit of the vehicle brake system and communicates with a connecting line through a transverse line and a vertical line. The connecting line connects a mount for a brake pressure build-up valve to a mount for an isolating valve. The hydraulic block further includes a mount for a master brake cylinder pressure sensor and a mount for a brake circuit pressure sensor for each brake circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Matthias Mayr, Andreas Weh
  • Patent number: 9592808
    Abstract: A pump housing has at least two inlet valve openings located in a first row, at least two outlet valve openings located in a subsequent second row, and at least one high-pressure switching valve opening and at least one changeover valve opening located in a further subsequent fourth row. At least one connection for a wheel pressure sensor is positioned in a third row between the second and fourth rows. At least one connection for a master cylinder pressure sensor is positioned in a fifth row following the fourth row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Schlitzkus, Matthias Mayr, Andreas Weh
  • Patent number: 9586564
    Abstract: A pressure generator for a hydraulic vehicle brake system includes a piston cylinder unit with a cylinder and a piston, a ball screw drive, an electric hollow-shaft motor which surrounds and is configured to drive the ball screw drive, and a planetary gear set configured to transmit a rotational movement of the hollow-shaft motor to the ball screw drive. The planetary gear set includes a planetary carrier and an internal gear which are respectfully connected via pint-type positive locking connections to a spindle nut of the ball screw drive and a static tubular force transmitter. The locking connections are configured to enable connections between parts via the respective parts being brought together axially in a hollow shaft of the hollow-shaft motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Weh, Matthias Mayr
  • Publication number: 20170030445
    Abstract: A rotation/translation converter gear unit having a helical gear and a planetary gear for driving the helical gear. A spindle nut of the helical gear forms a planet carrier for planet wheels of the planetary gear. Situated between the planetary gear and the helical gear is an axial friction bearing, that at the same time forms a centering element which centers a sun wheel of the planetary gear between the planet wheels. In particular, the rotation/translation converter gear unit is used to drive a piston of a pressure generator for a brake control of a hydraulic vehicle brake system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: Andreas Weh, Matthias Mayr, Andreas Ohm, Andreas Deberling
  • Publication number: 20170021813
    Abstract: A hydraulic block for brake control of an automotive hydraulic braking system, including a main brake cylinder bore. A permanent magnet is connected to the main brake cylinder piston via a rod, so that the permanent magnet moves together with the main brake cylinder piston. A Hall sensor with which a position and/or a stroke of the main brake cylinder piston is measurable is situated in a signal range of the permanent magnet in a sensor bore in the hydraulic block transversely to the rod.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventors: Juergen Tandler, Matthias Mayr, Andreas Weh
  • Patent number: 9517757
    Abstract: A hydraulic block for a hydraulic assembly of a slip-regulated, hydraulic vehicle brake system, comprises a first plurality of receivers aligned in a first row that are each configured to fluidly connect to a respective brake pressure, and a second plurality of receivers aligned in a parallel second row that are each configured to fluidly connect to a respective brake pressure reduction valve. The second row is spaced from the first row in a first direction. The hydraulic block further comprises a first further receiver that fluidly connects to a brake master cylinder pressure sensor. The first further receiver is located perpendicularly offset from the first row in a second direction opposite the first direction and within a plane extending between two of the first plurality of receivers and between two of the second plurality of receivers and that is outside of a center plane defined by the hydraulic block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Schlitzkus, Juergen Tandler, Matthias Mayr, Andreas Weh
  • Publication number: 20160280197
    Abstract: A hydraulic block for a hydraulic unit of a brake controller of a hydraulic vehicle brake system is configured to fit with hydraulic components such as solenoid valves of the brake controller. The hydraulic block is manufactured by 3D printing, which enables considerably more complex line routing than manufacture by machining.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Matthias Mayr, Dieter Pflaum, Andreas Weh
  • Patent number: 9404514
    Abstract: A hydraulic block for a hydraulic unit of a slip-controlled hydraulic vehicle brake system includes a row of receptacles for brake pressure buildup valves and a row of receptacles for brake pressure reduction valves arranged parallel to the row of receptacles for the brake pressure buildup valves. The hydraulic block further includes installation spaces for damper chambers arranged between the receptacles for the brake pressure buildup valves and the brake pressure reduction valves to allow space-saving accommodation of damper chambers. The installation spaces emerge at longitudinal sides of the hydraulic block and run parallel to the rows of receptacles for the brake pressure buildup valves and the brake pressure reduction valves. The installation spaces for the damper chambers viewed from a front side are arranged below the receptacles for the brake pressure buildup valves and the brake pressure reduction valves, close to a rear side of the hydraulic block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Weh
  • Publication number: 20160144836
    Abstract: A sensor device for detecting a displacement of a master brake cylinder piston of a master brake cylinder situated on and/or in a hydraulic unit includes: a sensor element; an evaluation electronics system; a first molded part on or in which the at least one sensor element is situated, the first molded part including at least one first electrical contact element; and a second molded part. The at least one first electrical contact element contacts at least one second electrical contact element of the second molded part which is at least partially introduced into the second opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Inventors: Matthias MAYR, Bernd Lutz, Juergen Tandler, Andreas Weh
  • Publication number: 20160107627
    Abstract: A device is provided for operating a brake system of a motor vehicle having an electric motor, which is configured for driving a pressure generation unit in order to generate hydraulic pressure; a housing block of a hydraulic unit, which is able to be connected to the pressure generation unit and the brake system of the motor vehicle; a control unit for controlling the electric motor; and a rotary position sensor of the electric motor, the electric motor being fixed in place on a first side of the housing block of the hydraulic unit, and the control unit being fixed in place on a second side, situated opposite from the first side, of the housing block of the hydraulic unit, and the rotary position sensor of the electric motor being situated in such a way that it detects a rotational frequency and/or an angular position of a rotor of the electric motor and is connected to the control unit by an opening developed in the housing block of the hydraulic unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventors: Bernd LUTZ, Andreas WEH, Matthias MAYR, Juergen TANDLER
  • Publication number: 20160084261
    Abstract: In a pump housing, in block form, of a vehicle brake system, having a top side which is manufactured to final dimensions and a bottom side which is manufactured to final dimensions, the final dimensions of the top side and of the bottom side are obtained by means of a non-cutting deformation process starting from a blank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: Wolfgang Frodl, Matthias Mayr, Andreas Weh