Patents by Inventor Bernd Obertrifter

Bernd Obertrifter 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).

  • Patent number: 6408977
    Abstract: A hydraulic steering system, which is used, in particular, for a mobile working machine, and has a steering unit that can be actuated by a first steering member, which is constructed as a steering wheel, that has a first fluid connection, which is connected to a pressure chamber of a steering motor, the pressure chamber being subjected to pressure for a steering movement to the left, and that has a second fluid connection, which is connected to a pressure chamber of the steering motor, the pressure chamber being subjected to pressure for a steering movement to the right, and which has a control valve that can be actuated by a second steering member, which is constructed in the manner of a joystick, and likewise has fluid connections that are connected to the pressure chambers of the steering motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: Mannesmann Rexroth AG
    Inventors: Bernd Obertrifter, Dieter Roth
  • Patent number: 6048177
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for the output regulation of at least one variable displacement pump (1), delivering into a working line, driven by a motor, through adjustment of its displacement by means of a setting device (7) biased in the direction of maximum displacement and which can be acted upon with a setting pressure (20), having a regulation valve (18) associated with the setting device (7), which regulation valve can be acted upon by a counter-pressure corresponding to the working pressure in the working line, whereby the regulation valve (18) responds when the control pressure is greater than the counter-pressure, and so regulates the setting pressure action on the setting device (7) in the direction of a reduction of the displacement of the variable displacement pump (1) that the product of working pressure and output is constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2000
    Assignee: Brueninghaus Hydromatik GmbH
    Inventors: Mikko Erkkilae, Felix zu Hohenlohe, Karl-Heinz Vogl, Bernd Obertrifter
  • Patent number: 5138837
    Abstract: For a load independent control of a plurality of simultaneously actuable hydraulic users, a throttle valve (pressure compensator) is assigned to the control valve of each user at a location downstream with respect to the metering orifice formed by said control valves; said throttle valve is subjected in opening direction to the pump pressure and in closing direction, via a shuttle valve, either to a load pressure of the respective user or to a pressure which is determined by the highest load pressure occurring for one of said users. Said highest load pressure which is reported by a shuttle valve chain is supplied as control pressure to a pressure reducing valve, the input side thereof being connected with the pressure line of the pump and the output side thereof being connected to control lines leading to the throttle valves assigned to the individual control valves and to the control line for the pump control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1992
    Assignee: Mannesmann Rexroth GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Obertrifter, Armin Stellwagen