Patents by Inventor Gilles Hebrard

Gilles Hebrard 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: 20190338776
    Abstract: A screw compressor for a utility vehicle includes at least one housing and at least one air-oil separator holder arranged at the housing. The air-oil separator holder is manufactured from a non-corrosive material. A relief valve is provided, which is arranged in the air-oil separator holder and by which the interior of the screw compressor can be relieved of pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Applicant: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Gilles HEBRARD, Jean-Baptiste MARESCOT, Joerg MELLAR, Thomas WEINHOLD
  • Publication number: 20190309747
    Abstract: A screw compressor for a utility vehicle has a rotor housing, in which screw rotors of the screw compressor are arranged, a housing cover, and an air outlet pipe arranged on an output side of the housing cover and having a riser. The air outlet pipe has at least one oil separator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicant: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Gilles HEBRARD, Jean-Baptiste MARESCOT, Joerg MELLAR, Thomas WEINHOLD
  • Publication number: 20190241169
    Abstract: An arrangement of screws for a screw compressor for a utility vehicle includes at least one female screw and at least one male screw. The female screw and the male screw each have teeth that engage with one another. The teeth of the female screw have a roll-off tooth flank which is provided for rolling-off a tooth flank of the male screw. The roll-off tooth flank has a convexly rounded roll-off tip region in the tip region, which has a first radius, wherein a tooth base is provided between two neighboring teeth of the female screw, which is connected to the roll-off tip region via a flat transition region. The tooth base between two teeth of the female screw is substantially concavely rounded and has a second radius, wherein the second radius is approx. 2.5 to 3.5 times greater than the first radius.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventors: Gilles HEBRARD, Jean-Baptiste MARESCOT, Joerg MELLAR, Thomas WEINHOLD
  • Publication number: 20190211938
    Abstract: A minimum pressure valve for a screw compressor for a vehicle, in particular a utility vehicle, is provided with a housing; a valve insert opening which is formed in the housing; a valve insert which is inserted into the valve insert opening and has a valve piston bore; a valve piston, a valve piston section of which is guided in the valve insert in a movable manner in the valve piston bore; at least one fluid inlet channel; and at least one fluid outlet channel. The fluid inlet channel has at least one valve seat on the inlet channel end which faces the valve piston, wherein the valve piston can be set against the valve seat in order to close the minimum pressure valve such that the fluid inlet channel and the fluid outlet channel are separated in a closed position of the valve piston. The valve seat has a valve seat diameter dA, and the valve piston section has a valve piston section diameter dB. The ratio of the valve piston section diameter dB to the valve seat diameter dA ranges between ca. 0.6 and ca.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Gilles HEBRARD, Jean-Baptiste MARESCOT, Joerg MELLAR, Thomas WEINHOLD
  • Publication number: 20190211825
    Abstract: A screw compressor system for a utility vehicle has at least one screw compressor, at least one screw compressor drive with an output shaft, at least one driven screw with a screw drive shaft section. The output shaft and the screw drive shaft section are essentially coaxial.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Gilles HEBRARD, Jean-Baptiste MARESCOT, Joerg MELLAR, Thomas WEINHOLD
  • Publication number: 20190211826
    Abstract: A screw compressor for a utility vehicle has a housing, wherein, in the operationally ready and assembled state of the screw compressor, an oil sump is provided in the housing. A magnet is arranged in the oil sump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Gilles HEBRARD, Jean-Baptiste MARESCOT, Joerg MELLAR, Thomas WEINHOLD
  • Publication number: 20190211821
    Abstract: An arrangement for a screw compressor of a utility vehicle has at least one housing part of the screw compressor and a baffle. The housing component has at least three baffle receptacle recesses, wherein at least one baffle receptacle recess is arranged outside an imaginary line connecting the two other baffle receptacle recesses. The baffle has at least three fingers which, in the assembled state of the arrangement, are each inserted in a baffle receptacle recess associated with the respective finger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Gilles HEBRARD, Jean-Baptiste MARESCOT, Joerg MELLAR, Thomas WEINHOLD
  • Publication number: 20190203718
    Abstract: A screw compressor for a utility vehicle includes a housing. The housing is filled with oil. At least one pair of compressor screws are mounted in the housing and serve to compress air supplied to the screw compressor. In the assembled state, a heat exchanger is directly placed onto and installed on the housing, by which heat exchanger the temperature of the oil contained in the housing can be controlled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Gilles HEBRARD, Jean-Baptiste MARESCOT, Joerg MELLAR, Thomas WEINHOLD
  • Publication number: 20190203712
    Abstract: A system for a utility vehicle has a screw compressor and an electric motor. The electric motor drives the screw compressor. The electric motor is connected to the screw compressor by a flange which has at least one cooling connection, and a cooling channel is provided in the flange.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Gilles HEBRARD, Jean-Baptiste MARESCOT, Joerg MELLAR, Thomas WEINHOLD, Hakan CARLSSON
  • Publication number: 20190017498
    Abstract: A piston compressor for compressing a gas, which optionally can be disconnected from a drive device by a clutch, has an inlet valve, which is arranged between an inlet line for gas to be compressed and a compression chamber of the piston compressor, and an outlet valve, which is arranged between the compression chamber of the piston compressor and an outlet line for compressed gas. The piston compressor includes a closing device which closes the outlet line with respect to the compression chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: Gilles HEBRARD, Wolfgang KIENER, Jean-Baptiste MARESCOT, Joerg MELLAR, Michel SAINTIVE, Thomas WEINHOLD
  • Publication number: 20180372087
    Abstract: A piston compressor is provided for compressing a gas, which optionally can be disconnected from a drive device by way of a clutch. The piston compressor has an inlet valve, which is arranged between an inlet line for gas to be compressed and a compression chamber of the piston compressor, and an outlet valve, which is arranged between the compression chamber of the piston compressor and an outlet line for compressed gas. The piston compressor has a venting device, by which compressed gas can be led out of the compression chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: Gilles HEBRARD, Wolfgang KIENER, Jean-Baptiste MARESCOT, Joerg MELLAR, Michel SAINTIVE, Thomas WEINHOLD
  • Publication number: 20180291883
    Abstract: A compressor has a crankcase in which a crankshaft is rotatably mounted in a crankspace. The crankcase contains at least one cylinder space in which a piston, mounted eccentrically on the crankshaft by way of a connecting rod, can be driven in reciprocating motion. The crankshaft is connected, via a gearing having a modulus m, to a drive source, wherein the gear wheel arranged on the crankshaft engages with the gear wheel on the drive source. The axis of rotation of the crankshaft is offset with respect to the center axis of the cylinder space by an amount dl which is a whole multiple of m/2. The center axis of the cylinder space is understood as the axis which proceeds from the center point of the base area of the cylinder space, perpendicular to this base area, and along which the piston moves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Applicant: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventor: Gilles HEBRARD
  • Publication number: 20180266407
    Abstract: An arrangement has a housing, which has a receptacle or an opening, and a cylindrical insert, which is mounted in the receptacle or opening via at least one interference fit. The insert has a peripheral groove, and therefore the insert is both fastened against the housing and sealed against the housing in a liquid- and/or gas-tight manner by way of material of the insert and/or housing that has been pressed into the groove during the assembly. The material of the insert and/or of the housing is displaced in the case of an interference fit. The groove provides a defined location to which the material can preferably flow. After the assembly has been concluded, the insert is locked against the housing by the material located in the groove. At the same time, the material acts as a seal between the insert and the housing. A separate seal in the region of the press fit becomes dispensable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventor: Gilles HEBRARD
  • Patent number: 10001120
    Abstract: A compressor crankcase assembly is provided for an air compressor. In one example, a compressor crankcase assembly includes a crankcase made of a material comprising at least 50% by weight aluminum and a crankcase liner disposed within the crankcase. The crankcase has a protrusion that is at least partially disposed within the groove of the crankcase liner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC
    Inventors: Edward F. Hoban, Gilles Hebrard
  • Publication number: 20170218934
    Abstract: A crankcase assembly for a reciprocating machine is provided in which a crankcase having at least one cylinder with a wet cylinder liner arranged therein. A cylinder head for charging and discharging pressurized gas is mounted on the crankcase and a cylinder head gasket for preventing leakage of pressurized gas out of the cylinder is arranged between the crankcase and the cylinder head and is running circumferentially spaced from the inner wall of the cylinder liner. A circumferential coolant channel is formed between the inner crankcase wall and an outer wall of the cylinder liner, wherein a lower sealing means is arranged between the inner crankcase wall and the cylinder liner on the crankshaft side of the coolant channel for preventing leakage of coolant fluid. An upper sealing means is arranged between the inner crankcase wall and the cylinder liner on the cylinder head side of the coolant channel for preventing leakage of coolant fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Gilles HEBRARD, Jean-Baptiste MARESCOT, Joerg MELLAR, Thomas WEINHOLD, Thomas FRANZ, Jeffrey GEITHER, Edward HOBAN, Justin HUFFMAN, Nicholas PETEK
  • Publication number: 20170058889
    Abstract: A compressor crankcase assembly is provided for an air compressor. In one example, a compressor crankcase assembly includes a crankcase made of a material comprising at least 50% by weight aluminum and a crankcase liner disposed within the crankcase. The crankcase has a protrusion that is at least partially disposed within the groove of the crankcase liner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Edward F. Hoban, Gilles Hebrard
  • Patent number: 8807314
    Abstract: A clutch actuator controlled by a pressure medium, in particular for a compressor clutch of a commercial vehicle has an actuating piston displaceably disposed in a housing in an axial direction. An end of the actuating piston is supported in the axial direction on an elastic membrane, sealing a first region of the housing off from a second region of the housing. The elastic membrane includes a raised area on the side opposite the actuating piston. The clutch actuator can be used in a compressor clutch for a commercial vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventor: Gilles Hebrard
  • Patent number: 8512007
    Abstract: A compressor system and method of operating same are provided for the compressed air supply of a commercial vehicle, wherein the compressor system includes a compressor for compressed air generation, a transmission for transmitting torque from a drive motor to the compressor, a clutch for disconnecting the connection between compressor and drive motor, and a control unit for opening and closing the clutch. The control unit is capable of opening the clutch in the event a settable maximum allowed compressor speed or motor speed of the drive motor is exceeded and to close the open clutch temporarily when the motor speed is greater than the maximum allowed motor speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventor: Gilles Hebrard
  • Patent number: 8496450
    Abstract: A compressor system supplies compressed air to a commercial vehicle. The compressor system includes a compressor, a clutch, and a hydraulic pump and can be driven by way of a drivetrain. The compressor can be completely disconnected from a driving engine by way of the clutch. The drivetrain encompasses a geared drive mechanism which allows the hydraulic pump to be driven, and the clutch is arranged between the geared drive mechanism and the compressor. A method for operating the compressor system is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Joerg Mellar, Gilles Hebrard
  • Patent number: 8371828
    Abstract: An air compressor of a pneumatic system in a vehicle includes a piston pump that is fitted with at least one piston and a crankshaft which are located in a crankcase. At least part of the crankcase is cast from aluminum and includes an integrally formed coolant duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Gilles Hebrard, Olivier Herbiet