Patents by Inventor Harold Bitzer

Harold Bitzer 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: 11855513
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electric drive (10), in particular an electric motor of an engine-cooling fan or of an ABS/ESP of a motor vehicle, comprising an electric connector (22) and a housing (12), in the interior (14) of which a drive assembly (16) is arranged. The electric connector (22) has at least one electric line (41) contacting the drive assembly (16), an opening (20) is formed on the housing (12) for guiding through the electric line (41), and a seal (24) is arranged in the region of the housing opening (20). The electric line (41) has a first portion (50) and a second portion (52), the first portion (50) having a conductor (44) mid a sheath (48) encasing the conductor (44), and the second portion (52) being formed as an exposed conductor (44), the electric connector (22) having a sleeve-like element (42) in which the second portion (52) is arranged at least in part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Harald Merz, Harold Bitzer
  • Patent number: 10992200
    Abstract: An electric motor (1) comprising an armature (10) having a plurality of teeth (20), and slots (30) configured between the teeth (20), at least one winding (40), which is constituted by a winding conductor (42), wherein at least part of the winding (40) is accommodated within one of the slots (30), a first guide (52) and a second guide (52), respectively having a spacer (56) and a guide slot (54), configured within the slot (30), wherein a winding conductor section (44) of the winding conductor (42) is guided at least in one of the guide slots (54), and wherein the spacer (56) separates the winding conductor section (44) from the winding (40), wherein the free ends of the spacer (56) and the openings in the guide slots (54) are configured in a mutually facing arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Harold Bitzer
  • Publication number: 20210083549
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electric drive (10), in particular an electric motor of an engine-cooling fan or of an ABS/ESP of a motor vehicle, comprising an electric connector (22) and a housing (12), in the interior (14) of which a drive assembly (16) is arranged. The electric connector (22) has at least one electric line (41) contacting the drive assembly (16), an opening (20) is formed on the housing (12) for guiding through the electric line (41), and a seal (24) is arranged in the region of the housing opening (20). The electric line (41) has a first portion (50) and a second portion (52), the first portion (50) having a conductor (44) mid a sheath (48) encasing the conductor (44), and the second portion (52) being formed as an exposed conductor (44), the electric connector (22) having a sleeve-like element (42) in which the second portion (52) is arranged at least in part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Harald Merz, Harold Bitzer
  • Patent number: 10574113
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electric motor (1) comprising —a fitting (10) having a plurality of teeth (20) and grooves (30) formed between the teeth (20), —at least one winding (40) formed by a winding conductor (42), wherein at least a part of the winding (40) extends within one of the grooves (30), —an insulating element (50) which electrically separates the winding (40) from the fitting (10). It is proposed according to the invention that the insulating element (50) comprises a guide means (52) which is formed within one of the grooves (30), the guide means (52) guiding a winding conductor section (44) of a winding conductor (42) and the winding conductor (42) being guided out of the fitting (10) by the guide means (52).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Harold Bitzer, Peter Hauser, Ralf Lehmann, Wolfgang Glueck
  • Publication number: 20180159399
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electric motor (1) comprising—a fitting (10) having a plurality of teeth (20) and grooves (30) formed between the teeth (20),—at least one winding (40) formed by a winding conductor (42), wherein at least a part of the winding (40) extends within one of the grooves (30),—an insulating element (50) which electrically separates the winding (40) from the fitting (10). It is proposed according to the invention that the insulating element (50) comprises a guide means (52) which is formed within one of the grooves (30), the guide means (52) guiding a winding conductor section (44) of a winding conductor (42) and the winding conductor (42) being guided out of the fitting (10) by the guide means (52).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Inventors: Harold Bitzer, Peter Hauser, Ralf Lehmann, Wolfgang Glueck
  • Publication number: 20180109158
    Abstract: An electric motor (1) comprising an armature (10) having a plurality of teeth (20), and slots (30) configured between the teeth (20), at least one winding (40), which is constituted by a winding conductor (42), wherein at least part of the winding (40) is accommodated within one of the slots (30), a first guide (52) and a second guide (52), respectively having a spacer (56) and a guide slot (54), configured within the slot (30), wherein a winding conductor section (44) of the winding conductor (42) is guided at least in one of the guide slots (54), and wherein the spacer (56) separates the winding conductor section (44) from the winding (40), wherein the free ends of the spacer (56) and the openings in the guide slots (54) are configured in a mutually facing arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventor: Harold Bitzer
  • Publication number: 20170126093
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electric motor (1), in particular for a motor vehicle fan, comprising rotor guide means (25) and a housing element (10). According to the invention, said housing element (10) is designed as a deep-drawn body part and carrier means (40) are provided for maintaining the rotor guide means (25). Said carrier means (40) are arranged on the housing element (10), in particular connected thereto, preferably secured thereon, and are designed as, in particular as a sintered part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventor: Harold Bitzer
  • Patent number: 9062591
    Abstract: Fan system (1) for a cooling system of an internal combustion engine, having an electric machine (2) and an impeller wheel (3), wherein the electric machine (2) comprises a pole housing (20), which is rotatably mounted by means of a bearing (21, 22), wherein the impeller wheel (3) is coupled to the pole housing (20) of the electric machine (2), wherein the impeller wheel (3) has a first engagement element (40), and the pole housing (20) has a second engagement element (50) which corresponds to the first engagement element (40), wherein the two engagement elements (40, 50) engage one in the other in such a way that they form a bearing seat (212) for the bearing (21) of the pole housing (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Harold Bitzer, Andreas Mueller, Michael Schermann
  • Patent number: 8979580
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fluid-sealing electric motor connector (1) for a housing (70) of an electric motor (7), in particular an electric motor (7) of an engine cooling fan or of an ABS/ESP system of a motor vehicle, comprising a connector housing (10), which can be attached to the housing (70) and by means of which at least one electrical line (80) can be connected to the electric motor so as to be fluid-sealed to the electric motor (7), wherein the connector housing (10) can be fastened to the housing (70) by means of a locking spring (50) or a catch mechanism, wherein the fluid-sealing electric motor connector (1) can be fastened to the housing (70) in an easily detachable manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Harold Bitzer, Katja Klingenfuss
  • Patent number: 8901793
    Abstract: The invention relates to a magnet carrier (1) for a pole housing (10) for fastening magnets (111, 112) to a pole housing wall (101), wherein the magnet carrier (1) can be arranged between at least two magnets. The magnet carrier (1) comprises a positioning element (12, 22, 32, 42, 52) and a securing element (13, 23, 33, 43, 53). The positioning element (12, 22, 32, 42, 52) can be arranged on the pole housing wall (101). Furthermore, the positioning element (12, 22, 32, 42, 52) is designed to fix the at least two magnets (111, 112). The securing element (13, 23, 33, 43, 53) can be arranged on the pole housing wall (101) with the pole housing wall opposite of the positioning element (12, 22, 32, 42, 52). The securing element (13, 23, 33, 43, 53) is designed to be in engagement with the positioning element (12, 22, 32, 42, 52) and to thereby hold the positioning element (12, 22, 32, 42, 52) on the pole housing wall (101).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Harold Bitzer
  • Publication number: 20130319353
    Abstract: Fan system (1) for a cooling system of an internal combustion engine, having an electric machine (2) and an impeller wheel (3), wherein the electric machine (2) comprises a pole housing (20), which is rotatably mounted by means of a bearing (21, 22), wherein the impeller wheel (3) is coupled to the pole housing (20) of the electric machine (2), wherein the impeller wheel (3) has a first engagement element (40), and the pole housing (20) has a second engagement element (50) which corresponds to the first engagement element (40), wherein the two engagement elements (40, 50) engage one in the other in such a way that they form a bearing seat (221) for the bearing (21) of the pole housing (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Inventors: Harold Bitzer, Andreas Mueller, Michael Schermann
  • Publication number: 20130088106
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fluid-sealing electric motor connector (1) for a housing (70) of an electric motor (7), in particular an electric motor (7) of an engine cooling fan or of an ABS/ESP system of a motor vehicle, comprising a connector housing (10), which can be attached to the housing (70) and by means of which at least one electrical line (80) can be connected to the electric motor so as to be fluid-sealed to the electric motor (7), wherein the connector housing (10) can be fastened to the housing (70) by means of a locking spring (50) or a catch mechanism, wherein the fluid-sealing electric motor connector (1) can be fastened to the housing (70) in an easily detachable manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Harold Bitzer, Katja Klingenfuss
  • Patent number: 8400031
    Abstract: The invention provides an electrical connection for an electric motor having a casing which houses a drive device, embodied especially a stator in a casing interior. The drive device is contacted via a conductor, embodied especially in the form of a pin. The conductor is guided from the exterior into the interior of the casing via a casing opening. A cylindrical sealing element is provided on the casing opening in the casing interior to seal the conductor from the casing opening. The sealing element is provided with a continuous collar and a through-opening through which the conductor extends and in which the conductor is sealed in the through-opening via at least one radial sealing lip that is formed in the through-opening on the sealing element and that rests on a surface of the conductor. The conductor is then sealed towards the housing via at least one axial sealing lip that is formed on the collar and that rests on an inside of the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Harold Bitzer
  • Publication number: 20120206005
    Abstract: The invention relates to a magnet carrier (1) for a pole housing (10) for fastening magnets (111, 112) to a pole housing wall (101), wherein the magnet carrier (1) can be arranged between at least two magnets. The magnet carrier (1) comprises a positioning element (12, 22, 32, 42, 52) and a securing element (13, 23, 33, 43, 53). The positioning element (12, 22, 32, 42, 52) can be arranged on the pole housing wall (101). Furthermore, the positioning element (12, 22, 32, 42, 52) is designed to fix the at least two magnets (111, 112). The securing element (13, 23, 33, 43, 53) can be arranged on the pole housing wall (101) with the pole housing wall opposite of the positioning element (12, 22, 32, 42, 52). The securing element (13, 23, 33, 43, 53) is designed to be in engagement with the positioning element (12, 22, 32, 42, 52) and to thereby hold the positioning element (12, 22, 32, 42, 52) on the pole housing wall (101).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Harold Bitzer
  • Publication number: 20110012451
    Abstract: The invention provides an electrical connection for an electric motor having a casing which houses a drive device, embodied especially a stator in a casing interior. The drive device is contacted via a conductor, embodied especially in the form of a pin. The conductor is guided from the exterior into the interior of the casing via a casing opening. A cylindrical sealing element is provided on the casing opening in the casing interior to seal the conductor from the casing opening. The sealing element is provided with a continuous collar and a through-opening through which the conductor extends and in which the conductor is sealed in the through-opening via at least one radial sealing lip that is formed in the through-opening on the sealing element and that rests on a surface of the conductor. The conductor is then sealed towards the housing via at least one axial sealing lip that is formed on the collar and that rests on an inside of the casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2008
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Inventor: Harold Bitzer
  • Patent number: 7388313
    Abstract: An armature for a direct current motor, in particular for a permanent-magnet-excited DC motor, has an armature body, with armature teeth joined in one piece together via a short-circuit ring and offset by equal circumferential angles, each with a tooth neck for receiving an armature winding and with a tooth head that protrudes past the tooth neck in the circumferential direction. For an axial lengthening of the armature body that is simple and economical to produce, one preferably stacked flux-conducting element each, whose profile corresponds to the tooth head profile, is placed on the axially pointing end faces of the tooth heads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gerald Roos, Werner Grosch, Harold Bitzer, Guenter Kastinger, Wilhelm Braun, Gabriele Pfeiffer, Jochen Oser, Markus Rauschning
  • Publication number: 20070222332
    Abstract: A winding support for an electrical machine embodied as a lamination packet and has a plurality of pole teeth each having a pole foot about which a winding can be disposed. Beginning at the face ends of the lamination packet, the pole feet have an increasing width. The result is graduations in the tooth width, and thus the tooth cross section is “rounded” and hence smaller in circumference. The winding wire thus becomes shorter, and as a result the resistance drops.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2005
    Publication date: September 27, 2007
    Inventors: Gerald Roos, Harold Bitzer, Markus Rauschning
  • Publication number: 20070176510
    Abstract: An armature for a direct current motor, in particular for a permanent-magnet-excited DC motor, has an armature body, with armature teeth joined in one piece together via a short-circuit ring and offset by equal circumferential angles, each with a tooth neck for receiving an armature winding and with a tooth head that protrudes past the tooth neck in the circumferential direction. For an axial lengthening of the armature body that is simple and economical to produce, one preferably stacked flux-conducting element each, whose profile corresponds to the tooth head profile, is placed on the axially pointing end faces of the tooth heads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2005
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventors: Gerald Roos, Werner Grosch, Harold Bitzer, Guenter Kastinger, Wilhelm Braun, Gabriele Pfeiffer, Jochen Oser, Markus Rauschning
  • Patent number: 6732631
    Abstract: A needle bearing for use in a pump has an inner race, embodied as an eccentric sleeve, needles, and an outer race with rims oriented radially inward on both of its face ends, of which one rim is intended to secure the axial position of the needles and the outer race by engagement with the inner race, in that a rim fits over one end face of the inner race. In the pump unit, the needle bearing is disposed with an axial gap from a roller bearing on a shaft of a drive motor. The rim of the outer race engages this gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2004
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Harold Bitzer, Joerg Eigenmann, Wilhelm Braun, Alexander Bareiss
  • Patent number: 6215215
    Abstract: An electric motor having a cup-shaped motor housing for containing a shaft and a motor cover that closes the motor housing. The motor cover has a peripheral section extending essentially radial to the shaft and an inner section extending essentially axial to the shaft. The inner section at least partially, radially encloses a bearing for supporting the shaft. The electric motor is fastened to a connecting block in order to be connected to a subassembly to be rotated by the shaft. The peripheral section of the motor cover and the connecting block touch each other on at least one support. The motor housing and the connecting block are axially clamped in relation to each other by means of a clamping element. The peripheral section of the motor cover is axially connected to the motor housing in detent fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2001
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Huber, Harold Bitzer, Wilhelm Braun