Patents by Inventor Norbert Geyer
Norbert Geyer 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).
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Publication number: 20200263645Abstract: A roller tappet for a high-pressure fuel pump or for a valve drive of an internal combustion engine is provided. The tappet can be guided in a direction of a longitudinal axis thereof in a housing receptacle and can be driven displaceably by a cam shaft of the internal combustion engine. The tappet includes a tappet body which has a guide cylinder, and a cup-shaped sleeve supported axially and radially on the guide cylinder. The sleeve includes a bearing surface for the pump piston or a valve drive element, and the guide cylinder includes a rotatable roller mounted on support flanks, by means of which roller the roller tappet can be supported on the internal combustion engine camshaft. The sleeve has, at its end region facing away from the bearing surface, a ring-shaped shoulder for radial support and an end ring for axial support on the guide cylinder.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2018Publication date: August 20, 2020Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Thomas Hußenether, Norbert Geyer
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Patent number: 10626795Abstract: A bearing assembly for a compressor of an internal combustion engine. The bearing assembly includes an outer ring having an outer cylindrical surface with a first and a second axial section. A positioning component which has a recess with an inner circumference is provided, wherein the positioning component surrounds the outer ring in a region of the second axial section and the positioning component and the outer ring are arranged displaceably relative to one another. To provide an alternative anti-rotation element and an alternative axial stop, at least one sub-section of an inner circumference of the recess of the positioning component is non-uniformly spaced from the center point and the cross-section of the second axial section around the circumference has at least one sub-section with a radius that varies around the contour of the outer cylindrical surface (radius variation).Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2016Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Carina Reinwald, Norbert Geyer
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Publication number: 20200095901Abstract: A tappet is proposed, for a fuel pump or for a valve timing gear, in each case of an internal combustion engine, comprising a hollow-cylindrical housing, which includes two separate portions lying in line one after the other, which are fitted together in a region of their facing inner faces and are permanently connected to one another by way of a joint. The tappet has a roller on its driving side and an abutment for a follower part on its driven side, which abutment is formed on a separate insert. The abutment is radially supported on the housing in the fitted-together region of the two portions, wherein the insert has a middle annular collar, from which on the one hand a sleeve portion protrudes in the direction of the driving side and on the other hand a dome-like attachment protrudes towards the driven side.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2018Publication date: March 26, 2020Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Norbert Geyer, Alexander Fichtner, Georg Backert, Michael Dotterweich, Matthias Reichel
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Publication number: 20200041018Abstract: A roller tappet, in particular for a high-pressure fuel pump, is provided that is guided in the direction of the longitudinal axis thereof in a housing receptacle and is driven translatably in the longitudinal direction by cams of a camshaft. The roller tappet has a tappet body. This tappet body has a tappet skirt, a pump piston contact point (9), and a rotatably mounted roller (4), by which the roller tappet is supported on the camshaft. The tappet body has a guide cylinder (1), which is mounted in the housing receptacle and on which the roller (4) is supported, and a cup-shaped sleeve (7) having the pump piston contact point (9), which cup-shaped sleeve is supported in the guide cylinder (1) by a radial ring (8). A cylindrical constriction (5) is formed in the guide cylinder (1) in the region of the radial ring support.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2018Publication date: February 6, 2020Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventor: Norbert GEYER
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Publication number: 20200032678Abstract: This disclosure relates to a roller tappet, in particular for a high-pressure fuel pump. The roller tappet is guided in a direction of a longitudinal axis thereof in a housing receptacle and is driven in the longitudinal direction by cams of a camshaft. The roller tappet has a tappet body. The tappet body has a tappet skirt, a pump piston contact seat, and a rotatably mounted roller, by means of which the roller tappet is supported on the camshaft. The tappet body has a guide cylinder, which is mounted in the housing receptacle and on which the roller is mounted, and a cup-shaped sleeve having the pump piston contact point, which cup-shaped sleeve is supported axially and radially in the guide cylinder.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2018Publication date: January 30, 2020Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventor: Norbert Geyer
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Publication number: 20180320593Abstract: A bearing assembly for a compressor of an internal combustion engine. The bearing assembly includes an outer ring having an outer cylindrical surface with a first and a second axial section. A positioning component which has a recess with an inner circumference is provided, wherein the positioning component surrounds the outer ring in a region of the second axial section and the positioning component and the outer ring are arranged displaceably relative to one another. To provide an alternative anti-rotation element and an alternative axial stop, at least one sub-section of an inner circumference of the recess of the positioning component is non-uniformly spaced from the center point and the cross-section of the second axial section around the circumference has at least one sub-section with a radius that varies around the contour of the outer cylindrical surface (radius variation).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2016Publication date: November 8, 2018Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Carina Reinwald, Norbert Geyer
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Patent number: 10119430Abstract: A transmission element in the form of a rocker arm (1) or swinging arm for a reciprocating piston internal combustion engine is provided that can be actuated on one side by a cam of a camshaft and on the other side is in active connection with at least one gas exchange valve directly or via an intermediate arrangement of a valve bridge. The transmission element has a hydraulic valve lash compensation element, also called “HVA”, and the hydraulic valve lash compensation element is arranged at a force transmission end of and attached to the transmission element.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2016Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KGInventors: Marco Junker, Norbert Geyer
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Patent number: 9938945Abstract: A plunger (1) for a high-pressure fuel pump is proposed, having a housing (2) which is similar to a tube and in the drive-side annular face (3) of which two flats (5) lie diametrically opposite one another which are indented from an outer shell (4) of the housing (2) and in which a pin (7) is mounted which supports a roller, wherein an inner shell (8) of the housing (2) is penetrated axially below the roller by a separate bridge piece (9), the lower face (10) of which acts as a rest for a pump piston in the case of an output-side annular face (11) of the housing (2), wherein the bridge piece (9) is fixed against rotation about an axial line of the housing (2) and is configured as a thick-walled longitudinal beam, with the result that an area (13) in the manner of a cylindrical segment remains between the longitudinal walls (12) of said longitudinal beam and the inner shell (8) of the housing (2), wherein, in order to fix the bridge piece (9) against rotation about the axial line of the housing (2), in the cirType: GrantFiled: May 24, 2013Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KGInventors: Stefan Dorn, Norbert Geyer
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Patent number: 9932864Abstract: A valve train for a reciprocating piston internal combustion engine with a transmission element in the form of a rocker arm (1) or pivot arm that can be actuated, on one hand, at least indirectly by a cam of a camshaft and is in active connection, on the other hand, through an intermediate connection of a valve bridge (4), with gas-exchange valves (7, 8). The valve bridge (4) has hydraulic valve lash compensation elements (“HVAs”) allocated to each gas-exchange valve (7, 8).Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2016Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Marco Junker, Norbert Geyer, Steffen Gumbrecht
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Patent number: 9599081Abstract: A tappet (1) for a fuel injection pump, having a tube-like housing (2), which accommodates a roller (4) for the running on a periodic lift generator inside the inner lateral surface (5) thereof in the region of a first ring end (3). This roller has axle stumps (7) projecting from the end faces (6) of the roller, by which stumps the roller sits in recesses (8) in the housing (2), wherein the housing (2) is penetrated axially by a bridge piece (9) underneath the roller (4), the underside (11) of which bridge piece, which faces a second ring end (10) of the housing (2), acts as a rest for a plunger following part.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2013Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Stefan Dorn, Norbert Geyer
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Publication number: 20160369660Abstract: A valve train for a reciprocating piston internal combustion engine with a transmission element in the form of a rocker arm (1) or pivot arm that can be actuated, on one hand, at least indirectly by a cam of a camshaft and is in active connection, on the other hand, through an intermediate connection of a valve bridge (4), with gas-exchange valves (7, 8). The valve bridge (4) has hydraulic valve lash compensation elements (“HVAs”) allocated to each gas-exchange valve (7, 8).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2016Publication date: December 22, 2016Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Marco Junker, Norbert Geyer, Steffen Gumbrecht
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Publication number: 20160369659Abstract: A transmission element in the form of a rocker arm (1) or swinging arm for a reciprocating piston internal combustion engine is provided that can be actuated on one side by a cam of a camshaft and on the other side is in active connection with at least one gas exchange valve directly or via an intermediate arrangement of a valve bridge. The transmission element has a hydraulic valve lash compensation element, also called “HVA”, and the hydraulic valve lash compensation element is arranged at a force transmission end of and attached to the transmission element.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2016Publication date: December 22, 2016Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Marco Junker, Norbert Geyer
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Patent number: 9482118Abstract: A tappet (1) having a tube-like housing (2), which in the region of one of the end faces (3) thereof receives a roller (5) running on a pin (4) and serving for contact with a periodic stroke generator. The pin (4) is mounted via the ends (6) thereof in a flat (8) that is indented from an outer surface (7) of the housing, wherein in the housing (2), axially beneath the roller (5), means (9) are provided for an at least indirect bearing of a tappet follower member. The housing (2) is formed of an extruded profile having profiling on the inner surface (10) of the housing (2), wherein, viewed in a circumferential direction of the housing (2), at least twothick-wall profile segments and two thin-wall profile segments (11, 12) are present. The thick-wall profile segments lie diametrically opposite each other and the thin-wall profile segments lie diametrically opposite each other, and the flat portions (8) are located in the thick-wall profiled segments (11).Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2014Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Stefan Dorn, Norbert Geyer
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Patent number: 9410518Abstract: A tappet including a housing having a drive-side annular end face at which two flat sections, recessed in relation to an outer shell of the housing, lie diametrically opposite one another, and a bolt supporting a roller mounted in said sections is provided. A bridge section protrudes through an inner shell of the housing, and the output-side end face of said bridge section acts as a contact point for a tappet follower part, the bridge section lying against undersides of said flat sections and being held by a ring that is arranged in the inner shell, and sits in a groove of the inner shell so as not to protrude radially out of said groove, at least two tabs projecting radially inwards from an upper side of the ring, and the bridge section fixed thereupon in the direction of the output-side annular end face.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2013Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Norbert Geyer, Stefan Dorn
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Patent number: 9291247Abstract: A roller tappet intended for use a) in a high pressure fuel pump; b) in a valve train of an internal combustion engine; c) in an engine such as an axial piston engine or a radial piston engine; or d) generally for a pump/compressor of an axial piston type or of a radial piston type.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2013Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Stefan Dorn, Norbert Geyer
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Publication number: 20150192098Abstract: A tappet (1) for a fuel injection pump, having a tube-like housing (2), which accommodates a roller (4) for the running on a periodic lift generator inside the inner lateral surface (5) thereof in the region of a first ring end (3). This roller has axle stumps (7) projecting from the end faces (6) of the roller, by which stumps the roller sits in recesses (8) in the housing (2), wherein the housing (2) is penetrated axially by a bridge piece (9) underneath the roller (4), the underside (11) of which bridge piece, which faces a second ring end (10) of the housing (2), acts as a rest for a plunger following part.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2013Publication date: July 9, 2015Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Stefan Dorn, Norbert Geyer
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Publication number: 20150159610Abstract: A plunger (1) for a high-pressure fuel pump is proposed, having a housing (2) which is similar to a tube and in the drive-side annular face (3) of which two flats (5) lie diametrically opposite one another which are indented from an outer shell (4) of the housing (2) and in which a pin (7) is mounted which supports a roller, wherein an inner shell (8) of the housing (2) is penetrated axially below the roller by a separate bridge piece (9), the lower face (10) of which acts as a rest for a pump piston in the case of an output-side annular face (11) of the housing (2), wherein the bridge piece (9) is fixed against rotation about an axial line of the housing (2) and is configured as a thick-walled longitudinal beam, with the result that an area (13) in the manner of a cylindrical segment remains between the longitudinal walls (12) of said longitudinal beam and the inner shell (8) of the housing (2), wherein, in order to fix the bridge piece (9) against rotation about the axial line of the housing (2), in the cirType: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2013Publication date: June 11, 2015Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Stefan Dorn, Norbert Geyer
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Publication number: 20150152826Abstract: A tappet (1) for a high-pressure fuel pump of an internal combustion engine is provided, having a tube-like housing (2), in the case of the drive-side annular face (3) of which two flat sections (5) are indented from an outer lateral surface (4) of the housing (2) lying diametrically opposite one another, in which flats a pin (7) is mounted which supports a roller (6), wherein, axially below the roller (6), an inner lateral surface (8) of the housing (2) is penetrated by a separate bridge piece (9), a driven-side end face (10) of which acts as a rest for a tappet follower part and which bears axially firstly in the direction of the drive-side annular face (3) against undersides (13) of the flat sections (5) and secondly in the direction of an output-side annular face (11) of the housing (2) by way of a securing ring (12) which is fixed on the inner shell (8), wherein the bridge piece (9) is held by the securing ring (12) such that it is clamped axially and radially without play in the housing (2).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2013Publication date: June 4, 2015Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Stefan Dorn, Norbert Geyer
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Patent number: 8875676Abstract: A roller tappet (1) is proposed for a high-pressure fuel pump of an internal combustion engine, having a housing (2), in the case of the drive-side end (3) of which two surfaces (5) which lie diametrically opposite one another and are depressed by an outer shell (4) of the housing (2) are applied with in each case one receptacle (6), in which surfaces (5) a pin (8) is mounted which carries a cam roller (7), wherein an inner shell (9) of the housing (2), axially below the cam roller (7) as viewed in the direction remote from the drive, is penetrated by a bridge piece (10), the output-side end (11) of which has a rest (12) for a tappet following part, wherein the outer shell (4) of the housing (2) which is non-stepped as least as far as possible apart from the surfaces (5) is provided as a closed circumferential ring (14), as viewed in the drive direction immediately above upper sides (13) of the surfaces (5), which upper sides (13) run through the housing (2) in the manner of chords, which closed circumferentiType: GrantFiled: April 20, 2011Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Norbert Geyer, Stefan Dorn
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Patent number: 8863716Abstract: The invention relates to a tappet (1) for a high-pressure fuel pump or for a valve drive of an internal combustion engine, comprising a housing (2) which has a cam run-on surface (4) on the drive side (3) thereof, wherein an output side (5) of the housing (2) rests on a lower face (6) of a bridge piece (8) that projects through an inner shell (7) of the housing (2), wherein an anti-turn lug (11) protrudes from the outer shell (10) of the housing (2) and is arranged in a window (9) in the latter, wherein said lug is substantially present as an upright body similar to a semi-cylinder in the region thereof protruding from the housing (2), and the outer surface (15) of said lug, in cross section, results in an ogival curve made up of two or more circular arcs (16).Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2011Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Stefan Dorn, Norbert Geyer, Karsten Kucht