Patents by Inventor Thomas Eckerle

Thomas Eckerle 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: 11927192
    Abstract: A pump apparatus has a rotor shaft, a pump impeller connected to the rotor shaft, at least one axial bearing which rotatably supports the rotor shaft at a side facing the pump impeller, a magnetic pump stator, a magnetic pump rotor which is connected to the rotor shaft, a containment can which extends between the stator and the rotor, and at least one central support element which is mounted in the region of the pump impeller. The pump apparatus has an elastomer disk which is arranged between the support element and the axial bearing. The stator and the rotor are arranged with an axial offset with respect to each other. The stator and the rotor are provided as a result of the axial offset to produce an axial force F in the direction of the elastomer disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Johannes Walter, Claudius Muschelknautz, Gerald Zierer, Hannes Butscher, Pierre Werny, Ralf Herrmann, Thomas Eckerle
  • Publication number: 20230315601
    Abstract: Computing systems methods, and non-transitory storage media are provided for obtaining information regarding an incident, generating a representation of the information, augmenting the representation with additional contextual information, determining a response to address the incident, and implementing the response or transmitting the determined response to a separate computing system that implements the response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Brandon Mac, Joseph Sayegh, Thomas Eckerle, Zachary Romanow
  • Publication number: 20230019571
    Abstract: The invention is based on a pump apparatus, in particular a magnetic coupling pump apparatus, having a rotor shaft (16), having a pump impeller (22) which is securely connected to the rotor shaft (16), having at least one axial bearing (18) which rotatably supports the rotor shaft (16) at a side facing the pump impeller (22), having a magnetic pump stator (42), having a magnetic pump rotor (44) which is connected to the rotor shaft (16) in a rotationally secure manner, having a containment can (30) which extends between the magnetic pump stator (42) and the magnetic pump rotor (44) and which at least partially closes a central pump space (28), and having at least one central support element (32) which is mounted in the region of the pump impeller (22) in a rotationally secure manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Johannes Walter, Claudius Muschelknautz, Gerald Zierer, Hannes Butscher, Pierre Werny, Ralf Herrmann, Thomas Eckerle