Patents by Inventor Thomas Weickert

Thomas Weickert 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: 9200646
    Abstract: A control arrangement for supplying pressure medium to a plurality of consumers. A supply metering orifice and an individual pressure compensator are associated with each consumer of the plurality of consumers. The individual pressure compensator is adjusted via a central control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Weickert, Uwe Neumann, Jan Amrhein
  • Publication number: 20130167518
    Abstract: A control arrangement for supplying pressure medium to a plurality of consumers. A supply metering orifice and an individual pressure compensator are associated with each consumer of the plurality of consumers. The individual pressure compensator is adjusted via a central control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Weickert, Uwe Neumann, Jan Amrhein
  • Patent number: 8347617
    Abstract: A hydraulic two-circuit system (2, 4) for activating consumers (A1, B1; A2, B2; A3, B3) of a mobile unit, for example a track-laying unit, and an interconnecting valve arrangement (38), which is suitable for a two-circuit system (2, 4) of this type and via which the two circuits (2, 4) can be interconnected so as to add them together, are disclosed. According to the invention, the interconnecting valve arrangement has an interconnecting valve with two pressure connections (P1, P2), two LS input connections (LS1, LS2) and two LS output connections, wherein a valve body of the interconnecting valve is designed with four control surfaces, of which two control surfaces which act in one direction are acted upon by the highest load pressure (LS1) in the first circuit and by the pumping pressure (P2) in the second circuit, and the control surfaces acting in the other direction are acted upon by the highest load pressure (LS2) in the second circuit and by the pumping pressure (P1) in the first circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Weickert
  • Publication number: 20100037603
    Abstract: A hydraulic two-circuit system (2, 4) for activating consumers (A1, B1; A2, B2; A3, B3) of a mobile unit, for example a track-laying unit, and an interconnecting valve arrangement (38), which is suitable for a two-circuit system (2, 4) of this type and via which the two circuits (2, 4) can be interconnected so as to add them together, are disclosed. According to the invention, the interconnecting valve arrangement has an interconnecting valve with two pressure connections (P1, P2), two LS input connections (LS1, LS2) and two LS output connections, wherein a valve body of the interconnecting valve is designed with four control surfaces, of which two control surfaces which act in one direction are acted upon by the highest load pressure (LS1) in the first circuit and by the pumping pressure (P2) in the second circuit, and the control surfaces acting in the other direction are acted upon by the highest load pressure (LS2) in the second circuit and by the pumping pressure (P1) in the first circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2007
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Inventor: Thomas Weickert
  • Patent number: 6644025
    Abstract: A control arrangement to supply-pressure medium to at least two hydraulic consumers having a variable-displacement pump controlled according to required flow and the setting of which can be changed by a, pump controller as a function of highest load pressure of the actuated hydraulic consumers; two adjustable meter-in variable restrictors, a first of which is arranged between a feed line, which leads from the variable-displacement pump, and a first hydraulic consumer, and the second of which is arranged between the feed line and a second hydraulic consumer; and two pressure compensators, a first of which is connected downstream of the first meter-in variable restrictor and the second of which is connected downstream of the second meter-in variable restrictor, and the control piston of which can be acted on in opening direction by the pressure downstream of the associated meter-in variable restrictor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2003
    Assignee: Bosch Rexroth AG
    Inventors: Martin Oberhäusser, Thomas Weickert
  • Patent number: 6499296
    Abstract: A hydraulic circuit for controlling a consumer of a mobile work tool, wherein the pressure in supply and outlet lines towards the consumer is limited by means of pilot-controlled pressure control valves. The pilot control stage of these pressure control valves may be adjusted in accordance with a pilot control pressure corresponding to the load of the work tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignee: Mannesmann Rexroth AG
    Inventors: Thomas Weickert, Erich Adlon
  • Patent number: 6367365
    Abstract: An LUDV-circuit for controlling at least one of a lower-load consumer and a higher-load consumer is disclosed, wherein a metering orifice and a downstream pressure compensator for maintaining constant the pressure drop across the metering orifice constant are associated with each consumer. The pressure compensator of the lower-load consumer is associated with a bypass channel capable of being controlled open, whereby the pressure compensator of this consumer may be bypassed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2002
    Assignee: Mannesmann Rexroth AG
    Inventors: Thomas Weickert, Erich Adlon
  • Patent number: 6289675
    Abstract: The invention concerns a hydraulic control circuit in which the pressure medium conveyed by a hydraulic pump of variable delivery (10) is fed, in each case via a metering aperture (17, 31), as a priority to a first hydraulic consumer (14) and only secondly to a second hydraulic consumer (15). A priority control system is now produced without additional delivery losses and with sufficient amounts of pressure medium being conveyed in that the valve member (48) of the priority valve (45) can be acted upon in the closure direction of the connection between the first connection (46) and the second connection (47) by a pressure prevailing in a line section (13) upstream of the first metering aperture (17).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Assignee: Mannesmann Rexroth AG
    Inventors: Werner Herfs, Jacques Maffini, Thomas Weickert
  • Patent number: 5752384
    Abstract: The present invention proceeds from a control arrangement for at least two hydraulic consumers which has a positive displacement pump the setting of which is variable by a load-sensing regulator which can be acted on via a load-signaling line by the highest load pressure, on which a maximum-pressure and an output regulation are superimposed, two displaceable metering diaphragms a first one of which is connected between the positive displacement pump and a first hydraulic consumer and the second between the positive displacement pump and a second hydraulic consumer, and two pressure compensators a first one of which is arranged behind the first metering diaphragm and the second behind the second metering diaphragm and the regulating pistons of which can be acted on, in opening direction on a front side, by the pressure behind the corresponding metering diaphragm and in closing direction on the rear side by the pressure in the load-signaling line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1998
    Assignee: Mannesmann Rexroth AG
    Inventors: Martin Schmitt, Thomas Weickert