System Pump Structure Detail Patents (Class 303/116.4)
  • Patent number: 7828395
    Abstract: A regenerative brake system and a variable displacement pump/motor for use therein. Each cylinder of the pump/motor having a main piston and a second piston between which is defined a space for hydraulic fluid, and a resilient element acting on the second piston to bias it toward the main piston. Variable displacement is achieved by controlling a volume of pressurized fluid that is injected and exhausted between the main and second pistons. Brake, drive and neutral modes of operation of the pump/motor are achieved by controlling the timing (relative to a drive shaft phase) of the injection and exhaust of the fluid. Regeneration is achieved by storing pressurized fluid generated by the pump/motor in an accumulator in brake mode and using the stored pressurized fluid to power the pump/motor in drive mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Tonand Brakes Inc
    Inventor: Antonio Cannata
  • Patent number: 7823982
    Abstract: In one aspect, a brake pump assembly including a plurality of pairs of pumping elements configured in a horizontally opposed arrangement, and a rotatable eccentric assembly located between the pumping elements. The pairs of pumping elements abut the eccentric assembly and are reciprocally driven to provide an output of pressurized fluid. In another aspect, a brake pump assembly including a hydraulic block defining a piston bore, and a pumping element received in that bore. The pumping element includes a polymer piston, and a circumference of the polymer piston defines a high-pressure seal slideably engaging adjacent structure. In another aspect, a hydraulic block coupled to an electronic control unit, the hydraulic block including a plurality of pairs of pumping elements located in a horizontally opposed arrangement, and an embedded pressure sensor, the pressure sensor being adjacent to but vertically separated from the pumping elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Inventors: David F. Reuter, Jeffrey VonDerVellen, Brian F. Waller
  • Patent number: 7766626
    Abstract: A multipiston pump including a plurality of piston pumps hydraulically combined into at least two pump units are coupled on the intake side, but supply two separate hydraulic circuits of a vehicle brake system with pressure fluid. To reduce brake pedal pulsation the piston pumps are driven in phase-offset fashion. An eccentric unit comprising two spaced-apart cams rotated counter to one another, with the individual piston pumps being located in a number of sectional planes through the pump housing corresponding to the number of cams and locate the connecting conduits for hydraulically coupling the pump units are located in a region of the pump housing defined by the sectional planes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Carsten Pabst, Marc Micke, Matthias Hurst, Guy-Edward Michalski
  • Patent number: 7722133
    Abstract: A hydraulic brake system for a vehicle includes a brake having a wheel cylinder that applies a braking force to a wheel, and a pressurizing device. The pressurizing device pressurizes the brake liquid and includes a suction portion for sucking a brake liquid, and additionally includes an output portion connected to the wheel cylinder. A linear solenoid valve includes at least one housing, and is connected to the wheel cylinder and to the suction portion of the pressurizing device. The solenoid valve includes a valve portion having a reciprocating valve member and a valve seat opposed to the valve member. A biasing member biases the valve member in one direction and a solenoid applies a drive force to the valve member in an opposite direction. In addition, a hydraulic-pressure-decrease restraining device restrains a decrease of pressure of the brake liquid in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masakuni Suzuki, Tetsuya Miyazaki, Kumiko Akita, Takami Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 7690736
    Abstract: In a liquid pump for a braking system of a vehicle, one end of a piston is slidably inserted into a cylindrical space of a housing member, and a sliding ring is provided on the piston. A suction chamber is formed by an inner peripheral surface of the housing member, an outer peripheral surface of the piston and the sliding ring. An inner diameter “Dk” of the housing member is made larger than an inner diameter “Dc” of the cylindrical space. As a result, the volume of the suction chamber is increased, without making the piston smaller in its diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Advics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akihito Kusano
  • Publication number: 20100060074
    Abstract: In an inner wall surface of a casing, grooves are formed that correspond to end faces of an outer rotor and an inner rotor, and seal members are disposed within the grooves, the seal members presses against the end faces of the outer rotor and the inner rotor. Inclined portions are provided in sealing portions of resin members of seal members, the sealing portions covering a closed portion. With this configuration, an internal pressure in the closed portion causes the inclined portions to separate from an outer rotor and an inner rotor when a brake fluid pressure within the closed portion increases to the point that the brake fluid is excessively compressed, releasing the brake fluid that is inside the closed portion. It is therefore possible to prevent the brake fluid pressure from increasing excessively within the closed portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Applicants: ADVICS CO., LTD., NIPPON SOKEN, INC.
    Inventors: Takahiro YAMAGUCHI, Hiroyuki SHINKAI, Takutou TAKAHASHI, Kazunori UCHIYAMA, Naoki HAKAMADA
  • Patent number: 7656063
    Abstract: A rotor is accommodated in a yoke housing. Six magnets are arranged at equal intervals in the circumferential direction on the inner circumferential surface of the yoke housing so as to face the rotor. The core is generally cylindrical and includes an annular portion at an anti-output side and a balance at an output side. The magnets have six poles so as to effectively narrow a basal path width of the core in which the line of magnetic force concentrates most and magnetic saturation is likely to occur most. This reduces the diameter of the core. Therefore, the motor is effectively miniaturized in the axial direction and in the radial direction without complicating the formation steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: ASMO Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Naoyuki Tsukamoto
  • Publication number: 20090295220
    Abstract: A piston pump for conveying a hydraulic fluid in a vehicle braking system is described. The piston pump comprises at least one chamber having an inlet and an outlet for the hydraulic fluid. A piston can be moved in a guided manner in the chamber in order to convey the hydraulic fluid along a conveying path from the inlet to the outlet, the piston co-operating with an activation mechanism. A fluidic control element is arranged in the conveying path between the inlet and the outlet. A sealing element is further received in the chamber in order to seal the chamber in a fluid-tight manner relative to the activation mechanism. The piston is constructed so as to be able to be moved relative to the sealing element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2006
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Inventor: Helmut Gegalski
  • Publication number: 20090184570
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a drive unit for driving at least one hydraulic piston pump, which has a piston, of a vehicle brake system, having a motor shaft which can be rotatably driven. An eccentric is attached to the motor shaft for converting the rotational movement of the driven motor shaft into a translatory movement of the piston. A bearing is attached to the eccentric. In order to avoid transverse forces which result from the eccentricity and which act on the pump piston which is to be driven, the drive unit is provided with an element which absorbs transverse forces. Through the element, the transverse forces which are transmitted by the eccentric which and act at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the piston are absorbed. The element is guided so as to be longitudinally moveable in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the piston and is arranged at least partially between the bearing and the piston.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2007
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Inventors: Juergen Reiner, Urs Manderscheid, Andreas Huditz
  • Patent number: 7562944
    Abstract: A hydraulic regenerative braking system for a vehicle is provided. The system includes two hydraulic machines, each of which is disposed proximate a corresponding vehicle wheel. A transformer is in communication with each of the hydraulic machines, and with a pair of accumulators. Each of the hydraulic machines is operable as a pump, pumping fluid to at least one of the accumulators when the vehicle is braking. Each of the hydraulic machines is also operable as a motor, receiving pressurized fluid and transferring torque to the vehicle wheels. The transformer is operable to vary the pressure of the fluid received by the hydraulic machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Inventor: Frank H. Walker
  • Patent number: 7530647
    Abstract: A pump body includes a cylindrical first case for housing the plurality of rotary pumps, a second case located coaxially with the first case, and a disk spring located between the first case and the second case. In addition, a fixing means located at an entrance of the concave portion of a housing presses the second case in the insertion direction of the pump body and fixes the second case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Assignee: Advics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Yamaguchi, Takeshi Fuchida, Shigeki Torii, Takashi Sato, Hidemi Ikai, Yukio Ishikawa, Hiroyuki Shinkai
  • Patent number: 7530649
    Abstract: When a stroke of a manually operated braking member is equal to or smaller than a predetermined stroke, a master pressure chamber of a master cylinder is communicated with an atmospheric pressure reservoir, and an electromagnetic valve and a hydraulic pressure pump are controlled to supply the hydraulic pressure to wheel brake cylinders according to an amount of operation of the manually operated braking member detected by a braking operation detection device. An orifice is provided in a passage between the master pressure chamber and the atmospheric pressure reservoir, and a check valve is disposed in parallel with the electromagnetic valve to allow a flow of the brake fluid from the master cylinder to the wheel brake cylinders, and prohibit its reverse flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Assignee: Advics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akihito Kusano
  • Patent number: 7510163
    Abstract: A hydraulic unit is elastically supported by means of elastomer elements, through which bolts pass, on two legs of a mounting bracket that extend perpendicular to one another. The leg of the mounting bracket has recesses, open counter to the mounting direction of the unit, for receiving the elastomer element. With clamping means disposed on the bolt, the elastomer element is axially shortened and pressed against both the recess and side faces, located on either side of the recess, of the leg of the mounting bracket. With the shortened elastomer element, a positive and nonpositive engagement with the leg of the mounting bracket is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Schlitzkus, Rainer Schwarz, Andreas Weh
  • Patent number: 7448698
    Abstract: Pressure regulating reservoirs are positioned in an upper portion of a housing, and pumps are positioned below the pressure regulating reservoirs. More specifically, the pressure regulating reservoirs are positioned in an upper portion of the housing so as to provide installation space in a lower portion of the housing. This installation space is used for positioning the pumps, and as a result it is possible to locate the pumps as far as possible toward the bottom of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: Advics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Fumitoshi Koyama
  • Publication number: 20080265665
    Abstract: To allow boosting the actuating force even if the control electronics or the electric energy supply fails in a brake-by-wire system, a piston (8) which can be acted upon by two oppositely directed forces by way of an elastic element (6, 7) on the input side and by hydraulic pressure in the space (11) on the outlet side. An arrangement (14, 19, 15) renders the pressure-supplying module (9) controllable depending on the position of the piston (8) that results from the force application, in addition to the electric controllability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2006
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Inventor: Stefan Drumm
  • Patent number: 7422421
    Abstract: A reservoir chamber 33, which communicates with a vent passage 34 provided in an electric motor 11, is formed between a motor casing 20 of the electric motor 11 and a body 13 in which a drain port 59A, which communicates with the reservoir chamber 33, is provided with its external open end oriented downwardly, and a capacity of the reservoir chamber 33 below the vent passage 34 is set to become larger than a sum of a cooling contraction amount of air in the electric motor 11 and the reservoir chamber 33 which contracts in response to cooling by water covering the pump apparatus which has been warmed up under an operating environment and a pressurizing compression amount of air in the electric motor 11 and the reservoir chamber 33 which is compressed by a water pressure applied from the drain, port 59A when the pump apparatus is submerged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2008
    Assignee: Nissin Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Koji Sakai
  • Publication number: 20080191549
    Abstract: What is described is a pressure generator for a vehicle brake system and also a method for mounting said pressure generator in said vehicle brake system. The pressure generator possesses a modular construction consisting of a pump subassembly and a receiving housing for said subassembly. The housing is designed in such a way that it has at least one fluid connection which, when the pressure generator is in the mounted state, is connected to a fluid inlet or a fluid outlet on a cylinder block belonging to the pump subassembly. Said pump subassembly is preferably constructed as a multi-piston pump and may comprise an actuating unit for the asynchronous actuation of the pumping pistons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2005
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Applicant: LUCAS AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Wilfried Giering, Werner Seibert, Benedikt Ohlig, Leo Gilles, Josef Knechtges
  • Patent number: 7390174
    Abstract: A piston pump (10) for a hydraulic consumer of an electronically controlled vehicle brake system, carries a stepped piston (50, 50?) and centers a sealing assembly (26, 26?) which is retained in an axial direction Ax by a step (52, 52?) on the stepped piston (50, 50?), on the one hand, and is retained by a spring cage (53, 53?), on the other hand. The stepped piston (50, 50?) includes a plane support (54, 54?) for plane support legs (55a,b,c; 55a,b,c?) of the spring cage (53, 53?) The stepped piston (50, 50?) includes radially inwards, with respect to the support (54, 54?), a stepped bore (56, 56?), with the bore (56, 56?) accommodating centering legs (57a,b,c; 57a,b,c?) of the spring cage (53, 53?). Coaxially as well as inside the stepped bore (56, 56?), a spring-loaded valve member (59, 59?) of a non-return valve is arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co., oHG
    Inventors: Dieter Dinkel, Albrecht Otto, Georg Sonnenschein, Hans-Georg Zentgraf, Kristian Tarandek
  • Patent number: 7367788
    Abstract: A pump including a main body having a piston provided in a portion of the main body, the piston being configured to reciprocate linearly. A piston spring may be provided within the main body and configured to bias the piston toward an end of the main body. Further, a plurality of intake check valves may be positioned radially within the main body and configured to move in a direction generally perpendicular to the linearly reciprocating direction of the piston such that brake fluid is introduced into the main body. Additionally, the pump may include an exhaust check valve configured to exhaust brake fluid from an inside of the main body to an exterior of the main body by moving an exhaust check ball in the linearly reciprocating direction of the piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2008
    Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Young-Kyu Kim
  • Patent number: 7354117
    Abstract: In a liquid pressure control unit, a positive terminal of a power supply block is connected to a positive terminal of a motor block through a penetrating hole of a pump block. The power supply block is connected with the pump block, which serves as a power supply passage, via opposed male and female negative connectors. The female connector is connected to the male connector in the same direction as a direction in which the power supply block is connected to the pump block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukinori Otsuka, Kouji Numakura
  • Publication number: 20080036295
    Abstract: A brake hydraulic pressure control unit includes motors mounted on one end of a hydraulic block so as to be aligned along a vertical direction. Each motor drives one of two sets of pumps. Solenoid valves and an electronic control unit are provided at the other end of the hydraulic block. Half of the solenoid valves and other component parts, which form a first hydraulic circuit, are provided in a vertically elongated area on the left-hand side of the pump mounting portions, and the other half of the solenoid valves and other component parts, which form a second hydraulic circuit, are provided in a vertically elongated area on the right-hand side of the pump mounting portions, with the component parts of each of the first and second hydraulic circuits overlapping each other in the lateral direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2007
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Inventor: Moriharu Sakai
  • Patent number: 7322658
    Abstract: In order to produce a compact hydraulic unit for use in an electrohydraulic braking system, the invention discloses that a first accommodating bore for a first feeding device of a pump is passed through between valve accommodating bores of a first and second valve row, and in that second and third accommodating bores for the accommodation of second and third feeding devices of the pump ae passed through between valve accommodating bores; of a third valve row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co OhG
    Inventors: Axel Hinz, Hans-Dieter Reinartz, Albrecht Otto, Dieter Dinkel
  • Patent number: 7204565
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electrohydraulic assembly for an electronically controlled brake system with an accommodating member which includes accommodating bores for electrohydraulic valves, accommodating bores for hydraulic supply devices and an accommodating bore for at least one roller bearing, and with hydraulic channels and pressure fluid ports, as well as with an electric motor comprising a rotor with a shaft that is mounted with the roller bearing in the associated accommodating bore in the accommodating member and used to drive the supply devices, and with an electronic control unit being connected to the electric motor by means of a plug penetrating a through-bore in the accommodating member. The objective is to provide a safe and comfortable operating characteristics even in consideration of extreme environmental influences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Axel Hinz, Stefan A. Schmitt, Martin Baechle, Uwe Greiff, Ronald Kley, Michael Hitzel
  • Patent number: 7185956
    Abstract: A braking system including a pre-charge with a plurality of pumps disposed in parallel with respect to one another. The pumps can direct pressurized brake fluid to the brakes during a controlled braking maneuver. The pumps operate with offset operating cycles such that a first pump is drawing fluid while a second pump is pushing fluid to the brakes. The invention provides an embodiment having three pumps operated in parallel, wherein the pumps define operating cycles offset 120 degrees from one another. The invention also provides a separate master cylinder reservoir feed circuit to improve response of the system, especially cold weather response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: David F. Reuter, E. Wayne Lloyd, Richard L. Foster, Daniel N. Borgemenke
  • Patent number: 7158372
    Abstract: In an electronic control unit, a chassis is provided with a plate portion, and a circuit board is secured to a board-side attaching surface of the plate portion with a predetermined space secured relative to the plate portion. The chassis is further provided with a side wall protruding from the circumferential portion of the other surface of the plate portion and is mounted on a surface of a housing incorporating a device therein, with an end surface of the side wall being seated on the surface of the housing. A bus bar is fixed at a fixing portion thereof to the board-side attaching surface between the plate portion and the circuit board and is connected to a terminal of the device which is taken out from the housing. The bus bar is provided at plural free ends thereof with branch portions at which lead portions extend to be joined at end portions thereof to the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Advics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Sanada, Takao Tsunooka, Matsuhisa Tsuruta
  • Patent number: 7131707
    Abstract: A compact controlled braking system including a hydraulic control unit having a first housing and a motor positioned within the first housing and an electronic control unit connected to the hydraulic control unit, the electronic control unit having a second housing, wherein at least a portion of the motor is received within the second housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2006
    Assignee: Delphi Technolgies, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel N. Borgemenke, Joseph Allen Elliott, Earl Wayne Lloyd, Jerry Lee Newton, Steven F. Pfeifenberger, Dewey Frank Mort, David F. Reuter
  • Patent number: 7036892
    Abstract: An electric powered pump includes a pump body having a suction chamber, a discharge chamber and an accommodation concave portion for accommodating a pump rotor, a rotational shaft rotatably supported by the pump body, the pump rotor is fixed at a first end of the rotational shaft, a motor having a rotor including a magnet, an annular stator including a core and a coil, the rotor is fixed at a second end of the rotational shaft which is opposite to the first end of the rotational shaft, a motor housing having a hole shaped cylindrical space inside of the stator formed with the motor housing, the motor housing is fixed at the pump body to be positioned in the cylindrical space having a predetermined clearance relative to the rotor, a driver portion for driving the motor, a accommodation space formed at an end surface of the motor housing provided at a side of the second end of the rotational shaft, the accommodation space is configured to accommodate the driver portion, and a cover for covering the accommodatio
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2006
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigemitsu Suzuki, Motohisa Ishiguro, Mitsuru Terayama, Atsushi Unno, Hiroshi Kajino
  • Patent number: 7004552
    Abstract: This brake hydraulic control actuator increases ability to reserve the leaked brake fluid and degree of freedom for the structural layout in the actuator body. The bottom surface of the actuator body (10) having the cylinder bores (43) of the low pressure reservoirs (40) and (41) thereon is closed and sealed by the pot plate (20), and the pocket (23), which projects toward the direction to depart from the bottom surface, is formed in the pot plate (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Takumori, Makoto Hyodo
  • Patent number: 6957872
    Abstract: First and second pumps are integral in that the pumps are driven by a common motor. The first pump is driven in pumping motion by an eccentric disposed on the motor shaft and the second pump is driven in pumping motion by an end of the motor shaft. The first pump can be an ABS pump and the second pump can be a pre-charge pump. The first and second pumps can be disposed in a common block housing and the common block housing can define a fluid path extending from the outlet of the second pump to the inlet of the first pump. A third pump can be susbtantially similar to the first pump and be disposed on an opposite side of the shaft as the first pump. The third pump can be driven in pumping motion by the eccentric. A separate feed line can be directed from the reservoir of the brake system to the second pump to improve performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2005
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jamshid K. Moradmand, E. Wayne Lloyd
  • Patent number: 6955408
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling the brake system of a vehicle, in which pressure is built up and reduced in the wheel brakes by pulses having at least one changeable parameter. This at least one parameter is corrected as a function of at least one variable that influences the dynamics of the pressure change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Johannes Schmitt
  • Patent number: 6932439
    Abstract: A support structure for supporting a hydraulic unit of a brake system on a vehicle body is provided. The hydraulic unit has a housing and a motor attached to a lateral side surface of the housing. The hydraulic unit has a predetermined support width and is supported at two or more support positions on a vehicle body by way of resilient members. The support structure comprises a support member for supporting the hydraulic unit in such a manner as to allow a gravitational axis of the hydraulic unit to be disposed within the support width when viewed in a side elevation. A hydraulic unit arrangement and a method for supporting the hydraulic unit are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Chiharu Nakazawa
  • Patent number: 6869152
    Abstract: A hydraulic unit for an electronically controllable brake system of a vehicle includes a housing block with mounting faces for instance for an electric motor and an electronic control unit; a plurality of connections for hydraulically contacting the block; and installation chambers, for pump elements, valves, and damping devices. These damping devices are connected hydraulically downstream to the pump elements, in order to damp operation-caused pressure pulsations and noises. Installation chambers (18i-k) for the damping devices and the installation chambers (18a-h) of the valves extend to a common mounting face of the housing block intended for mounting the electronic control unit. The damping devices protrude past this mounting face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2005
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Weh, Tomoya Ideguchi, Nathan McCormick, Douglas Patterson
  • Publication number: 20040207254
    Abstract: A support structure for supporting a hydraulic unit of a brake system on a vehicle body is provided. The hydraulic unit has a housing and a motor attached to a lateral side surface of the housing. The hydraulic unit has a predetermined support width and is supported at two or more support positions on a vehicle body by way of resilient members. The support structure comprises a support member for supporting the hydraulic unit in such a manner as to allow a gravitational axis of the hydraulic unit to be disposed within the support width when viewed in a side elevation. A hydraulic unit arrangement and a method for supporting the hydraulic unit are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2004
    Publication date: October 21, 2004
    Applicant: UNISIA JECS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Chiharu Nakazawa
  • Patent number: 6799812
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a braking device comprising an assembled control mechanism wherein a first plug-in housing unit essentially containing the electronic components on one or more component support members, is plugged together with a block-shaped solid part on a first surface of the solid part for establishing a magnetic and electrical connection, with said solid part including magnetically operated hydraulic valves for the actuation of the brakes and hydraulic lines, and wherein the device comprises pressure sensors for measuring the pressure in the hydraulic lines at appropriate measuring points. The braking device is characterized in that the pressure sensor(s) is/are integrated in the assembled control mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2004
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Stephan Risch, Michael Jürgens
  • Patent number: 6786232
    Abstract: A check valve for a piston pump of a traction-controlled vehicle brake system includes hollow cylindrical valve seat part and a disk-shaped valve closing body, which is embraced by a spring clip and is secured to and guided against the valve seat part. The invention has the advantage that the check valve can be simply and inexpensively manufactured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Schuller, Beate Schumann
  • Patent number: 6783193
    Abstract: A rotary pump such as a trochoid pump is composed of a housing and a rotating structure including an inner rotor and an outer rotor. The rotating structure is rotatably enclosed in a rotor space formed in the housing. The rotor space is divided into a low pressure space communicating with an inlet port and a high pressure space communicating with an outlet port by a pair of peripheral seals disposed in radial grooves formed in an inner periphery of the housing and by a side seal disposed in an axial space between the rotating structure and the housing. The side seal is disposed in the axial space not to cover sidewalls of the radial grooves belonging to the high pressure space, so that the side seal is bent by the pressure in the high pressure space to effectively seal the axial space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2004
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Yamaguchi, Takashi Satou, Hiroyuki Shinkai
  • Patent number: 6769745
    Abstract: The motor/pump unit (10) comprises an electric motor (12) and at least one pump (14) for delivering brake fluid. The electric motor (12) has a stator (16), in which a rotor (18) is rotatably disposed. The pump (14) is disposed substantially inside the rotor (18) and is drivable by the latter. In order to provide a particularly compact energy source for the vehicle brake system, there is disposed adjacent to the motor/pump unit (10) at least one aggregate (23), which is drivable with the aid of the rotor (18).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Assignee: Lucas Varity GmbH
    Inventors: Kurt Mohr, Leo Gilles
  • Publication number: 20040130206
    Abstract: A pump for anti-lock brake systems, which has inlet and outlet check valves with improved structures capable of enhancing the operational performance of the pump while drawing or discharging brake oil into or from the pump. In the pump for the anti-lock brake systems, the outlet check valve is a ring-shaped elastic body that is installed in an outlet path. The outlet check valve is elastically deformed to discharge brake oil during an oil-discharging mode, and elastically restores an original shape thereof to prevent a reverse flow of the discharged brake oil during an oil-drawing mode. The pump thus prevents the reverse flow of the brake oil, reduces operational noise, and simplifies a process of producing elements of the pump, resulting in a reduction in the production costs of the pump, due to the inlet and outlet check valves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2003
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Applicant: MANDO CORPORATION
    Inventor: I-Jin Yang
  • Publication number: 20040113487
    Abstract: A pump for anti-lock brake systems which is constructed so that a piston, an inlet check valve, and an outlet check valve are integrally assembled with each other and are mounted in a bore, thus enhancing an assembling efficiency and brake oil suction performance of the pump. In the pump, the piston reciprocates by a motor, the inlet check valve is provided at an end of the piston, and the outlet check valve is mounted to a plug which closes the bore of a modulator block. The piston is set in the sleeve while the inlet check valve is mounted to the end of the piston, and the sleeve is fitted into the plug to which the outlet check valve is mounted, so that the piston, the inlet check valve, and the outlet check valve are integrally assembled with each other and are mounted in the bore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2003
    Publication date: June 17, 2004
    Applicant: MANDO CORPORATION
    Inventor: I-Jin Yang
  • Patent number: 6749272
    Abstract: In a rotary pump in which axial end surfaces of outer and inner rotors is in pressurized direct contact with an axial end surface of a second side plate to form a mechanical sealing, both of the axial end surfaces of the outer and inner rotors and the axial end surface of the second side plate are provided with radial line grinding stripes. Teeth gap portions formed by the outer and inner rotors in mesh communicate with an outer circumference gap between the circumference of the outer rotor and inner circumference of a center plate and also with a shaft hole of the inner rotor through extremely slight gaps formed by concave and convex of the radial line grinding stripes so that contact surface between the outer and inner rotors and the second side plate is well lubricated to reduce torque loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Kazunori Uchiyama, Naoki Hakamada, Takahiro Yamaguchi, Takashi Satou
  • Publication number: 20040108770
    Abstract: It is aimed to improve reliability of a hydraulic brake device which is capable of regenerative cooperative control, and also to eliminate wasteful consumption of electric power. Hydraulic pressure supplied from a hydraulic pressure generating device is adjusted to a value corresponding to the brake operating force by a pressure adjusting valve. A master cylinder is activated under the hydraulic pressure supplied to an auxiliary hydraulic chamber. The output hydraulic pressure of the master cylinder and the pressure adjusting valve is supplied to wheel cylinders to impart braking force to vehicle wheels. A hydraulic pressure adjusting device is provided to adjust the hydraulic pressure in the auxiliary hydraulic chamber to a desired hydraulic pressure value that is above the output hydraulic pressure value of the pressure adjusting valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2003
    Publication date: June 10, 2004
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuya Maki
  • Patent number: 6746089
    Abstract: A support structure for supporting a hydraulic unit of a brake system on a vehicle body is provided. The hydraulic unit has a housing and a motor attached to a lateral side surface of the housing. The hydraulic unit has a predetermined support width and is supported at two or more support positions on a vehicle body by way of resilient members. The support structure comprises a support member for supporting the hydraulic unit in such a manner as to allow a gravitational axis of the hydraulic unit to be disposed within the support width when viewed in a side elevation. A hydraulic unit arrangement and a method for supporting the hydraulic unit are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2004
    Assignee: Unisia JECS Corporation
    Inventor: Chiharu Nakazawa
  • Publication number: 20040075339
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a unit for an electronically controlled brake system including a motor (2) that drives a pump (21) by way of a shaft (3, 4), said pump being arranged in a valve or pump block (1) and supplying hydraulic fluid into wheel brakes of the brake system. A controller unit (11) is provided on a side of the valve or pump block (1) opposite to the motor (2). The unit further includes at least one sensor (12, 13, 14) for sensing the rotational speed of the motor (2) or the shaft (3, 4). According to the invention, at least one sensor element (14) of the sensor (12, 13, 14) is arranged in the area of the controller unit (11) in order to reduce the mounting space required for the unit, lower the production costs and simplify signal transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2003
    Publication date: April 22, 2004
    Inventor: Peter Volz
  • Publication number: 20040070267
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a subassembly (1)), in particular a brake unit of an electronically controlled vehicle brake system, including a motor (2) having a housing (7), a hydraulic block (4), and a motor electronics (6) for controlling or regulating the motor (2). To create a particularly compact subassembly that is optimized in terms of heat dissipation, the motor electronics (6) is located at least partly within the housing (7) of the motor (2) according to the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2003
    Publication date: April 15, 2004
    Inventors: Peter Volz, Erhard Beck
  • Patent number: 6715847
    Abstract: In the rotary pump, a high pressure outer circumference chamber, which is formed around an outer circumference of an outer rotor and communicates with a discharge port, presses radially inward first defined parts among the outer circumference of the outer rotor that are positioned radially outside second defined parts adjacent to teeth gap portions whose volume are largest and smallest among teeth gap portions communicating with an intake port. Teeth top clearance between the outer and inner rotors at the second defined part is reduced due to pressure difference between the discharge pressure applied to the first defined parts and the intake pressure applied to the second defined parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Yamaguchi, Tomoo Harada, Takashi Sato, Hiroshi Kondo, Toshihiko Kawamura
  • Patent number: 6702403
    Abstract: An assembly (20) is used with an anti-lock braking system (10) and an associated method. The assembly (20) includes a circuit board (30), a motor (40), a hydromechanical block (50), a lead frame (60), and a plurality of solenoid coils (70). The circuit board (30) integrates the electronics of the anti-lock braking system (10). The motor (40) provides pressurized fluid to the anti-lock braking system (10). The motor (40) is connected to the circuit board (30). The hydromechanical block (50) has a through bore (52). The lead frame (60) has a built-in connector (61) extending through the through bore (52) to the circuit board (30). The plurality of solenoid coils (70) controls flow of the pressurized fluid through the hydromechanical block (50). Each of the plurality of solenoid coils (70) is connected to the lead frame (60) such that the plurality of solenoid coils (70) is electrically connected to the circuit board (30) by the built-in connector (61) of the lead frame (60).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: TRW Inc.
    Inventor: Mark D. Haller
  • Publication number: 20040032163
    Abstract: Hydraulic motor drive apparatus having a cubic capacity selector (16) which has at least two positions, control means for controlling the selector, which means comprise a hydraulic control chamber (18) suitable for being fed with fluid via a control duct (20), and first opposing return means (17). The apparatus further comprises a brake system having a brake release chamber (38) and second opposing return means (39). The control duct (20) is suitable for being connected to the brake release chamber (38), and the first return means (17) are suitable for returning the cubic capacity selector to its large cubic capacity first position when the pressure in said chamber becomes lower than a first threshold pressure, whereas the second return means (39) return the brake means (36) to their braking position when the pressure in the brake release chamber becomes lower than a second threshold pressure, which is itself lower than said first threshold pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2003
    Publication date: February 19, 2004
    Inventors: Louis Bigo, Daniel Ruzicka, Bernard Allart
  • Patent number: 6672686
    Abstract: The fundamental approach of the present invention is to dispose bushes, in which pistons of a pumping apparatus for a vehicle brake system are movably disposed, in such a movable manner that they themselves may in dependence upon movements of the pistons act as pistons in order to supply brake fluid to the vehicle brake system. In particular, the bushes, whose pistons are pumping brake fluid into an associated brake circuit, do not act as pistons. On the other hand, brake fluid is fed back into a brake circuit by bushes, whose pistons are pumping substantially no brake fluid into the brake circuit but are taking in e.g. brake fluid removed from the vehicle brake system in order subsequently to pump it back into the brake circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: Lucas Automotive GmbH
    Inventor: Frank Lubischer
  • Publication number: 20030227216
    Abstract: In a rotary pump for a braking apparatus, a discharge trench is formed on an axial direction end surface of a second side plate that forms a mechanical seal. As a result, rotors are pressed back toward a side of a first side plate by a discharge pressure of brake fluid channeled to the discharge trench. Accordingly, a force pressing the rotors toward the second side plate is reduced and frictional resistance is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2003
    Publication date: December 11, 2003
    Inventors: Kazunori Uchiyama, Naoki Hakamada, Takahiro Yamaguchi, Takashi Satou
  • Patent number: 6641232
    Abstract: A pump for a brake system in which the pump includes two pump pistons driven by a motor. Each pump piston feeds the brake fluid both during a retraction stroke and during an extension stroke, and a relatively uniform feed flow is thereby attainable by a fluid output from the piston being driven in both directions. The piston pump is intended for slip-controlled vehicle brake systems in motor vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2003
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Norbert Alaze