Patents Represented by Attorney Edwin E. Greigg
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Patent number: 6334762Abstract: The invention is directed to a piston pump for a hydraulic vehicle brake system. For simple and inexpensive manufacturability, the piston pump embodies an outlet conduit as a groove in a sleeve bottom and a sealing part. As a result, the sleeve and the sealing part can be manufactured in a non-cutting manner by means of forming. Another advantage of letting the outflow conduit into the sleeve bottom is that the outlet conduit is disposed a small distance in the axial direction from a valve seat of an outlet valve, which counteracts noise production.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 1999Date of Patent: January 1, 2002Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Manfred Hauser, Norbert Alaze, Dieter Merklein, Wolfgang Schuller, Julius Bayrhof, Siegfried Fritsch, Walter Kremsreiter, Franz Mayer, Joachim Evertz, Joerg Zielke, Ralf Zitzelsberger, Andreas Weh, Bernd Allenzon, Michael Hellebrandt, Tobias Fluck
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Patent number: 6334472Abstract: An apparatus for sterilizing, filling and sealing containers has a sterilization chamber, a cooling chamber, and a filling and sealing chamber, through which the containers are conveyed by means of an endless conveyor device. For presterilizing the chambers before the apparatus is put into operation, these chambers are acted upon by a gaseous sterilizing agent flowing through them, which is fed through an inlet or an outlet for the containers. In order that regions less affected by the flowing sterilizing agent as it flows, because they are in the lee, will also be disinfected well, the flow direction of the sterilizing agent is changed multiple times. A blower with a reversible flow direction is used for this purpose.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 1998Date of Patent: January 1, 2002Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Kuno Lemke, Helmut Weber
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Patent number: 6309164Abstract: The invention provides a refuse and recyclable materials collection system which includes a self-dumping bin, a hauling unit with a tailgate and an opening top, side or both, a compacting ram that empties the hopper into the body, compacts and ejects the collected materials. The collection vehicle is placed into a loading position, which can be on either side of the vehicle. For collection of two different types of recyclable materials the collection vehicle can be equipped with two receiving doors, hoppers, rams, compacting chambers and tailgates. The self-dumping bin receives power by connecting hydraulic lines from the collection vehicle. The self-dumping bin is then raised to the dumping position by a lifting mechanism. The receiving door opens to form a chute for receiving the materials from the self-dumping bin. A baffle on each of the receiving doors forms a trap to prevent spillage. The bin has a tapered “lip” that funnels the material into the hopper of the hauling unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 1999Date of Patent: October 30, 2001Assignee: Hol-Mac CorporationInventors: Jamie Val Holder, Stephen Bryan Adkins, Robert William Fallon
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Patent number: 6305359Abstract: A fuel injection valve for internal combustion engines, having an axially movable valve member which, with its end oriented toward the combustion chamber, opens and closes a through flow cross section to at least one injection opening and which, with its end remote from the combustion chamber, protrudes into a fuel-filled spring chamber in which a valve spring is clamped, which acts on the valve member in the closing direction and is supported with its end remote from the valve member against a deflecting piston which, during the supply of high pressure fuel to the fuel injection valve, can be moved a certain distance into the spring chamber and thereby increases the initial stress force of the valve spring, and having a connecting conduit between the spring chamber and a low pressure fuel chamber. The connecting conduit between the spring chamber and the low pressure fuel chamber is embodied as a throttle bore in order to increase the injection opening pressure.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2000Date of Patent: October 23, 2001Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Maximilian Kronberger, Herbert Strahberger
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Patent number: 6305508Abstract: The invention relates to an electromechanical wheel brake device with a brake caliper that is embodied of one piece with a gear housing in which a planetary roller screw drive for pressing frictional brake linings against a brake disk and a bevel gear pair for driving the planetary roller screw drive to rotate are accommodated. In order to keep a ring gear free of a force that acts axially on a nut of the planetary roller screw drive when the frictional brake linings are pressed against the brake disk, the device affixes a ring gear of the bevel gear pair in a rotationally fixed and axially mobile manner to the nut, for example by means of a multi-groove profile, and supporting the bevel gear with a separate axial bearing in the rigidly embodied gear housing.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 1999Date of Patent: October 23, 2001Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Frank Schumann
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Patent number: 6305356Abstract: A common rail system having a regulated prefeed pump, which pumps a fuel flow from a fuel tank to a high-pressure pump. The fuel flow is split with the aid of a valve assembly into a lubricant flow and a high-pressure feed flow that is pumped into a high-pressure reservoir, and acted upon by high pressure. The prefeed pump has a substantially linear characteristic feed curve with a certain slope. To improve the regulating performance, the valve assembly for the lubricant flow includes a valve whose characteristic feed curve initially rises in a first portion (I) with the rpm of the prefeed pump with the same slope as the characteristic feed curve of the prefeed pump. Then in a second portion (II) rises substantially linearly, with a lesser slope than the characteristic feed curve of the prefeed pump, and in a third portion (III) finally drops again.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2000Date of Patent: October 23, 2001Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Erhard Faix, Gerd Loesch
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Patent number: 6307296Abstract: When a commutator is slipped onto a rotor shaft that is provided with viscous epoxy, a bead of epoxy forms on the connecting end face of the commutator core and can hinder the process of winding the rotor. The novel commutator therefore has a receiving bore (25), which begins at the connecting end face (23) of the commutator and extends coaxially to the longitudinal axis (1) as far as a shoulder (26) and is adjoined by a conical bore (29) tapering toward a through bore (24). The bead (22) of epoxy that forms when the commutator is slipped onto the rotor shaft is completely covered by the receiving bore (25). The commutator is especially suitable for rotors of electrical machines.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 1999Date of Patent: October 23, 2001Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Ralf Schmidt, Martin Kiefer
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Patent number: 6302663Abstract: The invention relates to a piston pump for a slip-controlled, hydraulic vehicle brake system. In order to be able to simply and inexpensively produce the piston pump as a stepped piston pump, the invention embodies a piston as a tubular deep drawn part made of sheet metal, with an outwardly protruding circumferential bead. The bead is produced by axially compressing the piston. The bead constitutes an axial support for a guide ring and sealing ring placed onto the piston. A disk-shaped, abrasion resistant striking piece is press-fitted into an open end of the tubular piston, and is used by the piston for resting against a circumference of a cam element used for the stroke drive.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 1999Date of Patent: October 16, 2001Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Wolfgang Schuller, Franz Mayer, Christiane Schiller
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Patent number: 6302087Abstract: A fuel injection valve for internal combustion engines is supplied from a high-pressure fuel reservoir with high-pressure fuel that at the same time also serves to actuate the injection valve needle of the fuel injection valve. The injection valve needle is actuated via a tappet, which defines a control pressure chamber that is supplied with high-pressure fuel via a Z-throttle and can be relieved via an outlet throttle which is controlled by a magnet valve. The control pressure chamber is enclosed in an insert by the tappet guided in a cylindrical bore, and this insert receives not only the cylindrical bore but also a flat armature, a tappet of the flat armature, and a valve member of the magnet valve. The insert is braced on the housing on the injection valve by the magnet valve housing.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 1999Date of Patent: October 16, 2001Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Kurt Schraudner, Josef Ernst
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Patent number: 6300704Abstract: A rotor for an electric motor includes a commutator and a rotor shaft with a rotor winding that is contained in a rotor body supported on the rotor shaft in a rotationally fixed manner. The commutator has commutator lamellas that are disposed axially next to one another in the circumference direction with an insulation gap and have connection lugs for attachment of connecting wires of the rotor winding. In a region between the commutator and the rotor body, an additional winding is wound around the connecting wires in order to fix or stabilize the connecting wires. The rotor is provided for electric motors used in vehicle construction.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2000Date of Patent: October 9, 2001Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Klaus Maldener, Ralf Schmidt, Martin Kiefer, Hans-Joerg Fees
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Patent number: 6298720Abstract: A measurement device for measuring the mass of a medium flowing in a line along a line longitudinal axis, in particular the intake air mass of an internal combustion engine. The measuring device has a measuring element around which the flowing medium circulates around. The measuring element is disposed in a measurement conduit that is provided in the line and extends along a measurement conduit longitudinal axis from an inlet opening to a deflection conduit. The deflection conduit leads to an outlet opening that feeds back into the line. The measurement conduit longitudinal axis is inclined in relation to the line longitudinal axis by a predetermined angle (&agr;) so that the measurement conduit has a screened region that is disposed outside the parallel projection of the inlet opening along the line longitudinal axis. The measuring element is disposed in the screened region of the measurement conduit.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 1999Date of Patent: October 9, 2001Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Wolfgang Mueller, Uwe Konzelmann
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Patent number: 6296236Abstract: An elastic bearing of a hydraulic subassembly of a vehicle brake system including at least two rubber elastic support elements that isolate vibrations and are embodied in the form of hollow cylinders into which pins leading from the hydraulic subassembly protrude. The pins are aligned essentially horizontally and wherein the rubber elastic elements are inserted into lower partial bearing or support shells and are prevented from coming out of the lower partial bearing or support shells by upper partial bearing or securing shells. The upper partial bearing or securing shells are aligned axially parallel to the rubber elastic elements and are then to be slid over the rubber elastic elements. In order to facilitate mounting, the upper partial bearing or securing shells are designed so that they can be mounted from above, and thereby essentially radially with respect to the rubber elastic elements.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 1999Date of Patent: October 2, 2001Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Harald Ott
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Patent number: 6295891Abstract: An accelerator pedal module is provided that is actuated by the driver's foot for controlling the output of a drive engine. Frequently undesirable noise is generated by means of characteristic vibration in the restoring springs of prior pedal modules. The accelerator pedal module of this invention includes an intertwined multi-wire spring which helps to eliminate undesirable vibration of the restoring spring.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 1999Date of Patent: October 2, 2001Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Uwe Velte, Rolf Pierenkemper
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Patent number: 6296197Abstract: An injection valve for a fuel injection system, for multistage control of the effective cross section of an injection opening. A spring/stop system with a first compression spring for a control valve for a control chamber, whose pressure determined the position of the valve shaft of an injection valve member. When a valve opens, the spring/stop system allows its valve tappet a first axial stroke, which is limited by a primary stop on an axially movable adapter. The axial mobility of the adapter allows the valve tappet, counter to the compressive force of a first compression spring, an additional, second axial stroke, which is limited by an end stop structurally connected to the housing. The valve tappet is urged in the closing direction of the control valve by a second compression spring braced against the housing of the injection valve, and in the closed state of the control valve the spring force of the second compression spring is less than that of the first compression spring.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 1999Date of Patent: October 2, 2001Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Friedrich Boecking
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Patent number: 6289835Abstract: A boat fender storage device which includes a strip of metal radiused at each end to form first and second U-shape ends. The U-shaped ends have an opening which is sufficient to fit over a safety rail so that the boat fender can be secured to the safety rail by a pair of the boat fender storage devices.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2000Date of Patent: September 18, 2001Inventor: John Silberman
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Patent number: 6290308Abstract: The invention relates to a pump assembly for pumping brake fluid into a hydraulic slip-controlled vehicle brake system. To achieve a simple, compact construction of the pump assembly, the invention proposes embodying the pump assembly with an electromagnet which has a permanent magnet and is driven into an oscillating motion by being supplied with an alternating voltage; a moving part of the electromagnet is solidly connected to a tappet, both of whose ends form pistons of two piston pumps.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 1999Date of Patent: September 18, 2001Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Ralf Zitzelsberger
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Patent number: 6291917Abstract: An electric drive unit for windshield washers of a motor vehicle, including a drive motor having an armature accommodated in a substantially cup-shaped pole housing, a substantially cup-shaped gearbox, secured by its face end to the pole housing, for receiving at least one transmission gear wheel that meshes with a worm connected to an armature shaft of the armature. The armature shaft has a mushroom-shaped stop face on its face end, against which a spring for generating a defined initial stress comes to rest. The spring is a curved bendable spring, which has a substantially V-shaped profile, with a tensioning plate secured in the gearbox and with a leg that yields in the axial direction of the armature shaft, which in the installed state of rest, the spring exerts a spring force, on the mushroom-shaped face of the armature shaft.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 1999Date of Patent: September 18, 2001Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Ernst Fischer, Richard Hurst
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Patent number: 6291929Abstract: The invention relates to a piezoelectric actuator, in particular for actuating control valves or injection valves in internal combustion engines of motor vehicles, having a piezoelectric actuator body in the form of a multi-layer laminate of stacked layers of piezoelectric material and metal or electrically conductive layers, acting as electrodes, located between them, in which one of the face ends of the actuator body is fixed to a stationary metal actuator base, and the other face end borders a metal retaining plate that is movable with the actuator stroke. The piezoelectric actuator is characterized in that the piezoelectric material has blind metal electrodes on both face ends, each of which electrodes is located in a passive piezoceramic cover layer between the respective outermost active piezoceramic layer and the movable retaining plate and actuator base.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2000Date of Patent: September 18, 2001Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Rudolf Heinz, Klaus-Peter Schmoll
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Patent number: 6290306Abstract: A hydraulic brake system for a vehicle for braking the vehicle by brake pedal actuation and/or automatic braking. A pump is provided which has a suction connection that communicates with a supply container for a pressure fluid and a pressure connection for aspirating pressure fluid from the supply container and pumping the fluid to a connection of a master cylinder. A brake circuit of the vehicle brake system is connected with vehicle wheels associated with wheel brake cylinders and with valve assemblies for brake pressure modulation and is connected to the connection of the master cylinder. A valve pressure is also provided between a pressure chamber that communicates with the connection of the master cylinder and the supply container for pressure fluid.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 1999Date of Patent: September 18, 2001Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Michael Friedow
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Patent number: D448483Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 1999Date of Patent: September 25, 2001Assignee: Medisana Medizinalbedarfs-GmbHInventor: Rainer Henner Behnke