Patents Represented by Attorney Ronald E. Greigg

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  • Internal combustion engine and method for operating an internal combustion engine by means of a laser ignition unit
    Patent number: 7765980
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating an internal combustion engine including a fuel-injection unit and a laser ignition-unit. According to the invention, during a compression cycle of the internal combustion engine, fuel is injected into the combustion chamber by means of the fuel-injection unit in such a way that an ignitable, round, flat mixed region of fuel and air forms on a plunger and a predetermined period elapses between the end of the fuel injection and the start of ignition in order to form the round flat mixed region. Ignition then takes place within the flat round mixed region by means of the laser-ignition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Vogel, Werner Herden, Heiko Ridderbusch
  • Multipiston pump
    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
  • Electric machine comprising a permanent magnet
    Patent number: 7768168
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrical machine having a rotor, a stator, and a permanent magnet located on the rotor. The permanent magnet is embodied essentially as a hollow cylinder with axial and/or radial contact faces and is secured to the rotor at the axial and/or radial contact faces by means of retaining elements; the permanent magnet is elastically supported in the axial direction (X-X) and/or the radial direction of the rotor by means of the retaining elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Joerg Aschoff, Thomas Lott, Andreas Wehrle, Gerd Walter
  • Device for delivering fuel from a tank to an internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 7765990
    Abstract: A device for delivering fuel having a delivery unit, a main filter with a filter housing situated downstream of the delivery unit, and a drive line for driving a suction jet pump embodied in the filter housing of the main filter. As a result, the assembly and manufacture costs of the device are reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Peter Braun, Thomas Wieland, Petr Simek, Pavel Motka
  • Rechargeable battery with a fuse
    Patent number: 7759825
    Abstract: In a rechargeable battery with a fuse for guarding against external short circuits, to make it possible to design the rechargeable battery independently of the possibly high normal continuous current, it is proposed that a signal connection existing between the rechargeable battery and a device provided for drawing current be utilized. To that end, a switch is provided, which is connected parallel to the fuse and which responds to certain electrical signals of the device. The signals can be delivered to the switch via the signal connection, so that the switch bypasses the fuse, once the signal connection is established and the aforementioned signals occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Heinrich
  • Hydraulic fluid reservoir and hydraulic pressure control unit
    Patent number: 7752843
    Abstract: A piston is guided by a two-point guide thus allowing a working liquid to smoothly flow into or flow out from a liquid chamber. The liquid chamber is formed into a donut shape and an opening of a passage of the working liquid is arranged at a center portion of the donut. The piston adopts a stepped structure which has a large-diameter portion and a small-diameter portion. The large-diameter portion is fitted into a first cylinder bore and a small-diameter portion is fitted into a second cylinder bore. The working liquid flows into or flows out from the hydraulic chamber through groove passages formed on an outer periphery of the small-diameter portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Bosch Corporation
    Inventors: Isao Inoue, Kensyo Tsushima
  • Water outlet apparatus
    Patent number: 7753291
    Abstract: A water outlet apparatus comprises a hand-held tubular wand in two co-axial rotatable parts in which at or towards the outer end of an outer part water outlet means is provided. A mixing/shut-off valve is housed in an inner end of the outer part. An inner part has secured therein one end of a hosing for delivery separately of two types of water, i.e. hot water and cold water, to the valve for mixing. The other end of the hosing is for integration into two separate sources of water. The water outlet means may be a series of nozzles radially of the outer part of the wand for use as a shower head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Munster Simms Engineering Limited
    Inventor: Edward John Gilmore
  • Fuel injection system with a plurality of pressure reservoirs
    Patent number: 7748364
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fuel-injection system (102), in which a rail (120) is provided for each injector between a high-pressure fuel pump (111) and said injectors (116).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Juergen Hanneke, Andreas Wengert, Kurt Blank
  • Pressure maintaining valve, tool, set and fuel injection system
    Patent number: 7748403
    Abstract: A pressure-holding valve for a fuel injection system with a high-pressure region and a low-pressure region, the valve having with a valve housing having a first connection that can be connected to the low-pressure region and a second connection that can be connected to the return of a fuel injection valve device. The housing contains a reciprocating valve cup prestressed in opposition to the force of a first spring device and a through opening which can be closed by a closing element prestressed in opposition to the force of a second spring device to maintain a minimum pressure in the return. The valve housing, between the first connection and the valve cup includes with a pressure relief device that can be actuated from outside the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Hans Brekle
  • Racquet sport training system
    Patent number: 7749110
    Abstract: The present invention provides a tennis training systems. Methods of practicing and teaching tennis are also provided herein. In one aspect, the training system employs an elongated, elastic cord having a proximal end and a distal end, a vibration dampener configured to be received within a string bed of a racket and operatively connected to the proximal end of the cord, and a connection disc operatively connected to the distal end of the cord. The vibration dampener is connected to the proximal end of the cord by means of an integral loop. Optionally, the connection disc is releasably connected to the distal end of the cord by means of an integral loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Great Southern Corporation
    Inventor: Morris Bozof
  • Testing device for a cam-driven fuel injection system, in particular a pump/nozzle or pump/line/nozzle injection system
    Patent number: 7735361
    Abstract: A test apparatus serves to test cam-driven fuel injection systems. The apparatus includes a camshaft which can act on a piston of the fuel injection system at least indirectly via a lever. It is proposed that the lever have a multiplicity of fastening positions for an actuating element which can act on the piston and that the fastening positions be disposed at different distances from a pivot axis of the lever.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Reinhard Hoss
  • Self-boosting electromechanical friction brake
    Patent number: 7735613
    Abstract: A self-boosting electromechanical friction brake, having a friction brake lining which is displaceable for actuation in the direction of rotation of a brake disk and which is braced via roller bodies on ramps of an abutment plate. When the brake is actuated, brake disk exerts a frictional force on the brake lining pressed against it, which urges the lining in the direction of an increasingly narrow gap between the ramps and the brake disk to exert a contact pressure that is in addition to that exerted by an actuation device to attain self-boosting. The roller bodies are supported fixedly and rotatably in bearing block on the brake lining whereby the roller bodies move in slaved fashion with the brake lining and always brace the brake lining at the same points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Dietmar Baumann, Dirk Hofmann, Herbert Vollert, Willi Nagel, Andreas Henke, Bertram Foitzik, Bernd Goetzelmann
  • Device and method for producing an operating medium for a motor vehicle
    Patent number: 7735315
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for producing an operating medium for a motor vehicle, especially for use in the exhaust gas post-treatment of the motor vehicle. According to said method, an operating medium is produced from an initial product and air using a catalyst device. Said initial product is heated and mixed with air and the heated mixture of initial product/air is fed to the catalyst device. A part of the initial product is converted to the gaseous phase by means of a preheating element and is entrained by a stream of air when leaving the preheating element, said stream of air leading to a combustion chamber. The method allows to efficiently produce an operating medium, especially a reducing agent for regenerating NOx storage catalysts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Marc Bareis, Frank Ilgner, Horst Harndorf, Nils Steinbach
  • Electrohydraulically regulatable vehicle brake system with traction control device
    Patent number: 7731304
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electronically regulatable vehicle brake system with traction control, in which a master cylinder is connected indirectly via a hydraulic unit to at least one wheel brake. The hydraulic unit has electromagnet valves and an externally triggerable pressure generator, for modulating the wheel brake pressure, optionally independently of the driver. For preventing wheel slip, the pressure generator is connected by its intake side to an intake conduit, among other things, that is controllable by an intake valve. To enhance the dynamics and improve the regulatability of a vehicle brake system, a self-aspirating pressure fluid storage unit is connected to the intake conduit and makes an aspiration volume available to the pressure generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Groll, Guenther Schnalzger
  • Piezoelectric actuator with a sheath, for disposition in a piezoelectric injector
    Patent number: 7728489
    Abstract: A piezoelectric actuator with piezoelectric elements, fastened between an actuator head and an actuator foot, and with a plastic sleeve surrounding at least the piezoelectric elements is proposed, which is set in a clamping ring on the actuator head and/or the actuator foot of the piezoelectric actuator. The respective clamping ring may be a metal part or a plastic part, which is equipped with clamping lugs suitable for setting the plastic sleeve and is thrust, pressed, or shrunk onto the respective actuator head and/or actuator foot of the steel piezoelectric actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Rudolf Heinz, Dieter Kienzler, Udo Schaich
  • Magnet valve having fixation means for the return spring mounted on the valve seat
    Patent number: 7726628
    Abstract: This disclosure teaches a magnet valve, having a valve insert and a tappet which is guided movably via a tappet guide in the valve insert and which is braced via a restoring spring on a valve body, and the restoring spring acts between a first contact face of the tappet and a second contact face on the valve body. According to the invention, fixation means which define a position of the restoring spring relative to the tappet and the valve body are disposed on the second contact face of the valve body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Dietmar Kratzer
  • Pressure booster arrangement
    Patent number: 7726283
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pressure booster arrangement for high-pressure injection systems or high-pressure injection system parts of internal combustion engines. A differential piston which operates with a large cross section in a medium-pressure reservoir and with partial cross sections is operative in terms of positive displacement in associated control and work pressure chambers that are separate from the medium-pressure reservoir and that are disposed in a guide body. The guide body guides the differential piston in its strokes and in turn axially adjoins a valve body. The valve body receives control and check valves for controlling communicating lines of the guide body and of the valve body for controllably connecting the control and work chambers to the medium-pressure reservoir or to a relatively pressureless fluid reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Dirk Vahle
  • Brushless DC Machine and its return ring packet, toothed rim packet, and top piece, and production method therefor
    Patent number: 7728482
    Abstract: The invention relates to a brushless DC machine comprising a rotor and a stator that supports a winding assembly. The stator encompasses a toothed rim with tooth tips that extend radially outward as well as a return ring. The toothed rim and the return ring are embodied so as to engage into each other in a radial direction. The invention further relates to a return ring packet, a toothed rim packet, a top piece, and a method for producing a brushless DC machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Hartmut Seiler
  • Combined service and parking brake apparatus and method for executing an emergency braking action
    Patent number: 7721853
    Abstract: A combined service and parking brake apparatus, having a brake unit equipped with a brake disc and at least one brake pad in which a fluid pressure actuatable brake piston is able to place the brake pad against the brake disc and having a parking brake unit which includes an electric drive unit, a transmission, and a spindle unit equipped with a nut and spindle in order to mechanically lock the brake unit in a parking brake position, and in which the electric drive unit, the transmission, and the spindle unit are situated in series on a common axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Stefan Chittka
  • Pressure relief valve for a packaging container
    Patent number: 7721752
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pressure relief valve, comprising a base body, which is covered by a valve membrane. The base body which is located on the inner face of a packaging container, permits the escape of excess pressure from the packaging container into the atmosphere by means of passages and perforations that are configured in the wall of the packaging material. The inventive pressure relief valve thus responds particularly well. i.e. allowing particularly low opening pressures, by means of the special configuration of its base area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert Stotkiewitz, Hans-Peter Stadel