Patents Assigned to Knorr-Bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
  • Patent number: 7673722
    Abstract: A disk brake for a vehicle, in particular a commercial vehicle, including an application device, which is used to apply a brake lining to a brake disk by at least one or two actuating spindles running parallel and at a distance from one another in a bridge. The application device has an anti-friction roller, which is supported on a pivotable lever of the application device. The disk brake is configured in such a way that the anti-friction roller is fixed as a separate component radially and axially on the lever and is held by an anti-friction roller holder that is fixed to the lever. The anti-friction roller holder is provided with cage return guides, which, when the lever is pivoted back into an initial position, likewise press the journal bearings into an initial position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2010
    Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventor: Tobias Linke
  • Patent number: 7665302
    Abstract: A device and method for supplying fresh air to a turbocharged piston internal combustion engine are described. According to the invention, a fresh gas line section of an intake manifold has an adjustable flap, and inlet and outlet ports. An adjustment device is coupled to the flap for adjusting the flap. A compressed air port having an opening leading into a chamber of the fresh gas line between the flap and the outlet is provided, and a quantity regulating device with a valve to control the compressed air is also provided. An electronic control unit controls the quantity regulating device and the adjustable flap, so that the fully opened position of the flap corresponds to a fully blocked position of the quantity regulating device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Huba Nemeth, Eduard Gerum
  • Patent number: 7666003
    Abstract: A contact device is provided, the device having at least a first contact region for electrical connection to an electric line and at least a second contact region for electrical connection to a flexible printed circuit board other contact medium which may damaged by repeated soldering. The first contact region and the second contact region are electrically connected. Between the first contact region and the second contact region, a third region is provided which has a lower thermal conductivity per unit length than the first contact region and/or the second contact region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert Klinger, Martin Petrzik, Michael Haug, Friedbert Roether, Markus Deeg
  • Publication number: 20100025165
    Abstract: A disk brake is provided, the disk brake including at least one energy storing element and a deflecting mechanism which is controllably configured to deflect the force flux of the energy storing element in a transverse direction toward a brake disk in order to clamp at least one brake lining against the brake disk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2007
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Applicant: Knorr-Bremse Systeme Fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmBH
    Inventors: Alfred Utzt, Karlheinz Heidl
  • Patent number: 7641025
    Abstract: A disc brake is provided, especially for utility vehicles, that comprises a caliper that overlaps a brake disc, a brake application device disposed in the caliper that applies the brake and at least one adjustment device comprising an electrical drive. The disc brake is further provided with a mechanical device that blocks the adjustment device driven by an electromotor against an augmentation of the release play that exceeds a threshold value caused by the electromotor drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Johann Baumgartner, Wolfgang Pahle, Dirk Ganzhorn
  • Publication number: 20090321195
    Abstract: A pneumatic disc brake for utility vehicles has two brake pad carrier plates to which brake pads are fixed. The disc brake is equipped with an application device which has two pressure plungers. By way of a force-absorbing connection between the pressure plungers and the facing surface of the brake pad carrier plate, a bridge is relieved of bending stresses. The end faces of the pressure plungers and at least the contact faces of the facing brake pad carrier plate are provided with profilings, which engage into one another in a form-fitting manner, such that at least in the event of full-load braking, each brake pad is moved in the peripheral direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2007
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: Knorr-Bremse Systeme Fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Johann Baumgartner, Tobias Linke
  • Patent number: 7614483
    Abstract: The invention relates to an adjusting device of a disk brake, in particular a pneumatically actuatable disk brake. The adjusting device is in embodied in such a manner that it can rotate at least one rotatable spindle which acts upon at least one pressure piece on the brake lining and which comprises an output toothing arrangement. The output toothing arrangement comprises at least one tooth which engages in a groove of the rotatable spindle. The invention is characterized in that the output toothing arrangement and/or the groove are embodied in such a manner that they can be elastically compressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2009
    Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Klingner, Georg Kempinger, Wlodzimierz Macke
  • Publication number: 20090272607
    Abstract: A disc brake, particularly for a commercial vehicle, includes a brake caliper, which is provided with a brake disc and fixed to a brake carrier by two fastening elements such that it can be axially displaced in relation to the brake disc. The fastening elements each include a guide spar, which is connected to the brake carrier in a fixed manner. For the axial displacement of the brake caliper, one of the guide spars is guided in a plain bearing designed as a movable bearing and the other in a plain bearing designed as fixed bearing such that the guide spar of the fixed bearing includes an elastically deformable section in the radial direction on the outer circumference. The associated bearing rests against the deformable section at least in some sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2009
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Applicant: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Rudolf FISCHER, Ralf VOGEDES, Markus BABICZ, Christian RAFFIN, Michael PESCHEL, Florian ORGLER
  • Patent number: 7610998
    Abstract: A disc brake, especially for utility vehicles, which includes a caliper enclosing a brake disc, a pneumatically or electromotively operated tensioning device for tensioning the brake, which is located in the caliper, a magnet wheel rotating with the brake disc, and a stationary sensor for detecting the angle of rotation and the speed of the magnet wheel. The sensor is mounted at a distance from the magnet wheel and at least one line is connected to transmit pulses between the sensor and the magnet wheel. As a result, the sensor can be mounted on the housing protected from the action of heat and other environmental influences and so as to be easily accessible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Johann Baumgartner, Guenther Gschossmann
  • Patent number: 7610827
    Abstract: An adjusting device for a transmission, such as a motor vehicle transmission is described. The transmission has at least one moveable adjusting element, at least two sensors for detecting a position of the at least one moveable adjusting element, and a code path of the at least one moveable adjusting element having sections of different heights which are provided to be scanned by the at least two sensors, the sections of the code path of different heights being arranged at least two-dimensionally. The at least two sensors are arranged parallel to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Doerr, Zoltán Skriba
  • Publication number: 20090261283
    Abstract: An electromagnetic valve is provided with at least one coil containing at least one coil former. The coil former is provided with at least two separate wire windings, of which, in each case, two are connected in series or in parallel with one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2009
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas FEUCHT, Markus Deeg, Friedbert Roether
  • Publication number: 20090260928
    Abstract: A disc brake for a utility vehicle, having a brake caliper which encompasses a brake disc and which is fastened, so as to be axially movable in relation to the brake disc, to a positionally fixed brake carrier by means of two fastening elements, wherein the fastening elements have in each case one guide bar which is fixedly connected to the brake carrier, of which guide bars, for the axial mobility of the brake caliper, one in guided in a plain bearing which is designed as a fixed bearing and the other is guided in a plain bearing which is designed as a floating bearing, wherein at least the floating bearing has a guide sleeve, which engages around the guide bar and which is connected to the brake caliper so as to be fixed in terms of movement, with an elastomer bearing sleeve, and the guide bar is covered, on its end side facing away from the brake disc, by means of a cap, is designed such that the cap, while covering the guide sleeve at the end side, is fastened at least in one axial partial region to the e
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Johann BAUMGARTNER, Robert TRIMPE, Rudolf FISCHER
  • Patent number: 7597336
    Abstract: A combined central control unit is provided for an air suspension system and/or an air processing system. The air suspension system has an electronic control system characterized in that the electronic control system is integrated in the electronic control of the air processing system. Similarly, an air processing system has an electronic control system characterized in that the electronic control system is integrated in the electronic control of the air suspension system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systems fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Karthaeuser, Roland Klement
  • Publication number: 20090236188
    Abstract: A disc brake, in particular for a commercial vehicle, includes a caliper which surrounds a brake disc, against which brake pads can be pressed on both sides during braking. A holding bracket is fastened to the caliper and bears against pad retaining springs acting on outer edges of the brake pads. The holding bracket bridges a mounting opening of the caliper transversely with respect to the rotational direction of the brake disc and is preferably fastened by way of one end to the caliper in a positively locking manner and held by way of its other end by a fastening element such that the fastening element is connected captively to the holding bracket and corresponds with a securing part of the caliper in the sense of a holding device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Christian RAFFIN, Kai Fischer
  • Publication number: 20090236189
    Abstract: A disc brake, in particular for a commercial vehicle, includes a caliper which engages over a brake disc, and a brake application device, by which a brake pad can be pressed against the brake disc via at least one actuating spindle in the caliper, in correspondence with a pressure piece. The actuating spindle is encased by a deformable bellows between the pressure piece and the caliper, which deformable bellows has, at its end side, an elastic seal which is provided with an inherently rigid support ring and which is held in the manner of a press fit in an outlet opening of the caliper or of a part which is fastened thereto. The bellows is designed such that the support ring and the seal also bear directly and peripherally against the wall of the outlet opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: Knorr-Bremse Systeme Fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventor: Wlodzimierz MACKE
  • Publication number: 20090235663
    Abstract: A device for fresh-gas supply for a turbocharged, compression-ignition, reciprocating-piston internal-combustion engine is provided. The engine has fresh-gas supply pipe and exhaust gas manifold pipe, between which an EGR device is installed. A tubular inside space section of the fresh-gas supply pipe located downstream of a turbocharger has a compressed-air connection with a volume control device, and a butterfly valve for controlling throughflow. Operation of the butterfly valve is controlled by an electronic control unit of the engine which processes sensor signals. A control valve of the EGR device, which is electronically controlled and controls the exhaust gas throughflow volume, is connected to the electronic control unit for synchronized operation of the butterfly valve with the volume control device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2009
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Huba Nemeth, Eduard Gerum
  • Patent number: 7591350
    Abstract: A disc brake having a caliper, an application device arranged in the caliper on one side of the brake disc, and electrically driven adjusting devices on both sides of the brake disc, in which all adjusting devices on both sides of the brake disc are driven by a single electric motor or two electric motors jointly, in the latter case, the two electric motors being arranged on a joint side of the caliper relative to the brake disc plane, and the at least one electric motor or the electric motors for driving the adjusting devices being arranged outside the caliper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Dieter Bieker, Luise Ulrike Bieker, legal representative, Johann Baumgartner, Robert Trimpe
  • Patent number: 7592802
    Abstract: An angle of rotation sensor includes at least one coil provided with windings and a magnetically conductive element which interacts with the coil is rotatable with a shaft for transmitting a detectable rotational movement, and whose different overlap degree with at least one magnetically conductive body depends on the rotational position thereof. The magnetically conductive element is located outside of a space surrounded by the coil in each rotational position thereof and the magnetically conductive body is U-shaped in such a way that two legs thereof form an intermediate space therebetween and a perpendicular cross web connecting them. The magnetically conductive body includes shaft bearings mounted on the end areas of the legs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: László Gianone, Andrea Neumaier, István Zàdor
  • Publication number: 20090220364
    Abstract: A reciprocating-piston compressor having at least two working cylinders arranged in series, along a cylinder axis is described. The compressor includes a piston in each of the cylinders, guided in an axially movable manner, and a common axially actuated piston rod of the pistons, extending through a passage opening in a partition between the at least two working cylinders. The at least two working cylinders are sealed off with respect to one another in a region of the common axially actuated piston rod, exclusively by a non-contact seal. The axial seal has an axial gap seal formed between a radially outer circumferential surface of the common axially actuated piston rod and a radially inner circumferential surface of the passage opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2007
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Applicant: Knorr-bremse Systeme Fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Michel Rigal, Gilles Hebrard
  • Publication number: 20090211857
    Abstract: A brake pad for a disc brake, in particular for a utility or commercial vehicle, including a pad retaining spring which is designed as an arc-shaped leaf spring, can deflect radially and is fastened by way of a hood to a lining carrier plate which supports a friction lining material. The hood is formed as a separate component and has a section which is U-shaped in cross-section. A web of the hood connects its limbs which limbs are guided in parallel and at both sides of the lining carrier plate. The web bears against the pad retaining spring. The pad retaining spring is designed such that an opening is formed through which a limb of the hood is guided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2009
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Applicant: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Jose Camilo-Martinez, Mario Springer