Abstract: An electrical coolant pump, preferably for use as an additional water pump in a vehicle, is characterised in that a radial bearing of the shaft, which is arranged between the pump impeller and the rotor, is provided by means of a radial sintered sliding bearing having a defined porosity lubricated by coolant, and a shaft seal is arranged between the radial sliding bearing and the motor chamber, wherein at least one coolant flow channel with a predetermined depth is provided in the sintered sliding bearing in an axial direction extending from the end of the sintered sliding bearing on the side of the pump chamber.

Abstract: An electrical screw spindle coolant pump is suitable for conveying a coolant circuit or other corrosive, liquid media. The electrical screw spindle coolant pump has a spindle housing with a spindle chamber and an axially adjacent motor housing. The motor housing has a motor chamber, in which a dry-running electric motor is arranged separated from the flow current. The motor housing has a thermal transition portion through which the flow current flows. The thermal transition portion is arranged between the motor chamber and a component boundary of the motor housing to the spindle housing.

Abstract: A compact bearing is produced by a sliding bearing and has a sealing arrangement for water pumps. The bearing includes a sliding bearing bushing that includes an inner sliding surface and a radial recess having an axial sliding surface, a shaft collar, and a wet-side shaft seal arranged between the wet side and the sliding bearing bushing. A dry-side shaft seal is arranged between the sliding bearing bushing and the dry side. A lubricant reservoir with a substrate, which is porous in at least some sections, is arranged between the wet-side shaft seal and the sliding bearing bushing. The lubricant reservoir includes, in pores of the substrate, a lubricant insoluble in water, and a volume of the lubricant reservoir and a volume of a lubricant filling a total volume of spaces between the wet-side shaft seal and the dry-side shaft seal.

Abstract: A hybrid-driven dual pump for conveying a coolant for a combustion engine, is proposed. The dual pump comprises: a first pump assembly with a first pump impeller, a first spiral housing and a first pump shaft driven via a mechanical drive connection by a combustion engine; a second pump assembly with a second pump impeller, a second spiral housing, a second pump shaft and an electric drive; a joint pump housing enclosing the first pump assembly and the second pump assembly with a joint pump inlet and a joint pump outlet; and a flap arranged freely pivotably between an outlet of the first spiral housing and an outlet of the second spiral housing such that a direct flow connection between the first spiral housing and the second spiral housing is blocked.

Abstract: An electric coolant pump is used as an auxiliary water pump in a vehicle. The pump includes radial mounting of the shaft (4) is provided by means of a coolant-lubricated radial sliding bearing (41) arranged between the pump impeller (2) and the rotor (32). A dry-running electric motor (3) with a radially inner stator (31) and a radially outer rotor (32) is accommodated in a motor chamber (13) separated from the pump chamber (10). A shaft seal (5) is between the radial sliding bearing (41) and the motor chamber (13). The rotor (32) is bell-shaped with an inner surface facing the shaft seal (5) and being fixed to the shaft seal (5) to axially overlap with the shaft (4). The motor chamber (13) has an opening to the atmosphere, which is closed by a liquid-tight pressure equalization membrane (6) that is permeable to vapor.

Abstract: In an electrical coolant pump, preferably for use as an additional water pump in a vehicle, a radial bearing of the shaft is provided by means of a radial slide bearing lubricated with coolant on the separating element which is disposed between the pump impeller and the rotor. A dry-running electric motor has a radially inner stator and a radially outer rotor is accommodated within the motor chamber. A shaft seal is disposed between the radial slide bearing and the motor chamber. The rotor is formed in a cup shape, the inner surface of which faces the shaft seal and is fixed to the shaft in an axially overlapping manner. The motor chamber has an opening to the atmosphere which is closed by a liquid-tight and vapor-permeable pressure equalizing membrane. The separating element is configured as a support flange with a separating portion and an axial projection into the motor chamber, to which the stator is attached.

Abstract: An electrically driven gerotor pump has a gerotor which comprises a stationary outer gerotor element with an inner toothing that is axially delimited by two chamber walls, wherein each chamber-forming foot section of the inner toothing is paired with a pressure valve which is connected to the outlet. The gerotor also comprises an inner gerotor element with an outer toothing which is guided in the outer gerotor element in a circumferential manner on an eccentric section of the shaft and is mounted in, a rotatable manner so as to mesh with the inner toothing.

Abstract: An adjustable lubrication oil conveying system for a combustion engine is proposed which comprises a screw pump for conveying lubrication oil with at least one screw rotatably accommodated in a screw chamber, wherein the screw pump is arranged such that a suction side of the screw chamber is connected with an intake path from an oil sump of the combustion engine, and a pressure side of the screw chamber is connected with a feed path to moving parts of the combustion engine. The lubrication oil conveying system is characterised in particular in that the screw pump is driven by the combustion engine; and towards the suction side of the screw chamber, an adjustable throttle valve is provided by means of which a flow cross-section of the intake path is gradually limitable between an opened position and a closed position. Therefore, the oil pressure in a combustion engine is, for the first time, adjusted by suction throttling in connection with a screw pump.

Abstract: An adjustable lubrication oil conveying system for a combustion engine is proposed which comprises a screw pump for conveying lubrication oil with at least one screw rotatably accommodated in a screw chamber, wherein the screw pump is arranged such that a suction side of the screw chamber is connected with an intake path from an oil sump of the combustion engine, and a pressure side of the screw chamber is connected with a feed path to moving parts of the combustion engine. The lubrication oil conveying system is characterised in particular in that the screw pump is driven by the combustion engine; and towards the suction side of the screw chamber, an adjustable throttle valve is provided by means of which a flow cross-section of the intake path is gradually limitable between an opened position and a closed position. Therefore, the oil pressure in a combustion engine is, for the first time, adjusted by suction throttling in connection with a screw pump.

Abstract: A temperature regulating device for regulating the temperature of a drive battery of an electric drive in a vehicle by means of a temperature regulating circuit. The temperature regulating circuit has a battery flow-through section in thermal contact with the drive battery; a cooling flow-through section in thermal contact with an ambient heat exchanger; and piping sections for connecting the temperature regulating circuit and the temperature regulating device. The temperature regulating device includes: an electric pump assembly with a pump housing for circulating a liquid heat transfer medium; electric heating means for heating the heat transfer medium; and temperature regulation control means having a pump control section; and a heating control section; A heating flow-through section for the temperature regulating circuit is in thermal contact with the electric heating means, and is arranged inside the pump housing.

Abstract: A mechanically driven coolant pump having a controllable delivery rate for a main delivery circuit from a first outlet and for a secondary delivery circuit from a second outlet of the coolant pump. The coolant pump comprising a hydraulic control circuit which is derived from the coolant pump and has an input-side auxiliary pump, an output-side proportional valve, and a regulating slide for limiting the flow of the main delivery circuit. A cylindrical portion of the regulating slide can be axially displaced in the pump chamber in order to radially shield the pump impeller by means of a pressure in the hydraulic control circuit counter to a restoring force. A regulating valve is connected to the hydraulic control circuit to limit the flow of the secondary delivery circuit, wherein actuations of the regulating slide and of the regulating valve are associated with pressure ranges in the hydraulic control circuit.

Abstract: An electrical coolant pump, preferably for use as an additional water pump in a vehicle, is characterised in that a radial bearing of the shaft, which is arranged between the pump impeller and the rotor, is provided by means of a radial sintered sliding bearing having a defined porosity lubricated by coolant, and a shaft seal is arranged between the radial sliding bearing and the motor chamber, wherein at least one coolant flow channel with a predetermined depth is provided in the sintered sliding bearing in an axial direction extending from the end of the sintered sliding bearing on the side of the pump chamber.

Abstract: An electric coolant pump is used as an auxiliary water pump in a vehicle. The pump includes radial mounting of the shaft (4) is provided by means of a coolant-lubricated radial sliding bearing (41) arranged between the pump impeller (2) and the rotor (32). A dry-running electric motor (3) with a radially inner stator (31) and a radially outer rotor (32) is accommodated in a motor chamber (13) separated from the pump chamber (10). A shaft seal (5) is between the radial sliding bearing (41) and the motor chamber (13). The rotor (32) is bell-shaped with an inner surface facing the shaft seal (5) and being fixed to the shaft seal (5) to axially overlap with the shaft (4). The motor chamber (13) has an opening to the atmosphere, which is closed by a liquid-tight pressure equalization membrane (6) that is permeable to vapor.

Abstract: An electric coolant pump (1) conveys cooling fluid in order to cool a combustion engine of a vehicle. The electric coolant pump (1) has a pump impeller (2) for accelerating the coolant to be conveyed, a rotor shaft (3) on which the pump impeller (2) is fixed, an electric motor (6), having a stator (8) and a rotor (7), for driving the rotor shaft (3). A control circuit (13) controls the electric motor (6). A pump housing (10) accommodates at least the control circuit (13) and the electric motor (6). The coolant to be conveyed is able to flow through the pump housing (10). The coolant to be conveyed thereby flows around the stator (8), the rotor (6) and the control circuit (13).

Abstract: An electrically driven gerotor pump has a gerotor which comprises a stationary outer gerotor element with an inner toothing that is axially delimited by two chamber walls, wherein each chamber-forming root section of the inner toothing is paired with a pressure valve which is connected to the outlet. The gerotor also comprises an inner gerotor element with an outer toothing which is guided in the outer gerotor element in a circumferential manner on an eccentric section of the shaft and is mounted in a rotatable manner so as to mesh with the inner toothing.

Abstract: The invention relates to a seal device for hydraulically sealing off sealing faces of components which are movable relative to each other in a translational or rotational relative movement, said device having a tough, elastic sealing device seal body (1) with at least one sliding face (10) which is assigned to at least one sealing face of one of the components, a plurality of cavities (2; 2a, 2b; 22) being formed in the at least one sliding face (10), said cavities having closed contours which are delimited from one another towards the sliding face (10). The contours of the cavities (2; 2a, 2b; 22) have a longer dimension (x) in a contour longitudinal direction (X) and a shorter dimension (y) in a contour transverse direction (Y).

Abstract: The invention relates to an oil-free vacuum pump for evacuating gaseous media, comprising: an electric motor which drives a shaft; a pump housing having a pump chamber, as well as an inlet and an outlet; a prismatic displacement piston which is accommodated in the pump chamber such that it is bidirectionally active and can be moved on a reciprocal working section; and at least one pressure valve which releases an outflow of a gaseous medium out of the pump chamber through the outlet and blocks an inflow into the pump chamber. The displacement piston has a slot into which a drive force of the shaft is introduced via a crankpin by means of a rolling bearing.

Abstract: A gerotor pump includes a rotor wherein only on the face wall of the rotor that lies adjacent to a pressure kidney and a suction kidney, a lubrication surface inclined in the direction of rotation of the rotor, relative to the surface plane of the face wall of the rotor, is disposed on each tooth, in each instance, over its tooth height, either starting directly in the center tooth plane or starting “offset” ahead of the center tooth plane in the direction of rotation of the rotor, which surface is formed from a level surface or multiple, always level partial surfaces that follow one another, which enclose an angle of inclination relative to the surface plane of the face wall of the rotor, in each instance, which angle lies in the range from 0.2° to 7°, in each instance.

Abstract: A coolant pump for an internal combustion engine (ICE) in a vehicle with a central engine control, having a pump shaft that drives an impeller for pumping a coolant. An axial piston pump operated via a wobble plate on a rear face of the impeller, conducts part of the pumped coolant away to a hydraulic circuit that extends from the axial piston pump via a proportional valve back to the pumped coolant and has a branch-off between the axial piston pump and the proportional valve as the hydraulic actuator. A regulating slide valve adjusts coolant volume flow of depending on pressure in the hydraulic circuit. A sensor detects a parameter characteristic of the coolant volume flow and outputs an actual value signal. A dedicated pump control controls the proportional valve based on the actual value signal of the sensor and a desired value signal of the central engine control.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electric coolant pump for a coolant circuit of an internal combustion engine, having a radially accelerating pump impeller and a spiral housing section of a pump housing. A control circuit is arranged about an inlet on the side of the pump housing opposing the electric engine, and is accommodated in an ECU chamber. An open side of the pump chamber and an open side of the ECU chamber are separated by a heat-exchange cover, which is opened into the pump chamber at a mouth of the inlet, wherein a material from which the ECU chamber is made has a lower heat conductivity than a material from which the heat-exchange cover is made.