Patents by Inventor Annabel Hackert

Annabel Hackert has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11879453
    Abstract: A method for operating a pump of a delivery unit, in particular of a fluid supply system, having a pump chamber and an actively controllable inlet valve and an actively controllable outlet valve for the pump chamber, wherein, for the delivery of a fluid, a pressure (p), which is to be provided by the pump, of the fluid for delivery is controlled in closed-loop fashion on the basis of a manipulated variable (V), and wherein, within one full cycle (Z) of the pump (200), at least one of inlet valve (211) and outlet valve (212) is activated only if fluid is to be delivered, and is not activated if no fluid is to be delivered, and to a fluid supply system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Kellner, Annabel Hackert, Arno Matzner, Horst Kleinknecht, Jasper Grohmann, Sebastian Gepperth, Siegfried Zerbin, Vellaiyan Thiruvarma
  • Publication number: 20220065240
    Abstract: A method for operating a pump of a delivery unit, in particular of a fluid supply system, having a pump chamber and an actively controllable inlet valve and an actively controllable outlet valve for the pump chamber, wherein, for the delivery of a fluid, a pressure (p), which is to be provided by the pump, of the fluid for delivery is controlled in closed-loop fashion on the basis of a manipulated variable (V), and wherein, within one full cycle (Z) of the pump (200), at least one of inlet valve (211) and outlet valve (212) is activated only if fluid is to be delivered, and is not activated if no fluid is to be delivered, and to a fluid supply system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Andreas Kellner, Annabel Hackert, Arno Matzner, Horst Kleinknecht, Jasper Grohmann, Sebastian Gepperth, Siegfried Zerbin, Vellaiyan Thiruvarma
  • Patent number: 10767534
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for emptying a reducing agent delivery system belonging to an SCR catalytic converter, which comprises a delivery line and a return line, each line connecting a reducing agent tank to a delivery module, and which comprises a pressure line that connects the delivery module to a metering valve. The method comprises the following steps: closing (50) the metering valve, and switching the delivery module from a delivering function to a returning function, by switching (51) a switching valve from a first position to a second position. This enables a reducing agent solution to be returned (52) from the return line, the delivery line and the delivery module by means of the delivery module and the delivery line into the reducing agent tank. Subsequently, the metering valve is opened (53) and a reducing agent solution is returned (54) from the metering valve and the pressure line, and also from the return line, via the delivery line into the reducing agent tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Annabel Hackert, Manuel Simon Reiter, Marc Ringeisen
  • Patent number: 10746622
    Abstract: A method for adjusting a pressure sensor of an SCR system between a delivery pump and a dosing valve, with which the delivery pump is switched off during a switch-off phase of the SCR system and a pressure (pm) measured by the pressure sensor is detected at least during a section of the switch-off phase in which the delivery pump is switched off, and the adjustment of the pressure sensor is carried out by using the measured pressure (pm) as the reference pressure for the pressure sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Annabel Hackert, Marc Ringeisen, Stefan Nagel
  • Publication number: 20190170038
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for emptying a reducing agent delivery system belonging to an SCR catalytic converter, which comprises a delivery line and a return line, each line connecting a reducing agent tank to a delivery module, and which comprises a pressure line that connects the delivery module to a metering valve. The method comprises the following steps: closing (50) the metering valve, and switching the delivery module from a delivering function to a returning function, by switching (51) a switching valve from a first position to a second position. This enables a reducing agent solution to be returned (52) from the return line, the delivery line and the delivery module by means of the delivery module and the delivery line into the reducing agent tank. Subsequently, the metering valve is opened (53) and a reducing agent solution is returned (54) from the metering valve and the pressure line, and also from the return line, via the delivery line into the reducing agent tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventors: Annabel Hackert, Manuel Simon Reiter, Marc Ringeisen
  • Publication number: 20190003915
    Abstract: A method for adjusting a pressure sensor of an SCR system between a delivery pump and a dosing valve, with which the delivery pump is switched off during a switch-off phase of the SCR system and a pressure (pm) measured by the pressure sensor is detected at least during a section of the switch-off phase in which the delivery pump is switched off, and the adjustment of the pressure sensor is carried out by using the measured pressure (pm) as the reference pressure for the pressure sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Annabel Hackert, Marc Ringeisen, Stefan Nagel