Patents by Inventor Anton V. Zanten

Anton V. Zanten 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: 9211874
    Abstract: A braking system may include a brake booster, the piston-cylinder system of which is driven by an electric motor, wherein at least one working chamber of the piston-cylinder system is connected by hydraulic lines to at least two wheel brakes, a wheel brake being allocated a 2/2-way switching valve in each case and the hydraulic connection lines between the wheel brakes and the piston-cylinder system being closable, optionally separately or jointly, by means of the 2/2-way switching valves, so that a pressure can be adjusted in the wheel brakes one after the other in terms of a multiplex method and/or simultaneously. The electric motor and switching valves may be activated by a control device configured to adjust or control the piston movement and piston speed during the pressure generation and pressure reduction as a function of the pressure-volume characteristic of the wheel brakes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: IPGATE AG
    Inventors: Heinz Leiber, Anton V. Zanten, Christian Koglsperger
  • Publication number: 20120013173
    Abstract: A braking system may include a brake booster, the piston-cylinder system of which is driven by an electric motor, wherein at least one working chamber of the piston-cylinder system is connected by hydraulic lines to at least two wheel brakes, a wheel brake being allocated a 2/2-way switching valve in each case and the hydraulic connection lines between the wheel brakes and the piston-cylinder system being closable, optionally separately or jointly, by means of the 2/2-way switching valves, so that a pressure can be adjusted in the wheel brakes one after the other in terms of a multiplex method and/or simultaneously, the electric motor and switching valves being activated by a control device, and in that the hydraulic connection line from the working chamber of the piston-cylinder system to the respective magnetic valve has a flow resistance RLi and each switching valve together with the hydraulic line to the wheel cylinder, has a flow resistances RVi wherein the flow resistance RLi and RVi are small such that
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2010
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Applicant: IPGATE AG
    Inventors: Heinz Leiber, Anton V. Zanten, Christian Koglsperger
  • Patent number: 5255963
    Abstract: A known hydraulic vehicle brake system has an anti-skid valve assembly. By this assembly, the at least one wheel brake can be temporarily disconnected from the master brake cylinder and connected to one inlet of a return pump, which furnishes the quantities of pressure fluid flowing out of the wheel brakes both to a damper chamber and, via a damper throttle, to the master brake cylinder and/or the at least one wheel brake. The disadvantage is that all of the pressure fluid pumped by the return pump can sometimes reach the master brake cylinder, disagreeably moving the brake pedal in the direction of its outset position. This can annoy a driver and should be avoided. The improved vehicle brake system has a valve, which in anti-skid operation can be blocked, located between the damper throttle and the master brake cylinder and also has a bypass throttle bypassing the valve. As a result, during anti-skid operation, the brake pedal is not displaced to such an annoying extent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1993
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Altmann, Rainer Lauer, Guenther Schmidt, Kasimir Stromski, Anton V. Zanten, Alfred Sigl, Harald Hellmann, Karl Veil, Hans-Joerg Fees, Wolf-Dieter Jonner, Reinhard Gutzeit
  • Patent number: 5169216
    Abstract: A vehicle brake system having a pump drivable via pressure from the master brake cylinder, a reservoir fillable by this pump, and an electrically controllable valve which, in traction control operation, pressure fluid from the reservoir can be delivered to an inlet of the return pump. Via the pressure fluid from the reservoir, this return pump generates pressure for the wheel brakes of the drivable wheels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1992
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Guenther Schmidt, Anton V. Zanten