Patents by Inventor Armin Merz

Armin Merz 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).

  • Publication number: 20100192921
    Abstract: A fuel pump according to the invention includes a housing and a part, which is a moving part during operation and which bears on a housing region at least indirectly. It is proposed that the fuel pump includes a coating which is applied to the housing region on a side of the housing region which faces towards the moving part, and that the coating is composed of a plastic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2008
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Inventors: Christian Langenbach, Manfred Fink, Armin Merz, Josef Guentert, Jan Grebe, Robert Reitsam
  • Publication number: 20100163005
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a high-pressure pump, particularly for delivering fuel for a common rail fuel injection system, having a pump body in which at least one cam drive having a cam shaft is received. The cam shaft is pivotally supported about a cam shaft axis in the pump body and/or in a flange body by at least one bearing arrangement. The bearing arrangement includes a radial bearing bush extending in the direction of the cam shaft axis, and an axial bearing washer, which is integrally formed on the radial bearing bush. The axial bearing washer extends in a radial extension direction of less than 90 degrees relative to the cam shaft axis in the non-installed state. The radial extension direction is directed toward the radial bearing bush and can be brought into an axial bearing plane extending at an angle of 90 degrees to the cam shaft axis in the installed state by elastic deformation of the axial bearing washer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Inventors: Gerhard Meier, Armin Merz, Andreas Dutt
  • Publication number: 20070154326
    Abstract: A high-pressure pump having a housing containing at least one pump element that has a pump piston driven by a drive shaft; the piston is guided so that it can slide in a cylinder bore of a housing part and delimits a pumping chamber therein. A support element supports the pump piston against the drive shaft; and a prestressed return spring acts on both the pump piston and the support element in the direction toward the drive shaft. The support element is guided so that it can slide in a receptacle, which is contained in the housing part that also contains the cylinder bore, in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the pump piston, but cannot rotate around the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2004
    Publication date: July 5, 2007
    Inventors: Armin Merz, Gerhard Meier
  • Patent number: 7029248
    Abstract: A pump unit for the metered delivery of fuel to internal combustion engines. The pump unit comprises a housing which comprises a longitudinal bore. Located in the longitudinal bore is an overflow valve, via which fuel flows back through a channel into a fuel tank. The passage can be opened or closed by a spring-loaded closing element. Fastened to the valve shaft of the overflow valve is a ring fitting. In the longitudinal bore of the housing there is an additional thread section, via which air flows out through vent gaps into a cavity of the ring fitting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Armin Merz, Walter Fuchs, Andreas Dutt
  • Publication number: 20050031472
    Abstract: A pump unit for the metered delivery of fuel to internal combustion engines. The pump unit comprises a housing which comprises a longitudinal bore. Located in the longitudinal bore is an overflow valve, via which fuel flows back through a channel into a fuel tank. The passage can be opened or closed by a spring-loaded closing element. Fastened to the valve shaft of the overflow valve is a ring fitting. In the longitudinal bore of the housing there is an additional thread section, via which air flows out through vent gaps into a cavity of the ring fitting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2003
    Publication date: February 10, 2005
    Inventors: Armin Merz, Walter Fuchs, Andreas Dutt