Patents by Inventor Bernd Bock

Bernd Bock 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: 6974351
    Abstract: In an electric motor-and-gear assembly for driving automotive power accessories such as front and rear wipers, power window units, or the like, having transmission casing, that can be closed by means of a casing cover, and having a socket that is disposed in the casing cover and can be contacted by means of a connector plug in order to connect the electric motor to the electrical system of the vehicle, for the sake of a uniform, single design of the socket when there are structurally varied designs of connector plugs, the socket is attached to an interchangeable adapter which has a first group of electrical contacts adapted to the socket and a second group of electrical contacts adapted to the connector plug. The contacts of the two contact groups, which are comprised of plug tabs, are connected to one another in an electrically conductive manner inside or along a surface of the adapter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2005
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Detlef Lauk, Ernst Fischer, Hansjoerg Karcher, Juergen Herp, Erik Maurer, Andreas Wiegert, Bernd Bock, Richard Hurst
  • Patent number: 6698967
    Abstract: A device (10) for length adjustment has a bar-shaped component (12) with an external profiling (14) which is received in a receptacle (16) of a base body (18). The base body (18) has at least one profiled segment (22, 24) which, under the influence of an axially slidable hollow element (28), is shifted into a locking position at a first axial position of the hollow element (28), in which the base body (18) and component (12) are axially rigidly coupled, and is shifted into an unlocking position at a second axial position of the hollow element (28), in which the base body (18) and component (12) are axially displaceable relative to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignee: Küster Automotive Control Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Willi Henrich, Bernd Bock
  • Publication number: 20030205439
    Abstract: A device (10) for length adjustment, with a barlike component (12) that has an external profiling (14), is; the component (12) is received in a receptacle (16) of a base body (18), and the base body (18) has a binding (20) with at least one profiled segment (22, 24), which under the influence of a hollow element (28), guided axially displaceably on the base body (18) and acted upon by the prestressing of a spring (26), in a first axial position (30) of the hollow element (28), is shifted into a locking position, in which the base body (18) and component (12) are axially rigidly coupled, and in a second axial position (32) of the hollow element (28), the profiled segment (22, 24) is shifted into an unlocking position, in which the base body (18) and component (12) are axially displaceable relative to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2001
    Publication date: November 6, 2003
    Inventors: Willi Henrich, Bernd Bock
  • Patent number: 6515399
    Abstract: An electric motor-and-gear assembly for driving vehicle aggregates such as windshield and rear window wipers, power-window units and the like, having a transmission housing that can be closed by a housing cover. A motor housing that contains a commutator motor whose commutator protrudes into the transmission housing and cooperates with a brush holder fixed in the transmission housing. For the sake of a more reasonably priced manufacture and a time-saving, more rapid assembly of the brush holder, the commutator brushes are embodied as hammer brushes with spring leaf actuators prestressed toward the commutator. The spring leaf actuator are respectively fixed with their one actuator end in a U-shaped plastic carrying part of the brush holder, which is inserted into the transmission housing radial to the commutator, through the housing opening and is positioned in the transmission housing in a positively engaging manner by means of the housing cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Detlef Lauf, Ernst Fischer, Hansjoerg Karcher, Juergen Herp, Erik Maurer, Andreas Wiegert, Christian Schneider, Bernd Bock, Richard Hurst
  • Patent number: 6376962
    Abstract: An electric drive unit for vehicle systems, such as power windows and windshield wipers, having a commutator motor that has a commutator and at least two commutator brushes. The electric drive unit includes electrical components of an electronic system for the motor. To reduce production costs and simplify assembly, the electrical components are electrically secured to a lead frame that makes the electrical connection between the components and the commutator motor and the commutator brushes are embodied as hammerhead brushes, whose carrier plates are bent in one piece out of the lead frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Detlef Lauk, Ernst Fischer, Hansjoerg Karcher, Juergen Herp, Erik Maurer, Andreas Wiegert, Bernd Bock, Richard Hurst