Patents by Inventor Berthold Braun

Berthold Braun 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: 6318238
    Abstract: A wobble drive in an axial piston machine, particularly the axial piston pump of a high-pressure cleaning device, having a wobble body (1) rotatable around an axis of rotation (D) and a wobble plate (2) driving with its front side at least one piston (10a) positioned parallel to the axis of rotation D, a roller bearing (3) positioned between the wobble body (1) and the wobble plate (2) exhibiting a bearing axis inclined to the axis of rotation (D). In order to insure even at elevated rotary speeds of the wobble body (1) and thus also of the rolling bodies (6) that the rolling bodies (6) are securely held in their races (4,5) in spite of the elevated centrifugal forces acting on them, it is proposed that the wobble plate (2) be provided with a rim (7) overlapping the wobble body (1), with the rolling bodies (6) being positioned between the rim (7) and the wobble body (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Assignee: Alfred Karcher GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Klaus Becker, Berthold Braun, Boris Baumann, Robert Nathan
  • Patent number: 6138549
    Abstract: An axial piston machine, in particular an axial piston pump of a high-pressure cleaning device, includes a wobble drive having a wobble member rotatable about an axis of rotation, and a swash plate rotatably supported by the wobble member and extending at an inclination with respect to the axis of rotation. The swash plate interacts on one end face thereof with at least one piston. For simplification of the assembly of an axial piston machine, the wobble member is so configured as to have a conical portion flared in the direction of the swash plate and formed with a ball race for a ball bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2000
    Assignee: Ina Walzlager Schaeffler OHG
    Inventors: Berthold Braun, Klaus Becker