Patents by Inventor Bruno Droll

Bruno Droll 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: 6831381
    Abstract: In an electrical drive mechanism, in particular for motor vehicles, having a commutator motor (14) disposed in a housing (10), which commutator motor (14) has a rotor shaft (17) with a commutator (22) non-rotatably supported on it and has a brush holder (30) affixed to the housing (10), and having a bearing (25) disposed in the vicinity of the commutator (22), which bearing has a bearing bush (34) that encloses the rotor shaft (17) with rotary play and a bearing seat (35) that contains the bearing bush (34), in order to achieve a simple embodiment for the bearing (25), a clamping member (37) is formed onto the brush holder (30) of one piece with it, which clamps the bearing bush (34) in a frictionally engaged, axial fashion in the bearing seat (35) formed in the housing (10) (FIG. 1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2004
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Eckhard Ursel, Bruno Droll, Walter Haussecker, Martin Karl, Wolfgang Thomar, Stefan Freund, Thomas Huck
  • Patent number: 6744159
    Abstract: An armature of the invention has a component, to be mounted on the shaft, that has a protrusion in the internal diameter; the protrusion engages a knurled feature on the shaft, and the initial stresses can lessen at least in part over the course of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2004
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Bruno Droll, Martin Karl, Martin Goedecke
  • Publication number: 20040070296
    Abstract: In an electrical drive mechanism, in particular for motor vehicles, having a commutator motor (14) disposed in a housing (10), which commutator motor (14) has a rotor shaft (17) with a commutator (22) non-rotatably supported on it and has a brush holder (30) affixed to the housing (10), and having a bearing (25) disposed in the vicinity of the commutator (22), which bearing has a bearing bush (34) that encloses the rotor shaft (17) with rotary play and a bearing seat (35) that contains the bearing bush (34), in order to achieve a simple embodiment for the bearing (25), a clamping member (37) is formed onto the brush holder (30) of one piece with it, which clamps the bearing bush (34) in a frictionally engaged, axial fashion in the bearing seat (35) formed in the housing (10) (FIG. 1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2002
    Publication date: April 15, 2004
    Inventors: Eckhard Ursel, Bruno Droll, Water Haussecker, Martin Karl, Wolfgang Thomas, Stefan Freund, Thomas Huck
  • Publication number: 20030020362
    Abstract: In a press fit of a component on a shaft of the prior art, stresses that can damage the component remain in the mounted component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: Bruno Droll, Martin Karl, Martin Goedecke
  • Patent number: 6459183
    Abstract: An electric motor drive mechanism, in particular a window control drive mechanism for a motor vehicle, has an electric motor (10), which has a motor armature shaft (12) that is operatively connected to a gear unit (14) surrounded by a gear housing (16), and also has a motor electronics unit (18) surrounded by an electronic housing (20). The electronics housing (20) has a guide rail (22), extending radially to the motor armature shaft (12), for insertion of the electronics housing (20) via a counterpart guide (23) disposed on the gear housing (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Tasch, Matthias Weber, Bruno Droll, Walter Haussecker, Martin Karl, Robert Hessdoerfer, Friedrich-Wilhelm Dreier, Rainer Kurzmann