Patents by Inventor Erika Mank

Erika Mank 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: 6652245
    Abstract: The invention relates to a piston pump for a hydraulic, slip-controlled vehicle brake system. The piston pump has a piston, which is inserted with a part of its length into a sleeve. A tubular filter that encompasses the piston is attached to the sleeve and constitutes a captive retainer, which secures the piston in a captive fashion in the sleeve. In order to reduce an axial mobility of a sealing ring that seals the piston in the pump housing, the invention proposes attaching the filter, which limits the axial mobility of the sealing ring, to the sleeve in an axially mobile fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2003
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Hauser, Norbert Alaze, Thorsten Duermeier, Ursula Eckstein, Erika Mank
  • Patent number: 6499970
    Abstract: A combination electric motor-pump unit which is installed on a body of a vehicle. The pump unit includes motor fastening screws with which the electric motor is fastened to the pump housing and which connect the pump unit to the vehicle body. This significantly reduces the number of required parts. The pump unit is provided for a brake system of a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Heinz Siegel, Arnold Pahl, Rolf Hummel, Barbara Schwind-Grellmann, Martin Mohle, Erika Mank
  • Publication number: 20020155008
    Abstract: The invention relates to a piston pump (10) for a hydraulic, slip-controlled vehicle brake system. The piston pump (10) has a piston (20), which is inserted with a part of its length into a sleeve (12). A tubular filter (76) that encompasses the piston (20) is attached to the sleeve (12) and constitutes a captive retainer, which secures the piston (20) in a captive fashion in the sleeve (12). In order to reduce an axial mobility of a sealing ring (14) that seals the piston (20) in the pump housing (16), the invention proposes attaching the filter (76), which limits the axial mobility of the sealing ring (24), to the sleeve (12) in an axially mobile fashion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2002
    Publication date: October 24, 2002
    Inventors: Manfred Hauser, Norbert Alaze, Thorsten Duermeier, Ursula Eckstein, Erika Mank
  • Patent number: 6457956
    Abstract: The invention relates to a piston pump for a slip-controlled hydraulic vehicle brake system. To make a piston of the piston pump easy and inexpensive to manufacture, the invention proposes that the piston be comprised of a sleeve-like shaped part and a valve seat part that is made of plastic and is press-fitted into the shaped part. A high-pressure-side sealing lip is formed onto the valve seat part and is of one piece with it. By means of a tubular support body, a restoring spring is supported on the valve seat part spaced apart from a valve seat of the valve seat part and spaced apart from the sealing lip, which prevents the valve seat and the sealing lip from being impaired by the force of the restoring spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Hauser, Norbert Alaze, Walter Kremsreiter, Thorsten Duermeier, Juergen Reiner, Werner Rittler, Ursula Eckstein, Andreas Weh, Erika Mank
  • Patent number: 6168245
    Abstract: The brake system has at least one brake circuit (I), in which a high-pressure pump is disposed. A self-aspirating charge pump is also provided, which is connected at least indirectly to the intake side of the high-pressure pump by an intake line of a supply container for brake fluid and by a pressure line. In the event of an inadequate supply of brake fluid by the charge pump, the pumping of air into the brake circuit (I) is intended to be precluded. To that end, a siphon is disposed in the intake line of the charge pump. Air aspirated by the siphon suddenly prevents pumping by the charge pump. The brake system is intended for use in motor vehicles with slip control or for automatic brakes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2001
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Heinz Siegel, Arnold Pahl, Rolf Hummel, Guenter Krenz, Erika Mank, Rolf Stotz
  • Patent number: 5927824
    Abstract: A vehicle hydraulic brake system having brake pressure modulation valve assemblies, between a dual-circuit master cylinder and wheel brakes of vehicle wheels. The pump device is embodied as a low-pressure pump with the brake pressure modulation valve assemblies be assigned a first and second return pump and that in the automatic braking mode the first pressure chamber is made to communicate with a first return pump and the second pressure chamber is made to communicate with the second return pump, on the inlet side in both cases. The low-pressure pump, in the automatic braking mode, generates charge pressure for the return pumps that is substantially below a maximum brake pressure, and the return pumps generate the maximum projected brake pressure and serve, in the additionally possible anti-lock mode, to return pressure fluid from the wheel brakes to the master cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1999
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Arnold Pahl, Wolf-Dieter Jonner, Norbert Alaze, Helmut Pueschel, Thomas Isella, Guenther Schmidt, Karl-Heinz Willmann, Rolf Hummel, Elmar Mueller, Johann Herr, Roland Holzmann, Guenter Dzierzawa, Martin Moehle, Guenter Krenz, Erika Mank, Hans-Juergen Herderich