Patents by Inventor Erwin Mueller

Erwin Mueller 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: 11174832
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hydraulic device that uses gravity and buoyancy forces, in which during a rotation of the assembly, movable masses (M1, . . . , Mn) are displaced by means of a force acting on the masses that counteracts the weight force in such a way that said masses contribute to the rotational movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Inventor: Erwin Mueller
  • Publication number: 20200217295
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hydraulic device that uses gravity and buoyancy forces, in which during a rotation of the assembly, movable masses (M1, . . . , Mn) are displaced by means of a force acting on the masses that counteracts the weight force in such a way that said masses contribute to the rotational movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2018
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventor: Erwin MUELLER
  • Patent number: 9869399
    Abstract: A slide valve, in particular for controlling a motor vehicle automatic transmission, has a housing which includes an axial end section. A connector sleeve is situated on the axial end section of the housing, the connector sleeve having a larger diameter in a first axial area adjacent to the housing and a smaller diameter in a second axial area remote from the housing, a filter device being situated in the first axial area. The second axial area includes a hydraulic connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Klaus Schudt, Erwin Mueller
  • Patent number: 9746071
    Abstract: A pressure control valve, in particular for an automatic transmission in a motor vehicle, including a housing and including a control piston situated in the housing, the control piston being actuatable by an armature situated in a magnet chamber of a pole tube, the magnet chamber being hydraulically connected to a compensating chamber provided in the housing, which is delimited, in particular by a lateral surface of a solenoid coil and the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Schudt, Erwin Mueller
  • Publication number: 20150354715
    Abstract: A slide valve, in particular for controlling a motor vehicle automatic transmission, has a housing which includes an axial end section. A connector sleeve is situated on the axial end section of the housing, the connector sleeve having a larger diameter in a first axial area adjacent to the housing and a smaller diameter in a second axial area remote from the housing, a filter device being situated in the first axial area. The second axial area includes a hydraulic connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Klaus Schudt, Erwin Mueller
  • Publication number: 20150176700
    Abstract: A pressure control valve, in particular for an automatic transmission in a motor vehicle, including a housing and including a control piston situated in the housing, the control piston being actuatable by an armature situated in a magnet chamber of a pole tube, the magnet chamber being hydraulically connected to a compensating chamber provided in the housing, which is delimited, in particular by a lateral surface of a solenoid coil and the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: Klaus SCHUDT, Erwin MUELLER
  • Patent number: 8205858
    Abstract: An electromagnetic pressure regulating valve has a valve portion for conducting and regulating the pressure of an operating medium, such as oil, a magnet portion for actuating the valve portion for regulating the pressure of the operating medium and having a magnet housing, in which a magnet core is located that as needed exerts magnetic force on an armature, located in the magnet housing, a spring with a spring force generating a pressure activation threshold to be overcome upon regulation and located between the armature and an adjusting ball that is located in a pole piece of the magnet housing, and the spring has regions of different diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Erwin Mueller, Klaus Schudt, Michael Duerr, Rene Deponte, Guido Daimer
  • Patent number: 7942168
    Abstract: The invention provides a pneumatic and/or fluidic module, a method of producing a pneumatic and/or fluidic module and the use of a pneumatic and/or fluidic module, the pneumatic and/or fluidic module comprising at least one pneumatic and/or fluidic conduit provided to form at least a part of a pneumatic and/or fluidic circuit, said at least one pneumatic and/or fluidic conduit comprising a first part along said conduit and a second part along said conduit, wherein said conduit is provided essentially leak-proof along the interface of the first and the second part by means of the first part comprising a first material at the interface of the first and the second part and by means of the second part comprising a second material at the interface of the first and the second part and wherein the first material is more compressible than the second material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Thomas Kuehnel, Erwin Mueller, Torsten Briem
  • Patent number: 7784602
    Abstract: A conveying system to be used in the printing industry, especially in mailroom technology, includes a revolvingly driven conveying member that is provided with supporting elements that are fixed to a traction rope in a stationary and optionally torsion-proof manner. The conveying member can be provided with another rope that has the same length as the traction rope, revolves substantially parallel thereto, and is used as a guide rope or second traction rope. Grippers that are disposed laterally on the belt-shaped conveying member, which is formed by ropes and supporting elements, are arranged on the supporting elements in order to grab and hold individual printed products or groups of printed products. The conveying member is deflected onto different deflection planes via guiding devices while being twisted between such deflections such that the three-dimensional position of the supporting elements and the conveyed printed products can be modified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Ferag AG
    Inventor: Erwin Mueller
  • Patent number: 7694961
    Abstract: A stack-like arrangement of printed products with folded edges, in which arrangement the printed products are all arranged with identical orientation, has an increased stability, if it comprises stack sections, within which the folded edges of the printed products indeed lie on top of each other, but wherein the stack sections are arranged displaced in relation to each other, such that the stack sections with folded edges protruding from the arrangement alternate with stack sections with edges opposite the folded edges protruding from the arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Ferag AG
    Inventor: Erwin Mueller
  • Publication number: 20090090881
    Abstract: An electromagnetic pressure regulating valve has a valve portion for conducting and regulating the pressure of an operating medium, such as oil, a magnet portion for actuating the valve portion for regulating the pressure of the operating medium and having a magnet housing, in which a magnet core is located that as needed exerts magnetic force on an armature, located in the magnet housing, a spring with a spring force generating a pressure activation threshold to be overcome upon regulation and located between the armature and an adjusting ball that is located in a pole piece of the magnet housing, and the spring has regions of different diameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2008
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Inventors: Erwin Mueller, Klaus Schudt, Michael Duerr, Rene Deponte, Guido Daimer
  • Publication number: 20080315509
    Abstract: A stack-like arrangement of printed products with folded edges, in which arrangement the printed products are all arranged with identical orientation, has an increased stability, if it comprises stack sections, within which the folded edges of the printed products indeed lie on top of each other, but wherein the stack sections are arranged displaced in relation to each other, such that the stack sections with folded edges protruding from the arrangement alternate with stack sections with edges opposite the folded edges protruding from the arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: FERAG AG
    Inventor: Erwin Mueller
  • Publication number: 20080283136
    Abstract: The invention provides a pneumatic and/or fluidic module, a method of producing a pneumatic and/or fluidic module and the use of a pneumatic and/or fluidic module, the pneumatic and/or fluidic module comprising at least one pneumatic and/or fluidic conduit provided to form at least a part of a pneumatic and/or fluidic circuit, said at least one pneumatic and/or fluidic conduit comprising a first part along said conduit and a second part along said conduit, wherein said conduit is provided essentially leak-proof along the interface of the first and the second part by means of the first part comprising a first material at the interface of the first and the second part and by means of the second part comprising a second material at the interface of the first and the second part and wherein the first material is more compressible than the second material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N. V.
    Inventors: Thomas KUEHNEL, Erwin MUELLER, Torsten BRIEM
  • Publication number: 20080210521
    Abstract: A conveying system to be used in the printing industry, especially in mailroom technology, includes a revolvingly driven conveying member that is provided with supporting elements that are fixed to a traction rope in a stationary and optionally torsion-proof manner. The conveying member can be provided with another rope that has the same length as the traction rope, revolves substantially parallel thereto, and is used as a guide rope or second traction rope. Grippers that are disposed laterally on the belt-shaped conveying member, which is formed by ropes and supporting elements, are arranged on the supporting elements in order to grab and hold individual printed products or groups of printed products. The conveying members is deflected onto different deflection planes via guiding devices while being twisted between such deflections such that the three-dimensional position of the supporting elements and the conveyed printed products can be modified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2006
    Publication date: September 4, 2008
    Applicant: FERAG AG
    Inventor: Erwin Mueller
  • Publication number: 20040046306
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for receiving printing products (6, 7, 8, 9) in a transfer zone (37). Said device comprises at least one receiving element (1) that has a support element (2), a base element (3) and a bearing element (4), said support element (2) and base element (3) being able to support printing products (6, 7, 8, 9) laterally and from below and the bearing element (4) being able to receive printing products (6, 7, 8, 9) astride said element. According to the invention, a deflection element (5) is provided which can preferably deflect a printing product (6, 7, 8, 9) that is fed to the receiving element (1), in such a way that at least one part of the fed printing product (6, 7, 8, 9) is positioned on the side of the received printing products (6, 7, 8, 9) facing away from the support element (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2003
    Publication date: March 11, 2004
    Inventors: Willy Leu, Erwin Mueller
  • Patent number: 5897303
    Abstract: The invention relates to a piston pump, having a piston that has a longitudinal bore, that includes a valve seat face upon which a valve closing body is pressed by a valve spring. The valve spring is a helical compression spring, whose winding diameter increases from a winding end that engages the valve closing body to a winding end that rests on a spring seat face formed in the longitudinal bore of the piston. The piston pump of the invention has the advantage that the valve closing body along with the valve spring can be installed in the piston in an axial motion; the valve spring is directly accessible, and a correct seating of the valve and valve spring in the longitudinal bore can be checked visually after installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1999
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Erwin Mueller
  • Patent number: 5746111
    Abstract: This invention relates to a piston pump in a brake system having a piston, which is drivable in a reciprocating motion in a cylinder by an eccentric tang. To avert damage to a ring seal, a support ring is provided which keeps the ring seal spaced apart from a guide sheath for the piston in the cylinder by a distance that is at least as long as a stroke length of the piston. This prevents running scratches on the piston from coming into contact with the ring seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1998
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Erwin Mueller, Norbert Alaze, Gerhard Wetzel, Klaus Schmidt, Harald Ott
  • Patent number: 5567135
    Abstract: A reciprocating pump including a piston through which fluid can flow. The piston includes an inlet valve which presses a valve ball against a valve seat in a longitudinal bore in the piston. One end of the piston has a cap-shaped support elements attached thereto against which the inlet valve spring is supported and which engage around an end behind an undercut in the piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1996
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Erwin Mueller, Wolfgang Schuller
  • Patent number: 4937544
    Abstract: A contact arrangement has a contact spring which is prestressed against a seating edge of an actuation element by a prestress bend. The pre-stress bend lies at an angle of between 0 through 30 degrees relative to the seating edge so that roll-off is produced at the contact location. Such contact arrangement is especially advantageous for switching high-current loads since roll-off at the contact location reduces the welding tendency and makes an easier break-open of the contact when the contact is opening if there is a slight welding of the contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 26, 1990
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Erwin Mueller
  • Patent number: 4492942
    Abstract: The relay exhibits a coil body on whose one flange an armature retaining element is integrated over elastic stays. A bar-shaped armature is secured in the frame-like armature retaining element, whereby the elastic flexural stays serve as a bearing for the armature. Additional fastening parts for the armature are thereby eliminated. A friction-free armature seating also thereby derives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 8, 1985
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Erwin Mueller