Patents by Inventor Friedrich-Wilhelm Hofer

Friedrich-Wilhelm Hofer 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: 4809785
    Abstract: An electro-hydraulic arrangement regulating the lifting mechanism actuatable by a hydraulic motor, on an agricultural working vehicle having a driven wheel, comprises a plurality of sensors including a position sensor forming an actual value position signal, a force sensor forming an actual value force sensor, and an additional sensor forming an actual value slippage signal dependent on slippage of the driven wheel, a nominal value transmitter, a first summation point connected with the additional sensor and with the force sensor so as to obtain the slippage-dependent signal and the actual value force signal therefrom and to produce an output signal, a mixing device having a first input connected with the first summation point and for receiving the output signal and a second input connected with the position sensor for receiving the actual value position signal and producing an output signal, and a second summation point connected with the mixing device for receiving the output signal of the mixing device and
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 7, 1989
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Winfried Arnold, Horst Hesse, Friedrich-Wilhelm Hofer, Heinrich Lodige, Hubert Mohaupt, Werner Schumacher
  • Patent number: 4660380
    Abstract: A hydraulic control arrangement for regulating a lifting device in an agricultural vehicle has a proportionally operating regulating directional valve which includes a blocking unit, a control slider controlling said blocking unit and connected with a throttling valve so that its throttle slider during lifting operates as a pressure compensation valve and during lowering as a pressure reducing valve, and a spring associated with the throttle slider is only insignificantly stronger than the regulating spring in an adjusting device of an adjusting pump, so that during actuation of the throttle slider depending upon the high load pressure of a parallel-operating second hydromotor, the pressure differential required for the lifting stream at the control slider and the pressure differential acting during lowering in the first control conduit remain substantially constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1983
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1987
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Friedrich-Wilhelm Hofer, Gunther Schwerin
  • Patent number: 4259986
    Abstract: A control arrangement for a hydraulic power consumer particularly in agricultural machines, has a pressure medium reservoir which is connected with a member for supplying pressure medium from the reservoir to the consumer to thereby move the consumer in one direction. The consumer is also connected with a member for withdrawing pressure medium from the consumer to thereby move the latter in an opposite direction. The arrangement further includes a single valve unit which is operative for both communicating and discommunicating the consumer with the supplying member and with the withdrawing member to thereby alternately move the consumer in the respective directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1978
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1981
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Edmund Maucher, Friedrich-Wilhelm Hofer, Gunther Schwerin