Patents by Inventor Gerd Baur

Gerd Baur 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: 6390133
    Abstract: A hydraulic accumulator assembly for a hydraulic brake system. The accumulator assembly includes a pump housing having therein at least one accumulator bore. The accumulator bore has an axis and an inner wall. A piston is movable within the accumulator bore and divides the accumulator bore into an accumulator chamber, which is communicable with the hydraulic brake system, and a spring chamber. There is a spring in the spring chamber for biasing the piston in the direction of the accumulator chamber. A passageway in the pump housing is closely spaced from the inner wall so as to form a relatively thin wall thickness between the passageway and the inner wall. A vent bore is punched in the inner wall and communicates between the spring chamber and the passageway. The vent bore is punched in a direction away from the axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2002
    Assignee: Robert Bosch Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas T. Patterson, Gerd A. Baur, Paul H. Hanson
  • Patent number: 6280167
    Abstract: A gear pump has a gear wheel with teeth on an outer circumference and a second gear ring with teeth on the inside surface. The gear ring is guided in a circular-cylindrical recess of a housing and together with the gear wheel, each rotates about their own axis which are offset from one another. The gear pump is equipped with an intake opening and a crescent-shaped pressure opening in a first side wall of the housing that defines the recess. A countersunk feature is also provided, embodied as a hollow cone, in a second wall of the housing opposite the pressure opening. The hollow cone, which is in fluid communication with the pressure opening, promotes the buildup of a fluid film between the gear ring and the housing, which improves the wear resistance of the gear pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2001
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Arnold Pahl, Rolf Hummel, Gerd Baur
  • Patent number: 6193481
    Abstract: A piston pump, which is provided as a return feed pump for a slip-regulated motor vehicle brake system. In order to simplify the manufacture, a sleeve in the form of a tubular piece is clamped between a fastening element which is inserted into the cylinder bore using a self-clinching technique, and the cylinder bore, and is thus sealed and fixed in place. In addition to the simple manufacture of the sleeve out of reasonably priced tubular material, the piston pump has the advantage of a sealing of the sleeve in the cylinder bore without a separate sealing element such as a sealing ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2001
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Norbert Alaze, Friedrich Megerle, Ernst-Dieter Schaefer, Wolfgang Schuller, Guenther Schnalzger, Ralf Zitzelsberger, Gerd Baur, Michael Hellebrandt
  • Patent number: 5993179
    Abstract: The invention relates to a housing block into which a piston pump is inserted. For sealing off and fixing a cylinder of the piston pump in the housing block, the cylinder is provided with a radially outward-protruding annular shoulder, which when the cylinder is press-fitted in the housing block displaces material of the housing block and deforms the housing block plastically radially inward until material rests sealingly on the cylinder and fixes the cylinder in the housing block. The invention makes it possible to accomplish securing and sealing in one operation in an economical way, without requiring additional securing means and economizing on one high-pressure-proof sealing ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1999
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gerd Baur, Andreas Rekofsky