Patents by Inventor Gerhard Wetzel

Gerhard Wetzel 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: 6474963
    Abstract: The invention relates to a piston pump (10) for a hydraulic slip-controlled vehicle brake system. In order to reduce a structural length of the piston pump (10), the invention proposes embodying the piston (16) of the piston pump (10) as a hollow piston whose inner chamber constitutes a displacement chamber (40) of the piston pump (10) and inserting an inlet valve (20) of the piston pump (10) into the inner chamber of the piston (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Wetzel, Wolfgang Schuller
  • Patent number: 6420811
    Abstract: An electric motor is fastened to a machine, such as a piston pump. For fastening the electric motor to a positioning device, the invention proposes embodying a motor housing with T-shaped fastening elements, whose crossheads are bent into a circle and which engage blind bores in the positioning device and are retained in the blind bores by a calk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2002
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Gerhard Wetzel
  • Patent number: 5988774
    Abstract: A hydraulic brake system for a vehicle with an anti-lock arrangement operable by wheel brake pressures are individually variable in front wheel brakes and rear wheel brakes, connected to diagonal brake circuits, of a four-wheeled vehicle, in order to reduce or eliminate a threat of wheel locking. The anti-lock arrangement has at least one return pump per brake circuit. The anti-lock arrangement is equipped with a total of four electrically controllable valves. In each of the brake circuits I, II there is one first valve between the master cylinder and a front wheel brake and one second valve between the master cylinder and the rear wheel brake. All the valves are embodied as normally open valves and are electrically closable. Inlets of each of the return pumps communicate directly with the respective front wheel brakes and indirectly with the rear wheel brakes through throttles. Check valves that open toward the inlets of the return pumps are provided in series with the throttles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1999
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Wolf-Dieter Jonner, Guenter Wolff, Werner Wilde, Michael Tischer, Juergen Breitenbacher, Gerhard Wetzel, Rainer Heinsohn, Andreas Klug, Hermann Kaess, Peter Zeiner, Klaus Schmidt, Harald Ott
  • Patent number: 5986368
    Abstract: An electrohydraulic unit for controlling pressure in slip-controlled motor vehicle brake systems comprises a hydraulic block, with an electric motor mounted on a first side, and a control unit secured to an opposite second side of the hydraulic block. Electrical terminals of the electric motor are passed through the hydraulic block and are embodied inside the control unit as resilient contact means. The contact means engage contact faces of the control unit with an initial stress. The resilient contact means make electrical plugs in the control unit unnecessary, and they compensate for tolerances in and transverse to the mounting direction of the electric motor and control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1999
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Wetzel, Martin Maier
  • Patent number: 5957548
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electrohydraulic unit for regulating the brake fluid pressure of a motor vehicle. The device includes a hydraulic block, on whose one side an electric motor is affixed. The electric motor includes electrical connections which protrude through the hydraulic block to an opposite side of the block and are connected there to electrical conductors of a mounted control device that covers the electrical conductors. For a simple contacting of the electrical connections, the conductors are helical wound around guide pins, which protrude into blind bores in the hydraulic block for the positioning of the mounted control device on the hydraulic block during assembly so that free ends of the electrical conductors reach into forked ends of the connecting pins before the mounted control device covers the connections. Contact points are therefore accessible for the production of an electrical connection during the assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1999
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Gerhard Wetzel
  • Patent number: 5939812
    Abstract: The invention relates to a collector machine, in particular an electric motor, having a rotor, rotatably supported in a housing and having an armature winding and a collector. The collector for electrically contacting the armature winding cooperates with at least two brushes resting slidingly on the collector, which are each displaceably guided counter to an initial tension in a respective quiver provided for each brush on a brush carrier plate. In accordance with the improvement according to the invention, at least one contact element, which is part of an associated quiver and for one pole of the electrical contacting establishes an electrically conductive contact with the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1999
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Gerhard Wetzel
  • 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: 5620311
    Abstract: The invention relates to a piston pump having a pump motor which has a motor shaft which merges into an eccentric for driving at least one pump piston. In order to support the eccentric in a robust manner, the motor shaft has ball bearings on either side of the eccentric, which ball bearings, in order to avoid alignment errors, are inserted into a common eccentric-bearing component. In order to be able to carry out a test run of the pump motor independently of a pump casing, the invention proposes to connect the eccentric-bearing component to a casing of the pump motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 15, 1997
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Gerhard Wetzel
  • Patent number: 5180215
    Abstract: A hydraulic dual-circuit brake system with an anti-skid system and traction control in motor vehicles which has a four-channel hydraulic unit with electromagnetic control valves and a return pump having two separate pump elements. For supplying brake pressure during traction control, an additional hydraulic unit is provided, which has a charging valve for connecting the brake fluid tank to a pump element, which pump element is assigned to a brake circuit containing at least one driven wheel, and a reversing valve for alternatingly connecting this pump element to the master brake cylinder or the brake fluid tank. To provide economical brake pressure supply during traction control, the aforementioned pump element is embodied as a self-aspirating high-pressure pump, and a check valve having a flow direction toward the pump element is incorporated into the connection between the control valves disposed in the brake circuit assigned to this pump element and the inlet of the pump element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1993
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Bernhardt, Roland Holzmann, Guenther Schmidt, Lothar Kirstein, Gerhard Wetzel
  • Patent number: 5172956
    Abstract: A hydraulic system having a pressure generator which is protected against destructive overload. The hydraulic system has a pulsating feeding pressure generator, such as a piston pump, which feeds pressure fluid at high pressure into a damper chamber of a housing. A throttle body having a throttle bore is disposed on the outlet side of the damper chamber. For producing the protective effect, the damper chamber is preceded by a rupture disk communicating with the outlet. The throttle body suitably has a thin-walled portion, embodied as a rupture disk, in which the throttle bore is located. The embodiment described is advantageously usable in hydraulic systems in which pressure fluids are pulsatingly fed at high pressures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1992
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Klose, Ernst-Dieter Schaefer, Frank Schumann, Gerhard Wetzel, Klaus Mueller
  • Patent number: 5156449
    Abstract: A hydraulic dual-circuit brake system with an anti-skid system (ABS) and traction control (ASR) for motor vehicles has a four-channel hydraulic unit with control valves and a return pump with two separate pumping elements for each brake circuit. To supply brake pressure in traction control operation, an additional unit is provided having a charging valve for connecting a self-aspirating pumping element of the return pump to the brake fluid tank and a reversing valve disposed in the connection between this pumping element and the master brake cylinder. For a rapid buildup of brake pressure in traction control, given wheel brake cylinders requiring a large brake fluid volume, a reservoir is provided connected to the brake pressure supply circuit by a reservoir connection valve via the reversing valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1992
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Gerhard Wetzel
  • Patent number: 5131729
    Abstract: A known vehicle brake system having four wheel brakes, belonging to two brake circuits, for four wheels has an anti-skid apparatus with two electrically controllable brake pressure modulators, two wheel rotation sensors, and two brake pressure adaptors. The wheel rotation sensors are assigned to one front wheel and one diagonally opposed rear wheel, and each controls one brake pressure modulator, which belongs to the same wheel as the wheel rotation sensor. The brake pressure of a wheel brake located on the same axle on the opposite side of the vehicle is also controlled by a brake pressure modulator via a brake pressure adaptor. If only one wheel rotation sensor is provided per axle, only the wheel associated directly with the wheel rotation sensor can be braked optimally. The other wheel on the same axle may be overbraked or underbraked. This interferes with controllability of the vehicle and/or may have the disadvantage of overly long stopping distances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1992
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Gerhard Wetzel
  • Patent number: 5078457
    Abstract: A vacuum motor having a first chamber and a second chamber that in the actuation direction is disposed following a dividing movable wall, a third chamber is provided preceding the first chamber. Upon the occurrence of a traction control situation, the third chamber is moved into a connection between a magnetic assembly which is connected to atmospheric pressure and the first chamber. The second chamber is at the same time connected to a negative pressure source. By way of a pressure drop between the first and second chambers, an adjusting force acting upon a multi-circuit master cylinder is generated for traction control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1992
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Norbert Rittmannsberger, Gerhard Wetzel
  • Patent number: 4861116
    Abstract: An inexpensive drive slip control system, combined with a brake control and anti-skid control system, which includes a pump element and a first valve assembly upstream of a wheel brake cylinder, a second valve assembly in the brake circuit, which can be bypassed by a fluid line, which communicates with a multi-circuit master cylinder and leads to the wheel brake cylinder of the undriven wheel and communicates via a third valve assembly with the inlet side of the pump element, the outlet side of which is connected to the brake line of the driven wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1989
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Bernhardt, Gerhard Wetzel