Patents by Inventor Hans Wolfges

Hans Wolfges 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: 7028976
    Abstract: A closing body is mounted in an axially displaceable manner in a bore of a fluidic valve to control a pressure medium flowing via the valve. The closing body has a sealing section, interacting with a seating edge of valve, and a guide section which serves to guide the valve cone in the bore. The guide section is provided with recesses which allow an overflow of pressure medium between the two sides of the closing body. To reduce costs of production, the guide section of the closing body is of cylindrical form and its surface is provided with at least one helical groove which leads from one side of the guide section to its other side. The closing body is useful in particular in constant pressure valves for controlling fluid pressure medium. The sealing section of the closing body is normally of conical form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: Bosch Rexroth AG
    Inventors: Peter Bachmann, Uwe Künzinger, Holger Mühlhoff, Hans Wölfges
  • Patent number: 6843508
    Abstract: A hydraulic device having a nut part with a threaded hole which has an internal screw thread with a defined nominal diameter and with a defined, uniform pitch, and having a screw part which has an external screw thread with the same nominal diameter as the threaded hole and with a defined, uniform pitch, which is screwed into the threaded hole. (In hydraulic devices, screw parts, in particular nozzle bodies, are generally adhesively bonded in place, in order to prevent them from becoming detached. Adhesive bonding has certain drawbacks, since the screw threads have to be free of grease, and in the case of nozzles there is a risk of blockages, adhesive can enter the hydraulic circuit and also process reliability is not ensured during application.) There is provided a slight difference between the pitch of the internal screw thread of the nut part and the pitch of the external screw thread of the screw part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2005
    Assignee: Bosch Rexroth AG
    Inventors: Karl Cords, Frank Hofmann, Peter Lauer, Götz-Dieter Machat, Karl Meyer, Konrad Schneider, Hans Wölfges
  • Publication number: 20040238772
    Abstract: Closing bodies serve to control a pressure medium flow flowing via a fluidic valve. The closing body is mounted in an axially displaceable manner in a bore of the valve. It has a sealing section, interacting with a seating edge of the valve, and a guide section which serves to guide the valve cone in the bore. The guide section is provided with recesses which allow an overflow of pressure medium between the two sides of the closing body. The production of such closing bodies is expensive. In order to produce such closing bodies in a more cost-effective manner, the guide section of the closing body is of cylindrical form and its surface is provided with at least one helical groove which leads from the one side of the guide section to its other side. The closing bodies are used in particular in constant pressure valves for controlling fluid pressure medium. The sealing section of the closing body is normally of conical form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2004
    Publication date: December 2, 2004
    Inventors: Peter Bachman, Uwe Kunzinger, Holger Muhlhoff, Hans Wolfges
  • Patent number: 6628186
    Abstract: A proportional activation magnet (1) for a hydraulic solenoid valve has a pole (3) with a valve cone receiving bore (17) for receiving a valve cone (20) and a pole tube (14) for receiving an armature (30). An armature tappet (33) extends between the armature (30) and valve cone (20). A retention area (35) with a tappet passage opening (36) is provided around the armature tappet (33) in a region between the valve cone receiving bore (17) and pole tube (14). An annular gap with a predefined gap width is formed between the inside of the tappet passage opening (36) and the outside of the armature tappet (33) which extends in the tappet passage opening (36).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2003
    Assignee: Bosch Rexroth AG
    Inventor: Hans Wölfges
  • Publication number: 20030103832
    Abstract: The invention is based on a hydraulic device having a nut part with a threaded hole which has an internal screw thread with a defined nominal diameter and with a defined, uniform pitch, and having a screw part which has an external screw thread with the same nominal diameter as the threaded hole and with a defined, uniform pitch, which is screwed into the threaded hole. In hydraulic devices, screw parts, in particular nozzle bodies, are generally adhesively bonded in place, in order to prevent them from becoming detached. Adhesive bonding has certain drawbacks, since the screw threads have to be free of grease, and in the case of nozzles there is a risk of blockages, adhesive can enter the hydraulic circuit and also process reliability is not ensured during application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2002
    Publication date: June 5, 2003
    Inventors: Karl Cords, Frank Hofmann, Peter Lauer, Gotz-Dieter Machat, Karl Meyer, Konrad Schneider, Hans Wolfges
  • Patent number: 5979862
    Abstract: A pilot-operated proportional pressure limiting valve with a pilot valve, with a main piston which can be acted on in closing direction by pressure prevailing in a control chamber and in opening direction by pressure prevailing in an inlet, with a control oil nozzle device between the inlet and the pilot valve and with a damping nozzle device between the control chamber and the pilot valve, wherein the total hydraulic resistance of the damping nozzle device is variable as a function of the stroke of the main piston. The damping nozzle device comprise a radial hole in the main piston, and in the closed position of the main piston the radial hole debouches towards the outside in the region of a radially narrow annular slot and, after a given stroke of the main piston, in the region of a radially wide annular slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Assignee: Mannesman Rexroth AG
    Inventor: Hans Wolfges
  • Patent number: 5295663
    Abstract: A pressure control valve is provided comprising an inlet bore, an annular channel and a control spool. So as to obtain a low control deviation and good stability an annular channel is provided at the outlet side of the valve. The axial extension of said annular channel is smaller than the outlet flow area formed by said bores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 22, 1994
    Assignee: Mannesmann Rexroth GmbH
    Inventors: Gotz-Dieter Machat, Eugen Ebert, Hans Wolfges
  • Patent number: 4938118
    Abstract: A 3/2 proportional control valve is provided with an actuating piston which is subjected to the control pressure set in a pilot valve. The area relationships of the actuating piston are so chosen that at the actuating piston a high pressure gradient obtains and the adjustment dynamics of the regulating piston are increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 3, 1990
    Assignee: Mannesmann Rexroth GmbH
    Inventors: Hans Wolfges, Wolfgang Volpert
  • Patent number: 4809746
    Abstract: A proportional throttle valve which varies the throttle cross-sectional area in dependence upon a control signal and thus governs the flow rate. The invention relates to a throttle valve in which the position of the valve member remains constant independent of pressure fluctuations upstream and downstream of the throttle cross-section. For this purpose the pressure acts on equisized opposing faces of the valve member. An annular face of equal magnitude lying opposite the control face is subjected to the pressure in a line leading from the pressure-limiting valve for setting the control pressure to the tank so that pressure fluctuations in this tank line cause corresponding variations of the control pressure and the position of the valve member remains constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 7, 1989
    Assignee: Mannesmann Rexroth GmbH
    Inventor: Hans Wolfges
  • Patent number: 4790511
    Abstract: A pilot-controlled proportional throttle valve is provided having pilot oil passage means provided in the spool of said throttle valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 13, 1988
    Assignee: Mannesmann Rexroth GmbH
    Inventors: Norbert Gehrig, Hans Wolfges
  • Patent number: 4590968
    Abstract: The invention refers to a pressure reducing valve including a pilot valve. The main piston of the pressure reducing valve allows to selectively connect a load port to either a port connected to a pressure source or to a port connected to the reservoir. The pilot valve is connected to a control pressure line and to the reservoir. The main piston controlled connection to the reservoir opens within the valve housing into a port connecting the pilot valve to the reservoir. This provides for a substantially simplified construction of the valve since there are only two operating ports and a reservoir port. Furthermore, the main piston is engaged by a spring which is capable of becoming activated such that dynamic stresses resulting from a change from high to low pressure values are avoided which vibrations are detrimental in generating pressure peaks as well as pressure breaks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1986
    Assignee: Mannesmann Rexroth GmbH
    Inventor: Hans Wolfges
  • Patent number: 4555976
    Abstract: A device for controlling a consumer, in particular a hydromotor includes a restrictor, preferably an electrohydraulic proportional directional control valve, and a control valve operating on the basis of a releasable non-return valve. The control valve is provided with an actuating cylinder-and-piston unit having control ports and a biasing spring for the piston. The control valve also has a connecting port which is connected with a connecting port of the restrictor. In order to substantially simplify the structural design of the device, a flow regulator is installed between the control port of the control valve and the connecting port of the restrictor which is connected with the consumer. The control sides of the flow regulator and the control valve are connected through a throttle with a supply container. The space of the cylinder-and-piston unit adjoining the control side of the control piston is connected with another connecting port of the control valve and with the restrictor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 1983
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1985
    Assignee: Mannesmann Rexroth GmbH
    Inventor: Hans Wolfges
  • Patent number: 4548383
    Abstract: A pressure-reducing valve is secured to a proportional magnet by resiliently connecting the valve sleeve of the valve receiving the piston to the housing of the proportional magnet, thus avoiding possible deformations of the valve sleeve resulting from mounting. Furthermore, the operational safety of the valve is improved by abutments limiting the stroke of the valve piston and by a control edge which is additionally provided at the valve sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1985
    Assignee: Mannesmann Rexroth GmbH
    Inventor: Hans Wolfges
  • Patent number: 4548233
    Abstract: The invention relates to pressure relief valves which spring bias is controlled by a proportional magnet. The force applied by the proportional magnet is increased by an additional hydraulic pressure force which acts on the spring. There is the advantage of decreasing the size of the proportional magnet and/or increasing the flow capacity of the valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1985
    Assignee: Mannesmann Rexroth GmbH
    Inventor: Hans Wolfges
  • Patent number: 4413245
    Abstract: An inductive measuring transducer impermeable to pressure media for use with a fluidic adjusting member such as a multiple position valve as a receiving casing of non magnetic working material for receiving a magnetic core, coils surrounding the casing which are, in turn, surrounded by a housing. An operating rod passes into the casing through a connecting member and operates the core. The casing is formed as continuous, hollow cylindrical tube with a closing member or plug inserted in one end and attached in fluid tight relationship. The other end of the receiving casing is tightly connected with the connecting member which is formed as a separate part from the receiving casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1983
    Assignee: Mannesmann Rexroth GmbH
    Inventors: Reiner Bartholomaus, Christoph Gibas, Hans Wolfges, Ferdinand Hess, Karl Schiene
  • Patent number: 4342331
    Abstract: The hydraulic control- and/or measuring device has a housing and a socket-shaped control slider movable in a cylindrical bore in the housing between an open position in which it passes a pressure fluid from an inlet opening to an outlet opening; a stationary jet intercepting member projects into the blind bore of the slider and has a deflection disk located outside the range of the inlet opening to intercept fluid energy at the beginning of the opening phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1982
    Assignee: Die G. L. Rexroth GmbH
    Inventors: Reiner Bartholomaus, Hans Wolfges