Patents by Inventor Jürgen Faller

Jürgen Faller 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: 11760327
    Abstract: In order to realize shortened response and release times in a pneumatic brake booster for a hydraulic motor vehicle brake system, having an operating chamber which is delimited between an operating wall and a rear wall of the booster housing, the rear wall of the booster housing has at least one formation for reducing the minimum volume of the operating chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Inventor: Jürgen Faller
  • Patent number: 11148650
    Abstract: A pneumatic brake booster having a booster housing. The booster housing has at least two thin-walled shell elements and an elastomer sealing element. The sealing element has a sealing bead, which is of encircling form radially at the outside, and at least one rolling diaphragm portion which adjoins the sealing bead. The sealing bead is sealingly clamped in a clamping space between the shell elements. The clamping space is formed by walls which are generated in the shell elements by deformation, its radial inner wall formed by a tubular, axially forwardly extending projection, which is folded at its front edge, of the second shell element. It is proposed that a bead-side rear wall of the clamping space is formed by an encircling, radially outwardly projecting collar which is formed on the second shell element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Inventors: Jürgen Faller, Ralf Jakobi
  • Patent number: 10625724
    Abstract: A pneumatic brake booster having a vacuum chamber and a working chamber in a booster housing separated from one another by an elastic diaphragm. The diaphragm bears in regions against a diaphragm plate axially displaceable between a zero position and a maximum stroke. An axial spacing between the zero position and the maximum stroke defines a stroke range of the brake booster. The diaphragm has a rolling fold which, during the displacement of the diaphragm plate, rolls on a rolling region on an inner wall of the booster housing. In order to offer a solution in which it is the intention for a modular system for different stroke ranges to be formed more efficiently and for the efficiency loss to be minimized or avoided, the booster housing has, in the rolling region, a tapered, conical portion with a cone angle ?8° and an axial extent >?*stroke range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventor: Jürgen Faller
  • Patent number: 10543823
    Abstract: In order to minimize spreading, without additional parts, of connecting bolts of a pneumatic brake booster in a manner which is brought about by the deformation of a bearing surface on a booster housing before and during its assembly on a provided vehicle body part, it is proposed that the bearing surface is assigned a planar surface section in an immediately adjacent manner which is configured so as to be plane-parallel with respect to the bearing surface and so as to be axially inwardly recessed on the booster housing with a circumferential step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Jürgen Faller, Juliano Muniz, Gustavo Ladeira, Fabio Gaiotto, Marcelo Ideriha, Fabio Araujo
  • Patent number: 10525953
    Abstract: A pneumatic brake booster including a booster housing having at least one housing shell. The housing shell is designed to be substantially pot-shaped with a center axis, a base portion and a lateral portion, and the base portion has a curved or conical wall region. In order to offer a brake booster by which it is possible to cost-effectively realize improved adaptability to customer- and application-specific requirements with respect to the spatial connection arrangement, at least one flattened surface area is formed in a radial outer region of the base portion, is designed to be elongate in the circumferential direction and has, at its radial outer edge, at least two notches which are arranged with respect to one another in a defined grid pattern with a circle angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Rene Peter Eberhart, Jürgen Faller
  • Patent number: 10525954
    Abstract: A pneumatic brake booster for a hydraulic motor-vehicle brake system, including a booster housing, having a front and a rear housing shell, and at least one connecting pin, which is arranged in the booster housing such that the at least one connecting pin extends axially parallel to the center axis and which supports the booster housing from the inside by two supporting formations and which protrudes through the booster housing from the inside to the outside on at least one side by an end segment. In order to ensure simple intermediate handling of the brake booster before and during the assembly of the brake system and to improve the durability and corrosion resistance, the housing shells are arranged in such a way that the housing shells are each connected to the connecting pin such that the housing shells are secured against being axially moved apart from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Jürgen Faller, Oliver Herke, Rene Peter Eberhart
  • Publication number: 20190389445
    Abstract: A pneumatic brake booster having a vacuum chamber and a working chamber in a booster housing separated from one another by an elastic diaphragm. The diaphragm bears in regions against a diaphragm plate axially displaceable between a zero position and a maximum stroke. An axial spacing between the zero position and the maximum stroke defines a stroke range of the brake booster. The diaphragm has a rolling fold which, during the displacement of the diaphragm plate, rolls on a rolling region on an inner wall of the booster housing. In order to offer a solution in which it is the intention for a modular system for different stroke ranges to be formed more efficiently and for the efficiency loss to be minimized or avoided, the booster housing has, in the rolling region, a tapered, conical portion with a cone angle ?8° and an axial extent >?*stroke range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventor: Jürgen Faller
  • Publication number: 20190322260
    Abstract: A pneumatic brake booster having a booster housing. The booster housing has at least two thin-walled shell elements and an elastomer sealing element. The sealing element has a sealing bead, which is of encircling form radially at the outside, and at least one rolling diaphragm portion which adjoins the sealing bead. The sealing bead is sealingly clamped in a clamping space between the shell elements. The clamping space is formed by walls which are generated in the shell elements by deformation, its radial inner wall formed by a tubular, axially forwardly extending projection, which is folded at its front edge, of the second shell element. It is proposed that a bead-side rear wall of the clamping space is formed by an encircling, radially outwardly projecting collar which is formed on the second shell element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Jürgen Faller, Ralf Jakobi
  • Publication number: 20190315327
    Abstract: A pneumatic brake booster including a booster housing having at least one housing shell. The housing shell is designed to be substantially pot-shaped with a center axis, a base portion and a lateral portion, and the base portion has a curved or conical wall region. In order to offer a brake booster by which it is possible to cost-effectively realize improved adaptability to customer- and application-specific requirements with respect to the spatial connection arrangement, at least one flattened surface area is formed in a radial outer region of the base portion, is designed to be elongate in the circumferential direction and has, at its radial outer edge, at least two notches which are arranged with respect to one another in a defined grid pattern with a circle angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Rene Peter Eberhart, Jürgen Faller
  • Patent number: 10363915
    Abstract: A pneumatic brake booster in which, for improving the sealing and simplifying the assembly of sealing elements, it is proposed that the booster housing in the bearing region of at least one sealing element has a metal coating having a surface roughness Ra>1.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Rene Peter Eberhart, Jürgen Faller, Ralf Jakobi, Ilja Prygunkov, Andreas Weiss
  • Publication number: 20180370510
    Abstract: A pneumatic brake booster in which, for improving the sealing and simplifying the assembly of sealing elements, it is proposed that the booster housing in the bearing region of at least one sealing element has a metal coating having a surface roughness Ra>1.2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: Rene Peter Eberhart, Jürgen Faller, Ralf Jakobi, IIja Prygunkov, Andreas Weiss
  • Publication number: 20180362007
    Abstract: A pneumatic brake booster for a hydraulic motor-vehicle brake system, including a booster housing, having a front and a rear housing shell, and at least one connecting pin, which is arranged in the booster housing such that the at least one connecting pin extends axially parallel to the center axis and which supports the booster housing from the inside by two supporting formations and which protrudes through the booster housing from the inside to the outside on at least one side by an end segment. In order to ensure simple intermediate handling of the brake booster before and during the assembly of the brake system and to improve the durability and corrosion resistance, the housing shells are arranged in such a way that the housing shells are each connected to the connecting pin such that the housing shells are secured against being axially moved apart from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: Jürgen Faller, Oliver Herke, Rene Peter Eberhart
  • Publication number: 20180186354
    Abstract: In order to minimize spreading, without additional parts, of connecting bolts of a pneumatic brake booster in a manner which is brought about by the deformation of a bearing surface on a booster housing before and during its assembly on a provided vehicle body part, it is proposed that the bearing surface is assigned a planar surface section in an immediately adjacent manner which is configured so as to be plane-parallel with respect to the bearing surface and so as to be axially inwardly recessed on the booster housing with a circumferential step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Jürgen Faller, Juliano Muniz, Gustavo Ladeira, Fabio Gaiotto, Marcelo Ideriha, Fabio Araujo
  • Publication number: 20180170338
    Abstract: In order to realize shortened response and release times in a pneumatic brake booster for a hydraulic motor vehicle brake system, having an operating chamber which is delimited between an operating wall and a rear wall of the booster housing, the rear wall of the booster housing has at least one formation for reducing the minimum volume of the operating chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventor: Jürgen Faller
  • Patent number: 9878695
    Abstract: A pneumatic brake booster for a motor vehicle having a booster housing, the interior space of which is divided by at least one axially movable wall loadable with a pneumatic differential pressure into at least one working chamber and at least one vacuum chamber. The movable wall includes a diaphragm plate and a rolling diaphragm which is arranged sealingly between the booster housing and the control housing, having a control valve which controls the differential pressure, is arranged in the control housing, and which controls a connection of the working chamber to the vacuum chamber or atmosphere, having at least one extraction duct which is integrated into the control housing for connection of the vacuum chamber to the working chamber, wherein the extraction duct can be blocked by the control valve. A device is also provided between the vacuum chamber and working chamber to improve the noise behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Jürgen Faller, Ralf Jakobi
  • Patent number: 9457781
    Abstract: A braking device, for a motor vehicle brake system. The braking device has at least one movable activation element, at least one device for monitoring the position and movement of at least one activation element, and at least one compressible, electrically conductive device spring which is elastically prestressed between two abutments, wherein at least one of the abutments is of movable design, and the movement of the abutment is coupled at least partially to a movement of at least one activation element. The device spring is provided for moving at least one of the abutments into its unactivated release position. The invention proposes that the device spring be assigned a sensing function for monitoring the position and movement of at least one activation element. A degree of compression of the device spring can be sensed, and the device spring is arranged in an electrically insulated fashion between the two abutments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventor: Jürgen Faller
  • Publication number: 20150239447
    Abstract: A pneumatic brake booster for a motor vehicle having a booster housing, the interior space of which is divided by at least one axially movable wall loadable with a pneumatic differential pressure into at least one working chamber and at least one vacuum chamber. The movable wall includes a diaphragm plate and a rolling diaphragm which is arranged sealingly between the booster housing and the control housing, having a control valve which controls the differential pressure, is arranged in the control housing, and which controls a connection of the working chamber to the vacuum chamber or atmosphere, having at least one extraction duct which is integrated into the control housing for connection of the vacuum chamber to the working chamber, wherein the extraction duct can be blocked by the control valve. A device is also provided between the vacuum chamber and working chamber to improve the noise behavior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: Jürgen Faller, Ralf Jakobi
  • Publication number: 20150136534
    Abstract: A braking device, for a motor vehicle brake system. The braking device has at least one movable activation element, at least one device for monitoring the position and movement of at least one activation element, and at least one compressible, electrically conductive device spring which is elastically prestressed between two abutments, wherein at least one of the abutments is of movable design, and the movement of the abutment is coupled at least partially to a movement of at least one activation element. The device spring is provided for moving at least one of the abutments into its unactivated release position. The invention proposes that the device spring be assigned a sensing function for monitoring the position and movement of at least one activation element. A degree of compression of the device spring can be sensed, and the device spring is arranged in an electrically insulated fashion between the two abutments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventor: Jürgen Faller
  • Patent number: 8955423
    Abstract: A tandem-type pneumatic brake booster, in particular for hydraulic vehicle brake systems, having a housing comprising a first and a second housing half shell, the interior of which is divided with the aid of a partition into a front and a rear booster chamber, wherein the partition has a centrally arranged, circular cavity, through which a control housing or a cylindrical control housing extension extends, and the partition rests sealingly against the control housing or the control housing extension by a sealing element, having a first and a second movable wall, which respectively subdivide the front and the rear booster chamber into a first low-pressure chamber and a first working chamber and into a second low-pressure chamber and a second working chamber, having at least one connecting conduit between the first working chamber and the second working chamber in order to equalize the pressure between said two working chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Andreas Weiss, Juergen Faller, Andreas Bischoff, Volker Ickler, Ralf Jakobi, Sven Mainz
  • Patent number: 8671823
    Abstract: A pneumatic brake servo which can be acted on by a pneumatic differential pressure is described. The brake servo includes an actuable input member comprising a valve piston, an output member for acting on a master brake cylinder, and a control valve which is arranged in a control housing and which can be actuated by the valve piston for controlling the differential pressure. An elastic reaction element is arranged in a control housing recess and against which the output member bears. The input member acts with an input effective area A1 on the reaction element, and the output member acts with an output effective area A2 on the reaction element. The ratio of output effective area A2 to input effective area A1 determines the force boost ratio of the brake servo. Means are provided for adjusting the output effective area A2 in the assembled brake servo.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Jürgen Faller, Klaus Lind