Patents by Inventor Lionel Bourgois

Lionel Bourgois 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: 8146232
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for fitting/removing a brake master cylinder (MC) of a motor vehicle providing the installation of a temporary retaining pin (g1) in an access hole (tr1) located on the periphery of the master cylinder (MC) so that the pin (g1) emerges inside the barrel (al1) between the mouth (MCe) of the barrel and either the primary or the secondary piston (pp or ps).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Philippe Bourlon, Lionel Bourgois
  • Patent number: 8109088
    Abstract: Our problem relates to a master cylinder with a U-shaped seal. Our goal is to avoid defective bleeding of hydraulic braking systems. The defects arise out of the fact that the vacuum causes the lips of the seal (21) to stick together and to stick against the wall (41). To achieve this, reliefs (42) will be created on one wall (44) of one lip (28) facing the other lip (27) and on the edge face (50) of this same lip. These reliefs will prevent the lips from sticking tightly to one another and to the wall facing the edge face of the lips. This lack of sticking will prevent a vacuum from being created between the two lips and between the edge face of the lips and the wall (41). As a result, the seal will be able to return to a position in which bleeding can be performed effectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Daniel Grech, Antony Auguste, Lionel Bourgois, Nicolas Quiniou, Marc Noblet, Stéphane Lacroix, Omar Brahmi
  • Publication number: 20090126362
    Abstract: The invention relates to a motor vehicle master cylinder (1). More specifically, the invention relates to a piston (4, 5) of the master cylinder which has a first indentation (24) and a second indentation (27), which indentations are formed upstream of a port (13, 14) of the piston. The first indentation and the second indentation delimit a space within which hydraulic brake fluid can be stored so that it can be tapped off by an auxiliary braking device of the E.S.P. type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Yannick Nen, Omar Brahmi, Marc Noblet, Dominique Rault, Philippe Bourlon, Lionel Bourgois, Jeremy Labarre
  • Publication number: 20090113891
    Abstract: Our problem relates to a master cylinder with a U-shaped seal. Our goal is to avoid defective bleeding of hydraulic braking systems. The defects arise out of the fact that the vacuum causes the lips of the seal (21) to stick together and to stick against the wall (41). To achieve this, reliefs (42) will be created on one wall (44) of one lip (28) facing the other lip (27) and on the edge face (50) of this same lip. These reliefs will prevent the lips from sticking tightly to one another and to the wall facing the edge face of the lips. This lack of sticking will prevent a vacuum from being created between the two lips and between the edge face of the lips and the wall (41). As a result, the seal will be able to return to a position in which bleeding can be performed effectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Daniel Grech, Antony Auguste, Lionel Bourgois, Nicolas Quiniou, Marc Noblet, Stephane Lacroix, Omar Brahmi
  • Publication number: 20080196242
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for fitting/removing a brake master cylinder (MC) of a motor vehicle providing the installation of a temporary retaining pin (g1) in an access hole (tr1) located on the periphery of the master cylinder (MC) so that the pin (g1) emerges inside the barrel (al1) between the mouth (MCe) of the barrel and either the primary or the secondary piston (pp or ps).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2008
    Publication date: August 21, 2008
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Philippe Bourlon, Lionel Bourgois
  • Publication number: 20040222578
    Abstract: A prestressed resilient device including a spring (1) and a prestressing cage (2) having a variable axial length up to a maximum length (LO) and being inserted inside the spring (1). The cage (2) includes two U-shaped distance pieces (3, 4) that are coupled through their bases that keep the ends (11, 12) of the spring at a maximum distance apart while enabling them to draw nearer to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2003
    Publication date: November 11, 2004
    Inventors: Lionel Bourgois, Philippe Bourlon, Martin Thurner, Francois Gaffe
  • Patent number: 5215171
    Abstract: A load-controlled brake compensator for a vehicle possessing a chassis and at least one axle, includes a fixed part (10) solidly attached to the chassis and comprising at least one compensating valve provided with a pivotingly mounted control lever (12) of which one end is associated with the axle via a preloaded spring device (18) whose length is preset by way of a temporary strut (22) before one of its ends (20) is fixed to the axle, the other end of the spring device being solidly attached to a rod (16) capable of sliding in an opening (14) made in the end of the lever (12). It further comprises an elastic mechanism (24) tending to restore the spring device (18) towards the lever and a locking means (28, 29, 30) allowing the sliding movement of the rod (16) in the opening (14) to be prevented after fixing of the spring device (18) to the axle and before removal of the temporary strut (22).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1993
    Assignee: Bendix Europe Services Techniques
    Inventors: Marc Longuet, Alain Perrin, Lionel Bourgois