Patents by Inventor Mario Prokop

Mario Prokop 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: 9709152
    Abstract: A joined prefabricated individual cam includes multiple cams for an adjustable camshaft in particular for an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle. The camshaft has two shafts mounted concentrically one inside the other, namely an inner shaft and an outer shaft. The joined multiple cam is fixedly pinned to the inner shaft via radial openings provided in the outer shaft with a rotatable bearing on the outer shaft. Such a multiple cam has at least one prefabricated individual cam which is placed as a cam ring on the outside circumference of a carrier pipe at an axial distance from the neighboring individual cams and is fixedly connected to this carrier pipe at a predetermined angle of rotation and axial distance assignment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: MAHLE International GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Lechner, Mario Prokop, Falk Schneider
  • Publication number: 20130019710
    Abstract: A joined prefabricated individual cam (1, 2), comprising multiple cams for an adjustable camshaft in particular for an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle, whereby the camshaft has two shafts mounted concentrically one inside the other, namely an inner shaft and an outer shaft, and the joined multiple cam is fixedly pinned to the inner shaft via radial openings provided in the outer shaft with a rotatable bearing on the outer shaft, should be easy and inexpensive to manufacture. To this end, such a multiple cam is characterized in that at least one prefabricated individual cam (1, 2) is placed as a cam ring on the outside circumference of a carrier pipe (3?) at an axial distance from the neighboring individual cams (1, 2) and is fixedly connected to this carrier pipe (3?) at a predetermined angle of rotation and axial distance assignment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Applicant: MAHLE International GmbH
    Inventors: Martin LECHNER, Mario PROKOP, Falk SCHNEIDER
  • Patent number: 8201532
    Abstract: An anti-rotationally secured tappet of a valve drive of an internal combustion engine may include a bucket tappet including an external lateral surface. A floor and a skirt for may be arranged between a cam and a valve of the valve drive and guided in a receiving bore of a cylinder head. The skirt may include an internal lateral surface and the cylinder head may include a guide groove. A radially outward protruding anti-rotation component may be arranged in a recess of the skirt that glides in the guide groove of the cylinder head. Two spring arms may be included with the anti-rotation component and extend in a circumferential direction of the tappet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Mahle International GmbH
    Inventor: Mario Prokop
  • Publication number: 20100294219
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a rotationally locked tappet (1) of a valve timing mechanism of an internal combustion engine, which tappet is arranged between a cam and a valve and is guided in a receiving bore of a cylinder head (4). Here, a radially protruding anti-rotation safeguard (6) which slides in a guide groove (5) of the cylinder head (4) is arranged in a recess (7, 7?) of the skirt (3). It is essential to the invention here that the anti-rotation safeguard (6) has two spring arms (8, 8?) which extend in the circumferential direction of the tappet (1), bear at least in regions either against an inner circumferential surface (16) of the skirt (3) or against an outer circumferential surface (10) of the tappet (1) and fix the anti-rotation safeguard (6) on the tappet (1) by clamping force which acts radially on said tappet (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2007
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Inventor: Mario Prokop
  • Publication number: 20070234988
    Abstract: A method for producing a compression connection for a driving part (1), in particular for an essentially ring-shaped driving part (1) on a shaft (3), in particular in the case of a built-up camshaft with which the driving part (1) has an opening that essentially corresponds to the outside diameter of the shaft (3), the driving part (1) sits on the shaft with coverage in the finished compression connection, an adhesive layer is applied between the circumferential surfaces of the driving part (1) and the shaft (3), is to be improved. To this end, such a method is characterized by the following features: the driving part (1) is heated until reaching the joining temperature and is thereby widened, the driving part (1) is pushed on to the shaft essentially without any forces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2007
    Publication date: October 11, 2007
    Inventors: Arnd Kobus, Harald Rudiger Muller, Mario Prokop, Alexander Puck
  • Publication number: 20070039411
    Abstract: A joined prefabricated individual cam (1, 2), comprising multiple cams for an adjustable camshaft in particular for an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle, whereby the camshaft has two shafts mounted concentrically one inside the other, namely an inner shaft and an outer shaft, and the joined multiple cam is fixedly pinned to the inner shaft via radial openings provided in the outer shaft with a rotatable bearing on the outer shaft, should be easy and inexpensive to manufacture. To this end, such a multiple cam is characterized in that at least one prefabricated individual cam (1, 2) is placed as a cam ring on the outside circumference of a carrier pipe (3?) at an axial distance from the neighboring individual cams (1, 2) and is fixedly connected to this carrier pipe (3?) at a predetermined angle of rotation and axial distance assignment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2006
    Publication date: February 22, 2007
    Applicant: MAHLE International GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Lechner, Mario Prokop, Falk Schneider