Patents by Inventor Mark Tepler

Mark Tepler 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: 9841020
    Abstract: A hydraulic feed device may include a pendulum-slide cell pump having an internal rotor drivingly connected to an external rotor via pendulum slides. A hydraulic positioning device may have a positioning element for changing an eccentricity between the internal rotor and the external rotor. The positioning element may be preloaded by a spring device for setting a maximum eccentricity. The positioning device may have a first pressure adjusting and a second pressure adjusting chamber for adjusting the positioning element. The first pressure adjusting chamber may be permanently hydraulically connected to a pressure side of the pendulum-slide cell pump and configured to hydraulically counteract the spring device. The second pressure adjusting chamber may be controlled via a control valve and hydraulically connected to the pressure side of the pendulum-slide cell pump and configured to hydraulically counteract the spring device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Mahle International GmBH
    Inventors: Edgar Ammon, Ruediger Knauss, Mark Tepler, Christian Richter, Robert Ristovski
  • Patent number: 9752573
    Abstract: A pendulum slider pump may include an inner rotor connected via a plurality of pendulums to an outer rotor. The pendulums may be mounted on the outer rotor in an articulated manner, and the pendulums may respectively include a pendulum foot guiding in an associated radial groove arranged in the inner rotor. The radial grooves may each include a groove base and two circumferentially spaced groove walls. The outer rotor, the inner rotor and two pendulums adjacent in a circumferential direction may each delimit a chamber. Each pendulum foot together with the associated groove walls and the groove base may delimit a pendulum foot space. At least one pendulum foot space may be connected to the associated chamber via at least one communication channel. The at least one communication channel may open into the pendulum foot space in a region of the groove base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Mahle International GmbH
    Inventors: Dieter Hoehn, Christian Richter, Michael Sahr, Mark Tepler
  • Patent number: 9394893
    Abstract: A controllable hydraulic oscillating slide machine includes an inner rotor arranged in a housing and having cylindrical recesses. A bearing is formed in the housing, in which a co-rotating outer rotor is mounted eccentrically to the inner rotor, the outer rotor having several pivotably suspended slide drivers that engage into the recesses of the inner rotor for rotationally driving the outer rotor by way of the inner rotor and form modifiable chambers. The slide drivers may each be coupled to a piston that is guided in a respective associated recess. A pressure level different from that in the chambers between the inner and the outer rotor may be set in the chambers delimited by the recesses and the associated pistons so that two different pressure levels may be generated and two different consumers can be supplied using the oscillating slide machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Mahle International GmbH
    Inventors: André Mäder, Christian Richter, Mark Tepler, Bernd Morthorst, Jens Struckmann, Wolfgang Vöge
  • Publication number: 20150167666
    Abstract: A pendulum slider pump may include an inner rotor connected via a plurality of pendulums to an outer rotor. The pendulums may be mounted on the outer rotor in an articulated manner, and the pendulums may respectively include a pendulum foot guiding in an associated radial groove arranged in the inner rotor. The radial grooves may each include a groove base and two circumferentially spaced groove walls. The outer rotor, the inner rotor and two pendulums adjacent in a circumferential direction may each delimit a chamber. Each pendulum foot together with the associated groove walls and the groove base may delimit a pendulum foot space. At least one pendulum foot space may be connected to the associated chamber via at least one communication channel. The at least one communication channel may open into the pendulum foot space in a region of the groove base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: Dieter Hoehn, Christian Richter, Michael Sahr, Mark Tepler
  • Patent number: 8858206
    Abstract: A pendulum-slide cell pump may include a rotationally mounted inner rotor connected via pendulum-slides with an outer rotor and wherein the outer rotor may be configured to transfer rotational movement of the outer rotor to the inner rotor via the pendulum-slides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Mahle International GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Richter, Mark Tepler
  • Publication number: 20130343940
    Abstract: A hydraulic feed device may include a pendulum-slide cell pump having an internal rotor drivingly connected to an external rotor via pendulum slides. A hydraulic positioning device may have a positioning element for changing an eccentricity between the internal rotor and the external rotor. The positioning element may be preloaded by a spring device for setting a maximum eccentricity. The positioning device may have a first pressure adjusting and a second pressure adjusting chamber for adjusting the positioning element. The first pressure adjusting chamber may be permanently hydraulically connected to a pressure side of the pendulum-slide cell pump and configured to hydraulically counteract the spring device. The second pressure adjusting chamber may be controlled via a control valve and hydraulically connected to the pressure side of the pendulum-slide cell pump and configured to hydraulically counteract the spring device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Inventors: Edgar Ammon, Ruediger Knauss, Mark Tepler, Christian Richter, Robert Ristovski
  • Publication number: 20130052070
    Abstract: A controllable hydraulic oscillating slide machine includes an inner rotor arranged in a housing and having cylindrical recesses. A bearing is formed in the housing, in which a co-rotating outer rotor is mounted eccentrically to the inner rotor, the outer rotor having several pivotably suspended slide drivers that engage into the recesses of the inner rotor for rotationally driving the outer rotor by way of the inner rotor and form modifiable chambers. The slide drivers may each be coupled to a piston that is guided in a respective associated recess. A pressure level different from that in the chambers between the inner and the outer rotor may be set in the chambers delimited by the recesses and the associated pistons so that two different pressure levels may be generated and two different consumers can be supplied using the oscillating slide machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Inventors: André Mäder, Christian Richter, Mark Tepler, Bernd Morthorst, Jens Struckmann, Wolfgang Vöge
  • Publication number: 20120082582
    Abstract: A pendulum-slide cell pump may include a rotationally mounted inner rotor connected via pendulum-slides with an outer rotor and wherein the outer rotor may be configured to transfer rotational movement of the outer rotor to the inner rotor via the pendulum-slides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Inventors: Christian Richter, Mark Tepler