Patents by Inventor Michael Friedow

Michael Friedow 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: 6719592
    Abstract: A device for contacting an electrically operated apparatus, having at least one terminal contact on the apparatus and one plug that can be connected to it axially, with the plug including a sleeve contact which is in contact with an electrically conducting contact area of the terminal contact after joining them, with the terminal contact being oriented parallel to an installation direction of the apparatus, and the sleeve contact being connectable to the terminal contact parallel to the installation direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Friedow, Dietmar Rischen
  • Publication number: 20010034160
    Abstract: A device for contacting an electrically operated apparatus, having at least one terminal contact on the apparatus and one plug that can be connected to it axially, with the plug including a sleeve contact which is in contact with an electrically conducting contact area of the terminal contact after joining them, with the terminal contact being oriented parallel to an installation direction of the apparatus, and the sleeve contact being connectable to the terminal contact parallel to the installation direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 1999
    Publication date: October 25, 2001
    Inventors: MICHAEL FRIEDOW, DIETMAR RISCHEN
  • Patent number: 6290306
    Abstract: A hydraulic brake system for a vehicle for braking the vehicle by brake pedal actuation and/or automatic braking. A pump is provided which has a suction connection that communicates with a supply container for a pressure fluid and a pressure connection for aspirating pressure fluid from the supply container and pumping the fluid to a connection of a master cylinder. A brake circuit of the vehicle brake system is connected with vehicle wheels associated with wheel brake cylinders and with valve assemblies for brake pressure modulation and is connected to the connection of the master cylinder. A valve pressure is also provided between a pressure chamber that communicates with the connection of the master cylinder and the supply container for pressure fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Michael Friedow
  • Patent number: 6069784
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for driving a solenoid valve, which includes a coil and a movable armature. To move the armature, current and/or voltage is applied to the coil in a clocked manner. By varying the driving, the solenoid valve can be operated optionally as a control valve or as a relief valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2000
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Berend-Wilhelm Doden, Michael Friedow, Michael Mettner, Martin Ohler, Gunther Hohl, Erich Ludewig, Dietmar Sommer
  • Patent number: 5842753
    Abstract: A pressure adjuster having electromagnetically actuatable valves, which are combined with a valve block. Each valve has one valve dome that protrudes from a support face of the valve block, and one coil alignable with and mountable on the valve dome. The coils are received in a cap secured to the valve block. The valve block is also provided with a spring element that encompasses the valve domes, for the axial-play- free positional fixation of the coils to the valve domes. By means of the shaping of the spring element, it is attained that this element, in the premounted state, engages the rows of outer valve domes with prestressing, but when the coils are mounted on the valve domes is lifted away from the coils. In the premounted state, the spring element is thus rendered captive. The electrohydraulic pressure adjuster can be used for slip-controlled vehicle brake systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1998
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Staib, Michael Friedow
  • Patent number: 5810330
    Abstract: A magnetic valve that switches at high differential pressures and furnishes a large flow cross section. The magnetic valve has an armature, which when current is supplied to a coil is movable toward a pole core counter to the force of a restoring spring. The armature is capable of opening an auxiliary valve of small sealing diameter directly and a main valve of large sealing diameter indirectly. The auxiliary valve and the main valve have a common closing body, which is movable relative to the armature with a limited stroke. The auxiliary valve communicates through a bore of the closing body with the outflow side of the magnetic valve. In the open position of the magnetic valve, the closing body is held in a position that blocks the auxiliary valve by the action of the second restoring spring. The magnetic valve is suitable in particular for slip-controlled hydraulic brake systems of motor vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1998
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Hubert Eith, Helmut Staib, Michael Friedow, Martin Scheffel, Juergen Lander, Gerhard Stokmaier
  • Patent number: 5788344
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hydraulic unit for a vehicle brake system with ABS. Before being filled with brake fluid, the brake system must be evacuated in order to achieve complete bleeding. In order to evacuate a return line, which is separated from a brake line by pressure reduction magnet valves that are closed in their position of repose, it is known to provide a connecting line with a check valve between the brake line and the return line. The hydraulic unit connects the check valves in parallel to the magnet valves and integrates the check valves with the magnet valves. This simplifies assembly. Since no additional holes and conduits in the hydraulic unit are necessary, existing hydraulic units can be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1998
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Friedow, Juergen Lander, Heidi Kroebel
  • Patent number: 5779221
    Abstract: A pressure adjusting device that has at least one electromagnetically actuatable valve, which is united with a valve block and has both a valve dome that protrudes from the valve block and a coil that is alignable with and mountable on the valve dome. The coil is resiliently joined, by means of electrical contact elements to a cap that covers the coil and the valve dome and is fastened to the valve block. The mounted coil is also axially braced, remote from the valve block, on the cap with a spring element in the form of a sheet-metal spring, one side of the spring element engages the valve block and another side engages the coil. Jarring and impact strains on the electrical contact elements are thereby avoided. The electrohydraulic pressure adjusting device is usable for slip-controlled vehicle brake systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1998
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Staib, Gunther Glock, Michael Friedow, Jurgen Lander, Ulrich Pechtold
  • Patent number: 5762318
    Abstract: A pressure adjuster that has at least one valve, united with a valve block, with a valve dome that protrudes from the valve block. A cap includes a coil which is slipped over the valve dome. Electrical contact elements extend from both the coil and the cap and are joined together in a material bond. The electrical contact elements of the coil and of the cap are embodied resiliently. The electrical contact elements effect both the electrical connection and the mounting function for the coil. Moreover, the electrical contact elements allow aligning the coil as it is slipped onto the valve dome. The electrohydraulic pressure adjuster can be used in slip-controlled vehicle brake systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1998
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Staib, Guenther Glock, Michael Friedow, Juergen Lander, Ulrich Pechtold
  • Patent number: 5735582
    Abstract: A valve assembly with a housing, a master valve and an auxiliary valve and an armature for the auxiliary valve and an electromagnet is proposed. In previous valve assemblies, in which the auxiliary valve, openable via the armature, serves to open the master valve, a master valve closing element is coupled via an idle stroke arrangement to the armature of the auxiliary valve closing element. If the armature traverses a first partial stroke, then the auxiliary valve is opened; if the armature traverses a further partial stroke, then via the idle stroke arrangement it can lift the master valve closing element from a master valve seat, if hydraulic forces are slight enough. Instead of the idle stroke arrangement, the master valve closing element is given its own armature, which is rigidly joined to the master valve closing element and acts in the opening direction. The valve assembly of the invention can advantageously be used in hydraulic vehicle brake systems that are set up for automatic braking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1998
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Hubert Eith, Helmut Staib, Michael Friedow, Martin Scheffel, Jurgen Lander, Gerhard Stokmaier, Hans-Friedrich Schwarz
  • Patent number: 5730509
    Abstract: A magnetic valve that furnishes a large flow cross section and switches at high differential pressures. The magnetic valve has an armature, which when current is supplied to a coil is movable toward a pole core counter to the force of a first restoring spring. Guided on the armature is a valve closing member, movable longitudinally relative to the armature, of a seat valve. Also supported in the armature is a second restoring spring, which exerts a force acting in the direction of the pole core upon the valve closing member. The magnetic valve is especially suitable for slip-controlled hydraulic brake systems of motor vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1998
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Hubert Eith, Helmut Staib, Michael Friedow, Juergen Lander, Gerhard Stokmaier
  • Patent number: 5730506
    Abstract: A space-saving vibration damper that functions reliably for a long term. The vibration damper has a housing that includes at least one concave recess which is sealed by a disk-shaped diaphragm comprising a spring steel sheet. The diaphragm is connected by its edge to a planar surface of the housing by means of material-to-material bonding. The housing has, at the edge of the recess, a rounding that changes over continuously into both the recess and the planar housing surface toward the diaphragm. The hollow chamber disposed between the diaphragm and the recess is filled with air. The vibration damper is designed for use in slip-controlled hydraulic brake systems for a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1998
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Friedow, Martin Maier
  • Patent number: 5718489
    Abstract: An electromagnetically actuated valve of a hydraulic unit is received in pressure-tight fashion and mounted without complicated adjustment of the valve stroke. The valve comprises a hydraulic part and an electrical part. The hydraulic part is a pre-mounted unit with a stroke of a seat valve set before insertion into a receiving bore of a metal valve block. The hydraulic part is received in pressure-tight fashion in the valve block by a first swaged connection located between an inlet conduit and an outlet conduit of the receiving bore. A sealing ring that closes off the receiving bore is retained by a radially extending flange of a bushing slipped onto the hydraulic part. The flange is secured to the valve block by a second swaged connection. The hydraulic unit is usable for traction-controlled motor vehicle brake systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1998
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Friedrich Megerle, Michael Friedow, Juergen Lander, Georg Spalding, Johann Guggemos, Hermann Hoelle, Michael Specker, Guenther Schnalzger, Hubert Hueber, Dietmar Sommer
  • Patent number: 5683151
    Abstract: The object is to reduce the weight of the hydraulic unit. The hydraulic unit (12) has a metal valve block (11) with at least one stepped receiving bore (15) for the hydraulic portion of an electromagnetically actuated valve (10). The hydraulic portion (13) is provided with a securing flange (30), which is inserted into a step (46) of the receiving bore (15) and is positionally secured by a caulking (48) formed from the metal of the valve block (11). A valve dome (16) protruding beyond the boundary plane (17) of the valve block (11) carries the electric portion (14) of the valve (10). The savings in weight is attained by using light metal, such as an aluminum alloy or the like, for the valve block (11). The hydraulic unit is intended for traction-controlled brake systems of motor vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1997
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Friedow, Jurgen Lander, Helmut Staib, Klaus Mueller
  • Patent number: 5542755
    Abstract: An electromagnetically controllable valve has among other elements a guide sleeve that protrudes into a valve block, with an armature and a closing member movable inside the guide sleeve relative to a valve seat. The guide sleeve extends through a securing flange, which is inserted into a receiving bore, located on the valve block, and is fixed there. To secure the guide sleeve against shifting out of the valve block and the securing flange, the guide sleeve is provided with a radially outward-oriented bead. This bead extends within a region, for example an annular recess, that is associated with the securing flange. By way of the recess and the bead, the guide sleeve is axially fixed essentially form-lockingly and inexpensively. The electromagnetically actuatable valve can be built into traction-controlled brake systems of motor vehicles in order to vary brake pressures in the anti-lock and/or traction control modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1996
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Staib, Michael Friedow
  • Patent number: 5445448
    Abstract: A known electromagnetically actuatable valve has a tubular housing sleeve, a through opening radially penetrating the housing sleeve, and inside the housing sleeve, a valve body having a valve seat and an associated movable valve closing member, and a throttle, which comprises a throttle body and a throttle insert built into it having a throttle restriction, which is embodied as a throttle bore. The throttle body is slipped on like a cap over an open end of the housing sleeve. The throttle of this kind, embodied in a complex manner, is expensive and demands an inordinate amount of installation space. To reduce expense and save installation space, the throttle body along with its throttle insert is omitted and the function of the throttle bore is taken on by the through opening, the through opening is embodied as narrow opening in accordance with the throttle function to be produced. The valve can be used in antilock devices of hydraulic brake systems for motor vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1995
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Guenter Wolff, Klaus Mueller, Norbert Alaze, Michael Friedow, Juergen Gruber
  • Patent number: 5190358
    Abstract: A brake system having a master brake cylinder for producing a brake pressure controllable by a brake pedal and transmitting it to at least one brake circuit, which connects the master brake cylinder with corresponding wheel brake cylinders of the front and rear wheels. At least one shutoff valve for anti-skid control is incorporated into each main line of the brake circuits. A first and second brake circuit communicate downstream of the shutoff valves with a feed system, which has devices for feeding brake fluid at different pressures to the first and second brake circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1993
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Roland Holzmann, Karl-Heinz Willmann, Michael Friedow
  • Patent number: 5135292
    Abstract: Single drive slip control system for starter aid in which a slipping wheel is made to slow down to a speed approaching that of the other wheel. The brake line between the master cylinder and the wheel cylinder of each driven wheel is interrupted by a valve arrangement with an electrovalve, and further by a pressure generator downstream of the valve arrangement. When an evaluation circuit senses slippage of a driven wheel, the electrovalve is closed and the pressure downstream is increased. When pressure is produced by the master cylinder, the electrovalve is reopened. To ensure that the valve reopens, the valve arrangement includes a pressure controlled valve which is opened by a pressure build-up in a control chamber connected to the master cylinder through a check valve. A throttle valve in parallel with the check valve permits pressure reduction in the control chamber after braking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1992
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Michael Friedow
  • Patent number: 4846532
    Abstract: A brake system having anti-lock and traction control, which includes a master brake cylinder that can be subjected to pressure from a brake pedal, with at least one brake line connected to corresponding wheel brake cylinders. A valve is incorporated into the respective brake line via which the wheel brake cylinder connected to this brake line can be connected via a return pump to the brake line. Upstream of the return pump, a pressure line is connected to branch off to a pressure chamber of a vacuum cell, and brake fluid can be supplied from the pressure chamber to the return pump via this pressure line to insure that the return pump is always supplied with fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1989
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Friedow, Anton van Zanten
  • Patent number: 4811994
    Abstract: A hydraulic brake system having a hydraulic cylinder including a piston used for brake pressure modulation disposed between a master brake cylinder and at least one wheel brake cylinder in which the piston of the hydraulic cylinder is actuated mechanically by an electric-motor-driven centrifugal positioner. In an anti-skid system, the hydraulic cylinder can be used in combination with the centrifugal positioner for rapid reduction of brake pressure. It is also possible to embody the hydraulic cylinder and centrifugal positioner such that a brake boosting or anti-slip regulation takes place upon actuation of the centrifugal positioner. By the use of a centrifugal positioner, the piston can be displaced quickly and very precisely for either increasing or reducing brake pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1989
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Michael Friedow