Patents by Inventor Michael Gaumnitz

Michael Gaumnitz 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: 9644617
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a hydrostatic axial piston machine having a housing, having a drive shaft, to which a flange disc is fastened in a rotationally fixed manner, and having a swash plate, to which a rotor disc, driven by the drive shaft or the flange disc, is rotatably mounted, and having a plurality of displacement units arranged distributed between the flange disc and the rotor disc and around the axis of the drive shaft, each displacement unit comprising a cylinder sleeve and a piston which extends into the cylinder sleeve and has a ball head and a spherical joint head which extends into the cylinder sleeve, wherein during operation, the piston plunges more or less far into the cylinder sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Joerg Dantlgraber, David Breuer, Joerg Weingart, Michael Gaumnitz, Marcus Simon, Andreas Illmann, Christoph Gesterkamp
  • Publication number: 20150122115
    Abstract: A hydrostatic axial piston machine includes a drive shaft and a plurality of cylinder sleeves in which a spherical or ball-shaped section and a spherical or ball-shaped piston are inserted to delimit a respective displacer chamber. The sections are secured on a rotor, while the pistons are secured on a piston disk or piston drum. The piston disk is configured to be tilted at different pivoting angles relative to the rotor in a variable-displacement machine, or the piston disk is tilted continuously relative to the rotor in a constant-displacement machine. The rotor and the piston disk are coupled to one another for conjoint rotation by a driving device. The rotor and the piston disk can also be coupled indirectly by a drive shaft of the machine. A sliding joint axial with respect to a drive shaft is arranged between the rotor and the piston disk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Marcus Herrmann, Lutz Bellmann, Arnold Gente, Michael Gaumnitz, Tim Maier, Dieter Amesoeder, Andreas Illmann, Steffen Sies, Bernd Huehn, Corinna Hager, Juergen Vdovak, Marian Kacmar
  • Publication number: 20150078923
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a hydrostatic axial piston machine having a housing, having a drive shaft, to which a flange disc is fastened in a rotationally fixed manner, and having a swash plate, to which a rotor disc, driven by the drive shaft or the flange disc, is rotatably mounted, and having a plurality of displacement units arranged distributed between the flange disc and the rotor disc and around the axis of the drive shaft, each displacement unit comprising a cylinder sleeve and a piston which extends into the cylinder sleeve and has a ball head and a spherical joint head which extends into the cylinder sleeve, wherein during operation, the piston plunges more or less far into the cylinder sleeve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Joerg Dantlgraber, David Breuer, Joerg Weingart, Michael Gaumnitz, Marcus Simon, Andreas Illmann, Christoph Gesterkamp
  • Publication number: 20120018010
    Abstract: A hydraulic transmission has a primary unit and a secondary unit, which are connected to each other in a closed circuit by way of a first and a second working line. The primary unit and/or the secondary unit has a plurality of cylinder/piston units, which can each be activated or deactivated by means of a first valve and a second valve. This serves the purpose of setting a time-averaged volume flow of the unit. In this arrangement, both valves of each cylinder/piston unit are designed as high-pressure valves. A reversal in the direction of rotation, e.g. a reversal in the direction of travel, and a change from drive to overrun, during regenerative braking for example, is accomplished within the closed circuit of the transmission without a reversal in the direction of delivery by means of a changeover between low pressure and high pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2011
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Gaumnitz, Rupert Kinzler
  • Publication number: 20110076160
    Abstract: A control device for a hydraulic piston machine with a variable flow rate averaged over time has a plurality of pistons each defining a working chamber with a changeable value and connectable to high-pressure and low-pressure line via first and second valves actuable in an electric fashion, and an electronic control unit operating the valves in several modes, so that the valves can be operatable only in the partial stroke mode, or in the partial stroke mode and in the idle stroke mode, or in the partial stroke mode and in the full stroke mode, or in the way that all three modes are used on a limited number of working chambers and only the idle stroke and the full stroke modes are used on the remaining working chambers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Inventors: Bernd Schroeder, David Breuer, Joachim Schmitt, Michael Gaumnitz, Thomas Kunze, Georg Jacobs
  • Publication number: 20100143171
    Abstract: The invention relates to a control device for a hydraulic piston machine which can be embodied as a hydropump or a hydromotor and the time-averaged volume flow of which is variable. The piston machine comprises a plurality of pistons, each delimiting a working chamber the volume of which varies with the stroke of a piston and which can be connected to a high pressure port via a first valve and to a low pressure port via a second valve. At least one of the two valves of a working chamber can be actively electrically actuated. The control device comprises an electronic control unit which operates the actively actuated valves of the working chambers in a partial stroke mode, in which only a varying portion of the piston stroke is utilized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2007
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Inventors: Michael Gaumnitz, Thomas Kunze
  • Patent number: 5980215
    Abstract: An adjustable hydrostatic pump (10), in particular a piston pump, is proposed, whose cam ring (22) is adjustable via a hydromechanical adjusting assembly (35) and which has a device for active noise abatement. A pressure chamber (39) of a adjusting piston (37) acting upon the cam ring (22) is acted upon by pressure changes, via an additional control unit (47) parallel to the hydromechanical pressure controller (41), in such a way that the oscillating actions of power-train forces on the hydraulic fastening of the cam ring (22) are reduced, thus lessening the noise produced by the piston pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Walter Robeller, Volkmar Leutner, Dieter Bertsch, Michael Gaumnitz