Patents by Inventor Norbert Fernau

Norbert Fernau 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: 11339781
    Abstract: A screw-spindle pump stage having a drive spindle and a running spindle which runs opposite the drive spindle and a pump housing for receiving the two screw spindles. The pump housing 16 has an offset interface with centering action, for a statically determined coupling to an electric motor. The pump housing has an offset section functioning as an abutment, which is able to be abutted against the electric motor for the application of an axial preload. At least one pressure region of the abutment section, which is close to the interface and, during a rolling, is encapsulated, and at the same time sealingly enclosed, by a sheet-metal casing, forms a rolling region of the pump, the screw spindles, together with the associated pump housing section, at least partially project from the rolling region of the pump on the suction side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Vitesco Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Johannes Deichmann, Tim Gonnermann, Norbert Fernau, Bernd Jäger
  • Publication number: 20210239114
    Abstract: A screw-spindle pump stage having a drive spindle and a running spindle which runs opposite the drive spindle and a pump housing for receiving the two screw spindles. The pump housing 16 has an offset interface with centering action, for a statically determined coupling to an electric motor. The pump housing has an offset section functioning as an abutment, which is able to be abutted against the electric motor for the application of an axial preload. At least one pressure region of the abutment section, which is close to the interface and, during a rolling, is encapsulated, and at the same time sealingly enclosed, by a sheet-metal casing, forms a rolling region of the pump, the screw spindles, together with the associated pump housing section, at least partially project from the rolling region of the pump on the suction side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Johannes Deichmann, Tim Gonnermann, Norbert Fernau, Bernd Jäger
  • Patent number: 5156540
    Abstract: Feed unit, in particular for the feeding of fuel, having an electric drive motor and a pump unit coupled to it, which comprises a base plate, an intermediate plate having a recess for rotating pump parts and a cover, at least the base plate and the cover consisting of a ceramic material and the end sides of the base plate and of the cover which face the intermediate plate having ground surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1992
    Assignee: VDO Adolf Schindling AG
    Inventors: Norbert Fernau, Helmut Kohlhaas