Patents by Inventor Peter Ertle

Peter Ertle 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: 7735508
    Abstract: A rotary slide valve, in particular for speed-dependent power steering systems in motor vehicles, has a torsion bar, a rotary slide, and a control bushing. The control bushing is pressed onto a pinion and the torsion bar is inserted into a torsion bar bore of the pinion. The control bushing is connected rotation-fast to the pinion by shaping. The torsion bar has teeth that are pressed into the torsion bar bore of the pinion and that connect the torsion bar to the pinion rotation-fast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: ZF Lenksysteme GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Ertle, Karl-Heinz Urban, Joachim Ilg
  • Publication number: 20070284007
    Abstract: A rotary slide valve, in particular for speed-dependent power steering systems in motor vehicles, has a torsion bar, a rotary slide, and a control bushing. The control bushing is pressed onto a pinion and the torsion bar is inserted into a torsion bar bore of the pinion. The control bushing is connected rotation-fast to the pinion by shaping. The torsion bar has teeth that are pressed into the torsion bar bore of the pinion and that connect the torsion bar to the pinion rotation-fast.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2007
    Publication date: December 13, 2007
    Inventors: Peter Ertle, Karl-Heinz Urban, Joachim Ilg
  • Patent number: 6971408
    Abstract: A power steering system for motor vehicles, fitted with a rotary disk valve and comprising a reaction piston (1) defining an active (2) and a passive reaction chamber (3). A servo pressure can be fed to the reaction chamber (2) in order to modify the actuating force on the steering wheel. A damping piston (4)is arranged on the active reaction chamber (2) in order to receive dynamic oscillations of the reaction pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2005
    Assignee: ZF Lenksysteme GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Ertle, Markus Schuster, Dieter Sauter
  • Publication number: 20040123730
    Abstract: A power steering system for motor vehiles, fitted with a rotary disk valve and comprising a reaction piston (1) defining an active (2) and a passive reaction chamber (3). A servo pressure can be fed to the reaction chamber (2) in order to modify the actuating force on the steering wheel. A damping piston (4)is arranged on the active reaction chamber (2) in order to receive dynamic oscillations of the reaction pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2003
    Publication date: July 1, 2004
    Inventors: Peter Ertle, Markus Schuster, Dieter Sauter
  • Patent number: 6612321
    Abstract: In a damping valve for pressure medium-actuated operating circuits, a spring element is installed between housing, cover and counter-contour. In the opening direction, the spring element is pressed against the counter-contour by the pressure medium flowing through, so that a flow passage cross-section allowing almost unimpeded passage of the pressure medium is obtained. In the opposite direction, the throttling direction, the spring element rests on the cover and blocks the flow of the pressure medium until a well-defined pressure builds up, which lifts the inner side of the spring element from the counter-contour and thus opens a reduced flow passage cross-section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: ZF Lenksysteme GmbH
    Inventor: Peter Ertle
  • Patent number: 6612336
    Abstract: A rotary disk valve for motor vehicle power steering systems includes rotary disk which is connected non-rotatably to a valve inlet element. A control bushing is connected non-rotatably to a valve outlet element. These two valve elements are disposed so that they are coaxially movable into one another and are rotatable by at most the amount of torsion of a dead travel coupling. The two valve elements have longitudinal control grooves, which interact with one another for controlling a pressure medium to and from two working areas of a servo motor and to a return connection for a pressure medium container. The rotary disk is connected via a torsion bar spring to the valve outlet element. The longitudinal control grooves of the radially internal valve element connected to the return connection are connected to an internal space of the radially internal valve element. The torsion bar spring is supported in this internal space via a roller bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: ZF Lenksysteme GmbH
    Inventors: Jens-Uwe Hafermalz, Peter Ertle, Karl-Heinz Urban
  • Patent number: 6267144
    Abstract: A rotary slide valve (1) for power steering in motor vehicles contains a rotary slide (2), which is non-rotatably connected to a valve inlet member (4). The control bushing (3) is non-rotatably connected to a valve outlet member (5). The two valve elements are disposed so that they can move coaxially inside each other and can be maximally rotated in relation to each other over the rotational path of a lost motion coupling. The outside of the rotary slide (2) and the inside of the control bushing have control longitudinal grooves (6, 7), which cooperate with one another in order to direct a pressure fluid to and from two working areas of a servomotor The rotary slide (2) is connected to the valve outlet member (5) by means of a torsion bar spring (9). Manufacture conditional tolerances that can lead to undesirable effects in the driving behavior are compensated for by means of a play-free suspension connection (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2001
    Assignee: ZF Lenksysteme GmbH
    Inventors: Jens-Uwe Hafermalz, Peter Ertle, Karl-Heinz Urban, Winfried De Maight