Patents by Inventor Rolf Angermann

Rolf Angermann 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: 6089142
    Abstract: A piston (3) for a hydraulic dashpot for motor vehicles, mounted on one end of a piston rod (1) and dividing a cylinder (5) into a two compartments (6 & 7), with two groups of lines (8 & 9) arranged more or less in concentric circles and more or less paralleling the piston rod and conveying hydraulic fluid in opposite directions, and with disk-shaped check valves, to some extent in the form of stacks (15 & 26) of cup springs, at each end that block one group of lines in one direction at a time, whereby the valve that blocks the inner lines (8) comprises either two separated springs (11), one above the other, or a stack (15) of springs, whereby the springs or stack nearer the outlet (10) from the inner lines maintain or maintains one cross-section open for the fluid to flow through, and whereby, when the pressure of the fluid increases, the spring or stack at the other end opens another cross-section for the fluid to flow through and the valve that blocks the outer lines opens intakes into the inner lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2000
    Assignee: Krupp Bilstein GmbH
    Inventors: Adolf Adrian, Dr.-Ing. Rolf Angermann
  • Patent number: 5628388
    Abstract: A hydraulic dashpot or shock absorber for motor vehicles. It comprises a cylinder and a piston. The cylinder contains fluid. The piston travels back and forth inside the cylinder on the end of a piston rod. The rod extends through a package of gaskets that maintains it aligned and seals the cylinder. The rod is attached to the vehicle body or wheel assembly by a projecting-bolt joint. The joint (5) includes resiliently yielding components that suppress impact and vibration by way of an automatic snap-together attachment to the vehicle body or wheel assembly. The projecting-bolt joint (5) is provided with at least one spring (6). The spring snaps into a matching (bent) rigid part of the vehicle body or wheel assembly. Spacers are associated with the resiliently yielding components that suppress impact and vibration. The spacers restrict their deformation once they have been installed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 13, 1997
    Assignee: Fried. Krupp AG Hoesch-Krupp
    Inventor: Rolf Angermann
  • Patent number: 5579876
    Abstract: A stopper for a hydraulic dashpot for a motor vehicle. The dashpot essentially comprises a piston and cylinder. The cylinder is occupied by fluid and is divided into two chambers by a piston. The piston is mounted on the end of a rod that travels into and out of the cylinder. The stopper is mounted at the end of the cylinder the piston rod travels in and out of. The stopper accommodates seals and several annular components, and at least one of the annular components is attached to the wall of the cylinder. The stopper has an annular component in the shape of a cup at the piston-rod entry-and-exit end. The base of the cup-shaped annular component extends radially inward and has a circular hole at the center. The piston rod extends through the hole. The side of the cup-shaped annular component extends toward the interior of the cylinder. The cup-shaped annular component also accommodates an annular piston-rod aligning component that is at least partly surrounded by the cup-shaped annular component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1996
    Assignee: August Bilstein GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Adolf Adrian, Rolf Angermann
  • Patent number: 5533598
    Abstract: A hydraulic dashpot for motor vehicles. It essentially comprises a fluid-filled shock-absorbing cylinder alone or accommodated in an outer cylinder and a piston that travels back and forth inside the shock-absorbing cylinder on the end of a piston rod. The piston rod extends through a centering component at one end of the shock-absorbing cylinder or of both cylinders and the edge of the shock-absorbing cylinder or of the outer cylinder is crimped around the centering component. The object is to improve support of the pressure-impact accommodator. The crimping (4) creates a neck (5) at that end of the shock-absorbing cylinder (1) that the impact-absorbing cap (6) rests against.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1996
    Assignee: August Bilstein GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Adolf Adrian, Rolf Angermann
  • Patent number: 5409087
    Abstract: A hydraulic dashpot for motor vehicles. It has a cylinder that accommodates a fluid. A shock-absorbing piston travels back and forth in the cylinder and divides it into two displacement chambers. The piston is connected to a rod that extends through a centering component at one end of the cylinder. A hydraulic decompression-stroke limiter consists of a cup-shaped recess below the rod-centering component and of another piston on the piston rod above the shock-absorbing piston. Channels extend through the stroke-limiting piston and are blocked off in the decompression-stroke direction. The object is a less expensive dashpot. The stroke-limiting piston consists of a thin stroke-limiting disk with a diameter slightly shorter than the critical diameter of the recess and resting on a thicker support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 25, 1995
    Assignee: August Bilstein GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rolf Angermann, Reinhard Holscher, Volker Hansemann, Berthold Kolz, Walter Theobald, Friedrich Wiegand