Patents by Inventor Ronald Rathke
Ronald Rathke 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).
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Publication number: 20240113597Abstract: An automotive electrical liquid pump includes a pump housing which is defined by a pump housing body, a static heat-conducting separating can having a can part and a radial can flange part, an electric motor which drives the automotive electrical liquid pump, a printed circuit board with electronic components for driving the electric motor, and a non-rotatable heat-conducting cooling sleeve. The separating can fluidically separates a wet zone from a dry zone within the pump housing. The electric motor comprises a non-rotatable motor stator arranged within the dry zone and a rotatable motor rotor arranged in the wet zone. The motor rotor is co-rotatably connected to an impeller wheel via a rotatable rotor shaft. The cooling sleeve is arranged to circumferentially surround the motor stator within the dry zone and to be in a direct physical heat-transferring contact with each of the motor stator and the separating can.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2020Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: PIERBURG PUMP TECHNOLOGY GMBHInventors: JENS TEUBEL, RONALD RATHKE
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Publication number: 20240003363Abstract: An automotive fluid pump arrangement includes a pump unit having an axial pump unit stop surface, and a mounting device which supports and mounts the pump unit. The mounting device has a support part having a ring-shape. The support part radially encloses, supports, and provides a vibration-decoupling of the pump unit. The support part has an axial support part stop surface which corresponds to and which cooperates with the axial pump unit stop surface so as to axially stop the pump unit in an axial mounting direction, a mounting part which attaches the mounting device to a corresponding motor vehicle mounting structure, and a tensioned friction enhancing longitudinal lip ring which is arranged to surround the pump unit utricularly so as to frictionally lock the pump unit in an axial dismounting direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2020Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: PIERBURG PUMP TECHNOLOGY GMBHInventors: STEFFEN HENN, ROCCO KUNDT, RENE PATZNER, RONALD RATHKE
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Publication number: 20230407870Abstract: An electric coolant pump for providing an automotive cooling circuit with a coolant includes an electric motor to drive the electric coolant pump, a pump housing, a separating can, a printed circuit board, and permanently height-adjusted supporting elements. The separating can includes a substantially plane separating can bottom wall which lies in a cross plane, and a substantially cylindrical separating can shell which fluidically separates a wet zone from a dry zone. The printed circuit board is arranged substantially parallel to and not in direct contact with the separating can bottom wall so that an axial gap exists which is filled with a heat conductive means. The supporting elements axially support the plane printed circuit board. Each supporting element has a distal tip which is trimmed to define a height-constant axial gap having a nominal gap height between the printed circuit board and the separating can bottom wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2020Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: PIERBURG PUMP TECHNOLOGY GMBHInventors: RONALD RATHKE, WOLFGANG ZACHER, MARTIN FIEDLSCHUSTER, MARKUS RIEDEL, STEFFEN HENN, TONI HENKE
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Patent number: 10243421Abstract: A motor vehicle auxiliary assembly electric motor includes a motor stator with stator coils. The motor stator is electronically commutated. A control electronics system drives the stator coils and is potted in a cast body. An electronics chamber is closed-off and has the control electronics system and the cast body arranged therein. A gas chamber is arranged adjacent to the cast body. A pressure equalization element ventilates and vents the gas chamber. An aeration shaft is arranged to pass through the cast body and fluidically connects the gas chamber to the atmosphere. The pressure equalization element is fluidically associated with the aeration shaft.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2015Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: PIERBURG PUMP TECHNOLOGY GMBHInventors: Wolfgang Haensch, Maik Waberski, Michael Weinert, Joerg Hartzendorf, Ronald Rathke, Thomas Wienecke
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Patent number: 10224778Abstract: An electric motor vehicle coolant pump includes a pump rotor which pumps a coolant and a drive motor which drives the pump rotor. The drive motor includes a dry motor stator comprising motor coils, a wet motor rotor, and a gap tube configured to separate the dry motor stator and the wet motor rotor from each other in a fluid-tight manner. The gap tube is formed by an integral sheet metal body which, in a gap region between the wet motor rotor and the dry motor stator consists of an austenitic high-grade steel comprising a material thickness of <0.5 mm, a hardness of from 200 to 500, a specific electrical resistance >0.10?×mm2/m, and a relative magnetic permeability<20. The integral sheet metal body forms a sheet metal shell sliding bearing shell of a sliding bearing to radially mount the wet motor rotor.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2015Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: PIERBURG PUMP TECHNOLOGY GMBHInventors: Vladimir Popov, Maik Waberski, Ronald Rathke, Jens Teubel
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Patent number: 10180142Abstract: An electric motor vehicle coolant pump for cooling an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle includes a pump housing and a rotor rotatably supported in the pump housing. The rotor comprises a motor rotor configured to be substantially pot-shaped. The motor rotor comprises a pot bottom and a ferromagnetic substance so as to be magnetized in at least a bipolar manner. A pump rotor comprises a plurality of rotor blades and an annular cover ring arranged on distal ends of the plurality of rotor blades. The plurality of rotor blades are configured to stand directly on the pot bottom of the motor rotor. The pump rotor and the motor rotor are each integral plastic material parts separately produced by an injection molding. The pump rotor and the motor rotor are made from different materials. The pump rotor is not ferromagnetic.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2010Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignees: PIERBURG PUMP TECHNOLOGY GMBH, KOLEKTOR MAGNET TECHNOLOGY GMBHInventors: Jens Teubel, Ronald Rathke, Martin Fiedlschuster, Michael Weinert, Norbert Weber, Pietro Giannico, Friedel Schlusnus
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Publication number: 20180034181Abstract: An electric motor vehicle secondary assembly includes a housing body with a housing opening, a drive motor, a device driven by the drive motor, a connector arrangement with at least two exposed connector pins, a cast body with a connector core integrally molded thereon, and a motor control circuit board which is partially potted in the cast body. The connector core forms a connector base. The connector pins are each formed by a respective single rigid pin element which is directly electrically connected to the motor control circuit board. The connector core of the cast body encloses each pin element between the motor control circuit board and the connector base. The connector core is plugged into the housing opening of the housing body so that the connector base completely closes the housing opening and the pin elements project outward from the connector base through the housing opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2015Publication date: February 1, 2018Applicant: PIERBURG PUMP TECHNOLOGY GMBHInventors: RONALD RATHKE, ALEXANDER FINDEISEN
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Publication number: 20170170701Abstract: A motor vehicle auxiliary assembly electric motor includes a motor stator with stator coils. The motor stator is electronically commutated. A control electronics system drives the stator coils and is potted in a cast body. An electronics chamber is closed-off and has the control electronics system and the cast body arranged therein. A gas chamber is arranged adjacent to the cast body. A pressure equalization element ventilates and vents the gas chamber. An aeration shaft is arranged to pass through the cast body and fluidically connects the gas chamber to the atmosphere. The pressure equalization element is fluidically associated with the aeration shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2015Publication date: June 15, 2017Applicant: PIERBURG PUMP TECHNOLOGY GMBHInventors: WOLFGANG HAENSCH, MAIK WABERSKI, MICHAEL WEINERT, JOERG HARTZENDORF, RONALD RATHKE, THOMAS WIENECKE
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Patent number: 9668366Abstract: A housing unit for electrical components for use in the automobile sector includes a housing part configured to be closed in a sealed manner by a housing cover arrangement. The housing cover arrangement comprises a membrane, at least one ventilation opening, a main cover element comprising a recess, and a cover closure element. The recess comprises an opening which is configured to be closed in a sealed manner by the membrane. The opening comprises a rib arrangement which is configured to pretension the membrane. The cover closure element is configured to close the recess so as to provide the at least one ventilation opening.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2011Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: PIERBURG PUMP TECHNOLOGY GMBHInventors: Ronald Rathke, Michael Weinert, Wolfgang Zacher, René Patzner
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Publication number: 20160365768Abstract: An electric motor vehicle coolant pump includes a pump rotor which pumps a coolant and a drive motor which drives the pump rotor. The drive motor includes a dry motor stator comprising motor coils, a wet motor rotor, and a gap tube configured to separate the dry motor stator and the wet motor rotor from each other in a fluid-tight manner. The gap tube is formed by an integral sheet metal body which, in a gap region between the wet motor rotor and the dry motor stator consists of an austenitic high-grade steel comprising a material thickness of <0.5 mm, a hardness of from 200 to 500, a specific electrical resistance >0.10?×mm2/m, and a relative magnetic permeability<20. The integral sheet metal body forms a sheet metal shell sliding bearing shell of a sliding bearing to radially mount the wet motor rotor.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2015Publication date: December 15, 2016Applicant: PIERBURG PUMP TECHNOLOGY GMBHInventors: VLADIMIR POPOV, MAIK WABERSKI, RONALD RATHKE, JENS TEUBEL
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Patent number: 9145855Abstract: An electric exhaust gas recirculation valve for an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle includes a motor rotor. A drive motor is configured to be mechanically commutated. The drive motor comprises a plastic carrier panel lying in a transverse plane arranged at a longitudinal end of the drive motor. The plastic carrier panel comprises, on a side facing the motor rotor, at least two commutator brushes and suppression reactance coils assigned to the at least two commutator brushes. Suppression capacitors are arranged on a side averted from the motor rotor. A valve body. A reduction gearing is connected to the drive motor. The reduction gearing is mechanically connected to the valve body.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2011Date of Patent: September 29, 2015Assignee: PIERBURG PUMP TECHNOLOGY GMBHInventors: Enrico Lindner, Mathias Zill, Ronald Rathke, Frank Schwabbauer
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Publication number: 20140057545Abstract: A housing unit for electrical components for use in the automobile sector includes a housing part configured to be closed in a sealed manner by a housing cover arrangement. The housing cover arrangement comprises a membrane, at least one ventilation opening, a main cover element comprising a recess, and a cover closure element. The recess comprises an opening which is configured to be closed in a sealed manner by the membrane. The opening comprises a rib arrangement which is configured to pretension the membrane. The cover closure element is configured to close the recess so as to provide the at least one ventilation opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2011Publication date: February 27, 2014Applicant: PIERBURG PUMP TECHNOLOGY GMBHInventors: Ronald Rathke, Michael Weinert, Wolfgang Zacher, René Patzner
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Publication number: 20130220291Abstract: An electric exhaust gas recirculation valve for an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle includes a motor rotor. A drive motor is configured to be mechanically commutated. The drive motor comprises a plastic carrier panel lying in a transverse plane arranged at a longitudinal end of the drive motor. The plastic carrier panel comprises, on a side facing the motor rotor, at least two commutator brushes and suppression reactance coils assigned to the at least two commutator brushes. Suppression capacitors are arranged on a side averted from the motor rotor. A valve body. A reduction gearing is connected to the drive motor. The reduction gearing is mechanically connected to the valve body.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2011Publication date: August 29, 2013Applicant: PIERBURG PUMP TECHNOLOGY GMBHInventors: Enrico Lindner, Mathias Zill, Ronald Rathke, Frank Schwabbauer
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Publication number: 20130039784Abstract: An electric motor vehicle coolant pump for cooling an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle includes a pump housing and a rotor rotatably supported in the pump housing. The rotor comprises a motor rotor configured to be substantially pot-shaped. The motor rotor comprises a pot bottom and a ferromagnetic substance so as to be magnetized in at least a bipolar manner. A pump rotor comprises a plurality of rotor blades and an annular cover ring arranged on distal ends of the plurality of rotor blades. The plurality of rotor blades are configured to stand directly on the pot bottom of the motor rotor. The pump rotor and the motor rotor are each integral plastic material parts separately produced by an injection molding. The pump rotor and the motor rotor are made from different materials. The pump rotor is not ferromagnetic.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2010Publication date: February 14, 2013Applicants: KOLEKTOR MAGNET TECHNOLOGY GMBH, PIERBURG PUMP TECHNOLOGY GMBHInventors: Jens Teubel, Ronald Rathke, Martin Fiedlschuster, Michael Weinert, Norbert Weber, Pietro Giannico, Friedel Schlusnus
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Patent number: 6552466Abstract: A wet-running direct-current motor for a fuel pump having a commutator (2) formed from carbon lamellas (5), and carbon brushes (3) having brush running faces (6) which are fluted in the direction of rotation. The fluting is obtained by curved, parallel ribs of triangular cross-sections whose apexes define the brush running face. The curved ribs have radii offset from the curvature of the commutator surface, the offset being achieved by offset of the center of the radius of each rib in a direction counter to the direction of relative rotation of the commutator and brushes. The motor is rendered usable for fuel pumps of diesel engines.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2000Date of Patent: April 22, 2003Assignee: Pierburg AGInventors: Frank Schwabbauer, Reinhard Thienelt, Ronald Rathke
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Patent number: 6296458Abstract: An electric fuel pump for an internal combustion engine in which a pump mechanism is provided in a housing for pumping fuel from an inlet to an outlet of the housing. A d.c. motor in the housing is drivingly connected to the pump mechanism, the fuel flowing through the housing past the motor to the outlet. A module including a commutation circuit for the d.c. motor is sealed in the housing from the fuel which flows therearound and cools the module. The module is constructed with an injection-molded casing around the circuit which is connected to stator windings of the motor and to an outside power supply.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2000Date of Patent: October 2, 2001Assignee: Pierburg AGInventors: Wolfgang Zacher, Ronald Rathke
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Publication number: 20010006315Abstract: A wet-running direct-current motor for a fuel pump having a commutator (2) formed from carbon lamellas (5), and carbon brushes (3) having brush running faces (6) which are fluted in the direction of rotation. The fluting is obtained by curved, parallel ribs of triangular cross-sections whose apexes define the brush running face. The curved ribs have radii offset from the curvature of the commutator surface, the offset being achieved by offset of the center of the radius of each rib in a direction counter to the direction of relative rotation of the commutator and brushes. The motor is rendered usable for fuel pumps of diesel engines.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2000Publication date: July 5, 2001Applicant: PIERBURG AGInventors: Frank Schwabbauer, Reinhard Thienelt, Ronald Rathke
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Patent number: 5785013Abstract: A pump-motor unit for pumping a coolant for cooling an internal combustion engine in which a centrifugal pump is connected to an electrically commutated d.c. motor to be driven thereby. A power electronic circuit is mounted on a plate and installed in the unit in connection with the d.c. motor to operate the motor in accordance with signals delivered to said power electronic circuit from an external power source. A cooling body is supported in the unit to cool the power electronic circuit by transferring heat from the power electronic circuit to the coolant. The centrifugal pump and the d.c. motor are interconnected through the cooling body.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 1996Date of Patent: July 28, 1998Assignee: Pierburg AGInventors: Walther Sinn, Frank Langner, Wolfgang Weller, Wolfgang Zacher, Jens Teubel, Ronald Rathke