Patents by Inventor Sven Dirnberger

Sven Dirnberger 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: 10047767
    Abstract: A motor pump unit for a high-pressure cleaning appliance is provided, in which the cleaning liquid conveyed by the pump assembly is used for cooling the motor, comprising a motor housing which surrounds the motor, and a cooling channel which surrounds the motor and through which the cleaning liquid can flow for heat dissipation. To provide a motor pump unit having a level of electrical safety which is higher than that of a conventional motor pump unit, the cooling channel surround the motor housing, and the motor pump unit comprise at least one thermally conductive spacer element by way of which the cooling channel is spaced from the motor housing. A high-pressure cleaning appliance is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Alfred Kärcher GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Sven Dirnberger, Timo Spengler, Rudi Bareiter, Markus Fischer, Juergen Kloepfer, Alexander Rubbe
  • Publication number: 20180071792
    Abstract: A high-pressure cleaning system with a high-pressure cleaning appliance including a pump, a motor, a pump inlet and a pump outlet, and a control device, and with at least one discharge unit adapted to be brought into fluid connection with the pump outlet for discharging pressurized cleaning liquid is disclosed. In order to further develop the high-pressure cleaning system in such a way that as good a cleaning result as possible is more easily achievable, the high-pressure cleaning system includes a detection unit by which the type of discharge unit presently in fluid connection with the pump outlet is detectable and which is connected in a signal-transmitting manner to the control device, at least one conveying parameter of the high-pressure cleaning appliance being automatically adaptable by the control device to the detected type of discharge unit. A discharge unit for such a high-pressure cleaning system is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventors: Timo Spengler, Sven Dirnberger, Gottfried Benzler, Manuel Berroth
  • Publication number: 20170361341
    Abstract: A rotor nozzle for a high-pressure cleaning apparatus is provided, with a housing having an inlet opening tangentially into the housing and an outlet arranged on an end wall and on which is arranged a pan-shaped, centrally broken recess. A nozzle body arranged in the housing, having a through channel, and supported with a spherical end in the pan-shaped recess has a longitudinal axis tilted toward the longitudinal axis of the housing. The nozzle body is brought into a revolving movement by liquid flowing through the housing and supported on a support surface, of which flow resistance elements, each having one baffle surface, are arranged downstream of on the wall of the housing. A guiding surface is arranged upstream of each baffle surface and is continuously adjoined by the baffle surface, wherein the guiding surface is aligned obliquely to a radial plane of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventors: Sven Dirnberger, Bjoern Schwarz, Stefan Werner, Johann Georg Wesch
  • Publication number: 20170225203
    Abstract: A high-pressure cleaning system is provided, including a high-pressure cleaning apparatus having a high-pressure pump for increasing the pressure of a cleaning liquid, and two or more discharge units for discharging the cleaning liquid, which are different and can be selectively brought into fluid communication with a pump outlet of the high-pressure pump, wherein the discharge units are connectable to an operating unit or wherein an operating unit is arranged on at least one discharge unit. The high-pressure cleaning system includes an input unit via which at least one output parameter is predeterminable by a user and is adjustable by way of a control unit coupled to the input unit. The high-pressure cleaning system includes an output unit coupled to the control unit and capable of providing an indication depending on the predetermination made by the user, said indication including a recommendation of at least one discharge unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: Juergen Kloepfer, Markus Fischer, Swen Munz, Timo Spengler, Sven Dirnberger
  • Patent number: 8790092
    Abstract: A high-pressure cleaning appliance with a high-pressure pump is provided. The pump has at least one pump chamber connected to a suction line and a pressure line. The pressure line is in flow connection with the suction line via a return flow line. A relief valve with a through-channel extending from a valve inlet to a first valve outlet is arranged in the return flow line. A valve element which in a closed position bears against a valve seat is held for movement in the through-channel. At least one outlet channel, which opens into a second valve outlet, branches off from the through-channel. The valve element is surrounded by a sealing ring which seals off an inlet area of the through-channel adjacent to the valve inlet from an outlet area of the through-channel adjacent to the first valve outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Alfred Kaercher GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Mueller, Sven Dirnberger, Bernd Koerner
  • Publication number: 20130263899
    Abstract: A motor pump unit for a high-pressure cleaning appliance is provided, in which the cleaning liquid conveyed by the pump assembly is used for cooling the motor, comprising a motor housing which surrounds the motor, and a cooling channel which surrounds the motor and through which the cleaning liquid can flow for heat dissipation. To provide a motor pump unit having a level of electrical safety which is higher than that of a conventional motor pump unit, the cooling channel surround the motor housing, and the motor pump unit comprise at least one thermally conductive spacer element by way of which the cooling channel is spaced from the motor housing. A high-pressure cleaning appliance is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Inventors: Sven Dirnberger, Timo Spengler, Rudi Bareiter, Markus Fischer, Juergen Kloepfer, Alexander Rubbe
  • Patent number: 8439653
    Abstract: A pump for a high-pressure cleaning apparatus for delivering cleaning liquid is provided. The pump has at least one pump chamber into which at least one reciprocally movable piston plunges. The pump chamber is connected via at least one inlet valve to a suction conduit and via at least one outlet valve to a pressure conduit. A bypass conduit leads from the pressure conduit to the suction conduit. A bypass valve is arranged in the bypass conduit. The valve body of the bypass valve is connected to a control member which displaces the valve body to a closed or an open position and displaces a switch plunger which is coupled to the valve body to a first or a second switch position. The valve body opens a passage upstream of the valve seat which becomes wider when the valve body is at a predetermined distance from the valve seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Alfred Kaercher GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Robert Nathan, Juergen Erdmann, Sven Dirnberger
  • Publication number: 20120216890
    Abstract: A pump for a high-pressure cleaning apparatus for delivering cleaning liquid is provided. The pump has at least one pump chamber into which at least one reciprocally movable piston plunges. The pump chamber is connected via at least one inlet valve to a suction conduit and via at least one outlet valve to a pressure conduit. A bypass conduit leads from the pressure conduit to the suction conduit. A bypass valve is arranged in the bypass conduit. The valve body of the bypass valve is connected to a control member which displaces the valve body to a closed or an open position and displaces a switch plunger which is coupled to the valve body to a first or a second switch position. The valve body opens a passage upstream of the valve seat which becomes wider when the valve body is at a predetermined distance from the valve seat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: Alfred Kaercher GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Robert Nathan, Juergen Erdmann, Sven Dirnberger
  • Publication number: 20100059603
    Abstract: The invention relates to a high-pressure cleaning appliance with a high-pressure pump, comprising at least one pump chamber which is connected to a suction line and a pressure line. The pressure line is in flow connection with the suction line via a return flow line, and a relief valve with a through-channel extending from a valve inlet to a first valve outlet is arranged in the return flow line. A valve element which in a closed position bears against a valve seat is held for movement in the through-channel. At least one outlet channel, which opens into a second valve outlet, branches off from the through-channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Applicant: Alfred Kaercher GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Mueller, Sven Dirnberger, Bernd Koerner
  • Publication number: 20010028013
    Abstract: In a high-pressure cleaning apparatus comprising a housing, a drive unit and a winding device for winding and unwinding leads which are led from stationary terminal connections to movable terminal connections, in order to enable safe and simple winding and unwinding of leads which lead away from the high-pressure cleaning apparatus, it is proposed that the winding device comprise a winding drum, that the winding drum comprise at least two separate winding areas, that an electric connecting cable for making a connection to a terminal connection which is stationary relative to the winding device be windable in the one winding area, that an electric connection cable for making a connection to a terminal connection which is movable relative to the winding device be windable in the other winding area, that an end of the connecting cable on the drum and an end of the connection cable on the drum form a direct connection point, that the connecting cable form a loop, that the winding area of the connecting cable be s
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2001
    Publication date: October 11, 2001
    Applicant: Alfred Karcher GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Sven Dirnberger, Ralf Grosser, Juergen Kloepfer