Patents by Inventor Tilman Miehle

Tilman Miehle 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: 6148796
    Abstract: A switching magnet with which a valve reed of a high-pressure pump is lifted from a seat in order to switch off a pump element of the high-pressure pump. The switching magnet is disposed in a housing that is manufactured as a plastic injection-molded part. An armature that floats in an armature chamber and a brass sleeve are disposed on the inside of the housing and the brass sleeve is turned upside down over a pole piece. The pole piece supports an O-ring, which rests against the inside of the brass sleeve and seals the armature chamber in relation to the outside and in relation to the coil. A second O-ring seals a passage of the tappet in relation to a pump cover of the high-pressure pump. The switching magnet is designated for use in a high-pressure pump of a common rail injection system of an internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2000
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Erwin Krimmer, Tilman Miehle
  • Patent number: 6138986
    Abstract: A 2/2-way solenoid valve which is open when it is without current and is inserted into a diesel fuel-carrying line to a high-pressure pump. The solenoid valve functions as an emergency shutoff or when the device is tested by supplying the solenoid valve with power which then closes the line to a high-pressure pump, which interrupts the high-pressure delivery. The solenoid valve has an armature, which functions in an armature chamber that is filled with diesel fuel and is sealed in relation to the outside by two O-rings. A plastic valve housing protects the coil and the contacting of the electrical connections from corrosion and protects the individual wires of the coil from vibration stresses. The solenoid valve is designated for use in common rail injection systems of vehicular internal combustion engines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2000
    Assignee: Robert Bosh GmbH
    Inventors: Erwin Krimmer, Tilman Miehle
  • Patent number: 5992396
    Abstract: A tank venting system for motor vehicles, having an internal combustion engine supplied from a fuel tank. A filter housing with an adsorption filter, and an air inlet and an air outlet that can be connected to a venting neck of the fuel tank. An air pump device for error diagnosis, which is integrated with a pump housing that has a pump inlet and a pump outlet. To attain a compact design of the tank venting system that is economical in terms of installation space, the pump housing is mounted with the pump outlet oriented coaxially to the air inlet on the filter housing and secured on the filter housing by means of spring-elastic fastening elements. The transition between the pump outlet and the air inlet is sealed off in airtight fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1999
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Erwin Krimmer, Tilman Miehle, Wolfgang Schulz, Manfred Zimmermann, Andreas Blumenstock
  • Patent number: 5975064
    Abstract: An exhaust gas recirculation valve having a valve member that cooperates with a valve seat of a connection neck of an exhaust gas recirculation line. The neck protrudes into a tube of the intake system of an internal combustion engine, and the valve seat points toward the inlet side of the exhaust gas recirculation line. A valve member of the exhaust gas recirculation valve is thus acted upon by the exhaust gas pressure in the closing direction, as a supplement to a compression spring counter to an armature of an electromagnet acting in the opening direction. To compensate for the forces acting in the closing direction, the exhaust gas is carried via a conduit in the valve shaft into a control chamber, which is closed off from the pressure in the tube via a movable wall, having an effective surface area that substantially corresponds to the effective surface area of the valve member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1999
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Erwin Krimmer, Bruno Hezel, Eberhard Wizgall, Tilman Miehle, Peter Jauernig
  • Patent number: 5967121
    Abstract: A simplified, economical, noise-abating mode of securing a unit embodied for instance as a valve. For securing the unit, the unit has a housing with a first portion having a first encompassing outer face and at least one second portion having at least one second encompassing outer face, wherein a first sealing ring can be mounted on the first outer face, and the first portion and first sealing ring can be introduced into a recess of an installation wall. A second sealing ring can be mounted on the second outer face of the second portion, and the second portion and second sealing ring can likewise be introduced into the recess, so that the support of the unit in the recess is effected by means of the first and second sealing rings without the first and second outer faces of the unit resting on inner faces of the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1999
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Pirch, Erwin Krimmer, Udo Hafner, Wolfgang Schulz, Claus Sax, Tilman Miehle, Rolf Bald, Manfred Zimmermann, Bernd Koch
  • Patent number: 5878991
    Abstract: A magnet valve having a valve seat body that has a valve opening with a valve seat. A spring-loaded valve member cooperates with the valve seat, in which the valve member forms the magnet armature of an electromagnet and is disposed between the valve seat body, acting as the check yoke of the electromagnet, and a hollow-cylindrical magnet core of the electromagnet. A valve member has a coaxial through opening, and having a damper element, disposed on the valve member, of elastic damping material that forms a sheathlike lining of the through opening that extends outward to cover one face end of the valve member and on the other face end of the valve member protrudes past this valve member, longitudinally continuous axial grooves open toward the through opening are made in the valve member and filled with damping material which protrudes past the second end face of the valve member, in order to assure long-term damping of switching noises.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1999
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Erwin Krimmer, Wolfgang Schulz, Tilman Miehle
  • Patent number: 5809977
    Abstract: A valve which has a dirt filter that is accommodated in a chamber between an electromagnet valve and an inflow adapter in a valve housing. The valve is suitable for metered introduction of volatilized fuel from a fuel tank into an intake tube of a mixture-compressing internal combustion engine with externally supplied ignition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1998
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Erwin Krimmer, Wolfgang Schulz, Tilman Miehle, Manfred Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 5809978
    Abstract: An adsorption filter for a fuel vapor retention system of a fuel tank of an internal combustion engine. The system has a valve that can be connected to an intake tube of the engine via a connecting line that is attached to the valve and to the fuel tank via a tank line. The tank line is attached to a housing of the adsorption filter and the valve is secured on the housing of the adsorption filter so that the valve can be slid into an opening provided in the housing. The adsorption filter according to the invention is suited for a fuel vapor retention system, for mixture compressing internal combustion engines with externally supplied ignition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1998
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Erwin Krimmer, Wolfgang Schulz, Tilman Miehle
  • Patent number: 5765538
    Abstract: A pump device for performing a leak diagnosis of a fuel vapor retention system. The pump device is provided for a fuel vapor retention system of an internal combustion engine, having a pump membrane driven by an electromagnet and a magnetic armature, which membrane defines a supply chamber that has valve devices, wherein a first valve can be connected to ambient air via a delivery line and can be connected via a second valve to a feed pipe that has an adsorption filter, and having a stop valve between the delivery line and the feed pipe, which valve is embodied so that it can be electromagnetically actuated. The pump device according to the invention is provided for a fuel vapor retention system of an internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1998
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Erwin Krimmer, Helmut Denz, Wolfgang Schulz, Ernst Wild, Winfried Kuhnt, Helmut Schwegler, Andreas Blumenstock, Tilman Miehle, Manfred Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 5651530
    Abstract: An electromagnetically operated pressure switching valve has a valve housing, a magnet coil arranged inside the valve housing, a magnet core associated with the magnet coil and having a passage for a pressure medium provided with a valve seat, a magnet armature, a valve closing element arranged in the valve housing for controlling a flow of the pressure medium. The magnet armature has a portion extending in the magnet coil to an area of a greater magnetic flux density. The portion of the magnet armature cooperates with the valve seat of the passage and is limited by a ring-shaped circular flange-like edge extending outside of the magnet coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 29, 1997
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Erwin Krimmer, Tilman Miehle, Steffen Schumacher
  • Patent number: 5570075
    Abstract: A coil former with injection-molded encapsulation has a top fitting in which coil wire guides for guiding a coil wire are formed. By virtue of the specific shape and arrangement of the coil wire guides, it is ensured, in particular together with a special design of the housing which surrounds the coil former, that the coil wire is only stressed in its longitudinal direction. As a result, damage or preliminary damage of the coil wire is prevented and reliability is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 29, 1996
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Erwin Krimmer, Richard Lorenz, Tilman Miehle, Steffen Schumacher
  • Patent number: 5560585
    Abstract: A tank ventilation valve suitable for metering introduction of fuel evaporated from the fuel tank of a mixture-compressing, externally ignited internal combustion engine into an induction duct of the internal combustion engine. The valve closing element has at least one damper element which protrudes through the valve closing in the axial direction and which forms a first damping surface directed towards the valve seat body on the first end surface of the valve closing element, and a second damping surface directed towards the electromagnet on the second end surface of the valve closing element so that an impact by the valve closing element on the valve seat body or on the magnet core is avoided or damped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1996
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Erwin Krimmer, Wolfgang Schulz, Tilman Miehle