Patents by Inventor Timo Nafz

Timo Nafz 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: 11746762
    Abstract: A swashplate-type axial piston machine includes a housing and at least one working channel extending through a distributor plate. The at least one working channel opens out at an outside on the housing at an associated working port. The at least one working channel includes a first section and a second section. The first section extends over the entire distributor plate. The second section is arranged entirely in the housing. The second section directly adjoins the first section. A first rotary bearing has an outer circumferential surface that defines a circular cylindrical reference cylinder about the axis of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Timo Nafz, Christoph Walz, Daniel Gieringer, David Breuer, Joachim Binder, Kai Bauckhage, Matthias Blankenberg-Teich, Stefan Haug, Stephan Breckheimer
  • Publication number: 20230127532
    Abstract: A control plate for an axial piston machine is disclosed. The control plate includes a control face on which at least one kidney-shaped high-pressure control opening extending axially through the control plate and at least one kidney-shaped low-pressure control opening extending axially through the control plate is formed and which defines a first sealing ridge which is formed radially inside the at least one high-pressure control opening and the at least one low-pressure control opening, and a second sealing ridge which is formed radially outside the at least one high-pressure control opening and the at least one low-pressure control opening. In this case, the second sealing ridge is wider in the radial direction, preferably in some portions, than the first sealing ridge. Additionally, an axial piston machine in a swash plate design is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: David Breuer, Sebastian Birk, Stefan Haug, Stefan Hoppe, Timo Nafz
  • Patent number: 11603829
    Abstract: There is disclosed a hydrostatic axial piston machine having a pulse reduction device. This device has a connection location or tap in the transition region in front of the high-pressure-side kidney-like elongate hole of a distributor plate. The connection location or tap is connected by means of one or two hydraulically passively controlled switching valves to a high-pressure store. It is used for precompression and consequently for the pulse reduction. In a development, the distributor plate also has a connection location or tap in the transition region behind the high-pressure-side kidney-like elongate hole. The connection location or tap is connected via one or two hydraulically passively controlled switching valves to a low-pressure store. This is used for the decompression and consequently also for the pulse reduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: David Breuer, Timo Nafz
  • Patent number: 11591910
    Abstract: A hydrostatic axial piston machine includes a pressing pressure chamber for the cylinder drum which is supplied with pressing pressure from a circular-arc-like elongate hole of a distributor plate or from a plurality of connection channels of the cylinder drum. The pressing pressure chamber is delimited radially outwardly by the cylinder drum and radially inwardly by the drive shaft. The pressing pressure chamber is delimited axially at both sides by seals which are both arranged between the radially inner rotating drive shaft and a radially outer stationary component. The radially outer component may be the cylinder drum or, in the case of the distributor-plate-side seal, also a gap seal between the drive shaft and a bearing bush of the distributor plate. Both seals are arranged at the distributor plate side with respect to a tooth arrangement or a retraction ball.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: David Breuer, Timo Nafz
  • Patent number: 11592012
    Abstract: A hydrostatic piston machine unit, which is in particular designed as a hydrostatic axial piston machine unit, comprises at least two driving mechanisms that can be driven synchronously and have displacement pistons which each perform a reciprocating motion in operation and are provided for delivery into a common pressure line. The hydrostatic piston machine unit has a jointly assigned precompression volume for the at least two driving mechanisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: David Breuer, Peter Roos, Rudolf Appel, Timo Nafz
  • Publication number: 20220220948
    Abstract: A swashplate-type axial piston machine includes a housing and at least one working channel extending through a distributor plate. The at least one working channel opens out at an outside on the housing at an associated working port. The at least one working channel includes a first section and a second section. The first section extends over the entire distributor plate. The second section is arranged entirely in the housing. The second section directly adjoins the first section. A first rotary bearing has an outer circumferential surface that defines a circular cylindrical reference cylinder about the axis of rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Timo Nafz, Christoph Walz, Daniel Gieringer, David Breuer, Joachim Binder, Kai Bauckhage, Matthias Blankenberg-Teich, Stefan Haug, Stephan Breckheimer
  • Patent number: 11261861
    Abstract: A hydrostatic piston machine has an adjustment element that is adjustable for varying a displacement volume, and a rotating cylinder part having a plurality of cylinder bores with pistons that are supported on the adjustment element and delimit a displacement chamber. Each displacement chamber is moved in an alternating manner by a connecting opening to overlap a low-pressure control opening situated on a low-pressure side of a stationary control part and a high-pressure control opening situated on a high-pressure side of the control part. Two switching regions are situated between the low-pressure control opening and the high-pressure control opening, the pistons changing direction at a dead center within the switching regions. The position of the adjustment element is determined from a pressure profile which is a function of the variable size of the displacement chambers in a switching region, the variable size depending on the position of the adjustment element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Timo Nafz
  • Patent number: 11162481
    Abstract: A swashplate-type axial piston machine includes a housing, a first pivot bearing received in the housing, a drive shaft rotatably mounted in respect of an axis of rotation, a cylinder drum, a control plate, a third control aperture in the plate, and a first channel arranged in the housing. The first pivot bearing delimits a first and second housing space from one another. The drum and the plate are arranged in the first housing space. The plate has at least a first and at least a second control aperture. The first aperture is in fluidic exchange connection with a first fluid connection on the housing. The second aperture is in fluidic exchange connection with a second fluid connection on the housing. The third aperture is arranged in the peripheral direction between a first and a second aperture. The first channel fluidically connects the third aperture to the second housing space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: David Breuer, Timo Nafz
  • Publication number: 20210254608
    Abstract: A hydrostatic axial piston machine includes a pressing pressure chamber for the cylinder drum which is supplied with pressing pressure from a circular-arc-like elongate hole of a distributor plate or from a plurality of connection channels of the cylinder drum. The pressing pressure chamber is delimited radially outwardly by the cylinder drum and radially inwardly by the drive shaft. The pressing pressure chamber is delimited axially at both sides by seals which are both arranged between the radially inner rotating drive shaft and a radially outer stationary component. The radially outer component may be the cylinder drum or, in the case of the distributor-plate-side seal, also a gap seal between the drive shaft and a bearing bush of the distributor plate. Both seals are arranged at the distributor plate side with respect to a tooth arrangement or a retraction ball.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: David Breuer, Timo Nafz
  • Publication number: 20210254609
    Abstract: There is disclosed a hydrostatic axial piston machine having a pulse reduction device. This device has a connection location or tap in the transition region in front of the high-pressure-side kidney-like elongate hole of a distributor plate. The connection location or tap is connected by means of one or two hydraulically passively controlled switching valves to a high-pressure store. It is used for precompression and consequently for the pulse reduction. In a development, the distributor plate also has a connection location or tap in the transition region behind the high-pressure-side kidney-like elongate hole. The connection location or tap is connected via one or two hydraulically passively controlled switching valves to a low-pressure store. This is used for the decompression and consequently also for the pulse reduction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: David Breuer, Timo Nafz
  • Patent number: 11008862
    Abstract: A hydrostatic piston engine comprises a housing with a cylinder drum with cylinder bores mounted rotatably therein. Each of the cylinder bores receives a working piston in a longitudinally displaceable manner, via which a hydrostatic working chamber is delimited by the cylinder bore. The hydrostatic working chamber has an opening on an outer surface of the cylinder drum by which, when the cylinder drum rotates, outlets of a high-pressure chamber and of a low-pressure chamber of the piston engine and a reversing surface arranged between the two outlets in the rotational direction can be passed over in alternating fashion. At least one pressurizing medium channel is provided which, on one hand, opens out in the reversing surface and, on the other, into a pressurizing medium trough of the piston engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: David Breuer, Timo Nafz, Stefan Merz
  • Patent number: 11002244
    Abstract: A hydrostatic axial piston machine includes a housing, a connection plate closing the housing, working connections formed on the connection plate, a drive shaft, a swashplate, a cylinder drum coupled to the shaft in the direction of rotation, bores formed in the drum and each including a piston, a control plate against which the drum bears, a retraction plate for removing a piston from the bores, and a retraction ball arranged in front of the first end face of the drum which surrounds a drum neck of the drum and the shaft and by which the retraction plate is loaded in the direction of the swashplate. A pressure chamber is defined by seals between the retraction ball, the drum, and the shaft, and is configured to be acted upon by a pressure above a housing pressure. The retraction ball is sealed against the drum neck and against the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Timo Nafz
  • Publication number: 20210071528
    Abstract: A hydrostatic piston machine unit, which is in particular designed as a hydrostatic axial piston machine unit, comprises at least two driving mechanisms that can be driven synchronously and have displacement pistons which each perform a reciprocating motion in operation and are provided for delivery into a common pressure line. The hydrostatic piston machine unit has a jointly assigned precompression volume for the at least two driving mechanisms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: David Breuer, Peter Roos, Rudolf Appel, Timo Nafz
  • Patent number: 10760554
    Abstract: A hydrostatic axial piston machine includes a cylinder drum having a substantially hollow cylindrical base body, and liners. The body includes cylinder bores located around a central axis. The liners have an outer diameter press-fitted into the bores such that an outer end face of each liner is positioned in a region of an opening of a respective bore, and such that an inner end face of each liner is positioned deep within the respective bore. An outer half of each liner, starting from the outer end face, includes an axially delimited circumferential recess in an outer casing surface of the liner. The machine is configured to operate with great forces acting between the liners and displacement pistons. The recess in each liner is shaped such that, in an axial section through the liner enclosing an axis of the liner, a depth of the recess increases more than once and decreases more than once.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Hoppe, Timo Nafz
  • Publication number: 20200132069
    Abstract: A hydrostatic piston machine has a lifting element that is adjustable for varying a swept volume, and a rotating cylinder part having a plurality of cylinder bores with pistons that are supported on the lifting element and delimit a displacement chamber. Each displacement chamber is moved in an alternating manner by a connecting opening to overlap a low-pressure control opening situated on a low-pressure side of a stationary control part and a high-pressure control opening situated on a high-pressure side of the control part. Two switching regions are situated between the low-pressure control opening and the high-pressure control opening, the pistons changing direction at a dead center within the switching regions. The position of the lifting element is determined from a pressure profile which is a function of the variable size of the displacement chambers in a switching region, the variable size depending on the position of the lifting element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventor: Timo Nafz
  • Publication number: 20190323489
    Abstract: A swashplate-type axial piston machine includes a housing, a first pivot bearing received in the housing, a drive shaft rotatably mounted in respect of an axis of rotation, a cylinder drum, a control plate, a third control aperture in the plate, and a first channel arranged in the housing. The first pivot bearing delimits a first and second housing space from one another. The drum and the plate are arranged in the first housing space. The plate has at least a first and at least a second control aperture. The first aperture is in fluidic exchange connection with a first fluid connection on the housing. The second aperture is in fluidic exchange connection with a second fluid connection on the housing. The third aperture is arranged in the peripheral direction between a first and a second aperture. The first channel fluidically connects the third aperture to the second housing space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: David Breuer, Timo Nafz
  • Publication number: 20190316572
    Abstract: A hydrostatic axial piston machine includes a housing, a connection plate closing the housing, working connections formed on the connection plate, a drive shaft, a swashplate, a cylinder drum coupled to the shaft in the direction of rotation, bores formed in the drum and each including a piston, a control plate against which the drum bears, a retraction plate for removing a piston from the bores, and a retraction ball arranged in front of the first end face of the drum which surrounds a drum neck of the drum and the shaft and by which the retraction plate is loaded in the direction of the swashplate. A pressure chamber is defined by seals between the retraction ball, the drum, and the shaft, and is configured to be acted upon by a pressure above a housing pressure. The retraction ball is sealed against the drum neck and against the shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventor: Timo Nafz
  • Patent number: 10443583
    Abstract: A vibratory drive includes a pulse generator and at least one actuator. The actuator includes a first fluid chamber and a second fluid chamber, the volumes of which are adjustable in phase opposition. The first fluid chamber has a fluid connection to a third fluid chamber in the pulse generator. The second fluid chamber has a fluid connection to a fourth fluid chamber in the pulse generator. The third and fourth fluid chambers each have portions that are defined by linearly moveable defining elements. The pulse generator includes a rotor that rotates relative to a first axis of rotation and that defines respective portions of the third fluid chamber and the fourth fluid chamber. The defining elements are linearly moveable in the rotor. The pulse generator includes a coupling element that is separate from the rotor. The defining elements are coupled in their movement to that of the coupling element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Rath, Timo Nafz
  • Publication number: 20190309738
    Abstract: A hydrostatic axial piston machine includes a cylinder drum having a substantially hollow cylindrical base body, and liners. The body includes cylinder bores located around a central axis. The liners have an outer diameter press-fitted into the bores such that an outer end face of each liner is positioned in a region of an opening of a respective bore, and such that an inner end face of each liner is positioned deep within the respective bore. An outer half of each liner, starting from the outer end face, includes an axially delimited circumferential recess in an outer casing surface of the liner. The machine is configured to operate with great forces acting between the liners and displacement pistons. The recess in each liner is shaped such that, in an axial section through the liner enclosing an axis of the liner, a depth of the recess increases more than once and decreases more than once.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventors: Stefan Hoppe, Timo Nafz
  • Publication number: 20190178226
    Abstract: A hydrostatic piston engine comprises a housing with a cylinder drum with cylinder bores mounted rotatably therein. Each of the cylinder bores receives a working piston in a longitudinally displaceable manner, via which a hydrostatic working chamber is delimited by the cylinder bore. The hydrostatic working chamber has an opening on an outer surface of the cylinder drum by which, when the cylinder drum rotates, outlets of a high-pressure chamber and of a low-pressure chamber of the piston engine and a reversing surface arranged between the two outlets in the rotational direction can be passed over in alternating fashion. At least one pressurizing medium channel is provided which, on one hand, opens out in the reversing surface and, on the other, into a pressurizing medium trough of the piston engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: David Breuer, Timo Nafz, Stefan Merz