Patents by Inventor Wolf Goetze

Wolf Goetze 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).

  • Publication number: 20260194151
    Abstract: A solenoid valve unit having at least four solenoid valves each having an electromagnet and each being fluidically connectable via an associated outlet to one of the cleaning points of a vehicle, a housing having at least one central supply line with at least one fluid inlet for providing a pressurized fluid in the supply line. The solenoid valves are joined to the housing transversely with respect to the supply line. Two solenoid valves, which lie opposite each other and are arranged transversely with respect to the supply line and between which the supply line is located, form a modularly extended pair of solenoid valves, the common housing portion of which is extended either at one end or at both ends of the supply line by a housing portion of a further pair of solenoid valves by a joining connection and/or an integrally bonded connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Publication date: July 9, 2026
    Inventors: Johannes DEICHMANN, Jens MISSUN, Matthias FISCHER, Andreas SCHMICK, Wolf GOETZE, Bernd JÄGER
  • Patent number: 12669185
    Abstract: A distributing device having a housing having an inlet connection and a plurality of outlet connections, and an electromotively drivable, rotatably adjustable distributor which is arranged therein in the form of a disk, on which a liquid receiving and liquid guiding device is formed. The distributing disk is rotatably adjustable into defined positions relative to the housing. The liquid receiving and liquid guiding device includes a front radial groove which controls the liquid to the desired locations of the distributing device. The radial groove is in the form of an open profile and extends from an external face, on the radial circumference, of the distributing disk into the distributing disk. The inlet connection supplies pressurized liquid to a radial gap which the distributing disk forms with the housing at the radial circumference and which guides the liquid to the radial groove. A liquid-distributing actuator includes such a distributing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2026
    Assignee: Vitesco Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Fischer, Wolf Goetze, Bjoern Bartholmai
  • Patent number: 12286987
    Abstract: A method for operating an electric motor that drives a displacement pump stage to deliver a liquid through a hydraulic system to supply the liquid to at least one consumer. A periodically repeating pressure fluctuation of the liquid that occurs during delivery operation is at least partially compensated by virtue of the rotational speed of the electric motor being manipulated in accordance with the periodically repeating pressure fluctuation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Vitesco Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Bjoern Bartholmai, Wolf Goetze, Klemens Kieninger, Matthias Fischer
  • Publication number: 20240400005
    Abstract: A distribution device including: —a housing having an inlet port and a plurality of outlet ports and—an electromotively drivable, rotatably adjustable distributor which is arranged in the housing in the form of a disk on which liquid-receiving and liquid-guiding means are formed. The distributor disk is rotatably adjustable into defined positions relative to the housing here. The liquid-receiving and liquid-guiding means here include an end-face radial groove which directs the liquid to the desired locations in the distribution device. In this case, the distribution device additionally has a sensor arrangement for determining the position of the radial groove, wherein the sensor arrangement has a signal transducer which is fixed in position with respect to the housing and a metallic counterpart element which is fixed in position with respect to the distributor disk and interacts with the signal transducer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: Vitesco Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Wolf Goetze, Matthias Fischer
  • Publication number: 20240328524
    Abstract: A check valve includes: a housing having a main body, which has an inlet opening, a valve body, which has a passage having an outlet opening and which is at least partly arranged in the main body and is axially movable relative to the main body, a valve element, which is at least partly arranged in the valve body for axial movement relative to the valve body and which has a through-opening, a valve member, which is arranged in the valve body between the outlet opening and the valve element and has a sealing element and a valve stem, which is axially movable relative to the valve body, a preloading element, which is designed to preload the valve member toward the valve element with a preload force, wherein the check valve also includes: a further preloading element, which is designed to preload the valve element toward the valve member with a preload force of the further preloading element, and/or another preloading element, which is designed to preload the valve body toward the inlet opening with a preload fo
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: Vitesco Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Fischer, Wolf Goetze
  • Publication number: 20240309957
    Abstract: A distributing device having a housing having an inlet connection and a plurality of outlet connections, and an electromotively drivable, rotatably adjustable distributor which is arranged therein in the form of a disk, on which a liquid receiving and liquid guiding device is formed. The distributing disk is rotatably adjustable into defined positions relative to the housing. The liquid receiving and liquid guiding device includes a front radial groove which controls the liquid to the desired locations of the distributing device. The radial groove is in the form of an open profile and extends from an external face, on the radial circumference, of the distributing disk into the distributing disk. The inlet connection supplies pressurized liquid to a radial gap which the distributing disk forms with the housing at the radial circumference and which guides the liquid to the radial groove. A liquid-distributing actuator includes such a distributing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Applicant: Vitesco Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Fischer, Wolf Goetze, Bjoern Bartholmai
  • Publication number: 20240270210
    Abstract: A distributing device for supplying a pressurized liquid to individual cleaning locations of a vehicle. The distributing device has a housing having an inlet connection, a plurality of outlet connections for the individual cleaning locations and a return connection, and an electromotively drivable, rotatably adjustable distributor which is arranged therein and which is in the form of a disk, in which liquid receiving means and liquid guiding means are formed. The distributor is rotatably adjustable relative to the housing in defined positions in order to allow or to prevent the supply of liquid. The disk controls or guides the liquid to the desired locations of the distributing device via a liquid receiving means and liquid guiding means at the front side in the form of a radial groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Applicant: Vitesco Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Wolf Goetze, Matthias Fischer, Bjoern Bartholmai
  • Publication number: 20230136175
    Abstract: A pump for delivering a liquid, having an electric motor with a stator and a rotor arranged inside the stator. The electric motor is accommodated in an electric motor housing. The stator has two end faces and an outer peripheral surface and there is formed between the electric motor housing and the outer peripheral surface of the stator an outer fluid channel through which the liquid can be delivered. The stator has on at least one of its end faces a connection to the electric motor housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Johannes DEICHMANN, Andreas SCHMICK, Wolf GOETZE
  • Publication number: 20230103970
    Abstract: A method for operating an electric motor that drives a displacement pump stage to deliver a liquid through a hydraulic system to supply the liquid to at least one consumer. A periodically repeating pressure fluctuation of the liquid that occurs during delivery operation is at least partially compensated by virtue of the rotational speed of the electric motor being manipulated in accordance with the periodically repeating pressure fluctuation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Bjoern BARTHOLMAI, Wolf Goetze, Klemens Kieninger, Matthias Fischer
  • Patent number: 11077447
    Abstract: A meat grinder, having a housing, a conveying device, and at least one cutting-unit part. A meat grinder according to the invention comprises a housing, at least one conveying device for conveying material to be ground from an inlet opening to an outlet opening, and at least one cutting-unit part arranged in the housing. At least one transponder is arranged in or on the at least one cutting-unit part and at least one communication device for communicating with the transponder is arranged in or on the housing in such a way that data exchange between the communication device and the transponder is enabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Turbocut Jopp GmbH
    Inventors: Wolf Goetze, Norbert Sauer, Udo Back, Hubert P Buechs
  • Publication number: 20180243749
    Abstract: The invention relates to a meat grinder, having a housing (12), a conveying device, and at least one cutting-unit part (22). A meat grinder according to the invention comprises a housing (12), at least one conveying device for conveying material to be ground from an inlet opening to an outlet opening, and at least one cutting-unit part (22) arranged in the housing (12). At least one transponder (42) is arranged in or on the at least one cutting-unit part (22) and at least one communication device (36) for communicating with the transponder (42) is arranged in or on the housing (12) in such a way that data exchange between the communication device (36) and the transponder (42) is enabled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Wolf Goetze, Norbert Sauer, Udo Back, Hubert P BUECHS
  • Patent number: 9244859
    Abstract: A bus system that has at least two lines. A bus subscriber has at least one connection element that has at least two contacts that can each be connected to one of the lines. An address allocation device can be used to ascertain an address for the bus subscriber in the bus system on the basis of a respective connection state of the contacts with respect to the lines. Also, a method allocates addresses in the bus system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Stephan Krell, Wolf Goetze
  • Publication number: 20150134872
    Abstract: A bus system that has at least two lines. A bus subscriber has at least one connection element that has at least two contacts that can each be connected to one of the lines. An address allocation device can be used to ascertain an address for the bus subscriber in the bus system on the basis of a respective connection state of the contacts with respect to the lines. Also, a method allocates addresses in the bus system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Stephan Krell, Wolf Goetze