Having Separate Means Biasing Valve Closed Patents (Class 417/549)
  • Patent number: 6514055
    Abstract: The invention relates to a piston pump for a slip-controlled hydraulic vehicle brake system. For the sake of a short structural length of the piston pump, piston of the piston pump is a hollow piston, whose interior forms a positive displacement chamber of the piston pump. The piston can be produced economically as a reshaped part, for instance by deep drawing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Schuller
  • Publication number: 20030012670
    Abstract: A pump and a pump piston assembly. The pump piston assembly includes a pump piston, a pump check valve, and a spring. The pump piston has a piston bore extending from a first piston end toward a second piston end. The pump check valve is positioned proximate the first piston end. The spring has an attached portion attached to the pump piston proximate the first piston end and has a biasing portion biasing the pump check valve to fluidly block the piston bore. The attached portion of the spring is closer to the second piston end than is the biasing portion of the sprint. The pump includes the pump piston assembly and a pump sleeve, wherein the pump piston is slidably engaged in the sleeve bore of the pump sleeve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2001
    Publication date: January 16, 2003
    Inventors: Herbert Stanley Summers, David Fredrick Reuter
  • Patent number: 6499974
    Abstract: A piston pump having a piston axially movable against the force of a spring within an operating chamber connected via check valves to an operating cylinder and a hydraulic medium supply. A section of the piston that extends into the operating chamber has a reduced diameter extension which extends from a shoulder of the piston that delimits the operating chamber. The extension includes a thickened free end having a sealing surface facing the shoulder. A valve disk is located and guided on the extension in a gap between the shoulder and sealing surface and is capable of axially reciprocating movements thereon. The valve disk is provided with openings which provide a passageway for hydraulic medium from the operating chamber to a second check valve. The openings are blocked when the valve disk abuts the sealing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignee: Holger Clasen KG (GmbH & Co.)
    Inventor: Björn Bach
  • Patent number: 6485278
    Abstract: Cold temperature performance of a pump for a controlled braking systems is enhanced, and internal flow restrictions of the pump are minimized, by placing the poppet return spring in a separate cavity out of the flow path through the pump. The separate spring cavity also allows travel of the poppet to be limited, thereby also limiting the loss of volumetric efficiency due to flow forces generated by cold, viscous fluid pushing the poppet an increasing distance from the seating area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: David Fredrick Reuter, Earl Wayne Lloyd
  • Patent number: 6474963
    Abstract: The invention relates to a piston pump (10) for a hydraulic slip-controlled vehicle brake system. In order to reduce a structural length of the piston pump (10), the invention proposes embodying the piston (16) of the piston pump (10) as a hollow piston whose inner chamber constitutes a displacement chamber (40) of the piston pump (10) and inserting an inlet valve (20) of the piston pump (10) into the inner chamber of the piston (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Wetzel, Wolfgang Schuller
  • Patent number: 6457956
    Abstract: The invention relates to a piston pump for a slip-controlled hydraulic vehicle brake system. To make a piston of the piston pump easy and inexpensive to manufacture, the invention proposes that the piston be comprised of a sleeve-like shaped part and a valve seat part that is made of plastic and is press-fitted into the shaped part. A high-pressure-side sealing lip is formed onto the valve seat part and is of one piece with it. By means of a tubular support body, a restoring spring is supported on the valve seat part spaced apart from a valve seat of the valve seat part and spaced apart from the sealing lip, which prevents the valve seat and the sealing lip from being impaired by the force of the restoring spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Hauser, Norbert Alaze, Walter Kremsreiter, Thorsten Duermeier, Juergen Reiner, Werner Rittler, Ursula Eckstein, Andreas Weh, Erika Mank
  • Patent number: 6457957
    Abstract: Disclosed is a radial piston pump having a longitudinally movable pump piston in a cylinder chamber which communicates with a suction valve. A closing body of the suction valve is loaded by a valve closing spring in the direction of its valve seat affixed to the housing. The valve closing spring is supported on the pump piston. The radial piston pump is especially useful in fuel injection systems of internal combustion engines, particularly in common rail injection systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Inventors: Ruediger Bauer, Gerd Loesch
  • Patent number: 6450788
    Abstract: Disclosed is a piston pump having a pump housing with a cylinder head comprised of a first plate and a second plate. The plates which rest against each other and are screwed to the pump housing, have a first conduit which carries low-pressure fuel and leads to a first check valve disposed between the two plates. The check valve communicates with a cylinder chamber of the radial piston pump. A second conduit carrying high-pressure fuel leads from this cylinder chamber to a second check valve, which is disposed between the first plate and the pump housing. Seals that are appropriate to the load, in fact low-pressure seals, are provided in the region of the cylinder head that is subjected to low pressure and high-pressure seals are provided in the region of the cylinder head that is subjected to high pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2002
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Peter Grabert
  • Publication number: 20020102170
    Abstract: Cold temperature performance of a pump for a controlled braking systems is enhanced, and internal flow restrictions of the pump are minimized, by placing the poppet return spring in a separate cavity out of the flow path through the pump. The separate spring cavity also allows travel of the poppet to be limited, thereby also limiting the loss of volumetric efficiency due to flow forces generated by cold, viscous fluid pushing the poppet an increasing distance from the seating area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2001
    Publication date: August 1, 2002
    Inventors: David Fredrick Reuter, Earl Wayne Lloyd
  • Publication number: 20020044873
    Abstract: An axial plunger pump according to the present invention is constructed so as to comprise a shaft having a swash plate effecting swing motion and transmitting driving force from the outside, plungers each reciprocating by the swing motion of the swash plate, a cylinder block having cylinders formed so as to open on the side of the swash plate and inserting therein the plungers and having passages for supplying fuel to the cylinders, a body combined with the cylinder block to enclose the swash plate, and sealing members arranged between the plungers and the cylinders on the swash plate side of the passages formed in the cylinder block for sealing gaps between the plungers and the cylinders, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2001
    Publication date: April 18, 2002
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Minoru Hashida, Yukio Takahashi, Yoshinobu Ono, Hideki Machimura, Takefumi Yamamura, Masayoshi Kotaki
  • Patent number: 6361295
    Abstract: A piston pump for a hydraulic brake system of a vehicle with slip control. The piston pump has a piston which is received in a bush that is inserted into a cylinder bore of a pump housing that is closed in pressure-tight fashion by a closure part. For simpler assembly, the closure part is connected to the bush by means of a snap or detent connection. As a result, a preassembled unit that can be manipulated easily before insertion into the pump housing is obtained in a simple way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2002
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Schuller, Andreas Weh
  • Publication number: 20020015649
    Abstract: The invention concerns a piston pump with a piston, which, with its end surface and the pump cylinder delimits an operating chamber, which is connected, via check valves, to an operating cylinder and to a hydraulic medium supply, wherein the piston is capable of an axially reciprocating motion against the force of a spring. According to the invention, the section of the piston that extends into the operating chamber is fitted with an extension of reduced diameter, which connects to the end surface of the piston via a shoulder and which features a thickened free piston end with a sealing surface facing the shoulder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2001
    Publication date: February 7, 2002
    Inventor: Bjorn Bach
  • Patent number: 6340295
    Abstract: A piston pump intended especially for use in a slip-controlled hydraulic vehicle brake system. The piston pump is inserted into a cylinder bore, the piston pump has a piston, a bush, and a closure element that tightly closes the cylinder bore. The closure element is joined radially movably to the bush, for instance via caulking. This joint has the advantage that the piston pump can be assembled into a compact, easily manipulated, and sturdy component unit, and that the closure element and the bush are aligned with one another on being inserted into the cylinder bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2002
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Hauser, Norbert Alaze, Dieter Merklein, Wolfgang Schuller, Julius Bayrhof, Walter Kremsreiter, Joachim Evertz, Joerg Zielke, Ralf Zitzelsberger, Andreas Weh, Bernd Allenzon, Michael Hellebrandt
  • Patent number: 6334762
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a piston pump for a hydraulic vehicle brake system. For simple and inexpensive manufacturability, the piston pump embodies an outlet conduit as a groove in a sleeve bottom and a sealing part. As a result, the sleeve and the sealing part can be manufactured in a non-cutting manner by means of forming. Another advantage of letting the outflow conduit into the sleeve bottom is that the outlet conduit is disposed a small distance in the axial direction from a valve seat of an outlet valve, which counteracts noise production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2002
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Hauser, Norbert Alaze, Dieter Merklein, Wolfgang Schuller, Julius Bayrhof, Siegfried Fritsch, Walter Kremsreiter, Franz Mayer, Joachim Evertz, Joerg Zielke, Ralf Zitzelsberger, Andreas Weh, Bernd Allenzon, Michael Hellebrandt, Tobias Fluck
  • Patent number: 6302663
    Abstract: The invention relates to a piston pump for a slip-controlled, hydraulic vehicle brake system. In order to be able to simply and inexpensively produce the piston pump as a stepped piston pump, the invention embodies a piston as a tubular deep drawn part made of sheet metal, with an outwardly protruding circumferential bead. The bead is produced by axially compressing the piston. The bead constitutes an axial support for a guide ring and sealing ring placed onto the piston. A disk-shaped, abrasion resistant striking piece is press-fitted into an open end of the tubular piston, and is used by the piston for resting against a circumference of a cam element used for the stroke drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Schuller, Franz Mayer, Christiane Schiller
  • Patent number: 6290476
    Abstract: A hand pump includes an automatic inflation device and a manual inflation device. The automatic inflation device includes a gas container containing pressurized gas for providing automatic and rapid inflation. When the automatic inflation device malfunctions or the gas container runs out of gas, the manual inflation device can be manually operated for inflation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Inventor: Scott Wu
  • Patent number: 6283733
    Abstract: A piston pump which is intended for use in a vehicle for a hydraulic, slip-controlled braking system. To enable producing the piston pump inexpensively, a bush is made without undercuts as an upset part integrally with a bottom which has a valve seat for the outlet valve of the piston pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2001
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Dieter Merklein, Siegfried Fritsch, Ralf Zitzelsberger, Andreas Weh, Michael Hellebrandt
  • Patent number: 6276909
    Abstract: A piston pump for a hydraulic brake system for a vehicle with a slip control system. For economical production, the piston pump includes a piston as a composites part with a core of steel that is surrounded by a lubricant jacket of plastic. By way of example, the lubricant jacket is applied to the core by spray-coating, or is pressed onto the core or slipped onto the core. The lubricant jacket economizes by dispensing with expensive post-machining of the piston surface by grinding, for instance, and improves the sliding properties of the piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2001
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Heinz Siegel, Dieter Merklein, Joachim Ehrlich, Andreas Weh, Michael Hellebrandt, Tobias Fluck, Michael Schlitzkus
  • Patent number: 6273689
    Abstract: An enabling an easy increase in the accuracy of a plunger stroke is provided in an electromagnetic pump, in which an inner yoke and a plunger constitute a magnetic circuit, and where an electromagnetic force acts on the magnetic circuit so that a magnetic gap between the inner yoke and the plunger is diminished. The plunger is reciprocated within a cylinder by the electromagnetic force and a restoration force of a spring. In such an electromagnetic pump, the stroke of the plunger is limited by two planes of respective members disposed opposite each other with the cylinder being disposed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2001
    Assignee: Mikuniadec Corporation
    Inventors: Kubota Kenichi, Takehana Norio, Sato Kiyoshi, Maita Katuya
  • Patent number: 6267569
    Abstract: The invention relates to a piston pump, in particular for an antilock and slip-controlled vehicle brake system. In order to embody a filter, the invention proposes providing a bushing of the piston pump with a bushing that encompasses it, wherein the bushing has beads on its ends, which are provided with grooves after the fashion of a knurling, through which incoming brake fluid flows between a wall of a pump bore and the bead into the piston pump and is therefore filtered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2001
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Norbert Alaze
  • Patent number: 6224352
    Abstract: A piston pump for a slip-controlled hydraulic brake system for a vehicle. A tubular filter is mounted on a bush of the piston pump; the filter has a filter ring that forms a guide ring and is spaced apart from the bush and axially guides the piston by a part of the piston that protrudes from the bush. A separate guide ring is dispensed with, and the structural length of the piston pump can be shortened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Hauser, Norbert Alaze, Thorsten Duermeier, Ursula Eckstein
  • Patent number: 6217300
    Abstract: A piston pump with a piston that is displaceable in a bush. In order to keep the piston in the bush for retention therein a hollow-cylindrical filter, mounted on the bush, with yielding fingers that engage a groove of the piston keep the piston in the bush until the bush has been inserted into a pump housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Schuller, Ursula Eckstein
  • Patent number: 6206663
    Abstract: The invention relates to a piston pump (1) for delivering a fluid at low pressure and at a higher pressure, a higher delivery volume being provided in one pumping cycle at low pressure than at a higher pressure, having a low-pressure delivery piston (4), which is moved inside a pump cylinder (2) and acts upon a pressure chamber (7) under prestress into its delivery end position, a high-pressure delivery piston (11), an inlet valve (9) and an outlet valve (9, 10), a fluid delivery path (5) furthermore being provided between the inlet valve (9) and the outlet valve (10), and the low-pressure delivery piston (4) being able to be moved back counter to its prestress into a delivery starting position, and proposes, to achieve effective delivery at low pressure and at a higher pressure with the simplest possible construction, that the fluid delivery path (5) passes through the low-pressure delivery piston (4), that a valve (6) is provided in the low-pressure delivery piston (4), which valve shuts in the case of move
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Assignee: Gustav Klauke GmbH
    Inventor: Egbert Frenken
  • Patent number: 6199962
    Abstract: A hydraulic control unit of a vehicular brake system includes a housing having a cavity. Drive means is received in the cavity of the housing. A fluid supply source is in fluid communication with the housing. A piston slidably is disposed in the housing. The piston includes a first end and a second end wherein the second end is in contact with the drive means so that the piston moves from a bottom-dead-center position to a top-dead-center position. Biasing means is in contact with the first end of the piston so that the piston moves from a top-dead-center position to the bottom-dead-center position. A first variable-volume chamber is defined by the piston and the housing whereby fluid is transferred from the first variable-volume chamber when the piston moves from the bottom-dead-center position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2001
    Assignee: Kelsey-Hayes Company
    Inventors: David M. Dokas, Blaise J. Ganzel
  • Patent number: 6193481
    Abstract: A piston pump, which is provided as a return feed pump for a slip-regulated motor vehicle brake system. In order to simplify the manufacture, a sleeve in the form of a tubular piece is clamped between a fastening element which is inserted into the cylinder bore using a self-clinching technique, and the cylinder bore, and is thus sealed and fixed in place. In addition to the simple manufacture of the sleeve out of reasonably priced tubular material, the piston pump has the advantage of a sealing of the sleeve in the cylinder bore without a separate sealing element such as a sealing ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2001
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Norbert Alaze, Friedrich Megerle, Ernst-Dieter Schaefer, Wolfgang Schuller, Guenther Schnalzger, Ralf Zitzelsberger, Gerd Baur, Michael Hellebrandt
  • Patent number: 6193482
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved structure of a piston for air-filing device by making use of air pressure formed as a result of the reciprocation action of piston within the cylinder to urge an air-tightness disc mounted at the top of the piston to close rapidly and to open instantaneously. At the simultaneous reciprocation action of the piston, the cylinder is provided with a rapid flowing in of air without passing through an air-inlet valve and the air is compressible. This facilitates the speed of compression of the entry air, and avoids the installation of the air-inlet valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2001
    Inventor: Chih-Ming Chen
  • Patent number: 6186118
    Abstract: A vehicle fuel system has an integrated fuel rail and fuel pump that supplies high pressure fuel directly to the injectors mounted on the engine. The pump is a double acting single piston pump that has two pumping chambers formed co-axially in a single cavity. One pumping chamber is twice the size of the other pumping chamber thereby producing an output flow equal to one half the volume of the larger pumping chamber during each stroke. The smaller pumping chamber communicates with a co-axial fuel rail portion of the cavity. A plurality of outlet ports, one for each injector, are disposed in fluid communication with the fuel rail portion of the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2001
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph George Spakowski
  • Patent number: 6171083
    Abstract: The invention relates to a piston pump with a piston, which is guided so that the piston can move axially in a liner that has been inserted into a pump housing and is driven into a reciprocating stroke motion by means of a cam that is driven to rotate. The invention uses a liner that is manufactured as an injection-molded plastic part. The plastic liner has advantages with regard to manufacture, damping behavior when there are pressure changes, and noise generation. Furthermore, the invention proposes affixing a filter integral with the liner when the liner is injection molded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2001
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Schuller
  • Patent number: 6161466
    Abstract: The invention relates to a piston pump (10) with a piston (20) axially displaceable in a bush (12). In order to keep the piston (20) captive in the bush (12), the invention proposes that an annular loss-prevention means (90), with conically protruding spring tongues (96), be inserted in the manner of a snap connection into a V-shaped groove (80) in the bush (12), whose spring tongues (96) resiliently press a groove side (98) of a groove (34) made in the piston (40) into the groove (34), engaging it from behind, when the piston (20) is introduced into the bush (12). (FIG.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2000
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Schuller, Andreas Weh, Tobias Fluck
  • Patent number: 6146115
    Abstract: A piston pump which is intended particularly for use in a slip-controlled hydraulic vehicle brake system. To increase a pumping volume of the piston pump at low pumping pressure, the piston pump includes a body embodied preferably as an annular body which is attached axially displaceably to the piston. The body increases a cross- sectional area of the piston and is axially acted upon by a spring element. At low pressure, the piston pump pumps with the entire cross-sectional area of the piston and the body while conversely at a higher pumping pressure, the body is held back counter to the force of the spring element and does not move together with the piston so that then the piston pumps only with its own cross-sectional area. The piston pump of the invention has the advantage of improved pressure buildup dynamics when the pumping pressure at the onset of pumping is low.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2000
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Norbert Alaze
  • Patent number: 6109896
    Abstract: A piston pump for pumping hydraulic fluid, especially for vehicle brake systems having a stepped piston axially displaceable in a pump space. The stepped piston in order to reduce the production costs comprises a cylinder of substantially constant outer diameter and a bush which is held axially nondisplaceably on the cylinder, by being press-fitted onto the cylinder. An elastomer seal is slipped onto a cylinder portion defined by the bush seals off the cylinder from the wall of the pump space and divides the pump space into two pump chambers of variable chamber volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Schuller, Norbert Alaze
  • Patent number: 6079961
    Abstract: A piston pump for a slip-controlled motor vehicle brake system, with a piston which, by means of a piston restoring spring, is pressed with an end face that constitutes a strike face against a circumference of a cam. The cam is driven to rotate, wherein the cam is used to drive the piston in a reciprocating stroke motion. In order to be able to inexpensively manufacture the piston as an injection molded part made of plastic, the piston is provided with a cam strike piece made of wear resistant material on the strike face which is in contact with the cam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2000
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Schuller, Ursula Eckstein
  • Patent number: 6042350
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a piston pump for a hydraulic system including a cylindrical bore, a pump piston adapted to reciprocate in the cylindrical bore and bounding, as a movable wall, a working chamber, and an inlet valve which closes in the way of a non-return valve and has a closure member and a valve seat, the closure member being preloaded by a valve spring which is arranged in a spring housing that cooperates with the pump piston, on the one hand, and with a compression spring preloading the pump piston, on the other hand, wherein the spring housing is attached to the pump piston and the compression spring is attached to the spring housing, and at least one of the attachments is by way of a frictional and/or operative engagement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignee: ITT Manufacturing Enterprises Inc.
    Inventor: Erhard Beck
  • Patent number: 5988997
    Abstract: A piston pump for delivering hydraulic fluid for ABS brake systems having at least one pump piston. The pump piston is driven to execute an axial stroke motion and which, with a sliding face embodied on its circumference, slides against the inner wall of a guide bore in order to assure a favorable sliding friction between the pump piston and the guide bore for the purpose of noise reduction and to achieve longer service lives for the seal. Viewed in the longitudinal section of the pump piston, the slide face is embodied as wavy, wherein wave crests and wave troughs follow one another in succession in the longitudinal direction of the pump piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1999
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Heinz Siegel
  • Patent number: 5915927
    Abstract: A plunger pump includes a piston which is driven for reciprocatory motion and associated with a check valve. A space within a cylinder is partitioned by a piston 1p into a first space A which communicates with a discharge port 1ep and a second space B which communicates with a suction port 1ip. To reduce the peak value of a fluctuation in the suction pressure, a third port 2ip communicating with the first space A is added, and the suction port 1ip and the third port 2ip are connected in common to a suction line Pin through check valves 20 and 19, respectively. The first space A has a diameter greater than the diameter of the piston while the second space B has a diameter which is comparable to the diameter of the piston and hence is less than that of the first space A. On the forward stroke of the piston, a braking liquid is drawn into the second space from the suction line Pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1999
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki
    Inventor: Hiromu Kuromitsu
  • Patent number: 5897303
    Abstract: The invention relates to a piston pump, having a piston that has a longitudinal bore, that includes a valve seat face upon which a valve closing body is pressed by a valve spring. The valve spring is a helical compression spring, whose winding diameter increases from a winding end that engages the valve closing body to a winding end that rests on a spring seat face formed in the longitudinal bore of the piston. The piston pump of the invention has the advantage that the valve closing body along with the valve spring can be installed in the piston in an axial motion; the valve spring is directly accessible, and a correct seating of the valve and valve spring in the longitudinal bore can be checked visually after installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1999
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Erwin Mueller
  • Patent number: 5897304
    Abstract: A flow-through filling pump for receiving a liquid supply and discharging a predetermined amount of the liquid therefrom includes a housing defining a supply chamber and a discharge chamber and a reciprocating piston positioned in the housing intermediate the supply and discharge chambers. The piston is movable along an axial liquid flow path defined by the chamber, between a fill position and a discharge position. A drive assembly is operably connected to the piston to drive the piston between the fill and discharge positions. A seal member extends between the piston and the housing to isolate the supply and the discharge chambers and at least a portion of the piston from a portion of the housing at which the drive assembly operably connects to the piston. The pump includes a non-return type inlet valve mounted to the piston. The inlet valve has a biasedly mounted valve element, which is biased to the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1999
    Assignee: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance, SA
    Inventor: Yutaka Kaneko
  • Patent number: 5823639
    Abstract: A piston pump for the delivery of hydraulic fluid, in particular for ABS braking systems, comprises a pump housing 10 with an inlet 12 and an outlet 14 for the hydraulic fluid. A piston 16 is guided in the pump housing 10 without a sliding sleeve and supplies hydraulic fluid from the inlet 12 to the outlet 14 of the housing 10. A valve assembly 20 together with the piston 16 and a return spring 34 for the piston is joined as an asseembly capable of being handled independently and arranged directly in the pump housing 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1998
    Assignee: Lucas Industries public limited company
    Inventors: Ulrich Zinnkann, Helmut Gegalski
  • Patent number: 5688113
    Abstract: The invention relates to a piston, through which a fluid can flow, for a piston pump, which piston has a longitudinal bore into which a spring-loaded inlet valve body is inserted. In order to be able to bring a helical compression spring, which loads the inlet valve body, to bear against an annular shoulder in the longitudinal bore and to be able to check and if necessary improve its seating after installation, the invention proposes to produce the inlet valve body in two parts comprising the inlet valve disk and the inlet valve stem and to join these two parts to one another after the helical compression spring has been correctly inserted into the piston. The inlet valve disk can for example be joined to the inlet valve stem by ultrasonic welding, thermoplastic riveting or screwing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1997
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Bareiss, Ron Angle, Brian Johanek, Helmuth Wuest
  • Patent number: 5628625
    Abstract: A pump for a vehicle braking or traction control system integrated into a hydraulic control unit. The housing for the hydraulic control unit has at least one counterbore in which a cylindrical sleeve is disposed. The cylindrical sleeve has a counterbore which is open at one end and closed at the other. A piston is reciprocal in the counterbore by a motor driven cam. The piston, in conjunction with the closed end of the sleeve, forms a pumping chamber having an outlet port provided through the closed end of the sleeve. Low pressure brake fluid is received into the pumping chamber through an axial fluid passageway and a one-way check valve. A piston support land is provided on the internal surface of the cylindrical sleeve and a mating opposing land is provided on the external surface of the piston. The opposing land has a plurality of equally spaced annular grooves which entrap sufficient fluid to provide a uniform fluid film between the piston support and opposing lands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 13, 1997
    Assignee: Kelsey-Hayes Company
    Inventor: David M. Dokas
  • Patent number: 5588817
    Abstract: This invention is directed to a closing member of an inlet valve of a pressure-medium-traversed piston of a reciprocating piston pump. The closing member is disposed as fully as possible in the piston to minimize the dead air space. The piston has a longitudinal bore in which a stem engages the closing member, which stem emanates from a valve disk. The stem is embraced by an at least approximately frustoconical helical compression spring acting as a closing spring. This is held, with an end segment of smaller diameter, non-twistably against the stem. A shoulder of the longitudinal bore is located on the valve seat side and exhibits at least one cross-sectional alteration for the screw-like action upon the end segment of larger diameter of the closing spring. The closing spring is thus able to be sunk into the longitudinal bore and biased in place. The reciprocating piston pump can be used, for example, for slip-regulated braking systems of motor vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1996
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Wilhelm Zirps, Wolfgang Schuller, Martin Urban
  • Patent number: 5580226
    Abstract: The invention relates to a spring-loaded nonreturn valve. For ease of production and assembly, a spring element is designed as a leaf spring which is bent in a zigzag shape and is arranged in a transverse groove of a valve closure body. For connection to a spring holder, the leaf spring has a loop with which it is snapped in on a section of the spring holder bent out of wire. The spring holder has a spring ring which is integral with it and is inserted in a groove in a blind bore of a delivery piston, forming a valve housing, of a reciprocating pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1996
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Helmut Staib
  • Patent number: 5577896
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a pump which suppresses a decrease in the volumetric efficiency of the pump to a great extent even in case that the kinematic viscosity of a fluid is high with a compact structure of the pump itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1996
    Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomoo Harada
  • Patent number: 5567135
    Abstract: A reciprocating pump including a piston through which fluid can flow. The piston includes an inlet valve which presses a valve ball against a valve seat in a longitudinal bore in the piston. One end of the piston has a cap-shaped support elements attached thereto against which the inlet valve spring is supported and which engage around an end behind an undercut in the piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1996
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Erwin Mueller, Wolfgang Schuller
  • Patent number: 5544791
    Abstract: A grease pumping assembly includes a drum for receiving grease therein, the drum has a central hole defined in a bottom thereof and is disposed to a base, the base having a first recess, a second recess and a second hole defined therein, the first recess communicating with the central hole of the drum and a motor disposed with the second recess, a first hole defined in the base and communicating with the first recess, a bottom plate disposed to a bottom of the base and the bottom plate having a reduction device disposed therein which is engaged to the motor and the reduction device having an eccentric rod inserted into the second hole of the base for being engaged to a pushing rod, the pushing rod movably disposed between the second hole and the first recess such that the grease drops into the first recess via the central hole of the drum and is pumped by the pushing rod through a first hole defined in the base to a grease gun.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1996
    Inventor: Chen-keng Chih
  • Patent number: 5472323
    Abstract: A movable magnet type pump, wherein a magnet moving body having at least one axially magnetized permanent magnet and an axially extending through liquid passage is arranged so as to be slidable inside a liquid introducing chamber; a plurality of coils are fixed so as to enclose the liquid introducing chamber; a first check valve is arranged on a liquid introducing side of the liquid introducing chamber; a second check valve is arranged on a liquid discharge side of the through liquid passage; and the magnet moving body is caused to reciprocate by interaction between current applied to the respective coils and magnetic flux from the magnet moving body cutting across the respective coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1995
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Hirabayashi, Takatoshi Oyama, Sigeo Saito
  • Patent number: 5395219
    Abstract: A hydraulic pump including a housing having a housing bore with a piston sliding in an axial direction in the bore and a pump chamber being defined in cavity adjacent one end of the piston. A piston drive mechanism is provided in a housing chamber defined in the bore adjacent the other end of the piston. Piston return springs are mounted in the pump chamber biasing the piston towards the piston drive mechanism. An inlet valve is arranged in the pump chamber opening and closing an axial bore in the piston connected to an inlet passage. An outlet valve is set on a downstream side of the pump chamber opening and closing an outlet passage. Two elastic seal members are mounted around a circumference of the piston respectively sealing an area between the pump chamber and the inlet passage and an area between the inlet passage and the housing chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 7, 1995
    Assignee: Nisshinbo Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Yukio Hosoya, Kei Fukuyo
  • Patent number: 5292236
    Abstract: The pump comprises a cylinder delimiting a pumping chamber in which a piston is mounted to slide between an admission orifice and a delivery orifice, the piston including a pumping orifice which is associated with a closure member mounted to pivot about an axis adjacent to the pumping orifice and including a closure face that is substantially plane and that faces the piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1994
    Assignee: Serac France
    Inventor: Andre Graffin
  • Patent number: 5027605
    Abstract: An apparatus for dispensing a measured amount of hydroscopic lubricant into an air conditioning system. The apparatus includes a container for the lubricant which has a key type coupling to a cylinder. The cylinder has a piston which may reciprocate therein. The piston has a bore therethrough so that the lubricant may pass from the container and through the piston, and thereafter, through a hose and into the air conditioning system. The container has a seal to protect the lubricant from moisture, the seal being interrupted when the cylinder is coupled to the container. The cylinder has driven pins extending outwardly therefrom and the cylinder also has a pair of diametrically opposed slots therein. The piston has a pair of diametrically opposed drive pins thereon arranged so that the piston drive pins communicate with the slots in the cylinders. A detachable leveraged handle having arms joined in a scissor fashion is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1991
    Assignee: Murray Corporation
    Inventor: Ronald C. Hardesty
  • Patent number: 4197884
    Abstract: An airless sprayer having the capability of replacing most if not all of the so-called aerosol sprayers with improved performance, reduced cost and elimination of potential damage to the environment from an aerosol propellant. The unit is refillable by the user at any time suiting his convenience. The liquid to be sprayed is contained in a first chamber above an internal free-floating piston powered by air pressure in a second chamber below the piston. The system includes a unique compressor unit for automatically pumping air at operating pressure into the lower chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1978
    Date of Patent: April 15, 1980
    Assignee: Dispenser Corporation
    Inventor: Victor J. Maran