Continental Teves, Ag and Company Ohg

Continental Automotive Technologies Gmbh

Martina Breitkopf

Manfred Rüffer

Adrian Messner

Michael Jürging

Jose Gonzalez

Stephan Krebs

Lazar Milisic

Heinrich Kreh

Jens Bacher

Marcel Niepenberg

Falk Petzold

Ulrike Meyer

Hans-Michael Koppel

Paul Wiebe

Rolf Fellinger

Thomas Oeffner

Stefan Imhof

Ricardo Toquero

A simple, compact, and economical motor/pump unit for supplying vacuum to a pneumatic brake booster of a motor-vehicle brake system, wherein the motor/pump unit is designed as a diaphragm pump having a single elastomeric diaphragm, which is moved by an electrically operated motor unit by an eccentric drive, and has a pump housing and a working-space cover and the diaphragm is clamped between the pump housing and the working-space cover at the radial outer edge of the diaphragm in a sealing manner and the working-space cover is designed as a multi-part working-space cover having an upper cover, a lower cover, and an inlet valve and an outlet valve, which are arranged between the upper cover and the lower cover and control the air circulation through the working space.

Motor/pump unit having a single elastic diaphragm

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Eschborn, Germany

Martina Breitkopf