Robert Boschgmbh

Rolf Hummel

Arnold Pahl

Heinz Siegel

Guenter Krenz

Erika Mank

Norbert Alaze

Wolfgang Schuller

Wolf-Dieter Jonner

Karl-Heinz Willmann

Elmar Mueller

Roland Holzmann

Hans-Juergen Herderich

Helmut Pueschel

Thomas Isella

Michael Klose

Johann Herr

Martin Moehle

Guenter Dzierzawa

Martin Maier

Guenther Hohl

Guenther Schmidt

Klaus Mueller

Ursula Eckstein

Rolf Stotz

Gerd A Baur

Barbara Schwind-Grellmann

Thomas Michl

Martin Mohle

Hans Feeser

Martin Eggenmueller

A combination electric motor-pump unit which is installed on a body of a vehicle. The pump unit includes motor fastening screws with which the electric motor is fastened to the pump housing and which connect the pump unit to the vehicle body. This significantly reduces the number of required parts. The pump unit is provided for a brake system of a vehicle.

Pump unit for a vehicle brake system

A gear pump has a gear wheel with teeth on an outer circumference and a second gear ring with teeth on the inside surface. The gear ring is guided in a circular-cylindrical recess of a housing and together with the gear wheel, each rotates about their own axis which are offset from one another. The gear pump is equipped with an intake opening and a crescent-shaped pressure opening in a first side wall of the housing that defines the recess. A countersunk feature is also provided, embodied as a hollow cone, in a second wall of the housing opposite the pressure opening. The hollow cone, which is in fluid communication with the pressure opening, promotes the buildup of a fluid film between the gear ring and the housing, which improves the wear resistance of the gear pump.

Gear ring pump having a housing wall with a hollow cone recess

The invention relates to a hydraulically actuated cutoff valve which is provided as an intake valve for switching between a master cylinder and an intake side of a feed pump of a slip-controlled vehicle brake system. The invention sets forth that the cutoff valve is embodied with a valve closing body that has a valve tappet which passes through an annular actuating element and is in engagement with a rocker element embodied as a cup spring, which rests on an annular pivot bearing. If the actuating element is acted upon by pressure, it presses down an outer edge of the rocker element, and as a result a middle of the actuating element executes a pivoting motion in the opposite direction that closes the cutoff valve. The invention has the advantage of an economical cutoff valve that has only a small number of components, and the invention can be used in a hydraulic vehicle brake system.

Hydraulically actuated stop valve and hydraulic brake system for a vehicle

The brake system has at least one brake circuit (I), in which a high-pressure pump is disposed. A self-aspirating charge pump is also provided, which is connected at least indirectly to the intake side of the high-pressure pump by an intake line of a supply container for brake fluid and by a pressure line. In the event of an inadequate supply of brake fluid by the charge pump, the pumping of air into the brake circuit (I) is intended to be precluded. To that end, a siphon is disposed in the intake line of the charge pump. Air aspirated by the siphon suddenly prevents pumping by the charge pump. The brake system is intended for use in motor vehicles with slip control or for automatic brakes.

Hydraulic brake system for motor vehicles

The invention relates to a hydraulic vehicle brake system with a master cylinder, with two brake circuits (I, II), with wheel brakes connected to the brake circuits (I, II), and with a wheel slip regulator device disposed between the master cylinder and the wheel brakes, which device has at least one brake pressure modulation valve device and at least one high pressure pump, and with a pump unit associated with this high pressure pump. In the automatic braking operation by means of at least one of the high pressure pumps, the pump unit is used for supplying hydraulic fluid to the high pressure pump. The pump unit has a low pressure pump in the form of a gear pump. To limit the pressure at an outlet of the low pressure pump at least one return flow conduit is provided between this outlet and an inlet, which conduit, in a manner according to the invention constitutes a throttle by which the choice of its cross section, which throttle is for controlling at least one return flow which increases with increasing pressure at the outlet and as a result achieves the pressure limiting. The hydraulic vehicle brake system can be used for cars, minibuses, and small trucks.

Hydraulic vehicle brake system with wheel slip regulator device

Vehicle hydraulic brake system

The object is to shorten the installation length of the pump. The high-pressure pump has a pump housing with a bore, in which a pump element having a cylinder, a piston longitudinally movable therein and an outlet valve is received. The cylinder is screwed into the bore and axially fixed at a bore step. The outlet valve has a ball, received in a hollow-cylindrical extension of the cylinder and loaded on its end remote from the valve seat by a leaf spring secured to the cylinder. The hydraulic high-pressure pump is usable in particular in motor vehicle brake systems having an anti-lock and possibly traction control system.

Brake system pump with a damper chamber with leaf spring and cup closure

An apparatus having a self-aspirating pump, with which, in a traction control mode, pressure fluid can be aspirated through an intake line from a pressure fluid supply tank of a master brake cylinder. Located in the intake line is a control valve that assumes its preferred blocking positoin and can then be switched into its open position by a pressure pulse generated by the pump, through a control line. This open position can be switched whenever a control valve, located in the brake line of the master brake cylinder, is switched by an electronic control unit of the control apparatus out of its preferred position thereby connecting the master brake cylinder to the wheel brake cylinders into another position, thereby carrying pump pressure to the control valve. Aspiration of pressure fluid from the supply tank is thus avoided upon pump startup with undesirable feeding. This prevents the production of noise from the pumping of pressure fluids into the master brake cylinder.

Hydraulic vehicle brake system with anti-skid and traction control

The invention seeks to reduce structure-borne sound emissions of the reciprocating piston pump. The reciprocating pump is includes an outlet valve, which has a valve seat and a valve closing body that is received in a hollow space and is loaded by a closing spring. One outlet bore radially originates at the circumferential region of the valve seat and branches off from the hollow space. The opening of the outlet bore toward the hollow space extends at least approximately between the valve seat and the end toward the closing spring of the gap of least cross section, which is formed between the valve closing body and the inside circumference of the hollow space. As a result, a slowed opening motion of the valve closing element is attained, in which opening motion an opening gap opens up that has its largest flow cross section in the region of the outlet bore. The supply flow, which increases slowly as the outlet valve opens, results in a slowed force variation speed in the drive train of the reciprocating piston pump and a reduced emission of structure-borne sound. The pressure fluid pumping device may be used for instance in hydraulic motor vehicle brake systems having an anti-skid system and/or traction control system.

Pressure fluid pumping device with a reciprocating piston pump

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Steinenbronn, Germany

Rolf Hummel