Robert Boschgmbh

Robert Bosch Technologies Corporation

Rolf Viebach

Charles Byron Horner, Jr

Dave C Yoder

James B Malosh

A brake system has a brake booster secured to a dash panel which separates an engine compartment from a passenger compartment of a vehicle. A bracket off-sets the booster into the engine compartment from the dash panel. A cylindrical body has a flange on a first end located between the housing of the brake booster and the bracket. The cylindrical body has a partition wall located between the first end and a second end and a radial opening located between the partition wall and the second end. The partition wall has a central opening through which an input rod extends to provide a valve with an input force. An end boot, secured to the second end of the cylindrical body and the input rod, forms a resonant chamber within the cylindrical body. The radial opening provides unrestricted communication air from the engine compartment to the resonant chamber while the central opening forms an orifice to control the air flow from the resonant chamber into the valve body. The resonant chamber is of sufficient size to dissipate audible sounds produced by the flow of air through the orifice to the valve.

Guard for a valve body of a brake booster

A vacuum brake booster having sound absorbing members affixed to the front and rear shells to attenuate sounds caused by air movement in the brake booster. The front shell is joined to the rear shell to define the housing for the brake booster. The housing is divided into a first chamber and a second chamber by a wall structure. The first and second chambers in a first mode of operation are designed to be in communication with a first source of fluid (vacuum) having a first fluid pressure while in a second mode of operation the second chamber is in communication with a second source of fluid (atmospheric air) at a second fluid pressure. In the second mode of operation, a pressure differential is created across the wall structure to produce an output force corresponding to an input force associated with a desired braking application. A first sound absorbing member is affixed to rear shell for attenuating sounds produced by the communication of the second source of fluid in the second mode of operation while a second sound absorbing member is affixed to the front shell for attenuating sounds produced by the evacuation of the second source of fluid from the second chamber to return to the first mode of operation.

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South Bend, IN, United States of America

Rolf Viebach