Continental Teves, Ag and Company Ohg

Continental Automotive Technologies Gmbh

Stephan Krebs

Manfred Rüffer

Harald König

Jose Gonzalez

Michael Jürging

Heinrich Kreh

Lazar Milisic

Jens Bacher

Marcel Niepenberg

Karlheinz Seitz

Michael Kollers

Horst Krämer

Falk Petzold

Hans-Michael Koppel

Paul Wiebe

Rolf Fellinger

Stefan Imhof

Thomas Oeffner

Hans-Jörg Feigel

Holger Von Hayn

Wolfgang Ritter

Jürgen Schonlau

Ralf Jakobi

Thorsten Neu

Torsten Queisser

Milan Klimes

Adrian Messner

Thomas Sellinger

Stephan Schlicht

Werner Krebs

Michael Vogt

Christoph Schiel

Sascha Gerber

Wilfried Wagner

Ulrike Meyer

Dieter Merkel

Ingolf Buchholz

Volker Ickler

Horst Kraemer

Oliver Kugland

Alexander Schubert

Ricardo Toquero

Andreas Macher

Kai-Michael Graichen

Martina Breitkopf

Bernhard Hammes

Guido Schell

A brake unit having a container which serves for accommodating working fluid and which is arranged with at least one connector piece in a receiving bore and which is sealed off by a sealing element which extends radially around the connector piece. In order to offer a simple, inexpensive and pressure-tight interface between connector piece in a receiving bore, it is proposed that a form fit transversely with respect to the direction of the longitudinal axis of the connector piece is formed by a displacement of the material of the sealing element during the installation of the connector piece in the receiving bore.

Braking mechanism comprising a working fluid receptacle

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

A pneumatic brake booster for motor vehicles, comprises a booster housing, the interior of which is separated into a working chamber and a low-pressure chamber by an axially movable wall that can be supplied with a pneumatic differential pressure; a control housing; and a control valve which controls a differential pressure between the working chamber and the low-pressure chamber. The control valve controls an airflow between the working chamber and the low-pressure chamber or a surrounding atmosphere. The control valve has a plate valve and a valve piston, a seal region of which can be sealingly placed on the plate valve and which can be moved in a stroke direction R. A fine and low-noise metering of the brake force is achieved by providing a throttle point between the valve piston and the plate valve for throttling the airflow dependent on the stroke.

Pneumatic brake booster

The invention relates to a brake fluid container for a master cylinder in a hydraulic brake system. A safety valve is provided to ensure that the neck of the brake fluid container closes when the brake fluid container is detached from the master cylinder, for example in case of an accident. The safety valve is disposed in a cartridge which can be inserted from outside in a tightly sealing manner into the neck of the container.

Brake fluid container

A tandem master brake cylinder for a hydraulic motor vehicle brake system, which is impinged upon by a pneumatic brake booster, including at least one piston which is displaceable in a housing and has a plurality of follow-up connections the follow-up connections allowing a hydraulic connection between the pressure chamber and a pressureless follow-up chamber at the start of a braking operation. At least some of the follow-up connections are formed as transverse bores through a wall of at least one piston and are arranged at a same distance relative to the piston edge in a main plane, wherein the overtravel thereof by the sealing collar defines a closure path of the piston. In order to allow a smooth, quiet and yet sufficiently reliable braking initiation, the follow-up connections are arranged in a distributed manner on at least three planes, the planes being arranged at a distance to one another and in parallel to the piston edge.

Master brake cylinder for a hydraulic motor vehicle brake system

The invention relates to a pump unit that can be driven by an electric motor, in particular for providing vacuum for a pneumatic brake booster, including a pump housing that can be closed by a working-chamber cover and at least one elastic displacement element, wherein a working chamber is bounded between the displacement element and the working-chamber cover and wherein inlet valves and outlet valves and inlet channels and outlet channels associated with the valves are associated with the working chamber. According to the invention, in order to reduce noise emissions, devices for reducing a contact surface between the working-chamber cover and the pump housing are provided.

Pump unit driven by an electric motor

A pump assembly for supplying negative pressure to a pneumatic brake booster, wherein the pump assembly has at least two elastic displacement elements which are moved by connecting rods, the connecting rods each being rotatably mounted on an eccentric element. The eccentric element has a bearing seat element and a force element. At least two eccentric elements are secured next to each other on a drive shaft that rotates about an axis of rotation and an interlocking anti-rotation device is provided that determines a defined angular position of the eccentric elements relative to each other about the axis of rotation. In order to improve the ease of assembly and simplify the manufacturability, the anti-rotation device is designed as shaped elements of the bearing seat element in such a way that they engage in each other in an interlocking manner when the eccentric elements are in a defined angular position relative to each other.

Pump assembly

Disclosed is a motor-pump assembly () for a brake actuating device of a motor vehicle brake system with a pneumatic brake booster. An electric motor () drives a double diaphragm pump () with two working diaphragms () which are located opposite one another. Air expelled from the working spaces () is directed into an interior space () surrounding a crank drive () of the pump housing (). An air outlet unit () permits low-noise expulsion of the air from the interior spaceby deflecting the air. In order to make available a low-noise, cost-reduced motor-pump assembly the eccentrics () each have an unbalance weight () integrally molded onto the eccentric ().

Motor-pump assembly

Disclosed is a motor-pump assembly () for a brake actuating device of a motor vehicle brake system with a pneumatic brake booster. An electric motor () drives a double diaphragm pump () with two working diaphragms () which are located opposite one another. Air expelled from the working spaces () is directed into an interior space () surrounding a crank drive () of the pump housing (). An air outlet unit () has a filter housing (), a filter (), an air outlet cover (), a valve holding element () and a valve body (). A partition wall () deflects the air emerging from the interior space () in the air outlet unit (between the filter housing () and the air outlet cover (), with an integrally molded valve holding element ().

A brake servo whose valve piston has a concentric sealing seat which projects axially beyond a second sealing seat, with the concentric sealing seat having at least one recess for throttling the air volume flow. The controllability and also the noise characteristics of the brake servo can be improved in this way.

Brake servo

The invention relates to a master cylinder with a pressure chamber formed in a housing of the master cylinder and a reservoir bore for accommodating a pressure fluid reservoir, a valve with a closing element being provided which due to a pressure difference prevailing between the pressure chamber and the pressure fluid reservoir can be moved into an opening position or a closing position, the valve in its opening position allowing a pressure fluid flow from the pressure fluid reservoir into the pressure chamber and throttling or preventing, in its closing position, a pressure fluid flow from the pressure chamber into the pressure fluid reservoir. Means are provided which maintain the closing body in its opening position when it is acted upon by a closing pressure difference during vacuum filling of the brake system.

Master cylinder

Vacuum brake booster for motor vehicles comprising a booster housing whose interior is subdivided by a movable wall into a vacuum chamber and a working chamber, a control valve that controls a pressure difference acting upon the movable wall and is accommodated in a control housing that carries the movable wall, said control valve being composed of two concentrically arranged sealing seats and an elastically deformable valve member, wherein the control housing includes a cavity through which a cross member extends and delimits the axial movability of a valve piston relative to the control housing, and the cross member includes at least one projection made of an elastic material in the area where the cross member rests against the booster housing. At least one projection made of an elastic material is provided in the area of points of abutment between the control housing and the cross member.

Vacuum brake booster

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