Patents by Inventor Bernhard Hofig

Bernhard Hofig has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8788161
    Abstract: There is provided a method for setting an operating pressure of a transmission, the transmission having at least one of clutches, brakes, actuators, a hydrodynamic clutch, and a hydrodynamic converter, to which a medium conducting the operating pressure can selectively be applied, in order to vary a transmission ratio of at least one of a speed and a torque between a transmission input shaft and a transmission output shaft by opening and closing at least one of the clutches and the brakes, by actuating the actuators, and/or by a hydrodynamic power transmission using at least one of the hydrodynamic clutch and the hydrodynamic converter, wherein the operating pressure being switchable between a constant nominal value and a constant decreased value that is smaller in relation thereto, or the operating pressure being reducible in three or more steps or continuously from a nominal value to a decreased value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Bernhard Hofig, Michael Gerlich, Michael Reik, Christoph Wurster
  • Publication number: 20130211680
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for setting the operating pressure of a transmission, in particular a motor vehicle shift transmission, the transmission having clutches, brakes, actuators, a hydrodynamic clutch, and/or a hydrodynamic converter, to which a medium that conducts the operating pressure can alternately be applied in order to vary the transmission ratio of the speed and/or the torque between a transmission input shaft and a transmission output shaft by opening and closing the clutches and/or brakes, by actuating the actuators, and/or by hydrodynamic power transmission using the hydrodynamic clutch and/or the hydrodynamic converter, the operating pressure being switchable between a constant nominal value and a constant decreased value smaller in relation thereto, or the operating pressure being reducible in three or more steps or continuously from a nominal value to a decreased value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2011
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Inventors: Bernhard Hofig, Michael Gerlich, Michael Reik, Christoph Wurster
  • Publication number: 20110203668
    Abstract: The invention concerns a transmission oil circuit with an oil pump for feeding oil or another fluid from an oil sump or corresponding fluid sump; with a heat exchanger, the oil flows through, for evacuating the heat from the oil; with a work pressure valve, against which the oil pump conveys the oil, so as to bring the conveyed oil to a preset work pressure for pressure actuation, applying hydraulic pressure or conveying hydraulic pressure to switching valves and/or other transmission components and/or other units outside the transmission, which are arranged in the flow direction upstream of the work pressure valve in a row with respect thereto or in the flow direction downstream of a supply line, which branches off in the transmission oil circuit upstream of the work pressure valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Inventors: Bernhard Hofig, Christoph Wurster, Michael Gerlich, Michael Reik