Patents by Inventor Burkhard Meyer

Burkhard Meyer 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).

  • Publication number: 20060180964
    Abstract: A limit stop with an elastomer resilient element, which is to be secured on a door or lid and/or on an opposing stationary vehicle section for damping forces generated when the door or lid strikes stationary chassis parts of a motor vehicle. The limit stop includes an additional damping section disposed adjacent to and cooperating with the elastic resilient element in a spring deflection direction of the resilient element. The damping section comprises at least two chambers filled with a fluid and a nozzle plate arranged between the chambers with at least one channel extending through the nozzle plate and connecting the chambers. The fluid is displaced from one of the chambers into the other chamber during a spring deflection of the elastomer resilient element, thereby producing a pressure force which is caused by the buildup in pressure when the volume of one of the chambers decreases and augments the return force of the resilient element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2006
    Publication date: August 17, 2006
    Applicant: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Hubert Siemer, Burkhard Meyer
  • Publication number: 20040245689
    Abstract: A process is provided for operating a hydraulic bearing and a bearing is provided designed for carrying out the process. The process makes it possible to directly affect the complex transmission characteristic of a hydraulic bearing and to provide a bearing suitable for this. A defined force is directly introduced into the bearing in a contactless manner into the oscillatory system, namely, in the area of the overflow channel or the overflow channels. The direction vector of this force is superimposed in parallel as well as in phase or antiphase to the direction vector of the damping agent moving through the overflow channel or overflow channels. In the bearing at least one overflow channel accommodates a mass element, which is displaceable in the overflow channel by a force generated by means of a magnetic field and can thus be affected concerning its force which comes to act in addition to the restoring force of the buckling springs of the oscillatory system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2004
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Inventors: Stefan Loheide, Burkhard Meyer, Hubert Siemer