Patents by Inventor Carsten Wintjen

Carsten Wintjen 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: 11958595
    Abstract: An actuator for aviation applications, in particular for adjusting rotor blades in a helicopter, may include an electromechanical drive assembly connected to an output drive via a downstream transmission, where the drive assembly is divided into sub-drives that can be operated independently, and where at least two sub-drives are spatially separated from one another in that the transmission is placed between these sub-drives. The transmission may include at least two harmonic gearings coupled to one another by at least one first coupling element, where a first harmonic gearing is located inside a non-rotating first housing, where a second harmonic gearing is located inside a rotating second housing, and where the second housing is connected to the output drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: AIRBUS HELICOPTERS TECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Jan Haar, Uwe Arnold, Martin Meunier, Carsten Wintjen, Matthias Müller, Werner Pflüger
  • Publication number: 20230202649
    Abstract: An actuator for aviation applications, in particular for adjusting rotor blades in a helicopter, may include an electromechanical drive assembly connected to an output drive via a downstream transmission, where the drive assembly is divided into sub-drives that can be operated independently, and where at least two sub-drives are spatially separated from one another in that the transmission is placed between these sub-drives. The transmission may include at least two harmonic gearings coupled to one another by at least one first coupling element, where a first harmonic gearing is located inside a non-rotating first housing, where a second harmonic gearing is located inside a rotating second housing, and where the second housing is connected to the output drive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: AIRBUS HELICOPTERS TECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Jan Haar, Uwe Arnold, Martin Meunier, Carsten Wintjen, Matthias Müller, Werner Pflüger
  • Patent number: 10351228
    Abstract: The discovery concerns a rotor hub cover for a helicopter, whereby the rotor hub cover has been constructed as a rotational body with a dome-shaped cover and the rotor hub cover has performance and control electronic components, characterized by the arrangement of the performance electronic components and the control electronic components on a surface of the internal side or the dome-shaped cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Steffen Hartmann, Thomas Auspitzer, Daniel Fürst, Jürgen Götte, Carsten Wintjen, Andre Hausberg, Eckart Hoene, Oleg Zeiter
  • Publication number: 20170166303
    Abstract: The discovery concerns a rotor hub cover for a helicopter, whereby the rotor hub cover has been constructed as a rotational body with a dome-shaped cover and the rotor hub cover has performance and control electronic components, characterized by the arrangement of the performance electronic components and the control electronic components on a surface of the internal side or the dome-shaped cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Steffen HARTMANN, Thomas Auspitzer, Daniel FÜRST, Jürgen GÖTTE, Carsten WINTJEN, Andre HAUSBERG, Eckart HOENE, Oleg ZEITER
  • Patent number: 9555878
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a rotor blade control device for a helicopter. The rotor blade control device may include a swash plate disk with a non-rotating component coupled to the helicopter. At least three actuators may be arranged around a rotor shaft axis of the helicopter, and a coupling element may be located between each actuator and the non-rotating component. The coupling element can be adjusted to change the position of a crosspoint at the non-rotating component of the swash plate disk alongside the rotor shaft axis in order to adjust the rotor blades. The actuators may be arranged onto the non-rotating component and may be able to pivot around a respective swivel axis. A radial distance of the first crosspoint to the rotor shaft axis may change with the swivel movement of an actuator around the swivel axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Uwe Arnold, Carsten Wintjen, Andre Hausberg
  • Publication number: 20140377068
    Abstract: Rotor blade control device for a helicopter, consisting of a swash plate disk, the swash plate disk consisting of a non-rotating part of the swash plate disk, which is stationary stationarily coupled to the helicopter, a rotating part of the swash plate disk, at least three actuators which are arranged around a rotor shaft axis of the helicopter, a coupling element between actuator and the non-rotating part of the swash plate disk. The coupling element can be adjusted in its tilt, in order to change the position of the crosspoint at the non-rotating part of the swash plate disk alongside the rotor shaft axis by means of the actuator through a control shaft, in order to adjust the rotor blades. Here, the coupling element is made up in a rigid way, and the actuators are arranged onto the stationary component being able to pivot around a respective swivel axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG
    Inventors: Uwe Arnold, Carsten Wintjen, Andre Hausberg
  • Patent number: 8878466
    Abstract: An electro-mechanical linear actuator unit comprising an actuator housing that accommodates at least two electric drives, each of which, when actuated by a control device, sets an associated drive of a respective spindle drive into rotation for adjusting linear movement of the associated spindle drive in order to produce relative linear adjustment of a control rod. The two electric drives are located in the actuator housing in such manner that relative adjustment can be produced by simultaneous actuation of the two electric drives, as the sum of the adjustment movements of the associated spindle drives, or by actuating a single electric drive, as the adjustment movement of the associated spindle drive. A respective brake is provided, in an area of each of the two electric drives, which can be selectively actuated by the control device to then prevent the adjustment movement of the respective associated spindle drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Andre Hausberg, Carsten Wintjen, Werner Pfluegen
  • Publication number: 20120137799
    Abstract: An electro-mechanical linear actuator unit comprising an actuator housing that accommodates at least two electric drives, each of which, when actuated by a control device, sets an associated drive of a respective spindle drive into rotation for adjusting linear movement of the associated spindle drive in order to produce relative linear adjustment of a control rod. The two electric drives are located in the actuator housing in such manner that relative adjustment can be produced by simultaneous actuation of the two electric drives, as the sum of the adjustment movements of the associated spindle drives, or by actuating a single electric drive, as the adjustment movement of the associated spindle drive. A respective brake is provided, in an area of each of the two electric drives, which can be selectively actuated by the control device to then prevent the adjustment movement of the respective associated spindle drive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG
    Inventors: Andre Hausberg, Carsten Wintjen, Werner Pfluegen
  • Patent number: 6533549
    Abstract: A helicopter with rotor blades rotatably connected to a rotor head. The rotor head is non-rotatably connected with a rotor mast (1) pivoted in a transmission housing and driven by a transmission via at least one driving mechanism. A pitch of the rotor blades, relative to a plane of rotation of the rotor blades, is controlled via a swash plate, control rods (12) and via individual actuators (9) allocated to each individual rotor blade. The control rods (12) and the actuators (9) are mounted in the rotor mast (1) and the rotor head and those components act, via a mixing lever (11) and a control rod (8), upon a pivoted arm (7) which adjusts the pitch of the rotor blade. The control devices of the rotor blades do not interfere with the air flow, are affected only to a limited extent by centrifugal forces and additional stresses, and are also protected against influences of the weather.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2003
    Assignee: ZF Luftfahrttechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Schreiber, Carsten Wintjen, Torsten Röhn