Patents by Inventor Ernst Masur

Ernst Masur 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: 20180306250
    Abstract: Release bearings for actuating a clutch are provided, and may include a bearing ring arranged non-rotatably on a sliding sleeve mounted on a transmission input shaft and a rotatable bearing ring, which interacts with a spring of the clutch. A row of rolling elements may be arranged radially between the two bearing rings and have pressure lines oriented obliquely with respect to a bearing longitudinal axis. The rolling elements may each be bodies of revolution with a circular-arc-shaped generatrix, wherein a center angle between radii bounding the circular-arc-shaped generatrix is smaller than 180°. The non-rotatable bearing ring may have a raceway shaped complementary to a shape of the rolling elements and may guide the rolling elements in an axial direction. The rotatable bearing ring may have a raceway shaped as a spherical surface with a sphere radius corresponding to the generatrix of the rolling elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Steffen Breun, Ernst Masur, Eugen Domert
  • Patent number: 9289814
    Abstract: The invention relates to a spur toothing on at least one coupling element for transmitting torques about a rotational axis, said spur toothing axially engaging with a corresponding mating cutting. The face cutting is provided with teeth from a material of the coupling element that has been plastically shaped in an at least partially noncutting manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Roland Langer, Ernst Masur, Ralf Heiss, Benno Fueller, Peter Niebling
  • Patent number: 8876427
    Abstract: The invention relates to a spur toothing on at least one coupling element for transmitting torques about a rotational axis, said spur toothing axially engaging with a corresponding mating cutting. The face cutting is provided with teeth from a material of the coupling element that has been plastically shaped in an at least partially non-cutting manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Roland Langer, Ernst Masur, Ralf Heiss, Benno Fueller, Peter Niebling
  • Publication number: 20140216125
    Abstract: The invention relates to a spur toothing on at least one coupling element for transmitting torques about a rotational axis, said spur toothing axially engaging with a corresponding mating cutting. The face cutting is provided with teeth from a material of the coupling element that has been plastically shaped in an at least partially noncutting manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Roland Langer, Ernst Masur, Ralf Heiss, Benno Fueller, Peter Niebling
  • Patent number: 8690447
    Abstract: A ball roller bearing, which has an outer and inner bearing ring with a groove-shaped raceways and ball rollers, which roll between the bearing rings in the raceways. The rollers are held at distances from each other in the circumferential direction by a bearing cage and which have a width that is dimensioned larger than the radial distance between the inside and the outside of the bearing rings. The raceways are divided into two segments by an axially centered annular groove such that a first ball roller rolls on two first diagonally opposed track segments and a second ball roller rolls on two second diagonally opposed track segments of the bearing rings. Both bearing rings are single-piece components, and the bearing cage is formed by two identical double prong-type cages acting independently of each other. The bearing is filled with the ball rollers by an axial tilt cam assembly method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Horst Doeppling, Heinrich Hofmann, Ernst Geiger, Ernst Masur
  • Patent number: 8668432
    Abstract: A hearing arrangement which has a double-row rolling-body bearing, in particular an angular ball bearing for a turbocharger. The rolling-body bearing has at least one outer ring and at least one inner ring between which an intermediate space for two rows of rolling bodies is formed. For reliable and disruption-free lubrication, the rolling-body bearing has a central feed opening formed on the outer ring, and at least one outlet opening, lying opposite the central feed opening, on the inner ring for a lubricant. In the vicinity of each of the rows of rolling bodies, at least one feed opening is provided on the inner ring for feeding the lubricant to the rolling bodies so that the lubricant is injected via the inner ring, and the centrifugal force during the operation of the bearing is utilized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wilhelm Sebald, Ernst Masur
  • Patent number: 8444322
    Abstract: A face spline of a toothed rim running in a circumferential direction around a rotation axis on a wheel-bearing arrangement for a driven wheel hub. The face spline is provided for play-free engagement with the counter-spline, facing the face spline and the teeth of the face spline have a wedge-like embodiment such that the geometrical lines of the face spline meet centrally at a common point on the rotation axis and the teeth thus run in the radial direction on the rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Roland Langer, Peter Niebling, Ernst Masur, Ralf Heiss, Benno Fueller
  • Patent number: 8256967
    Abstract: The bearing arrangement for a connection of a wheel hub to a rotating joint. A face of an axle stub of the wheel huh with a spur gearing element is non-rotatably connected to a corresponding spur gearing element of a joint body of the rotating joint. The spur gearing elements are disposed at least partially radially and axially beneath the roller bearing. The inner bearing ring is connected to a means for the axial tolerance compensation between the inner hearing ring and the counter-surface of the joint body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Roland Langer, Peter Niebling, Ernst Masur
  • Patent number: 8246256
    Abstract: A hub on a wheel bearing unit, which has at least one inner ring, sitting on the hub. The inner ring is axially retained on the hub by a collar, which has a toothing, formed from the hub. The inner ring has a radially inward broken-out section on the front face thereof and the broken-out section is filled with plastically displaced material from the collar such that the material of the inner ring at least engages in the broken-out section and the material in the broken-out section is enclosed in the radial direction by the inner ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Roland Langer, Ernst Masur, Ralf Heiss, Benno Fueller, Peter Niebling
  • Publication number: 20110311174
    Abstract: A ball roller bearing, which has an outer and inner bearing ring with a groove-shaped raceways and ball rollers, which roll between the hearing rings in the raceways. The rollers are held at distances from each other in the circumferential direction by a hearing cage and which have a width that is dimensioned larger than the radial distance between the inside and the outside of the bearing rings. The raceways are divided into two segments by an axially centered annular groove such that a first ball roller rolls on two first diagonally opposed track segments and a second ball roller rolls on two second diagonally opposed track segments of the bearing rings. Both bearing rings are single-piece components, and the bearing cage is formed by two identical double prong-type cages acting independently of each other. The bearing is filled with the ball rollers by an axial tilt cam assembly method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Horst Doeppling, Heinrich Hofmann, Ernst Geiger, Ernst Masur
  • Patent number: 8052537
    Abstract: A wheel hub-constant velocity joint unit in which a wheel hub (60, 90) with a passage opening (59, 89) that carries inner shaft teeth (44, 74) is tensioned with the outer joint part (46, 76) of a constant velocity joint (42, 72) on which a journal (53, 83) is formed with outer shaft teeth (54, 84), wherein inner shaft teeth (44, 74) of the passage opening (59, 89) and outer shaft teeth (54, 84) of the journal (53, 83) mesh in each other and a two-row wheel bearing (43, 73) is pushed onto the wheel hub (60, 90) that includes an inner bearing ring (64, 94) on which a front face (52, 82) of the outer joint part (46, 76) is supported directly, wherein the pitch circle diameter (TKD) of the roller bearing is greater than the pitch circle diameter (PCD) of the constant velocity joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Peter Niebling, Ernst Masur
  • Publication number: 20110158803
    Abstract: A bearing arrangement which has a double-row rolling-body bearing, in particular an angular ball bearing for a turbocharger. The rolling-body bearing has at least one outer ring and at least one inner ring between which an intermediate space for two rows of rolling bodies is formed. For reliable and disruption-free lubrication, the rolling-body bearing has a central feed opening formed on the outer ring and at least one outlet opening, lying opposite the central feed opening, on the inner ring for a lubricant. In the vicinity of each of the rows of rolling bodies, at least one feed opening is provided on the inner ring for feeding the lubricant to the rolling bodies so that the lubricant is injected via the inner ring and the centrifugal force during the operation of the bearing is utilized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2009
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Wilhelm Sebald, Ernst Masur
  • Patent number: 7926815
    Abstract: The invention relates to a sealing arrangement comprising at least one seal and a spinning ring. Said spinning ring is provided with a first hollow cylindrical section, a second hollow cylindrical section in the first section which is disposed concentric to the first section, and a disk-shaped ring section that extends at an angle to the first section. The first section and the second section are embodied monolithically on the spinning ring, at least one elastic sealing lip of the seal resting against the first section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Schaeffler KG
    Inventors: Peter Niebling, Ernst Masur, Jens Heim
  • Patent number: 7896555
    Abstract: A wheel bearing unit which has at least one outer part, at least one inner part and at least two rows of rolling bodies between the outer part and the inner part. One inner raceway is formed on the outer part and one outer raceway is formed on the inner part for the rolling bodies of each row. The wheel hub has internal toothing, which projects radially inwards in the direction of the rotational axis, for engaging external toothing on a drive pin. The internal toothing of the hub is rotationally fixedly coupled to the outer raceway. The ratio of the diameter dz of a tip circle of the internal toothing to the bearing width bL of the outer part is greater than 0.9.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Schaeffler KG
    Inventors: Peter Niebling, Ernst Masur, Gottfried Ruoff
  • Patent number: 7857520
    Abstract: A collar, made from plastically deformed material, of a hub. The collar holds at least one inner ring of a wheel bearing unit on the hub in an axially fixed manner. Also, end-side teeth, are formed in the collar for engaging in a mating toothing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Schaeffler KG
    Inventors: Roland Langer, Ernst Masur, Ralf Heiss, Benno Fueller, Peter Niebling
  • Patent number: 7837392
    Abstract: A wheel bearing arrangement which has at least two rows of rolling bodies for mounting a wheel hub which can be driven with the wheel bearing arrangement by a drive element. The wheel hub is connected to the drive element, and the wheel hub and the drive element engage positively into one another via a pair of mutually corresponding spur toothings. In the wheel bearing arrangement, a value of greater than three is obtained for a ratio of the diameter of a toothing reference circle of the spur toothing in the wheel bearing arrangement to the rolling body row spacing of the at least two rows of rolling bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Schaeffler KG
    Inventors: Peter Niebling, Ernst Masur, Roland Langer
  • Patent number: 7824272
    Abstract: A wheel hub/constant velocity joint unit wherein a wheel hub (60, 90) with a through-aperture (59, 89) carrying inner shaft teeth (44, 74) is clamped to an outer joint part (46, 76) of a constant velocity fixed joint (42, 72), which outer joint part (46, 76) comprises a formed-on journal (53, 83) with outer shaft teeth (54, 84), wherein the inner shaft teeth (44, 74) of the through-aperture (59, 89) and the outer shaft teeth (54, 84) of the journal (53, 83) engage one another and wherein a double-row wheel bearing (43, 73) is slid on to the wheel hub (60, 90) which comprises an inner bearing race (64, 94) which directly supports an end face (52, 82) of the outer joint part (46, 76), wherein half the sum of the pitch circle diameter of the joint balls PCD and the bearing width BL is greater than the center-to-center distance AGL between the constant velocity universal joint (42, 72) and the wheel bearing (43, 73).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: GKN Driveline Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert Cermak, Alfred Springer, Ernst Masur, Peter Niebling
  • Patent number: 7806597
    Abstract: A wheel bearing arrangement which as at least two rows of rolling bodies which are used to bear a wheel hub which can be driven by a drive element and which includes a wheel bearing arrangement. The wheel hub is connected to the drive element. The wheel hub and the drive element engage together in a positive fit via a pair of face splines which correspond to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: Schaeffler KG
    Inventors: Roland Langer, Peter Niebling, Ernst Masur
  • Patent number: 7597405
    Abstract: The wheel bearing joint unit having an inner ring that sits on a hub of the wheel bearing joint unit. The inner ring is axially retained on the hub using a collar that is formed from the hub. The collar is provided with a toothing which meshes with a corresponding opposite toothing on a joint part. The toothing and the opposite toothing are braced against each other by a screw which rests on the hub and engages into a thread on the joint part. The joint has two axial projections, one which has the toothing to engage the toothing on the collar and another with the threading to engage the screw. These two projections are spaced apart by a groove to provide flexibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: Schaeffler KG
    Inventors: Roland Langer, Ernst Masur, Ralf Heiss, Benno Fueller, Peter Niebling
  • Publication number: 20090206649
    Abstract: A wheel hub-constant velocity joint unit in which a wheel hub (60, 90) with a passage opening (59, 89) that carries inner shaft teeth (44, 74) is tensioned with the outer joint part (46, 76) of a constant velocity joint (42, 72) on which a journal (53, 83) is formed with outer shaft teeth (54, 84), wherein inner shaft teeth (44, 74) of the passage opening (59, 89) and outer shaft teeth (54, 84) of the journal (53, 83) mesh in each other and a two-row wheel bearing (43, 73) is pushed onto the wheel hub (60, 90) that includes an inner bearing ring (64, 94) on which a front face (52, 82) of the outer joint part (46, 76) is supported directly, wherein the pitch circle diameter (TKD) of the roller bearing is greater than the pitch circle diameter (PCD) of the constant velocity joint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2007
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER KG
    Inventors: Peter Niebling, Ernst Masur