Patents by Inventor Frank Knothe

Frank Knothe 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: 7587933
    Abstract: A punctured pneumatic tire in a tire-rim assembly is repaired by mounting on a vehicle the tire-rim assembly provided with an internal pressure alarm means, said tire comprising an auxiliary load-supporting structure satisfying a requirement that an deformation quantity of the tire in a radial direction thereof at a rim-assembled state under a load corresponding to 90% of a maximum load capacity at an internal tire pressure of zero is within a range of 30-60% of a section height of the tire under no load at the internal tire pressure of zero; detecting a puncture of the tire produced during the running of the tire by the internal pressure alarm means; unavoidably running the punctured tire to a relatively short-range safe place to quickly stop the vehicle; and refilling gas to a given internal pressure by a gas filling means equipped on the vehicle while occluding a punctured hole with a puncture repairing means equipped on the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2009
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Watanabe, Frank Knothe, Gerd Runtsch, Guenter Leister, Frank Klempau
  • Publication number: 20070289371
    Abstract: A punctured pneumatic tire in a tire-rim assembly is repaired by mounting on a vehicle the tire-rim assembly provided with an internal pressure alarm means, said tire comprising an auxiliary load-supporting structure satisfying a requirement that an deformation quantity of the tire in a radial direction thereof at a rim-assembled state under a load corresponding to 90% of a maximum load capacity at an internal tire pressure of zero is within a range of 30-60% of a section height of the tire under no load at the internal tire pressure of zero; detecting a puncture of the tire produced during the running of the tire by the internal pressure alarm means; unavoidably running the punctured tire to a relatively short-range safe place to quickly stop the vehicle; and refilling gas to a given internal pressure by a gas filling means equipped on the vehicle while occluding a punctured hole with a puncture repairing means equipped on the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2004
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Inventors: Shinichi Watanabe, Frank Knothe, Gerd Runtsch, Guenter Leister, Frank Klempau
  • Patent number: 4630803
    Abstract: A suspension-strut mounting for installation between a shock-absorber strut or spring strut and a vehicle body spring-supported with respect to the axles, with at least one connecting element having elastically resilient and vibration damping properties which is connected both with the body as also with the piston rod of a shock-absorber of the shock-absorber strut or spring-strut; an additional vibration damper is provided in parallel with the connecting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1986
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans Werner, Frank Knothe, Paul Graf, Henning Wallentowitz, Hans-Hermann Keller, Alfred Kist
  • Patent number: 4448441
    Abstract: This invention relates to an independent front axle suspension for passenger cars. The suspension possesses a lower guide member, which is set transversely to the longitudinal direction of the vehicle and is flexibly coupled to the vehicle body, and a shock absorber strut, or spring strut, which is located between this guide member and the vehicle body, on which strut a wheel carrier is retained. This wheel carrier is able to move about a steering axis and is coupled to a steering track rod extending in the transverse direction of the vehicle.The total mass of the front axle suspension is capable of vibrating about an instantaneous rotation axis which extends downwards from the upper coupling point of the shock absorber strut, or spring strut. This axis is orientated in space in such a manner that it intersects the axis of the steering track rod, or crosses this axis, lying at least in close proximity thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 15, 1984
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans J. Brummer, Karlheinz Bose, Frank Knothe, Hans-Hermann Keller, Henning Wallentowitz