Patents by Inventor Gerhard Wernick

Gerhard Wernick 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: 9139075
    Abstract: A drive unit for a motor vehicle with hybrid drive. The drive unit includes an input shaft which may be connected to the crankshaft of an internal combustion engine of the motor vehicle, a gearbox shaft which may be connected via a toothed hub of a clutch plate as an input shaft of the downstream gearbox, and an electric machine, the rotor of which is connected rotationally fixedly to the clutches. The components are accommodated in a housing having a radially extending housing wall as a bearing wall which forms a physical separation of a chamber of the electric machine and a chamber of the clutches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: ENGINEERING CENTER STEYR GmbH & Co KG
    Inventors: Rudolf Glassner, Helmut Kastler, Roland Heimberger, Dennis Chistian Knospe, Johannes Petritsch, Gerhard Wernick
  • Publication number: 20140041483
    Abstract: A drive unit for a motor vehicle with hybrid drive. The drive unit includes an input shaft which may be connected to the crankshaft of an internal combustion engine of the motor vehicle, a gearbox shaft which may be connected via a toothed hub of a clutch plate as an input shaft of the downstream gearbox, and an electric machine, the rotor of which is connected rotationally fixedly to the clutches. The components are accommodated in a housing having a radially extending housing wall as a bearing wall which forms a physical separation of a chamber of the electric machine and a chamber of the clutches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: ENGINEERING CENTER STEYR GmbH & Co KG
    Inventors: Rudolf GLASSNER, Helmut KASTLER, Roland HEIMBERGER, Dennis Chistian KNOSPE, Johannes PETRITSCH, Gerhard WERNICK
  • Patent number: 6199611
    Abstract: A wheel carrier for the steered wheel of a motor vehicle with a tire-inflating system, the wheel carrier comprising a shield with an eye at the top and bottom for receiving a kingpin, an axle tube which supports wheel bearings, a wheel hub supported on the wheel bearings, a steering arm, an air duct leading through the wheel carrier into a chamber formed between the axle tube and wheel hub, the chamber being sealed off on both sides, wherein the steering arm is flanged to a sprue with a fitting surface, wherein an air chamber is formed in the fitting surface, and is connected to the chamber by an air duct and is further connected to a tube communicating to the outside of the sprue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2001
    Assignee: Steyr-Daimler-Puch Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Gerhard Wernick
  • Patent number: 6085853
    Abstract: The drive system for a motor vehicle having a front axle and a plurality of rear axles, which are driven or can be driven, consists of a central differential, an inter-axle differential, following the central differential in the direction of the power flow, between the front axle and a first rear axle, and a drive for two further rear axles, and axle differentials in each of the axles. In order to have as short and inexpensive a construction as possible and in order to use as few connecting shafts as possible, the central differential is constructionally combined with the inter-axle differential between front axle and first rear axle and with the axle differential of the first rear axle, and the central differential is arranged behind and the inter-axle differential is arranged in front of the axle differential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2000
    Assignee: Steyr-Daimler-Puch Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Gerhard Wernick