Patents by Inventor Gunther Heidrich

Gunther Heidrich 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: 5125289
    Abstract: A noise muffling assembly, particularly for use with toothed wheel gear units having a partitioned housing (1), within which moving machine elements (2) are positioned, the shafts (3, 4) of which are supported in the housing, whereby only one housing part (6) is, by the attachment bases (7, 7'), attached to a base (8). At least the housing part (6) which is connected by the attachment base (7, 7') to the base (8) supports the shafts (3, 4) and includes, between its shafts (3, 4) and the attachment bases (7, 7'), a plurality of separation points (10, 10') lying at a distance from one another in such a manner that a long sound route (S) results. The separation points (10, 10') each consist of noise muffling elements (11, 12) which are constructed independently of one another, and are joined together by connecting parts (19, 20, 21) and whereby the noise muffling element (12) lying at the greatest distance from the housing (1), has the attachment bases (7, 7').
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1992
    Assignee: BHS-Bayerische Berg-, Hutten- und Salzwerke
    Inventor: Gunther Heidrich
  • Patent number: 5085093
    Abstract: A power splitting transmission, particularly for high energy and/or for high rotational speeds. Two sun gears are connected to the shaft of a drive starting and stopping mechanism and are coupled to each other by at least three double power splitting gears which are arranged equidistantly about the circumference of the sun gears and connected thereto by a coupling. The coupling and the connection with the shaft of the drive starting and stopping mechanism together function as a membrane coupling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 4, 1992
    Assignee: BHS-Voith Getriebetechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Gunther Heidrich
  • Patent number: 4802882
    Abstract: An elastic coupling for a torque transmitting joint formed of a pair of diaphragm disks which have a pair of opposed radial contact faces extending essentially at right angles to the axis of the disk and a pair of essentially cylindrical centering faces at the radially innermost terminations of the contact faces is formed with an annular disk-shaped electron beam welding zone which welds the contact faces together and which extends radially from the outermost peripheries of the diaphragm disks inwardly to a point proximate the centering faces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1989
    Assignee: BHS - Bayerische Berg-, Hutten- and Salzwerke AG
    Inventor: Gunther Heidrich
  • Patent number: 4686868
    Abstract: A soundproofed gear box, in particular a toothed wheel gear box with moving mechanical parts connected with a housing over bearing carriers, whereby the housing is provided with mounting feet. The bearing carrier (5, 6) is only connected with the area of the housing remote from the mounting feet (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1987
    Inventor: Gunther Heidrich
  • Patent number: 4610182
    Abstract: The planetary gear comprises a sun wheel seated on an impeller shaft of a jet engine, planet wheels rotatable on bearing pins which are clamped at one side, and a hollow wheel ring gear. As a result of centering by the planet wheels, the sun wheel provides a bearing for the impeller shaft and the hollow wheel provides a bearing for a slow shaft of an electrical engine. Another bearing for the slow shaft may be designed as a radial/axial bearing arranged in the gear housing. The hollow wheel 10 itself is radially elastic and is fastened to the shaft by way of a thin-walled annular extension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1984
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1986
    Assignee: BHS-Bayerische Berg-Hutten -und Salzwerk AG
    Inventor: Gunther Heidrich
  • Patent number: 4568289
    Abstract: A marine transmission gear unit with double drive where two driving engines are arranged offset from and on one side of and parallel to a propeller shaft axis and on opposite sides of gear train assembly including a common pinion gear and a greater wheel gear coupled to the propeller shaft. The two driving engines are arranged to drive the greater wheel gear by way of the pinion gear. An intermediate gear unit is coupled between the common pinion and at least one of the driving engines and a clutch device is disposed in the drive train adjacent the greater wheel. One or both engines are coupled to the common pinion through an intermediate gear unit. The engines can be codirectional in one direction or the opposite direction or can be contra-directed one relative to the other. The engines can be axially offset or coaxial. The clutch device may comprise an overriding clutch assembly. The intermediate gear unit may comprise either a spur gear and a planetary gear assembly, or a pair of planetary gear assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1983
    Date of Patent: February 4, 1986
    Assignee: BHS-Bayerische Berg-, Hutten-und Salzwerke
    Inventors: Gunther Heidrich, Karl Stolzle
  • Patent number: 4429586
    Abstract: In a double-oblique-toothed stage spur wheel drive, the first stage includes a first pinion which drives a first toothed wheel by way of an intermediate wheel. The first stage drives the second stage which includes a second pinion coupled with the first toothed wheel and a second toothed wheel meshing with said second pinion. The first pinion and the first toothed wheel each include a respective coaxial pair of gear wheel halves having oppositely-directed oblique teeth, and the intermediate wheel includes two pairs of intermediate gearwheel halves, with all of the gear wheel halves being coaxially disposed. One of said intermediate gear wheel half pairs engages with the first pinion and the other engages with the first toothed wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1980
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1984
    Assignee: BHS-Bayerische Berg, Hutten-und Salzwerke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Maximilian Dopfer, Gunther Heidrich
  • Patent number: 4403968
    Abstract: A marine transmission gear unit with double drive where two driving engines are arranged offset from and on one side of and parallel to a propeller shaft axis and on opposite sides of gear train assembly including a common pinion gear and a greater wheel gear coupled to the propeller shaft. The two driving engines are arranged to drive the greater wheel gear by way of the pinion gear. An intermediate gear unit is coupled between the common pinion and at least one of the driving engines and a clutch device is disposed in the drive train adjacent the greater wheel. One or both engines are coupled to the common pinion through an intermediate gear unit. The engines can be codirectional in one direction or the opposite direction or can be contra-directed one relative to the other. The engines can be axially offset or coaxial. The clutch device may comprise an overriding clutch assembly. The intermediate gear unit may comprise either a spur gear and a planetary gear assembly, or a pair of planetary gear assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1983
    Assignee: BHS-Bayerische Berg-, Hutten-und Salzwerke
    Inventors: Gunther Heidrich, Karl Stolzle
  • Patent number: 4035076
    Abstract: A photographic copying machine wherein the leader of a fresh web of photographic paper is automatically threaded through a copying station and thereupon through one or more additional stations whereby the leader advances along an elongated path which is defined by stationary and pivotable guide members. Each pivotable guide member is movable by an electromagnet between an operative position in which it overlies at least a portion of an opening provided by the adjacent stationary guide member or members and an inoperative position in which the respective opening is exposed. Pivotable guide members are provided at a copying station where the web is exposed to printing light and at a feeding station where the web can form one or more loops in a suitable magazine when the respective pivotable guide member is moved to its inoperative position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1975
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1977
    Assignee: AGFA-Gevaert Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christian Gotze, Adolf Fleck, Karl Dreher, Gunther Heidrich
  • Patent number: 3946922
    Abstract: A photographic copying machine wherein the leader of a fresh web of photographic paper is automatically threaded through a copying station and thereupon through one or more additional stations whereby the leader advances along an elongated path which is defined by stationary and pivotable guide members. Each pivotable guide member is movable by an electromagnet between an operative position in which it overlies at least a portion of an opening provided by the adjacent stationary guide member or members and an inoperative position in which the respective opening is exposed. Pivotable guide members are provided at a copying station where the web is exposed to printing light and at a feeding station where the web can form one or more loops in a suitable magazine when the respective pivotable guide member is moved to its inoperative position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1973
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1976
    Assignee: AGFA-Gevaert AG
    Inventors: Christian Gotze, Adolf Fleck, Karl Dreher, Gunther Heidrich