Patents by Inventor Heinrich BERINGER
Heinrich BERINGER 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).
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Patent number: 10351173Abstract: A wheel carrier for a two-track motor vehicle including a wheel-side carrier part, which carries a vehicle wheel; an axle-side guide part; axle-side rotary parts arranged between the wheel-side carrier part and the axle-side guide part and supported on a common bearing site for rotation relative to each other about a rotation axis by respective rotation angles, wherein the carrier part is pivotable about the rotation axis about a pivot point for toe and/or camber adjustment of the vehicle wheel by rotation of at least one of the rotary parts by the respective rotation angle into a rotary position, which correlates with a toe and/or camber angle of the vehicle wheel, wherein the toe and/or camber angle being arbitrarily adjustable within a toe and/or camber angular range. The wheel carrier further includes at least one movement stop adapted for limiting the toe and/or camber angular range of the vehicle wheel.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2015Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: AUDI AGInventors: Wolfgang Schmid, Thomas Klinger, Ulrich Voll, Michael Braumandl, Heinrich Beringer, Achim Glas
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Patent number: 10286954Abstract: A device for adjusting camber and/or toe of a vehicle wheel of a motor vehicle, includes a wheel carrier including a wheel-side carrier part, an axle-side guide part and rotary parts arranged between the wheel-side carrier part and the axle-side guide part, the rotary parts being supported on a common bearing site for rotation relative to each other about a rotation axis, the wheel-side carrier part being rotatable about said rotation axis about an instantaneous center of rotation for toe or camber adjustment of the vehicle wheel and supporting a brake caliper interacting with a brake disc of the vehicle wheel; and a torque bridge configured as a torque transmission element which supports the wheel-side carrier part on the axle-side guide part when a braking moment acts on the wheel-side carrier part during a braking process, and which when supporting the wheel-side carrier part on the axle-side guide part generates a directed force component with which the wheel-side carrier part is impingable.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2015Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: Audi AGInventors: Thomas Klinger, Wolfgang Schmid, Heinrich Beringer, Achim Glas, Ulrich Voll, Michael Braumandl, Vincent Pourroy-Solari
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Publication number: 20170217491Abstract: A wheel carrier for a two-track motor vehicle including a wheel-side carrier part, which carries a vehicle wheel; an axle-side guide part; axle-side rotary parts arranged between the wheel-side carrier part and the axle-side guide part and supported on a common bearing site for rotation relative to each other about a rotation axis by respective rotation angles, wherein the carrier part is pivotable about the rotation axis about a pivot point for toe and/or camber adjustment of the vehicle wheel by rotation of at least one of the rotary parts by the respective rotation angle into a rotary position, which correlates with a toe and/or camber angle of the vehicle wheel, wherein the toe and/or camber angle being arbitrarily adjustable within a toe and/or camber angular range. The wheel carrier further includes at least one movement stop adapted for limiting the toe and/or camber angular range of the vehicle wheel.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2015Publication date: August 3, 2017Applicant: AUDI AGInventors: WOLFGANG SCHMID, THOMAS KLINGER, ULRICH VOLL, MICHAEL BRAUMANDL, HEINRICH BERINGER, ACHIM GLAS
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Publication number: 20170217492Abstract: A device for adjusting camber and/or toe of a vehicle wheel of a motor vehicle, includes a wheel carrier including a wheel-side carrier part, an axle-side guide part and rotary parts arranged between the wheel-side carrier part and the axle-side guide part, the rotary parts being supported on a common bearing site for rotation relative to each other about a rotation axis, the wheel-side carrier part being rotatable about said rotation axis about an instantaneous center of rotation for toe or camber adjustment of the vehicle wheel and supporting a brake caliper interacting with a brake disc of the vehicle wheel; and a torque bridge configured as a torque transmission element which supports the wheel-side carrier part on the axle-side guide part when a braking moment acts on the wheel-side carrier part during a braking process, and which when supporting the wheel-side carrier part on the axle-side guide part generates a directed force component with which the wheel-side carrier part is impingable.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2015Publication date: August 3, 2017Applicant: AUDI AGInventors: THOMAS KLINGER, WOLFGANG SCHMID, HEINRICH BERINGER, ACHIM GLAS, ULRICH VOLL, MICHAEL BRAUMANDL, VINCENT POURROY-SOLARI
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Patent number: 9446653Abstract: An adjustable wheel suspension for the wheels of an axle of a motor vehicle is disclosed, wherein each wheel is guided by means of wheel guide elements and each wheel is operatively connected to an adjustable torsion bar, the torsion bars associated with the respective wheels being partially aligned with each other and each torsion bar being associated with an adjusting device that can be regulated and/or controlled by a controller for adjustment and each torsion bar being mounted on an auxiliary frame via its adjusting device and the controller. The adjusting devices and the adjusting mechanism are mounted in a common housing, which can be mounted on the auxiliary frame as an integral structural component.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2013Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: AUDI AGInventors: Andreas Schindler, Heinrich Beringer, Ruben Goldberg, Joachim Schmitt, Christian Isakiewitsch
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Patent number: 9393848Abstract: A torsion spring system for a wheel suspension of a motor vehicle includes an actuator that is provided on the vehicle body and variably maintains the torsion spring system under tension, and which acts, via a torsion bar and an output lever, with a biasing force on a wheel suspension element of the wheel suspension. The torsion bar is configured in two parts between the actuator and the output lever and has a first bar part and a second bar part coupled thereto with a spring element connected in between the first and second bar parts.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2014Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: AUDI AGInventors: Dominik Mohrlock, Andreas Schindler, Heinrich Beringer, Joachim Schmitt
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Patent number: 9321323Abstract: An adjustable wheel suspension for the wheels of an axle of a motor vehicle is disclosed, wherein each wheel is guided by means of wheel guide elements and each wheel is operatively connected to a torsion bar, which can be adjusted by means of an adjusting device, via its wheel guide elements, the torsion bars being partially aligned with each other and each torsion bar being mounted on an auxiliary frame by its associated adjusting device. The two adjusting devices are connected to one another via a crossmember of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2013Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: AUDI AGInventors: Andreas Schindler, Heinrich Beringer, Ruben Goldberg, Christian Isakiewitsch, Joachim Schmitt
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Patent number: 9259988Abstract: An adjustable wheel suspension for the wheels of an axle of a motor vehicle is disclosed, wherein each wheel is guided by means of wheel guide elements and each wheel is operatively connected to an adjustable torsion bar, the torsion bars associated with the respective wheels being partially aligned with each other and each torsion bar being associated with an adjusting device that can be regulated and/or controlled by a controller for adjustment and each torsion bar being mounted on an auxiliary frame via its adjusting device and the controller. The adjusting devices and the adjusting mechanism are mounted in a common housing, which can be mounted on the auxiliary frame as an integral structural component.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2013Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: AUDI AGInventors: Andreas Schindler, Heinrich Beringer, Ruben Goldberg, Joachim Schmitt, Christian Isakiewitsch
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Publication number: 20160001620Abstract: A torsion spring system for a wheel suspension of a motor vehicle includes an actuator that is provided on the vehicle body and variably maintains the torsion spring system under tension, and which acts, via a torsion bar and an output lever, with a biasing force on a wheel suspension element of the wheel suspension. The torsion bar is configured in two parts between the actuator and the output lever and has a first bar part and a second bar part coupled thereto with a spring element connected in between the first and second bar parts.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2014Publication date: January 7, 2016Applicant: AUDI AGInventors: DOMINIK MOHRLOCK, ANDREAS SCHINDLER, HEINRICH BERINGER, JOACHIM SCHMITT
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Patent number: 9108482Abstract: A torsion bar spring arrangement for a wheel suspension of a motor vehicle includes an actuator arranged on a vehicle body or on a subframe and constructed to variably pre-tension the torsion bar spring arrangement, a coaxial first torsion bar spring having an output side that is connected by way of an output lever to a wheel suspension element of the wheel suspension, and a housing of the actuator supported on the vehicle body in at least one bearing location for movement in a circumferential direction and resiliently yieldingly supported on the vehicle body in the direction of torsional moments acting on the torsion bar spring by way of at least one spring element.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2014Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: AUDI AGInventors: Dominik Mohrlock, Andreas Schindler, Heinrich Beringer, Joachim Schmitt
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Publication number: 20150191071Abstract: An adjustable wheel suspension for the wheels of an axle of a motor vehicle is disclosed, wherein each wheel is guided by means of wheel guide elements and each wheel is operatively connected to an adjustable torsion bar, the torsion bars associated with the respective wheels being partially aligned with each other and each torsion bar being associated with an adjusting device that can be regulated and/or controlled by a controller for adjustment and each torsion bar being mounted on an auxiliary frame via its adjusting device and the controller. The adjusting devices and the adjusting mechanism are mounted in a common housing, which can be mounted on the auxiliary frame as an integral structural component.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2013Publication date: July 9, 2015Applicant: AUDI AGInventors: Andreas Schindler, Heinrich Beringer, Ruben Goldberg, Joachim Schmitt, Christian Isakiewitsch
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Publication number: 20150165862Abstract: An adjustable wheel suspension for the wheels of an axle of a motor vehicle is disclosed, wherein each wheel is guided by means of wheel guide elements and each wheel is operatively connected to a torsion bar, which can be adjusted by means of an adjusting device, via its wheel guide elements, the torsion bars being partially aligned with each other and each torsion bar being mounted on an auxiliary frame by its associated adjusting device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2013Publication date: June 18, 2015Applicant: AUDI AGInventors: Andreas Schindler, Heinrich Beringer, Ruben Goldberg, Christian Isakiewitsch, Joachim Schmitt
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Patent number: 8857921Abstract: Vehicle wheel including a wheel rim a brake pot fastened to the latter and a brake disc fastened to the brake pot, wherein multiple pivotally supported plate shaped cover elements are provided on the wheel rim for temporarily closing assigned wheel rim side openings, wherein each cover element is movable along the pivot axis in opposition to the force of a restoring element an is connected to the wheel rim via a couple element which force guides in case of a shifting movement, by means of which the cover element is moved from a open position to a closed position, which the cover element assumes when the wheel rotates.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2012Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Audi AGInventors: Wolfgang Schmid, Karl-Heinz Meitinger, Christoph Kossira, Heinrich Beringer
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Publication number: 20140232083Abstract: A torsion bar spring arrangement for a wheel suspension of a motor vehicle includes an actuator arranged on a vehicle body or on a subframe and constructed to variably pre-tension the torsion bar spring arrangement, a coaxial first torsion bar spring having an output side that is connected by way of an output lever to a wheel suspension element of the wheel suspension, and a housing of the actuator supported on the vehicle body in at least one bearing location for movement in a circumferential direction and resiliently yieldingly supported on the vehicle body in the direction of torsional moments acting on the torsion bar spring by way of at least one spring element.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2014Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: Audi AGInventors: DOMINIK MOHRLOCK, ANDREAS SCHINDLER, HEINRICH BERINGER, JOACHIM SCHMITT
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Patent number: 8490983Abstract: A wheel suspension for a motor vehicle includes a support element on the wheel-side rotatably mounting a vehicle wheel and a carrier element on the axle-side, wherein the carrier element on the wheel-side can be adjusted for setting a toe and/or camber angle relative to the support element on the axle-side, wherein the carrier elements on the axle-side and on the wheel-side are coupled to a universal joint in which webs of the carrier elements on the wheel-side and on the axle-side are articulated on a gimbal ring element by means of bearing points. The webs of the support elements are articulated on the gimbal ring element at the bearing points by means of ball joints.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2011Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: Audi AGInventors: Wolfgang Schmid, Heinrich Beringer, Hugo Müller, Karl-Heinz Meitinger, Wilfried Michel, Christoph Kossira
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Publication number: 20130099455Abstract: A roll stabilizer for installation to a wheel suspension of a motor vehicle includes a transverse torsion bar rotatably mounted to a body of the motor vehicle and two longitudinal arms which are connected to the torsion bar to thereby establish a substantially U shaped configuration. The longitudinal arms are articulated directly or indirectly to wheel control elements of the wheel suspension. A servomotor is arranged at one end of the torsion bar between one of the longitudinal arms and the torsion bar for adjusting the longitudinal arms in relation to one another to thereby stabilize a rolling motion.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2012Publication date: April 25, 2013Applicant: AUDI AGInventors: Heinrich Beringer, ANDREAS SCHINDLER
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Publication number: 20120306174Abstract: A wheel suspension for a motor vehicle includes a support element on the wheel-side rotatably mounting a vehicle wheel and a carrier element on the axle-side, wherein the carrier element on the wheel-side can be adjusted for setting a toe and/or camber angle relative to the support element on the axle-side, wherein the carrier elements on the axle-side and on the wheel-side are coupled to a universal joint in which webs of the carrier elements on the wheel-side and on the axle-side are articulated on a gimbal ring element by means of bearing points. The webs of the support elements are articulated on the gimbal ring element at the bearing points by means of ball joints.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2011Publication date: December 6, 2012Applicant: Audi AGInventors: Wolfgang Schmid, Heinrich Beringer, Hugo Müller, Karl-Heinz Meitinger, Wilfried Michel, Christoph Kossira
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Publication number: 20120256473Abstract: Vehicle wheel including a wheel rim a brake pot fastened to the latter and a brake disc fastened to the brake pot, wherein multiple pivotally supported plate shaped cover elements are provided on the wheel rim for temporarily closing assigned wheel rim side openings, wherein each cover element is movable along the pivot axis in opposition to the force of a restoring element an is connected to the wheel rim via a couple element which force guides in case of a shifting movement, by means of which the cover element is moved from a open position to a closed position, which the cover element assumes when the wheel rotates.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2012Publication date: October 11, 2012Applicant: Audi AGInventors: Wolfgang SCHMID, Karl-Heinz MEITINGER, Christoph KOSSIRA, Heinrich BERINGER