Patents by Inventor Jens-Uwe Gleu

Jens-Uwe Gleu 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: 11760146
    Abstract: Pressure body for an air-spring system, which is produced from a plastics material, wherein the pressure body comprises an outer enveloping structure and an internal reinforcing structure, wherein the enveloping structure comprises a multiplicity of convexly shaped segments, which are arranged adjacent to one another and form part of a wall of the pressure body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventor: Jens-Uwe Gleu
  • Patent number: 11707959
    Abstract: An air spring strut for a motor vehicle comprising an air spring with a shock damper for the spring-cushioning and damping of oscillations of a motor vehicle chassis, wherein the air spring comprises an air spring cover and a rolling piston, wherein a rolling bellows of elastomer material is clamped in an airtight manner between the air spring cover and the rolling piston, wherein the air spring cover comprises a damper bearing receptacle in which a damper bearing of the shock damper is arranged, and wherein the air spring cover comprises a clamping base to which a first end of the rolling bellows is attached, wherein at least the damper bearing receptacle of the air spring cover is produced from a plastic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Jens-Uwe Gleu, Martin Ballmann
  • Patent number: 11673310
    Abstract: An injection-molding device for producing a hollow-formed plastic object, at least comprising a mold for the primary shaping of the plastic object, an injection device for at least partially introducing a flowable polymer melt into a cavity within the mold and a fluid injection device for introducing a pressurized fluid and for driving a projectile through the polymer melt introduced into the cavity, the mold comprising a mold wall and a mold core that is arranged at least partially within the mold wall, the projectile being formed at least partially in such a hollow-formed manner that it is arranged on the mold core and is movable along a longitudinal extent of the mold core on the latter. A projectile injection process for producing a hollow-formed plastic object with this injection-molding device and a hollow-formed plastic object produced by this process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Jens-Uwe Gleu, Alexander Hofmann
  • Patent number: 11130381
    Abstract: An air spring unit for a vehicle is described. The air spring unit forms a rolling fold and a cardanic fold. A type of bellows guidance of the air spring, the cardanic fold begins, at the rolling fold side, below that end of the external guide of the air spring unit which is at the air spring cover side. A cardanic fold of axially short construction is realized which, despite a small axial structural space, has the elasticity of a cardanic fold of tall construction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventor: Jens-Uwe Gleu
  • Patent number: 11117437
    Abstract: A suspension device for a wheeled vehicle with a plurality of air springs is described. Two main air chambers of two air springs of a respective vehicle axle are connected together via a transverse air chamber which forms an intermediate volume. A compressor arranged between the two transverse air chambers is connected to the first transverse air chamber via a first connecting line in which a first switchable valve is arranged, and to the second transverse air chamber via a second connecting line in which a second switchable valve is arranged, so that direct filling/direct evacuation of the intermediate volumes of the two transverse air chambers is possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Hans-Joachim Harting, Jens-Uwe Gleu
  • Publication number: 20200290425
    Abstract: A suspension device for a wheeled vehicle with a plurality of air springs is described. Two main air chambers of two air springs of a respective vehicle axle are connected together via a transverse air chamber which forms an intermediate volume. A compressor arranged between the two transverse air chambers is connected to the first transverse air chamber via a first connecting line in which a first switchable valve is arranged, and to the second transverse air chamber via a second connecting line in which a second switchable valve is arranged, so that direct filling/direct evacuation of the intermediate volumes of the two transverse air chambers is possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Hans-Joachim Harting, Jens-Uwe Gleu
  • Patent number: 10752071
    Abstract: A pneumatic spring for a running gear of a motor vehicle, including a pneumatic spring cover and a pneumatic spring piston, wherein a pneumatic spring bellows composed of elastomer material is braced in air-tight fashion between the pneumatic spring cover and the pneumatic spring piston, wherein the pneumatic spring bellows is at least partially surrounded by a sleeve-like outer guide, wherein a corrugated bellows surrounds the pneumatic spring bellows and the outer guide, and wherein, between the outer guide and the corrugated bellows, there is provided a separately formed, air-permeable fastener by which the corrugated bellows is fixed to the outer guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Jens-Uwe Gleu, Tiberiu Popa-Bianu
  • Publication number: 20200223275
    Abstract: An air spring strut for a motor vehicle comprising an air spring with a shock damper for the spring-cushioning and damping of oscillations of a motor vehicle chassis, wherein the air spring comprises an air spring cover and a rolling piston, wherein a rolling bellows of elastomer material is clamped in an airtight manner between the air spring cover and the rolling piston, wherein the air spring cover comprises a damper bearing receptacle in which a damper bearing of the shock damper is arranged, and wherein the air spring cover comprises a clamping base to which a first end of the rolling bellows is attached, wherein at least the damper bearing receptacle of the air spring cover is produced from a plastic material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Applicant: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Jens-Uwe Gleu, Martin Ballmann
  • Publication number: 20200189168
    Abstract: An injection-molding device for producing a hollow-formed plastic object, at least comprising a mold for the primary shaping of the plastic object, an injection device for at least partially introducing a flowable polymer melt into a cavity within the mold and a fluid injection device for introducing a pressurized fluid and for driving a projectile through the polymer melt introduced into the cavity, the mold comprising a mold wall and a mold core that is arranged at least partially within the mold wall, the projectile being formed at least partially in such a hollow-formed manner that it is arranged on the mold core and is movable along a longitudinal extent of the mold core on the latter. A projectile injection process for producing a hollow-formed plastic object with this injection-molding device and a hollow-formed plastic object produced by this process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicant: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Jens-Uwe Gleu, Alexander Hofmann
  • Publication number: 20200182263
    Abstract: Pressure body for an air-spring system, which is produced from a plastics material, wherein the pressure body comprises an outer enveloping structure and an internal reinforcing structure, wherein the enveloping structure comprises a multiplicity of convexly shaped segments, which are arranged adjacent to one another and form part of a wall of the pressure body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventor: Jens-Uwe Gleu
  • Publication number: 20200094642
    Abstract: An air spring unit for a vehicle is described. The air spring unit forms a rolling fold and a cardanic fold. A type of bellows guidance of the air spring, the cardanic fold begins, at the rolling fold side, below that end of the external guide of the air spring unit which is at the air spring cover side. A cardanic fold of axially short construction is realized which, despite a small axial structural space, has the elasticity of a cardanic fold of tall construction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventor: Jens-Uwe Gleu
  • Publication number: 20190016187
    Abstract: A pneumatic spring for a running gear of a motor vehicle, including a pneumatic spring cover and a pneumatic spring piston, wherein a pneumatic spring bellows composed of elastomer material is braced in air-tight fashion between the pneumatic spring cover and the pneumatic spring piston, wherein the pneumatic spring bellows is at least partially surrounded by a sleeve-like outer guide, wherein a corrugated bellows surrounds the pneumatic spring bellows and the outer guide, and wherein, between the outer guide and the corrugated bellows, there is provided a separately formed, air-permeable fastener by which the corrugated bellows is fixed to the outer guide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Applicant: Continental Teves ,AG & Co., oHG
    Inventors: Jens-Uwe Gleu, Tiberiu Popa-Bianu
  • Patent number: 9512895
    Abstract: An air spring assembly for a motor vehicle, including an air spring, a rolling piston, a tubular rolling air spring bellows arranged concentrically about a central longitudinal axis of the air spring, and an air spring cover. A first partial air spring bellows has a first embedded textile reinforcement and a second partial air spring bellows has a second embedded textile reinforcement The first textile reinforcement has first reinforcing threads, the preferred axis of which extends parallel or nearly parallel to the axis of the central longitudinal axis of the air spring The second textile reinforcement has second reinforcing threads, the first preferred axis of which extends obliquely to the longitudinal axis of the air spring and the second preferred axis of which extends obliquely to the longitudinal axis of the air spring, wherein the first and the second preferred axis are at an angle to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Christof Behmenburg, Jens Uwe Gleu, Andreas Kind, Dirk Kröger, Andreas Nessel, Reiner Waschk
  • Patent number: 9435393
    Abstract: An air spring strut including an air spring and a damper for springing and damping vibrations of a motor vehicle chassis, the air spring strut being clamped between the body and the chassis of the motor vehicle, including an elastomer air spring bellows clamped between an air spring cover and an air spring rolling piston in an air-tight manner, and which rolls on the air spring rolling piston while forming a rolling fold; an outer guide surrounds the air spring bellows in a sleeve-like manner; a bellows protects the rolling fold from accumulating dirt and is fixed to an outer guide end facing away from the air spring cover; and a vent ventilates a space surrounded by the bellows. The vent has ventilation openings on a bellows end facing the chassis, and additional ventilation openings in the bellows for facilitating air flow within the bellows in the direction of the chassis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Continental Teves Ag & Co. oHG
    Inventor: Jens Uwe Gleu
  • Patent number: 9399379
    Abstract: An air spring for chassis of vehicles, which is clamped with an air spring piston and an air spring cover between the chassis and vehicle body of a motor vehicle, includes an elastomeric air spring bellows which at least partially delimits a compressed air-filled working chamber and which, forming at least one rolling fold, rolls on the air spring piston. The air spring bellows is attached by clamping elements to the air spring cover and the air spring piston, including an external guide attached to the air spring bellows and spaced apart from the air spring cover and attached to the air spring bellows such that a partial piece of the air spring bellows is formed between the air spring cover and the external guide as a cardanic fold which permits deflection of the air spring bellows produced by forces acting perpendicular to the axis of the air spring bellows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Jens Uwe Gleu, Holger Wehaus
  • Publication number: 20150159725
    Abstract: An air spring strut including an air spring and a damper for springing and damping vibrations of a motor vehicle chassis, the air spring strut being clamped between the body and the chassis of the motor vehicle, including an elastomer air spring bellows clamped between an air spring cover and an air spring rolling piston in an air-tight manner, and which rolls on the air spring rolling piston while forming a rolling fold; an outer guide surrounds the air spring bellows in a sleeve-like manner; a bellows protects the rolling fold from accumulating dirt and is fixed to an outer guide end facing away from the air spring cover; and a vent ventilates a space surrounded by the bellows. The vent has ventilation openings on a bellows end facing the chassis, and additional ventilation openings in the bellows for facilitating air flow within the bellows in the direction of the chassis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2013
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Inventor: Jens Uwe Gleu
  • Publication number: 20150108699
    Abstract: An air spring for chassis of vehicles, which is clamped with an air spring piston and an air spring cover between the chassis and vehicle body of a motor vehicle, includes an elastomeric air spring bellows which at least partially delimits a compressed air-filled working chamber and which, forming at least one rolling fold, rolls on the air spring piston. The air spring bellows is attached by clamping elements to the air spring cover and the air spring piston, including an external guide attached to the air spring bellows and spaced apart from the air spring cover and attached to the air spring bellows such that a partial piece of the air spring bellows is formed between the air spring cover and the external guide as a cardanic fold which permits deflection of the air spring bellows produced by forces acting perpendicular to the axis of the air spring bellows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Jens Uwe Gleu, Holger Wehaus
  • Patent number: 8991798
    Abstract: A pneumatic spring strut for a vehicle, having a working chamber which is at least partially enclosed by a pneumatic spring bellows and having a centrally arranged telescopic damper, wherein the pneumatic spring bellows is fastened to the pneumatic spring cover and to a pneumatic spring piston connected to the damper cylinder and can roll on the outer side of the pneumatic spring piston, wherein the pneumatic spring piston is connected, at its top end and above the roll fold, to the damper cylinder by an elastic bearing, and the elastic bearing is composed of an elastomer body which is provided between a collar, which is situated on the damper cylinder, and a flange, which is arranged on the pneumatic spring piston, wherein the collar situated on the damper cylinder is arranged below the piston-rod-side end of the damper cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Thomas Eike, Jens Uwe Gleu, Andreas Nessel, Dirk Rosner, Holger Oldenettel
  • Publication number: 20140027962
    Abstract: An air spring assembly for a motor vehicle, including an air spring, a rolling piston, a tubular rolling air spring bellows arranged concentrically about a central longitudinal axis of the air spring, and an air spring cover. A first partial air spring bellows has a first embedded textile reinforcement and a second partial air spring bellows has a second embedded textile reinforcement The first textile reinforcement has first reinforcing threads, the preferred axis of which extends parallel or nearly parallel to the axis of the central longitudinal axis of the air spring The second textile reinforcement has second reinforcing threads, the first preferred axis of which extends obliquely to the longitudinal axis of the air spring and the second preferred axis of which extends obliquely to the longitudinal axis of the air spring, wherein the first and the second preferred axis are at an angle to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO. OHG
    Inventors: Christof Behmenburg, Jens Uwe Gleu, Andreas Kind, Dirk Kröger, Andreas Nessel, Reiner Waschk
  • Publication number: 20130147099
    Abstract: A pneumatic spring strut for a vehicle, having a working chamber which is at least partially enclosed by a pneumatic spring bellows and having a centrally arranged telescopic damper, wherein the pneumatic spring bellows is fastened to the pneumatic spring cover and to a pneumatic spring piston connected to the damper cylinder and can roll on the outer side of the pneumatic spring piston, wherein the pneumatic spring piston is connected, at its top end and above the roll fold, to the damper cylinder by an elastic bearing, and the elastic bearing is composed of an elastomer body which is provided between a collar, which is situated on the damper cylinder, and a flange, which is arranged on the pneumatic spring piston, wherein the collar situated on the damper cylinder is arranged below the piston-rod-side end of the damper cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO. OHG
    Inventors: Thomas Eike, Jens Uwe Gleu, Andreas Nessel, Dirk Rosner, Holger Oldenettel