Patents by Inventor Klaus Zaps

Klaus Zaps 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: 9413202
    Abstract: The invention relates to a stator for an electric motor having a base body composed of stator laminates which are axially in layers with respect to a motor axis and having a number of frame-like coil formers which are fitted with stator windings, with the coil cross-sectional surfaces of said frame-like coil formers essentially being directed at the motor axis. It is proposed that in order to fit them, the coil formers can first of all be placed obliquely with respect to a final position on coil former holders of the base body and can then be aligned in the final position, and in that the arrangement is designed such that the alignment involves axial bracing of the stator laminates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG, Wuerzburg
    Inventors: Klaus Zaps, Peter Hauck
  • Patent number: 9119324
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electrical component of a motor vehicle, having a plastic housing and a conductor track structure which is at least substantially embedded in the plastic housing in the injection-molding method and is intended to provide the electrical connections required for operation. The conductor track structure includes—separate wires which each do not run in a straight line, and that any deviation from a straight course of the wires goes back solely to a corresponding bending operation in terms of manufacturing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: BROSE FAHRZEUGTEILE GMBH & CO. KG, HALLSTADT
    Inventors: Alexander Kifer, Klaus Zaps, Peter Hauck
  • Patent number: 8646350
    Abstract: The actuator has a gear unit with a gear housing and a motor unit with a motor housing and an internally located rotor with a drive shaft, and a cylindrical bearing housing on the drive side. The bearing housing protrudes, along with a bearing and the drive shaft ducted therein, into an opening in the gear housing. The motor housing is flange-mounted, along with a drive shaft mounted therein, to the gear housing. The outside of the bearing housing and the inside of the opening in the gear housing have been geometrically mutually harmonized such that clamping points and tension-free places will form between them when the actuator has been assembled. The pretensioning force resulting therefrom produces a permanent frictional engagement between the outer circumference of the bearing and the bearing support or the bearing shell located opposite it. The operating life of an actuator of such type is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co., Kommanditgesellshaft Wurzburg
    Inventors: Gerald Viernekes, Klaus Zaps
  • Publication number: 20120319511
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electrical component of a motor vehicle, having a plastic housing and a conductor track structure which is at least substantially embedded in the plastic housing in the injection-molding method and is intended to provide the electrical connections required for operation. The conductor track structure includes—separate wires which each do not run in a straight line, and that any deviation from a straight course of the wires goes back solely to a corresponding bending operation in terms of manufacturing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2010
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: BROSE FAHRZEUGTEILE GMBH & CO. KG, HALLSTADT
    Inventors: Alexander Kifer, Klaus Zaps, Peter Hauck
  • Publication number: 20120299400
    Abstract: The invention relates to a stator for an electric motor having a base body composed of stator laminates which are axially in layers with respect to a motor axis and having a number of frame-like coil formers which are fitted with stator windings, with the coil cross-sectional surfaces of said frame-like coil formers essentially being directed at the motor axis. It is proposed that in order to fit them, the coil formers can first of all be placed obliquely with respect to a final position on coil former holders of the base body and can then be aligned in the final position, and in that the arrangement is designed such that the alignment involves axial bracing of the stator laminates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: BROSE FAHRZEUGTEILE GMBH & CO. KG, WUERZBURG
    Inventors: Klaus Zaps, Peter Hauck
  • Patent number: 8040015
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rotor for an electric motor, comprising a rotor shaft, a rotor core stack that is attached to the rotor shaft, a ring member which surrounds the rotor core stack, and a gap located between the rotor core stack and the ring member. Adhesive is introduced into the gap for fastening the ring member to the rotor core stack. Molded articles that are used as spacers are admixed to the adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Würzburg
    Inventor: Klaus Zaps
  • Patent number: 7944101
    Abstract: The invention relates to a brush system for a motor-vehicle actuating drive, having a base body, a board on which interference-suppression components are mounted, and electrically conductive plug contacts. The plug contacts each have an accommodation slot. The board is inserted into the accommodation slots in the plug contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Würzburg
    Inventors: Roland Keller, Gerald Viernekes, Klaus Zaps
  • Publication number: 20100045132
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rotor for an electric motor, comprising a rotor shaft, a rotor core stack that is attached to the rotor shaft, a ring member which surrounds the rotor core stack, and a gap located between the rotor core stack and the ring member. Adhesive is introduced into the gap for fastening the ring member to the rotor core stack. Molded articles that are used as spacers are admixed to the adhesive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2007
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Inventor: Klaus Zaps
  • Publication number: 20100026114
    Abstract: The invention relates to a brush system for a motor-vehicle actuating drive, having a base body, a board on which interference-suppression components are mounted, and electrically conductive plug contacts. The plug contacts each have an accommodation slot. The board is inserted into the accommodation slots in the plug contacts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2007
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Inventors: Roland Keller, Gerald Viernekes, Klaus Zaps
  • Publication number: 20070012125
    Abstract: The actuator has a gear unit with a gear housing and a motor unit with a motor housing and an internally located rotor with a drive shaft, and a cylindrical bearing housing on the drive side. The bearing housing protrudes, along with a bearing and the drive shaft ducted therein, into an opening in the gear housing. The motor housing is flange-mounted, along with a drive shaft mounted therein, to the gear housing. The outside of the bearing housing and the inside of the opening in the gear housing have been geometrically mutually harmonized such that clamping points and tension-free places will form between them when the actuator has been assembled. The pretensioning force resulting therefrom produces a permanent frictional engagement between the outer circumference of the bearing and the bearing support or the bearing shell located opposite it. The operating life of an actuator of such type is increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2006
    Publication date: January 18, 2007
    Inventors: Gerald Viernekes, Klaus Zaps
  • Publication number: 20070013248
    Abstract: The electric machine has a stator, a rotor with a rotor shaft and a bearing. One end of the rotor shaft is guided in the bearing which is inserted into a clamping nut in the axial direction. The clamping nut is fixed into a housing together with the bearing. The clamping nut forms a pot bearing, which axially limits the end of the rotor shaft guided by the bearing. The pot bearing is an axially tapered cylindrical appendage of the clamping nut which forms a springing element acting essentially axially for a possible axial movement of the pot bearing. The clamping nut effects the attachment of the engine-side bearing in the housing of the electric machine and at the same time an axial limitation of the rotor shaft in the sense of a tolerance compensation or axial compensation. The component and assembly complexity for the electric machine are hereby reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2006
    Publication date: January 18, 2007
    Inventors: Gerald Viernekes, Klaus Zaps
  • Patent number: 6860673
    Abstract: The arrangement has an axial securing element for fixing to the rotor shaft to enclose it at least over a tangential partial region, especially in the form of a spreader ring for fitting onto the rotor shaft, and a spring element pressing axially elastically against the stator part for axial play compensation as part of the securing element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2005
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Klaus Zaps
  • Publication number: 20030190103
    Abstract: The arrangement has an axial securing element for fixing to the rotor shaft to enclose it at least over a tangential partial region, especially in the form of a spreader ring for fitting onto the rotor shaft, and a spring element pressing axially elastically against the stator part for axial play compensation as part of the securing element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2003
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Inventor: Klaus Zaps
  • Patent number: 6508140
    Abstract: In a very simple production and assembly process, reliable stop absorption between a drive-side gear wheel (1) and a driven-side carrier (2) is obtained when there is a mutual relative movement between the gear wheel (1) and the carrier (2) that is caused by the stop. To this end, a cam (2.1) of the carrier (2) elastically deforms a spring element (1.1) of the gear wheel (1) via a tangential stop bevel (1.11; 1.12). The gear wheel (1) and the carrier (2) are preferably configured as injection molded parts, which are axially spaced and interconnected when produced and assembled and which can be axially fit together by releasing or breaking the connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2003
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Klaus Zaps
  • Publication number: 20020000135
    Abstract: In a very simple production and assembly process, reliable stop absorption between a drive-side gear wheel (1) and a driven-side carrier (2) is obtained when there is a mutual relative movement between the gear wheel (1) and the carrier (2) that is caused by the stop. To this end, a cam (2.1) of the carrier (2) elastically deforms a spring element (1.1) of the gear wheel (1) via a tangential stop bevel (1.11; 1.12). The gear wheel (1) and the carrier (2) are preferably configured as injection molded parts, which are axially spaced and interconnected when produced and assembled and which can be axially fit together by releasing or breaking the connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2001
    Publication date: January 3, 2002
    Applicant: SIEMENS AG
    Inventor: Klaus Zaps
  • Patent number: 5280211
    Abstract: In a stator-excited synchronous machine with laminated sector stator elements (SS1 or SS2), which are arranged one behind another at an axial distance and are winding-excited by in each case one excitation winding part (EW1 or EW2) of opposite polarity, the operating efficiency can be increased with low outlay when a permanent magnet arrangement (M) having a magnetization opposing the winding excitation in the sector stator elements is provided in the axial spacing chamber between the sector stator elements (SS1 or SS2); in order to lock the position of the magnet arrangement (M), the facing laminations of the magnet arrangement (M) have bent-away tongues (Z) gripping radially from below.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 18, 1994
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Werner Freise, Helmut Schmidt, Wolfgang Weinhold, Udo Winter, Klaus Zaps