Patents by Inventor Markus Maurer

Markus Maurer 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).

  • Publication number: 20140073473
    Abstract: A transmission comprising a transmission (7) and a reduction stage. Sun of set (P1) is connected to the input (1), which can be releasably connected, via clutch (A), to shaft (6) connected to sun of set (P2) and sun of set (P3), and, via clutch (B), is connectable to shaft (5) connected to carrier of set (P2) and ring of set (P3). Shaft (5) is coupled to housing (G) via brake (F). Carrier of set (P1) is connected to shaft (4) connected with ring of set (P2) and is couplable, via brake (E), to housing (G). Ring of set (P1) is connected to shaft (3) which is couplable, via brake (D), to housing (G). Output (2) is connected to carrier of set (P3). Carrier of set (P4) is connected to output (2), ring of set (P4) is couplable, via brake (H), to housing (G), and sun of set (P4) is connected to the shaft (6).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Markus MAURER, Torsten BUECHNER, Dominik STEINHAUSER
  • Publication number: 20140073475
    Abstract: A transmission having basic and reversing transmissions. The basic transmission has planetary gearsets, shafts and shift elements. A sun of gearset (P1) couples the drive shaft, which can couple shaft (6) and the suns of gearsets (P2, P3), and shaft (5) and the carrier and ring of gearsets (P2, P3) respectively. Carrier of gearset (P1) couples shaft (4), which couples the ring of gearset (P2). The ring of gearset (P1) couples shaft (3). Shafts (3, 4, 5) can couple the housing. The output shaft couples the carrier of gearset (P3). The reversing transmission has a minus planetary gearset with a sun which couples and is driven by the basic transmission output, and a carrier that can couple the housing via a locking element, and a ring that couples the reversing transmission output which can couple, via another locking element, the basic transmission output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Markus MAURER, Torsten BUECHNER, Dominik STEINHAUSER
  • Patent number: 8616164
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine has a cylinder (2) wherein a combustion chamber (3) is formed which is delimited by a piston (5) journalled to move back and forth. At least one transfer channel (14) is provided which connects the crankcase (4) of the engine to the combustion chamber (3) in at least one position of the piston (5). The engine has a supply channel (13) which opens with a supply channel inlet (11) at the cylinder bore (34). The supply channel (13) is connected to the transfer channel (14) via at least one piston pocket (22, 42) in at least one position of the piston (5). In order to achieve low exhaust-gas values of the engine, the piston pocket (22, 42) has a distance (a) to a lower edge (27) of the transfer window (15) which is less than the distance (b) to a lower edge (26) of the inlet (11) of the supply channel at bottom dead center of the piston (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Niels Kunert, Werner Geyer, Markus Maurer
  • Publication number: 20130087018
    Abstract: A method of shifting at least one of a speed increasing stage (H) and/or a speed reductions stage (L) in a claw shifted transfer gear box (VG) in a drive train of a vehicle having a drive engine and a load shiftable shift transmission (SG). The transfer gearbox (VG) is shifted into the neutral position (N) and, after the synchronization, is shifted into the speed increasing stage (H) or the speed reductions stage (L). During synchronization, the shift transmission (SG) is decelerated or accelerated, by activating at least an additional shift element, so that the output rotational speed (n_SG) of the shift transmission (SG) is matched to the output rotational speed (n_VG) of the transfer gearbox (VG), multiplied by the target gear ratio in the transfer gear box (VG).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG
    Inventor: Markus Maurer
  • Publication number: 20120255712
    Abstract: Apparatus for condensing vapor in a vessel, which comprises a vapor space (10) and a condensation space (11) which are adjacent to one another in the horizontal direction, where the vapor space (10) having a horizontal cross section is open in the downward direction, the condensation space (11) is closed in the downward direction by at least one bottom element (14) and at least one essentially vertically aligned bundle of heat exchange elements (20) is arranged in the condensation space, wherein wall elements (40) are present between vapor space and condensation space and partly separate the two spaces from one another and define a vertical transition plane from the vapor space into the condensation space and at least one deflection element (30) is present in the vapor space to divert the vapor ascending from below into the vapor space in the direction of the transition plane and owing to its shape brings about an essentially horizontal flow of vapor through the transition plane onto the heat exchange element
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Günther KIRCHNER, Markus MAURER
  • Patent number: 7851648
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing polyisocyanates by reacting organic amines with phosgene, wherein the reaction is carried out in at least three stages, with the first stage being carried out in a mixing apparatus, the second stage in at least one residence apparatus and the third stage in at least one separation apparatus and the pressure in each successive stage being lower than that in the previous stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martin Sohn, Eckhard Stroefer, Filip Nevejans, Ulrich Penzel, Hans-Juergen Pallasch, Rene Leuthold, Andreas Brodhagen, Andreas Woelfert, Wolfgang Mackenroth, Markus Maurer
  • Publication number: 20080302344
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine has a cylinder (2) wherein a combustion chamber (3) is formed which is delimited by a piston (5) journalled to move back and forth. At least one transfer channel (14) is provided which connects the crankcase (4) of the engine to the combustion chamber (3) in at least one position of the piston (5). The engine has a supply channel (13) which opens with a supply channel inlet (11) at the cylinder bore (34). The supply channel (13) is connected to the transfer channel (14) via at least one piston pocket (22, 42) in at least one position of the piston (5). In order to achieve low exhaust-gas values of the engine, the piston pocket (22, 42) has a distance (a) to a lower edge (27) of the transfer window (15) which is less than the distance (b) to a lower edge (26) of the inlet (11) of the supply channel at bottom dead center of the piston (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2008
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Inventors: Niels Kunert, Werner Geyer, Markus Maurer
  • Publication number: 20060252960
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing polyisocyanates by reacting organic amines with phosgene, wherein the reaction is carried out in at least three stages, with the first stage being carried out in a mixing apparatus, the second stage in at least one residence apparatus and the third stage in at least one separation apparatus and the pressure in each successive stage being lower than that in the previous stage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2003
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Applicant: BASF AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Martin Sohn, Eckhard Stroefer, Filip Nevejans, Ulrich Penzel, Has-Juergen Pallasch, Rene Leuthold, Andreas Brodhagen, Andreas Woelfert, Wolfgang Mackenroth, Markus Maurer
  • Publication number: 20060163943
    Abstract: A method for automatically initiating an emergency braking sequence including preliminary warning braking in motor vehicles, wherein the achievable vehicle deceleration is determined during warning braking and the time of initiating emergency braking is varied as a function of the determined vehicle deceleration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2003
    Publication date: July 27, 2006
    Inventors: Volker Von Holt, Ingo Meinke, Markus Maurer, Fred Oechsle, Joachim Thiele, Ulrike Ahlrichs, Martin Heinebrodt, Bernhard Lucas
  • Patent number: 6673960
    Abstract: A process for working up distillation residues from the synthesis of tolylene diisocyanate by reaction of the distillation residues with water comprises reacting the TDI distillation residues with water in a continuous or semicontinuous process in a backmixed reactor in the presence of hydrolysate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans Volkmar Schwarz, Markus Maurer, Michael Sander, Eckhard Ströfer, Rene Leuthold, Burghard Hantel, Siegfried Richter, Jörg Therre
  • Patent number: 6350911
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of amines by hydrogenation of nitro compounds, which comprises carrying out the hydrogenation in a vertical reactor whose length is greater than its diameter, having a downward-facing jet nozzle arranged in the upper region of the reactor through which the starting materials and the reaction mixture are fed in, and having an outlet at any desired point of the reactor, through which the reaction mixture is fed back to the jet nozzle in an external circuit by means of a conveying means, and having flow reversal in the lower region of the reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2002
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Michael Sander, Ulrich Penzel, Hans Volkmar Schwarz, Eckhard Ströfer, Dieter Stützer, Jörn Müller, Markus Maurer, Peter Zehner, Ekkehard Schwab, Ralf Böhling, Dominic Vanoppen