Patents by Inventor Martin Ruttor

Martin Ruttor 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: 9108573
    Abstract: An adjustment device for a carrier plate which can be pivoted about two mutually orthogonal axes and is configured to receive a motor vehicle mirror, includes one motor per axis for moving a non-rotatably and non-tiltably guided linear drive, which is in engagement via a socket with a joint ball on the carrier plate, and a funnel-shaped hub provided with a hollow shaft. A hollow spherical segment of the funnel-shaped hub engages, by spring tabs, in a depression in the form of a hollow spherical segment in the carrier plate, and a spherical segment of the carrier plate is axially elastically clamped in a hollow spherical segment of a housing for drive trains of the two linear drives, thereby locking the hollow shaft on the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: OECHSLER AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Joseph Bögelein, Gisela Fuchs, Jürgen Heinz, Axel Vogelhuber, Winfried Schmidt, Marco Wacker, Martin Ruttor
  • Publication number: 20150129738
    Abstract: An adjustment device for a carrier plate which can be pivoted about two mutually orthogonal axes and is configured to receive a motor vehicle mirror, includes one motor per axis for moving a non-rotatably and non-tiltably guided linear drive, which is in engagement via a socket with a joint ball on the carrier plate, and a funnel-shaped hub provided with a hollow shaft. A hollow spherical segment of the funnel-shaped hub engages, by spring tabs, in a depression in the form of a hollow spherical segment in the carrier plate, and a spherical segment of the carrier plate is axially elastically clamped in a hollow spherical segment of a housing for drive trains of the two linear drives, thereby locking the hollow shaft on the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Joseph Bögelein, Gisela Fuchs, Jürgen Heinz, Axel Vogelhuber, Winfriend Schmidt, Marco Wacker, Martin Ruttor
  • Patent number: 6805025
    Abstract: The refinement of such harmonic drives according to German Patent 1 98 33 290 C1=European Patent Application 0 974 773 A concerns damping of the noise generation as a consequence of the revolving displacement of discrete tappets (instead of the rotating deformation of the closed hub of a spoked wheel) on the non-round wave generator. Since the feet of the individual—not guided in a cage, but rather connected to one another by a flexible ring band—tappets are no longer solid, but rather split, they are to be able to elastically bend so they may press continuously against the drive core of the wave generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2004
    Assignee: Oechsler AG
    Inventor: Martin Ruttor
  • Patent number: 6786112
    Abstract: A shaft drive (10), which may be produced without problem and easily—even in a cascade—assembled, may be achieved, whereby the support ring (18) produced such as to be floating relative to the housing is rotationally fixed on the front side to a housing base plate (12) and enclosed by a housing cover (20), similarly fixed to the base plate (12), in which the drive shaft (25) for the crowned drive ring (27), which may rotate relative to the support ring (18), has a floating bearing. The inner wheel (28), extending through both rings is however not supported in the housing, but rather mounted on the drive shaft (14) extending coaxially into the housing (11) through the base plate (12), by means of the wave generator drive core (30), the base plate (12) being non-rotationally mounted in front of the bearing plate (32) of the above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: Oechsler AG
    Inventor: Martin Ruttor
  • Patent number: 6736028
    Abstract: The star-shaped internal geared wheel (15) of a harmonic drive (12) consists of individual tappets (21) which are displaceably interconnected by a retainer ring (28) which circles them at approximately half the height of the tappet shaft, so that they form a single part that can be handled. The inner front end (28) of the tappet shaft, which is thermally dimensionally stable, is provided with a guiding shoe or at least provided with a slide-resistant coating opposite a radially elastically compressible head (26). The internal geared wheel (15) is produced as a one-part plastic injection-moulded element in a multiple component method, with a thermally dimensionally stable foot (23), support ring arms (28) which are elastically moulded onto the respective dimensionally stable and extremely resistant tappet shaft and head walls (27,32) consisting of different plastics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2004
    Assignee: Oechsler Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martin Ruttor, Wilhelm Wolf
  • Publication number: 20030089194
    Abstract: The star-shaped internal geared wheel (15) of a harmonic drive (12) consists of individual tappets (21) which are displaceably interconnected by a retainer ring (28) which circles them at approximately half the height of the tappet shaft, so that they form a single part that can be handled. The inner front end (28) of the tappet shaft, which is thermally dimensionally stable, is provided with a guiding shoe or at least provided with a slide-resistant coating opposite a radially elastically compressible head (26). The internal geared wheel (15) is produced as a one-part plastic injection-moulded element in a multiple component method, with a thermally dimensionally stable foot (23), support ring arms (28) which are elastically moulded onto the respective dimensionally stable and extremely resistant tappet shaft and head walls (27,32) consisting of different plastics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2002
    Publication date: May 15, 2003
    Inventors: Martin Ruttor, Wilhelm Wolf
  • Publication number: 20030075009
    Abstract: A shaft drive (10), which may be produced without problem and easily—even in a cascade—assembled, may be achieved, whereby the support ring (18) produced such as to be floating relative to the housing is rotationally fixed on the front side to a housing base plate (12) and enclosed by a housing cover (20), similarly fixed to the base plate (12), in which the drive shaft (25) for the crowned drive ring (27), which may rotate relative to the support ring (18), has a floating bearing. The inner wheel (28), extending through both rings is however not supported in the housing, but rather mounted on the drive shaft (14) extending coaxially into the housing (11) through the base plate (12), by means of the wave generator drive core (30), the base plate (12) being non-rotationally mounted in front of the bearing plate (32) of the above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2002
    Publication date: April 24, 2003
    Inventor: Martin Ruttor
  • Publication number: 20030047025
    Abstract: The particularly durable internal geared wheel of a harmonic drive is made up of individual, identical, essentially solid radial tappets (21) in a link chain-type arrangement, said tappets each being provided with an elastically radially, compressible hollow head (26) and being flexibly linked in such a way that they can pivot, by means of side connecting profiles (30, 31) which can be connected in pairs. The geometry of the tappets can be produced economically on a large scale by plastic injection moulding a rigid, thermoplastic, low-density material, in a technologically uncritical manner and with a considerable degree of dimensional accuracy, so that an internal geared wheel which can be assembled from different numbers of tappets is also characterised by low mass inertia. each tappet (21) has good sliding friction and wear characteristics and is very dimensionally stable in relation to heat when the foot (23) is radially supported on the drive core, due to the combination of materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2002
    Publication date: March 13, 2003
    Inventor: Martin Ruttor