Patents by Inventor Ralf Kleine-Brockhoff

Ralf Kleine-Brockhoff 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: 9394971
    Abstract: A planet web for connecting two planet web cheeks to form a planet wheel space of a planet carrier of a planet gear has, in the axial direction of the planet carrier, a cavity delimited by peripheral walls. A planet carrier includes the planet web and is improved in relation to the prior art, in particular from a production engineering aspect. This improvement is achieved by the planet web having at least one breach arranged in a peripheral wall of the planet web, which connects the cavity to the planet wheel space. A corresponding planet carrier, a casting core, and a method for manufacturing a planet carrier includes the planet web having the at least one breach.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG
    Inventors: Ralf Kleine-Brockhoff, Dominikus Daners, Marco Lehmann, Claudia Schweihoff
  • Patent number: 8814747
    Abstract: A planetary carrier of a planetary gearing includes two planet web cheeks interconnected by planet webs. The sides of the planet web cheeks are mutually opposed in the circumferential direction and, together with outer lateral surfaces of the planetary webs, define lateral surface openings. At least one planet pin opening for receiving a pin for mounting a planet gear is provided in at least one planet web cheek. At least one planet web cheek, in the region of the attachment of a planet web, has a transition reducing the axial length of the planet web. The planetary carrier is optimized in terms of weight and strength by way of the transition having a rounded contour in the form of a spherical recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Kleine-Brockhoff, Dominikus Daners, Miroslaw Roszkowski, Marco Lehmann, Claudia Schweihoff
  • Publication number: 20130340566
    Abstract: A housing for a gear mechanism, in particular a planetary gear mechanism, includes at least one gear-mechanism housing part that has at least one structure configured to reinforce the housing. The housing further includes at least one shaft mounted in the housing and gear-mechanism gearwheels. The housing is optimized with regard to its weight and its strength by virtue of the structure configured to reinforce the housing. The structure is configured as one or more of an undulating structure oriented in the circumferential direction of the gear-mechanism housing part and a bead structure oriented in the radial direction of the gear-mechanism housing part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Inventors: Ralf Kleine-Brockhoff, Dominikus Daners, Marco Lehmann, Claudia Schweihoff
  • Publication number: 20130337968
    Abstract: A planet web for connecting two planet web cheeks to form a planet wheel space of a planet carrier of a planet gear has, in the axial direction of the planet carrier, a cavity delimited by peripheral walls. A planet carrier includes the planet web and is improved in relation to the prior art, in particular from a production engineering aspect. This improvement is achieved by the planet web having at least one breach arranged in a peripheral wall of the planet web, which connects the cavity to the planet wheel space. A corresponding planet carrier, a casting core, and a method for manufacturing a planet carrier includes the planet web having the at least one breach.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Inventors: Ralf Kleine-Brockhoff, Dominikus Daners, Marco Lehmann, Claudia Schweihoff
  • Publication number: 20130337967
    Abstract: A planetary carrier of a planetary gearing includes two planet web cheeks interconnected by planet webs. The sides of the planet web cheeks are mutually opposed in the circumferential direction and, together with outer lateral surfaces of the planetary webs, define lateral surface openings. At least one planet pin opening for receiving a pin for mounting a planet gear is provided in at least one planet web cheek. At least one planet web cheek, in the region of the attachment of a planet web, has a transition reducing the axial length of the planet web. The planetary carrier is optimized in terms of weight and strength by way of the transition having a rounded contour in the form of a spherical recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Inventors: Ralf Kleine-Brockhoff, Dominikus Daners, Miroslaw Roszkowski, Marco Lehmann, Claudia Schweihoff