Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Moedinger

Wolfgang Moedinger 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: 7273220
    Abstract: In a wheel suspension for a motor vehicle, comprising an A-arm with front and rear pivot bearings for connection to a vehicle body via A-arm-bearing eyes receiving, pressed into them, elastic bearings, at least the front bearing includes an inner tube and an outer tube with an elastic element disposed therebetween wherein the inner tube is axially engaged by a bearing console of the vehicle body and the outer tube is disposed, together with the elastic element, axially displaced forwardly from the center of the bearing eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2007
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Andress Gaupp, Wolfgang Mödinger, Achim Ritzmann
  • Patent number: 7150462
    Abstract: In a wheel guide arrangement of a steered motor vehicle wheel which has control arms and a steering knuckle, and wherein the steering knuckle includes a reception structure for a wheel mount and also connecting areas for the mounting of stubs of ball joints connected to the wheel control arms, the connecting areas are disposed at different distances from the wheel axis and the ball joints are arranged between the connecting areas and the wheel axis of rotation, that is, above the connecting areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2006
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Joachim Bortz, Andreas Gaupp, Wolfgang Mödinger
  • Patent number: 5613572
    Abstract: A rack steering system for motor vehicles has inner track rod joints which are offset transverse to the longitudinal axis of the rack. The inner track rod joints are arranged on separate deflection levers which are, in turn, drive-connected to a central tap-off connection of the rack by connecting struts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1997
    Assignee: Mercedes-Benz AG
    Inventor: Wolfgang Moedinger
  • Patent number: 4805747
    Abstract: An arrangement for supplying cooling air to a brake disk of a front wheel brake comprises an air guiding duct that is developed to be partially flexible and, on the inlet side, has an air opening in the front end of a motor vehicle and, on the outlet side, has another air opening that is directed at the brake disk. Two air inlet openings in a brake disk guard plate are opposite said air opening and form a separate transversely directed air guiding system to the brake disk. The air guiding duct is provided with several rigid duct portions that are held so that they are be fixed at the vehicle, namely at the vehicle body, as well as at the wheel, namely at the wishbone, as well as adjacent to the brake disk at a guard plate. They are each connected with one another via flexible intermediate duct portions, in which case the rigid duct portions can be moved relative to one another together with their assorted vehicle components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1989
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c.F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Moedinger, Michael Preiss, Reinhard Lechner