Patents Represented by Attorney David Bujold & Daniels, P.L.L.C.
  • Patent number: 7377160
    Abstract: A sensor arrangement (1) for a tachometric sensor of an automatic transmission (4) of a motor vehicle, which encompasses a module carrier (2) in which a part of a sensor housing (3) is integrated. The sensor housing (3) is secured in the module carrier (2) or in the transmission housing (4) by way of a guide in the plane and is so affixed as to prevent turning and an apparatus (5) for the generation of a prestress force by way of which the sensor housing (3) is pressed in the direction of the signal disk by way of a projection (8, 8?) acting against the sensor housing (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Ralph Böhm, Gerhard Birkenmaier, Jörg Kurth
  • Patent number: 7360616
    Abstract: A method for controlling and regulating a power train of a hybrid vehicle and a power train of a hybrid vehicle having one internal combustion engine, one electric machine, one shifting element and one output in a power flow of the power train and designed with continuously variable transmitting capacity and one clutch device and the internal combustion engine. The electric machine can be operatively interconnected via the clutch device, the hybrid vehicle being optionally driveable via the electric machine and/or via the internal combustion engine and the internal combustion engine can be started via the electric machine. In the operation of the power train, the transmitting capacity of the shifting element during the starting operation of the internal combustion engine is adjusted so that on the output of the power train, a torque abuts which is independent of the starting operation of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2008
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventor: Peter Schiele
  • Key
    Patent number: D570196
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: The ID Key Company Inc.
    Inventors: H. Douglas McKinnon, Edward C. Henshall, Gordon G. McKinnon