Patents Assigned to FLENDER GMBH
  • Patent number: 12381425
    Abstract: A laminated-core segment includes a plurality of axially layered metal sheets. Each metal sheet includes a yoke having grooves, teeth, and a yoke rear which connects the teeth, with at least some of the teeth having axially aligned recesses on a groove distal side of the metal sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Flender GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Adlfinger, Andreas Lindmeier, Dominik Ratzisberger, Andreas Jöckel, Franz Xaver Michael Schober
  • Patent number: 12374968
    Abstract: A dynamo-electric rotary machine includes a rotor defining an axis, a stator, and a can designed for arrangement in an air gap between the rotor and the stator in order to seal the stator and the rotor in relation to each other. The can has at least one section of average electrical conductivity in a range from 1 S/m to 10000 S/m in an axial and/or a tangential direction. The can is electrically conductively incorporated in an earthing system of the dynamo-electric machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Flender GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Jöckel, Roland Zeichfüssl
  • Publication number: 20250219280
    Abstract: A stator antenna unit for mounting in a transmission housing structure and for interaction with a rotor element arranged in the transmission housing structure on a transmission component and describing an axial direction Includes an annular antenna holder designed of multiple parts and pivotable between a circumferentially closed position and a circumferentially open position via a hinge, a signal receiver extending circumferentially on the antenna holder, and a signal evaluation unit fastened to the antenna holder and connected electrically and in signal communication with the signal receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2023
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Applicant: Flender GmbH
    Inventors: TOBIAS DEGELING, MARC LEHMKUHL, STEFAN ESSINK
  • Publication number: 20250215970
    Abstract: A planetary gear unit apparatus, in particular for an industrial gear unit, for example in the case of a vertical orientation of a drive train, includes a planetary carrier, a gear unit housing, at least one nozzle provided in/on the gear unit housing and designed to feed an oil medium, and planetary gears coupled to the planetary carrier. Each planetary gear includes an eccentrically arranged and axially running feed channel for oil medium. At least one nozzle is provided in an oil-communicating relation/arrangement with respect to the feed channel or to a corresponding circulating diameter of the feed channels. The planetary gears circulate in planetary ring gear supported in the gear unit housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Applicant: Flender GmbH
    Inventors: CHRISTOPH BRUNS, MICHAEL KLEIN-HITPASS, MICHAEL TEGELKAMP, EUGEN SCHLEGEL
  • Publication number: 20250207640
    Abstract: A torsionally elastic coupling for connecting a drive shaft to an output shaft includes a first coupling part, a second coupling part comprising axially directed drivers, and a plurality of dumbbell-shaped buffer elements. Each buffer element has two end buffers which are connected via a central region. The buffer elements are held on a circular arc of the first coupling part via the respective central region in slotted radial webs of the first coupling part, with the axially directed drivers of the second coupling part seated between adjacent ones of the buffer elements in an operating situation. A woven fabric insert forms a contact surface of the buffer elements in facing relationship to the radial webs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Publication date: June 26, 2025
    Applicant: Flender GmbH
    Inventor: Stefan Kleinewegen
  • Patent number: 12326380
    Abstract: A testing device includes a drive unit and an output unit, which are connected together via first and second gearboxes. The testing device is configured to adjustably tilt and/or adjustably displace at least one of the first and second gearboxes for at least partially simultaneous testing of the first and second gearboxes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignees: Flender GmbH, Vestas Wind Systems A/S
    Inventors: Flemming Kjaer Christensen, Matthias Deicke
  • Publication number: 20250179997
    Abstract: A bearing arrangement includes a first anti-friction bearing including an inner ring and an outer ring, a second anti-friction bearing including an inner ring and an outer ring, a first spacer element seated between the inner ring of the first anti-friction bearing and the inner ring of the second anti-friction bearing and including an oil supply channel which runs in a radial direction, and a second spacer element arranged between outer ring of the first anti-friction bearing and the outer ring of the second anti-friction bearing for adjusting a bearing prestress. The second spacer element includes at least two curved pieces which are placed circumferentially in opposition to one another. The second spacer element extends in the radial direction such as to from a radial gap to the first spacer element and includes an oil supply channel which runs in the radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Publication date: June 5, 2025
    Applicant: Flender GmbH
    Inventors: Christian König, MARKUS DEGELING, SARAH BRÖCKER, DAVID TE WILDE
  • Patent number: 12244189
    Abstract: A dynamoelectric machine includes a shaft, a rotor arranged fixedly on the shaft for conjoint rotation, and a slip ring system enabling a rotor winding system to be contacted electrically and including a slip ring body having slip rings arranged spaced-apart axially behind one another and assigned to an electrical phase. The slip ring body is connected fixedly to the shaft for conjoint rotation and has between an inner side thereof and the shaft a section which forms an axially open cavity on both skies. In a region of the slip ring system, the shaft is hollow with a hollow shaft portion assigned to the slip ring system for routing feed lines to the rotor winding system. Recesses are provided on the cavity axially on an inside and axially on an outside for introducing a cooling medium flow axially into the cavity and discharge thereof into an outlet region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Flender GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert Binder, Georg Brunner, Nicole Devingtel, Daniel Friedl, Thomas Garhammer, Robert Gruber, Lorenz Hraska, Oliver Memminger, Günther Ortmeier, Matthias Reisinger, Klaus Schifferer, Markus Sentef
  • Patent number: 12214433
    Abstract: A method for producing a tooth geometry includes selecting a root-side starting contour configured as an ellipse segment and a head-side partial contour of a tooth; selecting an adaptation region for at least a part of the root-side starting contour; determining for the adaptation region a correction specification determined using a correction function configured as an at least third-order polynomial having at least one adjustable function parameter comprising adjustable coefficients; modifying the root-side starting contour using the correction specification to form a root-side final contour, and producing the tooth geometry by chip-removing machining based on the head-side partial contour and the root-side final contour. Also disclosed are a computer program product for carrying out the method, a tool for manufacturing the tooth geometry based on the method, and a machine component having the tooth geometry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Flender GmbH
    Inventor: Ralf Hess
  • Publication number: 20250035166
    Abstract: A coupling for connection between a first shaft and a second shaft includes a first coupling portion designed for connection to the first shaft, a second coupling portion connected to the first coupling portion for transmitting a drive torque and designed for connection to the second shaft, and a bush accommodated in a through-hole of an axial hub portion of at least one of the first and second coupling portions and made of an electrically non-conductive high-performance plastics material, for receiving the first shaft or second shaft associated with the at least one of the first and second coupling portions, wherein the through-hole has an internal circumference formed with a radial step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: Flender GmbH
    Inventor: Andre Jansen
  • Publication number: 20250020203
    Abstract: A planetary transmission includes first and second planetary stages. At least one of the first and second planetary stages includes a transmission component. The planetary transmission further includes a pilot bearing, and a double-walled pipe received in the pilot bearing and having a central portion designed to have an outlet point for dispensing lubricant into the transmission component. A bushing is disposed in a region of the outlet point such that a gap is formed between the bushing and the transmission component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: FLENDER GMBH
    Inventor: Norbert Haake
  • Patent number: 12119732
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a hollow-cylindrical stator and at least two receiving elements, each receiving element at least partially enclosing the stator in a circumferential direction along an inner coverage length and conjointly connected to the stator in the circumferential direction along an inner fastening length. A stator housing is conjointly connected to the receiving elements in the circumferential direction along the outer fastening length. The inner fastening length extends at most along 120° in the circumferential direction, and the outer fastening length extends at most along 200° in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Flender GmbH
    Inventors: Daniel Friedl, Thomas Garhammer, Robert Gruber, Mesaros Akos Keceli, Oliver Memminger, Günther Ortmeier, Klaus Schifferer, Laslo Toldi, Anatoli Vogel
  • Publication number: 20240328500
    Abstract: An arrangement includes a drive-side transmission with an output shaft of the transmission, which extends along an axis. A work machine with a drive shaft is connected in a rotationally fixed manner to the output shaft. To improve stability and to save space, the transmission on the work machine, by the connection between the output shaft and the drive shaft and a torque arm, is supported to the extent of at least 90% of the forces arising during operation. The connection of the output shaft and the drive shaft is configured to be flexurally stiff to support transverse forces. The axial end of the drive shaft is embodied as a hollow shaft. The axial end of the output shaft has a stub which is disposed at least partially in the hollow shaft of the drive shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: Flender GmbH
    Inventors: Volker Düvel, DIRK SCHROER, SIMON BECKA
  • Patent number: 12092078
    Abstract: A rotor shaft assembly for a torque-transmitting connection of a gearbox unit to a generator unit includes an output shaft for the gearbox unit, a rotor shaft for the generator unit, and a curved tooth coupling designed to connect the output shaft and the rotor shaft to one another The curved tooth coupling includes a releasably fastened supporting element designed to axially position the curved tooth coupling and including a mating face to support an axial force of the curved tooth coupling, with the mating face being designed to slide on a corresponding support face of the output shaft or of the rotor shaft when the output shaft is tilted relative to the rotor shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Flender GmbH
    Inventor: Ralf Martin Dinter
  • Patent number: 12085163
    Abstract: A transmission includes a first transmission stage, a feedthrough extending through the first transmission stage, and a first deflector designed to deflect a lubricant away from the feedthrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Flender GmbH
    Inventors: Sarah Bröcker, Markus Degeling, Christian König
  • Publication number: 20240280169
    Abstract: A transmission cooling device includes a transmission housing part for housing rotating transmission elements and a fan, which is connected to the transmission housing part, for providing a cooling air flow against an outer side of the transmission housing part. The fan has a conveying element, which communicates with a hollow fan ring, for generating an operating flow within the fan ring. The fan ring communicates via at least one discharge opening with a volume provided radially within the fan ring in such a way that the operating flow generates the cooling air flow by a suction jet effect. Indirectly generating the cooling air flow with the aid of the operating flow generated by the conveying element in the hollow fan ring results in good cooling with a large flow cross section of the cooling air flow with small installation space requirement, thereby enabling space-saving cooling of a transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: Flender GmbH
    Inventor: Ralf DINTER
  • Patent number: D1071864
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Flender GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Bruns, Michael Klein-Hitpass, Michael Tegelkamp, Eugen Schlegel
  • Patent number: D1085005
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Flender GmbH
    Inventors: Jens Kiesenbauer, Dirk Sieber, Uwe Kraemer
  • Patent number: D1082877
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Flender GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Messink, Dirk Schroer, Jan Andersson
  • Patent number: D1079778
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Flender GmbH
    Inventor: Jan Andersson