Patents Assigned to FLENDER GMBH
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Patent number: 11777345Abstract: A stator of a directly driven wind power generator includes a stator support including flanges with bores and stator segments positioned on the flanges, when viewed in a circumferential direction. Each stator segment includes a segment support having recesses. At least two securing devices for each of the stator segments secure the stator segment to the flanges. Each securing device includes a bore part insertable in a corresponding one of the recesses, a shim, and an alignment pin insertable in a corresponding one of the bores of the flanges, so that the stator segment is positioned and secured vertically via the bore part and the alignment pin and via the shim to thereby realize a uniform air gap between the stator and a rotor of the wind power generator.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2020Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Flender GmbHInventors: Attila Koeszegi, Andreas Lindmeier, Dominik Ratzisberger, Franz Xaver Michael Schober, Christoph Schwarzbauer, Lei Yue
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Publication number: 20230304531Abstract: A plain bearing bush includes a cylindrical main body having a first shell surface and a second shell surface. The first and second shell surfaces include a plurality of exchange bores for a lubricant. At least one of the exchange bores has a first diameter on the first shell surface and a second diameter on the second shell surface, with the second diameter being greater than the first diameter for an increase in a load-bearing capability of the plain bearing bush. Two of the exchange bores are arranged in axial spaced-apart relation and connected to one another by a pocket depression.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2021Publication date: September 28, 2023Applicant: Flender GmbHInventors: Philipp Leuer, ROBERT PRUSAK, EUGEN SCHLEGEL
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Publication number: 20230304538Abstract: A coupling includes a claw part and an intermediate piece. The intermediate piece includes a tube piece produced from aluminum or from an aluminum alloy, and a buffer part received in an end region of the tube piece and including elastic damping elements for receiving the claw part. The damping elements are surrounded by the end region radially at an outside in a circumferential direction. The buffer part includes a part which is different from the damping elements and is produced from a material of a brittleness which is greater than a brittleness of the tube piece.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2021Publication date: September 28, 2023Applicant: Flender GmbHInventors: STEFAN KLEINEWEGEN, MICHAEL TE UHLE
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Publication number: 20230304475Abstract: A transmission includes a shaft-hub connection designed as a serration and having an axial extent along a shaft axis, and an oil supply line to the serration in order to lubricate a relative movement in the serration between a shaft side and a hub side of the shaft-hub connection. The oil supply line is designed to open from radially inward directly into a cavity on the serration to enable supply of oil to the serration at an oil pressure that prevails in the cavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2021Publication date: September 28, 2023Applicant: Flender GmbhInventors: KATRIN DIETZ, PASCAL HESSLING, TIM VOSSSCHMIDT
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Publication number: 20230296169Abstract: A planetary gearbox includes a first planetary stage with a component, a sun gear, and a planet gear meshing with the sun gear via a toothing system, a second planetary stage, and a lubricant transfer device arranged between the first planetary stage and the second planetary stage. The lubricant transfer device includes a discharge component arranged in a co-rotating manner on a component of the second planetary stage, and a receiving component designed to receive lubricant and arranged in a co-rotating manner on the component of the first planetary stage. A lubricant conduit communicates with the lubricant transfer device and is configured to extend over an entire axial extent of a tooth engagement region of the sun gear of the first planetary stage radially within the toothing system of the sun gear with the planet gear of the first planetary stage.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2021Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: Flender GmbHInventors: PASCAL HESSLING, MICHAEL VENNEMANN
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Patent number: 11754052Abstract: A sensor unit includes sensor constituent parts of various sensor devices and at least one printed circuit board that has voltage supply and signal transmission components for the sensor constituent parts and to which the sensor constituent parts are connected. The sensor unit has an annular base body that receives the sensor constituent parts and the at least one printed circuit board. A gear having such a sensor unit is also provided. A drive train having such a gear, a wind power installation having such a drive train, and an industrial application having such a gear are provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: FLENDER GMBHInventors: Julia Camminadi, Ricardo van Manen
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Publication number: 20230283121Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2021Publication date: September 7, 2023Applicant: Flender GmbHInventors: Helmut Adlfinger, Andreas Lindmeier, Dominik Ratzisberger, Andreas Jöckel, Franz Xaver Michael Schober
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Patent number: 11731379Abstract: The invention is used to manufacture a drive belt. To this end, mould core (1) and outer mould (20) of a casting tool (G) are provided. In the case of mould core (1) inserted into the outer mould (20), a cavity (22) is formed in the casting tool (G). The mould core (1) or the outer mould (20) are provided with a geometry (2) to be represented on the drive belt. Said geometry has projections (3a, 3b) protruding from a base surface (8) and arranged spaced apart from one another, which have a head surface (7) and lateral surfaces (5, 6) which each delimit a gap (4) of the geometry (2) with in each case a base surface (8) present between two adjacent projections (3a, 3b). A textile layer (12) is laid on the geometry (2), which is supported on the head surfaces (7) and in each case extends with a section (13) over the gaps (4). A tension member (13) is laid on the textile layer (12) such that the textile layer (12) is fixed between the tension member (14) and the respective head surface (7).Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2018Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Walther Flender GmbHInventor: Andreas Scholzen
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Patent number: 11724382Abstract: The disclosure relates to a workpiece handling systems and workpiece storage devices for elongate workpieces of shaft-like form which are at least substantially rotationally symmetrical relative to their longitudinal axis and which have along their longitudinal axis at least one projection extending in the peripheral direction, which projection protrudes radially outwards relative to a workpiece region arranged immediately axially adjacent thereto. The workpiece storage device includes a base plate and a plurality of workpiece holders. The workpiece holders are fastened to the base plate and protrude upwards therefrom, and which define workpiece receiving surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2020Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: FLENDER GMBHInventors: Martin Demming, Norbert Liemann
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Publication number: 20230243339Abstract: A wind turbine includes a dynamoelectric machine including a liquid-cooled stator and a rotor interacting with one another. The stator includes a magnetically conductive body and a winding system which is embedded in slots of the magnetically conductive body and which includes a main insulation arranged between a conductor of the winding system and a slot wall and including at least one recess provided in a cooling-channel impression of the main insulation to form at least one axial cooling channel extending between the main insulation and the slot wall, so that the at least one cooling channel borders the slot wall without insulation in direct contact with the slot wall. The winding system includes end windings which are also liquid-cooled. A can separates the stator and the rotor from one another and enables different cooling media for the stator and the rotor.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2021Publication date: August 3, 2023Applicant: Flender GmbHInventors: CLAUS TERINGL, MICHAEL WINKLHOFER
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Patent number: 11708890Abstract: A one-piece planetary carrier includes first and second side walls connected to one another by a plurality of webs. At least one of the webs has a curved outer surface which is directed substantially outward in a radial direction and belongs to a lateral surface of the web. The web includes a transition to the first side wall and a transition to the second side wall. The curved outer surface is convexly curved about a first axis of curvature at the transition to the first side wall and the transition to the second side wall. The curved outer surface has at least one anticlastic region which lies in an axial central section and an axial edge section of the web, with a combination of the axial central section with the axial edge section substantially defining an axial dimension of the planetary carrier.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2020Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: FLENDER GMBHInventors: Volker Lensing, Timo Funke, Carolin Telaar
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Publication number: 20230231451Abstract: In a method for mounting a prefabricated form-wound coil or tooth-wound coil on a layered laminated core to form a stator segment or stator, the form-wound coil or tooth-wound coil is insulated with insulation. Laminates are punched and stacked to form partial laminated cores and/or a laminated core, with the partial laminated cores being spaced apart from one another by spacers and forming substantially axially extending open slots of the laminated core. The form-wound coil or tooth-wound coil are radially inserted into the slots such as to embrace a tooth of the laminated core, and a removable auxiliary element is placed at an axial end face of the laminated core to protect the insulation of the form-wound coil or tooth-wound coil as the form-wound coil or tooth-wound coil is radially inserted into the slots. The auxiliary element is radially removed and repositioned on a further tooth of the laminated core.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2021Publication date: July 20, 2023Applicant: Flender GmbHInventors: ARTUR DEUTSCH, NORBERT SCHÖNBAUER, MICHAEL WEGER
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Publication number: 20230220886Abstract: A double-jointed coupling includes a carrier ring with an internal tooth arrangement, a hollow pinion shaft connected to the internal tooth arrangement of the carrier ring, and an intermediate shaft with a coupling tooth arrangement for engagement in the internal tooth arrangement. The coupling tooth arrangement is constructed on the intermediate shaft such as to enable passage of the intermediate shaft through the hollow pinion shaft for passage through the hollow pinion shaft. A thrust ring is arranged on the intermediate shaft in a region of the coupling tooth arrangement and constructed for passage through the hollow pinion shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2021Publication date: July 13, 2023Applicant: Flender GmbHInventors: ANDRE JANSEN, MICHAEL SCHNUCKLAKE
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Publication number: 20230220912Abstract: A transmission housing includes a profile body configured to enclose transmission components, two side walls configured to enclose the transmission components in the profile body, and a hub rail inserted into a recess of one of the two side walls and fastened to the one of the two side walls, The hub rail includes at least two hubs and is defined by a hub width which is higher than a wall thickness of each of the two side wails. The profile body, the two side walls and the hub rail are each configured without joints in a radial direction of the at least two hubs in order to prevent radial insertion of a one of the transmission components into the hubs.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2021Publication date: July 13, 2023Applicants: Flender GmbH, Flender Industriegetriebe GmbHInventors: Robert Lutzke, ANDREAS FIEDLER, ROCCO FISCHER, SASCHA RUPPERT, JÖRG BUHL, ANDREAS ANGENENDT, GERD HAUSER
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Patent number: 11691154Abstract: A grinder includes a grinding table rotatable about a first rotational axis and at least two grinding rollers. Each of the at least two grinding rollers is arranged for rotation about a second rotational axis such that ground material can be comminuted between the grinding table and the grinding rollers during operation. A sensor arrangement can detect a change in inclination of the grinding table beyond a given threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: FLENDER GMBHInventor: Bruno Back
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Patent number: 11664709Abstract: A holding apparatus for a slip ring unit includes at least two slots configured for receiving slip ring brushes respectively, with the at least two slots being arranged in spaced-apart relationship. A cooling duct is arranged between the at least two slots for cooling a side surface of the slip ring brushes. The cooling duct is configured as a third slot between the at least two slots, with the at least two slots and the cooling duct being of essentially identical shape and dimension.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2019Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: Flender GmbHInventors: Herbert Binder, Robert Gruber, Oliver Memminger
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Patent number: 11649891Abstract: The invention relates to a transmission (10), preferably a bevel helical transmission, having a transmission housing (1) and having a drive shaft (2.1), on which a fan (9) is mounted, and comprising a ring cooler (4), which surrounds the drive shaft (2.1), oil lines (7.1, 7.2) for transporting transmission oil in an oil circuit from the interior of the transmission housing (1) to the ring cooler (4) and from the ring cooler (4) into the interior of the transmission housing (1), and an air-guiding hood (3.1, 3.2) surrounding the ring cooler (4) for guiding air suctioned by the fan (9) onto the ring cooler (4).Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2017Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: FLENDER GMBHInventors: Simon Becka, Christoph Messink, Elmar Rickert, Franz Schmeink, Lena Striemann
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Publication number: 20230117923Abstract: A one-piece planetary carrier includes first and second side walls connected to one another by a plurality of webs. At least one of the webs has a curved outer surface which is directed substantially outward in a radial direction and belongs to a lateral surface of the web. The web includes a transition to the first side wall and a transition to the second side wall. The curved outer surface is convexly curved about a first axis of curvature at the transition to the first skis wall and the transition to the second side wall. The curved outer surface has at least one anticlastic region which lies in an axial central section and an axial edge section of the web, with a combination of the axial central section with the axial edge section substantially defining an axial dimension of the planetary carrier.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2020Publication date: April 20, 2023Applicant: Flender GmbHInventors: Volker Lensing, TIMO FUNKE, CAROLIN TELAAR
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Patent number: 11598378Abstract: A coupling includes a plurality of laminations forming a lamination package and having lamination holes arranged flush to form an assembly opening, a ring, and a bush accommodated in the assembly opening and having a first end area connected to the ring via a form-fit connection.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2020Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: FLENDER GMBHInventors: Michael Kropp, Niklas Sondermann
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Patent number: D997875Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Flender GmbHInventors: Jens Kiesenbauer, Dirk Sieber, Uwe Kraemer