Patents Assigned to GKN Driveline Bruneck AG
  • Patent number: 10876628
    Abstract: An electric drive assembly comprises a parking lock housing, a sleeve-shaped shaft journal supported in the parking lock housing so as to be rotatable around a rotational axis, wherein the shaft journal comprises a connecting profile for connection to the driveshaft of the electric drive assembly in a rotationally fixed way; a ratchet wheel connected to the shaft journal in a rotationally fixed way and received in a receiving space between the base portion and the cover portion; a locking element movably supported in the parking lock housing and that can be transferred into a locking position for blocking the ratchet wheel and into a releasing position for releasing the ratchet wheel; and a controllable actuator for actuating the locking element; wherein an inner diameter of the parking lock housing in the region of the ratchet wheel substantially corresponds to a greatest outer diameter of the ratchet wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: GKN Driveline Bruneck AG
    Inventors: Ivan Gruber, Manuel Ucar, Klaus Wagger
  • Patent number: 10753405
    Abstract: A clutch assembly for a driveline of a motor vehicle comprises a friction plate clutch having an inner plate carrier, to which inner plates are connected in a rotationally fixed and axially movable way, and having an outer plate carrier to which outer plates are connected in a rotationally fixed and axially movable way, and wherein the inner plates and the outer plates jointly form a plate package, wherein the inner plate carrier comprises at least one bore in an axial overlapping region with the plate package through which bore oil can flow to the plate package, a supporting plate against which the plate package is axially supported, an axially movable pressure plate for axially loading the plate package, an operating device for operating the friction plate clutch by axially moving the pressure plate, a flow controller for controlling an oil volume flow rate through the at least one bore of the inner plate carrier, wherein the flow controller comprises a setting member which is operable by the operating devi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: GKN Driveline Bruneck AG
    Inventors: Hanspeter Putzer, Sigmund Senoner, Kurt Thomaser, Peter Raffin, Ivan Gruber, Dieter Huber, Thomas Widmann
  • Patent number: 10233977
    Abstract: A clutch assembly comprises a first drive part, a second drive part, a clutch which comprises an axially supported first clutch part and an axially movable second clutch part, wherein the second clutch part can be moved into an open position and into a closed position, wherein a clutch profile of the second clutch part 8 and a drive part profile of the second drive part form a form-locking profile connection such that the second clutch part is connected to the second drive part in a rotationally fixed and axially movable way, wherein the drive part profile comprises central flank lines which are each formed between a tip line and a base line of the drive part profile, wherein the drive part profile is designed such that the central flank lines, when rotating around the rotational axis A, define a rotational face which comprises at least one tapered partial portion. Further disclosed is a driveline assembly with such a clutch assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: GKN Driveline Bruneck AG
    Inventor: Nikolaus Mayr
  • Patent number: 9970525
    Abstract: A coupling assembly comprises a coupling which is arranged between a driving gear and a differential drive; a controllable actuator for actuating the coupling; a sensor for determining switching positions of the coupling; and a target element which cooperates with the sensor, wherein the target element is axially moved upon actuation of the actuator; wherein a first coupling part of the coupling is connected to a differential carrier of the differential drive and wherein a second coupling part of the coupling is held in a rotationally fixed and axially movable way relative to a differential housing of the differential drive, and wherein the target element is secured to the second coupling part by a bayonet-type connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignees: GKN Automotive Limited, GKN Driveline Bruneck AG
    Inventors: Colin Zaers, Michael Schwekutsch, Nikolaus Mayr
  • Patent number: 8510955
    Abstract: A process of producing an inner joint part for a constant velocity plunging joint is disclosed. The process includes providing a preformed blank, hardening the preformed blank, hard-machining first track portions, while second track portions remain unmachined. The preformed blank includes a longitudinal axis, an outer face with circumferentially distributed tracks, a central through-aperture, a first end face and a second end face opposed thereto. The tracks each comprise a first track portion having, in a cross-sectional view, a smaller track radius and a second track portion having, in a cross-sectional view, a greater cross-section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: GKN Driveline Bruneck AG
    Inventors: Bruno Feichter, Carlo Faustini
  • Patent number: 7666102
    Abstract: A ball cage for a constant velocity plunging joint which having an outer joint part with a internally cylindrical guiding face and an inner joint part with an outer spherical guiding face and torque transmitting balls held in the ball cage. The ball cage includes a plurality of circumferentially distributed windows (3) for receiving the torque transmitting balls, and defining a central window plane (M); an outer free face (10) and an outer spherical control face (9) for guiding the ball cage relative to the outer joint part; and an inner spherical control face (16) for guiding the ball cage relative to the inner joint part. The center of the outer spherical control face (9) and the center of the inner spherical control face (16) are positioned at an axial distance from the central window plane (M). The outer spherical (9) is hard-machined and the outer free face (10) is soft-machined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: GKN Driveline Bruneck AG
    Inventor: Bruno Feichter
  • Patent number: 7637819
    Abstract: An inner joint part for a constant velocity universal joint, more particularly a constant velocity plunging joint. The inner joint part (2) includes an outer spherical guiding face (3) for guiding a ball cage (24) of the constant velocity universal joint; a plurality of circumferentially distributed ball tracks (4) formed into the spherical guiding face (3) and provided for receiving torque transmitting balls (25); wherein the ball tracks (4) each comprise a hard-machined first track portion (11) for guiding the balls (25) as well as an unmachined second track portion (12) which does not have a guiding function for the balls. A process of producing an inner joint part as well as a constant velocity universal joint with an inner joint part are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: GKN Driveline Bruneck AG
    Inventors: Bruno Feichter, Carlo Faustini