Patents Assigned to GKN Sinter Metals
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Patent number: 11289955Abstract: A claw pole stator for a transversal flux motor includes a multiplicity of segments positioned next to one another along a circumferential direction for the annular claw pole stator. Each segment extends from an inner circumferential surface along a radial direction to an outer circumferential surface and is delimited in the circumferential direction by a first side surface and a second side surface and in an axial direction by a first end surface and a second end surface. Each segment is connected by the side surfaces to at least one other segment to form the annular claw pole stator. Segments positioned adjacent each other contact each other by a first contact surface on the first side surface or by a second contact surface on the second side surface and due to the contact surfaces form a form-locking connection in the circumferential direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2018Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: GKN Sinter Metals Engineering GmbHInventors: Nils Bornemann, Stefan Tiller, Rainer Schmitt, Hong Giang To
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Patent number: 11278962Abstract: The invention relates to a press for producing dimensionally stable preforms from material that is substantially in the form of a powder, in particular iron powder and or ceramic powder, with a tool comprising an upper die and a lower die, wherein the upper die and the lower die respectively comprise at least one die, wherein a first die and a second die are arranged together, one sliding in the other, as the upper die or lower die and respectively have a first end and a second end, lying opposite the first end, wherein at least one of the two dies spreads out along one portion to such an extent that the second end thereof has a width that at least approaches an outer diameter of a die holder associated with the second end. This allows presses of a compact form to be made available for producing dimensionally stable preforms of high quality and great complexity.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2015Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: GKN Sinter Metals Engineering GmbHInventors: Rainer Schmitt, Ümit Aydin
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Patent number: 11273489Abstract: The mechanical properties and thermal resistance of a sintered component made from an Al—Cu—Mg—Sn alloy powder metal mixture can be improved by doping the Al—Cu—Mg—Sn alloy powder metal mixture with a silicon addition. Silicon is added as a constituent to the Al—Cu—Mg—Sn alloy powder metal mixture. The Al—Cu—Mg—Sn alloy powder metal mixture is compacted to form a preform and the preform is sintered to form the sintered component.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2018Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: GKN Sinter Metals, LLCInventors: Donald Paul Bishop, Richard L. Hexemer, Ian W. Donaldson, Randy Williams Cooke
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Patent number: 11253813Abstract: A method for manufacturing a diaphragm support member with a diaphragm support made of a sintered metal having a diaphragm layer, comprising at least the following steps: a. providing a laminar or tubular diaphragm support made of a porous sintered metal with a surface that is provided for the purpose of being coated with the diaphragm layer; b. providing a metallic connecting element for connecting the diaphragm support to a gas-carrying line; c. connecting the diaphragm support and connecting element with a weld seam to the diaphragm support member and forming a first connection zone between the weld seam and diaphragm support and a second connection zone between the weld seam and the connecting element; d. arranging a metal layer on the surface and the weld seam so that the metal layer covers at least the first connection zone; d. cohesively joining the metal layer at least with the surface and the weld seam; and e.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2018Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: GKN Sinter Metals Engineering GmbHInventors: Harald Balzer, Enrico Mählig, Nicola De Cristofaro
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Patent number: 11148382Abstract: A plane plate for a pressing tool of a press; wherein the plane plate for activating a punch of the press by way of at least one lifting cylinder is displaceable along an axial direction; wherein the plane plate has a link to the at least one lifting cylinder, at least one cylindrical guiding face which for contacting a guide column is parallel with the axial direction, and a centrally disposed receptacle for contacting the punch or a punch holder of the press; wherein the plane plate in at least a first cross section which between the receptacle and the guiding face runs parallel with the axial direction and along a radial direction that runs so as to be perpendicular to the axial direction has at least a first region in which a wall thickness of the plane plate is continuously variable.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2018Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: GKN Sinter Metals Engineering GmbHInventors: Rainer Schmitt, Hasim Tekines, Robert Maassen
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Patent number: 11142454Abstract: The present invention concerns a hydrogen store comprising a composite material including a hydrogenable material, a method for producing the hydrogen store and a device for producing the hydrogen store.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2015Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: GKN Sinter Metals Engineering GmbHInventors: Antonio Casellas, Klaus Dollmeier, Eberhard Ernst, Markus Laux, Lars Wimbert
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Patent number: 11105369Abstract: A method of forming a composite component having a brass or bronze powder metal portion sinter fit into a supporting, ferrous portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2016Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: GKN Sinter Metals, LLCInventors: Alan C. Taylor, Ian W. Donaldson
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Patent number: 11103924Abstract: The invention relates to a powder press, comprising a tool structure, which has a conical substructure having lower rams nested in each other, wherein each lower ram has a longitudinal extent, in particular a cylindrical longitudinal extent, which is guided in a die, wherein, in the case of at least two longitudinal extents of the lower rams, each longitudinal extent is adjoined by a conical enlargement, wherein the conical enlargements can be guided in each other, wherein the region of the conical enlargement has an inner wall and an outer wall, which expand conically and which are preferably longer than the longitudinal extent. The invention further relates to a method for operating a powder press and to a computer program product having computer program code means that can be executed on a computer system in order to perform the method.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2016Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: GKN Sinter Metals Engineering GmbHInventors: Rainer Schmitt, Eberhard Ernst
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Patent number: 11078904Abstract: The invention relates to a fluid pump, driven by means of an electric motor, which is coupled to a pump rotor of the fluid pump, wherein the electric motor is an axial-flux electric motor, the electric-motor rotor of which is also the pump rotor, and the pump rotor and the electric-motor rotor are accommodated in a common housing, in which the pump rotor and the electric-motor rotor rotate while integrated as combination rotor in a disk shape, wherein the common housing has a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet to the combination rotor. The invention further relates to a production method for such a fluid pump.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2016Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: GKN Sinter Metals Engineering GmbHInventors: Nils Bornemann, Stefan Tiller, Antonio Casellas, Ümit Aydin
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Patent number: 11060595Abstract: A differential assembly includes one or more NVH-modifying elements that alter and/or reduce at least one of a noise, vibration, and harshness emitted from the differential assembly. The NVH-modifying element(s) are placed in engagement with the side gears of the differential assembly to modify and/or reduce the NVH of the differential assembly.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2018Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: GKN Sinter Metals, LLCInventors: Virgiliu-Adrian Savu, Alfred J. Chiesa, Timothy E. Geiman
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Patent number: 11007744Abstract: The present invention relates to a punch unit of a powder press, wherein the punch unit is assembled from at least two parts, in this case comprising a headpiece as the first part and a widening region, adjoining the headpiece, as the second part, wherein the widening region flares to a diameter of a punch bolder which is directly attachable to an end, located away from the headpiece, of the widening region. Furthermore, punch units of a powder press that slide one inside another, a powder press itself and a method for operating a powder press are proposed.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2016Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: GKN Sinter Metals Engineering GmbHInventors: Rainer Schmitt, Hasim Tekines, Christian Siegert
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Patent number: 10919250Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus, preferably a press, comprising a cavity which is to be filled and at least a first material feed, for a first material, and a second material feed, for a second material, wherein the first and the second material feeds are arranged separately from one another, having a feeding apparatus for feeding the first and the second materials into the cavity which is to be filled, wherein the feeding apparatus has a mouth-opening cross section with at least a first region of the mouth-opening cross section for the first material, and with a second, separate region of the mouth-opening cross section for the second material, for filling the cavity preferably in parallel, and at separate locations. A method and also a blank are proposed in addition.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2015Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: GKN Sinter Metals Engineering GmbHInventors: Antonio Casellas, Klaus Dollmeier, Eberhard Ernst, Anastasia Özkan, Thomas Schupp
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Patent number: 10900552Abstract: A forged composite inner race for a constant velocity joint is forged from a composite preform compact including a first powder metal material and a second powder metal material. The forged composite inner race includes a plurality of ball tracks formed on an outer section of the forged composite inner race with corresponding lands between adjacent ball tracks and an axially-extending splined opening formed in an inner section of the forged composite inner race. The outer section comprises the first powder metal material in a higher concentration than the second powder metal material and the inner section comprises the second powder metal material in a higher concentration than the first powder metal material.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2017Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: GKN Sinter Metals, LLCInventor: Timothy E. Geiman
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Patent number: 10890241Abstract: The present invention relates to a gear wheel containing at least one sintered material having a porosity, the gear wheel having, in addition to the porosity, another noise-reducing means.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2016Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: GKN Sinter Metals Engineering GmbHInventors: Björn Leupold, Simon Höges, Markus Schneider, Thomas Schupp, Vitali Janzen, Gerhard A. Kotthoff, Eberhard Ernst
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Patent number: 10888928Abstract: A method of sinter fitting a powder metal compact around a core forms a composite component. By exploiting the shrinkage associated with the sintering of a powder metal compact, a sintered powder metal section may be dimensionally shrunk onto a core to create a mechanical interference fit between a core section and a sintered powder metal section. This method may be used to join materials such as aluminum and steel together, which traditionally have been difficult to join to one another.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2016Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: GKN Sinter Metals, LLCInventor: Alan C. Taylor
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Patent number: 10870148Abstract: A transition element-doped aluminum powder metal and a method of making this powder metal are disclosed. The method of making includes forming an aluminum-transition element melt in which a transition element content of the aluminum-transition element melt is less than 6 percent by weight. The aluminum-transition element melt then powderized to form a transition element-doped aluminum powder metal. The powderization may occur by, for example, air atomization.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2011Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: GKN Sinter Metals, LLCInventors: Donald Paul Bishop, Richard L. Hexemer, Jr., Ian W. Donaldson, Randy William Cooke
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Patent number: 10864714Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a body by means of an additive production method (AM) by using metal powder, comprising the following steps: designing the body in a computer-simulated manner while taking into account at least one region of the body to be processed and transferring data to an additive production device, in particular an additive powder-bed production device, successively providing the metal powder in order to construct powder layers arranged one on the other, successively hardening parts of the powder layers in order to form at least one specified structure in the powder layers arranged one on the other, wherein the structure is at least partially filled with metal powder of the powder layers, and calibrating a body, which is created by means of the structure, in the region to be processed. The invention further relates to a corresponding device, to a body produced in such a way, and to a computer program product for performing the method.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2016Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: GKN Sinter Metals Engineering GmbHInventors: Rainer Schmitt, Simon Höges, Ümit Aydin, Richard Kallee, Peter Mölgg
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Patent number: 10859117Abstract: A powder metal bearing support insert for casting into an engine component includes a pair of holes formed by interdigitated slots during a powder metal compaction process. Since they are formed by interdigitated slots, this pair of holes may receive the cast material therein during the casting step. Among other things, the cast material in these holes may be drilled or machined using tools graded to work the material of the casting in contrast to the material of the insert.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2018Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: GKN Sinter Metals, LLCInventors: Gary R. Draxler, Joel H. Mandel
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Patent number: 10773308Abstract: A rotor for a variable valve timing engine is disclosed in which the opposing planar surface(s) of the rotor have one or more recesses formed therein in order to balance, equilibrate, or equalize the planar surface areas on the opposing surfaces. Among other things, this can improve the accuracy and efficiency with which the rotor is ground during a related method of manufacturing the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2017Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: GKN Sinter Metals, LLCInventors: Douglas R. O'Hara, James T. Hill
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Patent number: 10753238Abstract: The invention relates to a first rotor part for a camshaft adjuster, wherein the first rotor part is configured in the form of a disc, and wherein the first rotor part has an encircling shoulder in a circumferential direction, said shoulder extending in a first axial direction beyond the first end side, wherein the first rotor part has at least one inner first opening which is arranged on the first inner casing on that side of the shoulder that is remote from the first end side and which is connected to the first end side via a first fluid duct which extends outwards in the radial direction from the shoulder through the first rotor part; wherein the first rotor part is produced in one part by powder metallurgy with all the inner first openings and first fluid ducts and the shoulder. The invention also relates to a pressing tool for producing a first rotor part.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2017Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: GKN Sinter Metals Engineering GmbHInventors: Rainer Schmitt, Hasim Tekines, Sascha Frey, Ümit Aydin