Patents Assigned to Ringspann GmbH
  • Patent number: 11859677
    Abstract: A cage freewheel for installation into the clamping gap of a shaft/hub connection, in particular in an e-bike drive, includes an annular cage with, following one another in the circumferential direction, bearing rollers for mounting the hub and the shaft together, and clamping bodies arranged pivotably in the cage. The clamping bodies block a relative movement between the shaft and the hub in a frictionally locking manner in one rotational direction, and allow rotation in the other rotational direction, and are spring-loaded in the coupling direction by an annular spring which extends around the row of the clamping bodies in a slot in the radially outer surface of the clamping bodies. The bearing rollers are arranged in each case in pairs in associated pockets of the cage on both sides of the annular spring. Here, the bearing rollers are received in a positively locking manner in the associated pockets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: RINGSPANN GmbH
    Inventor: Augustyn Brzus
  • Patent number: 11808312
    Abstract: A cage freewheel for installing in the clamping gap between a shaft and a hub, in particular in the drive of an e-bike, having a sprag cage which, in one embodiment, is fitted continuously in the circumferential direction with sprags arranged pivotably in the sprag cage, with the sprags being loaded resiliently in the engagement direction. Here, a bearing disk is arranged axially adjacent to the sprag cage. In a further embodiment, the cage ring is fitted consecutively in the circumferential direction both with bearing rollers and with sprags. In addition, a shaft and hub arrangement and to an e-bike drive having a cage freewheel with the abovementioned features is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: RINGSPANN GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Heubach
  • Publication number: 20230341011
    Abstract: A cage freewheel for installation into the clamping gap of a shaft/hub connection, in particular in an e-bike drive, includes an annular cage with, following one another in the circumferential direction, bearing rollers for mounting the hub and the shaft together, and clamping bodies arranged pivotably in the cage. The clamping bodies block a relative movement between the shaft and the hub in a frictionally locking manner in one rotational direction, and allow rotation in the other rotational direction, and are spring-loaded in the coupling direction by an annular spring which extends around the row of the clamping bodies in a slot in the radially outer surface of the clamping bodies. The bearing rollers are arranged in each case in pairs in associated pockets of the cage on both sides of the annular spring. Here, the bearing rollers are received in a positively locking manner in the associated pockets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: RINGSPANN GmbH
    Inventor: Augustyn Brzus
  • Patent number: 11624415
    Abstract: A caliper brake for braking a moving component, including a housing and two brake shoes, which are movable within the housing toward the component to be braked, and a bearing part, which is movable within the housing by an actuator. The brake shoes each have a wedge surface on a side facing away from the component to be braked, by which a braking force acting on the bearing part is transmitted to the brake shoes with deflection and force multiplication. For higher braking forces using a spring-actuated brake, and to reduce the effects of spring travel on the braking force, the bearing part has offset bearing locations against which the wedge surfaces of each brake shoe bear. The wedge surfaces each have, in the region of the bearing locations, a step which is overcome during a closing movement of the brake shoes before they engage the component to be braked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Ringspann GmbH
    Inventor: Achim Mayer
  • Publication number: 20230058799
    Abstract: A cage freewheel for installing in the clamping gap between a shaft and a hub, in particular in the drive of an e-bike, having a sprag cage which, in one embodiment, is fitted continuously in the circumferential direction with sprags arranged pivotably in the sprag cage, with the sprags being loaded resiliently in the engagement direction. Here, a bearing disk is arranged axially adjacent to the sprag cage. In a further embodiment, the cage ring is fitted consecutively in the circumferential direction both with bearing rollers (4) and with sprags (5). In addition, a shaft and hub arrangement and to an e-bike drive having a cage freewheel with the abovementioned features is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: RINGSPANN GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas HEUBACH
  • Publication number: 20220034374
    Abstract: A caliper brake for braking a moving component, including a housing and two brake shoes, which are movable within the housing toward the component to be braked, and a bearing part, which is movable within the housing by an actuator. The brake shoes each have a wedge surface on a side facing away from the component to be braked, by which a braking force acting on the bearing part is transmitted to the brake shoes with deflection and force multiplication. For higher braking forces using a spring-actuated brake, and to reduce the effects of spring travel on the braking force, the bearing part has offset bearing locations against which the wedge surfaces of each brake shoe bear. The wedge surfaces each have, in the region of the bearing locations, a step which is overcome during a closing movement of the brake shoes before they engage the component to be braked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: RINGSPANN GmbH
    Inventor: Achim MAYER
  • Publication number: 20200011380
    Abstract: A frictionally locking shaft/hub clamping connection (1) having at least two cone clamping rings (4, 5) which bear against one another on their cone faces (4a, 5a) and can be pushed onto one another axially by way of clamping elements (6), the radial forces which are produced bringing about a frictionally locking connection between the shaft (2) and the hub (3). The cone faces (4a, 5a) of the clamping rings (4, 5) which bear against one another have a non-round cross section which differs from the circular shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: RINGSPANN GmbH
    Inventor: Franz Eisele
  • Patent number: 10307837
    Abstract: A clamping fixture for clamping a component, in particular a workpiece or tool, having a number of clamping jaws, distributed along a periphery, which are connected by appropriate elastic flexural webs to a main body, wherein the clamping jaws are adjustable by an axially movable actuating device in a radial direction from a release position into a holding position, which clamping fixture is characterized in that the flexural webs, in their release position, are inclined in relation to an axially parallel direction radially in a direction of their respective holding positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: RINGSPANN GMBH
    Inventor: Volker Schlautmann
  • Patent number: 10215242
    Abstract: An electromagnetic active brake which is de-energized in the brake standby state, including—a brake body (1), —a brake device with at least two opposing brake shoes (9, 12) which are spaced from a component to be braked in the de-energized state of the active brake, —and an electromagnet (5) which is arranged in the brake body (1) and the armature (6) of which interacts with a brake lever (2). The armature (6) of the electromagnet (5) is rigidly connected to a spring compressor (3) which is guided in the brake body (1) and which is moved by the armature (6) in the axial direction of the armature (6) when the electromagnet (5) is energized and in this manner clamps a spring (16) against an abutment (20) that interacts with the brake lever (2) and is arranged in an axially adjustable manner in the direction of the path of the spring compressor (3). The active brake according to the invention is highly energy-saving and thus economical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: RINGSPANN GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Joachim Polack, Hartmut Bischoff
  • Patent number: 9809394
    Abstract: A return stop device with a freewheel having an internal ring, an external ring, and retaining elements arranged in an annular gap therebetween. A flange is provided at the attachment side and a housing part, between which the external ring is clamped, and a clamping device by which the external ring is pressed with its face between the flange and the housing part against a friction area, in order to generate a friction-fitting connection between the flange and the external ring. A release device is provided to at least partially overcome the contact pressure, in order to reduce or remove the friction-fitting connection. The release device includes an actuating organ, which acts upon a first gliding element, displaceable in an operating direction, to act upon a second gliding element, arranged displaceable perpendicular to the operating direction, that acts via a second wedge against the contact pressure upon the housing part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: RINGSPANN GmbH
    Inventor: Karlheinz Timtner
  • Publication number: 20170261050
    Abstract: An electromagnetic active brake which is de-energized in the brake standby state, including—a brake body (1),—a brake device with at least two opposing brake shoes (9, 12) which are spaced from a component to be braked in the de-energized state of the active brake,—and an electromagnet (5) which is arranged in the brake body (1) and the armature (6) of which interacts with a brake lever (2). The armature (6) of the electromagnet (5) is rigidly connected to a spring compressor (3) which is guided in the brake body (1) and which is moved by the armature (6) in the axial direction of the armature (6) when the electromagnet (5) is energized and in this manner clamps a spring (16) against an abutment (20) that interacts with the brake lever (2) and is arranged in an axially adjustable manner in the direction of the path of the spring compressor (3). The active brake according to the invention is highly energy-saving and thus economical.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: RINGSPANN GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Joachim Polack, Hartmut Bischoff
  • Publication number: 20170225238
    Abstract: A clamping fixture for clamping a component, in particular a workpiece or tool, having a number of clamping jaws, distributed along a periphery, which are connected by appropriate elastic flexural webs to a main body, wherein the clamping jaws are adjustable by an axially movable actuating device in a radial direction from a release position into a holding position, which clamping fixture is characterized in that the flexural webs, in their release position, are inclined in relation to an axially parallel direction radially in a direction of their respective holding positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: RINGSPANN GmbH
    Inventor: Volker Schlautmann
  • Patent number: 9683619
    Abstract: An electromagnetic active brake which is de-energized in the brake standby state, including—a brake body (1), —a brake device with at least two opposing brake shoes (9, 12) which are spaced from a component to be braked in the de-energized state of the active brake, —and an electromagnet (5) which is arranged in the brake body (1) and the armature (6) of which interacts with a brake lever (2). The armature (6) of the electromagnet (5) is rigidly connected to a spring compressor (3) which is guided in the brake body (1) and which is moved by the armature (6) in the axial direction of the armature (6) when the electromagnet (5) is energized and in this manner clamps a spring (16) against an abutment (20) that interacts with the brake lever (2) and is arranged in an axially adjustable manner in the direction of the path of the spring compressor (3). The active brake according to the invention is highly energy-saving and thus economical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: RINGSPANN GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Joachim Polack, Hartmut Bischoff
  • Patent number: 9662715
    Abstract: A clamping fixture for clamping a component, in particular a workpiece or tool, having a number of clamping jaws, distributed along a periphery, which are connected by appropriate elastic flexural webs to a main body, wherein the clamping jaws are adjustable by an axially movable actuating device in a radial direction from a release position into a holding position, which clamping fixture is characterized in that the flexural webs, in their release position, are inclined in relation to an axially parallel direction radially in a direction of their respective holding positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Ringspann GmbH
    Inventor: Volker Schlautmann
  • Publication number: 20160102718
    Abstract: An electromagnetic active brake which is de-energized in the brake standby state, including—a brake body (1),—a brake device with at least two opposing brake shoes (9, 12) which are spaced from a component to be braked in the de-energized state of the active brake,—and an electromagnet (5) which is arranged in the brake body (1) and the armature (6) of which interacts with a brake lever (2). The armature (6) of the electromagnet (5) is rigidly connected to a spring compressor (3) which is guided in the brake body (1) and which is moved by the armature (6) in the axial direction of the armature (6) when the electromagnet (5) is energized and in this manner clamps a spring (16) against an abutment (20) that interacts with the brake lever (2) and is arranged in an axially adjustable manner in the direction of the path of the spring compressor (3). The active brake according to the invention is highly energy-saving and thus economical.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Applicant: RINGSPANN GMBH
    Inventors: Hans-Joachim Polack, Hartmut Bischoff
  • Patent number: 9188166
    Abstract: A return stop limiting torque, particularly for conveyer systems, including an internal ring, a concentric external ring, and several retaining elements arranged in the annual gap between the rings, which allow a relative rotation between the rings in one direction, and block it in the other direction through form-fitting or frictional engagement. The external ring has friction areas at its radially extending faces, which can axially be clamped against the corresponding friction disks, with the friction disks being supported in a torque-proof fashion but at least partially axially displaceable. Here the external ring is divided into several axially adjacent partial rings, each being axially spaced from one another by an annular gap such that another friction disk is arranged respectively in this annular gap, which is supported in a torque-proof fashion but axially displaceable, and all of the partial rings and friction disks are axially clamped to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Ringspann GmbH
    Inventor: Augustyn Brzus
  • Publication number: 20150251856
    Abstract: A return stop device with a freewheel having an internal ring, an external ring, and retaining elements arranged in an annular gap therebetween. A flange is provided at the attachment side and a housing part, between which the external ring is clamped, and a clamping device by which the external ring is pressed with its face between the flange and the housing part against a friction area, in order to generate a friction-fitting connection between the flange and the external ring. A release device is provided to at least partially overcome the contact pressure, in order to reduce or remove the friction-fitting connection. The release device includes an actuating organ, which acts upon a first gliding element, displaceable in an operating direction, to act upon a second gliding element, arranged displaceable perpendicular to the operating direction, that acts via a second wedge against the contact pressure upon the housing part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Applicant: RINGSPANN GMBH
    Inventor: Karlheinz Timtner
  • Publication number: 20150061235
    Abstract: A clamping fixture for clamping a component, in particular a workpiece or tool, having a number of clamping jaws, distributed along a periphery, which are connected by appropriate elastic flexural webs to a main body, wherein the clamping jaws are adjustable by an axially movable actuating device in a radial direction from a release position into a holding position, which clamping fixture is characterized in that the flexural webs, in their release position, are inclined in relation to an axially parallel direction radially in a direction of their respective holding positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: RINGSPANN GMBH
    Inventor: Volker Schlautmann
  • Patent number: 8813931
    Abstract: A free-wheel cage ring, having two annular flanged disks that extend radially and are connected to each other to form an axial intermediate space and have clamping bodies therebetween pivotally arranged in the cage ring and are biased for coupling by a spring, the clamping bodies perform, due to centrifugal force, a pivoting motion for decoupling against the spring force, and at least two guide surfaces are allocated to each clamping body in its axial extent, that engage opposite end peripheral regions of the clamping body, guide them at least in the peripheral direction, and have a break through which the clamping bodies extend to a radially inner clamping surface. The axial length of the clamping body radially inner clamping surface is equal to the total length of the clamping body. The guide surfaces are each formed integrally by recesses on opposite end faces of the flanged disks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: RINGSPANN GmbH
    Inventors: Siegfried Jackwerth, Karlheinz Timtner, Ruprecht Maurer
  • Patent number: D984334
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: RINGSPANN GmbH
    Inventors: Tobias Neuber, Markus Cermak