Patents Assigned to SAF-Holland GmbH
  • Publication number: 20190107161
    Abstract: The invention concerns a brake unit, in particular for use in utility vehicles, comprising an actuating element and a piston element, wherein the actuating element is displaceable along an actuation axis, wherein the piston element is displaceable along a piston axis and is secured against displacement transversely to the piston axis, wherein the actuation axis and the piston axis stand substantially transversely to each other, wherein the actuating element comprises an actuating face and wherein the piston element comprises a piston face, wherein a plurality of roller bodies is arranged between the actuating face and the piston face for transmission of an actuating force between the actuating element and the piston element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Applicant: SAF-HOLLAND GmbH
    Inventor: Olaf Drewes
  • Patent number: 10253830
    Abstract: Brake shoe, in particular of a drum brake for utility vehicles, includes a lining plate and a bridge unit, wherein the bridge unit is formed as a one-piece body comprising at least two bridge plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: SAF-HOLLAND GmbH
    Inventor: Muhammet Arpaci
  • Patent number: 10253829
    Abstract: The invention relates to a brake unit and a method for maintaining a brake unit, wherein the brake unit comprises a carrier unit and a jaw unit, wherein the carrier unit can be secured to the fixed portion of a utility vehicle chassis and has a first guiding member and a second guiding member, wherein the first guiding member and the first guiding member are spaced apart from each other, wherein the jaw unit is secured by the guiding members against displacement in a guiding direction, wherein the jaw unit is secured by a securing element which can be secured to one of the guiding members against displacement along an axial line, wherein the jaw unit can be displaced in an actuation direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: SAF-HOLLAND GmbH
    Inventor: Olaf Drewes
  • Patent number: 10246062
    Abstract: A semi-trailer landing gear, in particular for trailers of utility vehicles, wherein the semi-trailer landing gear extends along a longitudinal axis and comprises an outer supporting tube and/or a transmission box, wherein the outer supporting tube and/or the transmission box comprise an outer wall, and wherein the outer wall comprises a fastening side, wherein at least one fastening portion is formed in the region of the fastening side, and wherein the fastening portion is designed to fasten and/or to arrange the semi-trailer landing gear on a further element, in particular a trailer, characterized in that a transmission is arranged in the transmission box, which transmission is coupled to a spindle drive, in that the fastening portion comprises at least one fastening element, and/or in that the fastening portion comprises at least one arrangement portion for arranging and/or fastening the at least one fastening element, and in that a ratio of a distance between the fastening elements and/or the arrangement
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: SAF-HOLLAND GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Wallmeier, Reinhold Riedl
  • Patent number: 10239374
    Abstract: An axle unit comprising a first suspension arm element and a second suspension arm element, wherein the first suspension arm element and the second suspension arm element can be mounted on a vehicle frame so as to be pivotable about a common pivot axis, wherein the first suspension arm element has a first joining region configured as a recess, and the second suspension arm element has a second joining region configured as a recess, wherein the first joining region and the second joining region are arranged on two opposing sides of an axle tube extending substantially along a tube axis, and wherein the axle tube can be secured by substance bonding in the first and second joining regions to the first and second suspension arm elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: SAF-HOLLAND GmbH
    Inventors: Roger Jansen, Gregory Galazin
  • Patent number: 10232837
    Abstract: A support unit includes a first flange portion, a second flange portion and a guiding portion, wherein the first flange portion has a first engagement geometry for securing the support unit to a chassis, wherein the second flange portion has a second engagement geometry for securing a brake cylinder, wherein the guiding portion is arranged adjacent to the second flange portion and has a guiding geometry for guiding a guiding element along a guiding axis, wherein an expansion wedge unit is provided adjacent to the guiding portion and wherein the expansion wedge unit has a housing which is constructed integrally with the guiding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: SAF-HOLLAND GmbH
    Inventors: Olaf Drewes, Oliver Marschner
  • Patent number: 10207556
    Abstract: The present invention concerns an axle unit comprising a stub axle and an axle tube, wherein the stub axle has a longitudinal channel which extends inside the stub axle substantially along a stub axis, wherein the stub axle has a transverse channel which extends inside the stub axle substantially transversely to the stub axis and opens to the environment at the outer face of the stub axle, wherein the longitudinal channel and the transverse channel are connected together, wherein the stub axle has a stub joining region to which the hollow-bodied axle tube can be secured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: SAF-HOLLAND GmbH
    Inventors: Armin Christ, Kerstin Kreiner
  • Patent number: 10173467
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an axle unit comprising an axle tube and an axle stub, wherein the axle stub is formed to be rotationally symmetrical with respect to a stub axis in some regions and has a channel which extends substantially parallel to the stub axis, wherein the axle stub has a first connection portion which has an engagement geometry for fluid-tight connection to the channel, wherein the axle tube is formed to be substantially rotationally symmetrical about a tube axis and wherein the axle tube and the axle stub are fixed on/to one another by way of a cross-member in such a way that the tube axis and the stub axis are spaced from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: SAF-HOLLAND GmbH
    Inventor: Armin Christ
  • Patent number: 10138967
    Abstract: The invention concerns a braking system, especially for wedge-actuated drum brakes, comprising a brake shoe and a wedge unit, wherein the brake shoe comprises a first linking element, wherein the wedge unit comprises a screw element, which is arranged able to turn about an axis of rotation on the wedge unit, wherein the brake shoe comprises a force transmitting portion, which transmits a braking force applied by the wedge unit to the brake shoe, wherein the first linking element comprises a securing portion, which secures the screw element against being twisted about the axis of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: SAF-HOLLAND GmbH
    Inventors: Olaf Drewes, Frederik Biewer
  • Patent number: 10093126
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wheel cover and to a wheel hub arrangement, wherein the wheel cover has a shielding section, which shields a gap formed between a hub and the wheel cover, and wherein a wheel hub arrangement is provided, in which a seal element is arranged in a gap formed between a wheel cover and the hub, which seal element is embodied as a profile seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: SAF-HOLLAND GmbH
    Inventor: Werner Weigand
  • Patent number: 10094418
    Abstract: A wheel bearing assembly includes a wheel hub which is mounted on an axle element by at least one wheel bearing, and a temperature-measuring device, visible from outside the wheel bearing assembly, configured to measure and display the exceeding of a limit temperature in the wheel bearing, wherein the temperature-measuring device comprises at least two separate temperature-measuring elements, each of which is connected to the wheel bearing in a heat-conducting manner along a heat-conducting path and undergoes a visually identifiable change at a predetermined trigger temperature. The at least two temperature-measuring elements are disposed in such a way that, when the wheel bearing heats up, the elements heat up at different rates, and/or the temperature-measuring elements have different trigger temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: SAF-HOLLAND GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Wallmeier, Elmar Weber
  • Patent number: 10093127
    Abstract: A wheel includes an outer wheel ring, a hub at least one support device supporting the outer wheel ring on the hub, and an adjustment device configured to adjust the hub relative to the outer wheel ring, wherein the support device has multiple support elements which extend between the hub and the wheel ring, and wherein the support elements are arranged three-dimensionally such that the hub can be adjusted in five degrees of freedom relative to the outer wheel ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: SAF-HOLLAND GmbH
    Inventor: Karsten Weber
  • Patent number: 10086667
    Abstract: An axle tie rod adapted to be secured to an axle tube of a utility vehicle includes a connecting element and at least one link element, wherein the connecting element has a first connecting section in which a welded connection with the link element can be produced, wherein the connecting element has a second connecting section in which a welded connection with an axle tube can be produced, and wherein the second connecting section is configured to engage around the axle tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: SAF-HOLLAND GmbH
    Inventor: Gregory Galazin
  • Patent number: 10088001
    Abstract: The invention relates to a drum brake, in particular for commercial vehicles, comprising a first brake shoe and a second brake shoe, wherein the first brake shoe is arranged as a leading brake shoe in the drum brake, wherein the second brake shoe is arranged as a trailing brake shoe in the drum brake, wherein at least one leading lining element can be fixed on the first brake shoe, and at least one trailing lining element can be fixed on the second brake shoe, wherein the number of leading lining elements fixed on the first brake shoe is greater than the number of trailing lining elements fixed on the second brake shoe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: SAF-HOLLAND GmbH
    Inventor: Olaf Drewes
  • Publication number: 20180252277
    Abstract: A drum brake includes a brake drum with an attaching region for arranging the brake drum on a vehicle part, such as a wheel hub, and a shell region with a first contact face, and a friction lining with a second contact face which faces toward the shell region, the first and second contact face being curved along or in a radial plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2016
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Applicant: SAF-HOLLAND GmbH
    Inventors: Muhammet Arpaci, Rainer Stegmann, Elmar Weber
  • Patent number: 10046614
    Abstract: Relates to a reinforcing unit and a running gear system with a reinforcing unit, comprising a first shell element and a second shell element, wherein the first shell element and the second shell element each comprise an engagement region on the tube side and an engagement region on the link side, wherein the first shell element and the second shell element each comprise a flange portion, wherein between the flange portion of the first shell element and the flange portion of the second shell element a tensile force can be established, which presses the first and the second shell element against an axle tube in such a manner that the reinforcing unit can be non-positively fixed on the axle tube, wherein the engagement region on the link side can be brought into engagement with a link unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: SAF-HOLLAND GmbH
    Inventors: Florian Borde, Rolf Spielmann, Roman Seitz
  • Patent number: 10046741
    Abstract: A support device for a vehicle includes a support foot configured to place on a base and a support unit connected to the support foot. The support unit includes a tubular support element. The support foot includes a plate-shaped bearing element. The plate-shaped bearing element includes an engagement contour on at least one outer face, a support unit of another support device being attachable to said engagement contour in order to secure against a lateral displacement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: SAF-HOLLAND GmbH
    Inventor: Elmar Weber
  • Patent number: 10035377
    Abstract: An axle attachment includes a guide element having a guide-side attachment region that is curved in a concave manner and a guide-side fixing region adjoining the guide-side attachment region along the curvature line, and a clamping element having a clamping-side attachment region that is curved in a concave manner and that is arranged opposite the guide-side attachment region, and a clamping-side fixing region. A fixing element engages into a guide-side fixing region and into an opposing clamping-side fixing region and forces the regions against each other in order to fix an axle body to the axle attachment in a force-fitting manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: SAF-HOLLAND GmbH
    Inventor: Helmut Hock
  • Patent number: 10036441
    Abstract: The invention relates to a brake system, in particular wedge drum brake for utility vehicles, comprising a transmission element and a piston element, wherein the transmission element is guided displaceably along a transmission axis, wherein the piston element is guided displaceably transversely with respect to the transmission axis, wherein the transmission element has a transmission surface which is oriented in an inclined manner with respect to the transmission axis, wherein the piston element is supported with a piston surface on the transmission surface, wherein a displacement of the transmission element along the transmission axis brings about a displacement of the piston element substantially transversely with respect to the transmission axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: SAF-HOLLAND GmbH
    Inventor: Olaf Drewes
  • Publication number: 20180178609
    Abstract: Support unit for use on an air spring, having a main body and a reinforcement element, wherein the main body has a first contact side for fixing to the chassis of a utility vehicle, wherein the reinforcement element is fixable to a second contact side of the main body and is designed for supporting a plunger of an air spring, wherein the reinforcement element is formed from a material of higher strength and/or hardness than the main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Applicant: SAF-HOLLAND GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Fäth, Stefan Wallmeier