Patents Assigned to Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
  • Publication number: 20160123407
    Abstract: A two-stage clutch for separable connection of an input shaft to at least one output shaft, having a clutch cover, a clutch basket and a plurality of partial clutches, the partial clutches being operated in series. A first partial clutch is a pilot clutch, which is actively operable. A second partial clutch is a main clutch, which is operable by the pilot clutch, an operating force for the main clutch being produced by a torque transmitted by a shaft. In this two-stage clutch, the clutch cover is firmly connectible to the clutch basket. With the two-stage clutch proposed here, high torques can be transmitted despite small external operating forces. At the same time, the construction and assembly are greatly simplified in spite of the considerable complexity of the two-stage clutch, and the two-stage clutch has a significantly reduced rotating mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies GMBH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Martin Chambrion, Christoph Raber
  • Patent number: 9328637
    Abstract: A camshaft adjuster having a pot-like stator drivable by a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine; and a rotor rotationally fixedly connected to a camshaft of the internal combustion engine; having an outer ring and an inner ring arranged concentrically with respect to the outer ring; and radially oriented webs connecting the outer ring and the inner ring to each other, which subdivide the annular space formed between the outer ring and the inner ring into working chambers, wherein the working chambers are subdivided into oppositely acting pressure chambers by stator webs connected to the stator and projecting laterally into the working chambers; and the rotor is mounted by the outer ring in the radial direction on a cylindrical wall of the pot-like stator, wherein at least one depression forming a pocket to receive hydraulic oil is provided on the radial outer side of the outer ring and/or on the radial inner side of the cylindrical wall of the pot-like stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Juergen Weber, Dirk Heintzen
  • Patent number: 9302580
    Abstract: A drive device for a vehicle is provided having an electric motor for generating a drive torque for the vehicle having a reduction gear section; the reduction gear section being operatively connected to the electric motor and reducing the drive torque; having a power divider section operatively connected to the reduction gear section; the power divider section distributing the reduced drive torque to the two output shafts; the power divider section and the reduction gear section being configured coaxially to a main transmission axis; and the power divider section being configured as a planetary gear set, a planetary drive being associated with each of the output shafts; the planetary gears of the two planetary drives being configured on a common planetary-gear carrier in a common pitch-circle diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Tomas Smetana
  • Patent number: 9279459
    Abstract: A friction material part is provided. The friction material part includes a first segment and a second segment, an end of the first segment overlapping an end of the second segment to form a joint that is compressed more than intermediate portions of the first and second segments. A method for manufacturing a friction material part is also provided. The method includes overlapping an end of a first friction material segment and an end of a second friction material segment; and compressing the overlapped ends to form a compressed joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Patrick Lindemann, Rashid Farahati
  • Patent number: 9259964
    Abstract: A wheel bearing having a sensor holder (8) to hold a sensor that detects the rotational movement of a wheel, including: a rotating inner race (1) onto which a wheel of the motor vehicle can be mounted, a stationary outer race (2) attached to a motor vehicle, an encoder (4) associated with the rotating inner race (1), a cover (4) arranged on the stationary outer race (2), whereby the sensor holder (8) is formed by a recess that is provided in the cover (3) and that is arranged opposite from the encoder (4), said recess being closed on the side facing the encoder (4) by a partition (7) that is permeable to the magnetic alternating field between the encoder (4) and the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Christian Mock, Florian Koeniger, Kay Schumacher
  • Patent number: 9249694
    Abstract: A camshaft unit includes a camshaft having a radial channel, a hydraulic phase setting device communicating with the radial channel for adjusting the phase length of the camshaft with respect to a crankshaft via hydraulic pressure medium and a pressure medium channel embodied as a solid cylinder head component. To transfer a pressure medium, at least one pressure medium transfer element is formed between the pressure medium channel and the radial channel. The pressure medium transfer element includes a ring channel including a ring channel opening extending in the peripheral direction of the ring channel and including a radial channel opening leading into a radial channel and opposite the ring channel opening. The pressure medium channel communicates with the radial channel via the ring channel opening and the radial channel opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ali Bayrakdar, Joachim Dietz, Gerhard Scheidig, Andreas Strauss
  • Patent number: 9222377
    Abstract: A volume store which has a substantially hollow cylindrical housing and a separating element displaceably disposed within the housing. The housing is fixedly disposed within a hollow chamber of a camshaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Matthias Boegershausen, Michael Busse
  • Patent number: 9222514
    Abstract: A securing element (1, 11, 12, 13, 14) made of sheet metal with an annular body (3, 12a, 26) and with holding tongues (4, 41, 42, 43, 44) which emerge from the annular body (3, 12a, 26) and end at a hole (6) in the securing element (1, 11, 12, 13, 14), which hole is centered with respect to the center axis (5) of the securing element (1, 11, 12, 13, 14), wherein the hole (6) leads axially in the same direction as the center axis (5) through the securing element (1, 11, 12, 13, 14) and, at radial narrowest hole cross sections of the hole (6), is bounded at least by end edges (7, 71, 72, 73, 74) formed on the end sides of the holding tongues (4, 41, 42, 43, 44).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Herbert Erhardt, Richard Baier, Jochen Ott, Rainer Lutz, Anton Erhardt, Peter Loncar, Reinhold Nuetzel
  • Patent number: 9216642
    Abstract: The invention relates to an actuator device for torque transmission equipment such as a clutch, e.g. a friction clutch or dog clutch, or a brake, comprising at least two electric motors, wherein the rotors of the electric motors are kinematically coupled together via a summation gear, and the summation gear has an output side which is coupled to an actuator of the torque transmission equipment in such a way that a state of the actuator can be set as a function of a relative rotation between the two rotors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Oswald Friedmann
  • Publication number: 20150328972
    Abstract: An axle hybrid drive for a hybrid vehicle (1), including an internal combustion engine (6) drivingly connected to a first vehicle axle (11), and an electric motor (10) drivingly connected to a second vehicle axle (12). The invention is characterized in that the internal combustion engine (6), or a transmission (7) associated with the internal combustion engine (6), is decoupled in terms of a driving force from an output shaft of the first vehicle axle (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2013
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Oswald Friedmann
  • Patent number: 9188029
    Abstract: A camshaft adjuster having a first component, a second component rotatable relative to the first component within an angular range, and a locking device for locking the first component relative to the second component. The locking device includes a first locking bolt and a second locking bolt on the first component and a central slotted guide on the second component, and wherein the two locking bolts are movably guided between a locking position and an unlocking position and engage in the central slotted guide in a central angular position relative to one another in their locking position. At least one terminal slotted guide, in which the first locking bolt or the second locking bolt engages in its locking position in a terminal angular position differing from the central angular position of the components, is arranged on the second component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Michael Busse
  • Patent number: 9188165
    Abstract: An ABS encoder arrangement including an annular disk core which bears a multipole structure, and a sealing ring element including an angular ring and an elastomer body forming a sealing lip structure, the angular ring including a lateral surface portion and an annular disk portion which protrudes radially inwards, the annular disk core being designed so as to project radially inwards beyond the inner circumferential surface of the lateral surface portion of the angular ring so as to form an annular projection, and a filling ring formed from an elastomer material being attached to the inner circumferential surface, the thickness of said filling ring being larger in radial direction than the size of the projection of the annular disk core in radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Peter Niebling, Andreas Becker
  • Patent number: 9180866
    Abstract: A clutch device having an actuating device for a drivetrain of a motor vehicle having an internal combustion engine, an electric machine with a stator and a rotor, and a transmission device, where the clutch device is situated in the drivetrain between the internal combustion engine on the one side and the electric machine and the transmission device on the other side, the clutch device and the actuating device being integrated into the rotor of the electric machine, in order to improve the construction and/or the function of the clutch device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Daniel Helmer, Florian Vogel, Christoph Raber
  • Publication number: 20150300505
    Abstract: A seal arrangement for a control valve (1), which seal arrangement is designed for sealing a supply connection (3) for a valve housing (4), this connection being formed as a bore (2), and the seal arrangement can be brought into contact with a valve body (5) mounted in the valve housing (4). The seal arrangement has a first and a second sealing element (6, 7) and a connecting piece (8), with the connecting piece (8) having a main body (9) protruding into the valve housing (4) and a carrier body (10) running radially around the main body (9). The carrier body (10) is supported on an end face (11) of the valve housing (4) and both the first and the second sealing elements (6, 7) directly contact the connecting piece (8) in a sealing manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Michael Weiss, Uli Grosskopf, Klaus Hahn
  • Publication number: 20150295348
    Abstract: An electrical plug connection that includes a plug (1) provided with contact pins (2), a mating plug (3) having sleeve contacts, and a device for reciprocally bracing the plug (1) to the mating plug (3) once the plugs (1 and 3) have been joined together, and in particular for making contact between an electromagnet of a control valve of a camshaft adjustment system of a reciprocating-piston internal combustion engine, and a control line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies GMBH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Stefan Konias, Jens Hoppe
  • Patent number: 9145916
    Abstract: An axial roller bearing, in particular an axial needle bearing, having a first annular bearing disk and a second annular bearing disk that are each made of a thin-walled sheet steel and are arranged at a distance from one another on a common center axis, and a plurality of rolling elements, arranged next to one another, that roll between the axial inner sides—implemented as races—of the two bearing disks and that are held at uniform distances from one another by a bearing cage. The bearing disks are implemented as disk springs that deflect as a function of load and have races positioned at an angle, and are arranged relative to one another such that the rolling elements have low-friction point contact in the unloaded state of the axial roller bearing and only have load-bearing line contact with the races in the fully loaded state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Fugel, Wolfram Kruhöffer
  • Publication number: 20150260228
    Abstract: A bushing 4 for the force-fitting connection to a force-fitting partner 2, with a hollow-cylindrical basic body 14, with the basic body 14 defining a primary axis H, with the basic body 14 comprising at least one coupling section 15a, b, c with at least one radially extending penetrating opening 12a4 for a fluidic communication with a fluid section 10a, b; 11a, b in the force-fitting partner, and with the wall thickness in the coupling section 15a, b, c being greater than the wall thickness in the neighboring section 16a, b, c of the basic body 14 abutting the coupling section 15a, b, c, with the basic body 14 showing a track section 18, extending in the circumferential direction, for supporting a radial guidance of a bearing partner 3, and a transmission arrangement (1) comprising the bushing (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2014
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Ziegler, Frank Beeck, Frank Schoenstein
  • Publication number: 20150240912
    Abstract: A centrifugal pendulum device for vibration isolation of a power take-off system of a drive unit, having at least one first pendulum element with a first mass and a second pendulum element with a second mass, which are set up to counteract vibrations of the drive unit in a resonance range, wherein the first pendulum element has a first resonance range and the second pendulum element has a second resonance range, where the first and the second resonance ranges differ. Using the centrifugal pendulum device, or vibration equalization device, proposed here, it is possible in a small construction space using efficient means to isolate an extended frequency range of vibrations from the drivetrain. In particular with drive units which are designed as internal combustion engines having activatable cylinders, it is possible, using the centrifugal pendulum device proposed here to achieve a vibration isolation for many states of the drive unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Stephan Maienschein, Thorsten Krause
  • Publication number: 20150240672
    Abstract: A hydraulic camshaft adjuster (1) including a stator (2) and a rotor (3) arranged such that it can rotate relative thereto, the stator (2) being connected to at least one separate cover (7) that seals a cavity (11) located between the rotor (3) and the stator (2). In the region of the cover (7), the material of the stator (2) at least partially encompassing said cover (7) is formed without machining.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES GmbH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Ali Bayrakdar, Andreas Schulte
  • Publication number: 20150233287
    Abstract: A belt pulley arrangement for a belt drive to drive auxiliary units of a motor vehicle, having a belt pulley for introducing a torque that can be provided via a flexible drive means, an output shaft for driving an auxiliary unit, in particular a cooling water pump, and an electric machine for the transmission of torque between the belt pulley and the output shaft, wherein the electric machine has a rotor connected to the belt pulley and a stator connected to the output shaft. As a result of the power flow between the belt pulley and the output shaft, which can be influenced by the electric machine, it is not necessary to design the auxiliary unit that is attached via the output shaft for the least beneficial operating point, so that the auxiliary unit can be dimensioned smaller and a reduction in the installation space for motor vehicle components, in particular the installation space for auxiliary units of a motor vehicle that can be driven via the belt drive, is made possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Oliver Dippold, Vladimir Baranov, Ralf Wagner, Bernd Hartmann, Laszlo Man