Patents Assigned to ThyssenKrupp Presta AG
  • Patent number: 12049249
    Abstract: A steering column for a motor vehicle may include an actuating unit in which a steering spindle is rotatably mounted and which is held in an adjustable manner by a supporting unit, an adjustment device for adjusting the actuating unit with respect to the supporting unit, and a position-sensing device that includes a first sensor unit for sensing the position of the actuating unit with respect to the supporting unit. The position-sensing device may also include a second sensor unit for sensing a state when the actuating unit is in a predetermined position relative to the supporting unit. One or both of the sensor units may be configured to operate in a contactless manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignees: thyssenkrupp Presta AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: Daniel Kreutz, Andreas Willi
  • Patent number: 12043325
    Abstract: A motor vehicle steering system may include an electric motor and a control unit that controls the electric motor. The control unit may have at least two redundant control paths for controlling the electric motor and an asymmetry detection device. The asymmetry detection device may be configured to compare electric current intensities of the at least two redundant control paths and to cause a faulty control path to be interrupted when there is asymmetry. Each of the at least two redundant control paths may include a switching element that is connected to the asymmetry detection device for interrupting the respective redundant control path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignees: thyssenkrupp Presta AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: Tamas Federer, Attila Nagy, Peter Szalai
  • Patent number: 12037060
    Abstract: A method for diagnosing a functionality having an input or output signal with discrete values or discrete classes of values which are observable quantities of a diagnosis functionality. The signal to be diagnosed is the input or output signal, where the values or classes of values have a cardinality N, where N error counters are provided. The method includes providing a sum signal from the sum of the signals of the error counters. When a value or a class of values is erroneous, the method includes incrementing the signal of the error counter assigned to the erroneous value or the erroneous class. When the value or the class is correct, the method includes decrementing the signal of the error counter assigned to the value or the class and when the sum signal exceeds a pre-established limit value, the method includes outputting an error message of the functionality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignees: thyssenkrupp Presta AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventor: Tamás Tibold Tibori
  • Patent number: 12037057
    Abstract: A steering gear for a steer-by-wire steering system of a motor vehicle may include a coupling rod which is supported in a steering gear housing and on which a threaded spindle is formed, with the threaded spindle being surrounded by a spindle nut. The threaded spindle and the spindle nut may be part of a helical gearing, and the coupling rod is movable along a longitudinal axis by way of the helical gearing. The coupling rod is movably mounted in the steering gear housing along the longitudinal axis by way of a pressure piece having two bearing elements arranged on opposite sides of the coupling rod in a circumferential direction of the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignees: thyssenkrupp Presta AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: Tobias Goebel, Daniel Kreutz, Bernhard Marte
  • Patent number: 12031624
    Abstract: A helical-gear transmission for an electromechanical power steering includes a shaft intermeshing with a helical gear. The shaft is arranged in a transmission housing and is rotatably mounted in the transmission housing about a longitudinal axis, having the first end thereof in a drive-side bearing arrangement and the second end thereof in a non-drive-side bearing arrangement. The transmission housing has, in extension of the shaft on a non-drive-side end, an opening which can be sealed by a cover, wherein the cover has a cover base and a surrounding cover edge, wherein the cover base has, in the region of the shaft, a bulge extending to the outside in the direction of the shaft which forms an axial lock of the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignees: thyssenkrupp Presta AG, thyssenkrupp. AG
    Inventor: Andreas Bachmann
  • Patent number: 12030549
    Abstract: A clamping apparatus may include a stroke-generating disk that is rotatable about a clamping axis and is connected via a first stroke-generating gearing and a second stroke-generating gearing to a pressure disk, which is stationary relative to the rotation of the stroke-generating disk. The first stroke-generating gearing converts a relative rotation of the stroke-generating disk in a first actuating angle range in the clamping direction into a first axial stroke relative to the pressure disk. The second stroke-generating gearing converts a further rotation of the stroke-generating disk following the first actuating angle range in a second actuating angle range into a second axial stroke between the stroke-generating disk and the pressure disk. At least one of the stroke-generating gearings is a tilting pin gearing, with at least one tilting pin supported in the direction of its pin axis between corresponding bearing points on the stroke-generating disk and the pressure disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignees: thyssenkrupp Presta AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: Sascha Rist, Martin Fleischer, Thomas Geiselberger, Thomas Agbor
  • Patent number: 12030550
    Abstract: A steering column for a motor vehicle may include an inner casing in which a steering spindle is mounted rotatably about a longitudinal axis that extends in a longitudinal direction and is received in an outer casing in a slidingly adjustable manner in the longitudinal direction. A pretensioning apparatus may have a pressure piece that can be braced from an outside in a tensioning direction transversely to the longitudinal axis against the inner casing. The pressure piece is held in the longitudinal direction on the outer casing and is supported against a fixing element counter to the tensioning direction. The fixing element is fixed in a recess of the outer casing. The fixing element has a forming means that is plastically furrowed into the recess, and/or the recess has a forming means that is plastically furrowed into the fixing element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignees: thyssenkrupp Presta AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: Matthias Ancelin, Balint Kalman Nagy
  • Patent number: 12030548
    Abstract: A steering column for a motor vehicle may include a casing unit in which a steering spindle is mounted such that the steering spindle is rotatable about a longitudinal axis that extends in a longitudinal direction. The casing unit has at least two telescopically guided casing tubes that are adjustable relative to one another in the longitudinal direction, an intermediate element that is movable in the longitudinal direction and is arranged between the casing tubes, and a positioning device for positioning the intermediate element in the longitudinal direction relative to the casing tubes. The positioning device may have elongate guide tracks that are arranged on the casing tubes and the intermediate element and interact with one another such that they position the casing tubes and the intermediate element relative to one another in a defined manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignees: thyssenkrupp Presta AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: Tim Bayer, Simon Blaettler, Daniel Kreutz, Sebastian Huber
  • Patent number: 12024240
    Abstract: A steering column for a steer-by-wire steering system may include a steering shaft that can be connected to a steering wheel. The steering shaft is rotatably mounted about a longitudinal axis in a casing unit. A feedback actuator may be operatively coupled to the steering shaft. The casing unit may have a second length in a direction of the longitudinal axis, and the steering shaft may project into the casing unit by a first length. Consequently, installation space volume and weight are saved, particularly where the first length is less than the second length. In some cases, the first length is less than or equal to half of the second length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignees: thyssenkrupp Presta AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: Tim Bayer, Simon Blaettler, Thomas Werner Heitz, Daniel Kreutz
  • Patent number: 12024221
    Abstract: An adjustment drive for a steering column of a motor vehicle may include a threaded spindle having an external thread, engaging with a corresponding internal thread of a spindle nut. A thread tooth of the external thread and a thread groove of the internal thread have corresponding axially sliding thread flanks that are braced against each other. At least one thread flank comprises at least one recessed lubricant uptake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignees: thyssenkrupp Presta AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: Sebastian Huber, Jean-Pierre Specht
  • Patent number: 12012141
    Abstract: A steering column may include a casing tube in which a steering spindle is rotatably mounted, a guide unit that receives the casing unit so as to be telescopically adjustable in a direction of a longitudinal axis, and an electromotor adjustment drive that is arranged between the casing tube and the guide unit. An inner bearing face of the guide unit surrounds an outer casing surface of the casing tube and includes a slot extending longitudinally with a slot width between mutually opposing slot edges. A preload device engages the slot edges and is configured to apply a tightening force to reduce the slot width to preload the bearing face together with the casing surface. A clamping body cooperates with the slot edges via a deflection device that converts a reduction of slot width into a radial clamping movement of the clamping body for radial preloading the outer casing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignees: thyssenkrupp Presta AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventor: Balint Kalman Nagy
  • Patent number: 12005975
    Abstract: Methods for providing steering assistance for an electromechanical steering system having a redundant control unit with a primary and a secondary control path. Respective primary and secondary control paths each have a computing unit, gate driver module, and power module. The method includes detecting an applied steering torque; calculating a primary and secondary motor target torque in the primary computing unit as a function of the applied steering torque; transmitting the primary motor target torque to a primary motor controller of the primary computing unit; determining primary motor currents to operate a primary electric motor or a primary winding group of the electric motor in the primary motor controller; transferring the secondary motor target torque from the primary computing unit to a secondary motor controller and determining secondary motor currents for operation of a secondary electric motor or a secondary winding group of the electric motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignees: thyssenkrupp Presta AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: Andras Balogh, Gergely Horvath, Tamas Varga, Gergely Pinter
  • Patent number: 11993326
    Abstract: A method for operating a motor vehicle steering system may involve generating a steering feel, with a steering force assistance or a countertorque that is introduced by a feedback actuator into a steering handle, in a manner that is dependent on a driver-side manual torque applied to the steering handle. The steering feel may be represented by way of a characteristic curve that is adapted in a manner that is dependent on steering speed in the case of steering speeds above 100°/s such that an adapted characteristic curve has a smaller maximum change of the gradient than the characteristic curve in the case of lower steering speeds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignees: thyssenkrupp Presta AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventor: Imre Szepessy
  • Patent number: 11993322
    Abstract: An electromechanical motor vehicle steering system includes an electric motor and an electronic control unit. The electromechanical motor vehicle steering system is at least partially surrounded by housing parts. At least two of the housing parts are connected to one another by interference fit, wherein the interference fit is at least partly a tapered interference fit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignees: thyssenkrupp Presta AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: Katrin Blank, Dominik Schweitzer
  • Publication number: 20240158000
    Abstract: A toothed belt pulley for a toothed belt drive of a motor vehicle steering system, having a gear ring which has an externally encircling toothing and is attached to a hub body. The gear ring is formed as a plastically formed metallic formed part and the hub body comprises a plastics-material part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicants: thyssenkrupp Presta AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: Alexander PETSCH, András ILLÉS, Iago SILVA LOPEZ, Qani MUSTAFI
  • Publication number: 20240157995
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrically adjustable steering column for a motor vehicle, comprising a supporting unit, by which a positioning unit is adjustably held, an adjustment device with an adjustment motor, said adjustment device being designed for adjusting the positioning unit relative to the supporting unit, a mechanical adjustment stop, which mechanically limits an adjustment of the positioning unit in a first adjustment direction, and a control unit. The control unit is designed here to activate the adjustment motor, wherein a virtual adjustment stop is defined, said adjustment stop being located upstream of the mechanical adjustment stop with respect to the first adjustment direction. The steering column is designed here for adjusting a positioning unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicants: thyssenkrupp Presta AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre SPECHT, Anton SPILDENNER, Andreas WILLI
  • Patent number: 11981368
    Abstract: A steering column may include a casing tube in which a steering spindle is rotatably mounted, a guide unit that receives the casing unit so as to be telescopically adjustable in a direction of a longitudinal axis, and an electromotor adjustment drive that is arranged between the casing tube and the guide unit. An inner bearing face of the guide unit surrounds an outer casing surface of the casing tube and includes a slot extending longitudinally with a slot width between mutually opposing slot edges. A preload device engages the slot edges and is configured to apply a tightening force to reduce the slot width to preload the bearing face together with the casing surface. A clamping body cooperates with the slot edges via a deflection device that converts a reduction of slot width into a radial clamping movement of the clamping body for radial preloading the outer casing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignees: thyssenkrupp Presta AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventor: Balint Kalman Nagy
  • Publication number: 20240149936
    Abstract: A steering column for a motor vehicle, including a casing unit, in which a steering spindle is mounted so as to be rotatable about a longitudinal axis (L) running in the longitudinal direction, and which has at least one inner casing telescopically adjustable in the longitudinal direction in an outer casing tube, comprising a roller guide having at least one bearing support, which is radially supported and movable on the inner casing, and in which at least one roller is mounted so as to be rotatable about a roller axis which is transverse to the longitudinal axis (L).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicants: thyssenkrupp Presta AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: Thomas RAICH, Simon BLAETTLER, Robert GALEHR
  • Publication number: 20240149889
    Abstract: A system containing a reference trajectory device, a cost function device, a dynamic model device, a summing device, a controller, a brake actuator device, a drive actuator device, a steering actuator device, a multiplexer and a vehicle, in particular a motor vehicle, wherein the system, in particular the controller, is set up to execute a control algorithm which manages all actuators, in particular the brake actuator device, the drive actuator device and/or the steering actuator device, in order to achieve optimum performance, efficiency and stability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicants: thyssenkrupp Presta AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: Andras CSABA, Leonard LAPIS, Àdám VARGA
  • Patent number: 11970206
    Abstract: A steering column for a motor vehicle may include a crash device that has at least two components that have mutually facing surfaces. The at least two components may be connected to each other by means of a shear element that is arranged in an opening passing at least partially through the components such that the shear element is broken in two if the components move relative to each other. To improve the predetermined breaking connection, the opening may have, in at least one edge region bounding one of the mutually facing surfaces, a widened portion that extends at least over a partial circumferential region and is open towards the respective other surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: thyssenkrupp Presta AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: Bryan Beham, René Marco Schmidt