Patents Assigned to ZF Freidrichshafen AG
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Patent number: 10819107Abstract: The disclosure relates to an electronic unit with a circuit board having at least one component arranged on a main surface of the circuit board and a casing element, which incorporates the at least one component, as well as with an ESD protection arrangement for the circuit board. According to the disclosure, open areas on the circuit board, which are not covered by the casing element, are covered with a gold layer directly mounted on a copper surface of the circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2017Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: ZF Freidrichshafen AGInventors: Thomas Maier, Mike Vogel, Josef Loibl
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Patent number: 8113324Abstract: A damping valve for a vibration damper includes a guide sleeve which slides on the piston rod of a vibration damper. An annular damping valve body which is provided with at least one through-opening is fixed axially by positive engagement on the guide sleeve, and the through-opening is covered at least partly by at least one valve disk which is biased by at least one closing spring which is supported at its end at a spring plate connected to the guide sleeve. The damping valve body and a spring plate which is constructed separate from the guide sleeve form a compression chain between two axially spaced stops of the guide sleeve.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2008Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: ZF Freidrichshafen AGInventors: Helmut Baalmann, Steffen Heyn, Thomas Thein, Michael Hegmann
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Publication number: 20100096231Abstract: A wet clutch arrangement, particularly a wet plate clutch or lockup clutch including a first friction face formation coupled with a housing arrangement for rotation around an axis of rotation and a second friction face formation coupled with an output member for rotation around the axis of rotation, and a preferably ring-shaped pressing piston. The pressing piston, together with the housing arrangement, defines a pressure fluid space and is movable in direction of the axis of rotation through a change in fluid pressure in the pressure fluid space for influencing the frictional interaction between the friction face formations. An operant fluid application surface of the pressing piston is in the range of 15000 mm2 to 25000 mm2 for generating a force acting upon the pressing piston.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2009Publication date: April 22, 2010Applicant: ZF Freidrichshafen AGInventors: Gregor Sueck, Jürgen Dacho, Thomas Adelmann
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Patent number: 6907973Abstract: A system and method for supplying cooling fluid for frictional elements, for example multiple disc clutches and multiple disc brakes, in automatic transmissions. The cooling fluid flows through the multiple disc clutch or brake in a predefined manner radially inward or outward, whereby a defined flow through the clutch or brake packet is ensured through a defined pressure difference in the cooling fluid between the cooling fluid supply and the discharge of the cooling fluid. A preferred embodiment of device for supplying the cooling fluid is designed as a ring-shaped channel that partially or fully encloses the clutch or the brake.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2003Date of Patent: June 21, 2005Assignee: ZF Freidrichshafen AGInventors: Peter Schiele, Gert Bauknecht, Peter Ziemer, Ulrich Dorr, Ewald Ast
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Patent number: 6872165Abstract: The invention relates to a parking brake system for transmissions of motor vehicle, especially for an automatic transmission and an automated selector transmission, having one parking brake for blocking or releasing the transmission according to actuation signals of a control device, especially by a pawl engaging and disengaging in a parking brake gear connected with the output of the transmission, an electric operative connection between the control device in the interior of the motor vehicle and the parking brake, a spring accumulator (9) for actuating the parking brake and a pressure-controlled release device of the parking brake. It is proposed to load the release device (10) when releasing the parking brake with a negative pressure independent of the transmission and which is preferably taken from the suction system (15) of the internal combustion engine of the motor vehicle or from a negative pressure brake force booster of the motor vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2001Date of Patent: March 29, 2005Assignee: ZF Freidrichshafen AGInventor: Georg Gierer
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Patent number: 6522965Abstract: A method for setting a multiplication of a continuously variable automatic transmission (CVT transmission) comprises the following steps: a) it is determined in a test module (M1, M1′) whether an operating situation is present in which a program module (M2, M2′) for adapting an existing transmission multiplication (i_v_ist) to a vehicle speed (v_F) or to an output rotational speed (n_ab) of the transmission is activated; in the negative a transmission specified multiplication (i_v_stratagy, i_v_start) is determined as new transmission specified multiplication (i_v_soll) from a characteristic field for a regular driving strategy; b) it is tested in the program module (M2, M2′) whether the vehicle speed (v_F) or the output rotational speed (n_ab) of the transmission is higher than a predetermined limiting value (v_F_limit, n_ab_limit); c) in the case of a positive inquiry, a predefined transmission specified multiplication (i_v_ABS, i_start_w) assigned to the determined operating state is sType: GrantFiled: January 11, 2001Date of Patent: February 18, 2003Assignee: ZF Freidrichshafen AGInventor: Armin Gierling