Patents Examined by Sherry Estremksy
  • Patent number: 8523732
    Abstract: A double shock-absorbing steering wheel, in particular for automobile vehicles, including a primary inertia mass connected to an engine shaft (12), a secondary inertia mass (14) connected by clutch E to a gearbox BV, and a torsion damper (18) rotatably connecting the two inertia masses (10, 14). The torsion damper includes an epicycloidal gear train whose outer crown wheel (22) engages with a spring (28) for absorption of vibrations and rotation acyclisms. The spring is mounted around the crown wheel (22) in a fixed frame (26).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Valeo Embrayages
    Inventor: Patrick Le Moal
  • Patent number: 7972241
    Abstract: A drive control device of an automatic transmission of a vehicle. The transmission having a main oil pump driven by an internal combustion engine, an electrically driven auxiliary oil pump and a hydraulic control device; a device for determining the required volumetric flow rate needed to determine the oil/hydraulic target volumetric flow rate during current operating conditions, based on the transmission oil temperature; a device for determining the volumetric flow rate to determine the actual volumetric flow rate that can be delivered during the current operating conditions by the main and/or auxiliary oil pump, and a device for controlling the target volumetric flow rate to reduce the target volumetric flow rate to at least the currently deliverable actual volumetric flow rate, if the currently deliverable actual volumetric flow rate is below the current target volumetric flow rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Peter Schiele, Thilo Schmidt, Klaus Steinhauser