Patents Examined by Steven B Christ
  • Patent number: 8574126
    Abstract: A vehicle including an engine coupled to a transmission via a clutch, includes a fuel feed stop controller configured to stop fuel feeding to the engine when a first fuel feed stop condition is satisfied, and a clutch state detector configured to detect whether the clutch is engaged or disengaged, wherein the fuel feed stop controller is configured to resume the fuel feeding to the engine, when a second fuel feed stop condition continues to be satisfied and the clutch continues to be disengaged for a predetermined delay time from a time point when the first fuel feed stop condition is satisfied and the clutch state detector starts to detect that the clutch is disengaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeru Oshima, Takuya Sakamoto, Kozo Suzuki, Makoto Furukawa
  • Patent number: 8568263
    Abstract: A gear transmission comprises an external gear and an internal gear that rotates eccentrically relative to the external gear while meshing with the external gear. At least one first recess is formed on an outer peripheral side of the internal gear so that at least a portion of a motor is disposed within the first recess, thereby shortening the length and width of the device that includes the motor and the gear transmission in the axial and radial direction, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Nabtesco Corporation
    Inventor: Hongyou Wang
  • Patent number: 8550948
    Abstract: A ship propulsion (3) with at least a fixedly positioned transmission unit (4, 204) secured to the hull (6) of the ship and a propulsion unit (5, 205) located on the exterior of the hull. The ship propulsion (3) facilitates pivoting of the propulsion unit (5, 205) around a control axis (10, 110, 210, 310), via a control device (200, 300). The control device has a control motor (120, 220, 320) and at least one control transmission (130, 230, 330). The control transmission is designed as a reduced planetary transmission, which comprises two central gears (131, 132, 231, 232, 331, 332) and a planetary gear carrier (233, 333, 433) with at least two planetary gears (238, 338), and coaxial positioned with reference to the control axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Jürgen Pescheck, Horst Schulz, Tino Kirschner, Andrea Pellegnnetti, Nicole Zanoni, Alfred Klenzle, Michele Zottele
  • Patent number: 8512205
    Abstract: A method of controlling an automatic transmission of a vehicle in which a hold gear function is activated by a driver request and is deactivated depending on a return condition. To allow an effective, safe to operate, and comfortable use, the return condition depends on one of the following criteria or a useful combination of the same: a flexible time span, consideration of the vehicle stand still time; a rotational speed of the vehicle engine, or one or several parameters which correlate with the engine rotational speed, a new, the same, or a different drive request by the driver, a change in the operating condition of the vehicle, and a plausibility check occurring during the startup procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Matthias Winkel, Thomas Jager, Roland Mair, Reiner Kneer
  • Patent number: 8469171
    Abstract: A spring loaded brake for an actuator for driving a household screen includes a helical spring having radially extending end lugs, a friction piece including a friction surface against which the spring presses, an input piece which drives the spring in rotation in one direction to reduce a force of contact between the spring and the surface, an output piece which drives the spring in rotation in a direction to increase the force of contact between the spring and the surface and wherein the brake also includes two end stops which always rotate as one about an axis of the spring and each of which forms a stop to limit axial movement of the spring in opposite directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Somfy SAS
    Inventors: Eric Lagarde, Frédéric Negrello
  • Patent number: 8460145
    Abstract: Each of reclining devices is formed so as to have a different size. An external gear wheel of each of the reclining devices has a diameter smaller than an internal gear wheel thereof and has a teeth number different from the internal gear wheel. The internal gear wheels and the external gear wheels of the connection devices respectively have the same teeth number as each other. The internal gear wheels and the external gear wheels of the connection devices are formed such that distances between centers thereof are equal to each other. Further, a meshing line of the internal gear wheel and the external gear wheel of each of the connection devices is formed between two curves defining a meshing range and is drawn as a line that extends from a side of a radially inwardly positioned curve in a circumferential direction in which the two curves are gradually spaced from each other and reaches to a side of a radially outwardly positioned curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Atsutaka Mitsuhashi
  • Patent number: 8460147
    Abstract: A device (2) for a vehicle drivetrain (1) with a transmission unit (3) for changing various transmission ratios and with a hydraulic device (4) by which drive torque can be provided in the area of the drive output (5) of the vehicle drivetrain (1) and in whose area a drive output torque of the vehicle drivetrain (1) can be at least partially supported. A reversing gear system (6) is connected, upstream of the transmission unit (3), for reversing the rotation direction, and the hydraulic device (4) can be brought into active connection with the transmission unit (3), between the reversing gear system (6) and the transmission unit (3), in the area of the transmission input (15).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventor: Jurgen Legner