Patents by Inventor Adrian Messner

Adrian Messner has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 12246685
    Abstract: A multi-disk brake for a motor vehicle has two multi-disk mechanisms and an actuation device for brake actuation and/or brake release of the multi-disk mechanisms, and an electric drive for translational actuation (spreading) of the actuation device, such as, in particular, the ramp unit. During a spreading operation, the multi-disk mechanisms are pretensioned in a metered manner by the actuation device and produce a desired frictional engagement, and a correspondingly reversed activation of the actuating mechanism enables a correspondingly metered brake release. By means of the electric drive, the action of the multi-disk brake can be metered overall in a particularly precise, sensitive and compensated manner in modern vehicle topology, including all peripheral brake components and systems, including recuperation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Adrian Messner, Uwe Bach, Jens Hoffmann, Martin Gädke, Matthias Schulitz, Ahmed Sefo
  • Patent number: 12234875
    Abstract: A spreader unit for a drum brake is provided with a readjustment device which ensures that the clearance remains substantially constant even in the case of wear on the brake linings. The readjustment device is arranged between actuating pistons and changes the spacing of the actuating pistons in at least one readjustment step when an actuating travel of the first and second brake shoe holders has exceeded a travel setpoint value. A thermally actuable blocking device mechanically prevents the execution of the readjustment step by the readjustment device at a temperature above a temperature setpoint value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Gädke, Holger von Hayn, Matthias Schulitz, Ahmed Sefo, Uwe Bach, Adrian Messner, Wolfgang Ritter, Jens Hoffmann, Christian Vey
  • Patent number: 12203541
    Abstract: A drive unit for a vehicle, having an electric motor and a transmission unit, wherein the electric motor is connected to the transmission unit via a drive shaft and at least one first output shaft can be driven to rotate by the transmission unit, wherein the drive unit also has at least one brake unit. The rotation of the at least one output shaft can be delayed by the brake unit, wherein the drive unit has at least one of the following: a lubricant circuit through which both the transmission unit and at least one brake unit can be supplied with lubricant, and a cooling circuit through which both (i) at least one of the electric motor and a power electronics system assigned to the electric motor; and (ii) at least one brake assembly can be supplied with coolant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Schulitz, Jens Hoffmann, Adrian Messner, Ulrike Meyer
  • Patent number: 12163564
    Abstract: An interconnected multiple disk brake for a rotatable element with an integrated sensor which is based on the rotation of a sensor disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Uwe Bach, Matthias Schulitz, Thomas Stahl, Phil Lohfink, Martin Gädke, Adrian Messner, Ahmed Sefo, Jens Hoffmann
  • Patent number: 12000446
    Abstract: A drum brake having a brake drum, brake shoes, a carrier plate and a load measurement device in the region of an abutment is mountable on a steering knuckle. The abutment has a cylinder in which two pistons are guided, on the outer end faces of which the abutment ends of the brake shoes rest and the inner end faces of which are each supported by a spring on a step in the cylinder. A hollow peg projects from the outside of the cylinder and penetrates an opening in the carrier plate, such that it can be received in a receiving space in the steering knuckle resting on the carrier plate or in a reinforcement element fixed on the steering knuckle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO. OHG
    Inventors: Martin Gädke, Holger von Hayn, Matthias Schulitz, Ahmed Sefo, Uwe Bach, Adrian Messner, Wolfgang Ritter, Jens Hoffmann, Falk Petzold, Martin Kruse, Christian Vey, Ulrike Meyer
  • Patent number: 11976701
    Abstract: The proposal is for an improved expansion device for a drum brake having an integrated readjustment unit having a readjusting screw which can be locked therein by a spring-loaded latching unit which, for a reliable readjustment function with a reduced level of force, provides for the latching unit to allow a defined idle rotation of the readjusting screw, which is defined structurally by a first stop acting in a first direction of revolution and a second stop acting in the opposite direction of revolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Uwe Bach, Martin Gädke, Holger von Hayn, Ahmed Sefo, Jens Hoffmann, Adrian Messner, Wolfgang Ritter, Falk Petzold, Matthias Schulitz
  • Publication number: 20230417317
    Abstract: A drive unit for a vehicle, having an electric motor and a transmission unit, wherein the electric motor is connected to the transmission unit via a drive shaft and at least one first output shaft can be driven to rotate by the transmission unit, wherein the drive unit also has at least one brake unit. The rotation of the at least one output shaft can be delayed by the brake unit, wherein the drive unit has at least one of the following: a lubricant circuit through which both the transmission unit and at least one brake unit can be supplied with lubricant, and a cooling circuit through which both (i) at least one of the electric motor and a power electronics system assigned to the electric motor; and (ii) at least one brake assembly can be supplied with coolant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Schulitz, Jens Hoffmann, Adrian Messner, Ulrike Meyer
  • Publication number: 20230296147
    Abstract: A drum brake for an electrical motor vehicle brake system wherein actuator means, a transmission means and a spreading device are in a force flow with movably mounted drum brake shoes that are suitable and designed to cooperate with a brake drum. The force flow, in a electromechanically actuatable drum brake such that closed-loop electrical brake control in conjunction with simple actuator control is made possible with reduced outlay over the entire wearing service life of the brake shoe. Transverse offset compensation is provided by way of, a joint-disk-type/joint-socket-type bearing geometry such that a friction lining bearing support geometry with profiling allowing mutual articulation such that transversely oriented lining displacement with respect to the a direction is at least reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Gädke, Adrian Messner, Uwe Bach, Ahmed Sefo, Matthias Schulitz, Jens Hoffmann, Christian Vey
  • Patent number: 11578772
    Abstract: The abutment of a drum brake is formed from a solid material which deforms under load, wherein measurement devices are provided which detect this deformation. The abutment has two limbs, on which the brake shoes are supported. The changing distance between the two brake shoes under load is determined by detecting the distance between extension rods on the limbs by a measurement device comprising magnets and Hall sensors or AMR sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Holger von Hayn, Martin Gädke, Ahmed Sefo, Jens Hoffmann, Uwe Bach, Martin Semsch, Adrian Messner, Ulrike Meyer, Martin Kruse, Wolfgang Ritter, Christian Philipp
  • Publication number: 20220356923
    Abstract: An interconnected multiple disk brake for a rotatable element with an integrated sensor which is based on the rotation of a sensor disk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Uwe Bach, Matthias Schulitz, Thomas Stahl, Phil Lohfink, Martin Gädke, Adrian Messner, Ahmed Sefo, Jens Hoffmann
  • Publication number: 20220332294
    Abstract: A multi-disk brake (1) for a motor vehicle has two multi-disk mechanisms (7, 8) and an actuation device (9) for brake actuation and/or brake release of the multi-disk mechanisms (7, 8), and an electric drive (16) for translational actuation (spreading) of the actuation device, such as, in particular, the ramp unit (9). During a spreading operation, the multi-disk mechanisms (7, 8) are pretensioned in a metered manner by the actuation device and produce a desired frictional engagement, and a correspondingly reversed activation of the actuating mechanism enables a correspondingly metered brake release. By means of the electric drive (16), the action of the multi-disk brake (1) can be metered overall in a particularly precise, sensitive and compensated manner in modern vehicle topology, including all peripheral brake components and systems, including recuperation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Adrian Messner, Uwe Bach, Jens Hoffmann, Martin Gädke, Matthias Schulitz, Ahmed Sefo
  • Publication number: 20220333657
    Abstract: A spreader unit for a drum brake is provided with a readjustment device which ensures that the clearance remains substantially constant even in the case of wear on the brake linings. The readjustment device is arranged between actuating pistons and changes the spacing of the actuating pistons in at least one readjustment step when an actuating travel of the first and second brake shoe holders has exceeded a travel setpoint value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Martin Gädke, Holger von Hayn, Matthias Schulitz, Ahmed Sefo, Uwe Bach, Adrian Messner, Wolfgang Ritter, Jens Hoffmann, Christian Vey
  • Publication number: 20220228635
    Abstract: A drum brake having a brake drum, brake shoes, a carrier plate and a load measurement device in the region of an abutment is mountable on a steering knuckle. The abutment has a cylinder in which two pistons are guided, on the outer end faces of which the abutment ends of the brake shoes rest and the inner end faces of which are each supported by a spring on a step in the cylinder. A hollow peg projects from the outside of the cylinder and penetrates an opening in the carrier plate, such that it can be received in a receiving space in the steering knuckle resting on the carrier plate or in a reinforcement element fixed on the steering knuckle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Martin Gädke, Holger von Hayn, Matthias Schulitz, Ahmed Sefo, Uwe Bach, Adrian Messner, Wolfgang Ritter, Jens Hoffmann, Falk Petzold, Martin Kruse, Christian Vey, Ulrike Meyer
  • Patent number: 11300170
    Abstract: An improved electromechanically drivable spreader unit having an integrated adjustment apparatus for a drum brake, in which the linear motion of brake shoe holders is produced by two ball-ramp devices, wherein a first ball-ramp device includes a first actuation piston arranged for rotation about the axis and a second ball-ramp device includes a second actuation piston arranged for rotation about the axis, and wherein an adjustment apparatus for compensating an actuation travel that increases as a result of wear on the friction linings is arranged in an axially centered position within the housing and substantially between the actuation pistons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO. OHG
    Inventors: Uwe Bach, Martin Gädke, Holger von Hayn, Ahmed Sefo, Jens Hoffmann, Adrian Messner, Wolfgang Ritter
  • Publication number: 20220034377
    Abstract: The proposal is for an improved expansion device for a drum brake having an integrated readjustment unit having a readjusting screw which can be locked therein by a spring-loaded latching unit which, for a reliable readjustment function with a reduced level of force, provides for the latching unit to allow a defined idle rotation of the readjusting screw, which is defined structurally by a first stop acting in a first direction of revolution and a second stop acting in the opposite direction of revolution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Uwe Bach, Martin Gädke, Holger von Hayn, Ahmed Sefo, Jens Hoffmann, Adrian Messner, Wolfgang Ritter, Falk Petzold, Matthias Schulitz
  • Patent number: 11072316
    Abstract: A braking device for a hydraulic motor vehicle braking system having an electromechanically driven booster stage and a ball screw drive. In order to provide a braking device which is of particularly compact, cost-effective and weight-saving construction and has short pedal strokes, and an easily adjustable pedal characteristic curve, at the same time enabling effective direct action in case of failure of the booster stage and comfortable haptic feedback at the pedal during normal operation, the actuating force from a piston rod is introduced into the spindle, wherein the piston rod can be moved axially to a limited extent relative to the spindle and a spring element is inserted in the flow of force of the actuating force between the piston rod and the spindle, which spring is compressed axially when the actuating force is introduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO. OHG
    Inventors: Uwe Bach, Jens Hoffmann, Martin Gädke, Holger von Hayn, Ahmed Sefo, Adrian Messner, Wolfgang Ritter
  • Publication number: 20210190159
    Abstract: An improved electromechanically drivable spreader unit having an integrated adjustment apparatus for a drum brake, in which the linear motion of brake shoe holders is produced by two ball-ramp devices, wherein a first ball-ramp device includes a first actuation piston arranged for rotation about the axis and a second ball-ramp device includes a second actuation piston arranged for rotation about the axis, and wherein an adjustment apparatus for compensating an actuation travel that increases as a result of wear on the friction linings is arranged in an axially centered position within the housing and substantially between the actuation pistons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Uwe Bach, Martin Gädke, Holger von Hayn, Ahmed Sefo, Jens Hoffmann, Adrian Messner, Wolfgang Ritter
  • Patent number: 10889270
    Abstract: Differentials having plate packs for exerting a braking torque onto the output shafts of the gear unit are known. The brake device is intended to be designed such that effective braking can be achieved using it and that it is easy to service. To this end, the invention makes provision for the brake device to be a drum brake having a passive element, exhibiting a cylindrical frictional surface, and brake shoes, the frictional surfaces of which brake shoes can be placed against the cylindrical frictional surface of the passive element. The passive element can be a brake drum or a radial brake disk, the cylindrical edge of which serves as a frictional surface. The passive element is fastened to the differential cage and/or one of the shafts. The brake shoes are held in a pivotable manner on a carrier plate fastened to the outside of the differential housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Ulrike Meyer, Martin Semsch, Uwe Bach, Jens Hoffmann, Ahmed Sefo, Wolfgang Ritter, Martin Gädke, Holger von Hayn, Adrian Messner
  • Patent number: 10752226
    Abstract: A brake device having a hydraulic booster stage for a hydraulic motor vehicle brake system is provided, which brake device, within normal boosting operation, can be operated both in an autonomous, driver-independent actuation mode with electronic control and in a manual actuation mode controlled by the driver, and outside normal boosting operation, can be operated in an emergency mode with a non-boosted actuation force generated by the driver alone, in the case of which brake device it is proposed that, within normal boosting operation, each actuation mode is assigned a dedicated piston in a booster housing of the booster stage, which piston is acted on directly with the boosting force and transmits this mechanically to components connected functionally downstream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Falk Petzold, Adrian Messner, Manfred Rüffer, Michael Jürging
  • Publication number: 20200191218
    Abstract: The abutment of a drum brake is formed from a solid material which deforms under load, wherein measurement devices are provided which detect this deformation. The abutment has two limbs, on which the brake shoes are supported. The changing distance between the two brake shoes under load is determined by detecting the distance between extension rods on the limbs by a measurement device comprising magnets and Hall sensors or AMR sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicant: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Holger von Hayn, Martin Gädke, Ahmed Sefo, Jens Hoffmann, Uwe Bach, Martin Semsch, Adrian Messner, Ulrike Meyer, Martin Kruse, Wolfgang Ritter, Christian Philipp