Patents by Inventor Alban Kronenberger

Alban Kronenberger 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: 8157452
    Abstract: A radial roller bearing for storing shafts in wind turbine transmissions, which has an external bearing ring with an inner runway, an internal bearing ring arranged coaxial thereto provided with an external runway, and a plurality of roller bodies that displace on the runways between the hearing rings held at regular intervals by a bearing cage. To prevent slip, the roller bodies are replaced by hollow rollers that have a greater diameter and a smaller elasticity module than the roller bodies ensuring, when the radial roller bearing is in the load-free state, permanent contact with the bearing rings, a permanent drive of the bearing cage and that the roller bodies have kinematic rotation. The hollow rollers have a higher bending strength, and their internal cover surface has a maximum surface roughness of Rz?25 ?m preventing localized peaks of tension, without any disaggregation in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Schaeffler KG
    Inventors: Bernd Endres, Christian Hoffinger, Alban Kronenberger, Tobias Mueller
  • Publication number: 20100054650
    Abstract: A radial roller bearing for storing shafts in wind turbine transmissions, which has an external bearing ring with an inner runway, an internal bearing ring arranged coaxial thereto provided with an external runway, and a plurality of roller bodies that displace on the runways between the bearing rings held at regular intervals by a bearing cage. To prevent slip, the roller bodies are replaced by hollow rollers that have a greater diameter and a smaller elasticity module than the roller bodies ensuring, when the radial roller bearing is in the load-free state, permanent contact with the bearing rings, a permanent drive of the bearing cage and that the roller bodies have kinematic rotation. The hollow rollers have a higher bending strength, and their internal cover surface has a maximum surface roughness of Rz?25 ?m preventing localized peaks of tension, without any disaggregation in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2007
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER KG
    Inventors: Bernd Endres, Christian Hoffinger, Alban Kronenberger, Tobias Mueller
  • Patent number: 5028150
    Abstract: An anti-friction bearing unit, particularly for use in an exhaust gas turbo charger. The unit includes two anti-friction bearings axially spaced apart from each other on a shaft. High temperature occurs on one end of the shaft. A precise mounting is provided which is not sensitive to high temperatures on at least the axial side exposed to high temperature. The bearing outer ring, which is the ring not subject to high temperatures, consists of one piece. The bearing inner ring is widened and divided into two sections at its axial middle. The axial portion of the divided inner ring which is exposed to high temperature consists of material of high heat resistance. The high heat resistance material is, for example, 80 MoCrV 42 16 (M 50) or X 102 CRMo 17 (AISI 440 C). An additional intermediate ring around the shaft at the high temperature and helps reduce heat transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1991
    Assignee: FAG Kugelfischer Georg Schafer (KGaA)
    Inventors: Alban Kronenberger, Oswald Bayer
  • Patent number: 4984908
    Abstract: A magnetic liquid seal for an anti-friction bearing, the seal comprising an annular magnet and annular pole rings with respective supplies of magnetizable liquid radially between the pole rings and the inner ring. A pre-seal element with a lip extending toward the inner ring is supported on that axial side of the magnet that is toward the rolling element balls. A notch is defined in the inner race radially generally centered beneath the lip. The opposite axial side surfaces of the notch are obliquely outwardly inclined in the radially outward direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 15, 1991
    Assignee: FAG Kugelfischer Georg Schafer (KGaA)
    Inventors: Alban Kronenberger, Oswald Bayer