Patents by Inventor Alfred Langen

Alfred Langen 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).

  • Publication number: 20070227691
    Abstract: A mobile machine, such as an industrial truck, has heat-emitting drive components (K) of a traction drive and a hydraulic work system. The traction drive includes at least one electric traction motor (3) and a traction motor control system (7). The hydraulic work system includes at least one electric pump motor (5) and a pump motor control system (6). At least some of the drive components (K) are located in a cooling circuit. The cooling circuit has a cooling device (1), to which, on the output side, the traction motor (3), the pump motor (5), the traction motor control (7), and the pump motor control system (6) are connected, and which can be connected on the input side, depending on the fluid temperature in a reservoir (9) of the hydraulic work system, to the reservoir (9) or to a return line of the heat-emitting drive components (K).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2006
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Applicant: Linda Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Udo Herrmann, Alfred Langen, Klaus Schillings, Volker Schreiber, Bernward Welschof
  • Patent number: 7185742
    Abstract: The invention relates to a drive axle (A) for a self-propelled work machine, in particular an industrial truck, in which two traction motors (EF1, EF2) spaced apart from each other and an electric motor (E1) arranged axially in between them and provided to drive a hydraulic pump (P1) are integrated. In order to utilize the installation space available optimally, according to the invention the electric motor (E1) is arranged at right angles to the traction motors (EF1, EF2), as based on the longitudinal center line of the drive axle (A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Assignee: Linde Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Alfred Langen
  • Publication number: 20040163893
    Abstract: The invention relates to a drive axle (A) for a self-propelled work machine, in particular an industrial truck, in which two traction motors (EF1, EF2) spaced apart from each other and an electric motor (E1) arranged axially in between them and provided to drive a hydraulic pump (P1) are integrated. In order to utilize the installation space available optimally, according to the invention the electric motor (E1) is arranged at right angles to the traction motors (EF1, EF2), as based on the longitudinal centre line of the drive axle (A).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2004
    Publication date: August 26, 2004
    Inventor: Alfred Langen
  • Patent number: 6295810
    Abstract: A hydrostatic drive system with an adjustable pump in the delivery flow has at least one consuming device connected to the pump. Associated with each consuming device are actuation devices that specify the direction of movement and the speed of movement. A control valve device controls the direction of movement and the speed of movement. The delivery flow of the pump can be adjusted to the hydraulic flow required by the actuated consuming devices. The hydrostatic drive system makes possible the operation of the consuming devices independently of the load and the operation of the consuming devices independently of the direction of the load, in a simple manner and with lower energy losses. Associated with each consuming device is a delivery flow sensor that measures the hydraulic flow discharged from the consuming device to a reservoir, and/or a delivery flow sensor that measures the hydraulic flow from a delivery line of the pump to the consuming device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2001
    Assignee: Linde Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Alfred Langen, Horst Deininger
  • Patent number: 6256986
    Abstract: A hydrostatic drive system with a pump and at least one consuming device that is connected to the pump can be actuated by a control valve. The control valve can be actuated as a function of an actuator that specifies a desired speed of movement and a direction of movement of the consuming device. The control valve in the center position, makes possible an unpressurized circulation of the pump. The control valve can be actuated electrically, and there is a sensor that measures the actual speed of movement of the consuming device. The control valve, the speed-of-movement sensor and the actuator are connected with an electronic control that controls the control valve as a function of the direction and speed of movement specified by the deflection of the actuator and of the actual speed of movement of the consuming device as measured by the speed-of-movement sensor. The speed-of-movement sensor may be a delivery flow sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2001
    Assignee: Linde Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Alfred Langen, Horst Deininger
  • Patent number: 6116871
    Abstract: This invention relates to a device to reduce pulsations on a hydrostatic positive displacement unit, such as an axial piston machine or a radial piston machine which can be used both as a pump and as a motor. The direction of rotation of the positive displacement unit is reversible and at least one piston is mounted so that it can move longitudinally in a cylinder bore forming a cylinder chamber. The device has a buffer element which can be brought into communication with the cylinder chamber by a connecting channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2000
    Assignee: Linde Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Backe, Alfred Langen, Marcus Jarchow
  • Patent number: 5361584
    Abstract: A hydrostatic drive system including a pump and a hydraulic motor in an open circuit which includes a feed line and a control valve in the feed line on the inflow side of the hydraulic motor to control the quantity of hydraulic pressure medium supplied to the hydraulic motor. A brake valve is located in the open circuit on the outflow side of the hydraulic motor to receive hydraulic pressure medium flowing out of the hydraulic motor. The control valve and the brake valve are constructed for independent actuation so that the functions of the control valve and the brake valve can be reversed when the direction of rotation of the hydraulic motor is reversed and the actuating pressure on the brake valve in the braking phase depends on the inflow pressure to the hydraulic motor independently of the actuating pressure on the control valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1994
    Assignee: Linde Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Alfred Langen, Wolfgang Kraft