Patents by Inventor Andre Kuckuk
Andre Kuckuk 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).
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Patent number: 11717922Abstract: A method for surface treatment of a workpiece includes providing the workpiece with hardened workpiece surface, clamping the workpiece, removing material from the hardened workpiece surface with a material removal tool to produce a machined surface with first machining tracks, and rolling the machined surface with a rolling tool by overlapping the first machining tracks to produce a rolled surface with second machining tracks. A distance between the material removal tool and the rolling tool measured in an axial direction of the workpiece is varied in an oscillating manner. The material removal tool may be advanced in the axial direction at a constant speed and the rolling tool may be advanced in the axial direction at an oscillating speed, or the rolling tool may be advanced in the axial direction at a constant speed and the material removal tool may be advanced in the axial direction at an oscillating speed.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2019Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Martin Buschka, Silvio End, André Kuckuk
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Publication number: 20220221003Abstract: A method for machining a bearing ring of a rolling bearing includes providing a blank with an annular surface for producing the bearing ring, clamping the blank in a machine tool, and structuring the annular surface by high-feed milling to form a sealing face. The method may include removing material from the blank to produce a track of the bearing ring while the blank is still clamped in the machine tool, with the blank rotating during the steps of structuring the annular surface and removing material from the blank. The method may also include providing a high-feed milling cutter with a face, and performing the high-feed milling with the face.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2020Publication date: July 14, 2022Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Martin Buschka, André Kuckuk, Silvio End
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Publication number: 20220063027Abstract: A method for surface treatment of a workpiece includes providing the workpiece with hardened workpiece surface, clamping the workpiece, removing material from the hardened workpiece surface with a material removal tool to produce a machined surface with first machining tracks, and rolling the machined surface with a rolling tool by overlapping the first machining tracks to produce a rolled surface with second machining tracks. A distance between the material removal tool and the rolling tool measured in an axial direction of the workpiece is varied in an oscillating manner. The material removal tool may be advanced in the axial direction at a constant speed and the rolling tool may be advanced in the axial direction at an oscillating speed, or the rolling tool may be advanced in the axial direction at a constant speed and the material removal tool may be advanced in the axial direction at an oscillating speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2019Publication date: March 3, 2022Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Martin Buschka, Silvio End, André Kuckuk
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Publication number: 20210379727Abstract: A tool for mechanical surface treatment includes a housing, a roller body, and a resonator. The housing has a cavity for filling with a hydraulic medium having a basic pressure. The roller body is for rolling on a workpiece surface to be treated and is exposed to the basic pressure of the hydraulic medium. The resonator is arranged for generating targeted pressure pulses in the hydraulic medium. In some example embodiments, the housing has a tubular body with a tip and the roller body is arranged at the tip. In an example embodiment, the roller body is a sphere. In an example embodiment, the tool includes a seal for sealing the roller body to the tubular body.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2019Publication date: December 9, 2021Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: André Kuckuk, Martin Buschka
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Publication number: 20210339305Abstract: A method for machining a bearing ring of a rolling bearing includes clamping a blank for the bearing ring in a machining machine, and applying a pulsating pressure using a machining body to structure and simultaneously harden an annularly closed sealing surface of the blank. The machining body may be a spherical machining body. The method may also include removing material from the blank to produce a bearing ring track using the same clamping. The blank may be rotated during the applying a pulsating pressure step and the removing material step.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2019Publication date: November 4, 2021Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: André Kuckuk, Martin Buschka
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Publication number: 20210252608Abstract: A mounting system includes a magnet core arranged for positioning inside a magnet coil. The magnet core includes a cylindrical, elongate receiving region with a central axis, a rapid-mounting mandrel arranged for insertion into the cylindrical, elongate receiving region, and a discoid workpiece driver, detachably fastened to the rapid-mounting mandrel and extending normal to the central axis. A one of the magnet core or the rapid-mounting mandrel includes a rapid-mounting device for mounting the rapid-mounting mandrel in the magnet core. Example embodiments may includes the rapid-mounting device integrated into the magnet core or integrated into the rapid-mounting mandrel.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2019Publication date: August 19, 2021Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Eckhard Ruschitzka, André Kuckuk
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Patent number: 10695885Abstract: A method for producing one or more bearing components along a production line, comprising honing the bearing components along the production line, cleaning the bearing components along the production line, grinding the bearing components along the production line, and transporting the bearing components along the production line utilizing one or more transport units.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2016Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KGInventors: Wolfgang Schnabel, Benno Sterzinger, Detlef Scholtz, Martin Lutz, Thomas Schmitt, Andre Kuckuk, Werner Heuer, Klaus Pichl, Daniel Seubold
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Publication number: 20180215005Abstract: A method for producing one or more bearing components along a production line, comprising honing the bearing components along the production line, cleaning the bearing components along the production line, grinding the bearing components along the production line, and transporting the bearing components along the production line utilizing one or more transport units.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2016Publication date: August 2, 2018Applicant: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KGInventors: Wolfgang SCHNABEL, Benno STERZINGER, Detlef SCHOLTZ, Martin LUTZ, Thomas SCHMITT, Andre KUCKUK, Werner HEUER, Klaus PICHL, Daniel SEUBOLD
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Publication number: 20130272854Abstract: A bearing arrangement for a turbocharger, including a bearing housing-which extends in an axial direction, an anti-friction bearing, situated within the bearing housing, having an outer bearing ring and a number of rolling bodies and an axially extending shaft which is rotatably mounted within the bearing housing. It is provided that the shaft includes a rolling body raceway for guiding the rolling bodies. Moreover, the invention relates to a turbocharger having such a bearing arrangement. A bearing arrangement of this type allows the secure mounting of a shaft in a turbocharger with simple assembly and low costs.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2011Publication date: October 17, 2013Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Heiko Schmidt, Peter Solfrank, Christopher Mitchell, Andre Kuckuk, Thomas Motz
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Patent number: 7299778Abstract: The invention proposes a switchable cam follower (1) for a valve train of an internal combustion engine, said cam follower comprising two elements (2, 3) telescoped into each other and, axially displaceable relative to each other. A bore (4) comprising at least one piston (5) extends in the inner element (2). The piston (5) has, on a portion of its outer peripheral surface (7), a stepped entraining surface (8) that starts from the first front end (6) of the piston (5) facing the outer element (3). For achieving coupling, the piston (5) can be displaced with this entraining surface (8) onto a flat counter surface (10) of the other element (3). The entraining surface (8) of the piston (5) extends, starting from the first front end (6), toward a second front end (11) of the piston (5) while tapering into a conical shape generally in the direction toward a longitudinal axis of the piston (5).Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2006Date of Patent: November 27, 2007Assignee: Schaeffler KGInventor: Andre Kuckuk
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Publication number: 20060249113Abstract: The invention proposes a switchable cam follower (1) for a valve train of an internal combustion engine, said cam follower comprising two elements (2, 3) telescoped into each other and, axially displaceable relative to each other. A bore (4) comprising at least one piston (5) extends in the inner element (2). The piston (5) has, on a portion of its outer peripheral surface (7), a stepped entraining surface (8) that starts from the first front end (6) of the piston (5) facing the outer element (3). For achieving coupling, the piston (5) can be displaced with this entraining surface (8) onto a flat counter surface (10) of the other element (3). The entraining surface (8) of the piston (5) extends, starting from the first front end (6), toward a second front end (11) of the piston (5) while tapering into a conical shape generally in the direction toward a longitudinal axis of the piston (5).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2006Publication date: November 9, 2006Inventor: Andre Kuckuk
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Patent number: 5853316Abstract: A method of grinding control edges of a control bush of a rotary slide valve for hydraulic steering of motor vehicles, includes placement of the control bush in a support in form of slide shoes or a V block and additionally securing the control bush in the support by pressure rollers. A precise angular positioning of the control bush is effected by press-fitting a mandrel into the interior of the control bush. After grinding the control bush to a predetermined outside diameter, the reference points commensurate with the angular position of the individual control edges are determined by a measuring system. Based on the determined reference points, an optimum reference point for the angular position of all control edges is computed and utilized for adjusting the mandrel in form of a zero point shift for grinding the control edges.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 1997Date of Patent: December 29, 1998Assignee: INA Walzlager Schaeffler oHGInventors: Ludwig Kern, Andre Kuckuk, Paul Katona