Patents by Inventor Andreas HIGLE

Andreas HIGLE 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: 12202296
    Abstract: Wheel carrier apparatus for a motor vehicle including a wheel hub to which a vehicle wheel can be fastened, and an articulation apparatus for torque transmission having an articulation housing and an articulation drive element operatively connected to the articulation housing. The articulation housing is arranged coaxially to the wheel hub and is connected to the wheel hub in a rotationally fixed manner. The wheel carrier apparatus further includes a wheel carrier on which the wheel hub and the articulation housing are borne via a wheel bearing in a rotationally fixed manner. The wheel bearing includes an outer bearing ring fastened to the wheel carrier, an inner bearing ring divided in the axial direction, and multiple rolling bodies arranged radially between the inner bearing ring and the outer bearing ring. The divided inner bearing ring includes a first inner bearing ring element and a second inner bearing ring element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Achim Schulz, Phillip Aaron Grabowski, Maximilian Mahlberg, Andreas Higle, Daniel Winkler
  • Publication number: 20240367392
    Abstract: A fiber composite component has two inner elements arranged at a distance from one another, around which inner elements a fiber-reinforced plastics band is wrapped. In order to simplify the production of the fiber composite component, a first fiber-reinforced plastics band is wrapped around a first inner element, and a second fiber-reinforced plastics band is wrapped around a second inner element. The first and the second fiber-reinforced plastics band are wrapped alternately around the first and the second inner element in such a manner that the distance between the inner elements is bridged by the first and the second fiber-reinforced plastics band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Andreas Higle
  • Publication number: 20240051337
    Abstract: Wheel carrier apparatus for a motor vehicle including a wheel hub to which a vehicle wheel can be fastened, and an articulation apparatus for torque transmission having an articulation housing and an articulation drive element operatively connected to the articulation housing. The articulation housing is arranged coaxially to the wheel hub and is connected to the wheel hub in a rotationally fixed manner. The wheel carrier apparatus further includes a wheel carrier on which the wheel hub and the articulation housing are borne via a wheel bearing in a rotationally fixed manner. The wheel bearing includes an outer bearing ring fastened to the wheel carrier, an inner bearing ring divided in the axial direction, and multiple rolling bodies arranged radially between the inner bearing ring and the outer bearing ring. The divided inner bearing ring includes a first inner bearing ring element and a second inner bearing ring element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Achim Schulz, Phillip Aaron Grabowski, Maximilian Mahlberg, Andreas Higle, Daniel Winkler
  • Publication number: 20230311568
    Abstract: A wheel hub for receiving a vehicle wheel, the wheel hub having a central region with a central opening. In order to achieve a reduction of the forces acting on wheel screws, it is provided that (i) the wheel hub includes at least four screw-in openings for screwing in a respective wheel screw; (ii) the wheel hub includes a number of stiffening ribs corresponding to the number of screw-in openings, which ribs extend obliquely or radially outward; (iii) in each case, two circumferentially adjacent stiffening ribs are connected to one another by a linearly extending connecting web, wherein the connecting web between the stiffening ribs has no connection to the central region; and (iv) a screw-in opening is arranged in each connecting web.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Patrick Königstein, Tobias Lörcher, Andreas Higle
  • Publication number: 20220281182
    Abstract: A fiber composite component has two inner elements arranged at a distance from one another, around which inner elements a fiber-reinforced plastics band is wrapped. In order to simplify the production of the fiber composite component, a first fiber-reinforced plastics band is wrapped around a first inner element, and a second fiber-reinforced plastics band is wrapped around a second inner element. The first and the second fiber-reinforced plastics band are wrapped alternately around the first and the second inner element in such a manner that the distance between the inner elements is bridged by the first and the second fiber-reinforced plastics band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Andreas Higle
  • Patent number: 10618365
    Abstract: A vehicle axle arrangement of a vehicle wheel suspension system which has a spring arrangement which runs in the vehicle transverse direction in the installed position, steers wheels, and has bearings at the ends which are directed toward the wheels. The bearings are connected via respective bearing arrangements to transverse links which are in turn connected to wheel supports. The transverse links are coupled to a vehicle body. The spring arrangement have two leaf springs of identical configuration which are connected to one another via a coupling member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Andreas Higle
  • Patent number: 10533619
    Abstract: A brake disk includes a friction ring, a brake disk hat and a securing ring. The friction ring has an inner side, on which a plurality of projections and intermediate spaces for connecting the friction ring to the brake disk hat are disposed. The brake disk hat has, on its outer side, intermediate spaces and projections which correspond with the projections and intermediate spaces of the friction ring and are shaped to engage in a positively locking manner into the projections and intermediate spaces of the friction ring, with the result that the friction ring is connected fixedly to the brake disk hat so as to rotate therewith. The securing ring secures the friction ring on the brake disk hat in the axial direction. The securing ring includes a number of spring elements which are spaced apart from one another in the circumferential direction of the securing ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Andreas Higle
  • Patent number: 10527116
    Abstract: A brake disc having a friction ring and a hub produced as a separate element and arranged inside the friction ring according. Recesses are configured in the friction ring on the inside to connect the hub to the friction ring and corresponding projections are formed on the hub, which projections engage in the recesses of the friction ring in order to be able to transfer torque from the friction ring to the hub. The recesses have an undercut at least partially in a radial direction, as viewed looking inward from the outside. The disc is simple and cost-effective to manufacture and has an acoustically advantageous operating performance, in particular in the case of thermal expansion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignees: Volkswagen Atiengesellschaft, Dr. Ing H.C.F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft, IPROTEC Maschinen- und Edelstahlprodukte GmbH
    Inventors: Jan Voigt, Andreas Higle, Boris Smedek, Christoph Oger, Dahoud Rabih
  • Publication number: 20200001926
    Abstract: A bearing plate for a chassis bearing of a vehicle, having a main body with a bearing section for making full-area contact with a complementary bearing face of a component to be mounted, and having a receiving section for being received in a force-transmitting manner on a complementary receiving section of a chassis component. The bearing section is connected to the receiving section via at least two spring sections which have a spring structure or a sprung relative movability in the radial direction and a stabilization in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Philipp Berendes, Andreas Higle, Bernhard Wiedemann
  • Publication number: 20190024737
    Abstract: A brake disk includes a friction ring, a brake disk hat and a securing ring. The friction ring has an inner side, on which a plurality of projections and intermediate spaces for connecting the friction ring to the brake disk hat are disposed. The brake disk hat has, on its outer side, intermediate spaces and projections which correspond with the projections and intermediate spaces of the friction ring and are shaped to engage in a positively locking manner into the projections and intermediate spaces of the friction ring, with the result that the friction ring is connected fixedly to the brake disk hat so as to rotate therewith. The securing ring secures the friction ring on the brake disk hat in the axial direction. The securing ring includes a number of spring elements which are spaced apart from one another in the circumferential direction of the securing ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Applicant: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Andreas Higle
  • Publication number: 20180370315
    Abstract: A transverse leaf spring arrangement of a chassis axle of a motor vehicle having a transverse leaf spring which is mounted via two outer bearing members on, in each case, one wheel support and via two central bearing members on a vehicle body. The central bearing members have, in each case, one torque generation apparatus, the torque directions of which run parallel to a longitudinal axis of the motor vehicle. The torque generation apparatus capable of generating a torque which is variable at least in a manner which is dependent on a deflection at the outer bearing members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicant: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Andreas Higle
  • Publication number: 20180370314
    Abstract: A transverse leaf spring arrangement of a chassis axle of a motor vehicle having a transverse leaf spring which is mounted via two outer bearing members on, in each case, one wheel support and via two central bearing members on a vehicle body. The outer bearing members, in each case, have an actuator device, which actuator devices act on the respective outer bearing member in such a way that it can be adjusted at least in the direction of the vertical axis of the motor vehicle. The actuator devices are configured in such a way that a respective outer bearing point can be set in the direction of the transverse axis of the motor vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicant: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Andreas Higle
  • Publication number: 20180370313
    Abstract: A transverse leaf spring arrangement of a chassis axle of a motor vehicle having a transverse leaf spring which is mounted via two outer bearing members on, in each case, one wheel support and via two central bearing members on a vehicle body. The central bearing members, in each case, have an actuator device, which actuator devices act on a bearing shell of the respective central bearing member in such a way that a bearing point can be adjusted in the direction of the vertical axis and/or transverse axis of the motor vehicle. The actuator device is configured in such a way that, in the case of a stationary bearing shell, an adjustment of the bearing point is possible in the direction of the vertical axis and/or transverse axis of the motor vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicant: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Andreas Higle
  • Publication number: 20180244120
    Abstract: A vehicle axle arrangement of a vehicle wheel suspension system which has a spring arrangement which runs in the vehicle transverse direction in the installed position, steers wheels, and has bearings at the ends which are directed toward the wheels. The bearings are connected via respective bearing arrangements to transverse links which are in turn connected to wheel supports. The transverse links are coupled to a vehicle body. The spring arrangement have two leaf springs of identical configuration which are connected to one another via a coupling member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Applicant: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Andreas HIGLE
  • Publication number: 20170284490
    Abstract: A brake disc having a friction ring and a hub produced as a separate element and arranged inside the friction ring according. Recesses are configured in the friction ring on the inside to connect the hub to the friction ring and corresponding projections are formed on the hub, which projections engage in the recesses of the friction ring in order to be able to transfer torque from the friction ring to the hub. The recesses have an undercut at least partially in a radial direction, as viewed looking inward from the outside. The disc is simple and cost-effective to manufacture and has an acoustically advantageous operating performance, in particular in the case of thermal expansion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicants: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, Dr. Ing. H.C. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jan VOIGT, Andreas HIGLE, Boris SMEDEK, Christoph OGER, Dahoud RABIH
  • Publication number: 20150258864
    Abstract: The wheel for a motor vehicle is composed essentially of a fiber composite material, wherein the spokes of the wheel are each formed with a longitudinally extending cavity and said cavity is fluidically connected to a rim well or to a tire-rim space formed by the rim well and a mounted tire via an air passage opening, with the result that both monitoring of the hollow spokes for damage and in the case of tire damage is possible by a tire pressure monitoring device arranged in the wheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Inventors: Andreas HIGLE, Thomas HUNN, Gerd BURK, Georg Wahl