Patents by Inventor Anton Fritzner

Anton Fritzner 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).

  • Transmission
    Patent number: 6283893
    Abstract: A method of controlling a friction-based torque-transmitting system in the drive train of a motor vehicle has the following steps: a) monitoring the respective rates of rotation of an input element and an output element of the torque-transmitting system, b) establishing and analyzing a correlation between said rates of rotation; and c) initiating a change in the operating mode of the torque-transmitting system if the correlation is found to have changed in excess of a given threshold limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2001
    Assignee: LuK Getriebe-Systeme GmbH
    Inventors: Anton Fritzner, Franz Bitzer