Patents by Inventor Anton Gaile

Anton Gaile 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: 11767101
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a flight control system comprising at least one hydraulic servo actuator, wherein the servo actuator includes a two-stage electrohydraulic servo valve, wherein the servo valve comprises a pilot stage in which the control current is translated into a hydraulic control pressure, and a power stage in which a valve slide is moved in response to the control pressure in order to adjust the throughflow direction and throughflow cross-section of the valve. The disclosure furthermore relates to an aircraft comprising such a flight control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: LIEBHERR-AEROSPACE LINDENBERG GMBH
    Inventors: Tobias Roeben, Thomas Sauterleute, Anton Gaile
  • Patent number: 11603079
    Abstract: The invention relates to a mechanical non-return mechanism for an aircraft application, wherein the aircraft application can be part of a flight control. The non-return mechanism comprises at least one drag brake, at least one main brake, and at least one ball ramp mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Liebherr-Aerospace Lindenberg GmbH
    Inventor: Anton Gaile
  • Publication number: 20220144414
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a flight control system comprising at least one hydraulic servo actuator, wherein the servo actuator includes a two-stage electrohydraulic servo valve, wherein the servo valve comprises a pilot stage in which the control current is translated into a hydraulic control pressure, and a power stage in which a valve slide is moved in response to the control pressure in order to adjust the throughflow direction and throughflow cross-section of the valve. The disclosure furthermore relates to an aircraft comprising such a flight control system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Tobias Roeben, Thomas Sauterleute, Anton Gaile
  • Patent number: 11292584
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a coupling arrangement for a driving device, wherein the coupling arrangement comprises an input, an output and a coupling, wherein the coupling is non-rotatably connected with the input or with the output, wherein the coupling furthermore comprises torque transmission means which in the coupled condition are configured to connect the output with the input for transmitting a torque from the input to the output, wherein upon exceedance of a torque threshold value in a first operating condition the torque transmission means are arranged such that the input is periodically separated from and connected with the output, and that when the torque threshold value is not reached in a second operating condition, the torque transmission means are arranged such that the input is permanently connected with the output for transmitting a torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: LIEBHERR-AEROSPACE LINDENBERG GMBH
    Inventors: Frederick Bassett, Anton Gaile
  • Patent number: 11274712
    Abstract: The invention relates to an overload clutch for a drive gear mechanism for driving components of an aircraft wing, in particular for driving an outer slat flap of an aircraft wing, with at least one driving and at least one driven clutch body and with at least one torque transmission body arranged therebetween. The invention further relates to a drive gear mechanism with a corresponding overload clutch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Liebherr-Aerospace Lindenberg GmbH
    Inventors: Habib Stegmann, Boris Schweitzer, Anton Gaile
  • Patent number: 10794361
    Abstract: The present invention relates to wind turbines with variable rotor blades whose pitch angles are adjustable. An adjustment unit is provided for adjusting the pitch angle of the rotor blades with a pivot bearing comprising at least two coaxial bearing rings that are rotatable against each other, at least one adjustment actuator for rotating the two bearing rings, and a supply unit for supplying the adjustment actuator with energy, whereby the adjustment actuator and the supply unit are disposed on opposite sides on a plate-shaped adjustment drive carrier part which is rotatably connected with one of the bearing rings and comprises a rotatable support bearing for the support of the adjustment actuator. A least one part of the supply unit is rotatably mounted on the carrier part such that the supply unit or its rotatably mounted part and the adjustment actuator are jointly rotatably mounted and/or swivel-mounted on the carrier part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: LIEBHERR-COMPONENTS BIBERACH GMBH
    Inventors: Anton Gaile, Jan Fesenmayr, Stefan Cersowsky, Thomas Schulze
  • Patent number: 10590913
    Abstract: The invention relates to wind turbines with variable rotor blades whose pitch angle can be adjusted, wherein an adjustment unit for adjusting the pitch angle of a wind turbine rotor blade with a pivot bearing comprising at least two coaxial bearing rings that are rotatable against each other, at least one adjustment actuator for rotating the two bearing rings against each other, and a supply unit for supplying the adjustment actuator with energy, wherein the at least one adjustment actuator and the supply unit are disposed on opposite sides on a plate-shaped adjustment drive carrier part which is directly or indirectly rotatably connected with one of the bearing rings and comprises a rotatable support bearing for the rotatable support of the adjustment actuator on the carrier part. The supply unit is connected with the adjustment actuator by at least one pressurized-media channel passing through the support bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Liebherr-Components Biberach GmbH
    Inventors: Anton Gaile, Jan Fesenmayr, Stefan Cersowsky, Thomas Schulze
  • Publication number: 20190010996
    Abstract: The invention relates to an overload clutch for a drive gear mechanism for driving components of an aircraft wing, in particular for driving an outer slat flap of an aircraft wing, with at least one driving and at least one driven clutch body and with at least one torque transmission body arranged therebetween. The invention further relates to a drive gear mechanism with a corresponding overload clutch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Inventors: Habib STEGMANN, Boris Schweitzer, Anton Gaile
  • Patent number: 9890767
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wind energy system with at least one pitch adjustment system for adjusting the pitch of at least one rotor blade of the wind energy system, wherein the pitch adjustment system comprises at least one electrohydraulic drive that comprises an unregulated electromotor rotating in one direction of rotation for generating pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Liebherr-Components Biberach GmbH
    Inventors: Anton Gaile, Anton Staimer, Oliver Wennheller, Hans-Peter Lavergne
  • Patent number: 9878727
    Abstract: A rail vehicle spring system has a spring strut, arranged between a bogie and carriage body of the rail vehicle, and includes a cylinder and a piston in the cylinder. Piston spaces are defined below and above the piston head. The piston or the cylinder is connectable with the bogie, while the other component is connectable with the carriage body. A spring cushions the body relative to the bogie, and a hydraulic system is connected with at least one of the piston spaces to charge the space with hydraulic medium. The spring surrounds the cylinder and is contracted by the piston when an excess pressure exists in the lower piston space with respect to the upper piston space, and an entraining element is adjoined by the spring. Only when an excess pressure exists in the lower piston space does the piston rod exerts a force on the entraining element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Liebherr-Aerospace Lindenberg GmbH
    Inventor: Anton Gaile
  • Patent number: 9702478
    Abstract: The invention relates to a servo valve, in particular a two-stage or multistage electrohydraulic servo valve, having a first stage which works as a pilot stage, and a second stage which works as a power stage, wherein the second stage has a valve block and a control slide valve sleeve arranged therein and having a jacket surface (18), wherein the jacket surface and/or another region of the control slide valve sleeve is preferably provided with at least one flow passage for transferring control flow and/or volume flow, and wherein a control slide valve is movably arranged in the control slide valve sleeve, wherein at least one of the flow passages is formed by a groove which is arranged in the surface of the control slide valve sleeve and which does not extend sectionally or overall in the peripheral direction of the control slide valve sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Liebherr-Aerospace Lindenberg GmbH
    Inventors: Joern Frick, Anton Gaile, Franz Weixler
  • Patent number: 9656679
    Abstract: A brake unit for a vehicle has a brake cylinder, a brake piston guided axially in the brake cylinder and a device for adjusting a clearance. The device has two first stops, which strike against each other when the brake unit is opened, and two second stops, which strike against each other when the brake unit is closed. One of the first stops is formed on a blocking element functionally connected to the brake piston. One of the second stops is formed on the blocking element. A blocking member is in engagement with the blocking element under the force of a pre-stressing spring such that the blocking element is blocked by the blocking member when the first stops strike and can continue to latch in relation to the blocking member under the force of the brake piston when the second stops strike.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Markus Bildstein, Anton Gaile, Toni Schiffers
  • Patent number: 9586602
    Abstract: A brake unit for a vehicle, in particular a rail vehicle, has a brake cylinder, a brake piston and a device for adjusting a clearance. The latter has two first stops that strike against each other when the brake unit is opened. One of the first stops is formed on a blocking element that is functionally connected to the brake piston. In order to be able to open the brake unit beyond the clearance, a blocking member is in engagement with the blocking element under the force of a pre-stressing spring. The blocking element is blocked by the blocking member when the first stops strike. Actuators displace the blocking member that is in engagement with the blocking element counter to a force of the pre-stressing spring into a position detached from the blocking element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Markus Bildstein, Anton Gaile, Toni Schiffers
  • Patent number: 9574578
    Abstract: The invention relates to a flap actuator, in particular to a servo/spoiler actuator, comprising at least one electrohydraulic servo valve and at least one actuator which are hydraulically connected to one another, wherein the actuator comprises at least one actuator housing in and/or at which the at least one channel is arranged by means of which one or more components, preferably likewise arranged in and/or at the actuator housing, are hydraulically connected and wherein no valve block is arranged between the actuator and the servo valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: LIEBHERR-AEROSPACE LINDENBERG GMBH
    Inventors: Joern Frick, Anton Gaile, Franz Weixler
  • Publication number: 20150152842
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wind energy system with at least one pitch adjustment system for adjusting the pitch of at least one rotor blade of the wind energy system, wherein the pitch adjustment system comprises at least one electrohydraulic drive that comprises an unregulated electromotor rotating in one direction of rotation for generating pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Inventors: Anton Gaile, Anton Staimer, Oliver Wennheller, Hans-Peter Lavergne
  • Patent number: 8483892
    Abstract: A method for limiting the angle between the longitudinal axes of car bodies of a multi-part rail vehicle connected to each other via a joint, wherein each car body is supported on only one bogie. The angle is actively influenced by an electrically controlled activation member connected to the joint, until the angle assumes a setpoint value. The setpoint value is determined from the pivot angles (relative angles) of the bogies relative to the associated car bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Anton Gaile, Thomas Nickl, Friedrich Vemmer
  • Publication number: 20130032054
    Abstract: Disclosed is an actuator, in particular for a rail vehicle, comprising a fluidic first actuator unit and a control device having a first control unit, wherein the first actuator unit is connected to the first control unit and can be supplied with power from a fluidic power source under the control of the first control unit. Furthermore, a fluidic second actuator unit is provided, and the control device comprises a second control unit, wherein the second actuator unit is connected to the second control unit and can be supplied with power from the fluidic power source under the control of the second control unit. The invention further relates to a vehicle, in particular a rail vehicle, having an actuator according to the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2010
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicants: LIEBHERR-AEROSPACE LINDENBERG GMBH, BOMBARDIER TRANSPORTATION GMBH
    Inventors: Richard Schneider, Eduard Mesnjak, Anton Gaile, Thomas Kloos
  • Publication number: 20100270254
    Abstract: A method for limiting the angle between the longitudinal axes of car bodies of a multi-part rail vehicle connected to each other via a joint, wherein each car body is supported on only one bogie. The angle is actively influenced by an electrically controlled activation member connected to the joint, until the angle assumes a setpoint value. The setpoint value is determined from the pivot angles (relative angles) of the bogies relative to the associated car bodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2008
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Anton Gaile, Thomas Nickl, Friedrich Vemmer
  • Patent number: 7520494
    Abstract: A spring element with a hydropneumatic strut are positioned between the bogie and the body of a rail car, with the strut having a sliding piston in a cylinder, whereby the piston or the cylinder can be connected with the bogie and the other component can be connected with the body, and the piston area of the cylinder is connected with a hydraulic accumulator. A strut that is easy to service and maintain and does not accumulate any appreciable amount of dirt is created by virtue of the fact that the hydropneumatic strut has a hydraulic height regulator valve or a height sensor connected or connectable with a feedback loop, whereby the position of the piston in the cylinder can be adjusted or determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: Liebherr-Aerospace Lindenberg GmbH
    Inventor: Anton Gaile
  • Publication number: 20080276611
    Abstract: A passive hydraulic controller is disclosed, in which the volumes V1 and V2 at the two sides of the piston of two or more hydraulic cylinders in each case are connected to one another hydraulically, so that a displacement of the piston in one of the cylinders results in a displacement of the piston in at least one of the other cylinders (follow-up control). The sum of all the piston travels ?s=k1s1+k2s2+ . . . +knsn in hydraulic controllers of said type should ideally always be ?s=0=const, with the proportionality factors k1; k2 . . . kn representing the reciprocal of the piston surfaces of the cylinder, and their signs being dependent on whether the connecting lines between the hydraulic cylinders are crossed or not. Passive hydraulic controllers of the generic type are, however, not positionally stable over time (?s?O?const), in particular under the action of static basic loads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2006
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Applicant: ZUMTOBEL LIGHTING GMBH
    Inventors: Anton Gaile, Thomas Kuchler, Gerhard Schmidt