Patents by Inventor Barbara Ester
Barbara Ester 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: 12768421Abstract: Motor vehicle vibration damper with at least one damper cylinder at least partially filled with a liquid damping medium; a piston rod axially movable to the longitudinal extension axis (L) of the damper and sections of which project into the damper cylinder; a piston rod guide surrounding the piston rod in the peripheral direction and seals off the damper cylinder; a gas-impermeable, shape-changing gas pressure container located in a compensation chamber inside the damper cylinder; a filling channel connecting the interior of the gas pressure container to the external environment; and a non-return valve at least indirectly connected to the gas pressure container and closes or opens the filling channel depending on gas pressure difference. The non-return valve is inside a gas-impermeable non-return valve housing connected to the piston rod guide.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2022Date of Patent: October 20, 2026Assignee: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AGInventors: Harun Tucovic, Eberhard Simon, Barbara Ester, Artur Schell, Frank Gundermann
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Publication number: 20250290553Abstract: An adjustable damping valve device for a vibration damper comprises a damping valve housing in which a pilot stage valve for hydraulic control of a main stage valve is arranged. The damping valve housing is hydraulically connected to a working chamber on the piston rod side and a working chamber remote of the piston rod of a working cylinder of the vibration damper. The damping valve device has a check valve arrangement for the rectification of a control volume flow proceeding from the working chambers of the working cylinder to the pilot stage valve. A pilot stage valve body of the pilot stage valve has a first pressurized surface for an incident flow from the working chamber on the piston rod side and a second pressurized surface for an incident flow from the working chamber remote of the piston rod.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2025Publication date: September 18, 2025Inventors: Barbara ESTER, Achim SAUERBREY
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Publication number: 20240384774Abstract: Motor vehicle vibration damper with at least one damper cylinder at least partially filled with a liquid damping medium; a piston rod axially movable to the longitudinal extension axis (L) of the damper and sections of which project into the damper cylinder; a piston rod guide surrounding the piston rod in the peripheral direction and seals off the damper cylinder; a gas-impermeable, shape-changing gas pressure container located in a compensation chamber inside the damper cylinder; a filling channel connecting the interior of the gas pressure container to the external environment; and a non-return valve at least indirectly connected to the gas pressure container and closes or opens the filling channel depending on gas pressure difference. The non-return valve is inside a gas-impermeable non-return valve housing connected to the piston rod guide.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2022Publication date: November 21, 2024Applicant: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AGInventors: Harun TUCOVIC, Eberhard SIMON, Barbara ESTER, Artur SCHELL, Frank GUNDERMANN
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Patent number: 6986289Abstract: Apparatus for detecting a parameter associated with the torque transmitted by a friction clutch, where the friction clutch has a clutch disk which is or can be connected for rotation in common to a power takeoff shaft. The apparatus includes a receiver area, which does not rotate with the clutch disk in the torque-transmitting state, and a code provided on the clutch disk. The code can be scanned by the receiver area and thus generates a sensor signal associated with transmitted torque.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2003Date of Patent: January 17, 2006Assignee: ZF Sachs AGInventors: Thomas Otto, Barbara Ester
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Publication number: 20040163922Abstract: An actuating device, in particular for a vehicle clutch, comprising a cylinder, in which a piston executes, as a function of a supply of pressure medium, a working movement having a maximum working travel which is defined by a stop fixed in relation to the cylinder, a damping device being arranged between the stop and a working-travel limiting surface of the piston.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2004Publication date: August 26, 2004Applicant: ZF Sachs AGInventor: Barbara Ester
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Publication number: 20040000199Abstract: Apparatus for detecting a parameter associated with the torque transmitted by a friction clutch, where the friction clutch has a clutch disk which is or can be connected for rotation in common to a power takeoff shaft. The apparatus includes a receiver area (58), which does not rotate with the clutch disk in the torque-transmitting state, and a code provided on the clutch disk. The which code can be scanned by the receiver area and thus generates a sensor signal associated with transmitted torque.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2003Publication date: January 1, 2004Applicant: ZF Sachs AGInventors: Thomas Otto, Barbara Ester
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Patent number: 6540057Abstract: The actuation device includes a pressure medium force cylinder arrangement by means of which the friction clutch can be actuated via a release member. A measuring member of a measuring arrangement detecting an actual release is in tractive force driving engagement with an associated mating member whose position represents the actual release along a measurement path, which engagement is essentially free from play.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2001Date of Patent: April 1, 2003Assignee: Mannesmann Sachs AGInventors: Andreas Konrad, Thomas Otto, Herbert Voit, Barbara Ester, Manfred Wehner
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Publication number: 20010030097Abstract: The actuation device includes a pressure medium force cylinder arrangement by means of which the friction clutch can be actuated via a release member. A measuring member of a measuring arrangement detecting an actual release is in tractive force driving engagement with an associated mating member whose position represents the actual release along a measurement path, which engagement is essentially free from play.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2001Publication date: October 18, 2001Applicant: Mannesmann Sachs AGInventors: Andreas Konrad, Thomas Otto, Herbert Voit, Barbara Ester, Manfred Wehner
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Patent number: 6234290Abstract: An actuating installation for a friction clutch arranged in the drive line between a drive unit and a transmission. The installation having an actuating arrangement for the actuation of the friction clutch and a clutch-pedal arrangement, which is connected to the actuating arrangement and has a clutch pedal, which, in a first operating state, is actuable according to a force-travel characteristic of a first type. The actuating installation has a signaling and/or protection device, which is in operative connection with or is operatively integrated in the clutch-pedal arrangement, so that, after the response of the signaling and/or protection device to a second operating state, the clutch pedal can be actuated only according to a force/travel characteristic of a second type, which differs significantly from the force/travel characteristic of the first type in order thus to indicate the second operating state.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 1999Date of Patent: May 22, 2001Assignee: Mannesmann Sachs AGInventors: Hans-Jürgen Drexl, Barbara Ester, Frank Hirschmann, Jürgen Liebler, Joachim Lindner, Thomas Otto, Jörg Pankoke, Winfried Stürmer
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Patent number: 6050382Abstract: A clutch disk having a load torsion oscillation damper and an idling torsion oscillation damper with friction device. At least a part of the idling friction device has an inner toothing for rotationally fixed and play-free engagement with an outer toothing of an inner hub which is designed to be extended in the axial direction with a reduced diameter.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 1998Date of Patent: April 18, 2000Assignee: Mannesmann Sachs AGInventors: Barbara Ester, Helmuth Weissenberger, Achim Link