Patents by Inventor BASTIAN GEBHARD

BASTIAN GEBHARD 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: 11951826
    Abstract: A two-tracked vehicle is powered by an electric machine which operates as a motor to rotate output shafts via an axle differential with each of the output shafts coupled to a vehicle wheel. One of the output shafts is subdivided into a wheel-side shaft portion and an electric-machine-side shaft portion which can be drivingly coupled to each other by a form-fit coupling to bring the electric machine into driving connection with the vehicle wheels during driving operation. The wheel-side shaft portion and electric-machine-side shaft portion can be decoupled from each other to prevent drag losses during driving operation when the electric machine is deactivated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Bastian Gebhard
  • Publication number: 20230001785
    Abstract: A two-tracked vehicle is powered by an electric machine which operates as a motor to rotate output shafts via an axle differential with each of the output shafts coupled to a vehicle wheel. One of the output shafts is subdivided into a wheel-side shaft portion and an electric-machine-side shaft portion which can be drivingly coupled to each other by a form-fit coupling to bring the electric machine into driving connection with the vehicle wheels during driving operation. The wheel-side shaft portion and electric-machine-side shaft portion can be decoupled from each other to prevent drag losses during driving operation when the electric machine is deactivated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Bastian GEBHARD
  • Publication number: 20130035187
    Abstract: In a motor vehicle, a combustion engine and electric machine are coupled with each other by a belt drive having a pulley and by a planetary gear train. The pulley is connected with a rotatable element, e.g. the sun gear of the planetary gear train. A second rotatable element, e.g. the ring gear of the planetary gear train, is connected with a brake disk. The brake disk extends radially farther outwardly than the pulley. In this way, the brake, for example two brake elements with a brake caliper support and brake shoes, can be arranged outside the pulley, resulting in small dimensions of the planetary gear train with the pulley.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicants: Miba Sinter Austria GmbH, Audi AG
    Inventors: BASTIAN GEBHARD, CHRISTIAN DUMANSKI