Patents by Inventor Benjamin Severin

Benjamin Severin 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).

  • Publication number: 20260192848
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a longitudinally adjustable operating unit for influencing, by a user, a direction of travel of a motor vehicle. The operating unit includes a telescopic pull-out device having a guide tube, in or on which at least one first pull-out tube is guided relative to the guide tube and is translationally movable via a rotatable spindle, which extends coaxially and axially, at least in portions, in the first pull-out tube. The telescopic pull-out device is coupled to a steering means, and a plurality of electrically insulated conductors extend axially through the telescopic pull-out device to electrically connect a first axially stationary electrical connection to a second electrical connection which can be axially moved by the pull-out device. The electrical conductors are combined to form a cable assembly which extends in an axial direction through the pull-out device and has a longitudinally elastic shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Publication date: July 9, 2026
    Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Benjamin Severin, Jannick Altherr, Martin Vornehm
  • Publication number: 20260175901
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an adjusting unit for a steering system of a vehicle having an adjusting motor, a spindle, and a spindle nut. Rotation of the spindle via the adjusting motor produces an axial movement of the spindle nut along the spindle. A pull-out device with a pull-out support is arranged on the body of the vehicle. At least one inner pull-out element of the pull-out support is coupled to a steering shaft. A crash element is configured as a sleeve that extends between the spindle nut and the inner pull-out element. The sleeve is coupled to the spindle nut via at least one securing element that is released in the event of a specified impact force (F), and the sleeve moves axially relative to the spindle nut, resulting in plasticizing of an outer contour of the spindle nut and an inner contour of the sleeve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: June 25, 2026
    Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jannick Altherr, Benjamin Severin, Martin Vornehm, Balamurugan Manoharan
  • Publication number: 20220196079
    Abstract: A belt pulley decoupler for a motor vehicle drive train, having a hub, a traction pulley having a traction-means receiving contour and being accommodated to rotate about an axis of rotation relative to the hub. The decoupler may include a plurality of bow springs supporting the traction pulley relative to the hub in a direction of rotation, at least one first bow spring being arranged offset in an axial direction and/or a radial direction of the axis of rotation to a second bow spring acting parallel to the first bow spring, and a vibration damping device conjointly connected by means of a carrier to the hub and accommodated on a sleeve-like receiving region of the carrier. The receiving region of the carrier projecting in the axial direction, at least partially, beyond the torque transfer region of the traction pulley.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Melanie Sillmann, Benjamin Severin, Daniel Hirsch, Andreas Stuffer