Patents by Inventor Bruno Muller
Bruno Muller 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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Publication number: 20230412032Abstract: An electric machine, in particular for use within the powertrain of a hybrid or fully electric motor vehicle, having a stator and a rotor, said stator and rotor being received in an engine housing The engine housing has at least one A-bearing shield and at least one B-bearing shield for supporting the rotor relative to the engine housing, wherein the A-bearing shield and/or the B-bearing shield has/have a two-part design, in each case having a respective intermediate inner shield which is arranged axially between the stator and a cover shield that can be fixed to the engine housing, and the intermediate shield receives a bearing for the rotor. The cover shield can be releasably fixed to the intermediate shield side facing away from the stator, and the cover shield has centering means for radially centering the intermediate shield.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2021Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Cedric Blaes, Bruno Muller, Thomas Niesen
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Publication number: 20220156777Abstract: The embodiments disclose a method including establishing a worldwide rewards program with a digital network for receiving credit card holder member data and providing interactive services and functions to members, contracting with companies on a participation basis for funding the credit card holder member rewards, awarding rewards purchase points to a credit card holder member for use in redeeming rewards, offering purchases of contracted companies products including vehicles using credit card holder member points for redemption purchases, and personalizing member data authorized by members using a rewards digital device application.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2022Publication date: May 19, 2022Inventor: Richard Bruno Muller
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Patent number: 10933520Abstract: A removable protection device is for a transmission seal providing tightness between a differential housing and a transmission shaft inserted therein during installation. The removable protection device includes a cylindrical, longitudinally slotted protection ring which is placed under the seal so as to protect same during the insertion of the shaft, a bearing flange for bearing on the housing, connected to the ring and having a radial opening following the slot of the ring, a removal handle attached to the bearing flange, and an abutment projecting axially towards the outside of the housing from the annular flange, so as to halt the insertion of the shaft in a reference position.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2017Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: RENAULT s.a.s.Inventor: Bruno Muller
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Publication number: 20200258107Abstract: The embodiments disclose a method including establishing a worldwide rewards program with a digital network for receiving credit card holder member data and providing interactive services and functions to members, contracting with companies on a participation basis for funding the credit card holder member rewards, awarding rewards purchase points to a credit card holder member for use in redeeming rewards, offering purchases of contracted companies products including vehicles using credit card holder member points for redemption purchases, and personalizing member data authorized by members using a rewards digital device application.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2019Publication date: August 13, 2020Inventor: Richard Bruno Muller
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Publication number: 20190366520Abstract: A removable protection device is for a transmission seal providing tightness between a differential housing and a transmission shaft inserted therein during installation. The removable protection device includes a cylindrical, longitudinally slotted protection ring which is placed under the seal so as to protect same during the insertion of the shaft, a bearing flange for bearing on the housing, connected to the ring and having a radial opening following the slot of the ring, a removal handle attached to the bearing flange, and an abutment projecting axially towards the outside of the housing from the annular flange, so as to halt the insertion of the shaft in a reference position.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2017Publication date: December 5, 2019Applicant: Renault s.a.sInventor: Bruno MULLER
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Publication number: 20180187776Abstract: A control device within an actuator includes control logic for a second actuator, the second actuator being connected with the first actuator through a communications interface. By storing the control logic in the second actuator, the construction space for this second actuator is optimized. By integrating the control logic into a control device of the first actuator, the power density of the control device is increased.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2016Publication date: July 5, 2018Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Martin ZIMMERMANN, Bruno MÜLLER, Jürgen GERHART
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Patent number: 7966817Abstract: An internal combustion engine comprises includes a turbo-compound and the known Föttinger-coupling is replaced by a torsion vibration damper. The Föttinger-coupling, which is used to transmit power, has high losses in power when it is necessary to have a differential rotational speed between the input side and the output side, that is, the appearance of a slip. The losses are not used in a torsion vibration damper which has at least the same quality as a Föttinger-coupling.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2006Date of Patent: June 28, 2011Assignee: LuK Vermoegensverwaltungsgesellschaft mbHInventors: Kai Sebastian Schenck, Wolfgang Reik, Bruno Muller
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Publication number: 20110146514Abstract: A printing mandrel (1) for receiving a substantially cylindrical hollow body comprises a coupling part (2) with which the printing mandrel is insertable in a printing machine. Attached to the coupling part (2) is a receiving part (3) comprising a substantially cylindrical surface (4), onto which receiving part the body is able to be pushed and from which receiving part the body is able to be removed. Made in the end region (5) of the mandrel (1) remote from the coupling part (2) are openings disposed in the surface (4) in a way distributed over the periphery, which openings are connected to an air supply disposed in the mandrel (1). By means of the compressed air exiting the openings (7) a body to be pushed onto the printing mandrel is expanded, which facilitates an easy pushing on; with a cutting off of the compressed air supply an optimal seating between the body and the printing mandrel (1) results, which facilitates an optimal processing of the body.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2009Publication date: June 23, 2011Applicant: POLYTYPE S.A.Inventors: Bruno Müller, Philippe Cotting, Thomas Walther
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Publication number: 20090031725Abstract: An internal combustion engine comprises a turbo-compound and the known Föttinger-coupling is replaced by a torsion vibration damper. The Föttinger-coupling, which is used to transmit power, has high losses in power when it is necessary to have a differential rotational speed between the input side and the output side, i.e., the appearance of a slip. The losses are not used in a torsion vibration damper which has at least the same quality as a Föttinger-coupling.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2006Publication date: February 5, 2009Inventors: Kai Sebastian Schenck, Wolfgang Reik, Bruno Muller
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Patent number: 7114585Abstract: A power train for a motor vehicle includes a combustion engine, a clutch or other torque-coupling device, a transmission, and an electro-mechanical energy converter that is operable at least as a motor and as a generator. The electro-mechanical energy converter is coupled to the output shaft of the combustion engine through a torque transfer device with at least two rpm ratios that automatically set themselves according to whether the vehicle is operating in a start-up mode or in a driving mode.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2004Date of Patent: October 3, 2006Assignee: LuK Lamellen und Kupplungsbau Beteiligungs KGInventors: Laszlo Man, Wolfgang Reik, Bruno Muller
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Patent number: 7000747Abstract: A hydrokinetic torque converter with a built-in bypass clutch is provided with an arrangement which regulates the cooling of the clutch at a rate dependent upon the slip between the coaxial driving and driven parts of the clutch, and hence upon the quantity of generated friction heat. The cooling unit for the driving and/or driven part of the clutch can employ, for example, one or more pumps; a supply of a substance which changes its aggregate state from liquid to gaseous or from solid to flowable in response to heating, and vice versa in response to cooling; one or more porous washers in the path for the flow of hydraulic fluid between the customary plenum chambers provided in the housing of the torque converter to move a piston of the driven part of the clutch into and from frictional engagement with the housing; and/or a system of recesses, grooves, channels and/or other passages serving to convey fluid between the chambers at a rate which is higher or highest when the clutch operates with maximum slip.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2004Date of Patent: February 21, 2006Assignee: LuK Lamellen und Kupplungsbau Beteiligungs KGInventors: Gunnar Back, Hubert Friedmann, Paul Granderath, Jean-Francois Heller, Stephan Maienschein, Marc Meisner, Bruno Müller, Wolfgang Reik
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Patent number: 6948603Abstract: A hydraulic torque converter, particularly for use in a motor vehicle between the prime mover and the transmission of the power train, employs a combination of a bypass clutch with one or more torsional vibration dampers which brings about savings in space and/or in the number of parts. In addition, the torque converter can stand long periods of use and is less prone to wear, adverse influences of abruptly developing stresses and/or other undesirable influences than conventional torque converters. Furthermore, the improved torque converter employs or can employ a bypass clutch and/or one or more torsional vibration dampers simpler and less expensive than but superior to those in conventional torque converters.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2004Date of Patent: September 27, 2005Assignee: LuK Lamellen und Kupplungsbau Beteiligungs KGInventors: Gunnar Back, Bruno Müller, Hubert Friedmann, Stephan Maienschein
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Publication number: 20050126874Abstract: A hydrokinetic torque converter with a built-in bypass clutch is provided with an arrangement which regulates the cooling of the clutch at a rate dependent upon the slip between the coaxial driving and driven parts of the clutch, and hence upon the quantity of generated friction heat. The cooling unit for the driving and/or driven part of the clutch can employ, for example, one or more pumps; a supply of a substance which changes its aggregate state from liquid to gaseous or from solid to flowable in response to heating, and vice versa in response to cooling; one or more porous washers in the path for the flow of hydraulic fluid between the customary plenum chambers provided in the housing of the torque converter to move a piston of the driven part of the clutch into and from frictional engagement with the housing; and/or a system of recesses, grooves, channels and/or other passages serving to convey fluid between the chambers at a rate which is higher or highest when the clutch operates with maximum slip.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2004Publication date: June 16, 2005Inventors: Gunnar Back, Hubert Friedmann, Paul Granderath, Jean-Francois Heller, Stephan Maienschein, Marc Meisner, Bruno Muller, Wolfgang Reik
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Publication number: 20050039999Abstract: A hydraulic torque converter, particularly for use in a motor vehicle between the prime mover and the transmission of the power train, employs a combination of a bypass clutch with one or more torsional vibration dampers which brings about savings in space and/or in the number of parts. In addition, the torque converter can stand long periods of use and is less prone to wear, adverse influences of abruptly developing stresses and/or other undesirable influences than conventional torque converters. Furthermore, the improved torque converter employs or can employ a bypass clutch and/or one or more torsional vibration dampers simpler and less expensive than but superior to those in conventional torque converters.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2004Publication date: February 24, 2005Applicant: Luk Lamellen und KupplungsbauInventors: Gunnar Back, Bruno Muller, Hubert Friedmann, Stephan Maienschein
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Patent number: 6851532Abstract: A hydrokinetic torque converter with a built-in bypass clutch is provided with an arrangement which regulates the cooling of the clutch at a rate dependent upon the slip between the coaxial driving and driven parts of the clutch, and hence upon the quantity of generated friction heat. The cooling unit for the driving and/or driven part of the clutch can employ, for example, one or more pumps; a supply of a substance which changes its aggregate state from liquid to gaseous or from solid to flowable in response to heating, and vice versa in response to cooling; one or more porous washers in the path for the flow of hydraulic fluid between the customary plenum chambers provided in the housing of the torque converter to move a piston of the driven part of the clutch into and from frictional engagement with the housing; and/or a system of recesses, grooves, channels and/or other passages serving to convey fluid between the chambers at a rate which is higher or highest when the clutch operates with maximum slip.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2001Date of Patent: February 8, 2005Assignee: LuK Lamellen und Kupplungsbau GmbHInventors: Gunnar Back, Hubert Friedmann, Paul Granderath, Jean-Francois Heller, Stephan Maienschein, Marc Meisner, Bruno Müller, Wolfgang Reik
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Patent number: 6814194Abstract: A hydraulic torque converter, particularly for use in a motor vehicle between the prime mover and the transmission of the power train, employs a combination of a bypass clutch with one or more torsional vibration dampers which brings about savings in space and/or in the number of parts. In addition, the torque converter can stand long periods of use and is less prone to wear, adverse influences of abruptly developing stresses and/or other undesirable influences than conventional torque converters. Furthermore, the improved torque converter employs or can employ a bypass clutch and/or one or more torsional vibration dampers simpler and less expensive than but superior to those in conventional torque converters.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2003Date of Patent: November 9, 2004Assignee: Luk Lamellen und Kupplungsbau Beteiligungs KGInventors: Gunnar Back, Bruno Müller, Hubert Friedmann, Stephan Maienschein
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Publication number: 20040173393Abstract: A power train for a motor vehicle includes a combustion engine, a clutch or other torque-coupling device, a transmission, and an electro-mechanical energy converter that is operable at least as a motor and as a generator. The electro-mechanical energy converter is coupled to the output shaft of the combustion engine through a torque transfer device with at least two rpm ratios that automatically set themselves according to whether the vehicle is operating in a start-up mode or in a driving mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2004Publication date: September 9, 2004Inventors: Laszlo Man, Wofgang Reik, Bruno Muller
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Patent number: 6742638Abstract: Overheating of various parts of a hydraulic torque converter between the engine and the transmission of the power train in a motor vehicle, wherein the torque converter employs a bypass clutch which generates heat when it is operated with slip, is counteracted by establishing one or more paths for the flow of hydraulic converter fluid from a first plenum chamber at one side of the axially movable piston of the bypass clutch to a second plenum chamber. A first portion of each such path is defined by at least one groove in a friction surface of at least one part of the bypass clutch, and a second portion of each such path is defined by one or more throttling orifices which offers or offer to the fluid flow a resistance several times that of the groove(s).Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2002Date of Patent: June 1, 2004Assignee: LuK Lamellen und Kupplungsbau Beteiligungs KGInventors: Stephan Maienschein, Bruno Müller, Gunnar Back
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Patent number: 6708804Abstract: A hydrodynamic torque converter has a rotary housing which carries a pump assembly and can be driven by the output element of a prime mover in the power train of a motor vehicle, a turbine which is rotatable in the housing and has a hub mounted on the input shaft of a change-speed transmission, and a lockup clutch which, when engaged, can transmit torque from the housing directly to the turbine. The axially movable piston of the clutch is rotatable with the housing; this piston defines a first chamber with the housing and a second chamber with the turbine. The first chamber can receive pressurized hydraulic fluid to cause the piston to disengage the clutch so that the turbine can be rotated by the pump assembly by way of the body of fluid in the housing between the pump assembly and the turbine. The second chamber can receive fluid along at least one first path to engage the clutch by moving the piston toward the housing, and along at least one second path when the clutch is at least partially engaged.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2002Date of Patent: March 23, 2004Assignee: Luk Lamellen und Kupplungsbau Beteiligungs KGInventors: Thorsten Krause, Bruno Müller
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Publication number: 20040050639Abstract: A hydrokinetic torque converter with a built-in bypass clutch is provided with an arrangement which regulates the cooling of the clutch at a rate dependent upon the slip between the coaxial driving and driven parts of the clutch, and hence upon the quantity of generated friction heat. The cooling unit for the driving and/or driven part of the clutch can employ, for example, one or more pumps; a supply of a substance which changes its aggregate state from liquid to gaseous or from solid to flowable in response to heating, and vice versa in response to cooling; one or more porous washers in the path for the flow of hydraulic fluid between the customary plenum chambers provided in the housing of the torque converter to move a piston of the driven part of the clutch into and from frictional engagement with the housing; and/or a system of recesses, grooves, channels and/or other passages serving to convey fluid between the chambers at a rate which is higher or highest when the clutch operates with maximum slip.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2003Publication date: March 18, 2004Inventors: Gunnar Back, Hubert Friedmann, Paul Granderath, Jean-Francois Heller, Stephan Maienschein, Marc Meisner, Bruno Muller, Wolfgang Reik