Patents by Inventor Carsten Merklein

Carsten Merklein 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: 20240369100
    Abstract: A method for producing a sound-absorbing enclosure for a sound emission source which emits sound having an energy spectrum includes constructing an irregular structure from substructures is printed from a printing material by means of 3D printing. The structure has material regions which are formed by the printing material and which at least partly enclose hollow regions, and, by virtue of the hollow regions, the substructures each have a characteristic length lying within a characteristic interval and a characteristic density. The hollow regions are specifically formed by appropriate guidance of the 3D printing process and thereby the substructures with these features are adapted to the energy spectrum in such a way that they dissipate sound in a desired suppression range of the energy spectrum. A printed, sound-absorbing enclosure for a sound emission source is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Alfred Pecher, Thomas Fiebig, Carsten Merklein
  • Patent number: 8292513
    Abstract: Disclosed is a rolling bearing component comprising a metallic support with a spray-compacted metal layer which is applied to the metallic support in a spraying process and is provided with the running surface of the rolling bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Doris Guenther, Carsten Merklein, Peter Schuster
  • Patent number: 8210754
    Abstract: A radial roller bearing shafts in wind turbine transmissions, which includes an external bearing ring with an inner runway, an internal bearing ring arranged coaxial thereto which has an outer raceway and roller bodies on runways between bearing rings spaced circumferentially by a bearing cage and distributed uniformly on a circumference replaced by hollow rollers. To prevent slip, the hollow rollers have a greater diameter and lower modulus of elasticity ensuring, in a load-free state, continuous contact by the radial roller bearing with the bearing rings and continuous drive for the bearing cage and roller bodies at kinematic rotation speed. The hollow rollers have increased bending fatigue strength, and their inner envelope surfaces are formed by mechanical processing for further inherent compression stresses of at least ?200 MPa, superimposed on the hollow rollers maximum load stress along with the inherent compression stresses resulting from their heat treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Bernd Endres, Christian Hoffinger, Carsten Merklein
  • Publication number: 20100021101
    Abstract: A radial roller bearing for shafts in wind turbine transmissions, which includes an external bearing ring with an inner runway, an internal bearing ring arranged coaxial thereto which has an outer raceway and roller bodies on runways between bearing rings spaced circumferentially by a bearing cage and distributed uniformly on a circumference replaced by hollow rollers. To prevent slip, the hollow rollers have a greater diameter and lower modulus of elasticity ensuring, in a load-free state, continuous contact by the radial roller bearing with the bearing rings and continuous drive for the bearing cage and roller bodies at kinematic rotation speed. The hollow rollers have increased bending fatigue strength, and their inner envelope surfaces are formed by mechanical processing for further inherent compression stresses of at least ?200 MPa, superimposed on the hollow rollers maximum load stress along with the inherent compression stresses resulting from their heat treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2007
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER KG
    Inventors: Bernd Endres, Christian Hoffinger, Carsten Merklein
  • Publication number: 20090196542
    Abstract: Disclosed is a rolling bearing component comprising a metallic support with a spray-compacted metal layer which is applied to the metallic support in a spraying process and is provided with the running surface of the rolling bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2007
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER KG
    Inventors: Doris Guenther, Carsten Merklein, Peter Schuster
  • Publication number: 20060070685
    Abstract: A thin-walled stainless bearing component, in particular a rolling bearing component, such as bearing ring, sleeve or bush, produced without material-removing machining by being deep-drawn from a cold-rolled strip with a carbon content of 0.15-0.25% and a chromium alloying content of at least 12%, and having a martensitic microstructure which is enriched with dissolved nitrogen at least at a side edge zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2005
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Inventors: Karl-Ludwig Grell, Martin Kruppa, Thomas Muller, Wolfgang Haring, Carsten Merklein