Patents by Inventor Christoph OMMER

Christoph OMMER 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: 9670973
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a procedure for controlling torque transmission rate of a clutch. The clutch is in connection with a transmission and an electric machine, configured to receive torque from the electric machine by a couple half of the clutch, and configured to produce a torque guiding connection between a combustion engine and the transmission. According to the procedure, when the clutch is in a slipping condition, a shifting demand to the transmission to shift from a neutral position to a gear is detected. After detecting such a shifting demand, either a counter is started so that when the counter reaches a first count, the torque transmission rate of the clutch is being increased, or an event detection is actuated to detect an event that directly precedes the shifting process, so that when this event is detected, the torque transmission rate of the clutch is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Christoph Ommer, Christian Soeldner, Ricardo Gonzalez-Ramos
  • Patent number: 9556864
    Abstract: A method of controlling an auxiliary pump for supplying the hydraulic fluid of a hybrid transmission of a vehicle. The auxiliary pump, after the expiration of a predetermined time interval of deactivation, is activated to prevent accumulation of air in the intake area of the auxiliary pump. In addition, a device for the execution of the method, in which a control device is provided which has its signals connected with the electric auxiliary pump for the purpose of controlling the auxiliary pump in order to prevent accumulation of air in the intake area of the auxiliary pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Tobias Zollner, Christoph Ommer, Stefan-Ulrich Prange
  • Publication number: 20150094923
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a procedure for controlling torque transmission rate of a clutch. The clutch is in connection with a transmission and an electric machine, configured to receive torque from the electric machine by a couple half of the clutch, and configured to produce a torque guiding connection between a combustion engine and the transmission. According to the procedure, when the clutch is in a slipping condition, a shifting demand to the transmission to shift from a neutral position to a gear is detected. After detecting such a shifting demand, either a counter is started so that when the counter reaches a first count, the torque transmission rate of the clutch is being increased, or an event detection is actuated to detect an event that directly precedes the shifting process, so that when this event is detected, the torque transmission rate of the clutch is increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Christoph Ommer, Christian Soeldner, Ricardo Gonzalez-Ramos
  • Publication number: 20140012473
    Abstract: A clutch arrangement for a transmission which comprises a wet separating clutch having a clutch housing, in which a clutch piston separates an interior space from a pressure chamber. The separating clutch is engaged by pressurizing the pressure chamber with an actuating pressure so that the clutch piston moves into an actuation position and, as a result, two clutch halves, located in the interior space and surrounded by fluid, frictionally engage one another. So as to reliably engage the separating clutch without impairing the surrounding components with the fluid, the actuating pressure includes at least one compensation pressure portion that corresponds to the counter pressure depending on the fluid located in the interior space opposing the clutch piston during transfer into the actuation position. A method of controlling a separating clutch, and a computer program product and a data medium incorporating the computer program product are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Inventors: Christoph OMMER, Alexander JUNGABERLE
  • Publication number: 20130272900
    Abstract: A method of controlling an auxiliary pump for supplying the hydraulic fluid of a hybrid transmission of a vehicle. The auxiliary pump, after the expiration of a predetermined time interval of deactivation, is activated to prevent accumulation of air in the intake area of the auxiliary pump. In addition, a device for the execution of the method, in which a control device is provided which has its signals connected with the electric auxiliary pump for the purpose of controlling the auxiliary pump in order to prevent accumulation of air in the intake area of the auxiliary pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Tobias ZOLLNER, Christoph OMMER, Stefan-Ulrich PRANGE