Patents by Inventor Christoph Schuele

Christoph Schuele 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: 20230193999
    Abstract: A sealing device has a sensor system for condition monitoring. The sealing device includes a sealing ring with a dynamic sealing section for dynamically sealing abutment at a sealing surface of a machine part and a pretensioning ring for pretensioning the sealing section against the sealing surface having a first section and a second section. The second section can be deflected in a spring-elastic manner in an axial or radial direction relative to the central axis of the sealing device from a first position relative to the first section. The sensor system includes at least one measuring element arranged in the intermediate space on the pretensioning ring, which responds indirectly or directly to a deflection movement of the first section of the pretensioning ring. A sealing arrangement may have such a sealing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Schuele, Martin Franz, Johan Strandberg
  • Patent number: 11255439
    Abstract: An axial shaft seal ring has a holding portion and a sealing portion, which are connected to one another via an elastically deformable sealing membrane. The sealing membrane has a plurality of spatial structure areas R in the circumferential direction of the shaft seal ring, which serve as a circumferential reserve of the sealing membrane. As a result of a centrifugal force FR accompanying a rotational movement of the shaft seal ring around the central axis thereof and acting on the sealing membrane, an expansion of the sealing membrane in a radial direction is effected at least in the spatial structure areas, in such a manner that the sealing portion is acted upon by the sealing membrane with an axially directed pull force FZ, which is directed opposite to the pressing force FA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Franz, Christoph Schuele, Christoph Wehmann
  • Publication number: 20200340589
    Abstract: An axial shaft seal ring has a holding portion and a sealing portion, which are connected to one another via an elastically deformable sealing membrane. The sealing membrane has a plurality of spatial structure areas R in the circumferential direction of the shaft seal ring, which serve as a circumferential reserve of the sealing membrane. As a result of a centrifugal force FR accompanying a rotational movement of the shaft seal ring around the central axis thereof and acting on the sealing membrane, an expansion of the sealing membrane in a radial direction is effected at least in the spatial structure areas, in such a manner that the sealing portion is acted upon by the sealing membrane with an axially directed pull force FZ, which is directed opposite to the pressing force FA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Franz, Christoph Schuele, Christoph Wehmann