Patents by Inventor Derk Langenkaemper

Derk Langenkaemper 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: 11746851
    Abstract: A damper arrangement for a motor vehicle drive train includes a damper (120) for damping torsional vibrations and a rotationally fixed fluid guide element (110). The fluid guide element (110) is axially adjacent to the damper (120). The damper (120) has at least one duct (112-1, 112-2, 112-3). A fluid (140) that at least partially surrounds the damper (120) is conveyed through the at least one duct (112-1, 112-2, 112-3) when the damper (120) rotates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG
    Inventors: Thomas Riedisser, Tamas Gyarmati, Derk Langenkaemper
  • Publication number: 20210341034
    Abstract: A damper arrangement for a motor vehicle drive train includes a damper (120) for damping torsional vibrations and a rotationally fixed fluid guide element (110). The fluid guide element (110) is axially adjacent to the damper (120). The damper (120) has at least one duct (112-1, 112-2, 112-3). A fluid (140) that at least partially surrounds the damper (120) is conveyed through the at least one duct (112-1, 112-2, 112-3) when the damper (120) rotates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Thomas Riedisser, Tamas Gyarmati, Derk Langenkaemper
  • Patent number: 10883549
    Abstract: A plurality of annular clutch disks (12) is manufactured by blanking or die-cutting a flat sheet metal strip (2) during which the flat sheet metal strip (2) is advanced relative to a blanking or cutting tool along a feed direction between individual blanking or cutting processes with the blanking or cutting tool in order to form the annular clutch disks (12) from the flat sheet metal strip (2). Each of the annular clutch disks (12) is asymmetric with respect to a center point of a respective ring and includes an axis of symmetry (18) which is not orthogonal to the feed direction of the flat sheet metal strip. Each of the annular clutch disks (12) is axially symmetric at least to such an extent that each of the annular clutch disks (12) is installable in a multi-disk clutch (26) in precisely one first installation position (A) and in one second installation position (B). The second installation position results from the first installation position via turning over about the axis of symmetry (18).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG
    Inventors: Stefan Schmidt, Derk Langenkaemper
  • Publication number: 20190186552
    Abstract: A plurality of annular clutch disks (12) is manufactured by blanking or die-cutting a flat sheet metal strip (2) during which the flat sheet metal strip (2) is advanced relative to a blanking or cutting tool along a feed direction between individual blanking or cutting processes with the blanking or cutting tool in order to form the annular clutch disks (12) from the flat sheet metal strip (2). Each of the annular clutch disks (12) is asymmetric with respect to a center point of a respective ring and includes an axis of symmetry (18) which is not orthogonal to the feed direction of the flat sheet metal strip. Each of the annular clutch disks (12) is axially symmetric at least to such an extent that each of the annular clutch disks (12) is installable in a multi-disk clutch (26) in precisely one first installation position (A) and in one second installation position (B). The second installation position results from the first installation position via turning over about the axis of symmetry (18).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Stefan Schmidt, Derk Langenkaemper
  • Publication number: 20180328415
    Abstract: A disk (1) for a friction-locking shift element includes an annular frictional surface with a circumferential first groove (31), a plurality of second grooves (32), and a plurality of third grooves (33). At least a section of each of the second grooves (32) at a respective radially internal deflection point (41) is oriented to form an angle (46a) with a line (45) between a center of rotation (44) of the disk (1) and the respective radially internal deflection point (41). The angle (46a) is no less than thirty-five degrees and no greater than seventy-five degrees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: Derk Langenkaemper, Steffen Gerteiser, Stefan Schmidt
  • Patent number: 8960399
    Abstract: A multi-disk shifting element of a motor vehicle transmission, which includes a plurality of outer disks (2) and a plurality of lining disks (1) which, when viewed axially, are arranged in alternation one after another. The outer disks include a number of flat outer disks (AL1) and a number of corrugated outer disks (AL2, AL3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Derk Langenkaemper, Harald Mueller, Anton Fritzer