Patents by Inventor Ernst Geiger

Ernst Geiger 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: 11460075
    Abstract: A method and device for fitting an angular contact roller bearing, including an inner bearing ring having an inner race arranged on the outer peripheral surface of the inner bearing ring and inclined with respect to the axis of rotation of the bearing, and a rim delimiting said race at the smallest diameter thereof, an outer bearing ring having an outer race arranged on the inner peripheral surface of the outer bearing ring and inclined with respect to the axis of rotation of the bearing, and a rim delimiting said race at the greatest diameter thereof, and also including a plurality of roller bearing elements arranged between the bearing rings and roll on the races and are held at uniform distances from one another in the circumferential direction by a bearing cage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Rainer Eidloth, Reinhard Rumpel, Ernst Geiger, Heinrich Hofmann
  • Publication number: 20210372481
    Abstract: A method and device for fitting an angular contact roller bearing, including an inner bearing ring having an inner race arranged on the outer peripheral surface of the inner bearing ring and inclined with respect to the axis of rotation of the bearing, and a rim delimiting said race at the smallest diameter thereof, an outer bearing ring having an outer race arranged on the inner peripheral surface of the outer bearing ring and inclined with respect to the axis of rotation of the bearing, and a rim delimiting said race at the greatest diameter thereof, and also including a plurality of roller bearing elements arranged between the bearing rings and roll on the races and are held at uniform distances from one another in the circumferential direction by a bearing cage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rainer Eidloth, Reinhard Rumpel, Ernst Geiger, Heinrich Hofmann
  • Patent number: 11053982
    Abstract: A method and device for assembly of an angular contact roller bearing, including an inner bearing ring having an inner raceway arranged on the outer peripheral surface of the inner bearing ring, at an angle to the bearing rotation axis, and a rim delimiting said raceway at the smallest diameter thereof, an outer bearing ring having an outer raceway arranged on the inner peripheral surface of the outer bearing ring, also at an angle to the bearing rotation axis, and a rim delimiting the raceway at the largest diameter thereof, and a plurality of rolling element bodies, arranged between the bearing rings and rolling on the raceways thereof held at regular distances in the circumferential direction by a bearing cage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Reinhard Rumpel, Heinrich Hofmann, Ernst Geiger, Rainer Eidloth
  • Patent number: 10865829
    Abstract: Methods for producing an angular contact roller bearing with unilaterally delimiting rims are disclosed, as well as devices for assembling the angular contact roller bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Heinrich Hofmann, Ernst Geiger, Rainer Eidloth, Reinhard Rumpel
  • Patent number: 10655672
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for producing an angular contact roller bearing with unilaterally delimiting rims. The disclosure also relates to multiple variants of a device for assembling the angular contact roller bearing. The method may include conically forming an inner raceway into a cylindrical section of an outer shell surface of an inner bearing ring such that the inner raceway is inclined relative to the bearing axis of rotation (AL) and is delimited at one end by a rim, conically forming an outer raceway into a cylindrical section of an inner shell surface of an outer bearing ring such that the outer raceway is inclined relative to the bearing axis of rotation (AL) and is delimited at one end by a rim, and assembling the inner and outer bearing rings and a multiplicity of roller-type rolling bodies, which roll on the raceways of said bearing rings, in accordance with an eccentric assembly method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Heinrich Hofmann, Reinhard Rumpel, Ernst Geiger, Rainer Eidloth
  • Publication number: 20190162238
    Abstract: A method and device for assembly of an angular contact roller bearing, including an inner bearing ring having an inner raceway arranged on the outer peripheral surface of the inner bearing ring, at an angle to the bearing rotation axis, and a rim delimiting said raceway at the smallest diameter thereof, an outer bearing ring having an outer raceway arranged on the inner peripheral surface of the outer bearing ring, also at an angle to the bearing rotation axis, and a rim delimiting the raceway at the largest diameter thereof, and a plurality of rolling element bodies, arranged between the bearing rings and rolling on the raceways thereof held at regular distances in the circumferential direction by a bearing cage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Reinhard Rumpel, Heinrich Hofmann, Ernst Geiger, Rainer Eidloth
  • Publication number: 20180306237
    Abstract: Methods for producing an angular contact roller bearing with unilaterally delimiting rims are disclosed, as well as devices for assembling the angular contact roller bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Heinrich HOFMANN, Ernst GEIGER, Rainer EIDLOTH, Reinhard RUMPEL
  • Publication number: 20180216662
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for producing an angular contact roller bearing with unilaterally delimiting rims. The disclosure also relates to multiple variants of a device for assembling the angular contact roller bearing. The method may include conically forming an inner raceway into a cylindrical section of an outer shell surface of an inner bearing ring such that the inner raceway is inclined relative to the bearing axis of rotation (AL) and is delimited at one end by a rim, conically forming an outer raceway into a cylindrical section of an inner shell surface of an outer bearing ring such that the outer raceway is inclined relative to the bearing axis of rotation (AL) and is delimited at one end by a rim, and assembling the inner and outer bearing rings and a multiplicity of roller-type rolling bodies, which roll on the raceways of said bearing rings, in accordance with an eccentric assembly method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Heinrich Hofmann, Reinhard Rumpel, Ernst Geiger, Rainer Eidloth
  • Publication number: 20150285304
    Abstract: A ball roller bearing (1) formed from a plurality of ball rollers (4) arranged between an outer bearing ring (2) and an inner bearing ring (3) and each of which comprises two parallel lateral surfaces (5, 6) and rolls, with their running surfaces (7) extending between said lateral surfaces (5, 6), in two groove-shaped raceways (10, 11) in an inner side (8) of the outer bearing ring (2) and the outer side (9) of the inner bearing ring (3), and which are held within individual cage pockets (12) of a bearing cage (13). The bearing cage (13) includes two interconnected lateral rings (15, 16) and two cage ribs which are connected thereto and in guiding contact with these lateral surfaces (5, 6) for axially guiding the ball rollers (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Ernst Geiger, Werner Wirth, Otmar Weber, Robert Fackelmann
  • Patent number: 8690447
    Abstract: A ball roller bearing, which has an outer and inner bearing ring with a groove-shaped raceways and ball rollers, which roll between the bearing rings in the raceways. The rollers are held at distances from each other in the circumferential direction by a bearing cage and which have a width that is dimensioned larger than the radial distance between the inside and the outside of the bearing rings. The raceways are divided into two segments by an axially centered annular groove such that a first ball roller rolls on two first diagonally opposed track segments and a second ball roller rolls on two second diagonally opposed track segments of the bearing rings. Both bearing rings are single-piece components, and the bearing cage is formed by two identical double prong-type cages acting independently of each other. The bearing is filled with the ball rollers by an axial tilt cam assembly method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Horst Doeppling, Heinrich Hofmann, Ernst Geiger, Ernst Masur
  • Publication number: 20130343684
    Abstract: A method for filling a ball roller bearing with roll bodies, and a ball roller bearing, which is filled according to the method and has an outer and an inner bearing ring and a plurality of ball rollers, which are arranged between these bearing rings and have two side surfaces, which are flattened symmetrically from a basic spherical shape, parallel to one another and held at uniform distances from one another by a bearing cage. The ball rollers roll in groove-shaped raceways, recessed in the inner face of the outer bearing ring and the outer face of the inner bearing ring. The ball roller bearing is filled by an eccentric axial, tilting fitting of the ball rollers through the interval between the bearing rings in the form, that the filled ball roller bearing is filled to the extent of about 94% and has a service life of up to 253%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Horst DOEPPLING, Ernst GEIGER, Heinrich HOFMANN, Joachim MUSER
  • Patent number: 8596873
    Abstract: A roller bearing which has an outer and inner ring and ball rollers arranged between the rings, which roll in two groove-shaped tracks in the outer and inner rings and are held at a uniform distance to one another by a window cage that has two lateral ribs bent around two circumferential flanged edges to the inner ring and interconnected by pocket bridges. The cage pockets of the cage ribs have a hole formed from a cross-sectional contour of a ball roller arranged longitudinally to the circumferential direction and from a free contour incorporated therein and arranged perpendicular to the circumferential direction. The free contour in each cage pocket is expanded to a rectangle and the flange edges of the ribs each have reduced material thickness compared to the other material thickness of the cage by a circumferential, line-shaped burnishing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Heinrich Hofmann, Andreas-Johann Bohr, Ernst Geiger, Otmar Weber
  • Patent number: 8480307
    Abstract: A ball roller bearing which has an outer and inner bearing ring and ball rollers arranged between the rings, which roll in groove-shaped tracks in the rings and are held at a uniform distance to one another by a window cage. The cage has two lateral angle ribs, pocket bridges, which connect the ribs and cage pockets separated by the pocket bridges. The pockets have a cross-shaped hole formed from a contour perpendicular to the circumferential direction and a cross-sectional contour of a ball roller arranged longitudinally to the circumferential direction. The side edges are formed from the pocket bridges, which have radii of arch-shaped guide surfaces corresponding to the running surfaces of two ball rollers. The pocket bridges have additional material profiling between the side edges and on the guide surfaces for axial stiffening of the cage and damping bearing noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Heinrich Hofmann, Andreas-Johann Bohr, Ernst Geiger, Otmar Weber
  • Patent number: 8393081
    Abstract: A method for filling a ball roller bearing with roll bodies, and a ball roller bearing, which is filled according to the method and has an outer and an inner bearing ring and a plurality of ball rollers, which are arranged between these bearing rings and have two side surfaces, which are flattened symmetrically from a basic spherical shape, parallel to one another and held at uniform distances from one another by a bearing cage. The ball rollers roll in groove-shaped raceways recessed in the inner face of the outer bearing ring and the outer face of the inner bearing ring. The ball roller bearing is filled by an eccentric axial, tilting fitting of the ball rollers through the interval between the bearing rings in the form, that the filled ball roller bearing is filled to the extent of about 94% and has a service life of up to 253%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Horst Doeppling, Ernst Geiger, Heinrich Hofmann, Joachim Muser
  • Patent number: 8382379
    Abstract: A ball roller bearing and to a method for the installation thereof. The ball roller bearing has an outer bearing race, and an inner bearing race, and a plurality of ball rollers, which are disposed between the bearing races and are held at equal distances to each other by a bearing cage. For this purpose, the ball rollers have a width of approximately 70% of the diameter of a spherical shape thereof, and roll with bearing surfaces thereof in two groove-shaped raceways, the depth of which is smaller than the distance between the outer and inner bearing race. The cage pockets of the bearing cage have a cross-sectional contour of a ball roller disposed in the longitudinal and transverse directions to the circumferential direction. The method for installation of the ball roller bearing is a cross/oblique pivot mount between the inner and outer bearing races and the ball rollers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Horst Doeppling, Ernst Geiger, Heinrich Hofmann, Werner Wirth
  • Publication number: 20120177317
    Abstract: A ball roller bearing which has an outer and inner bearing ring and ball rollers arranged between the rings, which roll in two groove-shaped tracks in the rings and are held at a uniform distance to one another by a window cage. The cage has two lateral angle ribs, pocket bridges, which connect the ribs and cage pockets separated by the pocket bridges. The pockets have a cross-shaped hole formed from a contour perpendicular to the circumferential direction and a cross-sectional contour of a ball roller arranged longitudinally to the circumferential direction. The side edges are formed from the pocket bridges, which have radii of arch-shaped guide surfaces corresponding to the running surfaces of two ball rollers. The pocket bridges have additional material profiling between the side edges and on the guide surfaces for axial stiffening of the cage and damping bearing noise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2010
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Heinrich Hofmann, Andreas-Johann Bohr, Ernst Geiger, Otmar Weber
  • Publication number: 20120170885
    Abstract: A roller bearing which has an outer and inner ring and ball rollers arranged between the rings, which roll in two groove-shaped tracks in the outer and inner rings and are held at a uniform distance to one another by a window cage that has two lateral ribs bent around two circumferential flanged edges to the inner ring and interconnected by pocket bridges. The cage pockets of the cage ribs have a hole formed from a cross-sectional contour of a ball roller arranged longitudinally to the circumferential direction and from a free contour incorporated therein and arranged perpendicular to the circumferential direction. The free contour in each cage pocket is expanded to a rectangle and the flange edges of the ribs each have reduced material thickness compared to the other material thickness of the cage by a circumferential, line-shaped burnishing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2010
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Heinrich Hofmann, Andreas-Johann Bohr, Ernst Geiger, Otmar Weber
  • Publication number: 20110311174
    Abstract: A ball roller bearing, which has an outer and inner bearing ring with a groove-shaped raceways and ball rollers, which roll between the hearing rings in the raceways. The rollers are held at distances from each other in the circumferential direction by a hearing cage and which have a width that is dimensioned larger than the radial distance between the inside and the outside of the bearing rings. The raceways are divided into two segments by an axially centered annular groove such that a first ball roller rolls on two first diagonally opposed track segments and a second ball roller rolls on two second diagonally opposed track segments of the bearing rings. Both bearing rings are single-piece components, and the bearing cage is formed by two identical double prong-type cages acting independently of each other. The bearing is filled with the ball rollers by an axial tilt cam assembly method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Horst Doeppling, Heinrich Hofmann, Ernst Geiger, Ernst Masur
  • Publication number: 20110026866
    Abstract: A ball roller bearing and to a method for the installation thereof. The ball roller bearing has an outer bearing race, and an inner bearing race, and a plurality of ball rollers, which are disposed between the bearing races and are held at equal distances to each other by a bearing cage. For this purpose, the ball rollers have a width of approximately 70% of the diameter of a spherical shape thereof, and roll with bearing surfaces thereof in two groove-shaped raceways, the depth of which is smaller than the distance between the outer and inner bearing race. The cage pockets of the bearing cage have a cross-sectional contour of a ball roller disposed in the longitudinal and transverse directions to the circumferential direction. The method for installation of the ball roller bearing is a cross/oblique pivot mount between the inner and outer bearing races and the ball rollers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2009
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Horst Doeppling, Ernst Geiger, Heinrich Hofmann, Werner Wirth
  • Publication number: 20110007993
    Abstract: A method for filling a ball roller bearing with roll bodies, and a ball roller bearing, which is filled according to the method and has an outer and an inner bearing ring and a plurality of ball rollers, which are arranged between these bearing rings and have two side surfaces, which are flattened symmetrically from a basic spherical shape, parallel to one another and held at uniform distances from one another by a bearing cage. The ball rollers roll in groove-shaped raceways recessed in the inner face of the outer bearing ring and the outer face of the inner bearing ring. The ball roller bearing is filled by an eccentric axial, tilting fitting of the ball rollers through the interval between the bearing rings in the form, that the filled ball roller bearing is filled to the extent of about 94% and has a service life of up to 253%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2008
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Horst Doeppling, Ernst Geiger, Heinrich Hofmann, Joachim Muser