Patents by Inventor Ernst Masur

Ernst Masur 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: 20090202186
    Abstract: The bearing arrangement, in order to enable an improved connection of the wheel hub to the rotating joint and better adjust a prestress of the roller bearing, has a face of the axle stub of the wheel hub with a spur gearing element which is non-rotatably connected to a corresponding spur gearing element of the joint body of the rotating joint. The spur gearing elements are disposed at least partially radially and axially beneath the roller bearing, and that the inner bearing ring is connected to a means for the axial tolerance compensation between the inner bearing ring and the counter-surface of the joint body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2007
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER KG
    Inventors: Roland Langer, Peter Niebling, Ernst Masur
  • Publication number: 20080310785
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wheel bearing unit having at least one outer part, having at least one inner part and having at least two rows of rolling bodies between the outer part and the inner part, wherein in each case at least one inner raceway is formed on the outer part and in each case at least one outer raceway is formed on the inner part for the rolling bodies of one row, and wherein the wheel hub has an internal toothing, which projects radially inwards in the direction of the rotational axis, for engaging into an external toothing on a drive pin, and is rotationally fixedly at least coupled to the outer raceway. The ratio of the diameter dz of a tip circle of the internal toothing to the bearing width bL of the outer part is greater than 0.9.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2006
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER KG
    Inventors: Peter Niebling, Ernst Masur, Gottfried Ruoff
  • Publication number: 20080240635
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wheel bearing arrangement having at least two rows of rolling bodies for mounting a wheel hub which can be driven with the wheel bearing arrangement by a drive element. The wheel hub is connected to the drive element; the wheel hub and the drive element engage positively into one another by means of a pair of mutually corresponding spur toothings. In the wheel bearing arrangement, a value of greater than three, than the numerical value 3, is obtained for a ratio of the diameter (VTK) of a toothing reference circle of the spur toothing in the wheel bearing arrangement to the rolling body row spacing (RA) of the at least two rows of rolling bodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2006
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER KG
    Inventors: Peter Niebling, Ernst Masur, Roland Langer
  • Publication number: 20080242433
    Abstract: A wheel hub/constant velocity joint unit wherein a wheel hub (60, 90) with a through-aperture (59, 89) carrying inner shaft teeth (44, 74) is clamped to an outer joint part (46, 76) of a constant velocity fixed joint (42, 72), which outer joint part (46, 76) comprises a formed-on journal (53, 83) with outer shaft teeth (54, 84), wherein the inner shaft teeth (44, 74) of the through-aperture (59, 89) and the outer shaft teeth (54, 84) of the journal (53, 83) engage one another and wherein a double-row wheel bearing (43, 73) is slid on to the wheel hub (60, 90) which comprises an inner bearing race (64, 94) which directly supports an end face (52, 82) of the outer joint part (46, 76), wherein half the sum of the pitch circle diameter of the joint balls PCD and the bearing width BL is greater than the center-to-center distance AGL between the constant velocity universal joint (42, 72) and the wheel bearing (43, 73).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2005
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Inventors: Herbert Cermak, Alfred Springer, Ernst Masur, Peter Niebling
  • Publication number: 20080226213
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wheel bearing unit having at least one outer part, having at least one inner part, and having at least two rows of rolling bodies between the outer part and the inner part, wherein in each case at least one inner raceway is formed on the outer part and in each case at least one outer raceway is formed on the inner part for the rolling bodies of one row. A ratio of the diameter of the reference circle of at least one row of the wheel bearing unit to the diameter of the rolling bodies of the respective row is greater than the numerical value six. The row spacing between the rows corresponds to at most 1.65 times the diameter of the rolling bodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2006
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER KG
    Inventors: Peter Niebling, Ernst Masur, Gottfried Ruoff
  • Patent number: 7413349
    Abstract: A wheel bearing unit having at least one outer part, at least one inner part and having at least two rows of rolling elements between the outer part and the inner part, on the outer part at least one inner raceway, and on the inner part at least one outer raceway for the rolling elements of a row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: Fag Kugelfischer AG
    Inventors: Peter Niebling, Ernst Masur, Gottfried Ruoff
  • Publication number: 20080193071
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hub on a wheel bearing unit, comprising at least one inner ring, sitting on the hub, whereby the inner ring is axially retained on the hub by a collar, formed from the hub, said collar comprising a toothing. The inner ring has a radially inward projection on the front face thereof and the projection is filled with plastically displaced material from the collar such that the material of the inner ring at least engages in the projection and the material in the projection is enclosed in the radial direction by the inner ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2006
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER KG
    Inventors: Roland Langer, Ernst Masur, Ralf Heiss, Benno Fueller, Peter Niebling
  • Publication number: 20080187262
    Abstract: The invention relates to a sealed radial rolling bearing, in particular a wheel bearing for a motor vehicle, which substantially comprises an outer bearing ring and an inner bearing ring and a plurality of rolling bodies which roll between the bearing rings and are held with uniform spacing relative to one another by means of a bearing cage. Here, in each case one radially arranged sealing element extends between the bearing rings at each side at a distance axially from the rolling bodies, said sealing element having one or more sealing lips which are connected to the outer bearing ring and some into contact with a centrifugal ring which is connected by means of a press fit to the inner bearing ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2006
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER KG
    Inventors: Peter Niebling, Ernst Masur, Hartwig Waldert, Georg Schoener
  • Publication number: 20080185906
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wheel bearing joint unit comprising at least one inner ring that sits on a hub of the wheel bearing joint unit. Said inner ring is axially retained on the hub by means of a collar that is formed from the hub. The collar is provided with a toothing which meshes with a corresponding opposite toothing on a joint part. The toothing and the opposite toothing are braced against each other with the aid of at least one screw element which rests on the hub and engages into a thread on the joint part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2006
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER KG
    Inventors: Roland Langer, Ernst Masur, Ralf Heiss, Benno Fueller, Peter Niebling
  • Publication number: 20080175526
    Abstract: The invention relates to a face spline of a toothed rim running in the circumferential direction around a rotation axis on a wheel-bearing arrangement for a driven wheel hub. The face spline is provided for play-free engagement with the counter-spline, facing the face spline and the teeth of the face spline have a wedge-like embodiment such that the geometrical lines of the face spline meet centrally at a common point on the rotation axis and the teeth thus run in the radial direction on the rotation axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2006
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER KG
    Inventors: Roland Langer, Peter Niebling, Ernst Masur, Ralf Heiss, Benno Fueller
  • Publication number: 20080156610
    Abstract: The invention relates to a spur toothing on at least one coupling element for transmitting torques about a rotational axis, said spur toothing axially engaging with a corresponding mating cutting. The face cutting is provided with teeth from a material of the coupling element that has been plastically shaped in an at least partially non-cutting manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2006
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Applicant: Schaeffler KG
    Inventors: Roland Langer, Ernst Masur, Ralf Heiss, Benno Fueller, Peter Niebling
  • Publication number: 20080159677
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wheel bearing arrangement which as at least two rows of rolling bodies which are used to bear a wheel hub which can be driven by means of a drive element and which comprises a wheel bearing arrangement. Said wheel hub is connected to the drive element. The wheel hub and the drive element engage together in a positive fit by means of a pair of face splines which correspond to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2006
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER KG
    Inventors: Roland Langer, Peter Niebling, Ernst Masur
  • Publication number: 20080148893
    Abstract: The invention relates to a collar, made form plastically deformed material, of a hub, said collar holding at least one inner ring of a wheel bearing unit on the hub in an axially fixed mariner, and end-side teeth, for engaging in a mating toothing, being formed in said collar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2006
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER KG
    Inventors: Roland Langer, Ernst Masur, Ralf Heiss, Benno Fueller, Peter Niebling
  • Publication number: 20080036156
    Abstract: The invention relates to a sealing arrangement comprising at least one seal and a spinning ring. Said spinning ring is provided with a first hollow cylindrical section, a second hollow cylindrical section in the first section which is disposed concentric to the first section, and a disk-shaped ring section that extends at an angle to the first section. The first section and the second section are embodied monolithically on the spinning ring, at least one elastic sealing lip of the seal resting against the first section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2005
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER KG
    Inventors: Peter Niebling, Ernst Masur, Jens Heim
  • Publication number: 20060120650
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wheel bearing unit (1, 4) having at least one outer part (8, 21), having at least one inner part (10) and having at least two rows of rolling elements (11) between the outer part (8, 21) and the inner part, on the outer part (8, 21) at least one inner raceway (15, 16) respectively being configured, and on the inner part (10) at least one outer raceway (13, 14) for the rolling elements (11) of a row respectively being configured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2005
    Publication date: June 8, 2006
    Inventors: Peter Niebling, Ernst Masur, Gottfried Ruoff
  • Patent number: 5150973
    Abstract: A mounting sleeve particularly for the loose annular parts of a multi-row anti-friction bearing wherein the rows of rolling bodies are toward the axial ends of the outer ring. The mounting sleeve is approximately U-shaped with a slit opening of about 90.degree. in it extending along the sleeve. At axially opposite ends of the U-shaped sleeve are formed radially inwardly directed flanges which extend over a smaller circumferential angle than the sleeve, e.g. over an angle of about 180.degree., and are each symmetric around the U-shaped sleeve. Projections on the axial insides of the flanges rest axially either against the row of rolling bodies or against the separators for the row of rolling bodies. A radially outward projection opposite the slit opening in the sleeve aids in installation and removal of the sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1992
    Assignee: FAG Kugelfischer Georg Schafer KgaA
    Inventors: Ernst Masur, Gottfried Ruoff, Werner Planek