Patents by Inventor Franz Schmeink

Franz Schmeink 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: 11649891
    Abstract: The invention relates to a transmission (10), preferably a bevel helical transmission, having a transmission housing (1) and having a drive shaft (2.1), on which a fan (9) is mounted, and comprising a ring cooler (4), which surrounds the drive shaft (2.1), oil lines (7.1, 7.2) for transporting transmission oil in an oil circuit from the interior of the transmission housing (1) to the ring cooler (4) and from the ring cooler (4) into the interior of the transmission housing (1), and an air-guiding hood (3.1, 3.2) surrounding the ring cooler (4) for guiding air suctioned by the fan (9) onto the ring cooler (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: FLENDER GMBH
    Inventors: Simon Becka, Christoph Messink, Elmar Rickert, Franz Schmeink, Lena Striemann
  • Publication number: 20220381332
    Abstract: The invention relates to a transmission (10), preferably a bevel helical transmission, having a transmission housing (1) and having a drive shaft (2.1), on which a fan (9) is mounted, and comprising a ring cooler (4), which surrounds the drive shaft (2.1), oil lines (7.1, 7.2) for transporting transmission oil in an oil circuit from the interior of the transmission housing (1) to the ring cooler (4) and from the ring cooler (4) into the interior of the transmission housing (1), and an air-guiding hood (3.1, 3.2) surrounding the ring cooler (4) for guiding air suctioned by the fan (9) onto the ring cooler (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: Flender GmbH
    Inventors: SIMON BECKA, CHRISTOPH MESSINK, ELMAR RICKERT, FRANZ SCHMEINK, LENA STRIEMANN
  • Patent number: 10677331
    Abstract: A vertical mill gearbox includes a drive shaft mounted in a casing for rotation about a rotation axis, and an intermediate shaft configured as a hollow shaft and mounted in the casing for rotation about a vertical second rotation axis. The intermediate shaft has a bevel gear meshing with a bevel-gear pinion of the drive shaft. A torsion shaft is received in fixed rotative engagement with the intermediate shaft and sized to extend beyond the intermediate shaft to define a projecting section to which a sun gear rotatably driven via the intermediate shaft is fixed. A planet carrier is mounted in the casing for rotation about the second rotation axis and rotatably supports an internal gear having an internal tooth system. Mounted to the planet carrier is a rotatable planet gear which meshes with the sun gear and with the internal tooth system of the internal gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: FLENDER GMBH
    Inventors: Simon Becka, Steffen Brun, Matthias Friedrich, Guido Josten, Robert Prusak, Eugen Schlegel, Dirk Schroer, Michael Tegelkamp, Franz Schmeink
  • Patent number: 10550930
    Abstract: A planet carrier arrangement includes a bearing assembly having first and second roller bearings and a traction element having a first end supported by the bearing assembly such as to enable the traction element to oscillate. A planet carrier is mounted in a suspended manner to the traction element, wherein one of the roller bearings of the bearing assembly is configured to absorb an axial force seeking to lift the planet carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: FLENDER GMBH
    Inventors: Simon Becka, Steffen Brun, Matthias Friedrich, Guido Josten, Christoph Messink, Robert Prusak, Eugen Schlegel, Franz Schmeink, Dirk Schroer, Michael Tegelkamp
  • Publication number: 20190003573
    Abstract: A planet carrier arrangement includes a bearing assembly having first and second roller bearings and a traction element having a first end supported by the bearing assembly such as to enable the traction element to oscillate. A planet carrier is mounted in a suspended manner to the traction element, wherein one of the roller bearings of the bearing assembly is configured to absorb an axial force seeking to lift the planet carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Simon Becka, STEFFEN BRUN, MATTHIAS FRIEDRICH, GUIDO JOSTEN, CHRISTOPH MESSINK, ROBERT PRUSAK, EUGEN SCHLEGEL, FRANZ SCHMEINK, DIRK SCHROER, MICHAEL TEGELKAMP
  • Publication number: 20180363747
    Abstract: A vertical mill gearbox includes a drive shaft mounted in a casing for rotation about a rotation axis, and an intermediate shaft configured as a hollow shaft and mounted in the casing for rotation about a vertical second rotation axis. The intermediate shaft has a bevel gear meshing with a bevel-gear pinion of the drive shaft. A torsion shaft is received in fixed rotative engagement with the intermediate shaft and sized to extend beyond the intermediate shaft to define a projecting section to which a sun gear rotatably driven via the intermediate shaft is fixed. A planet carrier is mounted in the casing for rotation about the second rotation axis and rotatably supports an internal gear having an internal tooth system. Mounted to the planet carrier is a rotatable planet gear which meshes with the sun gear and with the internal tooth system of the internal gear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Simon Becka, Steffen Brun, Matthias Friedrich, Guido Josten, Robert Prusak, Eugen Schlegel, Dirk Schroer, Michael Tegelkamp, Franz Schmeink
  • Patent number: 10041566
    Abstract: A gearing arrangement for a vertical mill includes a central shaft mounted for rotation about a vertical rotation axis, a spur gear arranged in fixed rotative engagement on the central shaft, and an output flange rotatably coupled to the central shaft. At least one gear unit having gear pairs is arranged vertically below the output flange, with a pinion gear arranged on an output side of the gear unit for engagement into the spur gear on the central shaft. The gear unit is arranged on a traversing mechanism in such a way that the pinion gear on the output side is movable in relation to the spur gear to engage in and disengage from the spur gear, as the gear unit is moved by the traversing mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Steffen Brun, Ali Kemal Kücükyavuz, Franz Schmeink
  • Patent number: 9956870
    Abstract: A drive axle assembly for a heavy goods vehicle includes a hollow hub, a wheel body rotatably mounted to the hollow hub, and a planetary gear including first and second planetary gear stages, each having a sun gear, a ring gear and a planet carrier with planetary wheels mounted rotatably in the planetary carrier and meshing with the sun gear and the ring gear. A drive shaft is axially guided through the hollow hub and the sun gear of the second planetary gear stage, with the sun gear of the first planetary gear stage being non-rotatably mounted on a vehicle-distal outer end of the drive shaft. Non-rotatably connected by a screw and pin connection to the hollow hub is an annular disk which has an axial opening and a plurality of boreholes in radially surrounding relationship to the axial opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: FLENDER GMBH
    Inventors: Christoph Messink, Todd R Morman, Lucas Paus, Franz Schmeink, Matthias Weiss
  • Publication number: 20170080799
    Abstract: A drive axle assembly for a heavy goods vehicle includes a hollow hub, a wheel body rotatably mounted to the hollow hub, and a planetary gear including first and second planetary gear stages, each having a sun gear, a ring gear and a planet carrier with planetary wheels mounted rotatably in the planetary carrier and meshing with the sun gear and the ring gear. A drive shaft is axially guided through the hollow hub and the sun gear of the second planetary gear stage, with the sun gear of the first planetary gear stage being non-rotatably mounted on a vehicle-distal outer end of the drive shaft. Non-rotatably connected by a screw and pin connection to the hollow hub is an annular disk which has an axial opening and a plurality of boreholes in radially surrounding relationship to the axial opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: CHRISTOPH MESSINK, TODD R. MORMAN, LUCAS PAUS, FRANZ SCHMEINK, MATTHIAS WEISS
  • Publication number: 20160375442
    Abstract: The invention concerns a machine interface (1) between a grinding pan (2) of a vertical grinding mill (3) and a drive (4) of the grinding pan (2). The machine interface (1) is designed such that the grinding pan (2) and the drive (4) are thermally decoupled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: ALI KEMAL KÜCÜKYAVUZ, FRANZ SCHMEINK
  • Publication number: 20160230842
    Abstract: A gearing arrangement for a vertical mill includes a central shaft mounted for rotation about a vertical rotation axis, a spur gear arranged in fixed rotative engagement on the central shaft, and an output flange rotatably coupled to the central shaft. At least one gear unit having gear pairs is arranged vertically below the output flange, with a pinion gear arranged on an output side of the gear unit for engagement into the spur gear on the central shaft. The gear unit is arranged on a traversing mechanism in such a way that the pinion gear on the output side is movable in relation to the spur gear to engage in and disengage from the spur gear, as the gear unit is moved by the traversing mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: STEFFEN BRUN, ALI KEMAL KÜCÜKYAVUZ, FRANZ SCHMEINK
  • Patent number: 8834312
    Abstract: A mill drive system includes a gear unit which is arrangeable below a grinding plate and has at least one planetary and/or spur gear stage, having a vertical shaft position. The mill drive system includes an electric motor, integrated into a housing of the gear unit and having a rotor and a stator which have vertically extending axes. Upper and lower bearing covers each including bearing seats for rotor shaft bearing are mounted on opposite end faces on the rotor and stator and are connected via a stator carrier, which has cooling fins on the outer periphery. A collecting tray for coolant is formed between the lower bearing cover and a base part of the housing. The motor is supported via a flange which is formed on an inner face of the housing and extends radially inward and to which the lower and/or upper bearing covers are connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: SIEMENS Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ali Kemal Kücükyavuz, Friedhelm Pötter, Franz Schmeink
  • Publication number: 20130035189
    Abstract: A mill drive system includes a gear unit which is arrangeable below a grinding plate and has at least one planetary and/or spur gear stage, having a vertical shaft position. The mill drive system includes an electric motor, integrated into a housing of the gear unit and having a rotor and a stator which have vertically extending axes. Upper and lower bearing covers each including bearing seats for rotor shaft bearing are mounted on opposite end faces on the rotor and stator and are connected via a stator carrier, which has cooling fins on the outer periphery. A collecting tray for coolant is formed between the lower bearing cover and a base part of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ali Kemal Kücükyavuz, Friedhelm Pötter, Franz Schmeink
  • Patent number: 7185559
    Abstract: A gearbox mechanism is provided for a twin screw extruder having two screw shafts disposed at an angle to one another. The gear mechanism has a multi-stage reduction gearbox, and a distribution gearbox having two output lines connectable to the screw shafts. A first output line comprises a through output shaft. An angularly movable coupling, which is fixed against rotation, is disposed in a second output line placed at the angle of the screw shafts, relative to the first output line, via the coupling. A drive gear of the reduction gearbox is disposed between, and is in engagement with, a gear on the output shaft and a gear on a partial shaft of the second output line. A reduction gearbox and distribution gearbox are disposed, without spatial separation, in a common interior space of a multi-part gearbox housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Assignee: A. Friedr. Flender Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Franz Schmeink, Helmut Thewes
  • Publication number: 20050199093
    Abstract: A gearbox mechanism is provided for a twin screw extruder having two screw shafts disposed at an angle to one another. The gear mechanism has a multi-stage reduction gearbox, and a distribution gearbox having two output lines connectable to the screw shafts. A first output line comprises a through output shaft. An angularly movable coupling, which is fixed against rotation, is disposed in a second output line placed at the angle of the screw shafts, relative to the first output line, via the coupling. A drive gear of the reduction gearbox is disposed between, and is in engagement with, a gear on the output shaft and a gear on a partial shaft of the second output line. A reduction gearbox and distribution gearbox are disposed, without spatial separation, in a common interior space of a multi-part gearbox housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2005
    Publication date: September 15, 2005
    Applicant: A. Friedr. Flender Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Franz Schmeink, Helmut Thewes