Patents by Inventor Gerd Eckel
Gerd Eckel 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).
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Patent number: 10150500Abstract: A vibration absorber comprising a supporting device, an oscillating mass, at least one coil device, and at least on permanent magnet device. The coil device includes at least one winding. A permanent magnet of the permanent magnet device generates a magnetic field extending through a yoke device of the permanent magnet device and through a part of the windings such that when current flows through the windings in a suitable manner, two forces are generated that act between the supporting device and the permanent magnet device and include an angle unequal to 0°.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2014Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: VIBRACOUSTIC GMBHInventors: Hans-Gerd Eckel, Niklas Mueller
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Patent number: 9212721Abstract: A hydromount comprising a carrying mount and a support mount connected to each other by an elastomeric suspension spring. The hydromount includes a working chamber and a compensation chamber that are filled with a fluid and separated by a partition, and connected to each other via a damping channel inserted into the partition. The hydromount includes an absorber channel that is switchable via an actuating device. The absorber channel is inactive in a first switching position of the actuating device and active in a second switching position of the actuating device. The actuating device has an electrically drivable electromagnet and an armature suspended via an elastic membrane so as to allow the armature to vibrate. The membrane is surrounded by a limiting member such that the membrane abuts against the limiting member in the first switching position and is spaced from the limiting member in the second switching position.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2014Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: TRELLEBORGVIBRACOUSTIC GMBHInventors: Hans-Gerd Eckel, Bernhard Roehrig
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Patent number: 9182213Abstract: The invention relates to a path measuring apparatus comprising at least a first measuring path and a second measuring path, these measuring paths each having an extension in a longitudinal direction and being oriented parallel to one another in at least a measuring range, at least one position indicator which couples to the measuring paths in a non-contact manner, and a measuring path holder which extends in the measuring range and has recesses, each recess having a measuring path arranged therein.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2013Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: BALLUFF GmbHInventors: Achim Zern, Gerd Eckel
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Patent number: 9046392Abstract: A displacement measuring apparatus is provided, which comprises a measuring sensor, a housing, a first board, a second board and a third board, which boards are arranged in the housing and are circuit carriers, wherein the second board and the third board are in each case oriented transversely to the first board, the second board and the third board are connected by means of a first plug-in connection device and the combination of the second board and third board is connected to the first board by means of a second plug-in connection device.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2009Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: BALLUFF GmbHInventors: Jochen Wangler, Gerd Eckel
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Publication number: 20150054209Abstract: A hydromount comprising a carrying mount and a support mount connected to each other by an elastomeric suspension spring. The hydromount includes a working chamber and a compensation chamber that are filled with a fluid and separated by a partition, and connected to each other via a damping channel inserted into the partition. The hydromount includes an absorber channel that is switchable via an actuating device. The absorber channel is inactive in a first switching position of the actuating device and active in a second switching position of the actuating device. The actuating device has an electrically drivable electromagnet and an armature suspended via an elastic membrane so as to allow the armature to vibrate. The membrane is surrounded by a limiting member such that the membrane abuts against the limiting member in the first switching position and is spaced from the limiting member in the second switching position.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2014Publication date: February 26, 2015Inventors: Hans-Gerd Eckel, Bernhard Roehrig
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Publication number: 20150021129Abstract: A vibration absorber comprising a supporting device, an oscillating mass, at least one coil device, and at least on permanent magnet device. The coil device includes at least one winding. A permanent magnet of the permanent magnet device generates a magnetic field extending through a yoke device of the permanent magnet device and through a part of the windings such that when current flows through the windings in a suitable manner, two forces are generated that act between the supporting device and the permanent magnet device and include an angle unequal to 0°.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2014Publication date: January 22, 2015Inventors: Hans-Gerd Eckel, Niklas Mueller
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Publication number: 20100097050Abstract: A displacement measuring apparatus is provided, which comprises a measuring sensor, a housing, a first board, a second board and a third board, which boards are arranged in the housing and are circuit carriers, wherein the second board and the third board are in each case oriented transversely to the first board, the second board and the third board are connected by means of a first plug-in connection device and the combination of the second board and third board is connected to the first board by means of a second plug-in connection device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2009Publication date: April 22, 2010Applicant: BALLUFF GmbHInventors: Jochen Wangler, Gerd Eckel
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Patent number: 7071680Abstract: A position transducer device is provided for detecting the position of a position transmitter. The position transducer device comprises a housing extending in a longitudinal direction and a measuring sensor arranged in the housing and extending parallel to the longitudinal direction. The position transmitter is coupled to the measuring sensor in a non-contacting manner. The outer surface of the housing is designed such that it can be enclosed at least partially by a fixing receiving means for fixing the housing to an application. The housing can be rotated relative to the position transmitter in the fixing receiving means in order to enable adjustment of the distance between the measuring sensor and the position transducer.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2005Date of Patent: July 4, 2006Assignee: Balluff GmbHInventors: Martin Kurz, Gerd Eckel, Roland Holder, Hansjuergen Eberle, Roland Springer, Michael Hoffmann, Walter Roth
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Publication number: 20050174108Abstract: A position transducer device is provided for detecting the position of a position transmitter. The position transducer device comprises a housing extending in a longitudinal direction and a measuring sensor arranged in the housing and extending parallel to the longitudinal direction. The position transmitter is coupled to the measuring sensor in a non-contacting manner. The outer surface of the housing is designed such that it can be enclosed at least partially by a fixing receiving means for fixing the housing to an application. The housing can be rotated relative to the position transmitter in the fixing receiving means in order to enable adjustment of the distance between the measuring sensor and the position transducer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2005Publication date: August 11, 2005Applicant: BALLUFF GmbHInventors: Martin Kurz, Gerd Eckel, Roland Holder, Hansjuergen Eberle, Roland Springer, Michael Hoffmann, Walter Roth
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Patent number: 6903544Abstract: In order to provide a position transducer device for detecting the position of a position transmitter, comprising a housing extending in a longitudinal direction and a measuring sensor arranged in the housing and extending parallel to the longitudinal direction, the position transmitter being coupled to this measuring sensor without contact, which is variable in its use for a user it is suggested that an outer surface of the housing be designed such that it can be enclosed at least partially by a fixing receiving means for fixing it to an application and that the housing can be rotated in the fixing receiving means.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2002Date of Patent: June 7, 2005Assignee: Balluff GmbHInventors: Martin Kurz, Gerd Eckel, Roland Holder, Hansjuergen Eberle, Roland Springer, Michael Hoffmann, Walter Roth
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Publication number: 20040026840Abstract: The present invention relates to a torsion spring set especially for the powertrain system of a motor vehicle, having a first internally located component (1) and a second externally located component (2) situated in such a way that it may be rotated in relation thereto, and having a spring (3) acting between the first and second component (1, 2) embodied in the form of a torsion spring, and also having a first securing device (7) for connecting a first end section (9) of the spring (3) to the first component (1) and a second securing device (8) for connecting a second end section (10) of the spring (3) to the second component (2). The spring (3) extends essentially in the direction of the periphery over at least one part of the periphery of the first component (1). At least one of the securing devices (7, 8) is embodied in such a way that the first and/or second end sections (9, 10) is/are moved in a radial direction to the second component (2) when the first component (1) is rotated.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventors: Hans-Gerd Eckel, Volker Hirsch, Erhard Moog, Anja Kunkel
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Publication number: 20030076089Abstract: In order to provide a position transducer device for detecting the position of a position transmitter, comprising a housing extending in a longitudinal direction and a measuring sensor arranged in the housing and extending parallel to the longitudinal direction, the position transmitter being coupled to this measuring sensor without contact, which is variable in its use for a user it is suggested that an outer surface of the housing be designed such that it can be enclosed at least partially by a fixing receiving means for fixing it to an application and that the housing can be rotated in the fixing receiving means.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2002Publication date: April 24, 2003Applicant: BALLUFF GmbHInventors: Martin Kurz, Gerd Eckel, Roland Holder, Hansjuergen Eberle, Roland Springer, Michael Hoffmann, Walter Roth
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Patent number: 6533286Abstract: A seal arrangement for a shaft end. The seal arrangement includes an annular sealing lip that before use is braced on a support sleeve. The seal arrangement also includes a sensor ring that overlaps, radially inward with a flange, the sealing lip and the support sleeve, at the end facing away from the sealed space. The sensor ring is axially displaceable with respect to the sealing lip. The support ring includes at least three segments movable relative to one another and abutting against one another in the circumferential direction. The segments are fastened on the sensor ring nondisplaceably in the axial direction and displaceably outwardly in the radial direction. For easier insertion of the shaft end, the support sleeve has at the end facing the sealed space an inside diameter that is expanded in hollow conical fashion, and/or the shaft end has an outside diameter tapered in conical fashion in the opposite direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 1997Date of Patent: March 18, 2003Assignee: Firma Carl FreudenbergInventors: Hans-Gerd Eckel, Anja Kunkel
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Patent number: 6450065Abstract: A speed-adaptive dynamic-vibration absorber for a shaft rotatable about an axis, including a hub part on which at least one inertial mass is provided. The at least one inertial mass, starting from a middle position in which its center of gravity is the greatest distance from the axis, is moveable back and forth relative to the hub part along a path of motion in deflection positions in which the distance of the center of gravity of the at least one inertial mass changes with respect to the middle position, the path of motion having a radius of curvature which changes at least section-by-section with increasing deflection of the inertial mass out of the middle position.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 1999Date of Patent: September 17, 2002Assignee: Firma Carl FreudenbergInventors: Hans-Gerd Eckel, Rainer Oberle, Jörg Böcking
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Publication number: 20020078791Abstract: A speed-adaptive dynamic-vibration absorber for a shaft rotatable about an axis, including a hub part on which at least one inertial mass is provided. The at least one inertial mass, starting from a middle position in which its center of gravity is the greatest distance from the axis, is moveable back and forth relative to the hub part along a path of motion in deflection positions in which the distance of the center of gravity of the at least one inertial mass changes with respect to the middle position, the path of motion having a radius of curvature which changes at least section-by-section with increasing deflection of the inertial mass out of the middle position.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 1999Publication date: June 27, 2002Inventors: HANS-GERD ECKEL, RAINER OBERLE, JORG BOCKING
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Patent number: 6345552Abstract: A speed-adaptive vibration damper for a shaft that rotates about an axis, having a hub part, on which are located a plurality of peripherally adjacent inertial masses that are movable along curved paths that increasingly approach the axis on either side of the masses. At least one relatively twistable inertial ring is elastically mounted on the hub part. When rotational vibrations set in, a change occurs in the distance of the inertial masses from the axis.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 1999Date of Patent: February 12, 2002Assignee: Firma Carl FreudenbergInventors: Bernhard Röhrig, Hans-Gerd Eckel
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Patent number: 6289572Abstract: A sealing arrangement including a sealing ring with a support ring extending substantially in a radial direction. The support ring is joined in the radial direction to a first sealing element that lies in contact with and is nonrotatable with respect to a first machine element to form a static seal. The support ring is also joined in the radial direction to a second sealing element that is placed against a second machine element rotatably with respect to the second machine element to create a dynamic seal. The first and second sealing elements are each made of an elastomeric material, and the sealing ring has, in order to sense rotational movements of the first machine element about its axis, at least one auxiliary device that can move past a rotational speed sensor. The auxiliary device can be a multipole ring made of a pasty, hardenable, and magnetizable material that is arranged as a intermediate layer of film-like thinness on the side of the support ring facing the rotational speed sensor.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 1998Date of Patent: September 18, 2001Assignee: Firma Carl FreudenbergInventors: Berthold Lannert, Hans-Gerd Eckel, Horst Kober, Stefan Burger
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Patent number: 6280330Abstract: A flywheel, including a first rotating ring that is connectible to a drive shaft and a second rotating ring that is connectible to a driven shaft. The first and the second rotating rings are twistable relative to one another and are supported concentrically one inside the other. Provision is made between the first and the second rotating ring for a torsion spring to suppress torsional vibrations. A speed-adaptive absorber is affixed to the second rotating ring, the speed-adaptive absorber including at least one hub part that is rotatable about an axis of rotation, as well as a plurality of damper masses which are able to swivel at least in the circumferential direction about swivel axes that are set apart from the axis of rotation.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 1999Date of Patent: August 28, 2001Assignee: Firma Carl FreudenbergInventors: Hans-Gerd Eckel, Lydia Weiss
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Patent number: 6095304Abstract: A clutch of a periodically-activated prime mover or driven machine having an integrated speed-adaptive damper. The damper is mounted directly on a connected flywheel, and a clutch plate and a pressure plate are arranged between the flywheel and the damper. The damper, in the area of its inner circumference, has a support for a clutch-actuation device, and the clutch-actuation device has a force-originating lever part and a spring part independent of the force-originating lever part.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 1998Date of Patent: August 1, 2000Assignee: Firma Carl FreudenbergInventor: Hans-Gerd Eckel
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Patent number: 6045133Abstract: A sealing arrangement which includes a sealing ring with a support ring extending substantially in the radial direction and is joined in the radial direction on one end to a first sealing element that lies in sealing contact with a first machine element nonrotatably with respect thereto and in a statically sealing manner, and is joined in the radial direction on another end to a second sealing element that is placed against a second machine element rotatably with respect thereto and in a dynamically sealing manner. The first and second sealing elements are each made of an elastomeric material, and the sealing ring has, in order to sense rotational movements of the first machine element about its axis, at least one auxiliary device that can move past a rotational speed sensor. The auxiliary device may be a multipole ring, rotatable together with the first machine element about its axis, that is made of a magnetizable material.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 1996Date of Patent: April 4, 2000Assignee: Firma Carl FreudenbergInventors: Berthold Lannert, Hans-Gerd Eckel, Horst Kober, Stefan Burger