Patents by Inventor Gerhard Schneyer

Gerhard Schneyer 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: 4799403
    Abstract: In an adjusting gear in a motor vehicle, especially for a motor-driven seat adjustment mechanism, with an essentially pot-shaped transmission housing in which are supported on a bearing shaft, starting from the pot bottom, a pinion, a planet gear carrier with planet gears, a sun gear meshing with the planet gears as well as a worm gear non-rotatably connected with the sun gear; according to this invention, the end face of the planet gears opposite the pot bottom are provided with at least one orientation surface, the worm gear is also provided on its end face opposite the pot bottom with at least one orientation surface and the end face of the planet gears are each constructed with an abutment surface for the abutment at the worm gear. This enables a facilitated assembly of the adjusting gear, especially with the aid of an assembly robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1989
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Emil Dinkel, Bernd Mann, Gunter Prieser, Gerhard Schneyer
  • Patent number: 4589297
    Abstract: An adjusting transmission of a motor vehicle for a motorized seat adjustment with a transmission housing and a worm arranged on a bearing shaft which is supported at the transmission housing in two shaft bearing parts retaining the shaft and inserted into a respective housing aperture on both sides of the worm; at least one of the two shaft bearing parts is thereby tiltably supported within the coordinated housing aperture in at least a plane containing the bearing shaft axis. A self-alignment of the two bearing parts is achieved thereby so that one obtains without large expenditures a transmission operation which is low in friction and freely movable. The bearing part can be constructed as ring with spherical surface which abuts at prism surfaces of the housing aperture as well as of a pressure member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 20, 1986
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Bernd Mann, Gerhard Schneyer, Emil Dinkel