Patents by Inventor Gunter Schuttler

Gunter Schuttler 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: 5778668
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a hydrodynamic clutch in a drive system, notably a turbo compound system. The hydrodynamic clutch includes a pump impeller and a turbine impeller which together form a toroidal working space. The turbine impeller is joined to a take-off shaft in torsionally fixed fashion and the pump impeller bears, via a bearing arrangement, on the take-off shaft. Coordinated with the toroidal working space is an operating medium supply system. The operating medium supply system includes an operating medium supply space which is arranged radially interior to the toroidal working space and bounded in the axial direction by the bearing arrangement and the contour of the turbine impeller. A central operating medium supply duct is arranged in the take-off shaft and extends in the take-off shaft in the axial direction at least up into the area of the center plane of the clutch. At least one distributing duct connects the central operating medium supply duct to the operating medium supply space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1998
    Assignee: Voith Turbo GmbH
    Inventors: Kurt Adleff, Gunter Schuttler