Patents by Inventor Hans-Jürgen Hanft

Hans-Jürgen Hanft 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: 10122312
    Abstract: The current embodiments provide a method for controlling an induction machine with a plurality of phases. Each phase may include a plurality of parallel windings and each phase may be associated with a half-bridge. The method may include determining a current in a winding of a first phase. The method may further include determining a phase current on the basis of the current in the winding, and controlling the half-bridge associated with the first phase based on the determined phase current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Hans-Jürgen Hanft, Erich Karg, Alfred Tareilus
  • Patent number: 10076046
    Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to an arrangement comprising a housing, a circuit board arranged in the housing and at least one flat contact to connect the circuit board with an electrical component arranged outside of the housing, whereby the housing has a breakthrough that the flat contact protrudes from, whereby the circuit board has breakthrough that the flat contact reaches through, that the circuit board has a contact tab on the side facing away from the housing breakthrough and whereby a molded seal is inserted in the housing breakthrough and the molded seal positively encloses the flat contact and whereby the contact tab is connected with the flat contact in an electrically conductive manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Hermann Thurn, Hans-Jürgen Hanft
  • Patent number: 10064301
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an assembly comprising a housing and at least one busbar for connecting a printed circuit board disposed in the housing to a power supply present outside the housing, wherein the housing has a penetration, from which the busbar projects, wherein a magnetic core and a gasket accommodating the magnetic core are placed in the housing penetration in a media-tight manner, and the gasket, together with the magnetic core, encompasses the busbar in a form-fitting manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Hans-Jürgen Hanft, Hermann Thurn
  • Publication number: 20170334393
    Abstract: A method for checking a motor vehicle comprises steps for transmitting an ID stored in an electronic control device of a transmission of the motor vehicle, to a central facility, the comparison on the part of the central facility of the ID with stored IDs assigned to specific motor vehicles, the transmission of a notification regarding the comparison result from the central facility to the control device, and the issuing on the part of the control device of a signal, if the ID has been located in the stored IDs. The communication comprises an authentication of the central facility thereby.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Applicant: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Mathias HÄUSLMANN, Josef HABENSCHADEN, Hans-Jürgen HANFT, Volker WAGNER, Roland FRIEDL, Jörg KÜHNL
  • Publication number: 20170311459
    Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to an arrangement comprising a housing, a circuit board arranged in the housing and at least one flat contact to connect the circuit board with an electrical component arranged outside of the housing, whereby the housing has a breakthrough that the flat contact protrudes from, whereby the circuit board has breakthrough that the flat contact reaches through, that the circuit board has a contact tab on the side facing away from the housing breakthrough and whereby a molded seal is inserted in the housing breakthrough and the molded seal positively encloses the flat contact and whereby the contact tab is connected with the flat contact in an electrically conductive manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Applicant: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Hermann Thurn, Hans-Jürgen Hanft
  • Publication number: 20170273205
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an assembly comprising a housing and at least one busbar for connecting a printed circuit board disposed in the housing to a power supply present outside the housing, wherein the housing has a penetration, from which the busbar projects, wherein a magnetic core and a gasket accommodating the magnetic core are placed in the housing penetration in a media-tight manner, and the gasket, together with the magnetic core, encompasses the busbar in a form-fitting manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Hans-Jürgen Hanft, Hermann Thurn
  • Publication number: 20160218599
    Abstract: A power control for an inductive machine comprises a printed circuit board having an electronic control element for controlling a current through the inductive machine, an electrical connection of the printed circuit board, a cooling element, connected in a thermally conductive manner to the control element, and a choke at the electrical connection for suppressing interference emissions. The choke is connected thereby to the cooling element in a thermally conductive manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Applicant: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Hans-Jürgen Hanft, Wilfried Lassmann
  • Publication number: 20160211789
    Abstract: The current embodiments provide a method for controlling an induction machine with a plurality of phases. Each phase may include a plurality of parallel windings and each phase may be associated with a half-bridge. The method may include determining a current in a winding of a first phase. The method may further include determining a phase current on the basis of the current in the winding, and controlling the half-bridge associated with the first phase based on the determined phase current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Inventors: Hans-Jürgen Hanft, Erich Karg, Alfred Tareilus
  • Patent number: 9253723
    Abstract: A communication device for a remote switch has a control device designed to supply a preparatory signal for preparing a transmission process and a transmission signal for starting the transmission process. A memory device is designed to save one structural information and a parameter for different transmission protocols. A processing device is designed to supply data to be sent, read the structural information and the parameters from the memory device in response to the preparatory signal and, based on the data to be sent and the structural information, create a send packet, and output the send packet and the parameter in response to the transmission signal. A transmission device is designed to wirelessly emit a transmission signal representing the send packet with a transmission characteristic defined by the parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG
    Inventors: Alexander Graf, Hans-Jürgen Hanft, Thomas Boethe
  • Publication number: 20140146729
    Abstract: A communication device for a remote switch has a control device designed to supply a preparatory signal for preparing a transmission process and a transmission signal for starting the transmission process. A memory device is designed to save one structural information and a parameter for different transmission protocols. A processing device is designed to supply data to be sent, read the structural information and the parameters from the memory device in response to the preparatory signal and, based on the data to be sent and the structural information, create a send packet, and output the send packet and the parameter in response to the transmission signal. A transmission device is designed to wirelessly emit a transmission signal representing the send packet with a transmission characteristic defined by the parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Alexander Graf, Hans-Jürgen Hanft, Thomas Boethe