Patents by Inventor Hans Petri

Hans Petri 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: 5806368
    Abstract: In a gearshift device for a semiautomatically shiftable change-speed gearbox of a motor vehicle, comprising a driver-operated clutch and a gearshift lever, movable only in a single shift lane, by means of which various shifter forks which are operable through an electromagnetically actuatable preselector device and act on synchronizers in the change-speed gearbox can be actuated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1998
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans Petri
  • Patent number: 5591097
    Abstract: In a transmission with a countershaft and a planetary reduction gear unit, particularly for automobiles, having an input shaft (1) an output shaft (2), an intermediate shaft (23) fixed and loose pinions and gears which are in constant mesh alternately with one another and are releasably connectable to the shafts. The planetary reduction gear unit (28) comprises a ring gear (30) fixed against rotation, a sun wheel (33) driven by way of a set of pinions and gears and mounted on the intermediate shaft (23) and a planet carrier (32) connected to the output shaft. A member of a pinion-gear pair (16) is carried by the intermediate shaft (23) and is releasably connectable to the intermediate shaft (23) and the output shaft (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1997
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: Hans Petri, Steven G. Thomas
  • Patent number: 5078246
    Abstract: A device for changing the flow rate of a liquid damping medium is a torsional vibration damper. This damper has a rotating cylindrical damper housing, connected between a drive shaft and a power takeoff shaft. Pinions are surface-mounted in a planetary fashion without axle journals between the axial faceplates of a gear pump in recesses in the pump interior. The pinions are engaged with a central gear seated on the power takeoff shaft or on drive shaft, which form gear pumps for closed circulation of the damping medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1992
    Assignee: Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Rohs
    Inventors: Ulrich Rohs, Hans Rohs, Dietmar Heidingsfeld, Hans Petri