Patents by Inventor Hanspeter Putzer
Hanspeter Putzer 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: 12590627Abstract: An actuator assembly comprises a housing part with a sleeve-shaped portion and a flange-shaped portion, a ball ramp mechanism with a support ring and an setting ring, wherein at least the support ring is radially spaced from an outer face of the sleeve-shaped portion; an actuating element which is held axially movably coaxially to the ball ramp mechanism on the flange-shaped portion of the housing part, an annular gap being formed between the outer face of the sleeve-shaped portion and the actuating element; and a spring element which is arranged radially outside an actuating face of the actuating element axially between the housing part and the actuating element in order to exert a restoring force on the actuating element. A differential assembly with such an actuator assembly is provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2024Date of Patent: March 31, 2026Assignee: GKN Automotive LimitedInventors: Jan Haupt, Hanspeter Putzer, Thomas Messner
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Publication number: 20260027892Abstract: An electric drive assembly for driving a motor vehicle, comprising a housing, an electric machine with a motor shaft designed as a hollow shaft which is rotatably drivable about an axis of rotation; a planetary gearing; a differential unit with a differential, a disc clutch for adjusting a locking effect of the differential and a controllable ball ramp mechanism for actuating the disc clutch, wherein a side gear of the differential has an inner spline for inserting a shaft and a disc carrier portion which at least partially have an axial overlap; wherein the disc clutch is arranged inside and the ball ramp mechanism is arranged outside the differential carrier.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2025Publication date: January 29, 2026Inventors: Hanspeter Putzer, Thomas Messner
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Publication number: 20250122931Abstract: A method for assembling a component of a drive train is provided. The component includes at least a first part with a plurality of threaded holes and a second part with a corresponding number of through holes. The threaded holes and through holes each extend along an axial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2024Publication date: April 17, 2025Inventors: Florian Künig, Hanspeter Putzer, Sigmund Senoner, Carlo Faustini
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Publication number: 20250067328Abstract: An actuator assembly comprises a housing part with a sleeve-shaped portion and a flange-shaped portion, a ball ramp mechanism with a support ring and an setting ring, wherein at least the support ring is radially spaced from an outer face of the sleeve-shaped portion; an actuating element which is held axially movably coaxially to the ball ramp mechanism on the flange-shaped portion of the housing part, an annular gap being formed between the outer face of the sleeve-shaped portion and the actuating element; and a spring element which is arranged radially outside an actuating face of the actuating element axially between the housing part and the actuating element in order to exert a restoring force on the actuating element. A differential assembly with such an actuator assembly is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2024Publication date: February 27, 2025Inventors: Jan Haupt, Hanspeter Putzer, Thomas Messner
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Patent number: 12203507Abstract: A fluid guide assembly for a friction disk clutch comprises an inner disk carrier having a carrier portion, a shoulder portion, and a shaft portion. The carrier portion has a connecting structure for receiving inner disks in a rotationally fixed and axially movable manner; and a fluid guide element which is fixedly connected to the inner disk carrier and which comprises an annular catching portion in which inflowing fluid can be caught, and a plurality of circumferentially distributed tab portions which extend in the axial direction and which each have a radial through-opening. The inner disk carrier has, directed radially outwardly, a plurality of longitudinal grooves which extend axially from the shoulder portion into the carrier portion and which are covered by tab portions of the fluid guide element.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2021Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: GKN Automotive LimitedInventors: Kurt Thomaser, Peter Raffin, Thomas Messner, Hanspeter Putzer
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Publication number: 20240288036Abstract: A fluid guide assembly for a friction disk clutch comprises an inner disk carrier having a carrier portion, a shoulder portion, and a shaft portion. The carrier portion has a connecting structure for receiving inner disks in a rotationally fixed and axially movable manner; and a fluid guide element which is fixedly connected to the inner disk carrier and which comprises an annular catching portion in which inflowing fluid can be caught, and a plurality of circumferentially distributed tab portions which extend in the axial direction and which each have a radial through-opening. The inner disk carrier has, directed radially outwardly, a plurality of longitudinal grooves which extend axially from the shoulder portion into the carrier portion and which are covered by tab portions of the fluid guide element.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2021Publication date: August 29, 2024Inventors: Kurt Thomaser, Peter Raffin, Thomas Messner, Hanspeter Putzer
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Patent number: 11674577Abstract: Differential arrangement, e.g., for a drive axle of a motor vehicle. The differential arrangement comprises a drive wheel; a differential gear having an input part; a shift clutch operatively arranged between the drive wheel and the differential gear, wherein in the closed state of the shift clutch torque is transmitted from the drive wheel to the differential gear and in the open state of the shift clutch a torque transmission is interrupted. A first clutch part of the shift clutch is fixedly connected to the input part or to a differential housing of the differential gear, and a second clutch part of the shift clutch is fixedly connected to the respective other one of the input part and the differential housing.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: GKN Automotive LimitedInventors: Matthias Zingerle, Nikolaus Mayr, Sigmund Senoner, Hanspeter Putzer
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Publication number: 20220194223Abstract: Differential arrangement, e.g., for a drive axle of a motor vehicle. The differential arrangement comprises a drive wheel; a differential gear having an input part; a shift clutch operatively arranged between the drive wheel and the differential gear, wherein in the closed state of the shift clutch torque is transmitted from the drive wheel to the differential gear and in the open state of the shift clutch a torque transmission is interrupted. A first clutch part of the shift clutch is fixedly connected to the input part or to a differential housing of the differential gear, and a second clutch part of the shift clutch is fixedly connected to the respective other one of the input part and the differential housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2021Publication date: June 23, 2022Inventors: Matthias Zingerle, Nikolaus Mayr, Sigmund Senoner, Hanspeter Putzer
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Patent number: 10753405Abstract: A clutch assembly for a driveline of a motor vehicle comprises a friction plate clutch having an inner plate carrier, to which inner plates are connected in a rotationally fixed and axially movable way, and having an outer plate carrier to which outer plates are connected in a rotationally fixed and axially movable way, and wherein the inner plates and the outer plates jointly form a plate package, wherein the inner plate carrier comprises at least one bore in an axial overlapping region with the plate package through which bore oil can flow to the plate package, a supporting plate against which the plate package is axially supported, an axially movable pressure plate for axially loading the plate package, an operating device for operating the friction plate clutch by axially moving the pressure plate, a flow controller for controlling an oil volume flow rate through the at least one bore of the inner plate carrier, wherein the flow controller comprises a setting member which is operable by the operating deviType: GrantFiled: January 19, 2018Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: GKN Driveline Bruneck AGInventors: Hanspeter Putzer, Sigmund Senoner, Kurt Thomaser, Peter Raffin, Ivan Gruber, Dieter Huber, Thomas Widmann
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Publication number: 20180216672Abstract: A clutch assembly for a driveline of a motor vehicle comprises a friction plate clutch having an inner plate carrier, to which inner plates are connected in a rotationally fixed and axially movable way, and having an outer plate carrier to which outer plates are connected in a rotationally fixed and axially movable way, and wherein the inner plates and the outer plates jointly form a plate package, wherein the inner plate carrier comprises at least one bore in an axial overlapping region with the plate package through which bore oil can flow to the plate package, a supporting plate against which the plate package is axially supported, an axially movable pressure plate for axially loading the plate package, an operating device for operating the friction plate clutch by axially moving the pressure plate, a flow controller for controlling an oil volume flow rate through the at least one bore of the inner plate carrier, wherein the flow controller comprises a setting member which is operable by the operating deviType: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2018Publication date: August 2, 2018Inventors: Hanspeter Putzer, Sigmund Senoner, Kurt Thomaser, Peter Raffin, Ivan Gruber, Dieter Huber, Thomas Widmann